Nadril

Cool to see people taking notice. The game is releasing on Sept 22nd (which I think is the early headstart date you get with preorders) and the 24th or 25th for everyone else. As always I'll try and figure out a server for all of the U.S people to play on when we get some confirmation on that. :)

Umm I did it 11, 1-10, 12-13. Pretty much chronological but you just start at 11. I couldn't really see it watched any other way :/

Haha. The game's beta are done in stages so the next beta should be in a few weeks probably. :)

Nah that's cool, you're posting some good stuff I forgot to talk about. :)

You're the poster that made me try them out, and I think the album cover had a good play in that as well. :thumbup:

Yeah but you know as well as I do nine out of ten levels will involve a big penis. Yes I know, but it would have been cool if they could have done something like Super Smash Brothers Brawl's level sharing. It would have been fun seeing the difficult levels some people have come up with. Atleast you can share with friends. Funny, they have level sharing on the DS version of N+. You can upload maps to their server online and play them from their, or download them to the game cartridge. I'm amazed that they couldn't do that with the 360 version.

Was thinking of a good album cover to post for that thread, decided on this one so I'm listening to the album now. It's a really peaceful album for black metal... sort of haunting really.

Amazing post OP would read again. A+ edit: You funnin' us? >_>

Speaking of anime... I just finished Monster. Wow. I can't really sum up what I think right now, I need to let some of it make sense to me. Just amazing. edit: I'm reading this right now. It's a really interesting take on everything that happens in the series.

Sounds about as subtle as a brick to the face.

Hopefully you have a 64 bit OS. It doesn't really matter anyways, I doubt you're going to see any real sort of performance boost after 4GB for gaming alone. It doesn't matter anyways because you have a terrible video card that is bottlenecking your machine.

I don't know what the recommended specs are.

What? Darkfall was a buggy mess. I haven't encountered a single bug in Aion over the entire beta weekend because it's been out for a year in Korea.

No, really, do you hate music or something.

You mean tap water? Yeah, have it all the time. Jokes aside, I agree with your post. As I understand it, French, Italian and other European cultures introduce their kids to alcohol at a young age and teach them to respect it, which could help to lower rates of alcohol misuse and abuse in those countries. Agreed, I wish it was that way for the U.S as well.

Don't worry, Pat just has a school-boy crush. Yeah, I still want to see his reaction though. I was getting tired of my signature anyways. (The quote will stay though :P)

The end game seems to be focused largely around the idea of PvPvE. Pretty much that means that a lot of end game content is in the Abyss, a large zone in which there are not only a lot of quests for leveling (starting at 25) but more group encounter stuff and bosses. Of course it's open to both factions, so PvP naturally happens there. I believe there also happens to be castles and forts in the abyss, which are a key for PvP. I do believe there are some instances in the game. One I know of was added in patch 1.5 (which Aion will be launching with) which is a fortress dungeon. I can't remember but either it, or another dungeon, will be a timed run -- so think of something almost like ZA from WoW. You will get a rank depending on how quickly you beat the dungeon, which will determine the quality of the loot you will get. I'm not sure how focused the end game PvE is going to be, I'll be honest and say I really haven't bothered to research it myself. The game is split up into zones from what I have seen so far. It doesn't really feel that way due to the nature of the games world but you won't just walk from one end of the world to the other. However the zones are quite massive. The earlier leveling zones (1-20 I understand) are actually split up into channels in order to handle an influx of new players and also because they don't involve any PvP at all. From what I've been told all zones after level 20 are only composed of one channel so there is no hiding from a player. However there are still plenty of exploration possibilities despite of all of this, I think, especially with flying being crucial in a lot of the PvP centric areas. A lot of this is mostly just from reading up though, as this focused beta was only a 1-20 experience. And it does bare a strikingly similar art style to Guild Wars but I can't say that they are too close to each other gameplay wise. In all honesty if I had to compare it to a game I would say that it feels a bit like a mixture of WoW, Lineage II and DAoC. A strange combination I know, but while it's not the most unique game on the market by any means I also think it is one of the most polished to be released here in the past 3-4 years.

Looks ok but I'm not feeling the concept on this one. It doesn't look like anything is falling.

Eh... ? I'll change the signature too if it's so shocking.

TF2 or portal? If you mean portal people say it's so good because it had a brilliant storyline, brilliant writing, innovative gameplay in every aspect and was one of the funniest games in the past 5 years. It's a short experience, yes, but it's an amazing one.

Some people figure that if you're playing on a PvP server that you'd want to PvP. I know, I know, it's a crazy ideal. It's not PvP when there's about 5 level 80s camping you so when you spawn you die instantly. It was in the quest area where I needed to hand in quests, what the hell am I meant to do? Rally some players in the area, try and get away and move to another questing zone momentarily or just try and fight. The best moments in PvP after all happen when you're cornered and out numbered. That's just my view of everything though. Of course I may just be used to other games with more PvP in them, I know that my old guild in Lineage II would have 5 guys ready and willing to go PK anyone even threatening to touch me. World PvP can't happen without a catalyst. It's a shame that people in WoW can't figure that out yet.

It was a good recommendation. I'm up to ep28 now. :thumbup: edit: Up to ep43 now. Really this is the best anime I've ever watched.

Just wait for an official apple representative to answer your post and we will... seriously, did you think we'd know something like that? Call apple.

The only good thing about these sigs is they can tell a lot about the poster who uses it. (Protip: it's not good)