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Poll: Conan or Warhammer
Corthagath
Member Posts: 291
yup.. its stupid poll and its kinda funny that theres people who see only these two games and likes only one of these and totally hates the other. and im sure there is few other games that people are really looking forward to but these two large games seem to be in everyones minds more or less so i decided to make a poll about it since im really interested the ratio whats going to be in this poll
i didnt see this poll yet anywhere which really caught my eye on.. thats like almost unnatural to NOT to have stupid poll like this so im gonna throw this in the air and hope that someone catches this.
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I was going to try AoC up until I saw some recent gameplay videos of PvP and looked at some hands-on reviews from press events - no thanks. Unless AoC gets good reviews from the community and I see some promising gameplay, I will not be trying it. The "Real Combat" system only looks "Real Slow" and "Real Boring". Three months away from release I should be seeing stuff that makes me drool, not makes me wonder what the hell happened to a promising title.
WAR, on the other hand, still looks promising and I will be picking it up at release. So long as it can capture and update the essence of DAoC it should be great, and the sweet IP helps.
nice answer, Sornin... im too a bit concerned about fighting in conan since slashing with sword looks a bit too realistic since it really looks clumsy and slow which might bring up potential boredom since fights are slllooooowww...zzzz... i hope that fight-system will make it more intense and that player will have feeling of really doing something when hes in the battlefield
I completely agree, unfortunately I think the months they have had to try and upgrade the combat system will not be enough and fighting will be slow, dull and monotonouse as shown in a lot of videos and hands on features (I aknowledge its still in beta but i dont think it will get fixed). I was really looking forward to the game but I really think it will fail on its most touted feature, PvP.
I’m going to try them both. I’m pretty sure that both of them will not be “good enough for my expectations”, but I hope that they will rapidly improve month by month.
I think its a little presumptious to really judge a game 3 months from release on broken features. I can't think of any mmo in history that had a pristine flawless game 3 months before release. Trust me, most mmos have key features broken this far from release.
Anyways, I still think both games are just hot air of Bullshit until I see something that plays like what they are promising its just vaporware. In all actuality both companies are promising more then they can actually deliver so I wouldn't be surprised if both games flop but I will give them both a try.
Warhammer Online since I loved Dark Age Of Camelot. However, Darkfall will pwn them both (if it delivers the quality it promises)
I'm going for both but definitely looking forward to warhammer more because the characters and classes and scenery is sexier in warhammer. conans classes and especially the armor looks extremely bland.
Guild Wars 2 is my religion
The best pvp experience at the time for me was DAOC, so WAR is number one on my list but I still think Ill keep my mind open and play AOC.
If any of you played AO, there were some really good things about that game that im hoping Funcom will bring into AoC. AO had plently of major issues, including a glitchy system, no storyline, no goals, a constant grind, and horrible graphics, but the things it had going for them made it a game worth playing. It was the biggest sandbox game ive ever played. It has a huge open-ended crafting system to the point where people didnt just PvE or PvP, there were people who crafted in their game time, and made massive amounts of money. There were so many options in the making of your character that your proffession had a basic set of skills that he could do, but you didnt have to stick to those skills, you could spend IP (i.e talent points) on anything so that you could be anyone
Im hoping that Funcom will bring the good elements from AO into AoC, and learn from their mistakes with the bad elements. Funcom also has only improved their game AO from the start, where DAOC has seen some things that arent so great put into it, hence the major decrease in subscribers, where AO has a steady amount of subscribers. Funcom will hopefully continue their good work, and WAR i think wont be as good.
I think WAR is going to have balance issues, and people will be upset because there will be one side the dominates all the time, and one side that is always losing. Unless the devs can do something to make it so this wont happen, people will reroll to the other side, and the balance will be worse, people will quit, and they will lose their subs. Im not saying this WILL happen, and if it doesnt ill probably play WAR but because of the potential im going to wait and see before i subscribe, where i will probably get AoC the day it comes out.
Also for the record, 3 months before the release date is a long time. They havent even gotten the beards put in the right place, or introduced any females yet. There is still a lot of work to be done.
AOC first choice...WAR if I hear good things. Hearing that keep seige wasen't even in the game...but now is being put in because they learned players in beta wanted it has shaken once again my opinions of Mythic management.
I'm going to play both of them, but I'm mostly looking forward to WAR, because I've heard bad things about AoC's combat system, and I'm not that big of a Conan fan. Everybody says that WAR functions the same as WoW, which is ok with me. I like World of Warcraft, the game just got a bit old for me and wasn't fun when I logged in anymore. I think sieges and keep battles in WAR will always give me something to do when I log in, hopefully. Definitely gonna try both of them though, also going to try Aion because I'm really looking forward to that. Darkfall looks good, but that game won't be released for a loooong time. And when it is released, I'm like 99.9% positive it's gonna flop due to a horrible release.
Oh and also, nobody ever mentions this game, but I'm looking forward to Tatsumaki Online: Land at War. I doubt it'll ever get released, because it's a small independent company, but if it is released it sounds promising.
Currently Playing: Tabula Rasa
Gaming History: EQ, EQ2, SWG, EVE, Anarchy Online, CoX, GW, SRO, Rakion, Ryzom, WoW, Rappelz, Shadowbane, 9Dragons, DAoC, Dungeon Runners, DnD Online, Space Cowboy, LotRO, Vanguard, Fury, Hellgate
Wanting to Play: WAR, TCoS, Darkfall, Aion
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Elikal, good in-depth anwers to what you think about plus and cons about both games.
its funny that you mentioned about character outlooks in Conan since as just anyone can see in the screenshots that the male characters arent really a boyband material so it might be possible that most people that really want their chars to be "cool looking" and not a goddamn hunchback of notre dame might be looking this game with a bit awkward look in their face
.. and due to that, there will most likely be many people choosing female char to play with since they look much more appealing 
ps. when i first i saw Conan male char i thought that "my god, how do those people make babies where all males look 50 year old bald mongrels.. theres no way women would let the them get a way with them" but in Conan lore im sure that women were just taken and there was no need for flirting and cuddling
Could care less at this point, already rumors starting that AOC won't even make it's release in March and Warhammer has been totally unimpressive in showing off their game. I guess if I had to choose I would go with AOC only because I totally dislike the cartoony graphics and characters. I'll stick with online rts and rpg games until someone decides to make a mmo worth playing again.
I don't trust the hype coming out of Funcom or Mythic, and I'm mostly basing my opinions off of the gameplay videos that have been released for each game.
While watching WAR gameplay videos I feel as if I have already played the game before. The combat and gameplay scenarios look exactly like what one would find in LotRO, WoW, or DaoC. The RvR should be a lot of fun, and I do want to try it out, but I can't see myself investing a lot of time and money into a game that I have symbolically played before.
AoC on the other hand really looks like a new MMO experience for me. The mounted combat, interactive archery/melee/casting, and siege warfare all look like they can be really fun from the gameplay videos. Add this up with a FFA server and great guild, and I believe I will have a better experience in AoC than in WAR. I'm a bit disappointed about having the traditional level system in AoC, but at least the level grind won't be too long.
Good question.
I will try (buy both but not at release) and look forward to AoC the most because
I am really looking forward to Elder Scrolls the most, though.
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I neither play WoW nor eat fast food.
Both are good if they're done right. For AoC, I want magic to be hazardous to fling about like candy among armed children like it was in the books. For WAR, I want the humor and racist in-jokes along with the no-one-winning-strategy of the tabletop RPGs and CRTS titles. And most of all, I want them stop trying to copying WoW for Cthulhu's sake!
well, it would seem like quite good games, if they were'nt so freaking levelbased..
More Skillbased please
Darkfall is my only hope....
I'm looking forward to both. After not playing anything better than WoW for the past year and a half, I'm really looking forward to a change, even if AoC and WAR aren't all that and a bag of chips.
Can I vote AoC even though I have no interest in it at all so the WoW community will go there and ruin that game instead of Warhammer?
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My vote goes to WAR.. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned that the RvR seemed a lot like DAoC.. Well, if you head to the Dark Age of Camelot boards, there's a couple of us who have already mentioned we'd love to just see DAoC 2. So we see it as a good thing the RvR is a lot like DAoC.
I also feel they are trying new things. Of course, all we know right now is what they tell us, and the same goes for AoC, but I believe they're both claiming to offer something new. I'll definitely give AoC a try, especially if I'm not feeling WAR. I'm just a little hesitant about the combat system in AoC.. It'd be a little slice of brilliance if they get it up to par the way it's implemented now, though.
I'll be picking AoC but I'm not discarding WAR just yet.
The only way I'll play any game is if I'm offered a free trial. I'm tired of donating money to hopeless causes (Vangaurd).
So I'll try both provided they offer a free trial (something longer than three days...hear me Tabula Rasa?)
As for me i'll wait about 1 to 2 months time after the game is being release... Yap, that long. Because i will need see from you guys and other players feedback on what is the " end-game" like for both of them. Which to me is the most important.
Not that the process of leveling is not, but so far it looks pretty good on both of them.
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