Hey guys, i wanted to play a bear shaman but after reading up on them it seems they will be good DPS which makes me think they wont have the best healing abillities. I want to Main heal when i get into the game and i dont think Bear shaman will be able to do so. If hope i am wrong about this cause i wanted to play bear shaman badly.. how does it compare to ToS and PoM?

so i was wondering how if anyone knows how equal the healers abilities will be. It seems to me that the priest will be the best followed by tempest then shaman but thats just me making a generalization based on the name. haha anyone got some legitimate information on the topic?

hey guys... i am about to buy my 20 plat mount.. and i was just wondering if anyone knows more about the rhinos in the upcoming expansion.. like. the speed boosts.. screenshots..  what they look like.. any other bonuses, would hate to spend the money then regret it. thanks!

I could care less about the delay. It gives us more time to update our PCs for the game, and it gives funcom more time to make the ultimate wow killer. All i want to see is the game that i love and have followed for so long to over come and dominate all opponents. so to funcom; take your time, make the best game you can

this post is the stupidest post i have ever seen... how many games have you seen with item decay.... ok now... how many games are exactly like wow... acording to your retarded analysis of aoc. any game that does not have item decay is automatically a wow clone. how many games before wow had item decay? you are retarded. OMFG AoC is a MMORPG... they are copying WOW... OMFG AoC has end game... wtf they are copying wow.. WTF.!!!!! grr it makes me mad... sorry .. im angry

and why are you stuck with a single core?

ha yea im getting the quad core..

yea ur right... its my first system ill be buying and puting to gether myself and i spent my whole summer working to get this so im really hesitant

so theres rumors about the Nivida G92... i hate this.. because i was soo close to buying my system with my 8800 gtx.. like a day away from buying it.. i was soo excited then i hear that there will be a new card coming out almost 3 times more powerful than the 8800 ultra and consumes less power... and the worst part is its a rumor.. so if i believe it and not buy my system and wait for 5 months then theres a chance it might not even happen and i would have waited for nothing.. but on the other hand.. if it is true and i buy my system now then ill be pissed because i could have gotten such a better card for about the same price...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-039-s-G92-Joins-the-1-Teraflops-Club-55548.shtml

this is just one article i have found many if you search Nvidia G92 in google..

what do you guys think i should do and about the rumors..

Dabble.. ur a foolish f***er.

Go AoC funcom rules.!!! down with WAR!!! WOOOOO cheerleaders united!

im not too big on laptop hardware but AoC is working with Microsoft and Nvidia with this game. it will be a showcase game for both companies. AoC will be the first game to use vista fully to its extent and to use the dx10s and SLI to its full extent. so my guess is that it will run good in vista and SLI.  Microsoft and Nvidia wouldnt be investing so much into it if it didnt run well on both.. why would they put their lable on a game that plays shit with their products.

WoW and eq2 and all those games were made before SLI was really big. therefor designed the game to be used with just one Graphics card.

if its not the same as oblivion they funcom is a a lieing bag of poop... maybe the dx9 version of the game will be the same as oblivion.. maybe the dx10 is higher requirements.

I would rather not show anyone anything then show everyone everything so they know what to expect. i would want to surprise them so they are curious and dont know what to expect so they try the game for themselves. instead of watching videos and determining from that if the game is good or not. How can you say a game sucks if you havnt played it. Or... havnt seen much media on it to make a good judgment.. jesus...

too good to be true.

i found this interview where it shows clips of the game being played in dx10.. i have seen the interview before but all the clips i have seen wernt good quality but this one does dx10 some justice.. i wonder if dx10 looks better

http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clip-age-of-conan-dx10-228725.php

not sure if you all have seen this yet... but enjoy!

haha i hear ya

hehe nothing wrong with that Imo.. i wont need to upgrade for a while giving me time to save up more for better items once they come.  and plus.. ive worked all summer for this computer and i want to over kill it.. to justify my efforts (i work construction and in process of working i have hit myself with my hammer in the head pretty hard, and nailed my hand with a nail gun, and rolled over our Bobcat/skidster what ever you want to call it.. this computer will make me feel better about all this hehe)

i think the fact that they are only hinting at cool stuff and not showing what they have done is to raise interest in players making them have to buy the game before they can see what it really is like. I often judge a game by what it looks like in beta..I know its not supposed to look good but it still turns me away from a game if i see it in its indecency. The less i see of whats going on the more i wanna find out what its like and so i am urged to buy the game.

might be what they are thinking.. idk.

yea i figured what im gonna do, get the 680i SLI mobo, with a quadcore (the price has gone way down) and i was gonna get 2 8800 GTS but i decided that one 8800GTX and a good cpu would be better. and eventually ill get the second GTX to do the SLI.. with 3 gigs of ram and some good cooling, ill be ready for anything

Originally posted by Precusor

Originally posted by JonnyNoNo

Ive read an article saying that many people dislike the game because it is rated M and includes gore, bad language, naked women... some men too..  but for some reason they are turned off by this.. people like the Medieval-fantasy games but when one comes that truly portrays a mid evil setting with male dominancy and the real violence ... they dont like it.  i could see why women may not enjoy it as much as men but from my prospective it should give them more of a motive to role a female character and prove that women can kick some male ass anyday... just my opinion.

Could you post that article please.

Looking Past the "M"

Posted July 4th, 2007 by Micajah

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Looking Past the “M”

By Cody “Micajah” Bye

July 9, 2007 - The individuals that read the information located here at Ten Ton Hammer are typically adults. They read the intellectually stimulating material that the Ten Ton Hammer Network staff provides, and in turn respond with equally energetic and well-spoken comments. By reading through the forums, you’ll find many more thought provoking posts than you might on, let’s say, the WoW official message boards. With that in mind, I would like to present you with my editorial on “Looking Past the ‘M’”, which takes a hard look at why we – as adults – should ignore the letter “M” that’s going to be undoubtedly branded on the front of the Age of Conan box..

Age of Conan will feature realitically violent scenes.

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, which is being developed by Funcom, has always been caught in the stigma of the “M”, or, in other words, the mature rating that the developers have been striving for from the beginning of their development cycle. Staying true to Robert E. Howard’s Conan lore has always been at the forefront of Funcom’s mind, which means risqué situations, foul language, and a just a smidgen of gory violence. Thus, the developers at Funcom pushed hard to reach the boundaries of the “M” rating, doing as much as the ESRB would let them get away with. In our interview with Jorgen at GDC, he even made mention that they would alter the game to be as explicit as possible to fit the limitations of whatever geographic area that they happen to be in.

Since the mature rating – or the mention of mature gameplay – was hit upon so early and often in the initial development of the game, it seems like many individuals have gotten caught up in the fact that the game is going to be rated “M”. Instead of looking at Age of Conan as a game with a refreshingly new combat system, the potential for tremendous PvP, or a title with a tremendous license backing it, all gamers talk about is how much violence will be in the game. Everyone seems to be caught up in this “whirlwind of blood”, as if that feature along will make or break the game.

Whenever I talk to my *adult* friends about Age of Conan, they’ll smile and nod as I rant and rave about the game, yet when I finish they simple say, “I don’t know, the game just doesn’t look like my cup of tea. I’m not into the whole massacring the village and raping the women sort of thing.” Each time I hear that response, I’m taken a bit aback.

Some people are turning away from Conan...not because its a bad game but because they can't see past the violence.

“Why do you think the games all about violence and adult content?” I ask. “There’s so much more that you’re not seeing, like the amazing quest system or the advanced AI programming they’ve implemented into the game! Are you seriously going to get caught up in the outer façade and not look at the quality of game underneath?”

And in many cases, it seems to be that way. Although this latest batch of previews didn’t harp on the “visceral nature” or “scantily clad women” as much , many of the previews did go into large diatribes about the fatality system and how every so often you’ll kill an opponent with a vicious fatality-type move. Even Jeff Woleslagle was guilty of overtly discussing the “rotting corpses” and “scantily clad women” in his preview, but he made up for it with this comment concerning the games artwork:

“One aspect of Age of Conan that I feel gets lost in the ecstatic descriptions of gore and maiming is raw beauty of the setting, character models, and animations. The palette is earthy and expertly chosen, and the art direction is neither strictly photo-realistic or caricatured, setting the tone squarely on dystopian and dangerous, yet strangely familiar and non-jarring enough that long periods of playtime wouldn't become visually wearisome.”

If you look throughout the ‘net, there are numerous examples of reporters discussing the overt violence and gore in Age of Conan. It’s littered all across the Internet. I’ve even written about the impact mature MMOGs will have on the video game industry . And this inherent violence will probably cause some gamers to think twice before purchasing Age of Conan.  

However, the pending mature rating has very little to do with the game itself. It is true that having a mature rating will allow the developers to include more gore, flesh, and language than is acceptable in games rated “Teen”, but how will this affect the way the actual game is played?

Is Age of Conan worse than any network TV show with a TV-14 rating?

In reality, if you look past the blood and the gore and the variety of new gameplay systems, Age of Conan is merely a unique venture into the fantasy MMORPG marketplace. Yes, they have a strong license in Conan. Yes, they have done right in staying close to the material presented in the Robert E. Howard stories. But is what you see on screen that much different than what exists in standard MMOGs today? When you log into the World of Warcraft, you know that you’re going to be killing monsters, beasts, and even humanoids. There may not be a lot of blood, but you know what you’re doing. It’s not “defeating” monsters. It’s killing them.

Or even in modern media? When you turn on your TV at night, what shows are spattered across the airwaves? On any given evening, you might find CSI, Law & Order, or any other low enforcement show on your local television stations. All of these shows often feature sex, violence, and desiccated corpses, but you’ll almost never see them with a rating over TV14. Yet when it comes to violence and sex in Age of Conan, people turn squeamish.

Violence aside, I believe Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures should receive appropriate amounts of attention when it is released to the public. If you’re an adult gamer, I urge you to look past the violence and sex to see what sort of gameplay Age of Conan actually promises. You may find that your initial assumption about the game was wrong.