Age of Conan

Originally posted by Ponzini

1. I agree with the instancing... I dont like it. However its not enough to make me quit. Look WoW was great.. for harcore PvE people with no lives. I enjoy it... but its boring at the same time. Its alot of the same. Instancing is a dissapointment but not a game killer.

2. I had problems with FPS to. I put the system cache setting to max and ive had no problems since. Every couple hours I reset my comp and modem and it runs at 20-40 fps all the time no matter how many are on the screen. Id give them a chance to fix this a bit more or mess around with the settings yourself.

3. This one I dont understand. I love the combat and to me its the best thing this game has to offer. You have to pay attention and when you get 50+ you will have alot of combos to remember for each ability. Not only is it fun to play but fun to watch also. IMO this combat system should be improved upon and put into almost every MMO from here on out.

BTW if you have 2000+ hours into WoW you need some help. I play games alot but that is just scary. Thats like a few years of non stop play.

I didn't want to have to say it, but you might be borderline retarded. You're typing a response on a computer and the OS probably has a calculator. You can figure out how many days it is yourself, without any human error.

It's not even half a year's worth of days.

Originally posted by kaydinv

 

Originally posted by Ponzini

1. I agree with the instancing... I dont like it. However its not enough to make me quit. Look WoW was great.. for harcore PvE people with no lives. I enjoy it... but its boring at the same time. Its alot of the same. Instancing is a dissapointment but not a game killer.

2. I had problems with FPS to. I put the system cache setting to max and ive had no problems since. Every couple hours I reset my comp and modem and it runs at 20-40 fps all the time no matter how many are on the screen. Id give them a chance to fix this a bit more or mess around with the settings yourself.

3. This one I dont understand. I love the combat and to me its the best thing this game has to offer. You have to pay attention and when you get 50+ you will have alot of combos to remember for each ability. Not only is it fun to play but fun to watch also. IMO this combat system should be improved upon and put into almost every MMO from here on out.

BTW if you have 2000+ hours into WoW you need some help. I play games alot but that is just scary. Thats like a few years of non stop play.

 

I didn't want to have to say it, but you might be borderline retarded. You're typing a response on a computer and the OS probably has a calculator. You can figure out how many days that is yourself, without any human error.

It's not even half a years worth of days.

I think you are borderline retarded or never understood gameplay times. 2000 hrs of gameplay time is not necessarily going to reflect the actual days from total hours.

You can play WOW for 1 yr and have over 300 hrs gameplay time, accounting for real life and all. You certainly would not sit at a PC and play a game for 2000 hrs non stop would you?

You can play a MMO everyday for 4hrs a day and it won't equate to a compiled time in days from start to finish because your playing for a set limit each time you log on and not non stop. Understand some logic before calling others retarded.

BTW AOC is the weakest over hyped game I ever played. I think it got more hype then a Tyson fight in the early 90's.

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Originally posted by pimpdizzle

LETS ALL ARGUE OVER OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS CUZ THATS WHAT FORUMS ARE FOR. AND LETS ALL SHOW HOW MUCH SMARTER WE ARE THEN THE PREVIOUS POSTER BY ADDING NUMBERS 2 OUR POINTS AND PROPER TYPING CUZ WE ALL KNWO IF U CANT SPELL OR FORM A PERFECT SENTENCE THEN U MUST BE A RETARD

THIS POST HAS NOTHING TO DO WITHTHE TOPIC REALLY I JUST WANTED TO SHARE

 

OH I GUESS I COULD SAY THAT I AGREE WITH THE OP, AOC IS I GUESS FOR THOSE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO PLAY BORING VIDEO GAMES THAT ARE MASKED BY THE FACT THAT THE MMOS IN THE PAST HAVE BEEN COMPLETE . ITS AS IF THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY DECIDED TO GO BACK IN TIME. WAIT EVEN MARIO IS MORE ENTERTAINING PLAYING IT FOR THE 10000 TIME THEN MOST MMOS FOR THE FIRST. I MISS MY OLD CONSOLE GAMES THAT ACTUALLY INCLUDED THIS THING CALLED FUN. I NKOW I KNOW, IF I DONT LIKE IT DONT PLAY IT BLAH BLAH BLAH. IF U FIND THIS TRASH FUN THEN U HAVE SOME WARPED SENSE OF WHAT MAKES A VIDEO GAME FUN. HERES MY ADVICE: GO DIG UP A NINTENDO OR OLD CONSOLE AND INSERT A GAME, ANY GAME. YOU WILL REALIZE THAT U HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED. WE ARE YEARS LATER AND YET OUR PROGRESS HAS GONE BACKWARDS< SEE WHAT I DID THERE?

 

AND I ALSO KNOW THAT MY POST IS IN ALL CAPS CUZ IM ON CRUISE CONTROL

B) Agree. Its like Hellgate London didn't JUST happen. Its amazing how many times we can be duped by this industry. People, including beta-testers, were bringing up the issues of the lagginess, lack of content, and the fact it caters to the lowest common denominator and were shouted down as "wanting aoc to fail". Fail or flourish, who cares? Doesn't change the price of rice. I only hope the community starts to return to treating these titles with some healthy SKEPTICISM. If Aoc's apparent fiasco of a launch and poor gameplay coupled with the bleeding of the ignorant with unlimited pre-orders does that, it will all be worth it, and maybe the fanbois and the trolls will morph into intelligent consumers, or at least learn to live in peace.

Originally posted by Ponzini

BTW if you have 2000+ hours into WoW you need some help. I play games alot but that is just scary. Thats like a few years of non stop play.

2000 hours is 83 days, 8 hours.  1 year is 8766 hours.  Long way to go before reaching "a few years of non-stop play."

Originally posted by Polyjean

 

Originally posted by funnylumpy

yeah we know the OP don't like the game fine go play something else.. I mean is there any other than WoW fanatics that have bad things to say about AoC?

 

Yep. I didnt play Wow for a year, been playing mostly EvE lately. Yes I consider myself a hardcore gamer, Im willing to try new stuff, willing to grind, whatever. I played most online games including the common MMOS. My machine is even better than the one told, my internet connection is fine.

My opinion is more or less the same as from the OP.

 

Hehe didn't play for a year...  :) so far have only seen topic starters that is WoW guru's telling how shitty AoC. I mean most of these people knew that AoC never tried to be a WoW clone unless they had dreams that it would be. I can understand that WoW players don't like AoC since these 2 games are totally different in so many aspects. I recon we will see these guys whine about AoC as for as long as it takes for WAR to come out. Hope they get what they want then, however I doubt it will forfill the expectations of people.

People tend to have to high expeactations of a game or some is just trolls/haters/flamers as regarding most games that is not what they like.

I could start tons of topics regarding how much EVE, WoW and other mmo sucks... but I don't bother because I know people have different taste when it comes to games.

2000+ hours is an estimation.

my 70 Warrior has 78 Days when i type /played

my 70 Druid(started 6 months ago) has 22days

my old Pre-BC 60 Druid (alliance) has 30 days

plus all my other misc. chars 40s 30s 20s

~ 3years in total.

There was a time after high school where i didn't have a job and wasn't taking education seriously, I played MMOs excessively eventually dropped out of school, not cause of MMOs, lack of motivation, i won't go into it :p . But now i work full-time and look back abit, its scary i agree. Theres gotta be worse cases then me, people just have to type /played and admit they have a problem lol.

Back in the day i could play 8-12 hours a day 7 days a week, i was a hardcore MMO gamer back then. Now i manage 1-2 hours a day, maybe 4 days a week.

Edit: I'm 21now btw. Played Ragnarok Online religiously after highschool for 10 months then switched to WoW for 3 years and counting.

Ok about combat, ill add to what i mean.

Look at your immediate objective:

Basic Weapon Swing -

Most other MMO's = Right Click - continously attacks until target dead, don't even need a keyboard.

AoC = 5 different buttons each one attacks once.

Skills -

Most other MMO's = One Button - Skill is cast.

AoC = Activate Skill(one button), then type in the combo(2-5 buttons) -skill is cast.

My gripe, NOT saying its the shittest thing ever or that its HARD, its just i dont understand then need for it, all it does is tell you what buttons to keep pressing and in what order. the mob is defending here so press here, cant use this combo hes defending there.

e.g. (very general idea of wat i mean)  If i wanna super punch someone in the face why must the game make me kick them in the shin 5 times..... why cant i just do it. dont say you can cause if you wanna max DPS you have to kick them in the shin first.

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Originally posted by woody1974
Yes I am going to defend this game because it is 2 weeks into release and people are bitching and complaining about everything under the sun, if your a true mmo gamer you would understand that all games have flaws at release and you would learn to be patient and give the devs time to fix the problems.

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See the problem with industry standards is exactly what you stated. Give them time to fix the game that is "launched" and costs you money to play. Maybe they brain washed most of you but I for one won't pay for shit if it isn't quality, bugged up, and lacks depth. There is no reason in hell why no one should have an opinion after two weeks of the game.

If it doesn't grab to you it doesn't grab to you.
If your comp sucks you can't play it.
If you don't like the art you are not going to like the world.
If your a DF fanboi then your still praying to your Tasos poster that it will see the light of day.
If you hate instancing you are not going to play it.
If you miss auto-attack you are going to be pissed off about the combat.
If you think the community is immature with common response such as Question: "What drops X?" Answer: "Your ma" Answer2: "Haha lol good one" Answer3: "Go back to WoW fool"; You are not going to want to login.
If it's too buggy and broken why the hell would someone pay for it.

The point is a number of things can make or break a game. To say an opinion after two weeks is not worthy is complete and utter bullshit. I demand quality at launch and the more and more MMO gamers demand this the more and more you won't be getting shitty bug ridden MMOs half finished and launched.