Comments on: Aion: Ooh, Impressive Developer Blather

By: Acosta

Acosta — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:15:06 +0000

Would be a great idea to bid for banning or not certain posters. RPS guys would have more pennies for beer and we would have less silliness and less angry internet men.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:12:16 +0000

That option does exist, its the donate button. Donate enough and the problem poster will disappear.

By: Acosta

Acosta — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:44:28 +0000

Where is the option in RPS to kill with fire the author of any comment about RPS getting money to cover anything? It would be a interesting feature to have.

OMG, videogame page covering a videogame! scandal! outrageous!

By: Tworak

Tworak — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:08:15 +0000

Fuck Aion (for releasing later in EU), more Lani.

By: undead dolphin hacker

undead dolphin hacker — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:12:46 +0000

@Okami

Possibly because no one actually watched the trailer.

@simon

Why pay to play EVE when Facebook is free? It’s got all the drama and glorified IRC and mindgames that constitute the hinge of EVE’s gameplay plus it’s got a wide selection of simple minigames which more or less emulate the depth of interaction of EVE’s actual, pressing-buttons-to-do-something-other-than-scam-people gameplay.

Don’t get me wrong, I like EVE, but I like it like a TV show or a movie: it’s much more entertaining to read about than it is to actually participate in.

By: Vaemer-Riit: Sneaky Cheetah

Vaemer-Riit: Sneaky Cheetah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:19:54 +0000

I played the beta last weekend and I had a lot of fun with it, I only hope it doesn’t end like Tabula Rasa (which is incidentally how I got a beta key)

By: simon

simon — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:41:01 +0000

Fantasy? AGAIN? Are people really so lacking in imagination that there has to be ANOTHER fantasy MMO?

/me logs on to EvE.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:31:35 +0000

With the amount of space Aion gets on RPS I am beginning to think some money exchanged hands somewhere.

Oh, yeah. That must be it.

I cover Aion because I think it looks interesting. Which is pretty much the only criteria necessary for me posting anything on RPS.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:31:10 +0000

I like how HBG didn’t close his italics brackets. It kind of gives the impression of him leaning closer, ever more insistent.

By: Half Broken Glass

Half Broken Glass — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:26:58 +0000

With the amount of space Aion gets on RPS I am beginning to think some money exchanged hands somewhere.

EVE is understandable, being one-of-a-kind MMORPG and one of the most… PC games ever made. So is WoW, because whatever one might think about it’s quality it is the undisputed master and commander of the genre and will still be one for a long time.

But Aion? Mechanically it’s a WoW-clone – and there is one WoW-clone MMO coming out every week in Asia and I’m probably not even exaggerating – and it’s main features are… bloom and wings?

By: Crescent

Crescent — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:06:06 +0000

What propably annoyed me the most in the last beta was the fact that both sides are almost mirrored. Ok asmodian side is darker and colder, with slightly different terrain but it still felt strikingly familiar after playing through elyos side in the beta before that. The quests have different background stories, but they still require you to kill the exact same monsters and collect the same items as on the other side. There’s some differences, a few unique types of monsters and areas for both sides but it doesn’t make you want to play the game twice on both sides.

By: Fat

Fat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:39 +0000

I don’t know why everyone is bashing the flying in Aion. The fact that it is limited to 1 minute worth of flight every 3 minutes is great. You regen 3 seconds of flight every 6 seconds so it isn’t just some flat cooldown after usage. There is a cooldown of about 10 seconds, so you can’t take off, land, take off every second, but why would you.

What this means is that it’s GOOD for quickly scaling or hopping over a mountain or other obstacle, chasing down a PvP target or making a quick escape yourself, or just speeding up travel.

What it is NOT good for is floating around in the sky avoiding any PvP contact and generally being a big girl’s blouse, like you can in WoW. Flying mounts put the final nail in WoW’s world PvP coffin, and restricting use like this while still making it USEFUL for times when the terrain may call for a quick flight is great.

It’s a Korean MMO… and for that very reason, i doubt it’ll every be as popular as WoW in the Euro/US market, but that in itself is a plus point as you won’t have the mass market of ‘tards that plague WoW. Most people don’t enjoy the grind of a Korean game or the often unforgiving rules (see Lineage 2) which keeps a LARGE portion of the kids out that you’d otherwise find in your MMO.

Anyway, looking forward to the next beta. Was so busy with work, Father’s Day and other chores that i only just managed to get my Chanter to level 10 an hour before beta ended. Gonna level up a Warrior and Scout next time around. :))