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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 4:07PM (Unverified) said

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Actually these intro videos were already enabled at the last weekends CBT5.

Posted: Aug 5th 2009 4:12PM brookep said

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That's what I get for skipping one beta weekend! Sheesh! Thanks for the update. I will make a minor correction above. Cheers.

Posted: Aug 7th 2009 11:30AM Van said

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Yeah, apparently the patch was almost 500 MB! I also read that the 1.5 patch is going to be almost near 2 GB. Normally, I wouldn't have a problem with this, but their patch servers aren't exactly 'fast'. That 500 MB patch alone was downloading at a trickle. Come on, NCSOFT, get your game face on already!
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 4:23PM Thac0 said

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Why is Asmodian Prologue so short and not nearly as epic as the Elyos one?

Posted: Aug 5th 2009 5:08PM Nadril said

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Both of them were pretty interesting in their own right I think. The Elyos one certainly was epic, but I liked the dialogue in the Asmodian one.
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 6:47PM (Unverified) said

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I don't know, the Eylos one just turned out longer I guess.
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 6:49PM Yoh said

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Epic my ass!
What a cliché load of bullocks. War between light and darkness..... like I haven't heard that a thousand fucking times.
And I thought I hated it before. God, the more I watch, the more I realize these hacks don't have a imaginative bone in their body.

Lame.
You get no points, no points for you!

At least Warhammer looked cool, even if it was just a big ol' hype bubble.

Posted: Aug 5th 2009 7:08PM Nadril said

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It's not just light vs darkness, and it isn't that at all. (there is no clear cut good/evil except for the Balaur who are obviously evil. It's more of two waring sides with different ideals and a third, indifferent side which actually is evil) If you're going to critique the story at least understand it first. Funny enough a 2 minute long video can't quite explain it.

I doubt you actually care though.
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 8:17PM JohnD212 said

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Warhammer NEVER looked cool..nuff said!!!
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Posted: Aug 5th 2009 7:42PM Yoh said

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What it is, it light vs dark vs + (which in this case is choas/evil..... where have I heard that before?)
It's good vs good vs evil then, wow, what a game changer.
We have a new challenger!
(incidentally, to simply right them off as evil is in itself, cliché. It's a cop out)

And I wasn't critiquing the story, but rather the video, because it does portray the story in a cliché, unoriginal fashion, much like almost everything that has come out of the woodworks about Aion.
Sure, if you get into the nitty-gritty you might find a sliver of original story telling, but the point of these videos is to want you to see more, and on that point, they fail.

They couldn't even make an appealing battle sequence, FFS.

Posted: Aug 5th 2009 11:23PM (Unverified) said

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Darn. The video is not totally original. Good thing the game is amazingly fun though. I suppose I can look passed the videos that Yoh finds derivative, you know, since the game is so fun and all! : )
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Posted: Aug 6th 2009 12:56AM Yoh said

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Give it a couple of months mate, just wait until that new-game shine wears off. Then you'll probably realize it's still the same game you were already playing.
(assuming of course, that your not new to MMO's, in that case, have at it hoss)

Posted: Aug 6th 2009 1:36AM (Unverified) said

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Not new to MMOs and been playing Chinese Aion quite a while. After playing WoW for over 4 years (DAoC for 4 years before that) its a breath of fresh air. Witnessing the dumbing down of WoW I was thinking I would never see another game that felt like "Vanilla" WoW", much less DAoC, thankfully Aion shows me I was wrong.

Love the game. Couple of niggling little issues but nothing major. Its a great game.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2009 9:28AM Thac0 said

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But "Vanilla WoW" was not all that great and its an old worn out design; Blizz has learned from their past mistakes and has improved the game with every x-pac thats why they try to usher you through "Vanilla WoW" so quickly now. I don't think that saying Aion is like old skool wow is a very good compliment.
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Posted: Aug 6th 2009 2:21AM Van said

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Actually, the Asmodian prologue is alot different than the Elyos! The Asmodian's prologue is a premonition about your future demise which you promptly decide to change. I think you should get this your info double checked next time. Just an FTI. ;)

Posted: Aug 6th 2009 2:23AM Van said

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Edit: FYI*

Typing in a dark room is apparently too difficult for me :(
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