[Tareith]

http://www.mmorpg.co...53/feature/2212

Normally I take reviews and info from Mmorpg with one hell of a grain of salt, but this one was actually pretty solid. Nothing really new in it but still a decent review.

[justamemory]

the more reviews the better :) thx for sharing.

[lyankyj]

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there will be an alliance system for grouping multiple like-minded guilds together.

So, it seems its a confirmation.

[Omgwhathappened?]

That was a nice read, Thanks ^^

[Kane]

Hope that'll help convince the folks over at MMORPG(dot)com that Aion won't be a mind numbing korean style hack n slash grinder :D

[solidbrim]

Nice find. Cleared up some items on guild emblems and some questing features. Worth the read.

[Sabre]

Kane said:

Hope that'll help convince the folks over at MMORPG(dot)com that Aion won't be a mind numbing korean style hack n slash grinder :D

There's actually people on the forums hoping it turns out this way..

And solid review! It was a good read

[dalin]

thanks for the link! :)

/me reads

[Calindor]

decent review, not as good as a lot i've read

its missing the end game stuff pvp, sieges, raids. I dont give 2 shiats about a game's manastones or customization if its got a horrible end game, i mean pvp in the abyss, sieges, battling for raids are the key things in this game, what many people will be spending the majority of their time doing, and all these reviews seem to be just talking about the less important features, although they too need to be mentioned, its just the important ones are being left out. This one could have atleast given a scenario about your elyos group/legion fighting for a castle so you can control that area, get bonuses, in the middle of the attack the balaur show up and you have a 3 way war between NPC and PC's or something...I mean thats the central idea behind the game, and they didnt give one example.

[Fleiva]

That's what the EU/US press have seen, something that will be there for sure. Talking about the endgame to the press now might lead to future corrections, since the endgame is still under development.

[Tareith]

Aye, they didn't even have the real endgame or levels at the end of the last CBT iirc. If i'm wrong, feel free to correct me.

I get a feeling this will be a serious sleeper hit and if NCSoft gets on the ball and develops a good endgame (both pvp and pve), it's really got the potential to be huge. The main reason I started to seriously follow this game was specifically because it seems like NCsoft is trying to do exactly that, cross between some of the better eastern PVP with solid western PVE and content. Hell, the story line quests alone go to support this alot. Just looking at some of the complaints of more recent MMOS (AoC: 1-20 was fun, rest sucked/undeveloped and War: Why are we fighting, really?) it seems like they might just pull it off. *crosses fingers*

[Mark]

lyankyj said:

So, it seems its a confirmation.

It's not Alliances like in GuildWars. It's a group of parties.

[Fleiva]

"there will be an alliance system for grouping multiple like-minded guilds together."

Looks like the classical alliances system to me.

[Hellriser]

Solid review that MMORPG.com lacked on Aion. A nice article but nothing new, just a reconfirmation that the game is a blast :)

[Sokar]

ARRRGH!!! all these great reviews are driving me crazy!! It just makes me a sad panda that the game won't even be out till next year =( *sigh* Why must we wait so long for such a sexy game!?

Oh well, guess they're fine tuning it into a flawless gem.... I can forgive them if the game really turns out that great ^_^

-Sokar

[Ecarion]

Good stuff, thanks for sharing :)

[lyankyj]

Mark said:

It's not Alliances like in GuildWars. It's a group of parties.

he's not talking about partying and raids, he's talking about the guild-system.

The guild system itself seems fairly typical of MMOs and there will be an alliance system for grouping multiple like-minded guilds together."

He says he talked with the CMs for like an hour, who knows, maybe they did implemented it since last time we asked.

This post has been edited by lyankyj: 10 September 2008 - 10:13 AM