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10/25/09
Luckilly, some of the shirts here don't scream the overkill that Affliction, Ed Hardy and other lines carry these days. Frankly, some of their offerings they look like someone swallowed some ink and threw up all over a shirt.
Still a little too done up for my tastes, but at least it's layered somewhat.
That said, I'll stick to Rock N' Republics and True Religion brands. #aion
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If they make it three wings instead, I'm in. #aion
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Must've been a fan of Rinoa. #aion
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True, gamers have taste too.
I'm not sure if I would rather be seen in wolf shirts than this in public though. #aion
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Can't wait to see when NCSoft will put the usual micro-transaction bullshit they usually do in their game. #aion
10/20/09
Of course it kind of does games like this a disservice to say that they're totally the same, but generally a good 90% of the conventions will be the same game to game, and WoW was anything but the first... #aion
10/20/09
They will, eventually, spruce up the thing with events, but the once epic quest you started undertaking of slaying Pigma, the pig of the 9th hells will suddenly become mundane, because each week, you bring his head to the town as a trophy of a success and for some inexplicable reason, you know the next week the monster will be back with different treasure, but with the same strategy. #aion
10/20/09
I've heard people say Aion's totally different, but from the outside, it looks like the next iteration, with free flight.
Eve Online was kind of different, but not my idea of a good time... I had plenty of cash to buy any ship upgrades I wanted, but had to wait weeks no matter what I did to train up skills to use the equipment. Can't train an alt character at the same time either. Then there's the gameplay, which for me was mostly watching my ship fly from point to point on autopilot, and sometimes mining asteroids for hours... the endgame appears impossible to reach though, as you can always get bigger and bigger, and if you do reach the top, you're one of enough people to count on one hand, and will probably lose it again in a huge battle. #aion
10/20/09
Going back to AION, I will consider it like all other MMO, a grind fest, that will end up at the maximum level with e-penis jousting of "I got a super duper rare blade" and the other one will answer with "I got a virtual rating that proves I'm so good at killing other virtual players".
In effect, people with nothing trying to prove they got something worth of showing. #aion
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But for someone who doesn't play a genre, it will tend to blur together. I like sim racers and wouldn't expect most people to tell one from the next. Some people can't even distinguish falling block puzzles because they just think "Tetris." #aion
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NPD is just brick n Mortar sales yeah? #aion
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There´s nothing new here, but the great sales show that people love MMOs and different social experiences. #aion
10/20/09
So has the decline of WOW!
Muahaha! #aion
10/20/09
I've had Aion for a total of 2 days and while a fresh change from WoW I'm trying to find someone to take the discs and free play time off my hands.
To each their own I suppose. #aion
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No surprise though really. How many truly good titles are there? I'd say about 20. ;) #aion
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