[PC] Aion

I played Aion during the last two betas and got to level 20. Regardless of that, I wasn't very fond of the game. I found that the graphics and whatnot were great, but I found the gameplay to lack things I like about other games.

One thing is the zoom, incredibly small zoom range annoys the hell out of me in a game, besides a first person shooter.
When fighting with monsters the same level, the character was always running pretty low on HP, besides if you were a cleric really.
The characters themselves, move really, really, slow. Which makes traveling a hassle unless I wanted to pay a fee to fly to someplace fast.
The flying itself, was annoying. Limited flying time? Why? And if you fall from a high height or are flying in the air high and fall, you get hurt big time. Not that it isn't realistic, but it's annoying.
I found the 3D moving style reminding me of the first Resident Evil back on the PlayStation. I really did not like the way they handled the motion.
The mini map was annoying as hell, as well. Basically, you had to make your character spin in a circle to see the aggro monsters and non-aggro monsters around you. Isn't that nice? Because it will only show the ones in a cone-esque shape ahead of you, as well as the ones right next to you, which I really would have liked to have known before I walked backwards into them.

Overall, I was incredibly disappointed in the game. Graphics aren't everything if the gameplay sucks. Well, that's my two cents.

When fighting with monsters the same level, the character was always running pretty low on HP, besides if you were a cleric really.

Is that not how it is supposed be? A fight between even levels should result in 1 dead combatant and 1 low health combatant... or a draw.

The zoom range is adjustable.

Actually, you move pretty fast in the game (unless you had walk enabled), and I could get where I was going on foot pretty quickly. The fastest way to get someplace, though, is to glide. Many people would zoom past me because they knew all the little ledges to use to give you the height you need.

As for the mini-map, chalk one more up to realism. Really, I'm not sure why this is a huge issue, considering that most MMORPGs don't even show all the monsters on your mini-map.

Overall, the gameplay is fun. Gameplay is more important than graphics. If I cared more about graphics than gameplay, I would have quit WAR and went back to WoW (because at the settings that you ultimately end up playing WAR on due to RvR performance, it looks worse than WoW).

(because at the settings that you ultimately end up playing WAR on due to RvR performance, it looks worse than WoW).

A buddy of mine has a nice laptop, and I beg to play Warhammer on his because of how amazing it looks. I haven't really played on a computer so smooth before. I am used to choppy gameplay and Choppa's that teleport.

GLG are you still going to play the game when it is released?

I watched a few video's on youtube, reminds me a lot of SRO.

I went to the Aion booth today at Gamescom, it looked pretty good actually.

I went to the Aion booth today at Gamescom, it looked pretty good actually.

Oh really? How cool.

Anyways I am preordering this game. When you do that on Sept. 18th you can create 2 characters. Then on the 20th you can start playing 2 days before everyone else. Anyone else preordering?

I think we need to decide if a few of us are going to play, what server and faction. I think we should be Elyos because the other faction seems like it is going to be overpopulated. That gives us more entertainment for PVP later on. I don't know what the name of the servers are, but how about we all pick the server that has the shortest name.

My guild is playing Asmodean on Vaziel.

See you on the battlefield then. I will be Elyos on Vaziel.