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Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures


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Age Of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Genre: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

Developer: Funcom

Publisher: Eidos

Platform: PC, Xbox 360

Released: May 2008 [PC]

 

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Overview:

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures is a massively-multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) based on the world and works of acclaimed author Robert E. Howard. In Age of Conan, players enter Hyboria with thousands of their friends and enemies to live, fight, and explore the dark and brutal world of King Conan.

 

Age of Conan's features include:

 

- An advanced combat system lets you choose every cut, thrust, and swing in real time.

 

- Groundbreaking graphics and advanced DirectX 10 features plunge you into a world of breathtaking beauty.

 

- A massive fantasy world based on over 75 years of books, movies, art, and music, developed in close collaboration with Conan Inc. to ensure the most realistic Conan experience ever seen.

 

- An unprecedented character development and customization system with combo attacks, skills, special abilities, and deadly spells ensures no two characters are exactly the same.

 

- Massive Player Versus Player combat. Capture battlekeeps and wage epic warfare between players and guilds, or hire yourself out as a mercenary and battle for pay!

 

- New and exotic classes, such as the Demonologist, Herald of Xotli, and Dark Templar, along with incredible twists on classics like the Ranger and Assassin.

 

- A detailed and engrossing crafting system, allowing you to make everything from armor and weapons to an entire city!

 

- Hundreds of unique quests for combat and crafting with extensive NPC interaction and voice acting, immersing you in the living world of King Conan.

 

- An extensive story-driven single player adventure to start the game drawing you deep into the scheming, seduction, intrigue, and betrayal of Hyboria.

 

Age of Conan is consistently mentioned as one of the most anticipated PC games in development. It has received close to twenty magazine covers and more than fifteen awards, including numerous “Best MMO of E3” awards and the official “Best Online Game of Show” award at the GC convention 2007. Age of Conan is a key title in Microsoft's Games for Windows line-up, as well as a showcase title for nVidia.

 

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It's been getting really good reviews. Many are calling it the next best MMORPG after WoW.

 

I'm getting it for sure. I love the Conan universe... seems like a great way to start getting into MMOs for me!

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^^ I'll probably get it next month, a friend returning from the states is getting it for me.

 

From what I've seen so far, this really seems to be my kind of game. WoW never really interested me much despite being a fan of the WarCraft RTS games and I was kinda looking forward to Tabula Rasa but it turned to be quite meh...

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Well you'll have to get it from eBay or online stores. Or else you can register your credit card and they will debit the fee every month. Kinda like XBL.

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From what I've seen and heard the game has tons of potential but as is the case with most MMOs, AoC should only be picked up after maybe a year or so (or so the MMO experts tell me)

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  • 1 month later...

So I've been playing the game for a while now and I think it rocks. It looks good, plays well and the combat system is pretty intuitive (no more clickfest here). Haven't PVPed much but me and a couple of Shamans did go on a rampage killing level 6 creeps.

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WoW had its own charm, besides Night Elves and Blood Elves and Human Females have boobies too :)

 

My guild mates(from WoW) and who currently play AoC tell me that the game is fun while you level up, then theres not much in terms of organised PvP and endgame raiding. This is where Blizz owns by providing endgame content constantly in patches almost every 2 months, and it takes a while to get through as well.

 

However, they say, similar patches for AoC on the way, after some time though

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Also, I dunno how much install space it really takes but minimum system requirements on the box said 32 GB....I was like wtf ? How much does it actually take? I don't think it can really be that much... Probably 10-15 gigs max?

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Also, I dunno how much install space it really takes but minimum system requirements on the box said 32 GB....I was like wtf ? How much does it actually take? I don't think it can really be that much... Probably 10-15 gigs max?

I wasnt referring to the install size (which is 25 GB after the initial install). I was talking about the updates that are required to be downloaded by the in-game updater before you can actually start playing.

 

1.6GB :wallbash:

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