Age of Conan

I'm a big fan of this game. However I'm not going to say anything yet. The graphics aside,  you have to look at the core of the game. No matter how much make up you put on a pig, its still a pig.

Graphical eye candy is partial novelty and partial necessity. You need decent graphics, but at the cost of game play? In my opinion never.

I hope in those 5 years FUNCOM was developing the game, they didn't forget to leave out the most important part of a game. The part that keeps you coming back again and again

Enjoying the game but I have to agree the server I'm on (tyranny) has the worst community I think i"ve ever been around.   This is literally going to make or break the game for me.  My hope is the a holes will move on to the new  flavor of the month and a real community can form but right now its a gank fest with a community that behaves like a bunch of spoiled children. 

I honestly can't stress how bad the community has been imo.  The sad thing most of them seem to think that 60's ganking 20's is perfectly acceptable and possible 1337 in their minds.  That is me seeing the constant bickering and juvenile behavior in the OCC it actually makes me want to just turn off the channel all together tbh.  Its actually very similar to how the general chat was in my short visit to shadowbane, I have never seen so many hateful and jaded people.

The irony of course is that if the behavior continues the gankers will once again chase off another servers worth of people, only to bitch when the PVP servers become ghost towns.  At the rate its going FC really needs to put penalties in place for blatant ganking otherwise the nights of jumping zones because that lvl 65 in the lowbie zone is camping your mission spawn all night will continue.

Originally posted by Demz2

 

 

LOL at all the fanbois saying wow is carebear.  Aoc is even more carebear than wow.  Lol YOU GET QUESTS HANDED TO YOU ON MAPS, DONT NEED TO SEARCH AT ALL, BECAUSE BIG X on maps to show you where everything is.  6k+xp for quests lol.  Infact this game just reminds what crap EQ2 was when it launched and still is to this day.

Do you even know what a carebear is?

I feel sort of bad for Funcom. You know they read all these thread (they are even more negative on the official forums). I have never seen an MMO outside of maybe some crap Korean one that had this much wrong with it AND the consumer speaking up about it. They have to be somewhat concerned that the game, by the end of the year, will be officially deemed a failure. Even if they somehow end up selling a million copies, it seems a rather small percentage is able to bare past lvl 30, much less wanting to continue past the free month.

Originally posted by Housam

rate AOC and give a little comment why

its out of 10

This is the classic fanboi thread. U ask people's opinions and when some1 posts something negative he either plays WoW fanatically, has a piece of shit PC, hasen't brought the game, is deaf and blind and the whole world looks like shit to him. Dont ask for opinions if u are going to invalidate them afterwards.

Some one lock this stupid thread down.

There is no way anyone should be giving this game a 1 or a 2.  Whoever did that is a complete f****** idiot and clearly has not played the game.  There are very few games in the entire history of gaming that deserve such a poor rating so i look upon those that rated this game a 1 or a 2 or even a 3 with absolute disdain. 

I rated this game an 8 because the combat is interesting and reminds me of Diablo 2 esque and i thoroughly enjoyed Diablo 2 as it is one of my favorite games of all time.  It's like a cross between DII and Dungeon Siege type and it's pretty cool.  the graphics are fairly well done even though my computer can barely run it (dual core 2.0ghz with 1600XT 256GDDR3 2GB RAM), but it's managable and i am actually really enjoying the questing for once.  The quests are actually worthy of a single player game and is actually really interesting for once. 

I confess I have not made it into the main area after the 1-20 level place, but I can't imagine it being that much worse than the initial area.  I actually imagine it being a lot more exciting as you can help and bond with other people. 

I support this game as of right now and i encourage anyone who is looking for something relatively different, or new, or someone who liked Diablo 2 (think like Act 3 was in the campaign), or someone who liked Dungeon Siege. 

The combat is really cool and is interesting.  Sometimes it doesn't live up to its expectations because sometimes when fighting like a low level cheetah instead of like an Ascheron Guard you can just spam one key but when you fight Guards you need to pay attention because they can deflect your attacks and they can womp you pretty hard too if you dont execute combos fast enough.  Combat is pretty interesting and very challenging at times, but not too challenging as you die all the time.  I think the combat difficulty is perfectly balanced becasue it is definitely not too easy for sure and is a good step up as far as AI goes. 

Good luck to everyone playing the game.  I am thoroughly enjoying it and i hope my computer holds out.  Whoever voted this a 1,2 or 3 straight up just needs to burn in hell of set. 

I gave it a 8/10 because nothing is ever perfect. I just finished Tortage, it took me about 4 days to do so and there is about a total of 57 quests to do in the area.

Combat: By far the best. The combos and fatalities are pretty darn cool. It does take awhile to get used to it but once you get the hang of it its alot of fun. No more auto-attacking and thank god for that. The only gripe I have here is about the shields. It is really a pain to try to work your shields while trying to combo and stay alive :P

Graphics: By far the best I have seen in a mmo. The downfall though is that you really do need a pretty good video card to actually enjoy the scenery though the game is totally playable on low profile cards, you just have to tweak your settings. On my 8500gt 512 mb I can play it on low - medium getting about 30 fps and as high as 40 in some areas. Upgrading my vid card asap so I can enjoy Hyboria much more.

Grouping and Gameplay: It is so easy to find a group to do quests. I play on the Ajujo server and most people are always looking to group up. The gameplay is actually competitve, you have to be careful of respawns and aggro.  Destiny Quests are alot of fun and I have received some pretty good rewards so far by doing them.

Zones/Instancing - AOC is mostly zoned with some instancing. The load times when zoning are actually pretty good on my vid card so this is not a problem for me.  I don't understand the whines about AOC being zoned because some of the most successful games such as WOW,FFXI use instances and zoning as well.

I'm only a lvl 24 Conqueror (soldier class) so I can only base my rating on what I have seen so far. I have yet to do any crafing since you can't craft until level 40.  Oh and I love playing conqueror, you're bascially a dps guy who can be a secondary tank and give people alot of really cool buffs. People love the offensive and defensive buffs I can give them.

The best advice I can give anyone considering playing is that when you start you make friends, find a guild and just have fun decapitating your opponent's limbs ;) AOC is pretty darn awesome and people should give it a try if you haven't already. I never was a fanboy here, I always been a tad bit skeptical about the game because of the constant pushbacks but since I have actually played the game to seen for myself I'm actually a believer that Funcom has made a really good mmo for many to enjoy for a long time.

I'm enjoying it so far.  Feels a tad linear, but I haven't gotten up high enough to give it a fair rating.

I gave it a 8, I would be a clear 10 if not all the rough edges on this diamond....10 is for the flawless games, and AoC is far from flawless..

All thos