Age of Conan MMO

**Ghostsuit** · 21st January 2008, 4:43am

Funcom and Eidos are proud to reveal that a new website for Age of Conan has launched. Conveniently located at www.ageofconan.com, the site gives both new and existing fans an look at the Age of Conan universe. Filled with several new videos, a selection of some of the best screenshots from the game, popular links and much more.

Moldiver · 24th May 2008, 9:04pm

Bought this today, lets hope it's good.

adrenalize · 24th May 2008, 9:07pm

Definatly a more Grown up MMO the WoW, Im going to let it mature a little bit and let them get any of the initial bugs out of the way before I start playing it tho

`Annihilator · 24th May 2008, 9:16pm

Looks as if it could be really good, but there is no way my PC will be able to handle it. 30gb alone for the install!

*Charlie Parker* · 25th May 2008, 8:33am

Robert E Howard rolls in his grave

**Ghostsuit** · 25th May 2008, 3:11pm

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Originally Posted by Charlie Parker

Robert E Howard rolls in his grave

Have you played the game or is this just a utterly pointless comment since you don't know how true to his concept they have or havn't been?

I'm still trying to get my copy working because my KEY seems to be invalid. Fuckers!!! Played the Beta though and it's an interesting take, lot of blood some nice combat ideas but the classes are pretty unbias at the moment.

MarkMono · 25th May 2008, 3:16pm

Given that he's absolutely correct, you're only really asking him whether he's right accidentally or on purpose.

Don't really fancy this, was never into WoW and this just looks like a clone that they've stamped CONAN on.

sjonit · 25th May 2008, 3:26pm

looks nothing like wow apart from minimap and the chat frames, more a beefed up version of guild wars.

I would like to play it too for a while.

FFS 30gb? thats shite, gonna need to delete a lot of pRon.

wots the subscription for thios? 8.99?

**Ghostsuit** · 25th May 2008, 4:46pm

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

Given that he's absolutely correct, you're only really asking him whether he's right accidentally or on purpose.

He's absolutely wrong. Dead people do not roll.

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Originally Posted by MarkMono

Don't really fancy this, was never into WoW and this just looks like a clone that they've stamped CONAN on.

Unfortunately most MMO's have a lot in common with WoW and it's hard to break that image then again alot of people want to keep things familiar so it's easy to move over from WoW. Theres certainly some nice ideas in this one while still keeping many of the elements that have made WoW such a success, wither they or the story/enviroment are good enough to carry this game though is the real questions. They do obviously have alot of back story material to work with much like LOTR:O had so there might be hope for this, then again the 1000 of L33t kiddies will probably ruin it

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karbon14 · 25th May 2008, 5:28pm

anyone enjoying this? all the reports i've heard have been pretty harsh.

adrenalize · 25th May 2008, 6:17pm

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Originally Posted by karbon14

anyone enjoying this? all the reports i've heard have been pretty harsh.

The reports i am getting are that it's not as accesible as WoW, and there have been a couple of significant post launch bugs, but if it delivers on the raid content a lot of people may be making the move over.

For the most part it seems to be the people who want a casual MMO that are finding Conan hard to deal with, whilst more hardcore players are salivating at the chance to try something new.

Hammer · 27th May 2008, 10:58am

I'm interested in this game, but like Tabula Rasta, I'm not wanting to pony up for a full version before trying it out. Just have to wait until they release a trial for it.

The hardware requirements are pretty high as well, which will loose them a lot of older MMO fans who haven't seen the need to upgrade.

Also, apparently Funcom mucked up the way the client and server communicated and have a lot of client side processing, which is firstly doing things on the cheap and secondly opening the game to a load of exploits. It's possible to increase your run seep massively and 'teleport' yourself from one place to another and no doubt further exploits will keep coming to light.

endless psych · 27th May 2008, 11:08am

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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

He's absolutely wrong. Dead people do not roll.

Do they rock?

Moldiver · 27th May 2008, 11:22am

I am really enjoying this. Ive tried MMO's before but never really got into them but i am really enjoying this.

Wee Dave · 27th May 2008, 12:50pm

I pre ordered this game as a group of my friends from WoW all went casual along with me, we have all been playing the early access.

We are all enjoying it alot, the combat system takes about an hour to get used to, but once you do its much better. You feel way more involved that just right clicking and watching you character do his thing.

The addition of a single player for the first 20 levels as well its really great, gives a wee bit of a story to your character. Pvp is all free for all so you cant just walk up to an enemy that a character is hitting and just start hitting the enemy yourself, doing this will cause you to hit the other player as well because all enemys / players in range of your swing will get hit.

The downside is the size of the game and the graphics. They are great graphics but you really do need a bit of a beast of a pc to run it well.

In my opinion, overall its a great game. The quests aint too hard there are alot less idiots in the game at the moment as everyone is just trying to level. There is plenty to keep you interested.