Believe it or not, the sinking ship that is AoC is getting an expansion - not that anyone cares all that much, myself included.
http://www.riseofthegodslayer.com/
Some of the features advertised:
Age of Conan's highly acclaimed real-time, action-packed combat gameplay is taken to new heights with incredible martial arts moves, ancient magic, and epic weaponry. Extend your character's powers through a new alternate advancement system that allows you to unlock a vast collection of new abilities that breathes new life into the revolutionary combat system!
- Begin your adventure as a Khitan, an all-new character race, and experience a wide variety of new low-level content. Venture into the land of Khitai as you embark on new quests and acquire new rewards geared towards players fresh off the boat from Tortage
- Pick your side! Join one of many warring factions of Khitai, complete assignments for them and slaughter their enemies to reap the exclusive rewards. As you gain influence in a faction you will earn ranks which in turn can be used to unlock incredible treasures. But watch your back, because the enemies of your friends will not hesitate to stab you in your back
- Explore the lands of Khitai from the back of two new mounts - the Wolf and the Tiger. Starting out as defenseless pets, these creatures will follow by your side and can be grown into ferocious fighting companions through a series of unique quests. Ultimately you will be able to grow them into spectacular mounts that will carry you on your adventures!
Screens:
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Incredibly well, actually.
Also, the game's improved by quite a bit. The only reason i'm not playing it now is because I don't have the time, and because that I want to try the new low level content once the expansion comes out.
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Yeah, but in AoC you can use those mounts to rip heads off. My rhino is especially effective at gorging a group of dudes. My buddy's mammoth can charge into a group of guys and scatter them a good 20 paces!
Actually with the Wolf/Tiger mounts in this expansion you have to raise them from Pup/Kit and when they are old enough you can decide to make them either your mount or permanent combat pet.
I am looking forward to this expansion, though I stopped my subscription for now. Way to many AAA titles to deal with this Fall. I will more than likely pick up this expansion when it is released. AoC is, strangely, the only MMO in which I consistently have fun.
This forum has a very proud tradition of shitting on this game and Funcom whenever possible. :?
Funcom sent me out yet another "Come back and try AoC! Please!" email that, in addition to the standard 14 day re-trial, offered the expansion for free if I bought a full year subscription (at a discounted rate, though).
I was about to re-install the damn thing when the re-activation page asked me to pick a subscription offer and enter my credit card again.
And wouldn't let me indulge in this free trial without doing so.
So yeah, fuck that.
My guy is level 33. I'm tempted to go back, but I don't think AoC is big news these days. That's all.
Oh hey that sounds nice. New low level content, that's pretty
FUCK YOUUUUUUU!!!!
Seriously, I'd imagine that one of the biggest reasons the game failed was because every race, every class had to drudge through the utter boredom that is Tortage.
Actually I think that the starting are and Tortage was one of the biggest reasons the game got such positive reviews and very high initial sales. It's was the later stuff that so impacted their continued success.
I want to know more PA people on Twitter.
Also, I wanted to try a couple of different classes. Couldn't do it because fuck Tortage.
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
Pretty much
I got three characters to 20, none of the areas into which they were thrust were worthwhile
Personally I think Tortage is the best starting area of any MMO I've played. But maybe that's just me.
I agree. The problem comes in with altitis though. For those who couldn't help but try out a few different characters rapid fire, it had to be tedious.
White sands was the only area with some room to move about in and even so it was extremely linear and filled with nothing really interesting.
Does anyone on this forum know what the raid game is like in AoC? I've heard... not very stellar things, but raiders in new MMOs are almost always QQers.
They got all those positive reviews because people only got to play Tortage during the beta/press events, so they never got to see what a piece of crap the rest of the game was.
Yeah. What he said...
I wouldn't say that Tortage was the best starting area ever in the history of the universe, but once I got out of it, the game went steadily downhill. I think about checking it out again from time to time, but with LOTRO as my #1 and the occasional visit back to WoW, there just isn't time for a third MMO, especially one in which every character's combat mechanics is a clunkier version of LOTRO's wardens.
Glorntisms
But this game is awful.
"Okay! You've vanquished the evil overlord, fought through the flaming streets of Tortage, rescued the captured girl, and saved us from tyranny! Are you ready to begin your real adventure?!"
"Oh boy, am I!"
"Okay! Come back to me in ten levels."
"Huh?"
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but it didnt and doesnt so what im left with is a fairly grindy pve experience and the occassional oppurtunity to grief/get griefed.
it does have one of the best classes in any game ever
Herald of Xotli! (mine was named Heraldoflol)
yes that's right you breathe fire, use a 2 handed sword, have no armour, and TURN INTO PREDATOR.
thumbs up
also fatalities are awesome
a bear shaman could make you double over and then they'd rip your head off with their bear hands haha get it? anyways
it had potential but really just felt sorta.... lacking.
Not to mention I love conan
I wish this game hadn't been raped
Plenty of people bought it when it came out (myself included) and then...you know...played it.
Yeah.
I will say that rolling as a barbarian was way too fun. My brother played some sort of magic class (cant remember which) so he would support me as I charged head first tearing everything up. Good times. Heres hoping it picks up a little, as I'm already a little tempted to at least start one of those trials and see what its like now, but with all the other games that have recently come out and are coming out, I probably wont.
EDIT: Ha ha wow, didn't realize this was posted quite a few days ago.
Funcom announces a unique holiday offer for Age of Conan. Anyone who downloads, registers, and starts playing the trial before January 1st 2010 will be able to enjoy all of level one to twenty – the entire Island of Tortage experience – without ever having to upgrade to a full account or pay a subscription fee. This unique Unlimited Free Trial campaign is only available until January 1st as a special holiday offer to anyone who wishes to experience the savage world of Conan.
Unlimited free play up to lvl 20 for as many characters as you want for as long as you want: http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=210036
Hey kids! Come play AoC for free! See how awesome Tortage is and then want to give us money once you're through to see how awesome the rest of the game is!"
Only to find out that the rest of the game is nothing like Tortage.