Worst MMO Ever? - Aura Kingdom
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Press I to open the cash shop.
what a strange choice of keybinds.
Aura Kingdom, an anime MMO made by Aeria games and now somehow involved with Gamigo (because of course it's comehow involved with Gamigo) actually, in all honesty, is not that bad.
I mean there are issues but, I can see why people would play this.
Thanks as usual to the supporters on Patreon and Twitch, you're all awesome. - Zábava
"whats your gender?"
"Chibi"
"Ok, but whats in your pants?"
"Cuteness"
"Yeah... but your genitals?"
"Jailtime"
(Thanks to joule400 for the last line)
Is that Red vs Blue reference?
😭
@@lemiru i think so, i know the meme comes from there, but i don't follow the show.
Jailtime could also work for the second one
That made me laugh while feeling a bit ill at the same time.
Ah yes, the game where I learned at the tender age of 11-12 that being perceived as a girl can get you a man who will buy you cosmetic items and proceeded to put that knowledge to good use for nearly two years
I don't know which one is more worrying. A man buying 11-12 year-old girls cosmetic items or a 11-12 year-old boy acting like a girl to get a man buy the said items.
@@bchgh who said I was a boy? And yeah it was messed up and I knew it even back then so I didn't feel bad when I'd told him about my age and he still wanted me to be his MMO gf and buy my character skimpy outfits I didn't ask for. He even gave me some pretty good gear as well so I wasn't complaining, just kept in mind basic internet safety rules and eventually I quit the game after about 2 years. You'll find no remorse from me for profitting off of pedos lol
@@thatgayliengremlinp4766 Sorry, I didn't mean to put it that way. Not trying to make it look bad or anything. I was just thinking about so many dynamics in the society which make protecting children from pedos more complicated than it seems.
@@bchgh I realize now that my reply could sound aggressive when I didnt mean it to, apologies! I think I managed not to get roped in because my parents had told me all about how to be safe on the internet since I was little, they used parental control but I was a stubborn little shit and managed to get the password to it so I could play more. They knew they couldnt exactly stop me so instead they taught me how to be safe, which looking at kids these days seems to rarely ever be the case.
I think that its part adults assuming kids nowadays know how to use the internet because they were born with it, and the kids who were taught that "everyone you meet on the internet is a 50-yo pedo trying to get you" but finding it was overwhelmingly not the case having kids and thinking that since they didnt experience that their kids are safe, and not teaching them basic safety rules like not giving out your name or location or your age (unless its to tell someone who's making advances that you're a kid, but in that case just say you're a minor) or picture or anything that could be used to track you down, and lie if necessary.
I remember only having one class in middle school teaching us internet safety that was pretty out of touch, and my brother who's only 3 years younger never had one, so unless an effort is made for school to give accurate classes it falls on the parents. But its also not to say its always the parents' fault as well, because most of them are either misguided or don't know, or are the sort of out of touch that makes children roll their eyes like "sure mom, every single one of my online friends is an old pedophile trying to kidnap me, thats very believable". Its just, we need a comprehensive way to teach people, especially children, how to behave on here. The shit I see sometimes...
But I ramble on! Long story short, it was sonly thanks to my parents teaching me how to behave online in a reasonable way that it didnt end terribly, and sadly my case seems to be more of an outlier these days.
@@thatgayliengremlinp4766 Same here, I feel like sitting on a time bomb as my kids are gradually reaching their teenage. Finger crossed. 😬
Part of the reason you found no one, is literally because every hardcore player switched to the private server that awards premium currency for achievements and shit, no “premium” classes, and a proper difficulty curve. Also no fear of Aeria randomly shutting down the servers, which has happened before to AK
that actually sounds much better
Does this private server still exist, and what is it called?
@@yunireiv7672 AKTO, they just updated on the 10th too
@@yunireiv7672 i would also like to know that info, i'm curious on what they could change to make aura kingdom better in a private server
"Your weapon is a tiny teddy bear which can turn into either a hammer or a grenade launcher." This made my day.
"Out of 15,000 hours I give this game a 3/10" is the saddest short story I've ever heard.
I need to lay down
If you have a full-time job, you work for them about 2000 hours per year. 15,000 hours is 7.5 years at that rate.
I think it is a cry for help... maybe they were trapped in a room being forced to play the game for solid for 27 months with no breaks... not even being able to logout at night (going by the 19,823 hours steam said they had played)
@@fatrobin72 It's like they're trapped on the Satellite of Love by two mad scientists or something.
@@fatrobin72 You just described a gold farmer 😆
Finally, a successor to, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Oh no this is one of the first games on this series that i have actually played
Sorry to hear that
A friend recommended this once when i was 13... so many years ago.
Same
yeah same here, it isnt the worst mmo to play tho, just kinda annoying with the UI owo
Yeah, but back when we were all in late high school or undergraduate college and stuff like FFXIV didn't exist and you didn't like WoW/didn't want to pay a sub these were the sort of games we played. Eventually he's going to review something all of us have played at least once.
This was... hard to watch
I've been with this game since its Alpha, I've watched it grow and flourish
I had fun until I was broken by the usual Aeria games antics (namely how grind intensive the game gets and how Aeira loved directing you to the cash shops)
Seeing the bugs & glitches that were not there before, as well as "Premium Classes"... I feel like Gamigo massacred my child-game
to be fair, the classes are not really premium. You must have another char with with a high enough level to make a new one with that starting class
i got tired after reaching like lvl 72, i wanted to get those colored UIs since i first saw them, I even got close to a few of them, but the grinding (and my limited knowledge of English at the time) was too much for me:(
as the video progressed, i noticed he mentioned the bugs and glitches too, which i didnt remember either:/ i also dont remember the bosses being so easy, but maybe my memory is failing me... its been like 7 years since i last played with it properly
At least they gave you premium credits in login. I used to buy 1 or 2 mounts or costume pieces every few weeks from collecting login rewards.
@@LikaLaruku aye, that was nice
I remember spending mine on the Tsubaki lootboxes
Guess who did not get Tsubaki
as someone who very much enjoyed Shaiya and Grand Fanatasia growing up (also Aeria games) I feel this so very hard...
I still remember playing this when I was a kid lol. These games are still special, because when you are a kid you just get so immersed in them while having no clue what is going on but having fun discovering it.
yeah, l cared about the story when l started play warcraft when l was young. l switched to ffxiv now, but l do not care about the story at all
yeah, i remember getting to level 59 when the game was alive. now i haven’t touched it in years ah
The first handful of games will always be a bit special
This is how I was with Oblivion when I got it. Bugs and all, that game stole me from my friends for a whole Summer
Yeah, I pissed away hours in Aura Kingdom just doing landscape photography.
The absolute worst part of all these MMO's is seeing the makings of an amazing game buried beneath incompetence and greed
and pedophilia
The worst part is that for years Aura Kingdom was nothing like this..
but you guessed it, the entire start of the game has been changed by Gamigo. Honestly, I have over 300 hours in this game and nothing of what Josh showed made any sense.
@@Sock-Puppet Gamigo: Where games come to die.
@@Mediados Josh does refer to being bought up by Gamigo as 'a fate worse than death'
@@Mediadosanother case of formerly decent to good games getting milked with one foot in the grave.
"$50. you could buy the witcher 3 for that."
man that really puts things into perspective.
On sale you can buy more. I spent about 30-35$ to buy all witcher games from 1-3
Hell I've seen the witcher 3 cost less
This is the sad state of modern cosmetic prices, if anything this game is just having parity with others, can't reminder the last time I payed for a cosmetic, and I do like them.
Honestly, you'd have to pay me 50 USD to buy Witcher.
You could buy a real sparkly silky dress for that price.
This game was actually very competent and one of the top choices for an Anime MMO when it released. Not quite sure what happened over the last years to introduce all of these oddities and bugs.
I think they started to prioritize the mobile/Steam sequel AK2.
I use to play this game and was actually there for the major downfall in the US server. As far as I could tell developers changed and the new classes went through a major powerleap. The GMs and GSs quit at around the same time as each other and their replacements weren't very good. After Twin Saga (basically the Eden Eternal/Aura Kingdom clones by the new devs) went live, It was met with a plethora of bugs and to no one's surprise, later updates in AK were also just as buggy as their new game.
Most of the player base move to private servers that were being handles better and the servers merged. They released a mobile version of the game (which has been discontinued as of now) and I've heard of AK2 which is the same game but with FF14-esc graphics.
Probably the difference between how Windows XP and Windows 10 runs. Backwards compatibility can be a pain. That, or the current publisher (Suba?) doesn't use servers that are as reliable?
@@LikaLaruku The WHAT?
@@4idenn You know, the Aura Kingdom 2.
I remember playing this game years ago, I don't know why they changed the intro to this. When I played you started off in a battle and everything was on fire and you had to fight a demon lord or something and I think it turned out to be a dream. Anyways it was a much cooler way to start a game than what I'm seeing now
Yes exactly!! Thats what i remember too - it was quite okay back then i feel like… not as in-your-face p2w as it seems now
I just restarted Aura Kingdom today and that intro is exactly what I went through
That’s because he started as the loly class, for some reason they got a whole other opening and start up place.
@@cherub-angelSeveral of the classes have their own start. The first was the Reaper.... If you played the X-Legends version. Aeria for some reason took out the level 70 requirement and made it start at 1 like everyone else.
@@Kamiyoda My main character was a reaper and I did not have a different start.
It actually feels really wrong to have a actual number out of ten for the rating
It should be “male? Female? No, chibi!/10”
genuinely the most out of place feeling thing in the entire video... and that's counting 'chibi' gender
i agree.. could've been "not good enough /10"
Why not just rate it like Steam did? 69 out of 100, as if loli panties didn't give you a hint
I laughed so hard when I saw 7/10
Man, did they change the starting zone? I remember fighting in a war and then waking up at a nice oceanside city with an actual semi-decent plot
Probably the lolis get a different starting zone than the not-lolis.
@@ThatguycalledJoe Yep. All other classes start at Port Skandia still.
bruh i loved this game back in 2016 for probably the first 3d game i ever played since it was free (for context: the games i used to play was pirated GameHouse games or other shitty web MMOs eg. Wartune) but even then the community had been shit. was fun flying all over the city/map with my sister though haha
Yeah I was wondering this for the entire video. The lolis join the main land really late, although their quest are nearly identical to the default beginning :O
Honestly the chibi starting zone is really lame they should of started them like everybody else
But the starting quests for the original characters was also changed they trimmed it down so u only gotta fight the big boss and then the dark knight and that's it lol
"If your going to make a little girl character then please don't put her in a miniskirt by default. Some of us don't want to go to jail."
That just floored me! Thanks for the laughs!
*If you're...
People need to remember due to the nature of MMOs, they WILL die one day. To ensure your favorite MMO survives as long as possible, being kind to the rest of the playerbase is essential. Everytime you help give a player a positive experience, they are more likely to stay active longer and recommended it to other people who may try it themselves. Everytime you are rude to another player, you risk them quitting and telling people to avoid trying the game. Do your part and be kind, even if you don't care about them, I'm sure you care about your favorite MMO surviving!
Something important.
I was introduced to MMO's by a good friend. Guild Wars 1. We played together. And we grouped for the mission. That's how I learned to play MMOs :
Full. Pickup.
To me, they have always been a human adventure. The game by itself isn't that fun. People are.
I prefer we fail together, that I win alone. The experience is more enjoyable, the memories are more vivid.
And when we win, it feels deserved and long due !
In real life, I am not particularly generous, but I always enjoyed giving stuff away in games. I gave gold, rare items, advices, some of my time...
One time, during a guild raid, one of our filthy rich members showered the floor with rare materials and consumables. It was a really rippy "raid" (hard mode Abyss, for those who know). Everyone rushed to pick up the stuff, and the entire party went down ! We died with still a bunch of it on the floor, and were kicked out of the instance.
Then, one of our member started complaining he didn't get anything. He was floored ! Somewhat of a new or average experienced player, but not the kind to be bleeding gold.
So I whispered him : Join me in town ! And I handed him the equivalent of five hours of endgame farming. I didn't want that guy to feel like he was unlucky or left behind that day.
A week later, I made ten times that amount in half an hour by winning a wagger. Fun times.
Well that was longer than I planned, but all I wanted to say is that the players who insist on meta pickups and screw other players are missing most of the fun.
The most toxic community I have ever saw is probably the one from Path of Exile. Basically Wall Street, but MMO.
I love how this is exactly what Toram Online did.
It's been up for 7 years now and still hasn't been abandoned... There isn't much p2w bullshit and holy hell are there still a crapload of players running around the map.
I came back after 4 years and I'm surprised the economy still isnt wrecked with the bots running around.
Main quest rewards aren't stingy (can literally powerlevel a lvl 1 character to lvl 200+ even if you rush) which is enough for the true Toram experience.
It also helps they handout Main Quest reset item freely.
Actually, looks like the devs cared when they made this, but just didn't have the cash to make it any higher quality. Making MMOs is hard, but they clearly had passion.
I doubt gamigo kept anyone but a skeleton crew when they bought this game.
@@TheRealAtello always
They certainly cared more than usual when it came to Aeria Games
@@Konpekikaminari aeria games is a publisher...
@@lunaticmode638 I know, I meant other games they published, but at the time writing "Aeria Games Games" sounded silly to me
Just FYI, the city that is lag AF is the hub for this game and there are many people there. You don't see anyone because the game set hide other people as default (You can turn it on/off on the UI in top right of your screen)
that is really strange thing
Wha-
Why would that be on by default!?
Lol I had tried this game and quit it because it seemed dead 💀
@@MoonMoverGaming Its played by people who want to be alone
@@ShotgunRain99 not strange, its smart, many MMO games wish they had that option, it reduces lag in big city areas
Honestly, as someone with sensitive hearing, the game starting completely silent by default sounds far nicer than starting at ear splitting volume like some games do.
"some"
most.
@@obsidianflight8065 Fair and true lol.
Elsword moment
So much this. Basically all games start with all sliders set at full blast. It's disgusting.
If a product is not made to be used at 50% volume as default then you made your product wrong. Just objectively.
@@illoney5663 "ahh time to enjoy some dark souls" "AAHHHHHHH *DING* OOOHHHHHHHHH *DINGDANGDONG* AAAAOOOAAAHHHHH
I had 1.1k hours in this game. I spent most of the game in an amazing guild called The Crimson Angels where I made many friends.
Our guild leader ended up quitting because his wife caught him having an affair and he stopping playing because he either got kicked out or was trying to work on his relationship (wild) and he transferred leadership onto the 2nd in command.
Our new guild leader was my best friend who was crushing on me hard, we had another girl in the guild who used to get jealous that we were friends and tried to get him to hate my guts basically and it sorta worked for a while. Lots of drama and fighting happened in game and in discord.
I got to know other people and I ended up in the top guild in our server called University that was full of whales and elitists.
We all used to run dungeons, but they had all spent so much money they all one shot everything so it was so boring. I much prefered my older guild, because we were mainly all f2p or ''few bits of money spent'' players so we still felt challenged.
There was so much drama between the top guilds (The Crimson Angels were 2nd to top) where they would raid other guilds discord and chat shit to each other. It got so bad that the ''Game Sages'' (not gm's, but they still had ban hammers for some reason) started making friends with the guild members and leaders from all the guilds. Our guild leader was an elitest asshole honestly, always bragging about him and his guild being the best. They basically perma banned him because of drama, even though he was a dick I still think it wasn't right for the GS to get involved as most things were happening off the game and in the discords.
It was their worst decsion for the game imo as one of our members had spent 50k+ in a year on the game. I'm not kidding when I said we were full of whales. You couldn't join the guild unless you were, except for me because I was friends with the leader and female. (which also caused drama)
Most of our members quit when he got banned. A few stayed and made a new guild but they rarely played and just stood around in the city chatting to each other.
It was a crazy world; bad and good, I miss it. I also played it when I was a teen when it was new and Aeria Games hosted. It was a good time in my life but now I'm an adult I'd never go back. I have tried it out again a few times but it's not the same. I also remember how long it took me to grind to max level with being decently geared and just thought NOPE better games to play out now.
PS. There was a good way to make money in the game for free. There was a shop system/minigame called paragon where you could win cosmetic items with a few other things, you could get free tokens doing certain end game content. The paragon would change every week or two so you could use the free tokens then keep the cosmetic items, then wait a few more weeks to sell them on the AH for stupid amounts of money. Whatever was in the paragon for the week would sell for dirt cheap on the AH as well so I used to just bulk buy then sell them for about 40x the price a month later as some of the things would only turn up once.
if you want to write a book just do that i was interesed when you mentioned how much time in the game u had so u could give feedback and i stopped reading when u tried to explain ur love triangle that i guarantee non of us care about
@@akiri4484 If you don't care then don't read haha simple. Just wrote it to show how petty the drama was in the game.
@@akiri4484 bruh
This is the most accurate AK comment ever lmao, there was so much drama, simping, whaling, but at the other end of the spectrum the social game was great, awesome friendships were made, good community overall, i still talk to people that i knew from like 6-8 years ago, had my best and worst times there.
Side note: fun reading the University gossip, didn't liked them anyway(nosebleed)
That reminds me of the drama on my old Metin 2 p-server.
"I'm going on another list arn't I ?" that is how you know an MMO belongs on this series.
Yeah, I don't know how many times he said something like that. I remember the horse riding MMO and I'm pretty sure there is at least another...
@@Durlomthir TERA is definitely another....
@@Zarryon12 Can your name be any edgier?
@@OmniDan26 Probably.
I heard this as "I'm going to another list: hentai".
I actually tried this a long time ago when I was a kid
Just thought the characters were cute. Felt kinda boring after a while.
Weird, I remember this game being one of those, show how OP your character can be in the beginning by having you participate in a war that turned out to be a dream that's actually a vision of the future.
Me too. I guess they changed it after a while. But still kinda miss the original introduction. Only for the nostalgia though LOL
I'm pretty sure the introduction shown in the video is because of the loli class. Any other class has the normal introduction.
@@gustavomatos6412 oh gotcha
i started playing this game around 2014-2015 (not really sure been a long time) and at first glance, i fell in love with it, the graphisms, the lore (not so much just the eidolons that were pretty cool, like pokemon to collect), the playstyle and the community within the game, especially in the small guilds that was just super cool and fun. Yes the items were expensive, but I was content with the gear i had collected. then eventually i grew up, the game didnt, the bugs remained and stuck me, so i left. Just a shame to see that nothing has changed 8 years later but the good memories will always be cherished, i guess
Your rage against extortion level cash shops gives me faith in humanity, thank you
I'm glad you find an actually decent game for once! I was starting to worry for you, being stuck with all the garbage games for so long
I love how quickly the patreon list multiplied as the channel gained traction through bellular and asmon shoutouts, the mmo community is coming together in a way I haven’t seen in almost a whole decade.
You deserve all the success josh and seeing you get recognized for your quality content is a great thing to behold !
8:10 This just reminds me of how badly the goal post has been moved over the years. That kind of price legitimately gets defended with "at least it's not a gacha" and "they've got to monetise the game somehow". That's where we're at now - the microest of micro transactions costing the same as a full game is considered one of the more acceptable business models. I call this shift not-as-bad-ism.
well unfortunately the cost of developing game have also increased and the cost to run server too as well, unless you have a hugely successful mmo with millions of players, you are not going to sustain it with the same amount of money as 10 years ago
now we have diablo immortal
@@wansichen3743 luckily the user numbers have also increased significantly. The big publishers make more money than ever before.
this just proves that final fantasy 14 has the best cash shop 1. its not in game 2. its usually left over limited event items 3. i can get an entire outfit set for 10 dollar/euro or less
Strange. Looked like you had a swimming animation when you walked up the waterfall.
...I wonder if what happened was that you weren't walking. If the game doesn't support characters actually being underwater, and if the devs made the mistake of having the waterfall actually be "water" and not a water-textured wall, then what may have happened is that the game put you in a swimming state and wanted to keep you at the surface of the water... by checking the water level directly above your head, and animating you to that point.
it's sad, I kinda liked my time in AK... but it was back then, before gamigo
Yeah I feel ya
Gamigo: "Everything I touch dies!"
Feel ya too, this game was kinda addicting back then
everything was good in the aura kingdom. Until the Gamigo nation attacked
Yeah it used to be a really fun game with almost none of the bullshit he has to deal with now
Sheesh...back in the day this game was one of the best anime MMORPGs you could play...and the only MMORPG I've played. I liked it a lot...only the "endgame" is very very grind heavy so I lost interest.
Ah yeah one thing that is also nice about this game ... if you play a bit further - you unlock a second class for your character.
Gotta love grinding all day and get 1.3% of progress lmao
@@Esvald Kinda sad that 1.3%/day sounds really good to me. I guess I played BDO for too long.
@@Esvald 1.3%?
I remember clearing a quest and barely getting 0.01% on that bar lol
@@VegetTable Yeah and that's how an all day grinding session yielded me only 1.3%. And that wasn't even the highest levels at that point lol
@@palo1728 The level 64 life
The main problem with x-legend games is that even though they make beautiful and unique games, they all end up being victims of their greedy publishers, not a single x-legend game has not been hardcore pay-to-win, ever, pre-awakening Eden Eternal may have been an exception but that's about it, sad.
"I leave the shop because it makes me sad". Sounds like an entry from my diary.
ow shit. another gamigo. wait till he goes to eden eternal
Well, that won't be happening: Eden Eternal closed April 2021. Only Aura Kingdom and Grand Fantasia are still open to look at. Shaiya would be possible too.
@@TheFantasyAC there is vendetta so he could stil review it
@@peepeepoopoo3579 maybe, but vendetta is a private server. So I don't think this would be really fitting for this series.
Oh wow, THAT takes me back... It was a lot like this but not as pretty. I did appreciate that you could play multiple classes on one character, like FFXIV.
@@TheFantasyAC Dang of the 3 that was the one I enjoyed the most. Oh well. (Although Grand Fantasia was pretty neat being more retro at the time)
When I was a kid I remember I loved playing this game, and now I currently work as a freelance character designer. Honestly, I would argue that most of the characters (mainly Eidolons) in this game are very well designed, heck they're actually a lot better than most current games right now, even Genshin Impact. The non-humanoid Eidolons looked really cool, especially Quelkulan, Nalani, Eligos, and Abraxas. I would however say that most of the environments are recycled from past maps, which is a pity because I remember I loved visiting Ventos Praire because it's really pretty (and so is the dungeon of that map, Wrathborne Temple).
I still play the game, although I don't play on the Original Server because the Private Server is a lot better and more rewarding to play than in Original one, cosmetic items can be earned for free as well. Hence, my issue with the game as a whole, even in Private Server, is that the grind can be unbearable and collection can be very tedious because they actually matter. I also get that you're not supposed to Solo some stages but at the same time I feel like the ability of unable to Solo stages that are meant to be a Solo player dungeon on the same level is mind-boggling like the Time Library. I may be complaining because I've been playing more recent games as of late and they've been very balanced when it comes to grinding and the reward you gain from the grind, but I don't know, CMIIW.
And yeah, I wholeheartedly agree with the reviews. It's definitely not a bad game now, and it is iirc regarded as one of the better anime games to play back when it was released because the graphics were actually considered great back in early to mid 2010s. It's so well received that a lot of games either copy some of their design or rip the gameplay for their own. 7/10 is definitely the spot for me as well. Also the lady who did the voice acting is a top tier. I need more of her in game :(((((
I remember as a middle schooler playing many games from Aeria Games, what really made me get into MMOs was Grand Fantasia and I was so excited to play Aura Kingdoms when they released it. Although GF was my main MMO, it was my beginning, so AK would never surpass it. Ngl I liked every MMO I ever played, I always looked at the aesthetic, the graphic and the classes and the one that really satisfies me was GF. But I liked other games with the same-similar cutesy art/aesthetic like Maplestory, Elsword, Eden Eternal etc.
I don't regret playing any of them, not when I was a little kid and not even now, I cherish every single moment and memories, and what I liked the most abt those memories was joining Guilds and basically made friends, whom I would talking every single day and then never see a trace of them (tho I had periods when I didn't wanted to play so I would just take couple of years to break and then coming back whenever)
I played this game for a while back when it was still run by aeria games and I actually quite enjoyed it. It looks nice visually and it has some fun systems. Like the cooking and fishing mini games and riddle side quests you could do. Also I liked that premium items could just be sold in the auction house meaning you could get nice dresses and stuff without spending real money. If I remember correctly there was also a lottery systems for which you could earn the currency in game. There were also regular events with gms that were also quite fun!
It is or at least it was a good game that did not take it self to seriously, had quite a lot to do and did not take to much brain power to play. I like an engaging story that hits you right in the feels but sometimes you just want to blow stuff up and this game was quite good for this
glad to see some actual player in the comments, but can you tell this youtuber that most players dont use steam to launch the game and tell him that just because steam says this game have 100 player does mean that it is the case
Damn i remember actually really liking this one.....until the 100$ Cash Eidolons started cropping up one after another.......
I do the same thing with the Eidolons that I do with Genshin Impact; Ignore the cash shop & play with the first 4 given to me for free.
@@LikaLaruku I would usually do the same but sadly i am a huge fan of the Alice in Wonderland books and when they added an Alice Eidolon for 50 bucks it was either leave or cave in sooner or later and pay up........yes i am weak xD
This one was an experience... Biggest issue is always the management. Aeria's goal always has been to hunt whales. But the rest of it wasn't bad. Coming up with cool class combos was fun. Had an evade tank katar/shield and a book/axe that turned the typical spin2win axe move into a vortex of debuff spam.
Other than that... dunno how it changed, but overworld stuff is typically weak as dirt. Had some interesting dungeons though. Plenty of fun staying off the red carpet.
Man, i used to play this back in 2014, brings back good memories. I remember enjoying leveling in some zones, especially Helonia Coast. The enviroment + music in that zone was amazing, iirc there was a world boss there.
I'm gonna be that guy that says he actually likes AK. I has flaws sure, but it is also good looking, has flashy and fun combat, and I have had plenty of fun with it.
That's fine 8 enjoyed it too the only rpbpem for me was Grind for good gear
I enjoyed AK when I played it as well, but that was years ago.
@@Mioochii That seems to be a common complaint.
@@gmann215 I played it again about 6 months ago, and it held up pretty well.
@@DevilLobster82 how good was that musical DPS class in the intro if you know anything about it. Im so annoyed classes like that aren't in more games and tabletops.
I religiously watch every, single, one of these as they come out.
Same.
And I think I've played like 3 or 4 at some point in time, although for a lot less time. :D
The only one game of these that I played probably the same amount was this one. :D
I remember trying out Wizards 101? but that ended after about an hour or so. :D
Wow, I thought you were going to tear this game apart.
This is one of the few games that I lasted and enjoyed playing for a very long time, maybe 3 or 4 years. I remember that although the game had its things to pay for and such, it was more something aesthetic, mounts and such and it was not so p2w, I mean you could get things from the shop without putting a penny, that was the way I I played it at least. Apparently it has become quite p2w today, that's a sad thing.
(English isn't my main language, sorry)
I enjoyed this game for a few years. It was my, "I want to play something but dont have the time and/or motivation to dive into a AAA game." If you play it long enuf you'll see that they actually crammed in most features that can be found in more mainstream MMO's. The monetization was not even that bad with Aeria as the publisher. There was a way to get most cash shop items without spending real money. (Although this took some work.) I wound up with lots of outfits, eidolons, mounts, and a pretty tricked-out house. Then Gamigo bought Aeria and I bailed. I knew there would be no more new content at that point. And did not want to be around for the eventual sad death that Gamigo does to games it has acquired.
Me and my old group of friends jumped to this game when Maplestory 2 shut down, and lowkey I loved it for 10 minutes Until I ditched them to play Final Fantasy 14. I was so put off by tales of how once you get past the "honeymoon phase" of early game content the game becomes extremely grindy. Glad I didn't waste my time.
man I miss maplestory 2 and failing to upgrade my weapon for 15 times
Sadly, all games are grindy past honey-moon phase, even FF14.
@@prettyshortshorts I mean true the grind for relic weapons and preparing for Savage raids is a massive grind. I am not sure if id devote myself to that as I am contempt vibing in Balmung rp scene.
@@prettyshortshorts GW2 inst grindy
@@Kozymeisteryt Yeah Nerdslayer's Death Of A Game episode on MS2 IMHO perfectly explained why the international servers shut down.
I never thought the day would come where he runs into a game thats actually ok on worst mmo's.
Oh then you missed a few others before this one. That Defiance something game was actually good!
@@onomatopoeia7505 I'm still watching through all the ones I missed haha. Theres been some others he didn't hate but this is the first I've seen that actually earned a number rating and he seemed to be having fun.
@@ElijahG98 Yea there are a bunch he looked at, that were actually okay and have some pretty solid things to them, but have fallen by the wayside, because they were just not popular enough or the devs/publisher ran it into the ground over time
It's actually about a 50/50 split at this point. Most of the games he plays on this list aren't bad, they just end up incredibly bland, generic, or abandoned.
I just watched Defiance as it was actually next on my list, starting from beginning of the series. Its definitely the most praised one I've seen sofar but theres a good bit in between that and where I started watching the series as they came out. But most that I've seen minus like 2 were garbage or ok with mixed garbage haha.
Pets here are one of main "differences" of game, you can have up to 3 spirits and ask them use their abilities. They are like 1/3 of your skills and power.
Some things to correct about the video:
- The sound doesn't starts muted
- The default interface arrangement (At least for me) was different from that. And if it wasn't, there is an option to reset the ui to way it was supposed to start.
- The starcaller intro is coompletely different from other classes
- You CAN create a guitarrist for FREE, but you need a high level character for that (I think at least one char on level 90)
Aside from that, I agree with everything. I honestly only play this game for the dungeons and visual.
Is the game playable free2play or is it hard pay to win?
@@brot1991 the pay2win part isn't exactly that heavy. It's more like to accelerate your growth much faster than for people who are free to play. There is nothing in the game you can't get with time and in game currency. But the amount of time you'll need to invest to get strong is a lot. At least 1 or 2 years playing, I'd say.
But to have fun in this game, you don't actually need to get that far. The best part is the DGs and you can get to the latest dungeons relatively quickly. Also, the community itself is very welcoming and cool, so you can always make new friends, if you're tired of running dungeons.
"Thirty dollars for some cosmetic headwear..."
Pease for the love of all things holy, do not go anywhere near Team Fortress 2 or you will have a STROKE
3:50 For having played that game when it originally came out, yes, it's a glitch, it's supposed to be WAY bigger.
Tbh for the fact that it's such a old game it's actually pretty good but there a definitely a lot of things they could change. It also makes me sad that they don't really work on the game anymore, I feel like there's so many things that could change that would make the game better.
If you think that's a confusing way to open your inventory, there's an episode of Extra Credits where Dan says that James Portnow helped a developer that, for some baffling reason, had made a game where you opened your inventory by triple-clicking your character.
As in, literally the character you play as on the screen.
Nothing should require triple clicking or triple button presses. There is no reason to have three layers of interaction for anything.
@@HappyBeezerStudios That was pretty much his reaction to it; the devs themselves had gotten so used to it (HOW is a big question) that they stopped questioning it, iirc.
The beginning is not bad for a new player, however late game it starts getting p2w with all the eidolons and fortifications/gears you need, unless you're willing to pay or basically become a no-life in order to get them done. Kudos to Aeria for adding the ''awakening'' key into the free LP shop, awakening was the biggest challenge a new player faced and alot of people got stuck at lvl99, basically forced to run the same 3-4 dungeons until they muster up enough gold to get their gears adequetly fortified and beat awakening, the Paragons were extremely bad before, now they are pretty decent. The AP shop is terribly priced unless you're from the US or UK, it's not worth it at all to cash for this game imo. 10k hrs
ngl I was ADDICTED to the fishing minigame in this MMO.
I remember when this mmo only had 4 classes, surprised they survived this long.
it never had only 4 classes lol
I remember this game being really fun once upon a time. Kinda nostalgic seeing it again.
"The first thing that jumps out is-"
"Booba"
"the sound" Oh
Oh goodness, I remember this being the first MMO I spent a decent chunk of time on when Aeria Games was still around. Made a good few friends during that time though which is more likely the reason I stuck around for a while.
Is that Randy in your profile pic?
@@mrmatan9223 Yes it is.
@@ProfessorPrinny very nice one of the best guys in the series :D
Just catching up this episode. Yeah...X-Legend. They are actually experienced MMO makers that survived quite long in Taiwan and brought their product to Japan and Worldwide. Aura Kingdom is one of their best of best. I used to play their games and quit around 40-lv-ish (about that time 40 is likely endgame, upwards are hell).
one thing that is really interesting about this game class system, at some point u can merge 2 class together, for example imagine wow after hitting lv 50 on warrior they ask u to choose a second class like mage, then there are actually combined skill of warrior and mage, like your axe actually imbued with magic and make it ranged attack, so damn cool I hope another game will have this system
Uh oh I actually played this and knew it was coming eventually
Haha same
Same here loved this game back in the day
me too, i quit when it became pay to do literally anything. its really sad to see, it was a lot of fun for years back ages ago.
When I played it many years ago the character was customazable, did they change that? I must say it's completely different from my playthrough. I created a paladin tank, and my first quest was in the middle of a battle, but that was around 2017
I remember enjoying the story quite a bit when I first played Aura Kingdom back when it came out. I didn't recognize the tutorial area that you went through, so I'm assuming they started having newer classes start in different areas with a more personalized quest.
When do you do Metin2? cant wait to see my first mmo being trashed here
yooooooooo
Metin2 was dope
that game was extremely popular in romania a few years ago. I can still remember playing with my friends all day long and having so much fun. Too bad I lost my account
private servers were really fun, sadly they have short lifespan
@@insideyoribcage I know. Guys running around and asking "ro?" happened very often
The new player experience of FFXIV is filled with "travel and talk" as well and very little combat. It was one of the reasons why I never got into it until recently despite trying several times throughout the years.
I've played ffxiv since 1.13, and, well, yeah, you're absolutely right.
The first 5-10 hours of ffxiv is so... tedious that it's not even funny.
Accented dialogue does not help either.
Omg I used to play this when I was a child! I loved how engaging the story was and how vast the weapon choice was. But it got so overwhelmingly repetitive after a while, I would always quit around the same levels.
I actually first played Aura Kingdom via a private server that managed to fix a few of the starting errors, like when you pick the helper pet there isn't that discord thing covering the descriptions, and the experience overall was still only about an 8/10. I imagine the game was really hopping back in it's hay-day.
I remember downloading it back in the day when it had first come out and in the starting area there was a dude who basically told me to abandon ship and seek out it's private server because it is straight up better version. I followed his instructions and was not disappointed, i spent way too many hours playing that pserv. best part, that pserver is still around and actively maintained by the dev.
And probably downloaded malware to your PC too.
@@TFrills nope, years later with regular virus scans, nothing has ever popped up
@@janekpriimagi can you link me the pserver?
Yeah, can you link me to the server too?
I used to play Aura Kingdom three or four years ago, but I left it due to the repetitive gameplay and the grind fest later on
But I'm happy to see that it's still holding up better than some of the other MMOs
"Repetitive gameplay"
Literally every mmorpg's late game.
I loved this game when I was a teenager, lmao, Gamingo killed it :(
I disagree, AeriaGames killed this game way before Gamigo got their hands on it.
AE always manages to kill games lol, I remember GF was also pretty good at the start then went big sad.
@@munchia- 2 times i try to explain something, 2 times my comment gets mysteriously deleted. So im just gonna tell you mate, check what both companies are known for!
@@Do_High_Go Oh, I'm aware AG is just as bad as Gamigo. xD
@@munchia- I left for the private server right in the transition period and I gotta say it was the best move of my life
I remember playing this for a very short time years ago. Back then it felt much more polished and I don't think there were any premium classes. I noticed that mobs were dying too fast and gave too little exp, so I quickly switched to some kind of Berserker, which had a giant axe which could hit multiple enemies at once. It wasn't a bad game, but it just didn't have enough to keep me there.
One thing I really respect about Josh is that he's very fair to all the games he reviews. Even if it's in the same generic, cutesy anime style as the other ones he's trashed, he'll give every one a chance.
That first quest is truly the Dark Souls of MMORPG early quests.
Serously, I actually had trouble figuring it out even after watching this video, mostly because the hotbar glitched out and didn't give me the options I needed to continue, had to restart my char, luckily it was right at the beginning.
I used to love this game due to the cute style :) thats about it.
Yeau it has a nice cute anime style, and the combat animations are pretty nice.
@@yarigold yeah, I remember pooring a LOT of time into the cosmetics :)
NGL, my main draw was the landscapes. I can spend hours taking thousand of landscape photos in games, this is why I make a terrible social gamer.
@@LikaLaruku Finding all the hidden conversations and quests for some tiny permanent stat boosts was pretty fun as well^^
what honestly drew me into this game was the walking npc's, graphics and the ability to fly/glide and stuff, also swim xD
Been really enjoying your Channel and been binge watching this series lol I would love if you did an episode on mabinogi a game that was amazing back in 2012
It's not just the chibi class that has needless upskirting. All the female outfits have terrible physics where the skirts just fly up as you run. I had a purple dress on a reaper character and I couldn't run without seeing some lacy purple lingerie that looks like Victoria's Secret made it.
OMG those Sun Parrots are just giant cute cockatiels, my lordie they're adorable.
Never knew aura kingdom had an overhaul change from the UI, class selection, new starting town, change in story and gained so many classes now ... maybe bcuz I left when it was still in hype. It wasn't laggy, its very smooth, relative crafting(not useless), intense world boss and sky tower raids for the whole server.
I left since it was becoming a chore when reaching the cap just waiting for nxt content. The only thing going is for it is getting your ideal eidolons that will suit your playstyle and also customization of skills you want to upgrade, if you're into collection its a challenge. It was really fun during its peak, setting up a party to grind an instance map or dungeons with your friends/guild to grind stuff. But ultimately it becomes a repeatitive daily/weekly stuff like most mmos.
One thing that I've seen on games from aeria is that the clients come with weird configurations because sometimes those settings seem to be picked from whoever was working in the client that was then pushed as the downloadable client that the users would have available to them, that's how for example during certain versions of the grand fantasia client download you would have a loaded screenshot folder with whatever the GM had there.
To be fair, the gameplay is what makes up for every short coming in this game. I love the 3 class combos I ended up using (those being Bard/Wizard, Ronin/Brawler, and Gunslinger/Grenadier. The last of the 3 is my main). All the different combos you can weave with the two classes you choose are honestly really cool. The one and only shortcoming that should be fixed is the leveling system. The experience gain progression makes ZERO sense most of the time.
Here's what I mean, and I gathered this from playing on my Gunslinger/Grenadier by actually paying attention:
Level 1 - 20: 35%/56% of your experience bar is gained from completing a quest, depending on type. 40% for talking quests, 60% for everything else.
Level 21 - 35: 28%/42% of the bar.
Level 36 - 50: 16%/28% of the bar.
Level 51 - 72 (believe me, I know this is weird, but it's what happened): 3% for talking, 6% for everything else.
Level 72-78: 12% across the board
Level 78+ (I'm currently level 81, if I'm remembering correctly): 8% across the board.
This progression should be fixed and make way more sense. As it is right now, it's not balanced at all.
finally, some Chibigender representation
I'd recommend Shaiya, if it's even still available - they slaughtered that game with P2P and godawful systems
yea you cant even do a HM anymore, only UM or normal mode, some classes have changed a lot in the bad way too.....i played it back in 2013, visited it last month again and i was shocked what it turned into, early game is dead, no partys nothing....RIP shaiya.
I played that game back in the day. Sorry to hear about that
Recommend to play or review in this series ^^
Is there a chance you have, or will, check out Flyff? I used to play the hell out of that years ago.
I don't really care about games. I _listen_ to these videos while I'm doing something else because for me, this is a MASTER CLASS in articulate coherent eloquent speech. I am a simple man. I heard the words, "needlessly sexualized tiny child class" and I just had to comment, like and subscribe.
15:29 In my favorite game ever, Earthbound, there were times where the characters were given coffee and tea and then they were given a peptalk over a trippy background.. in both of the cases I blame drugs, they spiked the food.
"Chibi"
Should have just called it "Loli", cause that's what it is
Yeah the difference between these two are so obvious but considering they also count "chibi" as a gender....am I suprirsed?
chibi and loli are two different things though, you're like comparing apples to oranges
@@kyotheman69 in this case I'm not so sure lol
@@kyotheman69Well, this "Class" they call Chibi and make it a Gender ... wtf? Is a Lolicon. Chibi are big headed "cute" figures BUT! Chibi "ちび" also means dwarf, small ect but chiisai "小さい" is the actual word used. Sooo... It IS a Loli "Lolicon", nothing more and nothing less but the Word Lolicon is on the sex-offender list since a couple of years so they choose to call the Class Chibi. Make sense, why the fuck am I even explaining it?
Children*
Ooh, I first played Aura Kingdom when it was in closed beta (I got a key.) I think it's fun but as much as I've played it, I never got very far. After a while, I stopped caring about the story and was mainly just leveling up. I like doing the conversations/side quests (Although some of them were really confusing and impossible to finish without a guide.) I still go back to it every few years or so to try out a new class and for the nostalgia.
One note for this game, you don't run out of main quests early on. You have to either check the journal manually and then search for the specific npc said quest or it pops up on screen.
I played this when it was newer and really enjoyed the combat with the archer class at the time. It was the first game I had ever seen that had those telegraphed attack areas you had to dodge out of the way of, so the dungeons seemed pretty fun back then. Didn't like that outfit system, though. Everybody in your class and your certain level range looked exactly the same.
It always feels like you give these games more attention than anyone on the actual development team! Thanks for another video!
2 years later and people still defend predatory games like this
The scroll for the quests is because the language used is not English with Roman character but Korean; which is read left to right. So the bar going left -right is the equivalent of a western text bar used to scroll up and down :)
I saw the title and was like “oh no this is one of my favorite mmos i used to play”
I still play it, but it's like Josh said "All MMOs are bad in some way, & it's okay if you like them."
Personally, I KNOW I have terrible taste in movies. If you gave me a choice between Pack A [Marvel, DC, The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean] & Pack B [Who Killed Captain Alex, The Amazing Bulk, Birdemic, & Niel Breen's Fateful Findings] I will get FAR more entertainment out of Pack B.
I remember playing this years ago. It was legitimately less... buggy. I can only assume that Gamigo has impaled its claws into the game and just forgot or don't care about fixing bugs. Including this weird thing with the ambience and music.
might be the new features and zones (i remember starting in a different starting zone back when i played... though that was back when that samurai class just came out)
I remember it beeing pretty alright,i played it i think in 2016?
I played this game at launch, it was the first (and so fair only) game I’ve ever gotten to level cap.
This is not the game I fell in love with as a kid. I’m genuinely quite heartbroken by how much it’s changed and broken.
Same, I played a couple years ago and it's completely different now, I was at level 80 before I quit.
I played a lot this game years ago, my main was a ninja one,with a shuriken and it was cool,and it was a dude,with long hair,something that i liked a lot. the game is grindy and i sometimes got dizzy with all the stuff in screen,but is a fun game, the eidolons are interesting and powerful they talk to you and you can befriend them,make them questions about what their like and stuff like that,even if it get repetitive in the long run. the dungeons are a challenge if you do it solo,even with parties it can be dificult,the hub is laggy cause of the amount of people that are there,in the video you could not see other player cause there is a option to hide the other players for when you are lagging, i found some good friends in that game and i enjoyed a lot.i dont know how is faring right now,but in the 2018 it was great.
Played it for some time, however, I quickly realized where official server is going and instead went to play on private one. Yeah, it is not the best but it is not bad either. I will just say that since you like hybrid combat, Aura Kingdom gives player ability to have primary and secondary class, a mechanic which you didn't have an oppoturnity to encounter. You start with primary and later, you can choose another one, so you can have primary class which can tank damage and secondary which is focused on healing and support, so in the end, you get a tank with pretty decent sustain. This game is really not scared of giving player ability to find a good combination of classes to fit well with everyone's play style. There is also a weekly tower raid, I think that's from where the SAO-related review came from.
So... its like i remembered, a decent enough game to put a few hours per week with decent graphics and a normal story, i can live with my first ever mmo being a 7/10
I used to play this when I was younger... I don't remember much about it other than it gave me a lot of artistic inspiration and nostalgia and that it bugged the hell out around level 50 and I quit playing bc I couldn't progress at all lol. This was really fun to watch!!!
I would like to see you reaction to Grand Fantasia, is another Aeria Games MMORPG and if I am not wrong, predecessor of this game. I remember having lots of fun with the game back then, but some years ago I tried it again and it wasnt as I remember. See you playing it and giving your opinion would make me very happy!
wow i actually enjoyed this game somewhere in 2014. sad to eventually know it has failed.
who says it failed? it still has a active player base even today
What happen with the game? I just saw it abit in past but haven't tried to play it
@@7svn. i dont think that a game worth playing would be on this channel in a video called "Worst MMO Ever?". but if you personally still play it i am interested in some info on why this game is still good from an active fan.
@@grayhairs6292 Well for 1, "worst MMO ever? that ? at the end is a question and more on is it worst? or is it good? the description shows he says it does have issues but its not bad.
Im not a active player sadly i do log on n off a lot i play more runescape than anything else, but what i do like about aura kingdom is its anime base, and lot of focus on cosmetic items such as outfits, im always out for looking for new styles and looks in the game and mix matching to make one i enjoy.
and this game offers that, but the biggest thing for me about this game is its free, yes it has paw 2 win features n all but no one forces that on you and no membership or anything so i dont feel obligated to put tons of hours to get my moneys worth i can play as i please since it cost me nothing :)
@@7svn. i liked the cosmetics and outfits too. one of the best anime games ever in case of artstyle. that kept me playing for about a year back then. and i didnt read the discription of this video, so yeah thanks for pointing. now i am not so upset)