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why is everyone going bat shit crazy over this game?
isnt it just another MMO?
whats it got thats so special?
 

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just another mmo imo, but think im bored of pc gaming now so hence my lack of anticipation.
 

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Everyones getting exciting (including me) because it looks half decent, which makes a change from all the other MMO's that have comeo ut in the last few years.
 

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I'm not goin apeshit crazy i'm just looking forward to it, another reason not to see the girls and waste money. :)
 

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whats half decent about it?
 

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Looks good.
PG18(no kids)
Conan.

People ain't going apesh*t, just that it's finally a good looking/sounding MMO.
 

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whats half decent about it?

The combat system (360 degrees etc) is innovative and actually works, it's massive, it's nice looking, the PvP sounds good (guilds vs guilds in instanced guild owned cities). Looks pretty good.
 

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Looks to have proper combat in it rather than select mob, select attack /afk

Its £25 or so, worth a punt.
 

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this is why i wondered, even the level headed none-geek types like raven are going for it :eek:
 

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this is why i wondered, even the level headed none-geek types like raven are going for it :eek:

Well, main reason is that MMOs are fun and enjoyable waste of time(too much of it anyway), so if i have to choose my timewastage, i'd rather have it filled with blood, guts, glory and tits.
 

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Well, main reason is that MMOs are fun and enjoyable waste of time(too much of it anyway), so if i have to choose my timewastage, i'd rather have it filled with blood, guts, glory and tits.

wont it just be another grind fest like daoc and wow?
 

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wont it just be another grind fest like daoc and wow?

MMO is grind.

That's what makes a MMO genre work.

So if you remove grind, it becomes..well...a different game.

Every MMO has grind, but some MMOs have balancing things to the grind that make it enjoyable grind. In other words, fluffy stuff to distract you from the fact you go "click click click" all the time.
 

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Looks good.
PG18(no kids)
Conan.

People ain't going apesh*t, just that it's finally a good looking/sounding MMO.



There will always be kids sadly :( parents will buy it for the little shits then start whining at how violent it is and that his/her son has gone out and bashed a kids head in with a hammer.

To which i'd just respond "Its your own fucking fault for buying a PG18 rated game for a child, its not the game to blame its your mediocre parenting skills.
 

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Well age of conan does pose to be the "Next" big thing :p I was put off by it at first after trying the open beta although i've put my differences aside, i've just not played a different MMO from my usual collection (Eq2/eve/daoc/wow) for a long time so I decided to give it another go.

The open beta was unstable although! that said the final product/live client is set to be very stable i'm told by reliable sources.
 

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Well age of conan does pose to be the "Next" big thing :p I was put off by it at first after trying the open beta although i've put my differences aside, i've just not played a different MMO from my usual collection (Eq2/eve/daoc/wow) for a long time so I decided to give it another go.

The open beta was unstable although! that said the final product/live client is set to be very stable i'm told by reliable sauces.

Tommy Ketchup or Brown Sauce?
 

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Looks good.
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You are so naive, all this 18 rating will do is attract even more kids :touch:

If they can get their parents creditcard for WoW, they can sure as hell get it for Conan, and with the promise of bare boobies the only people to actually get excited over the feature is.... kids who can't get porn anywhere else.
 

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You are so naive, all this 18 rating will do is attract even more kids :touch:

If they can get their parents creditcard for WoW, they can sure as hell get it for Conan, and with the promise of bare boobies the only people to actually get excited over the feature is.... kids who can't get porn anywhere else.

Actually no, i'm not naive.

No matter what people think, PG18 limits people, even if just a little, it works.

Simply because not all shops sell to underaged kids and not all parents cater to whines. Luckily.

And those who are onlie, will be damn careful about their age.

Just one "lez go out drinking tonight" or "drunk raid" and you might spot and report a minor.

I'm not saying it's foolproof, but it helps.
 

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I really, really doubt they will actually ban any account with a minor. It would be shooting themself in the foot.
 

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I really, really doubt they will actually ban any account with a minor. It would be shooting themself in the foot.

Actually just the other way around, as A: They'd get enough cash anyway and B: BEcause i do believe not ALL companies are out for the dollahs.
 

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The definition of a company is to earn money for their products/services. And even if the game studio maybe is out to make their perfect dream game, the publisher only cares about the money - and in the end, its them who has the say as the game studio really can't go "fuck you" without having to pay the millions spent in advertising/producing the game.
 

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Funcom are slightly different to most companies though. Hence Anarchy Online is free to play these days, and they seem to offer all the expanision packs for free every week.
 

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They are also getting paid silly sums of money by their publisher for working on Age Of Conan, and they probably realised that they can get better publicity by giving away Anarchy Online free - just like Mythic is doing currently with almost all of the expansions to DAoC.
 

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You are so naive, all this 18 rating will do is attract even more kids :touch:

If they can get their parents creditcard for WoW, they can sure as hell get it for Conan, and with the promise of bare boobies the only people to actually get excited over the feature is.... kids who can't get porn anywhere else.

I don't think the point is that "kids can get it". The point is that Funcom can legally fill the game with adult content which makes it more enjoyable for me. I couldn't care less if little Jimmy gets to see boobs because his mummy was sloppy. :p

Anyway, what's made me go apeshit over this game is:

1) I've been waiting for it since everyone left DaoC for WoW. I never played WoW at all and no other MMO for years, just been waiting for this one.
2) Good non-cartoony graphics.
3) Gritty, adult world where bad shit happens. I'd love The Witcher as an MMO, but this is as close as it gets right now. :)
4) It's CONAN! I've bought the comics since I was a kid, and I loved the Arnold movies and of course Robert E. Howard's books.
5) It has promised siege warfare with keeps and such. I think it can turn out very nice given some time.
6) Good combat system is a very nice bonus.
 

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Funcom made sure that NO one below of the age of 18 could visit their booths to see Age of Conan so I think they will investigate in reports of people who below the age of 18 (think it is 17 in the US) playing the game.

They advertise the game as an MMOG for adults. Most of the developers are ~30+.

The rest is up to you really.
 

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