Age of Conan First Impressions

Merah — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:43 GMT

sound interesting but I will wait they are setting up something like try it for free 14 days, without I won't risk to start playing a new MMO without trying it.

Age of Conan First Impressions

Merah — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:42 GMT

it sounds like a good game but I won't risk to buy it before a try, I will wait and hope they will setup something like a 14days Free trial.

Age of Conan First Impressions

Basture — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:41 GMT

saying this game is more for the adult players is a bloody joke.
i say this game by what i seen is more for the 12-16 year olds who likes blood and naked women, i myself 30+ am more drawn to the WoW cartoonish based setup.

i know ALOT of ppl think like me.

Age of Conan First Impressions

Indelible — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:40 GMT

I'm curious to know what exactly you have seen. From what I have seen, most of the guys playing on the server I based this on were 20+ and a fair few of them were Conan fans or High Fantasy fans. Demos show that the average age of a gamer is 25-28, not 12-16.

I also know a lot of people who don't think like you.

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Tiescout — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:39 GMT

A few problems, this guy has a interesting take on things(at least on the EU servers).The game has been taken down for 4 to 6 hours everyday this week. We only got access to the bank yesterday(some people have had all their money disappear while using it). The game has a insane amount of bugs, lag, broken quests, etc. Anyone who is playing this game now is nothing more then a paying beta tester. Its a decent game when it works, trouble is that is not very often. It should have been released in 6 months to a year from now but I guess they were worried about having to go against Warhammer, Stargate Worlds, and Wrath of the Lich King. All the fanboys have nothing but praise for it, we will see how long that lasts after the hype wears off. In all, a decent game that was released WAY to soon!

Age of Conan First Impressions

Todd — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:38 GMT

Thanks for this review. I was contemplating buying this game, but after reading this I know that it is not a game I would enjoy playing. Thank you for saving me $50.

Age of Conan First Impressions

Rhaeven — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:37 GMT

The UI really is disgusting, isn't it? I can't really think of anything about it that doesn't need changing.

I'm getting really annoyed at some of the constant bugs, but then, I've never played an MMO from launch. I'm sure WoW was pretty buggy at the start too, I didn't arrive until 1.5.

Age of Conan First Impressions

leewalker101172 — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:36 GMT

I think i will wait until they have sorted some of the bugs and do a trial period before i make my decision on this game. I am a keen WoW player and have friends who are annarchy online (funcom) fanboys and they have been constantly telling me how AoC was going to kill WoW and how Wow is for kids... looks like for the moment at least they are wrong. The reason i could never get along with AnOn was the clunky counter intuitive UI and it looks to me like funcom didnt learn their lesson from that.

epic fail.

Age of Conan First Impressions

Faetyl — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:35 GMT

I am very tired of hearing "the (so called standard) for new MMO's is that they aren't complete/perfect/working...

This is unacceptable.

The gaming community shouldn't allow this to go on.

There were many stuck in the starter city due to quest issues and customer support was completely unavailable during the weekend launch. (And i'm not exagerating when I say completely unavailable...)
Petitions went over 5 days without an answer (and that's if the petition wasn't automatically deleted by support staff due to the player not being online).

Also, all the hype regarding directional attacks with combos is a bit rediculous as well.
Replace the "directional arrow" icons with spell/ability icons and you have the classic MMO.
That coupled with extreme combat lag that made performing combos a loss of DPS.
(Performing a combo requires that you press the directional attacks in a specific order but only when prompted to do so via an onscreen guide) The onscreen guide had extreme lag therefore had you standing motionless drueling on yourself while you waited for the game to recognize that you completed the a combo step and waiting on a prompt for the next step in the sequence.

Also, while the games graphics are amazing there are some aspects of the game that desperately require more attention, so bad infact that it makes the game feel as if certain aspects are severly behind the times.
The first example that pops into mind is the climb ability in the game.
You have to spend attribute points in climbing before you can climb certain ladders.
(Yes, you read that right...)
And if that wasn't enough the climbing interface is VERY lacking.
You have to walk close to a ladder then in order to climb you must press U (for use).
If you jump while on a ladder you fall with no chance to grab ahold of the ladder on the way down.
It's like playing Ultima Online all over again...

I could go on but this would just turn into a rant and I only wish for it to be a warning to those that haven't purchased the game yet.

Support gaming that requires companies to release a finished product.
After all we are paying good money to purchase the game and try it out.
If they can't complete the game for release then perhaps they shouldn't attempt to go live with 80 levels worth of content (which they tried but most deffinately failed at).
Release a game with 20 complete, fun, buggless levels to play and you will keep those that try your game out rather than "tricking them into purchasing the game through hype, only to try it out and be disgusted that they wasted their money; never to return".

Age of Conan First Impressions

umforder — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:34 GMT

I agree that spending points in climbing seems useless most of the time but essential if you want to complete some quests. I think everyone should be able to climb everything. I cannot yet see it as game breaking. Using the combo's can feel useless at times, however, if you double hit some buttons in between the prompts for the combo moves, then your character will keep attacking. It does seem like an awkward system in regards to the delay.

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angryguildleader — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:33 GMT

Vanguard is the way to go now. AOC is tanking. People are leaving it in droves for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. Remember how bad Vanguard was? That should tell you something. Vanguard is finally ready for release and a lot of people are showing up daily there. It's almost like it's a war and Vanguard is taking in all the refugees. I would highly suggest taking a second look at Vanguard. We did, and our guild went to Vanguard, and it's the most fun we've had in two years. We left the guild city, high level characters and all, rotting in AOC with it's borked crafting, broken sieging, horrid economy and grindfest.

Age of Conan First Impressions

angryguildleader — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:32 GMT

Age of Conan First Impressions

Spartan2097 — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:31 GMT

Thankfully my subscription just ran out. Not going to renew it.

Not only is the game broken, but after the crap time of beating my supposedly free mount out of funcom I just can't be arsed anymore.

AoC is good for the kiddies, plenty of breasts and blood.

Once bitten twice shy. I will not be buying anymore MMO's at their release date. So tired of throwing my cash away.

Age of Conan First Impressions

manic_half — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:30 GMT

i think im gunna try AoC next week.

id say im pretty tolerant when it comes to bugs and what not. i was playing WoW since it started it wasnt perfect either.

as long as im having fun, killing things and getting loot im content :D

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klizzey — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:14:29 GMT

After playing AoC since launch and up to today, my first impression is as follows. Getting killed by other mobs you're fighting because you're stuck in a fatality sucks. Not being able to play longer then an hour or two without getting the greymap bug that then leads into your game hicuping and eventually to an out of memory crash that causes your group to not show up and appear as if they were not in your group while you arn't able to leave group or get reinvited or invite anyone else sucks (all due to the AoC memory leak). Having no 62-80 content sucks. Having no boss fights beyond tank and spank sucks. Having your healers have no normal direct healing spells thus forcing them to use heals which are unstackable(meaning other healers can't stack the same heals onto same target ) to heal your tank for 200 a second while a boss hits them for 600+ sucks. Getting nerfs every week and forcing about 2 classes atm to be unplayable due to them sucks. Having the arena quest ( a lot of exp and good loot ) be bugged now for about 3 weeks sucks ( you can't get it or get to second step if you do). Attaining money sucks, you won't have a mount till 54+ , but you will still have to run on foot through 2-3 large zones to get to the one you are going only to have to port back out of it and run to it again. Tons of quests are bugged, the spawn times on quest items are horrible, but sometimes don't even respawn untill you reset the instance or leave for a while. Female animations atm are currently bugged and females swing about 30-40% slower then males, thus doing much lower dps (won't be fixed for atleast 4 weeks according to Failcom). The tradeskills atm are bugged and cause you to crash, also won't be fixed for a while by Failcom. The gathering system requires you to get 20 of the resource and then find a rare from that resource. The rares are gained by the game using a 1 out of 100 rolling system everytime you gather the resource, meaning you could mine it till 80 and not have it, or mine it once and get it. If you aquire the rare resource before you have the quest to get the rare, it will not count and thus be banked. You can only have one extra bag slot ontop of your main bag (nowhere near enough). Mammoths/Rhinos are useless mounts and discarded by just about everyone. Epic horse costs way too much for anyone to get in one life time. Let's see... what else... Most of the classes capable of AoE are now gone or getting nerfed within the week. The amount of useful spells a caster class gets compared to a melee/ranger class is about 30 total with different ranks of same spell for melee/ranger to about 80 or so for a caster, but casters are now getting nerfed to where you don't want to play em so you're stuck getting a new rank of one spell every 5 levels. In order to get the next level of talent points you need to be a certain level so a lot of your points while your getting to that level go to useless talents and thus force you to respec upon attaining that level. Apparently the only thing in Conan times people whore were skirts because that's all they have. Cloth skirts, metal skirts, plate skirts, leather skirts, it's a party... for people wearing skirts. Oh almost forgot the bug that causes you to fall through bridges and walk through walls. Met Conan at 60, was disapointed, felt like I could kick his ass or atleast see his dong up that short ass skirt he was rocking. Wasn't sure if that was Conan or a crossdresser with a strangely squared face. Oh also, watch out for the shitty cinematic at 60, you get bug stabbed through the ear or someshit, looked stupid imo. Basically, the game should be renamed to Escape from Tortage because the lvl 1-20 zone was fun as hell and pretty refined with voiceovers for everyone which ends after 20 except for one or two select NPCs. This game makes it almost impossible to play with another person and be near each others level due to forcing you to do night time quests which are solo instances and them making you do other solo instances. This game basically has you drop a tombstone upon death that when picked up takes away the already nonexistant penalty you get for dying. This is due to the fact that going in and killing a mob within group, dying, going back in to finish the group up is a part of the game. Overall, killing *** was fun, but the game is trying way too hard to be different and being WAY more complex then it should be( in a very annoying way ). Also, some of the group instances arn't group instances at all due to the problem where other groups zone into the same instance and you pretty much ninja bosses. This game COULD be fun in the late future, but atm, I don't recommend it to anyone at all because it will have you throwing *** across the room when your map goes grey and your game crashes and you have to DL a POINTLESS 60-100 MB patch that does nothing. Stay away from this for a while or play at your own risk. There are all these fanboys saying *** like "EVERYGAME HAD BUGS AND ISSUES", but name me one damn game that let the same problem every player complained everyday about go on since release for a month+ now with no fix in the near future? They havn't fixed anything since release and the entire community is STILL having grey map out of memory crashes due to their memory leak issue, yet they've managed to nerf anything fun. Yah, other games had problems, but atleast they addressed them instead of deleting your complaints. Have never been so annoyed by a game and it's totally lacking developer team like this. Oh and also most of the skills/attribute points don't effect your class at all and the coolest spell ( spellweaving ) just got nerfed to look stupid as hell. Most ignorant developer team i've seen to date.