Age of Conan

Originally posted by Kilmar

The only one I know playing wow is my younger brother, he's 16 and very pubertal. Im 22 and I feel way too old for wow.

On the other side, AoC is too brutal for me, I just dont like flying heads, hope you can turn that off )

lots of blood, violence, rolling heads, fatalities, and you get to see plenty of boobies. (the female chars can literally go bare top, i thought it was pretty funny)

Originally posted by Vendayn

Originally posted by URMAKER

Originally posted by vardar

lol point of the video is that AoC has superior graphics and WoW has kiddie graphics and kiddie type mentality....lol love this video......oh ya dont forget that majority of WoW subscribers are prolly around 12yrs to 15yrs old...

pulled that number out of your ass did ya?

if the average age in WoW isn't somewhere around 12 to 15 years old and instead 20+...then humanity is doomed

@ Vardar and the big mouths in this forum

How many of  you guys has completed Naxx and Black Temple or may be you are like the 90% of the player base who has never set foot in this instance because it was too hard for you?

WoW has its ups and downs people loves it or hates it ,I don`t play it anymore for obvious reasonsbut what I can stand is people talking shit.

Err, and the message of the video is what?? <.<  >.>  <.<

Originally posted by Vendayn

Originally posted by URMAKER

Originally posted by vardar

lol point of the video is that AoC has superior graphics and WoW has kiddie graphics and kiddie type mentality....lol love this video......oh ya dont forget that majority of WoW subscribers are prolly around 12yrs to 15yrs old...

pulled that number out of your ass did ya?

if the average age in WoW isn't somewhere around 12 to 15 years old and instead 20+...then humanity is doomed

Actually from different places I have read like gameindustry.biz and other places the average age of MMO players are late 20's early 30's.  Seeing as how wow has 3.5-4million in Europe/US and the closest contenders in the same regions only have a couple hundred thousand it's probably pretty safe to assume that the average wow player falls in those same demographics.  AoC with their M rating and the primary focus on nothing but combat and gore will probably appeal more to the 12-15 year old range you are so afraid of.

Originally posted by severius

Originally posted by Vendayn

Originally posted by URMAKER

Originally posted by vardar

lol point of the video is that AoC has superior graphics and WoW has kiddie graphics and kiddie type mentality....lol love this video......oh ya dont forget that majority of WoW subscribers are prolly around 12yrs to 15yrs old...

pulled that number out of your ass did ya?

if the average age in WoW isn't somewhere around 12 to 15 years old and instead 20+...then humanity is doomed

Actually from different places I have read like gameindustry.biz and other places the average age of MMO players are late 20's early 30's.  Seeing as how wow has 3.5-4million in Europe/US and the closest contenders in the same regions only have a couple hundred thousand it's probably pretty safe to assume that the average wow player falls in those same demographics.  AoC with their M rating and the primary focus on nothing but combat and gore will probably appeal more to the 12-15 year old range you are so afraid of.

but i am almost 26 and i love violence and gratuitous nudity.

Originally posted by jayheld90

Originally posted by severius

Originally posted by Vendayn

Originally posted by URMAKER

Originally posted by vardar

lol point of the video is that AoC has superior graphics and WoW has kiddie graphics and kiddie type mentality....lol love this video......oh ya dont forget that majority of WoW subscribers are prolly around 12yrs to 15yrs old...

pulled that number out of your ass did ya?

if the average age in WoW isn't somewhere around 12 to 15 years old and instead 20+...then humanity is doomed

Actually from different places I have read like gameindustry.biz and other places the average age of MMO players are late 20's early 30's.  Seeing as how wow has 3.5-4million in Europe/US and the closest contenders in the same regions only have a couple hundred thousand it's probably pretty safe to assume that the average wow player falls in those same demographics.  AoC with their M rating and the primary focus on nothing but combat and gore will probably appeal more to the 12-15 year old range you are so afraid of.

but i am almost 26 and i love violence and gratuitous nudity.

is there anything better?

not that i know of.

Originally posted by Mordria

 

Originally posted by Ascension08

Originally posted by Mordria

Well... I think it shows how long WoW has been around. Anyone know exactly how old the game is?

4 years. And to your first post, graphics in 1990 were basically 2D, maybe primitive 3D.

It's only been around 4 years?Are you sure? The graphics really do look allot older.  I'm not bashing the game I've never even played it just making an observation.

 

The textures are very low quality and models are low polygon in WoW. But the overall design is coherent and a true masterpiece, even compared to todays standarts. If you play it on a 2008 computer you can move all sliders in the settings to max and the game looks awesome then. The floor is not a "nacked" texture but loaded with plants and flowers and bushes almost like i have seen in the AoC screenshots. The lightnings is perfect, the snow is reflectiing light and rain leaves splatting waterdrops on the ground and on the water surfaces. Animations are smooth and nicley done.

WoW has a bad reputation for some reasons. People say its linear and childish for example. However, looking back (playing game since 85) i have to say that WoW is one of the last true fantasy games. Its not a sandbox, but offers a lot of freedom and charming little features. In Vanguard and EQ2 and AoC you can only equip certain wepaons. In WoW you can go and learn weaponskills from a trainer. It might be the trainer is far away and you have to go on a long journey and find him. For example a nightelf who uses a bow can go to the dwarfs and learn how to use a gun. Or you go to the humans and learn how to use a sword. In other games the petclasses have certain pets. In WoW a hunter is able to tame almost any wild animal that is roaming as NPC. Once tamed you can train it and level it up with you. Thats actually quite some depth compared to EQ2, Vanguard and AoC.

I am a big fan of top notch graphics. But graphics are only the framework around features. Not the goal of a game. And the whole deisgn has to be coherent. Thats the message of WoW. Have a coherent design and content and features. Then you have success. I do hope AoC will be something like that in a few months.

Originally posted by eugam      release was spring 2005.

WoWs release was November 23, 2004 -- 3.5 years old

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