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Posted: September 3, 2009 06:52 am  | |||||||||
      IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0    |
Ah, I can relate. Palidair, my female half, exists to keep my mother from finding out I turn into a girl as well. Palidork on days where I'm feeling especially dorky. Paliwhore when I'm feeling especially whorey. Palidtown when I reminice about Pokemon. But alas, today I am but plain, simple, Pali the Door. --------------------  | ||||||||
Posted: September 3, 2009 06:18 pm | |||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 |
LMFAO --------------------  | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 01:47 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | By the way, which faction are all of you would-be Aion players going for? At the moment, I'm leaning towards rolling an Elios character. While I love lots of the Asmodian armor/clothing, the look of their capital city, and think their wings generally look a lot better, the pale, sunless and often snowy environments are a turn-off for me. I much prefer the bright, colorful, and temperate environments on the Elios' side. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 02:28 am | |||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | Probably Asmodian. I've always seen myself as an "alliance" player in WoW, never wanting to play horde. The whole dark-side-of-the-world theme makes it seem kinda like horde, which is what I'd like to experience. But whatever the people I know play I'll probably roll with. At the start of the beta we should leave our info here on faction/server/class so we can all come together. Once the game is released and things get rolling we should decide on something official, it'd be great to play together. --------------------   | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 02:29 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 | Asmodian b/c thats what my friends are doing. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 05:10 am | |||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Ranma344 Group: Emeritus Posts: 759 Member No.: 78 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 24 | As I've stated, Elyos. Don't wanna be some blue chick with back hair..... --------------------  R.I.P. Lucy ! | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 05:51 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 |
then play a guy =P -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 06:57 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Ranma344 Group: Emeritus Posts: 759 Member No.: 78 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 24 |
Male casters are gay. -------------------- R.I.P. Lucy ! | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 07:32 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
Males who play females be a wee bit creepy, yessir  Nonetheless, looks like it's us two Elyos folk against them nubs Sonix and Kiwi  -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 09:35 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Ranma344 Group: Emeritus Posts: 759 Member No.: 78 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 24 |
There is nothing wrong with playing a female character.... -------------------- R.I.P. Lucy ! | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 05:52 pm | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
Nothing wrong. Just odd. Just walking around the game world having everyone thinking you're a chick  .I had one female character in Guild Wars, but it was just a PvP-only character I'd use for arena and alliance battles. Don't think I can walk around for 50 levels role-playing as a female  . -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 06:28 pm | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 |
its true. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 5, 2009 06:43 pm | |||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Verelyse (my main in WoW) is a chick. I just make sure everyone I play with knows I'm not so it doesn't get awkward.  --------------------  | ||||||||
Posted: September 6, 2009 11:14 pm | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | I was given a European beta code. For anyone else who has likewise gotten into the Euro beta, I'm playing an Asmodian on the server Perento. Character name is Sonixpber, see you there. So far I'm enjoying it, but the questing system is a bit of a pain in the ass. Then again thats probably because I'm used to all the addons that make questing in WoW painless. I'm playing a warrior, I plan to make it a gladiator at level 10. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 7, 2009 05:38 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | Sorry for the double-post, but here goes. Once I got into the habit of locating quest NPCs, it made it quite a breeze. The combat system is pretty enjoyable, and I'm liking it so far. I was having a rough beginning because I was level 6 and still hadn't upgraded my weapon. Now that I have, its getting a bit easier. I haven't used any manastones yet because I'm not sure if they are worth saving for better equipment or not.. Anyways I'm looking forward to more content, but at this rate I'm definitely pre-ordering this game! -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 7, 2009 07:21 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 | only problem I have heard of so far is some UBER lag spikes from so many people being on the servers and the gay game guard shit errors.... -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 8, 2009 01:26 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Yeah, this has probably been one of the messier open betas out of the many I've played in. Fortunately I haven't been having nearly as bad of issues as many others have had. I did have problems with massive ping spikes twice, but they were fixed both times they restarted the servers yesterday. So for the majority of the beta so far, it's luckily been fairly smooth sailing, or gliding as the situation may have it, for me. Overall, I really like the game so far. I didn't set my expectations unrealistically high like I mistakingly did for Age of Conan and Warhammer Online, and it's worked to my benefit. While I'm not absolutely blown away by any of Aion's individual aspects, I'm all around happy of what is there. The graphics are mostly nice, the art style is great, and the character models and animations are fantastic. The gameplay is pretty true to the genre. Nothing particularly new or innovative, but everything that's offered is very solid and works as intended. Flying is enjoyable, and a very liberating feeling to earn your wings and go vertical for the first time. The gliding mechanic is also surprisingly fun and addicting, and I'm currently working at mastering the skill  .I'm also really impressed with how smooth the games runs in terms of framerate and how well the game handles having dozens, if not in the excess of 100, players on the screen at the same time. I have an above average gaming PC, and where games like Age of Conan, Warhammer, and Lord of the Rings Online (my last three mmos) would take a serious crap in populated areas, Aion runs remarkably smooth and at a steady framerate almost all the time. Any framerate drops I experience is usually when entering a densely populated area for the first time, but things go back to buttery smooth in <10 seconds. My only major complaint really is the quests. They're all very standard and bland kill and collect quests, which became really old after my second mmo. And the little voice-over cinematic scenes they threw in kind of feel out of place. I was expecting something perhaps on par with Guild Wars type cinematics, when the majority of the time it gives you a single voice-overed line with a 5 second video clip. That's one thing that I really, really miss from a game like Runescape that just isn't ever done in any other mmos- really unique, sometimes cinematic, quests with legitimately fun and entertaining stories that don't involve reading bland walls of text and killing 5 of generic monster X or collecting 3 of generic item Y. But overall, it's a great game that has a lot of potential. While I feel that it does struggle from forging it's own unqiue identity among a sea of endless other mmos in such a saturated genre of gaming, I think Aion excels where many other mmos fail- and that's at creating a really sound, solid game that does almost everything already tried-and-true, instead of promising something revolutionary and ground-breaking and failing miserably at it in execution. I can see myself playing Aion for a good while I think. At the very least, I'm pretty sure at this point that it'll keep me entertained more than 3-8 weeks that has become the standard with many mmos I've played as of late. (grats if you actually read all of that. I know I wouldn't had it not been my own post :/ ). -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 8, 2009 01:47 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | I've been having a few gameguard errors but I found that if you just ignore them instead of clicking OK, you can continue playing the game as normal. I literally just got my wings. The amount of skills and the weapons you get once reaching level 10 will hopefully make things a ton easier, though I'm not sure if I picked the right weapon or not. Nevertheless, I'll probably upgrade it in a few levels anyways. And yes I read it all Pali, I'm trying to learn how to glide effectively also. Flying isn't as great as WoW, but its there and working. The 1 minute limit is a little annoying, especially since you have to wait another minute or two to fully recover your fly time. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 8, 2009 02:01 am | |||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 | To those that are on the beta, which would be more worth my money, having never played either: WoW or Aion? --------------------      | ||||||||
Posted: September 8, 2009 03:30 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 |
Hard to say. From what I understand, from recent changes over patches and expansions, lots of the core WoW players are really unhappy with the game at this point and leaving the game or are trying to look for new games as a result. But for new players, it may not be so bad, who knows. If I understand it right, lots of the changes made to WoW were as a result of Blizzard's goals to appeal to an even broader audience than it already has, but kind of pushing aside some of the hardcore ones in the process. I did play WoW a year or two ago, although I became tired of it within 2 months and canceled my subscription never looking back. But obviously the game didn't get as popular as it did with players who felt the same as I did. In comparison, I really do like Aion quite a bit. Like I mentioned in my above review-ish post, there's nothing about Aion the immediately stands out and makes it vastly different or unique amongst other mmos. However the product as a whole is really fun, polished, and most importantly, finished. The flight is really a nice addition to have, especially since you earn your wings pretty early on. The flight timer is somewhat of a put-off, but you can get better wings as you level up, and it's probably best suited for the whole structure of the game world as well as PvP tactics. Speaking of which, PvP in the game is also pretty promising, but I can't say much else since I haven't had any hands-on experience with it. If you go with WoW, you'll be getting a heavily populated mammoth of the game that's jam-packed with content. On the downside, starting out completely new on a 5 year old game with so many veteran players may be somewhat tough. Not to mention that the game has two additional expansions that you'll have to deal with, with a third on the way. If you go with Aion, while you won't get such a massive, deep experience as you would with WoW, at the very least you'll still be playing an exceptionally fun game, and you'll be starting out on equal-footing with the other hundreds of thousands of players who will be buying it week one. What most people would do is probably go with WoW though. It seems like every other mmo on the market that people play is always their "post-wow" games they go to after they've had enough of WoW, not usually the other way around. Your choice either way though. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 8, 2009 03:40 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 | Don't get me wrong, I love WoW and I can't wait for some new content (see: Icecrown Citadel) but as a new player to the game I'd say Aion. I like the idea of starting out on the same level as everyone else. Then again if you had some friends answering every question you had about WoW and making you knowledgeable, you could be level 80 and geared to raid in maybe 3 months. Only time, however, will make you a better raider. I'm not going to give you a solid answer on either one because I haven't played Aion enough, but as Pali said it seems finished, well made. And it works. WoW has way more content, however. Leveling in Aion is enjoyable I find. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 8, 2009 04:05 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Yeah, leveling in WoW is one of the things that drove me nuts. It would seem like I'd get stuck on certain levels forever. Aion is fairly well paced, and thus far it seems like there's an abundance of quests. It probably helps that they added a ton of quests with the 1.5 patch. Don't mistake me either though, when I say it's finished, it's more of an assumption- though an educated one I'd say. Aion's already been out in Asian countries for a year now, and currently boasts 3.5 million subscribers last I heard. So I would say that after a year of already being released, they've already had lots of time to polish up the game and fill it with content in places that it may have originally lacked. The number of subscribers it still has over there is reassuring too. On another note, I'm not so sure I'll be playing Elyos anymore once the game officially launches. I've unfortunately, err, overplayed the beta so far, and I'm not entirely sure I'm mentally prepared to redo like 20 hours of work after characters are wiped. I may just end up rolling Asmodian just so I can start fresh and do new things .TLDR; I might roll Asmodeon for launch now, not sure. But is it decided that WGers will be all rolling on the Siel server, then? -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 9, 2009 01:29 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Palidore Group: Emeritus Posts: 152 Member No.: 75 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Excuse the double post, but to Lefty and anyone else wanting to get into the beta, you can get a key as long as you have a Fileplanet account- no subscription required any longer. Worth noting though that the keys are supposedly "very limited," but I don't know the actual amount they have. http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/aion/beta/?_cmpid=fp191 Sorry Sonix, kinda sucks for you . -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 9, 2009 04:57 am | |||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Kiwi011 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3052 Member No.: 40 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 21 | Yea leveling in wow sucks, I would suggest aion just because I heard its more enjoyable and everyone else is a noob too in a general sense. I heard the reason for all the ping issues in aion is b/c the Aion team is doing background work in the beta servers. -------------------- | ||||||||
Posted: September 9, 2009 07:53 am | |||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Ansatsublade Group: Emeritus Posts: 765 Member No.: 101 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 120 | /me <-- Elyos Gladiator... /me<-- is going to play on a server that you guys don't play on... WINK. Duno about servers yet. will there be RP.PVPVE servers? and I yes. what ones will be one? --------------------  | ||||||||
Aion Beta, Warning many pictures.