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• • game review by beta and release player

  • Originally posted by Askatan
    

     

    Originally posted by AmazingAvery
    

     I think all the zones are different and varied, not sure at what your getting there.

    As for falling down cliffs and the points you brought up about two classes... not game breaking for me.

    You never said what level you got to?  still 26 quest at lvl 54 to do here on one character, never ever ran out of quests.

    the world looks very good and the nature is very well done, but the trees and plants, textures and overall zone design is way too similar.

     

    I accept this for a few weeks, but I have seen most of the zones in game, and if I compare that to what other, much cheaper looking games do with their more limited options graphic wise, AoC looks like one giant EQ2 or WoW area.

    I see what they could have done, with this engine and what other games do with theirs.

    hell, even guild wars look 10 times more diverse.

     

    and if you don'T do quests a lot, you wont run out soon, sure.... basically everyone in my guild over level 55 has never had anything but few grey quests and tons of grind. and they still leveled quickly. but then what?

    where to go? what to do? it's all the same.

     

     

    and I mean, look at your sig. you are a fanboi. what on earth would be gamebreaking for you?

    I was serious when I said that some classes have almost all feats broken or designed to have no effect.

    attributes like strength and dexterity have no effect. this has been proven without a doubt.

    skills like skulking, endurance and one or 2 others have zero effect as well. you sneak as fast with skulking 0 as you do with skulking 300.

    this has been proven as well.

     

    nothing would be gamebreaking for you.

    
    LOL someone got ROLLED!

     

     

    I agree

  • Posted: 6/09/08 10:14 PM
    Age of Conan
• • so 300k accounts and probably only 100k-150k players

  • Sweatshop trial accounts are counted in this.

     

    Inflated numbers!

  • Posted: 6/09/08 10:05 PM
    EVE Online
• • The REAL Reason AOC Is Zoned!

  • AoC is a flop....

  • Posted: 5/27/08 2:03 PM
    Age of Conan
• • I am done and my thoughts on AoC.

  • lvl34

  • Posted: 5/24/08 11:54 AM
    Age of Conan
• • I am done and my thoughts on AoC.

  • When I first launched the game and my 640mb 8800GTS started to purr, I thought I had found a WoW killer, the game is beautiful, lets get that out of the way right now. The entire Tortage experience and Destiny chain reminded me of Oblivion in a way no MMO had before. My initial thoughts were that this was the absolute best introductory phase of any mmo I have played. Right away I found combat to be enjoyable and immersing, it was quite a change from past MMOs where I could watch TV, eat dinner, talk on the phone, and still grind away decent XP. Lets just say I have about 3 days worth of my favorite shows waiting on the TIVO. The quests in Tortage were delivered with brilliant voice over work, not something you often find in any game, much less an online game. By the time I had hit lvl 20, I was aching to get off the island and find out what the real game was all about, I wanted to explore the world, run through zones, quest, and run about looking for fun and interesting places wherever the wind took me (trying to make a point here.) Doesn't everyone love that new game feeling where you never know when you will find a new zone, a new camp of mobs, a new boss who drops something shiny and powerful? I love that aspect of MMOs, its why I have played almost everyone to it the market. Anyway, back on subject, I made it off Tortage and found a new town bustling with....well...npcs mostly... where was everyone? Off hunting I suppose. So I picked a direction and off I went, eager to hunt down new monsters and get away from the newbie "follow the arrow" games Tortage had been full of. Much to my dismay, I found that there were no rolling hills to explore, rivers to wade through, and quests to conquer, every direction I ran, I was caged in. So back to town. Here I found there wereNPC who could teleport me to specific zones where I could fight and quest. Thinking that at least these zones would be sprawling with different ways to go, and thing to do, I tried them. Again to my dismay I was told to follow the arrows along one of only a few possible routes in every zone and then to return to town to pick up a new quest. "This is an MMO, not pacman, where is the freedom?" I thought. Sadly, I never found the answer. Shrug.
    
    SKIP TO HERE IF YOU WANT THE REVIEW.
    
    Graphics: Brilliant! Climb to the top of any mountain/tall building and you will be treated to the best view in any MMO to date (Vanguard has been replaced....sorry VG)
    
    Sound: Little bit lacking but I'd give in a B+ Good musical scores in some parts, but not much more than crickets for ambiance.
    
    Combat: Awesome combat controls will keep you more involved in the game than any to date. Your special skills (combos and spells) require timing and skill to properly execute....that said, once you get the hang of it, it gets kinda old mashing key combos everytime you want to do a special attack (my finger tips hurt during one extremely long boss fight)
    
    Grinding: Meh, its still an MMO, grinding is fun sometimes, but my biggest problem with AoC is the lack of useful item drops. Grinding gets a lot less interesting when theres next to no chance of getting anything but the kills. Note: this is not your typical MMO. You do NOT pull 1, kill 1, pull 1, kill 1, rest, pull etc... You jump right in and slaughter people, 3, even 4 at a time is no problem for many of the classes depending on levels of course.
    
    Questing: Terrible. Almost every quest you get shows you EXACTLY where to go on your map. If you are too lazy to even pull up the map screen, it even shows u a little arrow on your radar so you can follow that down the road. At some points I found I wasn't even watching the main screen but following the radar and using my peripheral vision to stay on the road. Kinda takes the "quest" out of the picture and turns it into more of an errand. Next, the quest rewards are stupid. Yeah you get XP but the items are mostly worthless, and the ones that are good, you can't even really measure since theres no way to check your stats(in a sec I'll explain.)
    
    Stats: I have no idea if my armor is doing anything, nor do I know what my DPS is before and after equipping all sorts of strength enhancing crap. Where are the detailed character stats? Its all good fun to play dress up in stuff I think looks good, but if I don't know what it DOES, its just that, dress up.
    
    Gameplay/Environment: Ok so this is why I quit. Guild Wars on steroids. Thats all I can really say. Every single zone I found was so stupidly linear that I found myself forced to take the same paths probably 50 times a day. ITs not one big world, its a ton of little worlds that you can teleport in and out of, again, Guild Wars on steroids. The zones aren't even big enough to support the number of people in them so they are all instanced, there could be 300 people there, but you would never know it sine they are spread across X number of instances. That for me, takes the MM out of MMORPG.
    
    Bugs: Its a new launch so I won't even get started, but um....its a new launch so...yeaah....
    
    
    My point: Not enough freedom in the game, everything is way too linear and repetitive. However, if you like the guild wars style gameplay, please, go buy this game tomorrow....or wait a year  for the bugs to get fixed
    
    
    
    *This information is based solely on my own gameplay experience, I may in fact be incorrect on every single point I tried to make and ask that you take everything I say accordingly. This is not a flame on AoC or anyone who plays it, as I give full credit to the game devs and everyone responsible for making a game that I am sure will succeed, it is however, not for me.
    
    **Yes I know I quit the game without seeing all it had to offer. I'm not willing to follow 1000 more arrows to get to whatever level you claim it changes. Thanks for the advice though.
    

  • Posted: 5/24/08 11:26 AM
    Age of Conan