I gave it a 5, haven't played the retail version yet (don't intend to either), but i was in beta and am still able to login via what is now known as test live, though i never do.

Graphics and sound are a 10, stunning, best part of the game.

Combat is a 6.5, great until the novelty wears off, then it becomes a button mashfest. Fatalities are cool, but again the novelty soon wears off.

Gameplay is a 4, quests are crap, its all too easy everything is marked out for you. Dungeons are pointless, i solo'd through one for 20 minutes, then i realised there was nothing in it but normal mobs and the odd [boss] that was no different to a normal mob, what happened to the days of dungeon crawls, killing nameds and getting uber loots! And how easy is it to level in these new MMO's? People are level 80 already i hear, how gay.

Community is a 4.  I cannot comment about retails but in beta if uou asked a question in general chat you usually get a reply, it was mostly filled with chat about system specs etc in beta but in my experience when i was questing around the Ymrish regions (elite) i hardly ever found other players to group with and it was annoying to say the least. The fact you can solo most of the time anyway doesn't help build a good community.

Overall a 5, i was excited about this game, delighted when i got my beta invite but left feeling unsatisfied. Hence me not buying the retail version. Average game with a few nice features, doesn't do it for me. Guess i will have to hope the next big mmo gets my addiction.

10

Originally posted by Housam

 

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2)eq2 was instanced...didn't see anyone complain

You didn't, but because you were not looking. There was an outcry in EQ2 official forums when it was known.

Too risky to rate a so freshly launched game...Does any remembers wow on launch??? nothing to dowith the wow as it is now...

Anwy for a just now launched game it takes 10 ..for a game that should fit to everyone's taste maybe 6 or 7,but as i said its yoo early to say anything...many things will change in this game and as blizard did i think funcom will hear the suggestions u do /complaints so  try to add serious comments,so the game improves where it lacks.

As for me i miss much from nowdays mmo's the old times classic adventuring spirit dungeon crawling,discoveries and loot in forshaken places,that only a few players may discover.

Originally posted by tazarconan

As for me i miss much from nowdays mmo's the old times classic adventuring spirit dungeon crawling,discoveries and loot in forshaken places,that only a few players may discover.

Oh me too my friend, those were the days.

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Originally posted by altairzq

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Originally posted by Housam

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2)eq2 was instanced...didn't see anyone complain

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You didn't, but because you were not looking. There was an outcry in EQ2 official forums when it was known.

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really :p luckily i was away :p

Gave it a 9. So far, the game is very fun. Obviously the graphics are outstanding and it runs pretty well on high settings for my laptop. I find the combat very fun and refreshing. Finally it's CONAN!!! That in itself makes it great hehe. Didn't give a 10 because I have yet to scratch the surface of the game. Hoping it will only get better from here.

Originally posted by Arskaaa

Overhyped, a lot bugs and very instance based game.

pvp dont work well, skills not work well if tarcet kite run.

Combat was not specil, its just dump in long run and u cant really grinding so nicely.

Originally posted by Enigma

1. severe multiplayer limitations (only 48 people per zone)

2. Bad Community

3. Bad implementation of PvP without rewards and punishments

4. little armor customization

5. smaller than average zones with non functinal backgrounds

6. Some classes are in dire need of repair (taunt is next to useless for tanks)

7. Exploitable system (traders turned off because two days before official release a guild figured out how to dupe money on the system...not a good sign)

8. UI is very poor. Huge icons, clumsy hotbars, small hotbars, huge windows (this has been fixed by 3rd party UI Modders)

9. Chat system is very poor

10. Guild operations very poor. Currently you cannot promote anyone. Its easy to get kicked out of a Guild (there is a chance if you crash, you get kicked from the guild. If this happens to the leader then the guild is screwed since there isnt a promotion system in the guild or an automatic promotion whenever the leader leaves)

11. Starting area restricts you to a very linear approach to questing for the first 25% of your total character progression.

12. Fatalities is flawed. If you are fighting multiple mobs and you do a fatality on the first person, the other mobs will get free swings at you because you are doing a cinematic move.

13. Limited harvest areas for those who harvests things post lvl 20

14. Having to wait until lvl 40 to craft.

15. Siege warfare is flawed when you can only have 48 people in a zone.

I really like the game.  It looks like around 70 % think its better then average, which is good.  It has had a very popular launch, which means more people playing, more opinions to hear.  Even if half of the people don't re-sub, it will still have a huge population.  Time will tell if some peoples gripes will get resolved, but I think most people are happy with the game they got.  I personally love it and plan to continue to play it.  Atmosphere is the key for me, and I really feel the Conan world around me.  Unlike other people, I don't count zones and invisible walls as taking away the atmosphere.  On my rig zones take less then 5 seconds.  Invisible walls?  There are a lot of places in real life that I don't want to step too. 

I doubt there wil ever be an MMO that appeals to everyone.  For every person that says "I hate radars that give away where everything is" there are equal numbers that get truely frustrated looking for things endlessly.

I read these reviews, but more and more I see there is an extreem mentality  with these games that really turns me off.  People that would rather bitch about the last 10 games that have come out then actually PLAY one.  Guarenteed they will complain about the next one too.  On a game forum you would expect that the forum would be full of posts from people that like a game, want to share about it, ask questions etc.  On this lovely forum, if you like a game you are a "Fanboi" and you are slammed flamed and torn down.  It's rediculous and stays the same after every launch of a new game.

I voted 8. my hype for this game was well over the 10. the game lives up to the hype in some aspects such as graphics and combat where it is unstopable. however alot of the content is not yet in the game, it still feels pretty unfinished to me. plus I think we where kind of lied to about the amount of instancing etc.

if you class it as a mmo, its funner than any others. but still pretty awful in certain aspects, this from an ex fanboi.

Gave the game a 6. 

1) graphics are excellent

2) sound is good - very good

3) starting area is a yawn fest, very bad idea by Funcom to make it this way.  Currently in an 80 strong guild and 90% of members hate the place.

4) bugs, bugs and more bugs.  Crashes, broken quests, invisible barriers, vanishing skills, vanishing mobs and players etc. etc. too many to list.

5) Crap community. 

6) Crap customer service approaching SoE standards

7) very linear quest progression

8) no real distinction between so called good & evil characters, even the evil ones are given the good oriented destiny quest line.  Would have been much better with an evil version to follow as well.

9) cookie cutter characters once in game, every member of a class wearing the same stuff and using the same weapons etc.

10) boring combat system once novelty wears off

11) dungeons are bland and relatively small

12) loot tables are pathetic, even boss mob drops in dungeons are very ordinary

13) terrible resource & crafting system

The game as it stands is a bug ridden pile of eye candy to be honest, I'm here posting now because the Khemi zone is borked on Ymir atm with nobody able to leave it.  Before the flames start I have a high-end system and have levelled a guardian to 45 so make of that what you will.

I got over that everything was zoned 5 times more than I expected, and some zones unessarily small. but I hear onl 48 per zone. thats pretty terrible if true, it would be ok except that the devs must have purposly neglected to mention that.

Originally posted by Enigma

1. severe multiplayer limitations (only 48 people per zone)

can you post a link to prove this, i hear all kinds of different things about this.

7/10 is average. But this game is more than average but not perfect. 9 would mean it is very polished but it isn't there...YET. So I have given it an 8/10 for what I have seen so far.

The combat is indeed fluid. When you are partied up you have so much to be aware of it's exciting and keeps me on my toes.
If you're having a bit of a problem with your joints this combat style WILL make your joints hurt. Unless you come prepared with some nifty Logitech peripheral.

What I was begging for...the character animations and the characters themselves are beyond anything I expected. Just plain gorgeous.

The area around Tortage felt pretty big with several places for me to venture off to. I do understand where some people are coming from saying it feels linear. Every area that you could wander off to is tied to some quest (s).

Oh yeah the UI has the same "feel" to it as the game itself. I love it except for some no-no's. Like not being able to target someone in your friends list and whisper them (yeah wtf). Some other functionalities are missing but really nothing game breaking.

People who want the game to fail (why???) are grabbing at straws with the instancing bit. Standing back and looking at it objectively it started to make sense why it's there. The graphics are to blame but so is the way the story is conveyed and in return we have a flexible game here.

I feel like I'm part of a movie and it's all thanks to the terrific voice acting and well made quests. It doesn't feel like a chore to me.

One thing I sure hope they fix is the collision with objects in the world (is it even possible at this stage?). Some people have gotten stuck between objects and sometimes the character animation gets jittery.

people that dont have a computer able to run AOC as is meant to be played...should stfu...because is not aoc problem is them...so i give them a 1 and aoc a 9

As a single player rpg i give it a 10...as a suposed MMORPG ( M for massive, M for multiplayer ) i give it a 5..., no loadings, no instancing and a vanguard world would make this game a good mmo...

early on I would have rated it a 9 but now I'm down to 7 and potentially falling...  7 was generous

I'm running into an increasing number of broken quests, group bugs, npc agro bugs, multiple instances and group tracking, and generally broken stuff as I'm leveling up.  I'm 36 now.  from a bugginess level this game is starting to approach vanguard at release so it's that bad...

Also the harvesting system is really poorly designed with static nodes that are hard to find and once you do people just run around and constantly deplete them.  Harvesting for the 2nd tier is for a rare that drops 1 time in 100 or less?  I've got 119 wood and not one rare.

When I get to crafting my rating my drop even more...

Originally posted by IcoGames

Really, AoC isn't a bad game just kinda 'meh' so far.

/agree

well dramaqueens whatever but I rated this game 4. 1-20 is fun the rest is just normal boring quests which im not very interested in, the game was just way to overhyped... thought it would give a unique experience but it feels worse then WoW actually. they just added som fancy grahpix. BAD