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Storytelleri In reply to Dekanh [2014-06-27 20:15:09 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thank you.

Calm down. The place I took screenshot of is from dimension that is not mapped (and is part of the Campaign), so they didn‘t add Tower in the background there as we floated in space… ^^’ The old Tower styles looks really powerfully colored, so I believe they added clouds in the horizon and the sky to make it look closer to “realistic”. Depending on the area, time and weather, the appearance and view of the sky changes. Do you imply by the “this new one don‘t even have a base” by this picture or Balaurea areas ? o:

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Dekanh In reply to Storytelleri [2014-06-27 20:23:56 +0000 UTC]

No no, I know where this take place (This goddamn traitor è_é)
But in Pandaemonium/Ishalgen/Altgard/Pernon (and the elyos equivalent), they replaced the old tower with this new one. And, this really bother me, because I first loved Aion for the Tower ; I was like "O_O WOAAAW *feel small*"
AND NOW THIS IS UGLY BUHUHUHU

But well, the memories are still there \o/

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Storytelleri In reply to Dekanh [2014-06-27 21:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that self-righteous traitor >:T (but I can't help but forgive in the end, because I like that character for at least trying to do something right. 10 points for try-hard, 4 points for the idea... ^^' There was just lack of faith in their crea-*shot by spoiler warning*).

Aah, I see. When I first time started the game, this was the style of sky I saw and got used to (started adventures at 3.0). Funny as it sounds, my reaction to this sky was "OAO WHOAAA, so pretty..." as I first saw it. I do understand how people miss how Aion looked at old times (I've only seen videos and screenshots of it's former look), but I as the "new" player I get to hear critique of how the "old" Atreia looked better... Sometimes I don't know how to respond to that. The graphics of the game has become a matter that can't be helped anymore. I never got to experience what Aion was back then, but I find it look very beautiful as it is now. I hope I don't offend with this opinion.

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Dekanh In reply to Storytelleri [2014-06-27 22:55:40 +0000 UTC]

Not at all, and you're right xD
Aion is still the same awesome game it was back then.
It's just the nostalgia of the good old times that made us prefer the old Aion we knew.
(BUT THE TOWER WAS STILL BETTEEEER)

I played since 1.5 or something like that I think.. But I didn't reach the lvl max before 4.0
I just got lv52 when it was 2.7 or something like that (lvl max was 55).. I wish I could have enjoyed pvp back then, in the abysses and gelkmaros/inggison..
I just kept playing on the low level map. But I regret nothing, it's all good memories \o/

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Storytelleri In reply to Dekanh [2014-06-28 11:16:47 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, talking about leveling and nostalgia... If there is one thing I miss from 3.0, and that is "slow leveling". When I was finally near the lvl 60 the level cap, I was celebrating it, but when 4.0 came, and level cap was rised to lvl 65, I face-palmed. But after I finally reached the new lvl cap, I realized how much I enjoyed the journey to the goal, not reaching the goal itself... They also made leveling easier, which makes people focus on Campaign related quests, and ignore the interesting tiny side quests. Staying in one area long is kinda good, because after leveling high enough, we kinda stop to have an actual business to low level areas, and I find that sad. (And if I forcefully want to do all quests in the area before moving to the next, people starts to questions me for sticking so long in one area.) ^^'

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Dekanh In reply to Storytelleri [2014-06-28 12:56:50 +0000 UTC]

Yeah ! I was thinking the same since I played again in 4.0
The leveling was sooo fast (except Brusthonin, god I hate this zone xD) and made me miss a lot of quests
And I enjoy doing all of them, read them and learn the story of the zone. They are so interesting.
The worse is in Katalam. It's totally annoying to level-up here.

The most frustrating thing is the writing. I don't know for your language, but in french, It's horribly bad.
Before 3.0, with NCsoft, it was awesome, perfectly translated. But since the game is published by Gameforge, the translation is really bad. But the worse is in 4.0. I don't know if it's our translators or the koreans developpers, but our character lost his personnality.
He doesn't answer, it's just wrote "You end the conversation" or "You listen more"
And, on the same, the npcs talk like robots. For example :
"The elyos are in Katalam.
We have to protect the 71e garison against the elyos and balaurs to conquer Katalam.
Please help us by killing the elyos in front of the 71e garison in Katalam."

I think I did the biggest facepalm I could do when I first read the quests lv60+
There's no fun anymore with the dialogues, no joke or pun. Just the quest. Totally boring q_q

Edit : Oh I forgot one thing
The WOOOORSE thing they EVER did in this game is the Aethertech. Not the class but his leveling. I heard that they changed ALL of the missions to go with Beritra's story and all. They deleted a lot of missions, and wrote them with the stupid style of writing I told before. I played this class like 2 levels and I already quit.
AND THE WOOORSE² is that they will apply these new missions to every classes in 4.7. Deleting all the good part of Aion.

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Storytelleri In reply to Dekanh [2014-06-28 14:39:03 +0000 UTC]

Aw, I hope they get things fixed. D: We'll see in the future how things will work out. As much as we may enjoy Aion, if they make the game uncomfortable to us players, we know to walk away.

[STORY SPOILERS] There's no denying that voice acting in Katalam Campaign cutscenes are what they could have been done better here in english version/servers...  Here is what it sounds like: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbxF1o… It really gave away what kind of nice character we were dealing with the moment he opened his mouth in cutscene. [END OF SPOILERS]

Oh, and about Aethertech; there are many who thinks the creators were way too inspired of Anime called Gurren Lagann: static2.minitokyo.net/view/21/… , and game named Kingdom Hearts: quizilla.teennick.com/user_ima… , though we have no proof of the matter. ^^' I find it funny though.

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Dekanh In reply to Storytelleri [2014-06-28 18:01:48 +0000 UTC]

It's possible, a lot of things are inspired by others.

Oh yes, the english voice acting in 4.0... I saw it on youtube recently, it's...totally awful..
It's the first time that the french acting is way better than the english : www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K9ql1…
(Except when he don't laugh, but every language made this error >.>)

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