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I went totally "Harvest Moon" on the farming.  Can you see it now?  Harvest Moon Online? 

To each his own.  Although it was cute overload, I actually had fun with it.  It helps to have a 6 year old niece who thought I was the "bestest auntie in the whole wide world" for getting Hello Kitty Online.  It *can* be a grind if you "work" it like a regular MMOG, but it's a lot of fun to simply run around chatting, showing off your house / farm / cool duds and doing the quests at the same time.

The Hello Kitty Franchise is huge and the tools that Sanrio Digital has provided to grow the community is bonus - Hello Kitty email, video editor (Dream Studio), forums and blogs.  All which can be accessed from the game itself.

Somewhere in internet land, I think, a male gamer reviewed it.  I recall him mentioning he had a hard time finding the least "pink" house to build. 

I was in the same boat as Vandelay.  I didn't know better when I first started playing - back when it first launched.  They've covered that now in the tutorials and hints.    Which is great to know that they are listening to feedback.

Heh.  You didn't think it would be full force impact?  If it were, I would have been writhing on the floor with pain, not writing about how cool it was.  The impact was akin to a firm touch. 

UPDATE:

Some clarification on the later stages of beta where they will be inviting many, many more players to test their game:  http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=51002 in a wide-scale beta

Quoting Shannon Drake - Funcom CM:

Looks like there was a miscommunication/misunderstanding at the show.

We are planning to have an open beta for the game as we get closer to launch, however, it will be through specific partners and require an application/registration process, much like most of the other betas for most other games.

We will be limiting the number of keys we release to a manageable number at any given time, rather than subjecting people to queues and loading screens and so on. By "a manageable number," we mean tens of thousands, not just a handful.

We’re also ramping up some of our tech test betas, and, of course, we’ll be doing key giveaways, inviting forum veterans, and inviting more people to the current, closed stage of beta as we ramp up for launch.

So, yes, there will be a wider-scale open beta, but it will require an application/registration process and won’t be as simple as “press button, get key,” which is what we wanted to say.

They are calling it "open" if that helps.  ;)

{Edit}  Bah, I'm stupid with tags here.  hope the color change helps.

Carolyn "Sylvene" Koh

Originally posted by ocman1

His name was Hernán Cortes not Herman.

Cortés 

*pings Jon to fix the typo*

*ponders the missing accent marks*

*laugh*  I'd say RTFM while patching.  That's one thing I learned early on in gaming - the early PC games of the 80s especially, was to read the manual before you tried playing the game.

Unfortunately, a lot of manuals these days leave something to be desired.  I remember praising the manual that came with an MMORPG that I was reviewing once and got a bunch of "WTF ju talking about the MANUAL  Dude!!????"

Many times also, these manuals aren't on the Dev's website for downloading either, at a time when most MMOGs have downloadable trials.

No, what happened was that the side "shorter" ones were "cropped" top and bottom by the physical height area of the monitors.  There weren't any black bands top and bottom if that's what you are asking.

The thing that is the real issue is how they physically line up height & tilt-wise - some monitors do not have tilt and/or height adjustment.

Monitors with built in speakers will be problematic for wide-screen gaming if the speakers are on the sides, creating 2" or wider bezels.  That's quite a bit game to be missing.

I did.  In one of my setups, I actually used a 22" & 2 x 17" screens because I was testing digital vs analog inputs & the 22" had a dual input, while the 17" were analog.

What happens is that you need to set the "tallest" screen in the center.  The side screens will then crop a little of the top and bottom.

If their heights are all the same, then you don't lose anything.  You see, the resolution you select is fixed and it doesn't matter if it is divided exactly between 3 monitors or not.

*grins*

I didn't take photographs of my test set-ups but I had a whole lotta ugly mis-matched monitor setups.

I've sent email to EA Mythic for clarification, and will let Stradden know once I get a response.  The different RvR types were specifically termed "Scenarios" - Skirmishes, Battlefield Objectives, Instances & City Capture.  The City Capture scenario was carefully explained to me as Instanced Replicas of the cities.

Given that Leipzig was before PAX...  perhaps they decided that the City Capture scenario would be instanced.  *shrugs* It's a game that's still in development.  Things change. 

Originally posted by misiu_dk

About this housing, any one having an idea on how it is going to work 

Well, like they said, they can't have tract housing in the shire.  They aren't saying yet, but I'm going to assume that it will be instanced, and probably accessed through an Inn door or something like that.  :)  Your own room(s) so to speak.

Originally posted by Dedthom

Originally posted by moostown

It's built for the PS3 so wonder how it'll turn out.

So it wont be for PC? This sounds great but, as usual with most MMOs, I hope the hype does not set up a false hope in players.

It will be built for both platforms.

I did get some "hands-on" time, by the way, but I just don't feel comfortable writing about "hands-on" based on something as short as a 5 or 10 minute play time, especially not for a full-fledged mmog such as Conan.

I'd feel better if I had a couple hours play time, try out a couple different classes etc.  Further, all I got to try was the Necromancer which was... a spell caster.  :P

After the beta embargo, we'll have more info for you. 

Originally posted by Dremvek

From the review:

" blue-lit number 1 in a box can be seen through it on the right, and there are two others that never did light up for me. "

A keyboard reviewer that doesn't understand the num-lock identifier? I'd bet the other two would be a letter A in a box for caps lock, and a down arror for scroll lock. That doesn't instill confidence in the rest of the review.

D-uh... how counter-intuitive for the keys to be lit and duplicate tiny lights to be under a decorative piece so far away from the rest of the action - IMHO - but you're right, I totally spaced on those.  Like most reviewers here, I'm a gamer first, a reviewer 2nd.  No excuses I have to improve.

*looks surreptitiously around... note to self*

Next time, don't mention a thing.  People will think ur smrat. 

*nods*

Originally posted by dragonace

Actually this is the third "review" of sorts that been posted on MMORPG.COM

Granted not all of them were official, but 2 of them were.

I don't remember the name of the staff writer who did the first one.  Perhaps someone else will.  It was posted just a few days, perhaps a week after Vanguard launched.  Then an unofficial review by Cymdai was posted in Vanguard forums (as I understand it, Cymdai was supposed to write the original review, but because of real-life issues couldn't finish it).

And now we have this third review.

 

That's correct.  Cymdai could not write the official preview but instead did a very nice in-depth one on the forums based on her experiences in beta.

I wrote the "At First Glance" article which basically describes the experience in the first few hours of a new game.  I had fun my first few days in Vanguard.  Then as it became more and more obvious that the game was indeed in an unfinished state, my guild and I moved on.

I will be curious to experience it again now that SoE has taken over.

Originally posted by Samhael
Sweet - had to dig for the small pictures to see what it actually looked like from a top-down view.

Originally posted by Ugottawantit  also $10.00 cheaper at Amazon.com than on Razer's sight

It's a correction to 1,200.  I just talked to Stradden who heard from Cryptic.

Somone mispoke - I think he meant twelve hundred, not twelve thousand.  OR it could be my English education.  After 25 years in the US, I'm still not used to hearing the colloquail usage in speech - saying "twelve hundred" instead of saying "one thousand two hundred." 

It was repeated several times and I wrote down 12K each time.  :p

Cheers,

I think it will also be a useful tool for parents who don't want people to know how young their kids are, and girls who'd rather not reveal their genders.  :)

I like the idea of sounding like my male dwarf in DDO.  ;)  I don't need complete strangers to know that the person behind my dwarven warrior is a woman.

Hmm... I checked that fee by logging into my Station Account too, since I thought the fee had gone up a month or so back.

Heh.  I just tried it to log into my Station Account and they are "experiencing technical difficulties, please check back again later."  So I can't verify it at this time.  I'll send an email to SoE to find out for sure. 

Originally posted by Hatsumi74
As a side note, the monthly fee for EQ is now $14.99.  They raised it several months ago.  I pay for Station Access or whatever it's called, but I distinctly remember increasing my checkbook entry before I added Vanguard to my list of games.