Age of Conan GDC presentation

Lookin good.

I realised the delay to May was a good thing, it'll be after my end of year exams. Great MMO being released before exams = sad panda results.
 
Eejit said:
Lookin good.

I realised the delay to May was a good thing, it'll be after my end of year exams. Great MMO being released before exams = sad panda results.
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Unfortunately, it is being released before my end of year exams. I might be ****ed. ;(
 
seeing as how funcom hasnt been able to meet a release date yet, I wouldnt be too worried ..I'd actually be very surprised if it does come out May 20th
 
ooh swimming. oooh 1st person view. ooooh directional attacks. oooooh dynamic day and night. ooooooh horsies. ooooooooh personal housing in the expansion. wheeeeeeeeeeeee griefing. :D
 
CptStern said:
seeing as how funcom hasnt been able to meet a release date yet, I wouldnt be too worried ..I'd actually be very surprised if it does come out May 20th
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I'm not sure. Any further and they risk completely alienating their fan base even more than they have. And their ad campaign states the date quite clearly. To change it now would misinform thousands. But who knows. Funcom has been persistent in pushing back AoC so far. I would like to think that they're not going to, but maybe it's just wishful thinking.
 
That demonologist has a succubus! HMMM WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT BEFORE I WONDER!

I want to like it, but it's just the same old shit.
 
Letters said:
That demonologist has a succubus! HMMM WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT BEFORE I WONDER!

I want to like it, but it's just the same old shit.
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Just because they have someone controlling a succubus doesn't mean it's the same old shit.:hmph:


Also great that they would delay it because I won't be able to get a job untill spring so I will be able to preorder and get my mammoth! Damn I can't wait for this game!! :dork:
 
Letters said:
That demonologist has a succubus! HMMM WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT BEFORE I WONDER!

I want to like it, but it's just the same old shit.
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I dunno, any fantasy involving the summoning of demons perhaps?
 
you cant say Age of Conan steals it's fantasy conventions from say the Lord of the Rings or Warhammer or Warcraft or Diablo or whatever as it predates all of those things by several decades ..if anything Robert E Howard's world was influenced by people like Edgar Rice Burroughs and Clark Ashton Smith or even his contemporary and friend HP Lovecraft ..hell even the Arabian Nights, Prince Valiant and King Arthur mythos ..the sucuubus is common in everything from Howard's work to Lovecrafts (they both traded elements from each others work) ...if anything it can rightfully said that almost everything in fantasy is in some part influenced by Robert E Howard and his contemporaries ..hell there probably wouldnt have been a barbarian class in games/fiction if it werent for Howard's Conan
 
Looks much better in this than what was shown in the last couple batches of vids. I've been checking my email daily to see if I finally got my beta invite.
 
I'm gonna feel so bad for CptStern when AOC turns out to be a croc o' poo.
 
Stern is certainly not already in the beta.

Down is up.
Bad is good.
 
is pants good or bad ...cuz I'm not pants


Sedako said:
Hellgate before I got a chance to test it
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therein lies the difference
 
dx9 looks great right now so dx10 (when inmplemented) should look even better
 
Sedako said:
I was saying the exact same thing about Hellgate before I got a chance to test it. It had so much going for it and they still ****ed it up.
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We all know Hellgate was rushed therefore ruined but since AoC keeps getting pushed back so much we know there doing good work on it.
 
Cpt Tenacious said:
Just because they have someone controlling a succubus doesn't mean it's the same old shit.:hmph:


Also great that they would delay it because I won't be able to get a job untill spring so I will be able to preorder and get my mammoth! Damn I can't wait for this game!! :dork:
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Okay, let me spell it out for you folks... it looks like a cheap copy of WoW. It's going to suck. MMO's need to take a turn for the fun, not glorify the same old shit! MMM grind out 80 levels of quests on boring pointless quests so I can do go into those ENDGAME! dungeons where it takes a couple of minutes to kill each guy, and there's about 100 of those same guys. Oh and you get to do so with boring-ass tank/healer/damage dynamics... get it away!

How 'bout just scrap everything but the PvP... now that would be fun.
 
Letters said:
Okay, let me spell it out for you folks... it looks like a cheap copy of WoW. It's going to suck. MMO's need to take a turn for the fun, not glorify the same old shit! MMM grind out 80 levels of quests on boring pointless quests so I can do go into those ENDGAME! dungeons where it takes a couple of minutes to kill each guy, and there's about 100 of those same guys. Oh and you get to do so with boring-ass tank/healer/damage dynamics... get it away!

How 'bout just scrap everything but the PvP... now that would be fun.
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Ok I can see what you mean by it all being the same like it's all sorta the same fantasy land with dragons and giant rats. A lot of AoC is PvP though, now all MMO's will have ginding and endgame that is a given but since there putting in siege combat, mounted combat, and that new comabt system I guess leveling will be a little more interesting.
 
Letters said:
Okay, let me spell it out for you folks... it looks like a cheap copy of WoW. It's going to suck. MMO's need to take a turn for the fun, not glorify the same old shit! MMM grind out 80 levels of quests on boring pointless quests so I can do go into those ENDGAME! dungeons where it takes a couple of minutes to kill each guy, and there's about 100 of those same guys. Oh and you get to do so with boring-ass tank/healer/damage dynamics... get it away!

How 'bout just scrap everything but the PvP... now that would be fun.
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and you've played the game so you know it's exactly as you say it is? ..ok then I stand corrected, you're obviously in the know; it's exactly like WoW except with mounted combat, player made cities, player seiges against those same cities, humans instead of orcs, trolls, elves, gnomes and sme stupid panda looking thing ..but you've played it so you must know what you're talking about


:|

/crosses arms taps foot
 
CptStern said:
and you've played the game so you know it's exactly as you say it is? ..ok then I stand corrected, you're obviously in the know; it's exactly like WoW except with mounted combat, player made cities, player seiges against those same cities, humans instead of orcs, trolls, elves, gnomes and sme stupid panda looking thing ..but you've played it so you must know what you're talking about


:|

/crosses arms taps foot
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I think me and Cptstern are on the same level here, Im a huge fan of AoC and so is he. Oh and Stern, did you preorder yet? and from where?
 
havent yet ..I'm a bigger fan of the IP that it's based on ..it's still a mmo with mmo conventions so letters isnt entirely wrong however he cant judge till he's played it himself
 
yeah without testing it you can;t just go around calling it like every MMO out there. Thats just unfair to the game.
 
Hopefully I will be preordering it in a month, i'd like to see the game go gold first so I can be sure they won't delay it again.
 
I think it's kinda late at this point ..sorry ..over 500,000 people signed up chances are extremely slim (sorry)
 
yea, probably. It would be nice to know if it was worth buying before I drop $$$ on it. I guess it would probably be at least worth $50 for the SP.
 
actually I heard something about funcom expecting to allow in 350K players into beta by April ..dont know how reliable that is ..I think the number currently is upwards of 10k
 
So hey Stern. Tell me about this game. Before I read about the game, I want you to hype me on it. I need a new mmorpg.

And I'm serious BTW. It looks pretty cool from the above video.
 
PvP is FFA (except on PvE servers ofc), there are no factions so you can attack anyone not grouped or part of your guild.

The endgame PvP objective area contains 9 battle-keeps which can each be controlled by a guild. They give your guild members bonuses for holding them, and you can construct buildings in them. Twice a week or more (twice is minimum, more means higher bonuses) they will become vulnerable to attack by other guilds who can try to take the keep from you.
There are also PvE cities where you can build cities that can give other bonuses, and buildings in them are needed for the best crafting.

Melee combat is based on directional attacks, you can string them together to form combos which have additional effects such as a knockback, lowering opponents stamina etc.
There's something similar in the works for spells but there's not much info released about it, something like casting different spells in different orders causes a larger effect.

Most classes are hybrids, tanks and healers can dps really well when not doing their other role, and the dps classes all seem have important buffs or debuff for group play.
Almost all healing is done via hots rather than being a spambot (hooray), the instant heals have a cooldown and put a debuff on the target preventing more any time soon.

There's a bunch of other things like mounted combat, a seperate set of levels only obtained through PvPing (and you lose some xp you need to get them when you die), very customiseable avatars, branching quests, some "social" dungeons which allow multiple groups in them before becoming instanced... and more.


The world is very pretty, and it's the Conan setting! :D

I thought I'd reply in case Stern was afraid of letting slip something he shouldn't. >.>
 
Stern can get me in on the Beta! I know he's in on that! He has to be! Yes... yes Stern can. He can be buddy buddy with Raziaar and play this game with him to mend the great rift between them. Yes, yes indeed!


The game certainly sounds pretty cool.
 
Raziaar said:
Stern can get me in on the Beta! I know he's in on that! He has to be! Yes... yes Stern can. He can be buddy buddy with Raziaar and play this game with him to mend the great rift between them. Yes, yes indeed!


The game certainly sounds pretty cool.
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well the game does feature decapitation and dismemberment ...oh wait you wanted to mend the rift ...errr nevermind




NO BETA FOR YOU

/soup nazi voice
 
CptStern said:
well the game does feature decapitation and dismemberment ...oh wait you wanted to mend the rift ...errr nevermind




NO BETA FOR YOU

/soup nazi voice
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You dirty ho! I'm sure we have many arguments from ages past; many unsettled & unsettling ones at that! You WILL die by MY hands!

lol . . . if only YOU could get me a beta-key.
 
phantomdesign said:
You dirty ho! I'm sure we have many arguments from ages past; many unsettled & unsettling ones at that! You WILL die by MY hands!

lol . . . if only YOU could get me a beta-key.
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I was talking to raziaar but...

NO BETA FOR YOU
 
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