Anjasaurus

Gaming and reading

My interest for stories, reading and gaming has been renewed, I think partly due to discussing it more with friends. I also had a bit of a dip in my Aion experience, feeling left out of my guild. I gathered up some courage and posted on the forum about it, and voila!, everything is fine, more or less.

Aion is grindy, there’s no point in denying it, but I’m trying to find my place in the grind and enjoying it in my own way. I enjoy the social parts way too much to drop the game, the community and chat is 50% of my gaming. Hopefully I’ll find good friends in this guild, and find a wiki-like community to join in with.

I’ve also tried Dragon Age recently, and it has a play style I’m not really used to from any other game (I know I’m a bad geek for not having played Baldur’s Gate or NWN). The first tutorial is including a lot of information and I got confused and tired quite fast. It will get another chance though, once I can convince myself to take time off studying and Aion.

One of my friends just bought the New Super Mario for Wii, and it sounds great! Every now and then I really wish I had a Wii. But on the other hand, I am a social gamer and I would never play it without friends.. I’m frustrated, there are so many games I want to play and so little time!

Another day in Aion

I’ve run into my first Aion block today, which is mainly about my legion (guild) and my own play style. They are around-the-clock players who spend a lot of time grinding and leveling, and I’m not.

Maybe this legion isn’t for me. I really enjoy going around looking at the scenery or collecting flowers and ignoring the mobs, and I don’t look forward to reaching lvl 50 that much. Sounds too much like the end to me, I like leveling and finding new areas.

I realised maybe Aion won’t be that game that sticks, like Guild Wars did, but I need to give it a chance at least. The questing is enjoyable, even more I’ve found if you really take the time to read the quest logs (they are insanely long sometimes though, I hardly ever bother..), and the scenery is nice. You can find the odd nice group for the group quests even, so maybe joining a legion isn’t that important yet :)

I’m still running around Eltnen, the level 20-40 area, which is mostly a desert. It has it’s beautiful spots though, and I tried to capture some of them:
Ania, my Chanter Night in Eiron Desert Beautiful desert landscape Beautiful desert landscape

I’ve just found the PvPvE area, so now I’m slowly getting to know the Abyss and how frustrating it can be to be low lvl in PvP areas ;) I hope to have the chance to play there some more on off-peak times to get to know the area better.