SirSchmoopy said:
I don't quite remember claiming any game was a shining game of awesome you simply assume that and claim Aion as jesus christ reincarnated in MMORPG format.
Thanks for a normal post for once. Well, almost. But now I see that all the things you "know" about Aion are nothing more but wild assumptions.
Well, since you try defending WoW at every place, advertise your guild on FR's site just like you advertised your... what was it called? La Revolucion? Something like that.
You are claiming an NC Soft game called Aion is an end all be all of extreme PvP glory when if you had played Linage 1/2, Guild Wars or even City of Heroes, you might... just might be able to understand my position on why Aion is a flavor of the month game. Do you enjoy sitting in your room grinding for hours to get from level 68 to 69? Because the Asian MMORPG market does and hence why there games constantly revolve around the idea that Time = Skill, Guild Wars being "Somewhat" of an exception but even then still requiring insane amounts of grinding for the simplest of things is why I am telling you that these games, NC Soft games are flavor of the month games in the US Market.
Hmm.... I have played all of those games you mentioned. While Lineage 2 hasn't interested me at all, I played CoH/CoV for about 2 months (then I noticed Champions Online was a much promising Superhero game - I wasn't mistaken), and I have been playing Guild Wars for the last 3,5 years. And I can tell you how VERY wrong you are.
GW is an Arena Net game. American company, you know? Same goes for CoH - Cryptic Studios, again American. NCSoft is only publishing them, the only games they created on their own were Lineage games and Aion.
So, you are claiming that Guild Wars requires insane amounts of grinding for the simplest things... Okay, those things being... What? Do you have to grind to get into PvE groups? No, you just need the correct build. In the worst case, you might not have the correct skillset. Then you spend 8k (a pathetic number) on new skills, one of them elite, so you might have to GASP! capture it. Nevermind, everyone can be wrong... Do you have to grind for PvE endgame? Not anymore, thanks to Ursan Blessing nerf. Now there are more classes wanted. Or you can just join a good guild and not worry about flavor of the motnh builds.
Not to mention that for a Flavor of the Month, Guild Wars has sold 6 millions of copies.
If you end up playing this game for more then 6 months then you would also love Guild Wars and Linage 2 but to the majority of North American gamers this is just more of the same.
Yes, I love Guild Wars. But not Lineage 2. Two different companies, two different worlds. One is a Korean MMO, and the other is an American MMO.
You are playing the exact same game I played 5 years ago. Nothing in Aion is innovative or advances the industry at all. Nothing. It is a cookie cutter copy cat of a mix of NC Soft titles, other East Coast MMORPGS and ... TA DAH World of Warcraft. Anytime I see an article or forum post about Aion it never talks about why the game is so good but why the game is better then World of Warcraft and THAT, my friend, in it's self is exactly the point. It's not trying to be anything new, it's just trying to be more of the god damn same thing and sorry but that is all NC Soft does.
Oh, I forgot that WoW created a lot of innovative things the day it came out... Uh... Those being... Massive PvP?! No, DAoC... Endgame content?! No... every other MMO game has it... MOUNTS?!... Nah. I love how you call Aion a "cookie cutter copycat" instead of a blunt fanboyish "WoW Clone!!11". Especially since WoW copied almost everything from older games.
Okay, something that isn't in other MMOs - Aerial PvP combat.
I'm not trying to persuade you or tell you X game is better then Y because most MMORPGs come down to preference and time your able to commit to it. All I'm trying to get across here is that coming in here and high fiving eachother that this is the greatest MMORPG to ever be created and all other MMORPGs are terrible is exactly what the Warhammer comunity did, what the Age of Conan community did, what the Vanguard community did, what the Shadowbane community did, hell it was what the Warcraft community did back when me and my friends were still playing Everquest and Dark age of Camelot and my guess is of all those games you might not have heard them all.
Those games failed because developers wasted their potential. No patches, no bug fixes, no PvP balance. Except for DAoC, those other games you mentioned might as well be closed... some are.
And you guessed that I haven't heard of all those games? Guess again.
Aion is without a doubt a flavor of the month game. It has the standard classes, standard race types, same old experience system, a bunch of lovely graphics and gimmicks and a system of PvP that has been done before and I promise you, PROMISE you done better. Although of course this is just my opinion but in 10 years when your on a forum and some new guy is talking about X game and how there new FLYING PVP SYSTEM IS AMAZING maybe just maybe you'll look back and understand where I'm coming from because every mmo I see the exact same thing.
Flavor of the month, you mean November 2008 - now?
Also, I am a sworn enemy of Korean MMO's grinding and sloooow leveling. But this wasn't the case with Aion. You know why? Because they managed to take what's best from the Western MMOs and Eastern ones.
You can't, you simply CAN'T guess what will happen in 10 years. Look where we were 10 years ago - a lot of people didn't even know what the Internet was, games were fugly and multiplayer modes were small and buggy. Not to mention that an average PC was two times more expensive than today.
With that I'm out. Let the high fiving of Aion continue.
Aww thank you. Go play your precious WoW and grind, to grind, to grind some more, to grind even some more.
and if you had played wow for more than 5 minutes you would have realised alot of the end games raid are not only fun but based on wow lore :O
