All Posts by solareus

The Launch dates themselves are proof that they having a tough time optimizing the game graphically, anyone can make a great looking movie on a lan setup and post it on GT videos, but once I saw the video from GDC on xplay , it was kind of a wake up call that Funcom will have a luanch simalar to Anarchy online.

I picked AoC to be the dominate mmo in that one thread back in 2006, so if the game does take a dive, then for once I will be wrong. I wish Funcom all the success they deserve.

I can see the graphics failing the game as well, specially with the large array of new hardware coming as well the quad ATI / AMD spider systems coming don in price, that the graphics won't be full optimized, in the sense of driver  efficient tweaks.  The thing that I noticed about the game world right away is the dependacy on Dx10 to make it look as good as it does, I think that is going to break the game with users running xop not getting the same level of detail in shaders as with dx10.

Way to much focus on dx10 , and that is going to kill this game.

Landscape draw distance , as well as some featuresin beta where limited . I've not read anyone on the official forums having this issue. Hope you find a game that suites your draw distance needs ...

I actually found Vanguards combat a lot more simpler the LotrO. With VG combat there was pretty much 1 or 2 skills you repeatly mashed over and over agian, I got all the way to lvl 20 in VG just by mashing the same skill.

THink LotRO did a extremly nice job in making the skills work fluidly together, instead of the same old button mashing. With LotrO you can't button mash , I tested this several times and if you try to button basg you character will wait for the next skill, leaving you in kind of standing there. The system works fluidly when you go from one skill to the next and if you hit a skill not yet triggered by another skill your character will again just pause waiting for the next skill .

VG didn't have that and VG was very inferiorer when it comes to the skill usage as well as the fellowship skills.

Crafting in VG is boring, time sink as well, that leaves most people not very interested in doing it, with LotRO it is simple , fun and you feel like you have accomplished something by crafting things usable right away.

In the aspect of skill and Crafting , LotrO is perfect for me.

Think if you look at the people playing VG , they want to live inside of a game world and have it take up there life, for the people playing LotRO , we just want to play a fun game to enhance our entertainment time of our life.

Imagine you never seen any of the AoC online videos , and all you had to go by was the G4tv Segment..,, And a great point was brought up, this demo was in an area that seemed to be secluded to only the demo , with no other public in the area, the only thing I can think is if they where playing the game on the same machine hosting the server ? or peer to peer like GW ?.?

Originally posted by solareus

www.g4tv.com/xplay/previews/20366/Hands_On_Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures.html

time stamp is 3:11-3:17 is the skating. also the even  in the video above, there was the same lag as on the tv  segment and look at the rep look over and get a little perplexed at something .... he knew , and I'm sure someone at Funcom is getting spank bottom .

 

Also it looked like adam sessler was trying to take  the horse over the edge, to no avail. BE what they may  "seem" Adam and Morgan are pretty good when it comes to there "own" opinions outside of "xplay", as for the actual  "writers" of xplay who arent Morgan and Adam, they suck.

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This is amazing how now that AoC is on the chomping block , the game has no flaws....

The g4tv spot was a disaster. Thousand of xbox360 players where watching that, which is what Funcom is really trying to hit with show casing a game on the  TV.

www.g4tv.com/xplay/previews/20366/Hands_On_Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures.html

time stamp is 3:11-3:17 is the skating. also the even  in the video above, there was the same lag as on the tv  segment and look at the rep look over and get a little perplexed at something .... he knew , and I'm sure someone at Funcom is getting spank bottom .

Also it looked like adam sessler was trying to take  the horse over the edge, to no avail. BE what they may  "seem" Adam and Morgan are pretty good when it comes to there "own" opinions outside of "xplay", as for the actual  "writers" of xplay who arent Morgan and Adam, they suck.

the horse on the left of the screen skated  past the player. How can you miss that , or do you want to pretend it didn't happen,,,,, We know it is beta dude. So was VG , even on release ...

Originally posted by summitus

Originally posted by solareus

Originally posted by summitus

Originally posted by solareus

THey just showed AoC from gdc and i got to say, the footage was pretty bad is in , not good. The mounts where very jerky and the animations looks pretty VG'ish ,,,, what is up with that ?????

Please  tell us you were only joking and you're not a Troll eh ?

Im a pretty big fan of Funcom, they are a great team, but somehow G4tv was able to make the animations look as bad as VG :/ ,

Are you sure you've got a decent internet connection ? The Video seemed fine to me and everyone else it seems, so I hope you understand why people might think you're wrong,,

It was on my TV , on the TV show Xplay with there GDC covervage broadcasted on G4TV.  The TV show was on my TELEVISION  , my TV doesn't Lag.

Originally posted by summitus

Originally posted by solareus

THey just showed AoC from gdc and i got to say, the footage was pretty bad is in , not good. The mounts where very jerky and the animations looks pretty VG'ish ,,,, what is up with that ?????

Please  tell us you were only joking and you're not a Troll eh ?

Im a pretty big fan of Funcom, they are a great team, but somehow G4tv was able to make the animations look as bad as VG :/ ,

I was waiting for that rep to bust out in a big sweat ball when the horse skated past the person controlling the main horse....

Originally posted by Balkin31

Now that was an opinion I can grasp...your original statement was not as good as this one..

 

Yes G4's program XPlay does a pretty bad job..they ask terrible questions and do a poor job giving the facts...I Tvo this everyday and or watch it at late night replays and they kinda suck as game reporters IMO...

But your beat down of AOC mounts is still off..even if based on the Xplay video.

see how the TV just made me uninformed ? Do you guys get my thread yet ???

Originally posted by Balkin31

Because those videos are from the same show on the same day simply displayed for a different gameing program...

My point is why slam the game over one viewing do some research or go possibly look at other videos from the same day and make an honest statment of what the game is..We are saying your being a little one dimentional here...expand your mind..

And to be honest I simply did not see what you saw...The presentaion on G4 was fine, G4 does not really do a very good job in interviews anyway so maybe thats what your feeling..who knows..

 

 

 

My thought is , a lot people watch G4tv, Developers get a chance to showcase the product, AoC , and it was a shame that the the showing of AoC was basically a disaster.

The topic is THe G4tv Xplay Segment. The segments had Skatings, lag, and chunky game play as there demo. The information that was shown to viewers over the CABLE TV channel g4tv has nothing to do with any other ONLINE video fo this game.

THe Discussion is G4tv xplay , trainwreck segment of AoC. Why do the fans insist on directing me to this video or that video, I seen the videos  online, they look fantastic, that does not dismiss the trainwrecked performance of the G4TV Xplay segment that people who watch tv saw... Stay on topic please

Been watching the game for over 3 years now , been signed up to the beta for as long, been an avid supporter of where the game is marketed for and the content explicitness of it.

None of that changes the poor showcase on G4tv, which has millions of views watching it .... Laggy game play. No mounting animation, dummy models, horse that skated on the screen, jerky mount movement and a representative who you could barely understand. It was a complete train wreck.

Think almost anyone who has ever played an mmo , at dev events in a game, they can spawn any thing at anytime in any position. I.E. Funcom spawned dummies ? that makes very little sense to me... Think outside of the instanced content, as of the current build would be laggy, from what I saw you will most likey get the date pushed back to quarter 3 or even 2009.

Yes , I listened, and what I heard was, our game is so unstable, we couldnt spawn moving mobs to fight because the game will lag horribly ? What developer , ever spawns "dummy mobs" for a showcase ?

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Whatever Doom sayers!

Here is the link to the G4 stuff: http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/videos/20366/Hands_On_Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures.html?videoCategory_key=8

Its very low quality podcast, so imo the GT versions are better.

What I watched was on Xplay TV show , on my tv .....

As the player passed another player, they other player horse skated across the screen. Also when the Giant mammoth mount was leaving the city , the horse stopped and made sure that they didnt show the mammoth rider clipping through the ceiling, I found the entire segment on G4tv xplay pretty bad.

I am glad I saw the game in real time on a tv show then watching the "online" footage, cause it puts into perspective why the game is constantly being pushed back.

The lag was there as well, it was not fluid, so I sont know how they where show casin the game on a lan , or off the beta server, but It was not impressive.

I hate so say it , but the Agency looked playable more so then the AoC showing :(