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6 Reasons to be excited for Age of Conan
AmazingAvery
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Posted up over at Massively : http://www.massively.com/photos/five-reasons-were-excited-for-age-of-conan/719373/
I can add a few on to that, anyway anyone interested should take a little peak :P
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Personally I am in love with the character creation. Some really unique characters can be made and im looking forward to not seeing the same stereotypical looking class look and clothing.
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It seems alot what we have seen before but thanks avery.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
No worries.
Rightly so it is alot to what we have seen and played before, for me though the combat is different enough to be justified as a step in the right direction.
I mean you actually feel like you are doing something, instead of sitting back and spamming "auto lock" and then your set stream of spells/skills say. Sure in AoC you will have a set order of "pulling things off" but its all in the "doing part".
Plus you do it in some of the best looking environments ever in an mmorpg.
I hope you enjoy the open beta if you participate friend
"The final test will be to run on our own machines, but since we already know the system requirements we're not entirely too worried -- at least not for our computers".
LOL.
How about you get another warning, then dont post here again???
Mods please just edit my post to take the NDA quote out when you see it then please ban stick anubisss
just because you copy and paste from another forum don't make him your friend lol
Doesnt matter still NDA violation. He was doing it all last year. He has had plenty of warning before.
Now he is back just being your regular game hater trying to de-rail threads. Ipswich kids could never take their white lightening.
While it is nice you post,isnt this nothing more than a break in your nda and also just your opinion?
I feel sorry for games that get "testers"like yourself that want nothing more than a free game a boast themselves on these sites,I aint following AoC as much as another game but I still dont think this is right,A wasted key!!
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Also this board is far too stupid to understand that review properly. The guy had fun with the game, a lot of fun, and doesn't go in depth on what he liked, but is pointing out the flaws. If the rest was copied than it would have been better, but this is a pretty sad attempt.
Copy and paste? what in heavens name are you talking about lol..all i am asking for is a real honest review.
Avery, thanks again for the link. It's nice to see fans/industry insider's outlooks on the features and selling points of the game. I'm looking forward to it's release.
Anubisss, I also appreciated your original post and it's views, both, the pros and cons of the game.
Having said that, I too have CB'ed a few titles, in the past, and none of the subjective drawbacks you've mentioned are anything unlike anyother title during a beta, right through to weeks after an initial launch. These issues are simply expected and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone other than a 'new to MMO player'.
Your forthrightness in saying you haven't been a part of the beta since Oct. 2007. and the admission of using a low-end spec.'ed pc, at the time, goes along way in explaining some of the issues you mentioned, like load-times(especially in a closed beta).
Other points that you made couldn't possibly be more subjective, in personal preferences and overall expectations, based in experiences that are 6months passed for a game in development. ...In the MMO industry, where daily updates and constant changes are the nature of the beast, from the start of a titles development to the end of it's profitable run.
To share one of my own subjective preferences and expectations; I can't tell you the full, absolute, gleeful extent that AoC won't be an outright attempt at an everyone's MMO and that it still will be able to maintain a decent profit margin and player-base.
Dispite the normal beta woes you mentioned, you still had lots of fun and that in itself is the best selling point to any new game. I only wish I could say that my fun-factor in most other MMO's could last past their 2month, post launch, anniversaries.
* Life is not black or white, it's shades of grey. But, at it's best/worst, it hints at 32bit color. -Me (a.k.a. RuthlessTimes)
* I do not need to know how to make a better game than you. I just need to know how to cancel my subscription. -Antarious(a slight misquote but the sentiment remains)
I would have to say in light of the recent postponement of WAR, I'm starting to really look forward to AoC as my newest habit instead.
Tordak, anubisss is not in the beta he just broke the rules for it with a copy and paste from somewhere else. He has been doing it for the better part of a year. He has a dislike for AoC, and thinks its fun to de-rail threads.
Anyway. If Funcom hurried up and released some large scale PvP fights (non scripted) then we would have an extra perspective to show that the game can cause excitement :P
K thks, for the heads-up Avery and lol Anubisss, A+ for effort, but my points still stand for anyone who's ever had any experience in a closed beta.
* Life is not black or white, it's shades of grey. But, at it's best/worst, it hints at 32bit color. -Me (a.k.a. RuthlessTimes)
* I do not need to know how to make a better game than you. I just need to know how to cancel my subscription. -Antarious(a slight misquote but the sentiment remains)
Open beta? did I miss something??
pls dont flame for asking a honest question
Etlar, RAWR! ..j/k It seems like open beta may only be 33days away. ../shrug
* Life is not black or white, it's shades of grey. But, at it's best/worst, it hints at 32bit color. -Me (a.k.a. RuthlessTimes)
* I do not need to know how to make a better game than you. I just need to know how to cancel my subscription. -Antarious(a slight misquote but the sentiment remains)
Thanks alot Tordak! was starting to panic, thought i missed out on something great, was frantically searching AoC´s site for the OB lol
33 days..feels like longer than ever now
NP at all, but as far I know it's still a "maybe", grain of salt here just to be safe.
* Life is not black or white, it's shades of grey. But, at it's best/worst, it hints at 32bit color. -Me (a.k.a. RuthlessTimes)
* I do not need to know how to make a better game than you. I just need to know how to cancel my subscription. -Antarious(a slight misquote but the sentiment remains)
Cant come soon enough for me as i've been at a loose end since the beginning of year,gave up lotro will never even consider going back to wow as i bored myself to death with that one and tried to convince myself i could last 4 or 5 months of playing Pants of the burning sea (that lasted 3 weeks of the gameplay time with package)
Please dont delay it any longer
That is acutally one of my worst fears.Not in beta or anything but i fear that their graphicengine/servers Vs our Rigs/connection will be a totalt lagfest just like Dark Age of Camelot relic raids were back in the days.
When having so many people on screen at once it takes some damn good coding to play without looking at screenshots.
I'm a lifer in LOTRO and even in that game,which has the best graphicengine in all mmorpgs when it comes to quality VS playability on somewhat smaller PC,it lags quite a bit when there is a lot of players in the battlegrounds.
I still think we have to wait many years before we can have a PVP siege mmorpg where a combat scene with several hundred players on screen can be done without a total lagfest.
So far i have seen a lot of videos from AOC and also some of those not so legal on Youtube but i haven't seen a video with a LOT of players onscreen yet.
Would love to see how the PvP siege battles worked out but i understand that has not been tested yet?
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The Opeb Beta referance was from a Norwegian TV interview Gaute did : http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/171659
Translation of interview second post down.
So this hasn't been confirmed as of yet, probably next Friday for the Clan of Conan Newsletter.
They aways release the good stuff in the Newsletter.
That is acutally one of my worst fears.Not in beta or anything but i fear that their graphicengine/servers Vs our Rigs/connection will be a totalt lagfest just like Dark Age of Camelot relic raids were back in the days.
When having so many people on screen at once it takes some damn good coding to play without looking at screenshots.
I'm a lifer in LOTRO and even in that game,which has the best graphicengine in all mmorpgs when it comes to quality VS playability on somewhat smaller PC,it lags quite a bit when there is a lot of players in the battlegrounds.
I still think we have to wait many years before we can have a PVP siege mmorpg where a combat scene with several hundred players on screen can be done without a total lagfest.
So far i have seen a lot of videos from AOC and also some of those not so legal on Youtube but i haven't seen a video with a LOT of players onscreen yet.
Would love to see how the PvP siege battles worked out but i understand that has not been tested yet?
no, it hasn't been tested yet. And don't expect it at release either... lol. Maybe after a patch or 2.
That is acutally one of my worst fears.Not in beta or anything but i fear that their graphicengine/servers Vs our Rigs/connection will be a totalt lagfest just like Dark Age of Camelot relic raids were back in the days.
When having so many people on screen at once it takes some damn good coding to play without looking at screenshots.
I'm a lifer in LOTRO and even in that game,which has the best graphicengine in all mmorpgs when it comes to quality VS playability on somewhat smaller PC,it lags quite a bit when there is a lot of players in the battlegrounds.
I still think we have to wait many years before we can have a PVP siege mmorpg where a combat scene with several hundred players on screen can be done without a total lagfest.
So far i have seen a lot of videos from AOC and also some of those not so legal on Youtube but i haven't seen a video with a LOT of players onscreen yet.
Would love to see how the PvP siege battles worked out but i understand that has not been tested yet?
no, it hasn't been tested yet. And don't expect it at release either... lol. Maybe after a patch or 2.
i guess you have been in the beta.It seems that you do not like the beta at all.Can you send me your loginkey so i can have the joy of betatesting another game.
I will make sure to make a better use of that key than you have.
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That is acutally one of my worst fears.Not in beta or anything but i fear that their graphicengine/servers Vs our Rigs/connection will be a totalt lagfest just like Dark Age of Camelot relic raids were back in the days.
When having so many people on screen at once it takes some damn good coding to play without looking at screenshots.
I'm a lifer in LOTRO and even in that game,which has the best graphicengine in all mmorpgs when it comes to quality VS playability on somewhat smaller PC,it lags quite a bit when there is a lot of players in the battlegrounds.
I still think we have to wait many years before we can have a PVP siege mmorpg where a combat scene with several hundred players on screen can be done without a total lagfest.
So far i have seen a lot of videos from AOC and also some of those not so legal on Youtube but i haven't seen a video with a LOT of players onscreen yet.
Would love to see how the PvP siege battles worked out but i understand that has not been tested yet?
no, it hasn't been tested yet. And don't expect it at release either... lol. Maybe after a patch or 2.
i guess you have been in the beta.It seems that you do not like the beta at all.Can you send me your loginkey so i can have the joy of betatesting another game.
I will make sure to make a better use of that key than you have.
see pm.
Seen it.
Feel better now?
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