Date of SoA Revealed: 3/27/13

[Slycer]

That trailer looks like a different game than the previous SoA one, lol. So much better. The city looks awesome, as do the new field/dungeon areas.

[Shenrien]

That trailer looks like a different game than the previous SoA one, lol. So much better. The city looks awesome, as do the new field/dungeon areas.

They actually have textures and rendered detail now it seems, before everything was so bland like there was nothing loading onto the buildings just flat colors with slight hue change here and there to make it look like something is there.

[Slycer]

Yeah I don't even know why they made the previous trailer. It was like 80% words and 20% really unfinished looking stuff, didn't give me a very good feeling. They should have stuck with a teaser reveal without showing any content for that trailer. This one makes me feel way more confident that it's going to be good stuff.

[Kincard]

Was hoping for some job or gameplay info but this stuff is nice too.

[Shenrien]

We will probably see something like what they did for BLU when they released it showing it using different spells against a pudding, I can't recall where I saw the video of it but there was an English audience that I can remember, and the BLU kept getting interrupted by the pudding lol.

[ronin sparthos]

Yeah I don't even know why they made the previous trailer. It was like 80% words and 20% really unfinished looking stuff, didn't give me a very good feeling. They should have stuck with a teaser reveal without showing any content for that trailer. This one makes me feel way more confident that it's going to be good stuff.

What's not to like about aqueducts, a pink haired elvaan, a new leading lady, a jungle to ragequit a la Yhoat, tons of potential new HNMs since this is lvl99 and potentially a return to tanking meaning a damn in this game! It beats that guy rambling about Vanadeel and what I seek in Adoulin in the first trailer though I liked the battle music they tossed in.

Hopefully they use that track and it's not something that winds up on a bonus disc like the WOTG trailer.

[Tarage]

March huh... alright... sooner than I was expecting, but I'm game. Time to take my SMN ass to yet another continent.

[Eurell]

Wasn't there an SoA subforum somewhere? I thought it was in advanced, but I don't see it anymore.

[Cairthenn]

Topics were moved into the parent forum; I imagine there was next to no traffic there given that most of the discussion started happening here, thus it was deemed unnecessary and removed.

[Eurell]

Topics were moved into the parent forum; I imagine there was next to no traffic there given that most of the discussion started happening here, thus it was deemed unnecessary and removed.

Ah, thanks. I thought it was there like a week ago, idk, maybe it was longer. Funny that this news happened right after it went away though lol.

[Alkar]

We will probably see something like what they did for BLU when they released it showing it using different spells against a pudding, I can't recall where I saw the video of it but there was an English audience that I can remember, and the BLU kept getting interrupted by the pudding lol.

I'm pretty sure that video was from vanafest. We're not getting another one before release but they can always release info through their forums and youtube channel like Yoshida is doing for XIV.

[Silverburst00]

The site looks good and its the release date is 3 days after my birthday ooo

[Hirronimus]

Is it me or do buildings seem a little untextured and bland?

[Lordender]

Wow, that was, uh, terrible, looks like the bare minimum went into that trailer. I thought the purpose of a trailer was to get people excited and pumped for something? Maybe SE will make another, more exciting one.

[TheDangerousDave]

Bring back 21-24hr NMs with the best gear in the game, nothing will beat the drama days

[Trigun]

Wow, that was, uh, terrible, looks like the bare minimum went into that trailer. I thought the purpose of a trailer was to get people excited and pumped for something? Maybe SE will make another, more exciting one.

Is it me or do buildings seem a little untextured and bland?

Watch the original trailer and compare it to this new one.

Original


New One

[Kyte]

I'm guessing they'll make 1 more trailer before the release date, showcasing the new jobs plus some story elements.

[Taint]

Bring back 21-24hr NMs with the best gear in the game, nothing will beat the drama days

The game does need some more drama.

There is very little wow factor going on when all the gimps have Relics and Emps (soon to be mythics) and everyone rocks the same gear sets.

[ronin sparthos]

More like the game needs something substantial for the hardcores to cut their teeth on rather than shitty pseudo-PvP that was world spawns.

Give me a leaderboard, some PvP with depth and customization, rewards and world PvE events and less 5-6hour spawns.

[Slycer]

More like the game needs something substantial for the hardcores to cut their teeth on rather than shitty pseudo-PvP that was world spawns.

Give me a leaderboard, some PvP with depth and customization, rewards and world PvE events and less 5-6hour spawns.

A meaningful achievement-type system with meaningful rewards would be nice also. Such an easy thing to add, too (at least you'd think it would be).