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• • GameFocus review 97%

  • Originally posted by BigMango
    

    Originally posted by AmazingAvery
    
    

     I call BS on bladeinhands claim that he ran out of Conan content after a week. Thats just too funny.

     

    Yep, I have played for almost 1 month now and I'm still in my early 50ies, with about 5 days /played. If you average this in 30 days that's about 4 hours per day, every day. And I'm far from running out of content.

     

    I played on average a good 4 hours a day for the two and a half weeks I played to get to 45. The longest night I played AoC for was like 7 hours or 8 hours and it was the first night I played because I didn't have early access and wanted to get to 25 before I logged. It doesn't take long to level when all you do is quest in groups.

  • Posted: 6/23/08 12:25 AM
    Age of Conan
• • GameFocus review 97%

  • I came to this site to find out system requirements for past games and I happened to get intrigued by the title of this thread. I read every post on every page and must point out three things:

    1) I have a level 45 Tempest of Set ( or did rather, I don't have an active subscription to it anymore ). On this Tempest of Set I have done 0 grinding to this point. All I have done is all the quests available to me. I am not in the Fields of the Dead and the only quests I have left are three red colored ones and I am nowhere near leveled. The issue is I have done every single quest my level or lower in every zone available to me, and I did post this a while back. I now am forced to grind and I am still 35 levels away from the level cap. This should not be the case and I have never completely run out of quests in a game my first time through without having more "of level" quests.

    If I chose to complete the three quests I won't get the full experience reward because it is red and I get punished for completing them early. At the same time I must complete them early to ease the grind or it will get way out of hand. I was never a part of a launch where this happened before and I was shocked to find out I couldn't find anymore quests for myself. This is about a week before I decided to stop playing which was about two weeks ago.  I can completely understand people running out of quests when they get to this area if they chose not to grind just like I did. It happened and I saw it with my own two eyes.

     

    2) What you call "trolls" are asking valid questions to you that you refuse to answer. They want to know,  from you, HOW AGE OF CONAN IS BETTER THAN THOSE OTHER GAMES? They aren't referring to ratings or any numerical value, they are asking what makes this game, to you, better? Do you think the combat is all that much greater? Do you feel the story is that much more involving than previous games? Is it just graphics? This is what they are asking. This is what they want you to answer. They just wanted you to compare it to all those other mmos and give reasons why you feel this is already better than them.

    3) This review was done poorly on a couple bases. No mmo out there right now is perfect, bug free, and full of content to your hearts content. 7's and 8's seem fair and anyone who gives ratings and reviews now based on WHAT COULD be in months is sort of defeating the purpose of a review. Even the people here saying I will give it a similar rating in a few months.

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    Things you have to give points off for just like any other mmo:

    1) Bugs - Every game has these so it is to be expected.

    2) Optimization - You shouldn't meet the recommended specs on the box and only run between 2-12 fps in a siege battle. That was poor for those of you who saw the video.

    3) Customer Service - I personally stayed online for 12 hours on the 24th, which was four days after retails launch, and never had a petition answered. This was horrible. It got answer the following night of a 4 hours play session.

    4) Loot tables and the fact that some dungeons were launched and dropped 0 loot.

    5) Mounted Combat and the casting issues.

    6) A game that was built from the ground up with dx10 supposedly and advertised as a Games for Windows product failing to have Dx10. The first time people will be seeing it on the retail client is at a convention.

    6) Lack of content right at the mid levels.

    7) My Tempest of Set had a heal for a while there that made it so my heals actually only land half the time so during battle at times I would get surprised by casting a heal and having the healing never take affect. This was a known bug that they were working on fixing.

    8) Crafting and the fact most of the drops are better than anything you craft.

    9) In siege battles some of the walls can just be walked through, not needing to damage it, nor walk around.

    10) Siege weapons ... broken and not needing a comment.

    11) Massive battles were squashed to 96 total people, which is actually still good but they had interviews talking about hundreds of players battling in one area so that would be a knock.

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    I actually enjoyed the game up until the 40s when the quests were running dry and I would totally recommend AoC to friends with high end machines, but I just wanted to point out issues with the game that would not justify such a high rating of 9.7.

    I also wanted to add that I felt over the past handful and some years that games in general have been receiving some very odd reviews. Most of these MMOs that launch are so buggy, incomplete, and lacking balance or content for the most part that they don't warrant scores higher than a 7.5 yet reviewers for sites like that find ways to give them 8s and higher.

    I made a quick list as you can see, in about 10 minutes, on how AoC can't seriously be rated a 97%. That is just 3% away from being a perfect score. Sieging was supposed to be a big part of this game, as was DX10, mounted combat, having the game run great on many rigs because it is very scalable, and so on, but according to a score like that, these features make up just 3% of the game, and the rest would be perfect.

  • Posted: 6/23/08 12:23 AM
    Age of Conan
• • The Acolytes are recruiting!

  • Just wanted to point out that we have created the Acolytes on mmorpg.com's guild list page/feature!

  • Posted: 6/09/08 9:54 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • After using AoC's forums, no official forums for WAR seems smart

  • Originally posted by Celestian
    

     

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    Originally posted by Ixnatifual
    Not having an official forum is one of the smartest things Mythic have done. Players will spread over various well-moderated fansites where garbage can be sorted out.
    And no, you don't need a forum to get support. A simple form will do.

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    Well moderated? Laugh! Not only is moderation a misnomer on this topic is also a joke considering every person on the planet will be able to invade the forum and fill it with garbage.

    DAoC didn't "prove" you could do it without Forums, they just did it because they said they couldn't afford it which is laughable.

    Please, don't suggest that "fan sites" are well moderated, that is the biggest joke.

    There are a lot of reasons a official website/forums is a good idea and they've been posted about a lot.

    Suggesting AoC forums are useless and believing it based on this one nit posting is just ignorance at it's best. I've already picked up good tips from those forums specific to my class, my machine setup and how I play the game. I got the same information from WoW's forums as well. If you think fishing through those forums is hard try doing it now spread across 10-20 websites of random quality and uptime and not a single one of those require you to be subscribed to the game to post.

    Good luck with your "great idea".

     

    I played WoW for three years as an end game raider and pvper and not once, not once, did I ever go to their official forums. I played FFXI for four years and not once ever even searched for an official forum. I played DAoC for 5 years and there was no official forum but I didn't see the need. Vanguard was the first game I went to an official forum and it was a travesty trying to sort through all the garbage. I am having the same problem now with the AoC forums and those of my guild mates that can even get on their forums complain about the same issues. It isn't NEEDED. You could find the same information on the game on a fan site.

    If people who exploited AoC to level up and make gold and are a known exploiter guild posted HOW to do it on their official forums, they get a small slap on the wrist and rolled back to level one. I can't think of a single WAR forum where if it happened they would not be banned from the forums. Show me something on an official forum from another player that can not be found elsewhere?

  • Posted: 5/27/08 4:51 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Tempest of Set

  • 14 hours of /played and I am level 34 now. I think the class is OP in many ways but it seems a bit boring and bland. You use your two hots before you start a pull, cast your lightning nuke two to three times and then use your fast direct heal and nuke two more times. Through this method you can typically take 2-3 mobs above your level. For example, before the servers went down I was in a dungeon to find a sarcophagus that had level 35 mobs in there. I went in at 33 and I could pull 3 easily and 4 if one was a minion. It is a pretty simple class and I only need to hit three different buttons during a PVE fight.

  • Posted: 5/27/08 4:39 PM
    Age of Conan