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Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 2673
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: SAGECPUS00
Model: SAGECPUS00
UPC: 788687100670
EAN: 0788687100670
ASIN: B000RZPW9W
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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 Disappointing June 17, 2008
Caroline
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
I was all excited about this game, but it was a major letdown after I left Tortage (the starting city).
Here are some of the things that annoyed me the most:
- unbalanced classes - not having a class may be better than being a Dark Templar for example, plus any class may be nerfed suddenly at the moment, with or without it being in the patch notes
- horrible bugs that still haven't been fixed - for example: don't roll a female char - your weapon speed is 1.46s, males are 1.2s - this means female chars combos take longer
- heavy instancing - unless you are staying in the same zone and in the same instance of that zone, I hope you like looking at the content loading screen
- lack of community and ways to communicate with people in-game - its like playing Oblivion, but online and laggy
- gathering and crafting system - most boring and tedious of any game yet (including EQ2) - that is the parts that are working, because a lot of it is very buggy or missing
- combat system - combat is not really enhanced by mashing 5 buttons with a small pause between each, the pause drives me insane
- stats and gear - tests have shown that, in most cases, you might as well be naked, or are indeed better off naked
- traveling - most people travel by suiciding, that says it all
- bag space very limited - have fun going back to town to sell things far too many times, and I pity you if you didn't get a promo bag to start
- help - need in-game help? you need to stay logged in while petitioning, good luck person #492!
Fun stuff:
- great graphics for first areas
- more adult themed than most mmos - small amount of swearing and nudity
Check out the forums too - it is mostly a bunch of people saying "I really wanted to like it, but I am leaving and here is my constructive criticism," followed by fanboi rants about how no mmo is good when it comes out, funcom is doing their best to fix things, aoc is trying to be different, etc.
 Age of Broken Things June 13, 2008
Benny Bosmans (Belgium)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Age of Conan could be THE example of how underwhelming a new MMORPG can be. A lot of promise a lot of hype ....and simply no delivery.
It begins with the first 20 levels (of which half are played solo in ... solo instances) which are very very nice to look at ... IF you have a hi end graphics card and play on medium settings. If you don't have at least 2 Gigabyte of memory and a sub 7900 GT card. Forget it. The game will play the ON line part at a stuttering 15 Frames per second or far worse.
Problem is ... underneath the good polished beginnings of this game there is absolutely NOTHING but NOTHING in gameplay value.
The gameworld is closed. You do NOT seem to live in a seamless open world, instead you live in an uploaded series of closed boxes. Walking into a door even gives you "loading screens" of about 5 to 10 seconds. Walking into another zone or even a part of a "dungeon" makes you have loading screens of about 20 to 45 seconds (depending on hardware)
Age of loading...
Age of Instances (copies)
Because IN a zone (even open zones like cities) the game creates instances (copies) of that zone. Meaning you only see a handful of players at a time (mostly between 30 and 40). This is a very OLD technique in MMORPG's to handle the stuttering of your character. Why? Because the graphics take up so MUCH computer power (even on hi end cards), MORE players can not be handled without .... loading.
The worst is that each zone has to be entered at a FIXED entry point. That point of course being camped by complete guilds to prevent you to enter that zone. See PvP below.
In an age where LOTRO and WoW/TBC have open seamless worlds to live in, this is a BIG failure as an MMORPG. Even if you would dislike Wow/TBC(2007): in Outland you can fly your personal acquired mount and fly ANYWHERE over the continent (mountains, lakes, forests, cities) you want AND land ANYWHERE without ever seeing a loading screen. Instances in the latest MMORPG's are only being used for gaming purposes (dungeons or balanced battlegrounds), NOT for the open seamless world.
Personal vs Personal Combat play (PvP): simple: there are NO rules at the moment. Everyone can bash everyone even in your own guild. While this may seem fun for about .. 1 hour, it makes the game broken... because there are NO rules. You don't get punished, you don't get rewards. Nothing. The makers said at the end of the 80(!) levels there would be Siege battles, but they didn't include them. And even when included they would be worthless since everyone plays in his own instance of a zone.
Death is a FIXED respawn point nearby, you can't choose to walk up you body. Just FIXED and meaning you get ganked near those FIXED points when your debuff fades.
Age of noobs PvP.
The battles themselves are nothing but bashing the keyboards with certain fixed(!) combos. After 3 weeks everybody knows the trick ! You either bash the keyboards and use (the same) combo's or you .... MOVE. That's right you heard it. FunCOM found a system where you can't hit with combo's and move!! Casters can't move either when casting.
Age of hampered Combat.
Last but not least: after level 20 everything comes down in PVE: no more polishing and .... no quests enough after level 45 to keep going. Meaning you have to grind: killing mindless everything you see to get some experience ... to get to the next level where you do exactly the same...
In the level 55+ that means killing 700 mammouths to just keep playing.
In the later levels you need MILLIONS of points to reach the next level. just by killing beasts. Fun ???
Worse: on PvP servers most FIXED entry zones are being camped by guilds so yo can't even enter the zones with the most wildlife.
Age of Lost PVE.
Next is the loot: would you believe that most players at level 50 have some gear that's the same as level 1's? Even the stats hardly change and some substats are even BETTER at level 1???
Age of broken loot.
Dungeons: since the FUNCOM Director himself said in an open letter after 2 weeks they would change the dungeons, I wouldn't even comment on that part.
Age of broken dungeons.
Interface: How difficult could it be JUST to (right)click on a person and whisper?; Not with Conan! the interface is - next to Tabula rasa - one of the worst seen ever.
Age of hedious interface.
I don't mind the bugs, the broken quests or the unfinished nature of the game. The problem with this game; it had fatal design decisions from the beginning: choosing graphics that aren't suitable for an on line role playing game (hence the loadings and copies of what should be a world you LIVE in) were even MORE important than basic GAME design.
What could be WORSE for a computer game?
Age of lacking ...game design and polishment.
Review of the service June 2, 2008
R. E. Lundgren (Texas)
14 out of 25 found this review helpful
I paid for a preorder and then $5 to download the client early and do the free preview. So the day comes to start playing the game and I cannot download the patch. So I go to the store to pick up my copy and install from the disks, same problem, the patch is a no go. So I go to the website expecting a little technical support, however none of the topics really covered my issue (which is the 620 gig patch getting to between 20 and 150 gigs and then no longer downloading at all). So I check the main forums and there are quite a few people there having the same issue, but there is no post from any sort of official source about how to resolve the issue. I disable my virus protection, open all the ports on my router, download updates, plug the connection directly to the computer, nothing works. I e-mail billing but by the time anybody gets back to me 6 days of my 10 day preview have gone by. I ask for some form of refund and they tell me they can't do that. Finally after two or three e-mails asking why I should be expected to pay for "Preview access" when I have not been able to log in, somebody finally credits my account for another 10 days of time.
In short the support for this game is terrible, and while I was not entirely nice in my e-mails to Funcom, they made no effort to be nice or give me more than three sentences of their time. Frustrated players who would like to log into your game but can't, are not people you should be snarky to in my opinion. In any event, I never got to actually play the game, which I hear is fun if you like PvP. So take my review for what you will. I never got into the game because of some issue on my end or their end, and I never received any real assistance, so I just gave up.
Disappointment May 30, 2008
April Kellywright (Bay City, Michigan United States)
13 out of 23 found this review helpful
I tried several classes and really attempted to like this game as my friends are playing it. I simply could not get past the constant zoning, instancing, and loading screens. By the time I finally go where I was going my patience for bugs or other issues was gone.
Character specialization is about impossible right now as none of the tooltips give any values for your "feat" points. Most list something like this: Improves Spell X. No values, completely vague description of how it improves it, nothing of use there.
More importantly, I run a pretty nice PC (it meets or exceeds recommended stats to play) and had to turn alot of the graphical settings off and/or down in order to get my frame rate over 15FPS (which got it up to 30)
Overal rating: -$50.00
Technically Poor - No Support June 11, 2008
R. Kruss (Detroit, MI USA)
13 out of 20 found this review helpful
The gameplay of Age of Conan really has potential, but unfortunately the entire experience is marred by the most technically inept implementation ever. The installation goes refreshingly fast, but that is where everything starts to fall apart. While the program occupies 2 DVDs worth of content, you will immediately log online and download almost 3 DVDs worth of patches that take HOURS to install. Pray you have a fast fast fast computer and really high speed broadband.
Once the system is installed things start out OK. It is not as user-friendly an introduction as World of Warcraft (the current "gold standard" of RPGs), but you'll figure things out quickly if you've played an MMO before. Continuing to play, however, is hit-or-miss. I have about 6 friends trying this game. Every one of them has had frequent crashes. On my system, the game freezes after about 5 minutes of play , guaranteed.
There is NO customer support for the product. You can e-mail FUNCOM, but don't expect to get any reply at all. I've posted in the forums and no one has reported ever getting any reply to a question, whether its about a technical issue or possible fraud capturing passwords. This is just unacceptable.
The game advertises on the bos to be "DirectX 10" compliant, yet its been announced that DirectX 10 support will not be implemented until the fall.
This game is not worth your time, money , or frustration.
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