Age of Conan

just wondering when the folks on this site will be completing that review, continuing where the 1-20 left off? what are the reasons for not finishing that review anyways? im sure someone here has had plenty of time to get to 80 now considering alot of folks get there in a few days to a week.

Here is a quick review for level 21-80: "It blows."

Now seriously, the game has a fun starting area, interesting character classes and some good graphics if you have a decent rig and the game likes your setup. It also has a "different" combat system IF you play a melee character. It also.... well that it with the good stuff.

The bad list is unfortunately much longer: the game is basically incomplete, has many bugged core elements, missing content, no PVP system, super mega uber instanced world and a horrible community.

But everything just seems insignificant when you think about the people who are developing this game. Listening to EE talking makes me want to throw up.

Maybe its just me.

Originally posted by skitzdout

just wondering when the folks on this site will be completing that review, continuing where the 1-20 left off? what are the reasons for not finishing that review anyways? im sure someone here has had plenty of time to get to 80 now considering alot of folks get there in a few days to a week.

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/forums/thread/186176

1-80 review

Above is a Cymdai review. I found it to be very kind and accurate for someone playing on the same server. If they were to do a follow up about the server and it's current state, it wouldn't be so kind.

Originally posted by urbanmonkey

Here is a quick review for level 21-80: "It blows."

I laughed, I cried, I nodded at how to the point that review was.

If I had to guess I don't think we'll see one until the PvP update rolls in. 

  I don't think they could review the later game. If anyone at MMORPG is playing, the majority would be negative. MMORPG is professional site and gets huge amount of subcribers with their interviews and advertising. Expect a review the moment we get a clear picture of AOC's immediate future.

   My review here: http://rabblog.com/?p=10#content

  And crazy GM antics here: http://rabblog.com/?p=92#content

  Review for 21-80 is as follows. Shallow, lacklustre, bug ridden and not worth your time. Give it a miss for a couple years until the dev can get their finger out.

Originally posted by gamaray

Originally posted by skitzdout

just wondering when the folks on this site will be completing that review, continuing where the 1-20 left off? what are the reasons for not finishing that review anyways? im sure someone here has had plenty of time to get to 80 now considering alot of folks get there in a few days to a week.

 

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/view/forums/thread/186176

1-80 review

Above is a Cymdai review. I found it to be very kind and accurate for someone playing on the same server. If they were to do a follow up about the server and it's current state, it wouldn't be so kind.

 

i thought that review was well done. could tell he was being honest called it like he saw it. unlike fileplanet reviews lol....

My Review

[EDIT: reposted this as a separate topic for discussion]

Originally posted by Arthousesig

My Review

21-50: There is still enough content and discovery to keep the player busy and questing. The occasional PVP can be either enjoyable if you play one of the easy-killing classes, or frustrating and depressing if you play one of the easily-killed classes. There are some holes in content, but this is a MMO, grinding should be expected.

50-70: Things start getting boring, quests dry up and start to repeat themselves, kill X of this mob, etc. Villas fill in the gaps but you start to wonder why you have to do the same villas 10 times and you start to realse how small and buggy the zones are. The mobs start getting repetitive and the lack of a carrot of any sort starts to get irritating. You're looking towards end-game at 80 and thinking: "all the gear is crap, there's no incentive to PVP and my guild of 100 people is now 3 guys who log in and log off after 10 minutes". You start losing the will to play.

70-80: Painful and boring. The mobs were buffed to the point where pulling 3 of them might kill you. You're still doing villas because of the lack of quests, and keshatta is a gankfest because all the bored level 80s are there ganking everyone in sight out of frustration. The bugs become rampant, the flaws inherent in mob AI and the coding start to show and you start to lose any love for your character class and the gameplay that seemed so fresh and new 40 levels ago.

80: You log in to check the trader to see who's found the latest exploit for epic drops, gems duping or whatever, and log off after 10 boring minutes. You might even have had a grey map or crashed in those 10 minutes. Your tier 2 city is barely progressing because everyone in your guild has basically given up. You do one of the level 80 dungeons but it's a buggy, ugly mess and the loot is crap so there's no reason to go anyway. You try a PVP mini-game