All Posts by Amblin

Warhammer is better.

AoC will forwever be les than promised.

Warhammer has massive battles....I mean 100+ I know I was there. No lag to speak of (I had none).

Warhammer has no lack of content.

Warhammer has keeps that work.

Warhammer is a team game, Aoc is pretty much a solo experience.

Warhammer has meaningful pvp. i,e it affects you asa player and the game world.

AoC RIP, you were prettier than a thai whore and were just as riddled with bugs.

All I can tell you is that when I shout For the Emporer, For Sigmar! People join in the charge and banter, unlike AoC, even on non rp servers. I has a real tangible backstory beyond Howards books.

I heard Gary Glitter was out of Jail.

1. Gaute Gadger

2. Lack of clear game design .

3. Lack of funds.

no idea, I played last night on my own server found 3 people online around my level.

me thinks it is fury no?

Is it me or does it appear that there are certain individuals are still trying to go door to door on every forum in the land to sing the praises of AoC?

Is anyone else tired of the same tired PR re-rinsed and re-spun?

In all the time since release I have yet to have a stable bug free session. I am still trapped with 2 broken crafting professions after 4 months. No gm help, all they can do is say wait for a patch, when is it coming I ask. Soon.......................

And while I roam aimlessly in the TL server with no direction, my guild in ruins and watching the click tick down on the OB for WAR, I have to ask myself why won't Funcom fess up to the hash they have made.

Moreover why do certain individuals still praise a broken game? Are these people the same in the RL? do they buy cars with 3 wheels and no engine and then push it around the streets showing it off as the latest and greatest pimp mobile?

I am still astounded at the gaming press and Funcom in the continued pr campaign, now focused on DX10 and not on actually delivering new, working content to the game.

When will it end? When will Avery & Co admit openly that the game is borked. There is no coming back for AoC. Too many games are coming out now for AoC to compete. It is already in the bargain bin at my local game store. No one want's it. Hell you can still buy CE editions of the game, which made me laugh.

I wanted AoC to be great, it failed in every way. The worst thing about it all is PvP once implemented has nopurpose. There is no end game period. The players wont be able to create it for themselves as FC hasn't designed any real community/player sandbox tools. WAR will show what real meaningful PvP is about. It won't be the final iteration but it's the first decent leap ina good long while.

Watch this space, WoW will be following on War's heels in this. Expect WoW to change to RvR style in the next year. AoC will still be trying to balance the cost for a horse.

Right time to end this rambling thread, time to see if I can cancel my sub and not suffer the final indignation of being charged after the event.

More BS form the funcom factory of pish IMHO.

I don't give a flying frack about the b'starin' graphics, I do give a toss avbout meaningfull enjoyable PvP. Flowing grass? whoopty do!

How about having a game that actually works for more than 30 mins at a go? Adding DX10 will increase the mem leak issues. Guaranteed. No DX10 enabled MMO on the market that is more reliable in dx10 than in dx9. Given dx9 version of AoCis a blooter of pish, I have to wonder at the idea that virtual wind will cover up the fact that the game stinks.

Jesus wept Avery, how much do you get paid by funcom to be there CR mouthpiece outside the forums?

Exactly when is DX10 a higher priority than a working pvp system???? or a working quest system. or working attributes.....or working trading.......or working crafting..............or working sieges.........the list goes on and on.

DX10 = another disater in the making. It's going to be the virtual equivalent of the Posiden adventure.

Quoting Tin Smalley of Bit Tech:

I haven’t played much of Age of Conan so far, but some of the graphical and physics effects I’ve seen in the DirectX 10 features video make me want to sink a good amount of time into the game.

Says it all, I haven't played much but it looks pretty.

Give me a rusty spoon to slit my wrists with, yet another twat with delusions of grandeur (gaming journo) that thinks graphics = game play.

Fucking good luck to him I say, if he's pissing in the wind with AoC, at least the wanker aint playing on my server in WAR.

Well in 2 weeks we will know.

If we Eu players haven't been able to set up our accounts and d/l the OB client, and the servers aren't up then GOA will have failed.

Just a waiting game now.

Personally, I think if WAR was called WOOFUS and was a flash browser based mmo, we'd be ok in GOA's hands.

Unfortunately it isn't. Fingers crossed.

well once you have turned down the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance to a resonable level, the only place you can get guaranteed beta access is via the CE edition £60, and the only place you can get it is HMV, you will have to walk in to get it.

Toodles! =)

Well thanks to funcom using ZULU time to launch their server, it's 8.17 here in the uk right now, I am left with a dilema, do I sit here goggle eyed at 9pm to see if the server works or do i rip the heed off it while watchini the babestation channel?

j/k i have sky plus, i'll play first obviously rofl

unless you are in the early access program, then you dont get access until the 20th if the forum post by tarib is to be believed.

This however isn't the case right now as I cannot log in.

Secondly be ready for forum wipe on the 20th due to the flame war that will be the new AoC forums if they don't get tge servers up fast!

Oh happy days, I forgot what a fucking pain mmo launches were.

lol well that's odd seeing as the new nvidia drivers have a dx10 setup included.

then theres the actual dx10 files in my AoC folder.......just have to wait until it launches in 15 mins to confirm for absolute sure.

fingers still crossed for aoc to fail, i have a bet on with corals if it comes in i'm quids in.

appears that Funcom consider 5pm gmt to be 6mp gmt or zulu time......

if this baby don't load soon I'll be getting Zulu on their asses I can tell ya!

*Amblin attempts Xena warrior princess war cry!!!! lololololololoololololo hee yah!

servers back up in 35 minutes???/

proof or I call shenannigans!!

problem will lie not just with all the ea folks, but also every other mother trying their luck to get in aswell, denial of service attack for the win rofl.

Tomorrow will decide a lot of things. However Wow killer is an amusing comment to make about another unfinished, hurried to market MMO.

If they can't handle the numbers in the early start over the weekend they won't be able to handle the number of retail accounts (1million???) made on Monday.

This is simply going to go either badly or really well for Funcom.

Given that they don't have enough servers to cover the pre-order access, they say 600000 was the number they had limited too to ensure quality of service. However then said they could, but won't set the cb servers to release to increase the number of players that would be able to gain early access. Reason? game ain't ready.

The game itself is pretty poor when it comes to graphics, play crisis then you know what jungle looks like. No dx10 support, supposedly kept for release but I would doubt this greatly.

No seemless open worlds, loading screens in the same zone when you die (ffa pvp weekend was for some almost entirely spent staring at it) Oh and jumping, that means your uber muscular warrior cant jump over anything taller than a house cat? Icannot tell you how many time I went o do a vult over a rail only to find myself unable to jump over. We players have been spoiled by GoW, GTA4 and the like. Movement in AoC is pretty restrictive in the stupidest of places. Climbing is a skill for pre-paced ladders and vines. You won't free climbing cliffs or climing mountains to speak to the wise man at the top, oh no! you have to take the preset motorway carved into the landscape. Happy Happy joy joy.

Then you have the release. The original single player portion of the game has a multiplayer element patched onto it. Poorly. And why? I played it throught single player and would prefer it that way, it makes learing the game simpler and attunes you to the controls. Multiplayer does nothing to enhance the game, except all you to party up or pvp with other players early on.

Mind you then again, AoC have gone down the path of trying to make interaction with npcs akin to bioware's method in Mass effect with diaglogue options. Pointless dialogue options that only require you to hold down the 1 key. There's not charm, intimidate, no decent camera angles and when you face the npc, you'll see they appear to a broom shoved up their arse as thet cannot tilt their faces towards you. Clearly seen when you stand above or below them.

Then you have voice acting......I want to be deaf after listening to the drivel. Piss poor voice direction, Goes from boastful rage to dull monotonous dialogue....I you go for voice dialoge in an rpg do it right. A scottish accent doen't make for an instantly believable Cimmerian.

If you were to judge the game on the 2 halves of the game, single players intro lvl1-20 you would imagine most reviewers wouldn't be giving this more than a 4. The multiplayer has yet to be played in full so review is pending.

After release more info will come out, particualrly about PVP and the combat system.

Both are not good. the combat system is over complicated and a mish mash of true free control and hotkeys. hotkeys should be removed and it should be either entirely keystrokes for combos or all hotkeys, the current setup is ridiculous. G15 keyboard users for the win (macros). They have a shiled system that you can change, but honestly, how you are supposed to be able to fast switch it when the samey are bound for your attacks is anyone's guess. Again G15 to the rescue. PvP is the same as wow with the exception of sieges but the later has not been open beta tested, so still remains a mystery but we know the claims of 300 playersfacing off is a pipe dream right now, more like 48 v 48.

So will this game be a wowkiller? no. never gonna happen.

Will this game make money? yes.

Is it overhyped? oh yes.

What no one who make satatemnts like this will be a wow killer gets is wow is like the simpsons, it's almost part of the zietgiest. it's been around for a long time, it is accessable and is bright and is actually fun to play. However it has been around for 4 years, so players do get jaded and move on. AoC is the new Family guy for mature audiences, you'll hate it now, love it later then move on when the New Jetson's comes along.

Wow will never die per se, it will lose subs over time due to a lack of end game content. Indeed all mmo's will suffer the same fate in time. Peoples likes change amsd we all move on to different games. AoC promised so much but has so far been lacking in coming up with the goods. Time will tell if the folks at funcom have what it take to make this a decent mmo. fingers crossed but I have WAR on pre-order just incase.

i got mine last thursday night

game.co.uk ftw (finally after a lot of badgering)

truth is in this weekend finale, taditional non pvpers are becoming hardcore though natural evolution by sheer necessity

Tesso is a case in point, a small town that is almost permanently spawn camped. If you're lucky and have a good fast machine you can usually escape unscathed, otherwise you start mashing the hot keys as soon as it loads.

Real harcore pvp'er are around, not many mind, but they are the most organised.

PS conquerors can own rogues 1 on 1 but it's currently a 2-1 situation 90% of the time. Bear shamans are hard as nails damn them.

Toodles.

haha i lied, the dl was 12.6 the dispace is infact  23.4 GB (25,194,995,073 bytes) haha!