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Age of Conan is a terrible game, it is not finished. The beginning is very polished. After the very start, there is simply no game.
I have a very good machine, I run the game at it's highest setting with few technical glitches, so that is not an issue for me.
I am making this thread to stop other people from being cheated.
The good about AoC:
1. The beginning of the game, the island of Tortage is well polished. Quests are abundant and fun, they are well designed, mostly bug free. They have high quality voice acting for each and every NPC.
2. The graphics are nice, though I have never cared about graphics much in games, gameplay is always far more important for me.
That is the full list of what is good.
The bad about AoC:
1. After Tortage, the quality and quantity of quests takes a nosedive. The second you leave the new player island, the voice acting stops. The number of quests takes a nose dive. The fun factor of the quests takes a nose dive. There are bugged quests. As you level up quests effectively disappear, gradually becoming rarer and rarer till they disappear. Player vs player fighting is shallow, empty and pointless. I enjoy PVP and have enjoyed games where it is a key feature. I play on a RP-PVP server. The PVP is simply not fun, there is no purpose to it at all and it is impossible to fight people who are more then 5 or 6 levels higher then you and win. If someone 6 levels higher attacks you(except for certain class combos) you WILL die. Random jerks attacking others on the RP-PVP servers is not constant, but enough to be irritating. There is nothing to actually DO in the game. There is no content. It is like buying a box of ice cream and finding it is empty, there is simply nothing in there. The developers cannot possibly add enough content to satisfy gamers. Every time a game so shallow comes out, the developers promise they will add content, which usually translate to one more race, or one dungeon, or one new area or what have you. The game is so empty of content that the developers cannot ever add enough to bring the game to where it should be, without another year and a half of development and selling a new game.
2. Attributes(strength, dexterity, intelligence, what have you) do not work. This is a key, core feature of the game which simply does not work.
3. A majority of feats in the game are broken, insofar as they do not have ANY effect, or do not work properly. This would be the GW equivalent of skills not doing ANYTHING, or their descriptions being entirely incorrect. When I say entirely incorrect I mean, entirely incorrect. If a description says it does +100 X damage or what have you, it may well do 5 damage or 50 or none at all, there is no way to tell. This is not an exaggeration, a majority of "feats"(skills) for every class simply do not work at all, or are drastically mislabeled.
4. There is no inventory system or items in the game. At least there is effectively no inventory system. The difference between each item in the game is minimal. All the equipment mostly looks the same for each class. The difference in the function and power of items is negligible or non exist ant. You may find an interesting piece of loot every few hundred monsters you kill which increases your combat abilities by a negligible amount, truly negligible, 1% etc. Quests give rewards, however quests dry up as you level and even the best quest loot is negligible.
5. Crafting is utterly broken, many, many crafting skills do not work properly. The necessary items do not drop from any monster or spawn, or the skills simply do not work. One of the skills, gem crafting, actually CRASHES your machine! The developers actually posted in the last patch notes that they fixed it.... then posted an update later saying that it does not.
Tortage is fun and will last you 1 day if you rush through it, or 3 days if you take it slow. Then the game effectively ends, it is quite clear the developers wanted to make a very strong early area to well, sucker people in and then they stopped developing the rest of the game. The reviews which rate this game highly have never left Tortage, the starting island. I looked at the reviews online and at fan sites before I bought the game and should have listened to the critics, I did not.
I am trying to save you money. Do not be deceived or swindled, this game is utterly unfinished, unfinished to the degree that no amount of patching will fix it, is it effectively missing a game.
The amount of rabid-fanboy reviews circulating is absolutley staggering, worse for this game then any recent game.
Go spend the $50 on a movie and some movie food, you'll buy more happiness with it that way. Releasing a bad game is one thing, in the gaming world today you have expect unfinished or undeveloped games. This is not a case of Funcom simply making an unfinished game. This is a case of Funcom activley defrauding the public. They could not have possibly put more effort into Tortage, the starting area which will hold most casual gamers over for 4-5 days, maybe even 6. After that initial area, the quality of the game takes a nose dive and gets much worse, rapidly. They try to sell you a car which will get you home and then collapses in your driveway.
DO NOT buy this game.
Age of Conan is a terrible game, it is not finished. The beginning is very polished. After the very start, there is simply no game.
I have a very good machine, I run the game at it's highest setting with few technical glitches, so that is not an issue for me.
I am making this thread to stop other people from being cheated.
The good about AoC:
1. The beginning of the game, the island of Tortage is well polished. Quests are abundant and fun, they are well designed, mostly bug free. They have high quality voice acting for each and every NPC.
2. The graphics are nice, though I have never cared about graphics much in games, gameplay is always far more important for me.
That is the full list of what is good.
The bad about AoC:
1. After Tortage, the quality and quantity of quests takes a nosedive. The second you leave the new player island, the voice acting stops. The number of quests takes a nose dive. The fun factor of the quests takes a nose dive. There are bugged quests. As you level up quests effectively disappear, gradually becoming rarer and rarer till they disappear. Player vs player fighting is shallow, empty and pointless. I enjoy PVP and have enjoyed games where it is a key feature. I play on a RP-PVP server. The PVP is simply not fun, there is no purpose to it at all and it is impossible to fight people who are more then 5 or 6 levels higher then you and win. If someone 6 levels higher attacks you(except for certain class combos) you WILL die. Random jerks attacking others on the RP-PVP servers is not constant, but enough to be irritating. There is nothing to actually DO in the game. There is no content. It is like buying a box of ice cream and finding it is empty, there is simply nothing in there. The developers cannot possibly add enough content to satisfy gamers. Every time a game so shallow comes out, the developers promise they will add content, which usually translate to one more race, or one dungeon, or one new area or what have you. The game is so empty of content that the developers cannot ever add enough to bring the game to where it should be, without another year and a half of development and selling a new game.
2. Attributes(strength, dexterity, intelligence, what have you) do not work. This is a key, core feature of the game which simply does not work.
3. A majority of feats in the game are broken, insofar as they do not have ANY effect, or do not work properly. This would be the GW equivalent of skills not doing ANYTHING, or their descriptions being entirely incorrect. When I say entirely incorrect I mean, entirely incorrect. If a description says it does +100 X damage or what have you, it may well do 5 damage or 50 or none at all, there is no way to tell. This is not an exaggeration, a majority of "feats"(skills) for every class simply do not work at all, or are drastically mislabeled.
4. There is no inventory system or items in the game. At least there is effectively no inventory system. The difference between each item in the game is minimal. All the equipment mostly looks the same for each class. The difference in the function and power of items is negligible or non exist ant. You may find an interesting piece of loot every few hundred monsters you kill which increases your combat abilities by a negligible amount, truly negligible, 1% etc. Quests give rewards, however quests dry up as you level and even the best quest loot is negligible.
5. Crafting is utterly broken, many, many crafting skills do not work properly. The necessary items do not drop from any monster or spawn, or the skills simply do not work. One of the skills, gem crafting, actually CRASHES your machine! The developers actually posted in the last patch notes that they fixed it.... then posted an update later saying that it does not.
Tortage is fun and will last you 1 day if you rush through it, or 3 days if you take it slow. Then the game effectively ends, it is quite clear the developers wanted to make a very strong early area to well, sucker people in and then they stopped developing the rest of the game. The reviews which rate this game highly have never left Tortage, the starting island. I looked at the reviews online and at fan sites before I bought the game and should have listened to the critics, I did not.
I am trying to save you money. Do not be deceived or swindled, this game is utterly unfinished, unfinished to the degree that no amount of patching will fix it, is it effectively missing a game.
The amount of rabid-fanboy reviews circulating is absolutley staggering, worse for this game then any recent game.
Go spend the $50 on a movie and some movie food, you'll buy more happiness with it that way. Releasing a bad game is one thing, in the gaming world today you have expect unfinished or undeveloped games. This is not a case of Funcom simply making an unfinished game. This is a case of Funcom activley defrauding the public. They could not have possibly put more effort into Tortage, the starting area which will hold most casual gamers over for 4-5 days, maybe even 6. After that initial area, the quality of the game takes a nose dive and gets much worse, rapidly. They try to sell you a car which will get you home and then collapses in your driveway.
DO NOT buy this game.
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