Age of Conan

AOC is 5th on my list. In order for me. 1. WAR beta(yes i said beta), 2. DAOC, 3. EQ1, 4. LOTRO, 5. EQ2, oh crap i guess 6th. As far as released games go , it s DAOC for me. I haven t had a omg i love this game feeling since that game at all(until now witha  certain beta)

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

  Interesting...

I gace this an entire evening and nada... zip,,, nothing.

Read through this entire thread.  Aside from INSTANCING which virtually disappears after Tortage, there is not a single point of fact or data to say why this game is beaten by ANY, let alone so many other games.

There are blank, empty references AGAIN to the fact that every game since pong is better than Age of Conan, but they are completely devoid of any explination as to why this might be so, or why the poster isn't lying through their teeth (keyboard)

As was stated by a brilliant poster, of whom I have forgotten who said it, almost every one posting on these fora are speaking as the little tiny whiney population of Tortage NOT the expansive world of Hyboria.  I spent the evening playing a few levels and doing about a dozen and a half missions in the mid 20's 

I zoned/instanced once.  Once.  That is less than an evening in WoW.

I guess we have called the bluff of the people flaming this game.  Is in my favorite?  no.  Asheron's Call is my favorite game as I have said in virtually every post for the last decade... and you can see my long drawn out explinations as to why Asheron's Call is a substantually better game than all the EQ-clones like WoW... but AoC is better than any other game I have played since... including WoW, EQ, EQ2, AC2, AO, TR, LotRO, DAoC, AO, CoV, CoH and likely a few others that were so bad I have forgotten them completely.

I guess the flamers have not a single real tid-bit of fact to back up their baseless, hollow emotional claims.

See you in Hyboria

True meaning of her post is evidant. She was trolling you guys all along. She obviously didnt read any of the posts. I think she's scared too. Afraid she'll see the truth

Originally posted by elondor

 

Age of Conan is built like a console game, except it doesn't run nearly as good as a console game...

I think thats exactly the point.

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

  Interesting...

I gace this an entire evening and nada... zip,,, nothing.

Read through this entire thread.  Aside from INSTANCING which virtually disappears after Tortage, there is not a single point of fact or data to say why this game is beaten by ANY, let alone so many other games.

There are blank, empty references AGAIN to the fact that every game since pong is better than Age of Conan, but they are completely devoid of any explination as to why this might be so, or why the poster isn't lying through their teeth (keyboard)

As was stated by a brilliant poster, of whom I have forgotten who said it, almost every one posting on these fora are speaking as the little tiny whiney population of Tortage NOT the expansive world of Hyboria.  I spent the evening playing a few levels and doing about a dozen and a half missions in the mid 20's 

I zoned/instanced once.  Once.  That is less than an evening in WoW.

I guess we have called the bluff of the people flaming this game.  Is in my favorite?  no.  Asheron's Call is my favorite game as I have said in virtually every post for the last decade... and you can see my long drawn out explinations as to why Asheron's Call is a substantually better game than all the EQ-clones like WoW... but AoC is better than any other game I have played since... including WoW, EQ, EQ2, AC2, AO, TR, LotRO, DAoC, AO, CoV, CoH and likely a few others that were so bad I have forgotten them completely.

I guess the flamers have not a single real tid-bit of fact to back up their baseless, hollow emotional claims.

See you in Hyboria

I played beyond Tortage and its a myth that there is less instancing. The game has just as much zoned instancing as it does in Tortage but more spread out.

And I have news for you, Hyboria is NOT a large "expansive" world as you describe it. At least not compared to other MMO's out there. Multiple Hyboria by x4 and then you're talking about a decent size MMO to explore. And thanks to all the instances, it feels more like I was playing a small series of Multiplayer games.

Tortage was worth the $50 so Im not complaining. It was fun for the 6 days I spent running 3 toons through it but like every good RPG, it gets old really fast.

Age of Conan is not an MMO though so Im not going to pay the monthly fee

to the last poster.  AoC is a mmo, and your... well i'd say something reading you, but if i even called you a troll it'd be flaming.

I'll just say that your ignorant.

The "greatest" MMO varies depending on who you ask. While a lot of people don't like this game, others do. What we're missing from this gender is variation. Even if people don't like the variation presented, they should be open minded and allow others to enjoy it, if they find it enjoyable.

Too many people on these forums with the mentality of "If it's crap for me, it must be for the whole world".

Originally posted by Jakard

Here's the thing. I pre-ordered Age of Conan. I paid my $5 to get into the early access... and now I'm ready to go to Best Buy and transfer my pre-order to something else. The truth is that Age of Conan needed to be drastically better than any other mmo on the market today. The bottom line is that it isn't.

 

The combat is supposed to be revolutionary. It isn't!  Besides "fatalities", I don't think this game offers me anything that I can't get from somewhere else... and that somewhere else delivers a better product. I know I'll get blasted for saying this but until a game... any game delivers the kind of experience that World of Warcraft offers... then there simply isn't any reason for me to pay 14.99 on a lesser game!

I only read the first couple of pages of comments and about LotRO not having the kind of numbers that Age of Conan has. We'll see what kind of numbers AoC can substain after six months on the market. I can tell you that LotRO was a finished product from the moment that I released.... I can't say the same for AoC. There are just too many things about the game that make me shake my head and make me wonder... why did they do that? I dunno. Age of Conan is alright.... but it's not the king of mmo's... and it won't be.

  Those are in Fury, AoC did not create them.

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Aside from INSTANCING which virtually disappears after Tortage, there is not a single point of fact or data to say why this game is beaten by ANY, let alone so many other games.

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*sigh*

Then let's give you a list, shall we?

Crafting - Eve made it better. Heck, even Potbs did. Swg, too.
Trading - Again, potbs, swg and most importantly eve. pacifistic traders and crafters can not exist in aoc.
Sharding - Eve is unsharded and has no instances at all. wow has a seamless world, while being sharded.
PvE - if you ask me, the quests in guildwars were better..but that is debatable.
PvP - level based games fail horribly at pvp. Aoc is no exception. Gw excels here with putting everyone on a level ground. Even Eve has less senseless ganking (!) with more intense engagements and reasons to kill each other.
Graphics - to be honest, the graphic style gets beaten by the ultra-bugged years old game gothic 3, which can be roughly compared in visual style. Both use a dirty, relistic look. While g3 is a singleplayer rpg, aoc does play like a singleplaer action rpg for the first 20 levels, doesn't it?

Aoc, from what i have seen, is an average game. Not bad, but doesn't excel either.