Aion has some of the same issues but appaerntly someone at the Dev Desk and NCSoft is paying attention to these. I like how combat is done in Aion, though I don’t need the Final Fantasy type special effects If it feels a little like a side action combat scroller its a small thing. American gamers need to remember the the original Duke Nukem was a side scroller (only later did we get Duke Nukem 3D)

Aion has the potential to be an utterly awesome RP platform besides being a great adventure game. It will give Blizzard and Wow some much needed competition (competition is good for us the consumer kids) It forces companies to maintain quality and pay attention to thier customers. Bliz and thier product WoW has been the only game in town on US shores for to long.. They HAVE gotten lazy and complacent. They have very little domestic competition (uhhh do they have any domestic competition worth metioning? I see a lot of flash in the pan 90 day wonders out there but not else.)

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As for killing the games that are currently released, it won’t do that. Only the people that carry the title of the game can kill it. Every MMO that still is playable has some sort of customer base or it wouldn’t still be online. Each game will always have its following…just like your cult classic movies and tv shows. Everyone likes something different. I would hope that game companies can derive on past ideas from the older games to make a flashier enviornment, easier to use interface, and customizable characters and options. They’ve had years and years to look at the successes and shortcomings of every game that came before theirs. Will Aion dethrone WoW or kill off other games that are still being played? Who cares? Focus on what interests you. Most people have already given up on the games currently out there so why dwell on the past.

No grindfest in Aion, there is thousands of quests to help you level up fast. (you can be lvl 50 in less than 2 months, why are you calling that a “grindfest”, if it’s a grindfest, then i m the president.)

And the fun of the game is not at early levels, it comes gradually when you level up, and u can feel where the game goes when you start being lvl 20.

Ignorant and lazzy ppl who dont even “try” to find true info about this game, your ignorance make me laugh hard.

I’m not very enthusiastic about anime and asian MMOs in general, so I was a bit wary of the game, but it was surpisingly polished and entertaining.

The game ran well on a Phenom system with Geforce 9600 and 4G RAM running Windows 7 RC.

Character creation is detailed, your avatar is highly customizable, albeit there are but a few classes to choose from and only two races (of which only one was available during the particular event). The UI is well thought out, and the program is overall user-friendly. I found no annoyances here.

Playing a warrior to level 10 in a few hours, found that quests were detailed and diverse. There were some ingame cutscenes before and after of major quests helping with the mood. Overall, I hope that later levels will have similarly high quality content. Questing with the warrior was not too difficult: I didn’t die during the beta event. There was cool rewards and nice drop from monsters. For finishing quest chains, one can get titles like “Tree Hugger” or Poeta’s Protector. Selecting an active title directly boosts your stats.

What’s with this asian grindfest theme and why does every game that derives from the asian market automatically get this title without people stopping to play the game? If you actually read anything about Aion, or typed it up in google, you’d see this is not the case. Correlation does not equal causation my friend and I think this game is going to teach you that lesson.

I can tell you from beta that I saw in “/say” a few people commenting on ending their WoW subscriptions. This should be interesting…