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Absolutely Fantastic Game !!!!!Do Not Buy From Amazon!!!!! Please See Why

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is absolutely a fantastic game and well worth every penny. You may want to think very carfully before buying from Amazon. I will explain after I give the game a proper review. This will be very short and sweet. Game play is very well thought out and the story line is the best up to date. If you have a mid to high end gaming system with directx 10 this is a must buy just for the eyecandy alone. You will not be dissapointed. Now for the bad news. Amanzon customer service is usually fantastic and can not be beat. I order DVDs, Books and a ton of TV shows and movies from Amazon and you cannot beat them Period. However; my experience with them on the pre-order of this game and that of many many others left a really bad tast. There was a sweet little bonus for people who preordered this game and that was a chance to access it a couple of days early. Amazon along with several other major retailers issued codes that were not valid for early access due to limited numbers of early access spots. According to funcom they were not supposed to release the codes unless a spot was available and the customers were not made awair of that fact. That is OK but they first didn't ship the preorder code via email and hid the code deep in the digital download page of your profile adding to the confusion and delays that caused all the problems. This was difficult to fish out and many people missed out on an oppurtunity to early access thus making the preorder worthless. Also they were unable to ship to the preorders on time. This is very upsetting due to the fact we pre ordered and there is a certian expectation for prompt service. Thats it I am not going to blast Amazon any more and I will of course continue to buy everything form them except for PC games that i would like to pre order or recieve on a timely manner.

Age of Poor Gaming Designs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: June 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Honestly this game was way over hyped. I found the game to be no more interesting than the most basic MMORPGs on the current market. What was pushed heavily on this game was its excessive graphics. That might seem appealing to some people; but, it's simply not needed to make a game interesting. On another point, the excessive use of graphics requires users to use high cost machines to run the game decently over the web. With a slipping economy I see this as a marketing blunder on the part of the developers.

At this point in time people are less willing to build up a costly machine to play the latest and greatest game. This leaves AoC at a great disadvantage in aspects of competition with other games already out there, which require far less resources and are much more enjoyable to play. Developers these days are loosing their grip on what makes a game fun. Graphics aren't everything; if anything, excess graphics can seriously break a game. It shows the developers spent too much time developing one aspect and less on others that were probably more important.

Like a bad single player game but without the storyline

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I didn't even both to renew my subscription after the first month. This game is just boring.

The starting region of the game, the island of Tortage, is actually pretty good because it's the only area that the developers put any effort into building even a vague storyline to give your character a sense or purpose or reason for doing any of the quests/missions. It's also the only place with much voice acting. With a 30GB installation, you'd think they'd have more than a dozen characters with voices, but apparently not. The NPCs are pretty much all silent everywhere else in the world.

After you finish Tortage, which doesn't take long, you're allowed to travel the rest of the world and that's where the quality drops way off. It might seem like a cool idea to have large expanses of realistic terrain, but in reality, it's not only boring looking, but everything is way too far apart to travel on foot. Too bad it's going to be a long time until you can get a horse. But the worst part is that the large sections of empty terrain are really boring to look at and run through constantly.

Which brings us to the general lack of fun in this game. Not only will you spend way too much time traveling to each quest, but the quests themselves are very generic, most of the NPCs you fight are generic humans, and the loot they drop and the quest rewards are almost always UTTER GARBAGE. So after running way too far to get to each quest location and killing a bunch of the same boring NPCs over and over again, you're rewarded with crap. Literally, the worst loot in any MMORPG to date. Even the loot in the lvl 60-80 range doesn't look very good. If we learned anything from Diablo, it's that a game can be based solely around nearly mindless clicking to acquire more loot to look cool and it will still be fun. And this mechanic was used successfully in WoW, Oblivion, Fallout...pretty much every RPG to date. If only the quest rewards didn't suck so much, maybe Age of Conan wouldn't be so damn boring. After hours and hours of quests, don't players deserve some kind of tangible reward for their efforts? Evidently, the developers don't think so.

And then of course, there are the bugs. Even if you have a decent system (3.0GHz C2D, 8800GT 512MB, etc), and maybe most of the time the game runs pretty well, the memory leak and other bugs will eventually make it necessary for you to shut the game down because texture and object pop-in will be so bad that even the ground you're standing on will be a blurry mess, no less everything else around you. And the list goes on.

Overall, the game is just boring. It was hyped way too much, simply because it isn't WoW, the graphics are pretty good, and it includes bloody decapitations and dismemberment. And it's CONAN. It should be pretty hard to screw up a property as awesome as Conan, right? Well, Funcom worked long and hard on Age of Conan to do just that, similar to their other MMORPG, Anarchy Online. Somehow they made the quests boring, the NPCs boring, the environment boring and the loot boring. PvP is entertaining for a while, but the novelty of that even wears off after a while because there's no reward. Hopefully Mythic's new MMO, Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, will be what Age of Conan should have been, because Funcom completely missed the mark on this one.

A trainwreck in slow motion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst MMO I've ever played, period. I don't care how "early" this game is, it was pushed out the door while it was still alpha quality now we have the privilege of paying to test for Funcom.

Class balance is a joke, end game content consists of finding another player to 1 or 2-shot (kill in 1 or 2 hits), then getting 1 or 2 shotted yourself, then doing it all over again. PvP in this game consists of sitting at a spawn point and ganking other players before they can heal up.

Massive PvP is a joke - sieges are a 5fps slideshow with over 1000ms ping times when all 96 players are on screen. It's not actually possible to win a siege due to bugs.

Endgame raiding is also broken, it's not possible to beat a number of the bosses unless you exploit them.

Crafting doesn't work - the quests are endlessly bugged as are the recipes.

Oh, did I mention the memory leaks and frequent client crashes? Broken quests? Half-working auction house system? Annoying mail system (this thing was designed to piss you off, you'll understand if you ever use it).

In short, the game isn't done - and it probably won't be done for another year or so. The parts that are done are either intentionally designed to frustrate you, or they were designed and coded at 8:45am before a 9:00am patch - they're not well thought out at all.

In short, stay far away, there are _many_ better options out there.

Other missing features: PvP system, DX10

Yes, it WAS going to be the wow-killer.......

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

UPDATE: (Origional review still below) Yes, the game is fun, yes, the graphics are amazing, yes, the combat system is bar none, the absolute best in any MMO to date. So why the update???

Simple, the leveling is way too fast, even for a casual player like my wife and I. We have had this for close to two months and already we are almost at the cap level of 80. The problem is that there is absolutely nothing to do after that. There is no endgame content, no raiding, no epic dungeons, no nothing but standing around....

I highly suggest that you pick this game up about a year from now, maybe by then there will be something to actually play.

-------------Old Review------------
Lets face it, if you played WoW, your tired of the grind, tired of pointless quests and lack of endgame. Not to mention graphics that leave you expecting buggs bunny to appear at any moment. Well its time, time for you to move to a mature game, one that does not pander to the lowest common element.
AoC sports decent graphics, a very good combat system, decent game play and an immersive world. Yes, its only been a mere day, but I am impressed enough with it to make this review.
I will mention however, this is the latest game out, therefore please make sure your PC is up to date. The minimum specs are just that; MINIMUM! It does not mean the game will play well on that, only that it will play. If you dont meet the recommended specs, I highly suggest you do so.
Also, prepare for a LONG installation, mine took about 4 hours in total, but I had to add Vista SP1, which i did not have. It is very worth it and now that your ready to move on from WoW, just buy it.

Worst waste of $50

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 24
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So I wasted 50 bucks on this game, that was touted to be "revolutionary". They can't even get their updater working properly. You waste an hour and a half installing the game, then run the updater... I'm now past 72 hours of installing updates, and the server is officially down for MORE updates, which I'm not even past 50% of the original ones. You can not get technical support, if you go to the forums you're told by the most immature community I've ever seen that you're completely wrong and the updater works just great, (of course there's no actual suggestions on how to fix it), and how dare anyone criticize the game.

FunCom kept this game in beta for almost 3 years, it should have stayed there.

AoC ... so far same as the next MMO

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Played AoC to lvl 22 on 2 characters a priest and a mage... I had read all the hype on the game but now having played it I find that it really isnt all that different than other MMO's

I did a review on [...] under userename Rubulator2k if your interested... thats a good place to get reviews of real HC gamers... So I'll just be star rating here...

Bottom line... nice graphics and sound (if your system is in recomended requirement spec). My general feeling is come back in a year after they shake out bugs and upgrade some of the mechanics... Peace...

so sad...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a huge disappointment... I've been following the development and prerelease hype. I even bought the collector's edition and wanted in on the 3 day early release.

* The early access fiasco killed the game for me. They advertised/promised early access to certain people and they did not deliver. There was an uproar about this in the forums, but funcom deleted all the angry posts. I should have known from how the early access fiasco was handled that funcom was a poorly managed company. There are many fanboys who come to their defense, but I think the sorely disappointed significantly outnumbered them.

* Game play is boring... There is no thought required in play. The game is not 'clever' at all. The game is about as tasteful and imaginative as a stale ham sandwich with a few drops food coloring. I actually fell asleep while playing the first time.

* I think other reviewers have commented on the ganking, bugs, and other issues.

* Poorly executed, poorly implemented - bad product overall... I feel robbed of my $50. I originally bought the CE, but returned it when they failed to deliver early access and tried a standard copy.

Absolutely Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 15
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

To say the least I had been alittle sceptical over some of the changes made over the last year or so. But when I finally got a taste of the real thing it was amazing.

If you do not have a good computer go buy one you'll need it.

Anyhow the graphics and combat are done extremely well and the storyline is very deep. For a first timer on the MMO scene Age of Conan has a good start.

Yes there are a few things that need to be fixed and they need to add later content, but despite this the game shines through and will be a big hit for those looking for something more Adult, Dark, and Brutal.

Absolutely wretched

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure this would be a fine product, if it were to load. The game doesn't run for a large percentage of people who meet and exceed the recommended specifications, and Funcom is completely nonresponsive. The fans have tried extensively to fix the bug on their own, and some have reformatted their computers to get into the game - it generally doesn't work. At least with SWG the devs told us the bugs didn't exist. Here we don't even get a response.

Don't buy this until it starts working and Funcom starts having actual customer service.

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