In-depth Aion Overview from Games Convention

[Kody]

Curse is at Leipzig Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany; we'll be bringing previews, videos, interviews and all sorts of other information on the hot and upcoming MMOG's being shown off at the convention. For this particular game, we not only have the overview you can check out here: GC2007: In-depth Aion presentation and Overview | News - we'll also be interviewing members of the NCSoft team working on Aion.

You can check out all of our coverage at our Leipzig Games Convention Portal: Overview | Games Convention 2007 @ Curse

[Diablo]

Nice find, thanks.

Shame the screenshots and concept art from your second link are 404.

[Mark]

Sounds awesome. I'll put it up on the front page once the convention is over, how about that? I'm planning a "compilation" news post with links to everything new. Movies, screenshots, interviews, etc.. Let me know if Curse wants to trade links, too.

[Kody]

Originally Posted by Mark

Sounds awesome. I'll put it up on the front page once the convention is over, how about that? I'm planning a "compilation" news post with links to everything new. Movies, screenshots, interviews, etc.. Let me know if Curse wants to trade links, too.

Sounds good; just shoot me any info on whatever you'd like linked from Curse and I'll see what I can do.

Alternatively, Curse is Web 2.0, so anyone is free to post news(as long as it's related to online games, computer hardware, etc.), so if I don't respond and post it immediately then feel free to post it as news.

[Kody]

Originally Posted by Diablo

Nice find, thanks.

Shame the screenshots and concept art from your second link are 404.

Doh! Could you point out any specific links you found as 404's, please?

[Diablo]

Originally Posted by Kody

Doh! Could you point out any specific links you found as 404's, please?

The second link to Curse under 10 new screenshots, when you click the thumbnails you get a 404 for all 10.

[Kody]

Originally Posted by Diablo

The second link to Curse under 10 new screenshots, when you click the thumbnails you get a 404 for all 10.

Ah ok, thanks. 10 New Aion Images Added | Aion @ Curse should work for now though.

[[PhiberOpticks]]

I'm still waiting to hear about this skillchain system. The concept implemented for flight sounds simple and effective. But I have yet to hear anything about guild support.

[Kody]

Originally Posted by [PhiberOpticks]

I'm still waiting to hear about this skillchain system. The concept implemented for flight sounds simple and effective. But I have yet to hear anything about guild support.

There should hopefully be a video interview with NCSoft about Aion up on Curse this weekend.

[Kotome]

The combat system of Aion is fast paced and uses a combination of "Skillchains" as well as pro-active/re-active abilities. What this means is that attacks are not only directional (behind, from the side, frontal) but a parry or dodge or getting hit with certain abilites will "unlock" the use of your re-active abilities. The idea behind this ensures that you are never just mashing the same buttons over and over again, and allows for flexible and enticing gameplay.

The last aspect I will touch in this overview of the game, is the item customization system. How many times have you had an awesome looking level 40 item be replaced by a rediculously bad looking level 50 item? Well, Aion does away with that in a unique and very interesting way. The game basically allows you to combine items in a manner where you may keep the graphic from one item and the stats from another so that you truely may make your character unique and personal while still benefiting from upgraded item stats.

This alone completely sold the game for me! Nice job on the review.

[Vydos]

This game is sounding more interesting every time there's an update.
I can't wait for more info.

[[PhiberOpticks]]

I didn't like their idea of item customization. Instead of letting you wear the facade of certain equipment and wearing other equipment, why not just make all the equipment look good enough to wear? Seems more like a cop-out than a solution.

[Lojik]

Originally Posted by [PhiberOpticks]

I didn't like their idea of item customization. Instead of letting you wear the facade of certain equipment and wearing other equipment, why not just make all the equipment look good enough to wear? Seems more like a cop-out than a solution.

I guess it depends how you see it, Imo most higher level items in all games look better than the low level ones, but for some there is that one item that they really like the look of compared to all the rest, having the ability to combine the stats of your end weapon with the graphics you prefer the most is a nice change from glowing weapons and +1 +2 +3, not saying aion will not implement such enhancements.

Also you have to think about pvp, in pvp you can usually judge the level and how tough the guy/gal is going to be by his/her armor. this combination system will completely do away with that making it possible to create a pvp armor/weapon set that does not reflect your actual lvl or skill, I agree that this can have bad sides but it can make for a more challenging and interesting side of combat.

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[Kotome]

I hope there will be a limited range of levels where the weapons can be merged. It's going to be interesting having a level 1 sword graphic with level 50 stats.

*dead* Disgruntled pvper: I swear he had novice gear on...
Random pvper: /gg