General Discussion

Fresh off their victory in the "Best Online Game" category at Games Convention, The guys from Funcom's Age of Conan gve a great presentation on the upcoming game's Siege PvP system.

Siege PvP in Age of Conan Check out this video featuring Siege PvP in the upcoming MMO Age of Conan.

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I'm not impressed.

Meh, it looks the same as all the others out there.

Oh wait, it has boobs.......whopee

Flat out boring looking.

Looks moderately interesting, the hiring of mercenaries is a cool feature. The fact that you can build a keep with your guild is kinda cool. But its just a rehash of Shadowbane to a degree mixed with dumbed down DAOC and pretty graphics and you  have what they are showing as far as PVP in AOC. Don't get me wrong I'm probably going to buy this and check it out, but thats only because I'm a compulsive MMO player and will play every game that comes out just once and give it a shot.

Guys you do realise that its beta and the reason it played so choppy is because that two computers were controlling all those characters.  Right now, Conan has the potential to be the best of new MMOs coming out.  Combat is different than anything out there right now, the setting is darker and more adult themed than anything out there, and it has more options for the player than any of the new games coming. (and trust me, ive beta tested some of them , most of them are nothing to get up in a roar about) I think it looks great. 

I keep seeing people say " oh sucubus, thats original" meaning they think its not.  I guess those same people think that wow created the sucubus.  The conan universe, along with LoTR, and Warhammer is the basis for all of the current fantasy games available today.  People keep saying oh this game is just a mix of shadowbane, WOW, and DaOC.  So what, at least its not a carbon copy of one of those games.   Noone seems to remebver that wow coppied every game before it, aas most games do.   I think its a great idea to take the best idea from all of those games.  its very hard to have an entire game full of new ideas that have never been tryed.  Name one MMO that did that in the last 4 years and succeded.   Even games like guild wars that introduced a few new ideas still play just like the others one when you get down tot he combat.

The success of this game will depend on the combat system.  If they can suceed in making it really more action oriented, rather than a simple click and forget system like all the other games out are(wow,eq2,etc), than i think they will have a great game on their hands.  Everything ive seen looks amazing as far as graphics, the settings are beautiful and very dark, and combat looks fun.  Sure some of the videos are a bit cluncky from time to time, but most of it looked smooth on the Pve end.   people need to remeber that it is in a beta stage, not a fully optimized release state, and quit judging it simply by the frame rate.  They arent going to release a game that has 15 FPS i promise.

I found the whole thing unprofessional when a game like that is demonstrated even in Beta it should run lag free. The fact it lags shows there are some Hardware/software issues still.

Originally posted by METALDRAG0N

I found the whole thing unprofessional when a game like that is demonstrated even in Beta it should run lag free. The fact it lags shows there are some Hardware/software issues still.

If you actually view the video you