Age of Conan

Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

Originally posted by Electriceye

 

...-The game opens up after lvl20. Did you know that? that would make it non-linear, much bigger zones --> less loading screens etc.

And finally: I wish Darkfall was coming out soon but it ain't, sorry.

 

Past level 20 = the same number of loading screens sorry.

 

BUT much more Lag and Frames per second drops yes...

Think think think how could that be :))))

Shoo, under your bridge!

Originally posted by Electriceye

 

Originally posted by dirtknap69

 

Originally posted by WiccanCircle 

Fantastic job FunCom.  Be proud of your skills devs.  You have made THE next leap forward in MMOs.  Everything from this point forward will have a higher bar to leap over.  Many games currently in developement are in trouble.  They will hit the shelves looking, playing and feeling old and outdated like WoW is now.

 

It's WOW with better graphics.

 

Disappointing :(

 

This line alone lost you all your credibility.

 

 

Though I would ask YOU some questions seeing as most the points you stated have already been THOROUGHLY talked about:

- Did you read properly his post? what you understood from it is that "next-gen = better graphics"?

-Do you know what "real-time" means? Doesn't seem like it.

-The game opens up after lvl20. Did you know that? that would make it non-linear, much bigger zones --> less loading screens etc.

And finally: I wish Darkfall was coming out soon but it ain't, sorry.

 

Sorry you don't like my negative assessment of the game but my point stands -- what do YOU think is genuinely new or innovative about this game? I haven't found anything yet. sure it's early days yet but already i don't like what i see, which is definitely a bad sign.

better graphics and the combo combat system does NOT equate to next-gen game.

real-time means when i swing, my character swings immediately, and the swing can be blocked, evaded, etc -- NOT i hit a combo and my char executes it 1.5 secs later. the combat is am improvement over auto-attack but it's still too static for me.

finally: darkfall devs are reporting DF comes out this year. until then, unless AoC gets better, i'll keep playing TF2.

OP, I envy the hell out of your system.  Good review too, I agree with at least 90% of what you wrote so cheers

Good review, but naive...AoC is far from being 'THE next leap forward in MMOs', unless you are strictly talking about the graphics. It's a cool game, sure, but I experienced nothing innovative at all, including the combat system. You also neglected to mention any bad aspects about the game, which there are plenty.

I assume you just don't have much experience with other MMOs, and WoW doesn't arm you with good experience in my opinion, so I can see why this game shines for you.

Anyway, it's still a good review, just wish you would have balanced the good with the bad and not blinded by the awesome graphics. Your character name gripe hardly qualifies as a major bad thing...

I hope you post a new review once the novelty wears off though :)

One thing I didn't quite understand, is your point about EQ having a negative effect on post-EQ MMOs?

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

Sounds - I was unsure what the Voice 1, Voice 2, Voice 3... options were so I tried a different one on each of five characters... I found that the voice-overs were too soft to hear?  Not sure if I have set something up wrong, but the ambient sounds were very well done.  (Though I had to stop playing the Necromancer because of the squeeling pig noise of her major DOT spell)

Just a suggestion.  All I did was uninstall my sound drivers, restart, then let my vista 64 system find and install it's own HD sound drivers.

Cheers!

Originally posted by adamch29

 

Originally posted by WiccanCircle

Sounds - I was unsure what the Voice 1, Voice 2, Voice 3... options were so I tried a different one on each of five characters... I found that the voice-overs were too soft to hear?  Not sure if I have set something up wrong, but the ambient sounds were very well done.  (Though I had to stop playing the Necromancer because of the squeeling pig noise of her major DOT spell)

Hey, just wanted to comment that when I was in beta last week, I had problems with surround sounds.  I had to uninstall my current driver and go with a generic HD sound driver.  It works great now, and sounds awsome.  For some reason the Realtek drivers that came with my motherboard were not functioning properly.

 

Just a suggestion.  All I did was uninstall my sound drivers, restart, then let my vista 64 system find and install it's own HD sound drivers.

Cheers!

Also about sound though... the SCORE is pretty damn nice.

Originally posted by Zorndorf

LOADING screens

LOADING screens

LOADING screens

in a MUCH too small world (how many zones ?) 4 to 5.

Originally posted by Zorndorf

Originally posted by Electriceye

 

...-The game opens up after lvl20. Did you know that? that would make it non-linear, much bigger zones --> less loading screens etc.

And finally: I wish Darkfall was coming out soon but it ain't, sorry.

 

Past level 20 = the same number of loading screens sorry.

BUT much more Lag and Frames per second drops yes...

Think think think how could that be :))))

I'm sorry, you really don't seem like you played the game, you seem like a   Troll   trying to bash the game for what he HEARD.

You seem more like if you are reffering to the Fileplanet open beta :o

Not much people got past lvl 20 yet in the EA, so...your post is obviously BS.

Originally posted by Darkjinxter

Nice impressions.
You'll be hard pushed to find any of RE Howard's Hyborian characters with surnames by the way. I can't recall a single one. I doubt they are allowing it, but Funcom should be letting players use the dash - to create names such as Thoth-Amon, Amon-Ra, Big-Titz etc.

Wait, not Big-Titz obviously.

There are many characters in the original works of REH with surnames. Admittedly the majority don't have surnames, but they are there for sure.

Nice preview Wiccancircle ! It's a pleasure to read a Good Op post. I can't believe the improvement that have been made since pvp weekend I'm hoping they will improve it even further before release on the 20th, but regardless I hope to see you in game and have fun this weekend !