Blade & Soul closed beta phase reviewed

This game looks amazing, check out a few of the videoes, this game has the possiblity to the top dog. The only down side, it's in Korean Closed beta, US won't see this game for over two years.

I dont know much about the game play, but visually, this is a very impressive looking game. The flying around and movement freedom is really well done. the hyper sexual looking females..ehh..i like the artist, but in a game...a bit much i think, but hey, to each their own. gonna have to give this a try when it releases, if it's possible to play from America.

So Blade & Soul explains the reason why you can't glide forever in Aion, the wings get in the way. Clip them off and you can glide all you want heck you can even reg your stamina while you're at it. ^^

I liked the third video, the cut scenes and stuff. Not for the girls, but somehow it just feels lively and fresh to the genre. Hopefully there is a lot of that in the game. But is it weird that i think voice overs should be left in Korean and just be subtitled to English for a western release? I think a lot of the charm would be lost with English voice overs.

have to admit.. it looks solid and seems to play equally well.

definitely going to be MMORPG (mostly men online role playing girls).

OMFG the character creation made me laugh, absolutely GIANT breasts, super-mega-giggling all over the place! Too much! Just toooooo much!

That second video smacked of avoiding details. Didn't like them standing in water, but that is a very small issue. The massive amount of clipping and the women looking like aliens really got on my nerves though. I understand it's the artists style, but I really don't like it. The clipping though was what was seriously getting on my nerves.

With all the detail to the game from the animations to clothing design, I understand you have to draw the limits somewhere, but I really do think that developers need to decide that clipping is an important issue. With hair flying all over and through everything, her right hand clipping through the bottom of her outfit and that bow. That massive arm clipping bow.

To me, clipping, especially massive clipping, can really break immersion for me. I think that might be one of the last things that developers finally think is important because style comes first. But seriously, it IS important and I am tired of seeing the flagrant lack of physics and design in games when it comes to that kind of detail. I guess I expect too much.