Comments on: Age Of Conan: Slips and Slides

By: Oasx

Oasx — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:22:34 +0000

Is the game still going to start as a Single Player game and then evolve into a MMO?

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:51:20 +0000

Hmmm, I dunno Garth, Wow doesn’t look bad, you are right. But I thought the tech video looked better than Wow.

Some of the scenes reminded me of Cyrsis actually.

Yes… PLEASE BE GOOD.

MMO developers: lets move away from the “dice system”! I don’t want to swing my sword through an enemy, only to be told “Miss” because of some damn random dice roll.

By: Solario

Solario — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:16:14 +0000

PLEASE BE GOOD.

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:45:37 +0000

“But quickly, boot up WoW and take a look at how it suddenly looks incredibly archaic.”

The textures in WoW absolutely curb-stomp what that video shows. I’m not a WoW-fanatic by any means, but seriously, let’s not pretend Warcraft is an ugly game. Blizzard has proved that you don’t need a million poly’s to make something look good.

(Also, I found that video actually disappointing graphics-wise. I can only think that it’s the aforementioned Blizzard texture skill I’m used to.)

By: Baksheesh

Baksheesh — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:43:58 +0000

I agree with Elos. I am half excited about AoC (WAR too).

I really hope this game will be as exciting as the hype (or somewhat close) and I am certainly going to be trying it out.

But my experience with most MMOs is that after a while they all lose illusion of true character progression/development and instead they feel like a treadmill. The better the MMO the longer that illusion last for me.

The high-end game in most MMOs leaves me cold.

I hope AoC will be worth a few months of obsession at the least but the more time they take to polish it the better IMHO. Its great to see companies take the time to polish up their games.

By: Elos

Elos — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:31:21 +0000

I really don’t think they’ll make a game only a small minority have enough juice to run. I mean they’re here to make money, not art or technology demos.

Half the time I’m very excited about AoC and its new ideas and promises, then I start to compare it to previous MMO’s and… well, I still can’t believe they’ll have implemented everything promised and still run it lag free.

Argh, I want it to be out already so I’d know for sure.

By: ɹǝʌo llǝɟ ı poƃ ʎɯ ɥo

ɹǝʌo llǝɟ ı poƃ ʎɯ ɥo — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:54:02 +0000

Thanks, Gametrailers. We’ll, er, trail your, er, games any, er, day.

By: Runciter

Runciter — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:40:57 +0000

What were the tech specs for this demo? For all I know, the system could have been 2 * GeForce 8800 Ultras and an Intel QX9650, running at the piddly resolution of 1024×768. Great graphics are useless if hardly anyone has the hardware to show them.

By: Okami

Okami — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:54:44 +0000

Well, most english sentences that are even remotely funny sound extremely clever and witty to me… So I might not be the best judge…

By: Zeno, Internetographer

Zeno, Internetographer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:50:41 +0000

Well, there go my hopes of possibly running this game on my laptop. Gonna go cut meshelf now.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:48:27 +0000

Well, strictly speaking, we ran out of clever ones some time ago.

By: Okami

Okami — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:43:17 +0000

I’m curious about how long it will take RPS to run out of clever captions for embedded GameTrailer videos…