Age of Conan

I held my opinion for long enough, but as much as I like and respect FC for AO, this has to be said.

This game is flamed a lot, that much is clear, but people misunderstand the reason of this phenomena. It's not because it's a different game, it's because it's different in the irrelevant parts, and even then different often negatively.

There are good parts, noone doubts that. Atmosphere, graphics (world architecture), soundtrack and sound are all the best of the current crop of games. When you play, you're really in the Conan universe. In short: the art is great.

But the gameplay is lacking in several ways. I could sum up combat fairly easily: WoW +4 buttons (and I loathe WoW). At first it was new, but the freshness disappeared too fast. It lasted until lvl 50 on my first character back in Cbeta. The reason? Lack of tactical choices. Yes, people like tactical choices, and all conan had to offer was firing abilities in succession. Sure, you occasionally had to manage the shield of an enemy, but once you had him/her set up, you just had to fire up your routine. Same with multiple mobs, just position them in your arc, then unload your routine. Needless to say, casters were the same as in any other generic MMO, only with even less spells at top level, if possible.

The main point of my post is: people claim the game is different, but it's NOT! It's more of the same, and unpolished at that. That's the reason it's being flamed, because if it's the same, people expect it to be clean.

Sure, in a few months bugs will be gone, armor sets added, but even then! the game will be a failure to me, because of tha bad core design choices.

tired... of all these posts, ain't almost ALL mmorpg's the same when it comes to combat? Wow didn't bring anything we havn't seen before.

Combat tutorial video:

files.filefront.com/Mephs+Ragni+Entourage+lavi/;10700925;/fileinfo.html

All Fantasy based MMOs are about the same, WoW, VG, EQ2,  D&D are the ones i have played, all have auto attack and combat is the same. Structure of the games are also more or less the same as well, questing grouping etc.

People tend to find the game they like, at any one time and play that.

PS: AoC is intorducing a different style of PvP with seiges etc.

WOTLK will do the same for WoW i think.

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Originally posted by VultureSkull
All Fantasy based MMOs are about the same, WoW, VG, EQ2,  D&D are the ones i have played, all have auto attack and combat is the same. Structure of the games are also more or less the same as well, questing grouping etc.
People tend to find the game they like, at any one time and play that.
PS: AoC is intorducing a different style of PvP with seiges etc.
WOTLK will do the same for WoW i think.

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p.s. AOC pvp is nothing new. It's all been done in DAOC, SB, and L2.

"PS: AoC is intorducing a different style of PvP with seiges etc."

DAOC did this about 6 years ago, and continue to do this.

Originally posted by daelnor

 

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Originally posted by VultureSkull
All Fantasy based MMOs are about the same, WoW, VG, EQ2,  D&D are the ones i have played, all have auto attack and combat is the same. Structure of the games are also more or less the same as well, questing grouping etc.
People tend to find the game they like, at any one time and play that.
PS: AoC is intorducing a different style of PvP with seiges etc.
WOTLK will do the same for WoW i think.

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p.s. AOC pvp is nothing new. It's all been done in DAOC, SB, and L2.

And L2 sieges were a lot more massive.  With actual rewards for winning and penalties for dying.  L2 also looked amazing for its time (4 year mark is coming up right?)... heck it still looks nice.  why can't AOC sieges be as big as L2 ones... with only L2-level lag?

No, sorry, not all MMO combat is the same. Some MMOs need tactics in order to be successful, sadly, AoC is not one of those MMOs.

Yea Conan is the same as every other game right? You still do the push the buttons on the keyboard to interact with what you see on the screen right?

Conan and warcraft are in the same Genre of gaming, the mmorpg,  therefore they will have similarities. Wow glad we got that cleared up. I guess we all learned something huh?

Stop being cynical for a moment, and consider the context I posted the OP in.

People were blaming the originality and differentness of AoC for the flaming and bad reputation of the game. I just wanted to point out, that there is nothing new or next gen about this game.

The only way we can finally leave WoW in the dust is by creating complex RPGs again, not this rubbish.