Comments on: Age Of Conan: Hyborian Hyperbole

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:43:53 +0000

To the person saying there’s no reason to play AoC because of Warhammer, how is the dialog for the NPCs in Warhammer? Because AoC had BY FAR the best written dialog for NPCs I’ve ever seen in an MMORPG. Honestly that made Conan the only online RPG where I actually was eager to talk to NPCs, since they feel far more alive than any NPC I’ve ran across in other online RPGs. (Sadly I don’t think Funcom gets the credit they deserve for NPC interaction).

If the NPC interaction isn’t up to Conan’s level I’ll just stick with Conan. I’d love to be wrong though.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:21:43 +0000

The problem is not the PvP in Conan, the problem is that the game is garbage. If any class worked, they went and destroyed it, their patches only made more bugs turn up, it feels like there weren’t a beta phase, it crashed every 2 hours. Just about everything in it felt wrong… not to mention alot of pre-teen and teen children around for hope of nipples that quite never were there. :P

By: NeoTheo

NeoTheo — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:57:55 +0000

i’ve just recently re subbed, the game is definatly improved.

however i have re roll so am doing the whole Tourtage thing again on a server thats got more people on it than the original one i rolled on.

i am havinga blast so far the game is totally beutiful.

only reason i re subbed was that i bought warhammer and was utterly “meh” about it, feels like reskined daoc with the cool bits pulled out.

allong with the fact that its 2008 and it just feels so 2001, and not in a good way. warcrafts graphics are not high poly count or technically good, but they make up for this with superb artwork and a funcombat system. War just feels like there is no graphically effort to me. that and the combat / pvp just seems so dated and mashy the same button.com

anyhow back to AoC, its improved but definatly still with a truck load of issues, ill see how long they keep me subscribed this time.

By: undead dolphin hacker

undead dolphin hacker — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:18:00 +0000

There is no reason to play Age of Conan.

WAR has better (possibly the best?) PVP and better, richer PVE.

WOW has the best PVE on the market and has slightly better PVP than Conan.

The Conan books have the best Conan lore. Hell, Conan fanfics have better Conan lore.

Take it from someone who did: Don’t waste your Ulysses.

By: Raff

Raff — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:55:44 +0000

There’s really nothing big to complain about since this last patch. The memory leaks are fixed, and PvP is fixed and loads of fun again now.

Unless you found ‘massive content gaps’ of course. But I’ve never managed to find those myself. There’s your hyperbole.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:57:24 +0000

I played it for the first month after it came out and only got to about level 30. My first overall impression was that they worked really hard on Tortage, and said, “This will last people several months while we whip up some content after that.” Lots of the quests after Tortage were pretty uninspired, and tended to be broken; there were some fun PvP moments (and as a ranger, all PvP was a treat), but not fun enough to keep me around. I was excited about crafting professions, until I found out that gathering material was worse than pounding nails into your fingertips. However, my largest complaint was the gear…

Frankly, all MMOs are manly games of dolly-dress-up. My smokin-hot ranger lady (with the same tattoo as everyone else across her much-vaunted teats) could choose from three different outfits: a) long leather skirt and hauberk, b) short leather skirt and hauberk c) raggedy leather skirt and hauberk; all in charming shades of leather. My girlfriend, an assassin, wore the same clothes at level 50. My younger brother, an assassin, wore the same clothes at level 70. Dammitall, if I’m going to grind my inexorable path along that level treadmill, I want to look pretty, and I want to see more boob. At least when playing WoW, some of the plate or mail looks unbelievably and impractically skanky.

EDIT: This edit function is the bee’s knees.

By: M.P.

M.P. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:03:06 +0000

I unsubscribed about 2 weeks ago due to not having enough free time to play. I plan to go back to it in 2009. I took it easy levelling so never ran into any lack of quests at all, except for about a week when I was stuck in the late 60s and it seemed like all the available quests I had were just a little bit too hard. When I hit 70 the game opened up again with 3 questing areas within my level range. Don’t know about 80 content cause I’ve yet to reach it, but there’s at least 5 raid dungeons that I know of. Sure the game was thin on content but I never saw that as a major problem – I was much more concerned at the bugs, broken class abilities/skills/spells and particularly the state of the sieging – when the first guild that ever participated in a siege posted on the US forum that siege weapons were broken, walls could be clipped through, and game performance during sieges rendered them unplayable, I lost any will to play the game for about a week.
The game was clearly unfit for release – if FC had the cash to hold on to it until 2009 they might’ve had a winner on their hands, but they evidently couldn’t afford to keep developing it. Now that they’re slowly starting to fix things there’s nothing much wrong with it, and I have to admit that even when it was most frustrating I still found it enjoyable overall.

Conan has absolutely no lore. At least none I know of.
0_o

By: luminosity

luminosity — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:18:15 +0000

I just picked this up the other day when it was cheap on Steam. I’m enjoying it so far, but I suspect maybe it’s just because I’m happy to treat it as if it were a single player game, and just quit when I run out of content. No high expectations going in seems to be a good idea for MMOs.

By: Harlequin

Harlequin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:53:20 +0000

I hope this news is a sign of the game being in its death throes already.

I still consider this game the atrocity of the MMO industry. Simply put, I found nothing to like about this game.

Broken at launch. Ridiculous class imbalance. Instanced zones. Attributes and “feats” that did next to nothing. Poorly laid out NPC cites (with the exception of the capital city) that felt dead. Gear that all looked the same…regardless of class. An “innovative” combat system that was simply a more annoying form of the same old button pushing.

Oh, and as someone above mentioned…a broken barbarian class. The caster classes could wipe out legions of enemies without breaking a sweat, but the barbarian was lucky if he survived a one-on-two fight.

Sorry for the little rant, but I thought Hellgate: London was bad…then I played AoC.

By: Janto

Janto — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:44:52 +0000

Define ‘lore’?

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:17:01 +0000

i got through 6 mobs, thought meh and that was it with conan for me. And in comparison to Warhammer or Warcraft, which are essentially two sides of the same coin, Conan has absolutely no lore. At least none I know of.

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:59:23 +0000

You mean the WoW Killer? Yeah, good job.. I had it for a few weeks, lost interest.. GG