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Gamefreek333
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I just built my new gaming rig, and it could totally beat the recommended requirements for this game's ass. I was thinking that if this game got any better, I could go to it from WoW. It's getting kinda old now ahah. So yeah, lemme know the current condition of the game is please. Thanks!
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It wouldnt matter what your system specs are. If a game is bad, its bad. You cant change that with better performance. I personally dont why anyone would trust funcom after what they pulled. Funcom will end up having to file this one as a loss while they work on their new mmorpg and anarchy online updates. Kind of ironic since they were focusing on that instead of fixing AoC after launch. Given their priorities, look else where for a mmorpg or wait. While I didnt like WAR that much, its definately better than the current version of AoC.
Well next month DX10 should come off the test servers to live. There are plenty of people (like the above post I suspect) who have no idea how the game is now, because they last played 5+months plus back.
Many things have changed for the better. This I feel from feedback is the consensus overall.
Things are looking up, there have been some recent changes in pretty much all areas of the game. When the next patch comes we are looking at additional high level content and past this even more so with more over the next few months.
Best thing to do is to try the game out for yourself. You can pick it up cheaper than the subscription price it goes for and get a month to give it a go.
Past population issues are a thing of the past now the server merges have happened (or less so)
I am not going to beg you to play the game in a polar opposite to some folk here who are desperate you not try the game. All I know is that as a current subcriber I can only give my opinion as of today and not as of half a year back..
If your willing to cough up a small amount of money you can either see changes yourself if you played before or get your value worth for that time and make a better informed decision.
Fast paced fights, no auto attack in melee, top of the line graphics, zoned world - not seamless, classes pretty much balanced in group and solo play (bar a couple). 100 man siege events that are going to be smoother the better system you have, not so great crafting system at the moment, which is getting overhauled in March.
I recently came back to AoC, and what Avery says is truth. AoC has rock solid performance now. If you are looking to test your rig, Dx9 would probably not give you much challenge since even people with shoddy rigs these days run AoC on high. Anyways DX10 should give you a good challenge.
I recommend this game. It's fun.
The game is great, give it a go. It's annoying seeing people complaining about the game and what it "WAS" as to what it is now. People need to stop the crying, and actually take a step back and see what it's like now. Pathetic really.
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I agree that the performance is good.
But I don't agree with Age of Conan being that much fun.
I just never got that MMORPG feeling with Age of Conan. World feels small and you have to go solo most of the time. It always felt more like work than fun.
Yes, i would definitely recommend you to buy AOC.
AOC had a bad launch, but they have improved the game ALOT, and now the game is really great. Beautiful grafics, beautiful music, very cool and fun gameplay.
They are also launching a new huge patch in a few weeks, with 3 new dungeons, pvp-resources and much more, maybe DX10 also (DX10 can take a bit longer, but not to long).
Now is a really good time to start AOC
, many sites/stores sell AOC cheap and you get 30days free play. So its definitely worth to buy and try this amazing game.
Check this thread ----> Its a review.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/forums/thread/220823
Good luck m8
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Hey OP
Have a look at this thread for some serious feedback from mmorpg veterans:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/forums/thread/220823
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
Some people are upset about what the game was, and understandably so, but I decided to give the game another shot and am having a lot of fun. Though I will hopefully give you some helpful advice in choosing it over other mmo's or leaving it be as while I really am loving AoC right now it's certainly not for everyone.
I've found socializing and pvp to be a blast in this game as well as the heart and soul of AoC for myself. I love the community, guild rivalries and drama and stories that come out of being an active member. How mature guilds play the role of good or evil so well and battles that result from such conflicts. I duel constantly, even while questing. I get jumped, jump players and join huge skirmishes in areas where in most other games are nothing but grind spots. It happens everywhere. It really is important to make allies as you will get ganked. However, there honestly seems to be more nicer players than not and people will come to your aid if you ask for it. The other night I was getting ganked on my alt so I teamed up with a guy I spar with regularly and we found a couple other lowbees and took on a team of two ten levels higher than us and returned the favor. For a dueler it was a blast. I took out a hox, of which I am, seven levels higher and better equipped than myself several times because I was the better dueler and skill matters that much.
Melee combat is the most fun of any MMO that I have tried for the combos and strategy that go into not only your character but the other classes ablilities is honestly intimidating at first. I didn't want to get into it at first but once I started I got hooked. I've never played a melee character as much as I have in this game. And what started at as an intimidating amount of content to learn has turned into an extremely fun and rewarding journey. You will likely get your ass handed to you for a while but if you just try and learn and look at it as such it is the most rewarding experience for myself in an MMO to date. Spar with people, read up on other classes and ask and learn as the community in crimmeria has been great to me.
Raiding is present and fun but for me it's not what keeps me around and happily coming back for more. I do raid once a week, you can do more if you join the right guild or make the right friends, and you can even fight over raiding spots, but I don't think this is where AoC currently can compete with the best out there. Huge siege battles are fun and require a lot of skill and coordination and are getting a huge boost next patch so stay tuned for that. Sieging is dynamic and something I highly reccomend you try for yourself. I try and get involved in two or more a week.
You can pick up AoC for pretty cheap now and if pvp, dueling and the such, or anything in my post sound fun to you than I would recommend this game highly to you. If you hate instancing and the such, which honestly does but me but not as much as I though tit would, you may want to look at darkfall but I don't see too many alternatives at this point in that regard. PvE I would look else where though as while decent I doubt it will fulfill those really into it. Good luck man
Pick crimmeria if you join 
Never though I'd get into a roleplaying server but the occasional RP even is fun, even though I feel like a dork.
Just curious what mmo company do you guys not hate??? SOE , Funcom , Blizzard??? because from what i see every mmo that has over 1,000 players gets mass posts of insert company name here hate posts.
If your going to ban the trolls please for our sake ban the Fan Boys too.
Very good cooments. It was in fact similar posts that made myself have a second look on AoC. The game is doing much better now. I would say there is no other game out there made with such an attention to detail and with such love and care. I enjoy it more by the day and will probably hang around for a very long time.
"AoC is a benchmark MMO" -Gamespot.com
So would anyone recommend playing it? I wanna take full advantage of my new rig, WoW won't cut it haha.
From a plain gamer to another. Buy it, this game is grate and I have so much fun. What also helped me was to read some of the later user reviews.
If you want a very social game and enjoy pvp of all types, a great lineup of guilds and people and what I think is a very dynamic combat system that rewards skill and knowledge of the game more so than gear I would highly recommend it. If you love pve and it's your focus you probably want to look else where for the moment or just wait in see what this next patch brings (devs have said some pretty cool things about the upcoming social dungeon though if your the kind of person who raids five nights a week I doubt that AoC would keep you entertained for more than a couple months once you hit 80) and WoW and a few other games are far ahead of AoC in this regard at the moment and is likely to be the case for a long while. Crafting is not great by any means now but we have a new dev for that and I'm really impressed with how he is responding to the community, how well he seems to have things laid out, how much information he has given us on where the crafting system is going, his asking the community for feedback on key decisions and his honesty in telling us that things the community doesn't care about need to be reworked first in order to execute his ( and I think many of our) vision of what the crafting system should be and why it needs to be done in such manner. I read through pages of his posts the other night and came away impressed and confident in the crafting system for AoC and in our new dev... plus you'll be able to farm certain items by killing other players
. Those are my impressions and amazingavery did a very good post on it and I'd ask him for more on it as he seems to be much more knowledgable about it than myself on the matter and on upcoming updates in general.
That said I am having a lot of fun with the game right now and feel that if anything enjoy it more now than in the three and a half four months that I played it. There seems and hopefully is a lot of great stuff coming to Aoc. Also, rolling alts in this game is a must for me as I can't believe the difference and fun associated with some of these classes. Usually I am the kind of person who has just one main and strives to make him the end all be all though with this I am really happy I gave it a shot. Plus you really have to know your stuff if you want to be one of the better duelers and it has given me a lot of insight in not only other characters but my main and I can honestly say I've become better on my main because of my alt. Knowledge and skill rain supreme in this game. I've seen just about one of the best duelers on my server, izumi for those of you on crimmeria, take out a player that was if memory servers right 9 or so (give or take a couple levels as it was a while) levels higher with better gear and they were the same class. That's certainly not common but this girl is amazing and has invested an incredible amount of time and practice into learning her class and the game and is famous on my server for her abilities. And if you become a great dueler you definitely get a rep. Good luck and write a review if you join.
The AoC community is and has always been filled with fanbois mostly. It is hard to get the truth from any AoC player. The server is in need of more people and fanbois feels they have to make recruitment threads all over, this is just an example.
I played AoC for 1 month when it got released, and I KNOW that the game is still somwhat the same. Why? Because of the building blocks this game had to be build on. Just look at the subscription drop, and you get the actually data providing my statement to be true. The game is probably better on the surface now (like better stability, less bugs), but the undelying stuff that makes the game static and claustrophobic is still there. With other words, the old AO engine must go, and more creativity must in. The game had to go through a complete rebuild from scratch in order for it to have a chance.
I don't see a lot of fanboy posting. People are giving their impression as regardless of the fact you do not enjoy the game it doesn't mean there aren't those that truly do like it a lot and are having fun so don't speak for them or belittle their input by labeling them without reason.
You haven't played the game in many months so your not qualified to make informed, insightful, or apparently intelligent comment on the current state of the game as there have been some pretty dramatic stuff going on and on the way. It would be more helpful to OP to let those who are still playing or have left recently and can give accurate up to date info give this person the information to make an informed decision.
The game is somewhat the same.... NO WAY. You mean it isn't a completely different from what it was a few months ago. Man I take what I said back you are insightful.
I don't see a lot of fanboy posting. People are giving their impression as regardless of the fact you do not enjoy the game it doesn't mean there aren't those that truly do like it a lot and are having fun so don't speak for them or belittle their input by labeling them without reason.
You haven't played the game in many months so your not qualified to make informed, insightful, or apparently intelligent comment on the current state of the game as there have been some pretty dramatic stuff going on and on the way. It would be more helpful to OP to let those who are still playing or have left recently and can give accurate up to date info give this person the information to make an informed decision.
The game is somewhat the same.... NO WAY. You mean it isn't a completely different from what it was a few months ago. Man I take what I said back you are insightful.
I am not going to attack you back like you do unto me. I was simply saying the core engine is flawed, and that no matter how the game develop it will never be a quality game. I never said that none can enjoy it.. there are probably some people who enjoy playing it cos they dont know anything better to play or simply do not care. The first impression of the game back when I played told me a whole lot about the way Funcom where going with AoC. If you only like to talk about the surface of things, then you could discuss the things you like to discuss. The deeper problem lies beyond the surface. And the subscription numbers back this up.
Bottom line, you can talk and talk about how good and great AoC have become, but in the end you have to look at reality. Its sad for many people too see it, but stop tricking yourself and wake up.
Enjoying yourself with AoC, fine, no problem. Keep on playing!
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Right now the game is sooo plagued with cheating and exploits i would avoid at all cost. Lots of people have great rigs and still have all kinds of problems, and the ones who say they don't are Norwegians protecting their Halmark company (think about it, what else does Norway make that has any noterity?) .
Anyways if i were you, Id forget all about the AoC and get Crysis or Fallout 3 (with real DX10) and rock those games at max settings. If you just want eye candy (and there is NO other reason to bother with AoC) then go else where for that, or play a tried tested and true game that looks great (like Eve). If you want gameplay just about any other mmorpg is 10 times better than AoC. There are a million other games that will show off your PC's hardware better than AoC, perhaps not mmorpg- but why invest the time in a game that is virtually broken.
AoC is dying a slow prolonged death.
FC is the joke of the gaming industry (true story)
The people who are asking you to try it must have no taste, or alternative reasons to promote an overall bad gaming experience by any"real" Gamer's Standards.
i dont think you know what you are talking about. no mmo is s10x better than aoc. all mmo's have their faults and fun. For example, wow has the shittiest pvp ive evr seen.
Btw i am norwegian and i could not care where Funcom staff orgin from. But I have seen lots of fanbois mainly from my own contry, and it just shows who plays the game in the end I guess.
To the OP, you could install and play WoW.. I would like to see you have more than 30-40 fps in some parts of the game with 100's of players around you. Like raids or big cities. Got 8800gts and dual core cpu 4gb mem and still I would love more power in WoW. Using fraps to record your WoW raids and stuff will also really benefit from a imba new computer of yours.
i dont think you know what you are talking about. no mmo is s10x better than aoc. all mmo's have their faults and fun. For example, wow has the shittiest pvp ive evr seen.
And yet they have 12 million paying subscribers.
Tbh I am tired of listening to clueless people. PvE in WoW is among the greatest, and statistics back it up. WoW is the most polished, fluid and dynamic MMO to this date. Never ever have I seen a game that keeps people coming back and play more so much. It is simply the example for all other MMO on how to do things right.
Yes, i would definitely recommend you to play AOC
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Playing this game with a good high end rig is really awesome
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Bear Grylls : (Holds a beetle in his hand) 4 times more protein then Beef
Sorry but you are full of shit.
I resubbed yesterday and i'm having a blast. I had a decent computer and i run the game maxed out with a steady 40-60 fps. Plus i am not from norway.
The fact you are saying people should get crysis or fallout 3 instead of this game just shows how stupid you are. Fallout 3 and crysis are single player games, AoC is an mmo. Yes, AoC was horrible at launch but now it's pretty damn good.
Look at yourself, every single one of your 21 posts is bashing Age of Conan. You have 0 credibility. We get it, you bought the game when it came out and you were disapointed. Let it go now.
i dont think you know what you are talking about. no mmo is s10x better than aoc. all mmo's have their faults and fun. For example, wow has the shittiest pvp ive evr seen.
You're right, you don't think.
With the cheating and exploits and unbalanced classes, you shouldn't even mention WoW's PvP in the same sentence with AoC. Although WoW's PvP wasn't perfect in the first few months, when it was at the same point of AoC, the PvP was way more fun and balanced. Why would you possibly pretend AoC's PvP is better than WoW? Because you have to punch a few keys before triggering an effect? Who cares?
The only reason anybody would play AoC's PvP over WoW's PvP is because Funcom doesn't mind people cheating in order to maintain a subscription base. And the people who cheat, if they get caught and banned they could care less because the game is boring as hell.
At the end of the day, WoW owns AoC in every single category except graphics and music, but as a long time gamer--I'll take quality game play, because that's what you spend your time using (Look at the success of Nintendo's Wii and DS, they don't have to have the best graphics because they have the best gameplay). AoC is the string of Christmas lights jammed in a box in someones attic. Sure you can plug them in and it looks pretty, but with no tree to hold these lights in place, it just doesn't function as a Christmas tree.
AoC is simply a box of lights.
WoW is also an old game with graphics that are equally out of date. Clearly, your fps will be better as the game does not take much to play.
You cannot compare WoW to AoC in this sense. It's like comparing wheat with a wedding cake.
FC improved AOC a LOT. AOC works fine on all my computers now even on my IMAC . You'll find plenty of players everywhere. At launch it was catastrophic, unplayable, full of bugs, FC worked hard .
Thx to the new GD.
Couldn't play AOC at launch, so canceled my preorder before the end of open beta. Bought a CE for 30euros this month and i'm happy to play AOC, more interesting than War. (played and bought them both)
Great game.
NB : Please, let FC improve Vanguard now
Maybe they could save this game... 
