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I thought the game was fun when I played. Only reason I stopped was my friend stopped and that killed it for me.
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And I thought WoW graphics were bad by today's standards...
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I loved that game too! I stopped because of class balancing issues.
In beta demonologists were OP, so being stupid as usual, my 2 friends and I all picked them. They got nerfed after release but we kept playing them. Then one guy who was another class (gah can't remember which one) jumped out of stealth and one shot all of us with 1 spell. It was a cone type spell. Oh and the guy was like 25 levels lowers than us. All classes have stealth btw.
There are non PVP servers I think that have PVP areas. They have BG's like Wow but I don't know how they are now. It used to be that when you died in the BG you were dead forever unless someone rezzed you. That was bad if you died early on and just sat there.
I assume they have balanced the game better now.
Anyway. For anyone who has never played it go try it! I think you will love it. At least for a few months.
I think I will go check it out again as well. 2 games are better than 1 
edit: To the poster above me. The graphics were cutting edge when the game released. So much so MANY MANY people couldn't play it on their current machines so they stuck with Wow. I am confused by your comment that graphics are bad.
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I thought the game sucked at release and making it free to play isn't a move to make me think any differently.
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Quazimortal posted:
I thought the game sucked at release and making it free to play isn't a move to make me think any differently.
Oh, what didn't you like about it? I suppose if you didn't like it before there probably isn't much chance of you liking it now.
I am downloading it now. 7.51 gigs though before I can check it out again.
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Oh, what didn't you like about it?
Pretty much everything aside from all the boobs. 
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i really liked the game and i bought it, but after the first 20 levels it sucked.. did they ever make it better
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I hear its going to kill WoW!! 
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sarnsereg posted:
i really liked the game and i bought it, but after the first 20 levels it sucked.. did they ever make it better
In essence? If you liked 1-20, they changed the game so each zone is like Tortage through content additions and polish.
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If you've never tried it, Age of Conan is one of the prettiest MMOs on the market, and has a very interesting combat system. The last expansion was actually pretty good. It also has boobs, so there's that too, I guess.
So the best they can say about the game is
1. its pretty
2. interesting combat
3. Last xpac was pretty good
4. It has boobs
Going to need a lot more than that to get over the massive amount of suck that game was when I played it.
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So the best they can say about the game is
1. its pretty
2. interesting combat
3. Last xpac was pretty good
4. It has boobs
How can you put boobs at #4?
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#1 and #4 sell me on just about anything lol.
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#1 and #4 sell me on just about anything lol.
Life Lesson #374, real boobs > pixle boobs
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It's bigger than 7 gigs btw. That was 1 of 4. So quadruple that :P
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#1 and #4 sell me on just about anything lol.
Life Lesson #374, real boobs > pixle boobs
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Thanks for the lesson, never knew that. True story.
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wowplayer321 posted:
And I thought WoW graphics were bad by today's standards...
They are.
Random comment, or does that have anything to do with Conan? :o
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Spookysheep posted:
If you've never tried it, Age of Conan is one of the prettiest MMOs on the market, and has a very interesting combat system. The last expansion was actually pretty good. It also has boobs, so there's that too, I guess.
So the best they can say about the game is
1. its pretty
2. interesting combat
3. Last xpac was pretty good
4. It has boobs
Going to need a lot more than that to get over the massive amount of suck that game was when I played it.
In case you thought that was a good review of the game...
It's not.
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Gave it a spin through level 69 recently having quit it at release due to the content shift after level 20 and general lack of anything resembling polish.
What I think now:
1) Post 20 content, as stated above, is vastly improved. Where before you had to grind mobs to keep up with what quests were available... now you will have to skip quests unless you don't mind doing grey quests. This isn't just a change in the leveling curve but also the addition of new quests and zones.
2) Polish is vastly improved and less buggy than the current state of World of Warcraft. Quests aren't bugged and everything pretty much just works.
3) Not sure how someone could complain about the graphics. Graphics can be adjusted to whatever your computer can handle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luOkzxhPATY&hd=1
Above is in game footage some guild made that I found with a quick search through youtube. Note that it actually looks better in game than it does compressed on youtube. If it doesn't meet "today's" standards... please link the MMO meeting today's standards. Stands up to anything else out there which is pretty good for a 2+ year old game.
4) PvP mini games were pretty standard to everything else out there (wow, Rift, Warhammer, etc) and not worth rating. You like that stuff or you don't and it is what they have here. Open world pvp was also standard to other MMOs in class and not worth rating. Nothing on the pvp servers you aren't experiencing in Rift or WoW.
Probably as much leveling content as current WoW (or so it feels through level 69). It is much the same gameplay wise as what is available but a worthy choice if graphics or the specific lore weighs high for your personal criteria. I like something a little more hi-fantasy driven and probably won't stick with it much longer. Turns out I like to fight goblins and ogres a bit more than thieves and bears
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2) Polish is vastly improved and less buggy than the current state of World of Warcraft.
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I'm interested in the hardcore pvp server. Something that other games are totally void of.
Should be seeing an announcement in a few days on that.
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I tried it a while back and found it to be generally poor.
0. ~15/mo for a MMO sub is trivial amongst all the other expenses of life. So the whole F2P thing doesn't do much for me. Making a game that is mediocre or that sucks free to play doesn't suddenly make that game suck any less.
1. Clincher was archers firing in melee range. Sorry, this is beyond stupid. When 1-6 mobs are beating on you, how exactly do you draw and fire a bow? You don't.
2. Mobs look like crayola over the pretty landscapes and move benny hill fast to engage in combat (made me think that at one point their combat was too slow and this was the answer, EQ2 did the same thing, and it's brutal to endure). The landscape looks pretty but there are artificial barriers everywhere and that neato looking grass never moves for the breeze, or for you moving (clipping) thru it. I always say don't do realistic graphics unless you can go all the way, because every fault in them stands out in a big way. AoC has a lot of graphical faults in their pretty graphics.
3. The combat is supposed to be very position oriented but the sticky factor and general feel of combat kill position based moves. Combat sucks in general - animations and execution just don't feel natural. And too many abilities. Melees can have too many skills and 3-5 directional attacks such that before level 10 you already can't hotkey everything (without massive extra keybinds).
This is one area where WoW kills competitors. Combat animations and flow "feel" very solid. Rift is up there too but somehow once you shift from solo to groups the combat doesn't feel as fluid to me in Rift.
4. All male toons look like homeless people and all female toons look like amazonian boob godesses. Which I suppose works for the majority of MMORPG players (male with little hope of sexual contact with anything other than their own hand) but it's a little silly. Variety is lacking. Character creation process should start with a "boobs or no boobs" screen and go from there. I guess the novelty of being able to set your boob size (big or bigger) appeals to the basement dwellers that'll otherwise never have any significant contact with boobs.
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The_Korrigan posted:
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2) Polish is vastly improved and less buggy than the current state of World of Warcraft.
Sorry, but:
What's so funny? WoW is buggy as crap nowadays, I wouldn't put it past Age of Conan to have less bugs.
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The_Korrigan posted:
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2) Polish is vastly improved and less buggy than the current state of World of Warcraft.
Sorry, but:
Honestly, laugh but you should try it then. Through level 69 I didn't have any quests I had to skip due to broken mechanics... and since Cataclysm I encountered at least 10. 2 of those 10 ceased advancement in twilight Highlands if I wanted the portal to open up. I stand by the quote and would have laughed myself had I not actually given the game a second run. In it's current state, everything on their servers seems to actually work. Those type of issues are specifically what I refer to by polish... the stuff in game working. Heck, there are quests in BC zones that I think they have just given up on which is understandable given how few are there... but still irritating when you encounter them.
I'm a WoW fanboy, so this isn't a knock on WoW... just a refelction of how much progress Funcom has made in that area the last 2 years.
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I tried it a while back and found it to be generally poor.
0. ~15/mo for a MMO sub is trivial amongst all the other expenses of life. So the whole F2P thing doesn't do much for me. Making a game that is mediocre or that sucks free to play doesn't suddenly make that game suck any less.
1. Clincher was archers firing in melee range. Sorry, this is beyond stupid. When 1-6 mobs are beating on you, how exactly do you draw and fire a bow? You don't.
2. Mobs look like crayola over the pretty landscapes and move benny hill fast to engage in combat (made me think that at one point their combat was too slow and this was the answer, EQ2 did the same thing, and it's brutal to endure). The landscape looks pretty but there are artificial barriers everywhere and that neato looking grass never moves for the breeze, or for you moving (clipping) thru it. I always say don't do realistic graphics unless you can go all the way, because every fault in them stands out in a big way. AoC has a lot of graphical faults in their pretty graphics.
3. The combat is supposed to be very position oriented but the sticky factor and general feel of combat kill position based moves. Combat sucks in general - animations and execution just don't feel natural. And too many abilities. Melees can have too many skills and 3-5 directional attacks such that before level 10 you already can't hotkey everything (without massive extra keybinds).
This is one area where WoW kills competitors. Combat animations and flow "feel" very solid. Rift is up there too but somehow once you shift from solo to groups the combat doesn't feel as fluid to me in Rift.
4. All male toons look like homeless people and all female toons look like amazonian boob godesses. Which I suppose works for the majority of MMORPG players (male with little hope of sexual contact with anything other than their own hand) but it's a little silly. Variety is lacking. Character creation process should start with a "boobs or no boobs" screen and go from there. I guess the novelty of being able to set your boob size (big or bigger) appeals to the basement dwellers that'll otherwise never have any significant contact with boobs.
Seek help.
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They did not redo everything. Someone may try saying that, but it is not true. They added new zones, polished and added to the quests they did have, and made other misc changes (minor) that no longer leave you quest empty.
Some of it is just making things like travel come easier and earlier.
That said, if you absolutely just hated the look and feel of the zones back at release...
you will absolutely hate the look and feel of the zones now.
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I hear they added 50% more boobs to compensate for the lack of voice acting.
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Some men don't like Boobs,that's in it for them?.
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What a waste...
I tried the free to play. Yes, I gave in and I did. And of course, it was as bad as I expected.
1) It's still Funcom programming. Took me 3 tries to get past the patcher into the game without crashing. The 2 first times, the game crashed, and then the patcher downloaded new data. The third time, no download and it worked. Those devs aren't even able to program a patcher properly...
2) One of my characters has now an utterly retarded name full of numbers. Something like "Korrigan397564999" (not the real name, only an example). Now that's a warm welcome back. And of course, no option to change the name.
3) The character is in an inn, so I go out into Tarantia... only to be stuck on the loading screen for half an hour. I ended killing the task.
My computer runs all modern games and MMORPGs without problems. Like someone said, being free doesn't make this less a crap game. Age of Conan was crap in 2008 when released, and is still crap today.
What a waste of a fabulous franchise...
Did someone in this thread say AoC is now less bugged than WoW? Well, I can now confidently call you a liar.
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The_Korrigan posted:
it was as bad as I expected.
That small group of words right there invalidates everything you said after it.
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"Did someone in this thread say AoC is now less bugged than WoW? Well, I can now confidently call you a liar."
Except that anyone can read their forums and see that you alone are pretty much the only person having that issue. Completely unbuggy for me and everyone I met in game when I tried it. On the odd chance that you are telling the truth and not just throwing blind stones... then I apologize.
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Except that anyone can read their forums and see that you alone are pretty much the only person having that issue. Completely unbuggy for me and everyone I met in game when I tried it. On the odd chance that you are telling the truth and not just throwing blind stones... then I apologize.
100% truth. It happened exactly like I said, including the retarded character name.
And fun part is, first thing I've read in general chat once I finally was in is people having technical problems with the game. Another guy was notably talking about exactly the same issues than me with the patcher.
Funcom programming. Crap.
And this is a person who loved and still defends many of the features of Anarchy Online. But stability and bug free code has never been one of the qualities of Funcom.
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hrm..
Well don't know what to tell ya as I tried it pre-free to play, so obviously did all my initial install/patching prior. I have literally never seen the issues you mention in the tech forum there. I'm not saying it is your machine, but outside of server lag from all the free to players hitting the starter zone (they did not open new PvE servers) it was very smooth. All I am saying is that what you detail is apparently very rare... and only bothered replying because of the liar comment.
FYI: The name thing. That happened when they merged servers, and it should prompt you to select a new name as soon as you try to log in with it. Have not heard previously of people not being able to change their name, in fact I am fairly certain that you cannot log in while numbers exist in your character's name.
Big picture, I've only had time for AoC maybe an average of 2 hours each week the past 2 and probably going to drop it as I still need to finish a buttload of console games. So let's avoid any debates that make me seem like a fanboi for a game I am not playing any longer k?
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So what we have here is a typical PEBKAC problem, being blamed on the software.
No surprise.
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I'm sorry Korrigan, but I haven't had a single issue. No patching issues, no loading issues, no freezing issues. The game itself runs just fine.
Beyond that I find it to be kinda generic and pretty much the same as it was before. It is technically solid though.
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I will validate the name thing. My character was Rezzinu982922215 and no option to change the name. Was told in-game to contact a GM. But that is the only bug I ran into.
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Hey how come nobody is mentioning that City of Hero's also went free to play.
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hostagecat posted:
Hey how come nobody is mentioning that City of Hero's also went free to play.
Thanks for letting us know that! I will be a busy man come this fall with all these F2P games, private servers, and xbox.
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Jyiiga posted:
I'm sorry Korrigan, but I haven't had a single issue. No patching issues, no loading issues, no freezing issues. The game itself runs just fine.
Beyond that I find it to be kinda generic and pretty much the same as it was before. It is technically solid though.
Pretty much this. As an original subscriber, I got my account re-opened for a few weeks free a couple of months ago and gave it another shot. I was actually very impressed with the changes they made since release. Game was rock solid stable with no glitches at all. They did add a lot of content post-tortage and I give them credit for it but it was still rather generic.
The one thing that always gets me back to WoW when I get the urge to play MMO's again is the fluidity of combat. I have yet to see any other MMO match it and it really makes a huge difference to me personally. Plus, it is nice being able to get groups whenever you want so WoW's population gives it that edge as well.
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