Brendan Young Blag » aion http://www.brendanyoung.net Everything I say is from something, or I made it up Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Aion Open Beta Pics http://www.brendanyoung.net/aion-open-beta-pics/ http://www.brendanyoung.net/aion-open-beta-pics/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:38:32 +0000 Brendan http://www.brendanyoung.net/?p=302 Participated in the Aion open beta last week. Despite some major lag issues early on, I was able to enjoy the improvements the Aion team has been making leading up to the game’s NA release on the 22nd (20th for us pre-orderers :P ).

Here’s some pictures.

My Eylos Ranger - Pyt My Asmodian Spiritmaster - Sabryel Pyt in Mau form with wings Pyt firing arrows from the air Pyt up in the sky Huge PvP skirmish in final moments of open beta Elyos alliance hunts down the Asmodian scum Elyos alliance hunts down the Asmodian scum from the air Elyos alliance tracks the Asmodians over the dunes of Eltnen The open beta ends in the midst of heated battle ]]> http://www.brendanyoung.net/aion-open-beta-pics/feed/ 0 Aion Closed Beta #5 http://www.brendanyoung.net/aion-closed-beta-5/ http://www.brendanyoung.net/aion-closed-beta-5/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:05:47 +0000 Brendan http://www.brendanyoung.net/?p=272 So this weekend I got to participate in the fifth closed beta for the upcoming MMO Aion: Tower of Eternity. It was really awesome. There’s nothing quite like flying over the landscape looking for prey, swooping down and taking them by surprise.

Death From Above

Death From Above

During the beta weekend I leveled a Elyos Gladiator to lvl 19, and an Asmodian Sorcerer to lvl 10. I modeled and named them after characters from Zelda:

Linkros

Linkros

Ganondorph

Ganondorph

The character customization is the best I’ve seen in an MMO. In fact, it’s as good as or better than Mass Effect’s.

I didn’t get high enough to enter the big PvPvE zone (The Abyss), but the PvE quests I did were well written and seemed to have flow. The “campaign” quests you do sometimes show a small cut scene as your character’s story progresses.

I had a lot of fun with Aion this weekend and I can’t wait for it to be released. September can’t come soon enough.

Angry Ganondorph Moonlit Ganondorph Lvl 19 Linkros Linkros Abyss Cut-scene Ganondorph Abyss Cut-scene Targeting... Death From Above Linkros Ganondorph

EDIT:

For those of you unfamiliar with the Zelda characters I based these guys off of:

Link

Link

Ganondorf

Ganondorf

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