finebarb

i may check this game out just cause its conan

http://www.ageofconan.com/conan/en/index.html

Jakik

Ya Age of conan does look pretty sweet.

arieste

This is the next MMO. Not that EQ1:Redux that SOE is selling under the name vanguard. Links to latest preview articles below.


Age of Conan on IGN
Age of Conan on Team Xbox
Age of Conan on Voodoo Extreme
Age of Conan on the Vault Network
Age of Conan on GameSpot

Be also sure to check out the video available on GameVideos.com!

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Rinion

looks hawt and ill have to try it out. Vanguard an EQ1:Redux? been spending to much time on the vanguard forums eh??

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arieste

actually no. just read a couple of articles by the game director, it's the same dude that made EQ1. He is a complete idiot, people worship him for making EQ1, but anyone that has read anything he has said about either vanguard or anything else related to MMOs in general, will realize 2 things: 1. he is full of crap and 2. he seems to have missed all progress made in MMO production in the past 10 years. EQ1 was great for 10 years ago, it is not great for today, no matter how spiffy the graphics on it are.

There is actually a funny article on MMORPG.com, they set up a "debate" between the game director of vanguard and a former owner of a plat selling site. The plat selling dude couldn't spell right, but still made more sense than Brad McQuaid (sp?). I feel very sad for anyone who has the misfortune of having him in charge of their game. (This is not to say Vanguard will be bad, since EQ1 wasn't bad, it was simply 10-years ago.)

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Calbiyum

Not bad.

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Rinion

I dont get what you mean? Vanguard will suck because its EQ1 with new graphics? I dont know... alot of the features i've read sound alot like Ultima Online...could it be they did just what they said and took alot of the best things from old MMOs to create a 3rd gen game?

I mean Heaven forbid a game has to have features like EQ2 or WoW has to be good? Becasue instancing is the best so everyone every where has the same gear and arent unique at all. having PvP rewards that are just as good or better then raid drops is the hawtest. Shitty crafting systems with even shittier rewards Rules!!!

I dont get it?? IF it is EQ1 with new improved graphics slaped on that would still be a huge improvment over EQ2

Age of Conan looks great and i liked the adult theme of it saying it is definatly not meant for kids. I just dont get your EQ1:redux.

and do you seriously believe everything you read? everything you see on TV? Everything you read in the Paper? Everything you read on a gaming site? If so I have this bridge in san fran just screaming for a new owner, you interested?

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Seriously, WHAT progress did he miss in the last ten years? Instancing?? Generic half built classes? Politicly correct Equal opurtinty class/race combos?
really, id like to know what progress was made that Vanguard will not have? you call those progress?

Enlighten me.

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Renko

The funny thing is most people complain because VG is NOT EQ1 with updated graphics...

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arieste

taking a lot of things from MMOs will not create a 3rd gen game. This is what WoW and EQ2 did, they basically made really really polished versions of existing MMO concepts. Both are excellent games but make no progress beyond what had already existed.

3rd gen would imply a game having something the 2nd gen did not have. VG has a couple of new things, like the instanced mob system and the diplomacy that are new to the genre, but I seriously doubt it will do anything to go beyond the current staples.

A 3rd gen game was created in SWG and failed miserably because no one really wanted a 3rd gen game, they just wanted same shit with polish, WoW proved this, EQ2 proved this. VG is going along the same vein.

I don't really think AoC will be a 3rd gen game either, but I expect it to be a much freshed experience than VG.

As far as Brad McQuaid goes, I dont really want to argue about him. Go to his site and read the essay he wrote on instancing, if you can make any sense of it at all, then just consider that I'm too stupid and my opinion doesnt count.

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Kimzar

well AoC can be a great game, whit a realy good adult team, well it has to have it, but im still on my dubt just becuse its Funcom that made it, they know for having real bad dev and realsing games even more unfished then Eq2. and most of there Gms speak even wores eglish then me and are mostly online in gmt time zones. but if they pull it off it can be great, the vidio sunrinding locked awsome, but I felt the toon was moving in stasic nad way to slow but I guess its still alot of polishing to do