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will Age of Conan turn out to be nothing?
End_of_a_era
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They say the first 20 or so levels will be offline and its got a big single player game mixed with MMO elements, but how much MMO? If i wanted a MMO why would i want to play single player? Also how instanced is it too?
+ Any game that gets ported to consoles sucks tbh.
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They slightly changed it because of feedback from the community...
What they intended with the 20 lvs. of Single player stuff is so that the player could create their own background within the game world.
Because of the community, now, they're trying to keep it with the same goal. But now, you can team up with people where there are certain "stop/rest points" I believe? You can make a small team and tackle basic instanced quests with other players during the day ... At night however you are back to soloing and doing the main quest to create your own background/lore... Therefore, the real MMO only starts after you've reached 20...
I think that Funcom is an extremely well formed organization and that they have their heads in the right place. After reading all the game features on their site, I really think they have the best ideas from most MMORPGs and a great universe to exploit them. I prefer the idea of a dark, chaotic fantasy world devoid of the stereotypical elves, dwarves and pixies.
Truth be told, I have read quite a few of the Conan books and enjoyed them immensely. All in all, very interested in this game.
Bar brawls FTW.
I am skeptical about the stated objectives and schedule for this game. The development group looks very competent and clearly has the necessary experience. Against that, they are trying to do things that are very difficult and that others have failed at. Right now, I see lots of promises, typical of game development, but not much real product. If there is going to be a 2007 release, I would have expected beta testing to be rolling along quite aggressively for the last year or so.
Single-player-initiation versus noob areas is a big question. I think the single player choice is made for two reasons. First, it may seen as justified because the starting grind and learning the game are usually done solo and, of course, PvE. Second, and more ominous, I think the publishers are concerned about technological issues like lag and server load. Hooking new players before the lag problems in twitch combat become evident may be a marketing strategem (as distinct from strategy
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Its a MMORPG.
Just because it has the first 20 levels solo, while they did say you will be connected to the servers, and you can chat/interact with others at rest points of whatever.
Im fucking pissed today, not sure why.
Sieges, which can occur vs other players and Server Spawned towns aren't instanced. Smaller battles in arenas, such as CTF and team deathmatch, is instanced. I don't know about drunken brawl.
If this game is what it looks like to be, it's going to be the best Fantasy MMO Imo.
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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should have done a choice really, offline mode or online 1-20.
It will just end up another game added to the ever growing pile of been there done that.I see nothing it will bring to table except same themes and content we have been seeing for years now with the only difference being some blood and gore.
To clear things up, the first 20 levels of the game will be played in more or less a solo way, but there will be certain points throughout your journey to meet and socialise with other players. Also, while you are playing on the game servers, you dont actually start paying for the game until you finish the singleplayer section. (yes there will be a monthly fee, or something like that)
The whole point of the singleplayer aspect of the game is to create a background of your character, at level 5 you will pick your archtype, being rogue, soldier, priest or mage, and then once you hit level 20 you are allowed to pick your class, and there are several different choices for each archtype.
Another good feature about character customisation is the use of "feats" which I guess I could refer too WoW's talent point system, except that there are over 70,000 different feat combinations available in the game. Also, on creating a character, Funcom has produced the most advanced and awesome looking creation process Ive ever seen.
Don't forget that special combat system too
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Masterville, with your comment, I mean no offense here but..
I just found that so incredibly naive and biased. Funcom is bringing a brand new combat system never seen before in larger scale mmo's, where PvP relies on skill rather than gear. And like I said above, the character creation. Things have also been thought of such as freedom of movement, it is possible to scale walls. Then again, this may be your opinion, and my opinion is, it is biased, and based on a true lack of information.
flodgy wrote:
In my opinion, AoC will be the next big MMO. I have high expectations for this game, and given Funcom's excellent reputation with past mmorpg's, Im sure they will deliver.
I think they have only released 1 mmo in the past.....also that mmo (Anarchy Online) was a piece of junk for almost a year or more with constant nerfing and bad bad optimization......they did get it better but left them unable to uprade the graphics much and are living off a large population of Fr00b to inflat their server numbers....I play AO and like it, but i learned my lesson from diving into a game from this company from release.
Hey, not everyone else who posts here is totally positive! That new combat system is a big risk in terms of operational performance, and it could very likely, IMO, turn into a fiasco to be replaced by yet another macro-punching clone. Someone else made some very realistic comments about the quality expectations as well. Maybe Funcom isn't run by the same kinds of backstabbing weasels as populate most of the American companies I know about, but isn't there some ancient commentary about Vikings not bothering to backstab because they do it so well from the front?
You guys heard of any mmorpg that used joystick to play?
You guys think any mmorpg will have good controlls/features if it is developed to play with a joystick?
I wont post what I think the answers to these questions are but this is what worries me the most about AoC. I was hoping for a good mature pvp game and after hearing that developers are recommending "gamepad" to play the game I will wait untill I read a ton of review before considering this game.
My $0.02.
WTB Shadowbane 2
Anyway my prediction is that it will turn out to be nothing but a guild wars copy with better graphics and a mature rating for blood and gore.If you take time to examine the screenshots for aoc you'll notice it even has 8 macro slots like gw does lol. The game market doesn't need another bronze age game.
Thanks
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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A tad so-so on the RTS element of zooming around... I could see that pulling me out of immersion plus its a sucky element to have with PvP around. No sneaking up. I'll have to give it a shot when it comes out and see what it can/can't do for me!
P.S. name is still horrible
"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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"Freedom is just another name for nothing left to lose" - Janis Joplin
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Not really the other MMORPG that funcom developed has 220.
People worrying about doing offline mode need to understand that its a ONE TIME thing if you choose to not do it agian. And like others have said you can now choose to team during some of that period.
Also im sure Funcom will increase the current level cap from 80 levels in future expansions.. And unlike alot of Developers they will keep pumping out Expansions.
All in all Funcom is one of the good Developer companys. While the do make mistakes, they also will hit way more then they miss. The tend to make complex games that have tons of depth, and by the looks of it AOC will be no different.
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