General Discussion

Each month, MMORPG.com brings you a profile of one of the developers working on Funcom's Age of Conan. This month, it's the head honcho himself, Game Director Gaute Godager.

MMORPG.com:

Tell us a little about your childhood. How did school and where you live influence your choice to join the video game community?

Gaute Godager:

I believe it was my brother who was my greatest inspiration to “fall in love” with computers. I guess that sounds a bit silly, but his boundless enthusiasm for the Commodore VIC 20 owned by some neighbors (the “Førde Brothers” (Fred and John) across the road) and his consequently purchase of a spanking new Commodore 64 (omg that was one powerful and wonderful piece of machinery for its days) that really brought me into gaming, demo making and dreaming about even better computers. (He is 1,5 years my elder and has another weird Norwegian name – Tjalve).

My brother and I are still at the same love for hardware, gadgets and tech as back then, now 25 years later. (Im 37). I’m the only one into gaming…

Read the whole thing here.

I was surprised he mentioned Mitch Albom (and like how his name is Wiki linked to that old game instead of maybe to something about him).  An amazing writer whether it is the books Gaute mentioned or covering sports, personalities, and social issues in Detroit or affecting our nation/world.  Great writer definitely worth checking out

Who even gives a crap? AOC failed miserably and I could care less where that guy came from. What ya gonna do guys? Make a 30 foot tall gold statue of him and sacrifice virgins?

Come on guys, cut him some slack. After all, he's just the director. Not like anything he says or does actually affects the game.

Besides, AoC is a beautiful game, filled with pretty bugs and gorgeous incomplete zones. Oh ya, what would we do with a fully implemented PvP system anyway? It's not like we can get to 80 in a week just from the enormous amount of PvE content.

Hmm - I wonder if MMORPG.COM is gonna be deleting this post cause of flaming

This is the first complete content this dev has done ever I guess.... Finish this interview....

Now he can go back to his lies and crappy PR and hope for more money for false promises.

I wonder if he's reading these forums right now...

thanks for the interview Jon!

reported to trollers and flamers here..

"A deep, flexible and massive world is better than anything"

It's a pity that Age of Conan is none of these.

Well, despite my feelings towards AoC, Gaute seems a decent guy. He probably works hard, its not his fault the shareholders got impatient, its not like hes going to personallyadmit how bad AoC really is.

I imagine if AoC released polished and with complete content the community here would be much more positive towards him.

But I cant help but feel annoyed how MMORPG.com failed to ask questions at the heart of the MMO community. He doesnt have to answer, but the questions should atleast be asked.

This game is not a complete product, there are major content defficiencys that start in the middle of the game and continue until the end. Funcom and its employees need to get practical about this problem, communication is key, ignoring the problem is in essence, ignoring your player base and they WILL go away. Indefinately.

Nice interview, but thats all it is, nice, another opportunity wasted though imo.

Having listened to Gaute for more than 5 years, and seeing the results he produces, the man has ZER0 credibility.

"There will be no camping in Shadowlands!" ~Gaute Godager.  i