Age of Conan: Final Adventure Entry

woo, its so cool! ^^ but dgamesky has greater players than you ^ ^

I know it too soon, but I am not impressed at all with the pics or video. It looked too busy, too much going on at one time, like it is trying to overwhelm the senses on purpose, if you get my drift. I'll be watching closely.......

dosen't look that bad i think it might be well worth a play

People saying it's a bad game cuz it's buggy and all the stuff they promised isn't there yet should shut up. Give it a couple of years and it'll be just as good as WoW

I don't know why people are so excited for the DX10 version. Its like "weee" lets get a version that runs slower and doesnt look a lick better than DX9. Everyone has succumb to corporate sales tactics, and this is pretty much what you get. A new software revision that promises all this and that and provides jack ****. DX10 is a waste of harddrive space at this point. Maybe the will fix their blatant lie with DX10.1 or DX11 or whatever they decide to name the next steaming pile.

From comments and some articles ive read on forums, the're not going to implement DX10 untill august like what this says http://www.actiontrip.com/rei/comments_news.phtml?id=051908_6

game seems ok its a bit over hyped like everything thats suppose to be the next great hope of whatever .... um yeah thats it

Uggg... Did you have to mention Haze... Anyway seems like an interesting game, but I doubt I'd be getting it anytime soon.

I don't need to wait for Warhammer anymore. Age of Conan fatalities FTW!

I am sorry but the combat in this game surpasses WoW in so many ways. I played WoW on and off since Nov. 26 2004 and other than having a refreshing easy to use mmo, leveling to 60 for first time or venturing into MC for first few times, the game has lacked an interest for me since. Conan's combat is refreshing and actually keeps me active like an fps where it takes great skill to play. That's why I like it.

I found the combat really boring, there is no variety in the skills and the classes are to similair. This for me put me off the game after playing it to around level 20, quite simple the game isn't fun like WoW was before i played it to death.

The Graphics are about as good as it gets and this isn't even the Dx 10 version. You can change the viewing distance in the Graphics options. Flowing rivers, turning windmills, shadows that look like shadows (not blobs of gray dusted off to the left of your player), trees that look like trees, people that look like people... It's not Real Life but it IS one of the best games in terms of graphics, and is advertised right next to Crysis on the Alienware e-papers. Combat is, in my mind, as good as you CAN get in an MMO you feel more apart of the action and the Fatalities puts the cherry on top. Although I can't help but be confused by what I'm supposed to use first... do I press 7? first or 4? the point is it doesn't really matter which can be a good thing and a bad thing. The community is not as bad as you think, believe me I thought it was horrible too, but if you ask a question you usually get a PM back answering and in most cases make friends with them. Also I'd like to point out that the Majority of people playing AoC at the moment are Hardcore gamers and really push for a higher lvl and to create a strong Guild. I have to say questing is AoC is like a dream, it's easy to understand what you need to do because it's plotted on your map, crosses for specific people or items and a shaded circle for hunting. If you have 5.1 surround AoC is stunning, I have never felt so apart of an atmosphere. That being said you won't be disappointed with headphones or 2.1 either. Zones make the World feel smaller then it is, and ganking is a bad habit (happens in every MMO PvP but still ticks me off). I think there Will be player built houses, seen as there is already a building environment built into the engine and new mounts with expansion packs inevitable after reaching the top of Gaming lists in Europe. DON'T assume this WILL happen, if you are going to buy the game buy it on what it has got not what it's going to get, like Whistl said in the last paragraph research the product... Don't look at the beta previews... the game have advanced so much since. Personally for me the game was better than anticipated and for once the Hype of the game was right. :)

Dudes PLayed em al, al the same in the end. Enjoyable awhile boring in the end. Dont know if im gonna get in to hackinslashin excuse for a game. And remember bout the great realease quality...we are in 2008 mates. Dont think they could have don it with hardware form years ago. Ye i like WOW but after gettin tot endgame it gets tediuos. Guildwar is the fastest to get tedious, though looks great. And i hate easy game, wont spend a dime on those. SO, 2008 release you may expect decent quality, dont mean its better then elderly games. An d please, WOW is WOW, dotn suck bout it, u have a choice!

I agree with cybi9988, guild wars is very similar to this and without monthly fees. I don't think the graphics are all that great either. The draw distance is terrible, and the frills (grass, etc) twist with the player view. That's so 90's it's sad. Sure the drawn part of the graphics are good, but the engine just seems like a re-hash of a very old engine. I'm still waiting for a REAL graphics engine, something like the Crysis engine to be used in a MMO game. I played WoW years ago, and agree the drawn part of the graphics were not that great, but at least the engine was better than this. Distance was better and all objects were drawn stationary and not twisted to fake depth. Sorry, but that twist trick is just bad. It really takes away from the game.

AoC combat isn't skill based at all, its tedious and gimmicky. It is beautiful but that doesn't make up for the shortcomings. All MMOs will have a grind/farm period. Tedious gameplay is just going to get tired at that point. I want an MMO that can both be challenging and then relaxing - which farming offers. Honestly WoW would be just as tedious if there weren't macros (play smarter not harder). I have to also say I may be jaded as WoW burned me out as a raider, then without that raiding became empty and dull. Now it seems any MMO I try has that same stale flavor.

AoC is a good game. Sadly, not as good as I had hoped it would be at launch, but it will get there eventually. On another note, I see a growing trend of kiddies whining about monthly fees. I know they lack the maturity and understanding about why subscriptions are necessary so I won't dog on them too much, but I will say that monthly subs are here to stay and if you don't want to pay to play, then by all means, don't. But don't come to the internet and cry about it. It serves no purpose other than to put your immaturity and ignorance on display.

Jesus keeponjammin you are a unhappy kid...you dog on people who play WoW because your jealous that they found something that makes them happy and your still sad alone and playing with hotwheels, get it together bro. As for AoC, one of the best games iv played in a really long time...sucks that if your not a huge gamer and dont have the system to run it smooth it takes away from the xperience but it has made me want to upgrade my laptop so i can throw down on this beast.

Well i hope it does well as this is 360 bound and looks to be the first console mmo to be any good and considering the amount of users on xlive now i hope more will see the light and follow . You just have to give this game time and stop looking to WoW a game that's been patched to oblivion ( yes i have played it but after tec probs involving every patch release my Q and most items were replaced with and orange ? i though hey sod this and their slow help and let go about 4 chars from lvl 35 to 68 ) so fingers crossed from me AoC gets better and better .

Age of Conan is not MMORPG. I would put it in action-rpg category, but here we got much better and without monthly fees - Guild Wars.

But... I hate monthly fees... making Guild Wars(although not so great), the winner. I don't play it but I have, it wasn't awful. Just eh... not great.

Ok, I played wow for two years... And let me say this. I don't get it. I quit playing months ago and I look back and I just don't get the game AT ALL. I played it off and on for those two years and have a 68 Shaman, quitting every couple of months out of boredom. WoW really doesn't have anything to offer other than giving a life to those who can't life a real one. This game looks pretty great but I wouldn't spend a dime on it till it's clear that it's something to jump in to. I think the fact that alot of WAY BETTER games fail because WoW created millions of unskilled time wasting nerds is a real disappointment. Warhammer: Age of Reckoning is just around the corner and I hope it takes a dump on warcraft.

Ihave this game and i think its great what IXIWHISTLIXI said about pvp is true atm people run around and shoot and swing randomly, very unorganized. Give it about a year and it will be more than amazing or it will break because of to many WOW fanboys putting it down......but yet i still wait for warhammer... :)

Also, CHRION987, has it ever occurred to you that perhaps money passes hands when final reviews are made? No, I'm sorry, I don't mean to be so skeptical. However, there are other things to consider. WOW was amazing because it made the MMO something of a common fixture in many people's homes who previously thought that MMORPGs were games that losers played in their mom's basements. All of a sudden its one of the most popular games outside of poker in the US Army and people are like holy crap, perhaps this game has that je ne sais pas that the gaming community has been looking for; that thing that could potentially launch gaming into the status of art rather than merely entertainment. That's why WOW rocked the charts, not because it was a perfect MMO but because it had something unique which the other games didn't MASSIVE appeal. Conan is not seeking massive appeal, it is seeking the appeal of the few mature players who are seeking what it has to offer.

There is a lot of negative feedback coming out of Conan. The thing is that Conan is an interesting experiment. It is a game that has foregone many of the traditional rules of mmos. Moreover, it is a game that is focusing on pvp and pvp communities in a way that many other mmos have not. Yes, it is not as developed as WOW, but that is because the literacy of the game has not yet been fully established. People complain about the tank and spankiness of the game, but please, compare Onyxia to Magtheridon or even Shade. The early stages of the game are about establishing the mechanics of the game. As patches are released the various character classes will be fine tuned and high level content will be sophisticated. People complain about various character classes being overpowered, but hell, warlocks in WoW could wear leather initially. All I'm saying is give Conan some goddamned patience before condemning it. The thing of value here is a beautiful environment with interesting game mechanics and a mature player demographic. So IXIWhistIXI, if you are wanting a fully developed mmo which is grasping at the last straws of its life, go back to WoW. To other readers who are interested in this game, all that I want to say is don't let the negative reviewers throw you off. If you don't try Conan, try Warhammer or wait for Fallout or something. There is more out there than doing your 25 dailies and clearing SSC with your healer dps and tank toons until you are blue in the face.

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ive seen alot of people saying wow was a nightmare when it was released...i beg to differ, proof? how about it was the gamespot game of the year, and beat out halo2 and half life2 for that award. it wasnt perfect but it was far from a train wreck...as for aoc it looks sweet

That post about the immaturity in Age of Conan contains no worth simply because it said "Go back to Warcraft" where even more immature players are. AoC wins.

14 hours played since I got it Saturday afternoon... Yeah, I'm definitely into it... at this rate it may serve a larger role than just a void-filler until Warhammer hits :) Who knows ;)

i havent played it yet, but im hoping 2bitsmokey is just a having trouble finding quest, ive had troulble on some games find new places to get quests so i just grind away and usually find out later i coulda quests else where

so every1 should be extremely happy that the reviewer hasnt lvled to 50+. the game is great 40 and below (especially 1-20), but it starts to become obvious when you round 30 that the game is missing quite a bit of content. and when i say content, i mean ways to level your toon. you basically are forced to do all 3 30+ starting zones to get to lvl 40. not so bad yet... 40-50 is probably the best part the game has to offer as you only need to bounce back and forth between 2 zones instead of 3. now....once you hit lvl 50...poof. all gone. whoops funcom forgot to add the content that carries players 50-80. you will have just a few quests per lvl and are ultimately forced to grind mobs to reach lvl 80. this creates not only massive boredom, but ultra imbalances as well. for instance, most non caster classes dont have great aoe (aside from a few) and will have huge troubles grinding out the last half of the game. on the other hand, classes like the tempest of set (extreme lightning aoes) group up and just slaughter tons of mobs at once. point is, funcom never showed the high lvl content for a reason, there simply isnt any. its not there. of course this will most likely get added, along with the other items on the massive "broken or missing features" list. just beware to future aoc buyers because the game needs so much work its mind exploding. i truly feel very sorry for the creators of the game. also, in no way am i trolling the game. i still enjoy playing it but there just is no hiding the fact that this game should really be in beta and not live.

What? This game has an "apprentice" system that sounds rather like the Sidekick system in City of Heroes/Villains?? Did some other game company finally figure out how extremely handy that system is? Personally, I've been avoiding this game for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I got burned hard by the Anarchy Online release. Seems they learned pretty well from that mistake. Second, the combat still seems to follow the age old tank/hearler/blaster tactic. That's getting more than a little tired. It's getting to the point now where players expect this tactic and will complain that the game is broken if they can't pull the tactic off! But, if the game at least has a sidekick system, I might need to give this game another look.

Game isn't amazing, but what MMO is within the first month of release? I think the amount of patching and listening to the community that Funcom has done in such a little amount of time is a great example of how great this game can and will become.

I've been playing this game for a few weeks and i cant stop playing it. They did an amazing job getting this game to launch so smoothly.Im a long time WOW player that has 2 lvl 70's and a 67 . It has takeing me along time to get there. WOW has come along way and has changed and added so many things since launch. Now i love WOW but i was there when WOW launched and it did'nt even have half as much to offer as AOC does on launch. There was only a few instances and the repop times were all way off..tons and tons of glitches , server lag or no server at all becaus of constant crashes... Do none of you remember how it was. Come on guys it was a nightmare.. this game has launched with hardly any problems. can any of you appreate this at all !! Most of you that are nockihjg this game is because your a fanboy of WOW and it as simple as that. This game is great and seeing how fantastic the launch was tells me that there are some big things comeing from this game. Huge things ..like massive guild on guild battles. stop being so hard on AOC every MMO launches with problems. this should be a good indacation to all of you that you have alot to look forward to. Funcoms has proven that it delivers. It delivered a working massive online game with minimal problems. It's kept its promises so far.

that's the essence of age of conan?!??!!

too many people are comparing this game to WoW. really? WoW has been out for years, this just freakin came out! and people are comparing the content? ROFL

So, this game has been out, what, a week? And people are criticizing end-game content, pointing to WoW as a comparison? No offense, but that's just crap. I remember that well into my 6th month of WoW, a lot of class-quests were still broken (rogue, for example), the high-end content was kinda... not there (what,a dragon and a few dungeons...?). Sure, it got better over time. A LOT better. But looking at how this game has improved in just under two weeks, compared to WoW's first two weeks... I mean, AoC wins hands down. WoW wasn't this complete after a year. OH, almost forgot: WoW didn't even have organized PvP for the first six months... It was a co-op game for most of the first year out. So Kudos to FunCom for getting so much in from the start, an amazing gamble considering the investment. Blizzard released and patched with content once they knew they had a hit. Comparing it to AoC is just... blech.

I don't think it's fair to criticise the content or the higher level character gameplay for this game yet. No one, short of extensive beta testers or the designers, has experienced all this game has to offer. I'm glad the gamespot reviewers have not tried to make sweeping claims about this game and have only talked about initial content. If your on the fence, wait a few months for the community to play all the classes of each race and give you a real idea for how this game rounds out. Let's face it, the MMO worlds are enormous and take a long time to explore. Let us knuckleheads who bought the game early work out all the kinks first.

Looks good so far. And for the ugy who posted the highly long comment. Every game has its fault. I think we are highly aware of the faults of the game.

I like how this pre-review doesn't focus too much on mechanics. Many people love or hate the combat and casting mechanics. Honestly, it's nothing spectacular, it's just more engaging than most and allows you more control over your combat. It's the little things that make this game so appealing. Ripping someone's heart out is one of the many things in AoC that draws you in and make you want to play the game more. Also, the content is mature rather than adult. Instead of having the gratuitous sex and violence of GTA the mature theme approach allowed the writers to have stories that complement the gritty action of the game in a serious mature way. True, your character will not take smack from anybody and will say so in a no-nonsense sort of way, but it's not over the top or melodramatic. This is definitely a theme game though. If you like the Conan theme (and this reviewer clearly does) then this game is a lot of fun. If not, it's going to be just another MMO to you.

I've gotta agree with IXIWhistIXI. I'm SEVERELY dissapointed in the game, in every single aspect. When I feel like it, I'll pontificate on the countless reasons, but I'm really too discusted with it to bother. I'll revisit it in a year, maybe, but some of the very BASIC design decisions lead me to conclude that there really ISN'T much potential in this game. The potential was in the lore and real-time combat promise, but on either of these, the delivery never materialized. If you're one to choose carefully which game to buy, wait for a free demo pass, don't buy yet. At least that's my advice.

Hmm, the video he put up looks pretty dang good. Lets see what he gives it and how he presents it.

Don't let these reviews fool you. The game appears much better than it is (just as many games do). I'm not saying don't bother with AOC, but I"m saying look into a lot before you buy it. AOC is a console mmorpg at its core and it really begins to come out around level 40. If you come from world of warcraft and you loved warcraft for it's highend content and indepth strategy requiring gameplay, you've left it for the wrong game. AOC is tank and spank. Healers are no more than DPS mages who also have to make sure they keep their hots up and throw out a big heal in the general direction of the person with the lowest hp ever so often. Tank's strongest combos (known as abilities/skills in other games) are the ones that GAIN aggro, while rogue's strongest are the ones that LOSE aggro. The game does the work for you basically. Group play is nothing more than running up to something and smacking the crap out of it throwing out all your combos and spells while healers do the same thing except also click their hots every 20 seconds or so. I have yet to experience a seige, but so far pvp is no different than PVE as far as complexity. Sure things will change once people really get use to the game and know what they're up against exactly, but really all you're doing is chasing a person in circles, or running in circles while another chases you throwing out your combos when you're close and smacking a random attack direction while ranged sits back and spams skills/keeps up hots. The community is horrible. There are the more mature players on PVE servers, while the PVP servers are full of the OMG LAWL internet community. IF you so much as mention the fact that you got ganked, you will promptly get QQ NOOB. I've even been told QQ when I was talking about a pvp video. These kids don't even read, they see 'gank' or 'pvp' and they automatically type QQ and try to pick fights with anybody and everybody just for the hell of it. (So in otherwords, stay off pvp unless you are an active member of four chan, SA, e b a u m s, ect (spelled weird because of censor)) Again, research the game, but please be aware of its faults. It has a LOT of potential but I think will serve best as a mmorpg on the 360. If you want a mmo for your pc go back to warcraft, or wait for warhammer and hope like hell it's good. EDIT: oh and I forgot to mention the gm staff...I am 99% sure funcom gave GM status to the first 15 people who signed up for beta. They're that unofficial when dealing with issues.

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Judging by where you are now, What level do you think you will be when you do the review?