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| From: Eidos
List Price: $79.99
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 6893
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: SAGECPUS01
Model: SAGECPUS01
UPC: 788687100748
EAN: 0788687100748
ASIN: B000V1OUTU
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Showing reviews 26-30 of 55
 Do not order from Amazon May 23, 2008
Quinn Van Grol (san diego, ca)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
DO NOT ORDER FROM AMAZON IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET THIS GAME. I pre-ordered this game March 13th, 2+ months before its expected release from Amazon and today is the 22nd of May and they still have not shipped it. They still do not have an ETA on when the game will be shipped.
Now, on to the game.
Sure- this game has amazing graphics, but its a waste of time and money. The current state of the game is more like a beta testing then it is an actual release. There is no player economy as of yet because they have had the 'trader' NPC disabled for quite some time now, and have not given an ETA on when it will be enabled. Many quests are bugged and cannot be completed, and one of the zones, Field of the Dead, has a stability issue which causes users to crash every 5-10 minutes. I've been unable to log into my character for more then half the day now because every time I try to load in, the game crashes. My computer exceeds the minimum requirements sevenfold, and even with my settings set to low, the game still crashes. The user interface is a joke, players are unable to see where their group members are on the mini-map unless they are within ~50m of eachother- even then it is still a hard task because group members show up with a minuscule dot.
All in all, this game was released waaaaaay too prematurely. I don't know what the heck Funcom was doing during their 'beta testing'... I could only guess they were too busy focusing on what in-game items players would receive from buying the game from different locations. This game gets a C+ at best.
Thinking about buying this for somebody? Do yourself a favor and save the money, and do them a favor by saving them the frustration and wasted time.
 Sad, So much promise... June 22, 2008
Greg (Toronto, Canada)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought the collector's edition and if you do too, you can have the enjoyment of not playing the game like I did. Don't get me wrong here, the game plays after a very lengthy scan of the local data files. But all those "in-game" exclusives aren't on your character. You'll hit the [...] wesite and find that there aren't any useful support options. I recommend you do what I did and Google your problem. With any luck you'll stumble across some 3rd party message board where you'll find a post about the "/claim" command that gives your character these items.
Sadly, the support infastructure is soooo bad on this MMO, that you'll spend a lot more time trying to fix stuff and looking up solutions then you will playing the actual game. The forums for the game do exist, but there hidden in the subpages of AgeOfConan [...]... good luck. It's like a quest in itself.
Now I haven't even touched on how buggy half the game content is, and how broken the classes are. These aren't unique problems, like a bugged quest here or there. That kind of stuff is expected, no MMO escapes that. But this is a whole new level of bugs. For example, it is quite noted that the assassin's hide spell (stealth) is a 50/50 hit and miss affair. When I say hit and miss, I mean, you'll get all the fancy annimation and to the player you'll look hidden. The annoying fact, comes when you realize that the MOBS didn't get the memo...
"Dear Facemelting MOBs,
Yes all 5 of you, please note that player "RogueGinsuDeath200" is stealthed, please do NOT attack him unless he unstealths, or gets too close to you. He should not be detected from 6 game meters as his "Hiding" skill is maxed out. to do so would greatly embarass the game developers, and they in turn will convert all of you into neurtal NPC squirrels."
If you're stealthed, you should not be detected in the same manner that you would be if you weren't "stealthed". A rogue that can't hide, that's like having a warrior that can't swing a sword.
While this game has a lot of potential, there is NO doubt in my mind that in it's current state, it should not have been released. I'm not new to MMORPGs; you will get bugs here and there, regardless of the title/developer. But this is the first time I've seen the actual character/class set fundumentally flawed. That said, if you want to give it a shot, go for it. Who knows, maybe they'll fix it up enough to make it enjoyable.
In the meantime, here's a pointer keep the sercret "/petition" slash command written down, you'll need it to contact your GMs.
 Dissapointed and Upset May 21, 2008
Garth Pepion (Portland, OR)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
The second falls onto the shoulders of the online companies where the game was pre-ordered from - the companies did not provide the pre-order keys to the customers until EA was already closed out. Amazon provided the keys right away so there wasn't much worry with Amazon falling into this group. (This was stated by someone else)
Yeah right, I pre-ordered back in March, never received any pre-order key. Amazon still hasn't responded to any e-mails, and I might receive something by June 9! WOW, this is horrible service. And because of this I will never order thru Amazon again.
The Age of Conan has not yet Arrived! May 25, 2008
Kirk E. Wells (Houston, TX United States)
3 out of 18 found this review helpful
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition
Don't waste your time or money! I expected somes bugs and glitches but this is downright UNPLAYABLE! The bugs - nonfunctional trading posts make an economy impossible. The glitches - constant gray outs on the minimaps and incredible lags on every server I tried (4 - both PVE and PVP)make gameplay difficult!
What really finished it for me was the crashes! Everytime I changed from night to day/ day to night - CRASH! Almost everytime I sold items to a vendor - CRASH! And even sitting there waiting for the lag to catch up so I could continue - CRASH! Not just a simple crash either - 50% of the time I had to reboot my computer!
Very nice start June 10, 2008
J. Nash (Mountain Home, ID)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been playing Age of Conan now for a little over a week and I have to say - I'm having a blast.
The Good:
The quests are interesting both in execution (ie - what you do) and in story. The voice acting is good though it gets a bit sparse once you leave Tortage. The game is easy enough to get the hang of but as you gain levels and skills, new options open up to you, which in turn lead to new challenges.
I love the skill system - allocating skill points as you level to customize your characters strengths and weaknesses in addition to the customization allowed by feat selection. It's little touches like this that really make the game feel fun.
Character creation is extremely nice - quite a few options and a VERY editable face make sure you don't run into too many people that look just like you. I do have a minor quibble about it (see below under The Bad)
Graphically the game is awesome - sprawling wilderness, cliff faces, water that moves like water should, bustling villages and cities... prey animals that aggressive mobs will stalk, attack, kill and eat. In addition to LOOKING alive the game FEELS alive to me as well.
The classes are all pretty interesting and take a slightly different approach to some of the traditional roles. I can't say I'm an expert on these as I've only played a few classes past 20 but, looking at the feat trees it seems that every class has, in addition to their primary function, some sort of utility as well - usually in the form of supplimental DPS or a group buff. This is nice - hopefully gone will be the rogue of WoW that's essentially a 1-trick pony (3 trees to determine how you'll DPS in melee). I say hopefully, because I honestly don't know how it plays out at higher levels.
The Bad:
First and foremost - despite the M rating a majority of the players that I've encountered so far are ANYTHING but mature. I'll leave it at that. That is my number one gripe and, in my opinion will do more damage in the long run than any botched patch, laggy interface or any of the other things I'm about to list.
Tortage - It's great at first. It's interesting, draws you in and, as mentioned before, feels alive... at first. By level 19 I could hardly wait to leave. I felt chained to that damned island and wanted nothing more to do with it. That's not to say that the areas were bad - if they WERE I never would have made it to 19 but you're essentially stuck there until you're done there.
Character Creation - Weird huh? Both good and bad - this is really more of a quibble than a full up 'bad' point. You get to pick these really cool body markings and facial marks as character options. But what you don't get to do is pick their color so far as I can tell. If you can, I wasn't able to figure it out. Some of the markings just look silly in their default color but would look quite nice if you could tweak that. That's basically it. Oh - and when you're done making your character you automatically go to Tortage - see above.
The other 'Bad' things are a grab bag of the usual things that plague an MMO on release - sketchy servers, questionable initial class balance (they seem alright to me, just some tweaking here and there should put things right), certain skills don't seem to work quite right and performance issues. It's very strange to go from 40 fps to 11 fps and you don't change anything. You run around, things are smooth, you keep doing your thing for about an hour... suddenly you chug down to 11fps... and then 20 minutes later you're doing 40 again... I'm not techincally savvy enough to understand the whys and hows.
Anyway - I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good solid MMO. Note - based on the community though, come with thick skin and a healthy stomach for toilet humor. Lots of it. All the time (unless you leave every public channel in the game).
Oh - one more thing. The Bow that Amazon gave us is just about useless to EVERYONE in the game save rangers. Whereas everyone that preordered this game from ANYONE else got an awesome mount. I'm feeling pretty pissed about that to be honest, but that's not the game's fault - I blame Amazon for being lame, overselling their preorders and not even shipping mine out to me until 2 weeks after it was supposed to be here. In short - the bow is as lame as Amazon.com preorders.
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