Shatter
join:2006-07-24
Waterford, MI | reply to Nightfall
Re: Is Aion worth it? I played the China OB and been playing the NA beta so Ive spent some decent time in Aion. Why do I plan to play it? First is since its been out in other markets there are very few bugs. Second is that it runs beautifully on maxed settings, I was getting up to 200FPS in areas and the lowest it went was 50FPS in busy locations..maxed settings.
It has a pretty standard UI that they wont allow MODS to customize so you are stuck with their UI, but its not a POS so this hasnt bothered me. You can somewhat customize it in game. The game itself is beautiful, much of the graphics are very WOWish.
Classes I find are well done. All have something they offer that is benficial, but of course there are some one would consider overpowered compared to others. You basically dont PvP in the game until level 25 when you can go to the Abyss. You can pvp sooner in arenas. Once there you can level through PvE or PvP and gain abyss points / rank to buy gear upgrades, etc. PvP is very fast pace and since everyone gets wings at level 10 people can fly which adds a new level of fun to it. IMO its critical to have friends/ legion to play with if you want to be successful in PvP. The abyss ranking system is similar to WOW's old Grand marshall system which means death has meaning once you get higher up.
Overall its a solid game and I expect it to hit over a million subs in NA eventually. I expect a smooth launch and I already know from beta that there are few bugs and it runs well so those arent concerns unlike recent games that have come out(IE AOC, WHO, etc). |
