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Age Of Conan's Fighting Is A Bloody Mess
Posted by Mike Fahey at 1:00 PM on March 21, 2008
I've gotten two things from this developer diary for Funcom's Age of Conan MMO. First off, it is open season on heads in AOC. If you have a head and plan on playing the game, I highly suggest you either reinforce it with a steel neckpiece of some sort, or perhaps pre-detach your head with some sort of velcro solution so it can easily be retrieved and reattached. Secondly, Funcom Senior System Designer Andrew Griffin has some amazing hair. You wouldn't think a guy with such great hair would have anything to do with all of this rampant decapitation, but there you go.
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angrymob
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
I've played it. I was most underwhelmed. "Fast paced combat". If you mean pressing a button repeatedly then yeah, it really is a rollercoaster. It looks pretty but some of the models are fugly. Its going to flop and that upsets me because I was really looking forward to playing it. Oh well.
Oh and Dune MMO? Giev!
angrymob
Koztah
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@Rishathra:
Notice he stabbed the guy's neck with a pair of axes before the knee-to-chin. I imagine that would loosen the ol' noggin a bit.
Koztah
Jamie_W
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Won't be buying this.
Jamie_W
Rishathra
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
You can decapitate people with a KNEE TO THE CHIN? Okay, I'm sold.
Rishathra
clintonskneecap
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
I really want to be excited for this game but its Funcom I mean they have yet been able to release a decent MMO
clintonskneecap
Witzbold
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
No Grace Jones = No Sale. ;D
Witzbold
smitty1123
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@ErskinPig: Old != Bad
smitty1123
Morberis
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@Volomon:
Someone breaking an NDA, and you know Beta bugs always make it into the final game.
Morberis
Cell9song
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Looks like these guys didn't give up modeling careers to become developers.
anyhoo, can't wait for this. The combat reminds me of Severance: Blade of Darkness
Cell9song
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@Volomon: Whaddua mean? Buy City of Heroes, roll a Dual Blades/anything Scrapper.
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Volomon
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
To bad most of what their saying is a lie. Cause combos don't work.
Volomon
Hostile
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
If you're wondering why they are taking so long to make this game, you can blame Team Fortress 2. I've been wanting to say that for awhile... [teamfuncom.com]
Hostile
CrimsonAngel
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@bellini: I will get it because it is CONAN!!!!!!!
CrimsonAngel
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@bellini: But it has gore and boobs!
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@GHamilton: It also has boobs. I wouldn't be counting on low sales!
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
bellini
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Looks positively horrible. Lousy art direction, animations are awful, combat looks clunky, slow and dumb.
Dead on arrival.
bellini
ErskinPig
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@Balius: I'm equally bored with chunky plastic armour space marine crap, but the fact remains that medieval fantasy RPGs are ten a penny and, frankly, are played out. It's OLD. Enough already!
ErskinPig
Balius
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Conan has a rich backstory, a lot of personality, and the game sounds like it keeps to the vibrant and exciting source material.
All you people are whining because it has a sword in it, but that's 3/4 of video games. Are you seriously on this site because of your undying love for the extremely rare Sci-Fi title?
Balius
GHamilton
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Looks like it will take a hefty graphics card to make it appear decent.
M rated MMO too.
M rated + hefty graphics = low sales
GHamilton
Spiderbait
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
I demand that there be a decapitation football in the game!
Spiderbait
ggodo
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@ErskinPig: True, but on the other hand, there are no elves.
Sorry if it double posts, yours came as I was typing.
ggodo
ggodo
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@pylon_trooper: Dune could be a awesome MMO, but the combat seems to be controlled by mouse movements, like that Street Fighter spinoff, but hopefully better, if I remember the press release right.
ggodo
Luziphir
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@schizogony: Still a step up from a watch-fest.
Luziphir
Voteforme2020
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Honestly, I'm sick of fantasy. Not to jump on any bandwagon, but you have to imagine there's something more exciting out there.
Voteforme2020
ErskinPig
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@ggodo: The developers chose it as subject matter for a game afterwards, though :P.
ErskinPig
pylon_trooper
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@ggodo: Yeah, good point, but the fact is...MMO genre = inundated with hack 'n' slash swordery. It's getting a bit yawn, isn't it?
I want a hard-science interplanetary colonisation MMO. Or better yet, a Dune MMO.
On topic: So, the combat is like, what, Die By The Sword?
pylon_trooper
ggodo
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@ErskinPig: Conan was generic fantasy before it was generic!
ggodo
pylon_trooper
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@ErskinPig: I agree with your there. Damn fantasy is twee. Wizards and runes and elves and all the other clutter extruded from the bowels of, as you put it, generic fantasy.
pylon_trooper
DonCaballero
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
@schizogony:
Yep, looks like they're talking up the blood and titties because there's not much else to sell.
DonCaballero
ErskinPig
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Sounds like it's making baby steps in the right direction. For the most part though, it looks like generic fantasy shite. I'm SO BORED of D&D/LOTR style fantasy.
ErskinPig
ghnvt
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Me want!
ghnvt
Asper
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Wow. That guy had better calm down! He really... lost his head!
Ha ha ha.. ha ha... ah... ha... eh... right, sorry.
Asper
Cenobite
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
CROM!
Cenobite
Figcoinc
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
BlooooooooooooooDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!
I love the BloooooodDDDD!!!!!!!!!
Sorry...got a little excited there. Game looks cool.
Figcoinc
schizogony
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
It's gonna be a click fest.
schizogony
pylon_trooper
Posted 7:59 PM 26/3/08
Aw yeah, sounds good. Bit of blood letting never hurt anyone.
In saying that, why do I feel like I just watched Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption Online!?
pylon_trooper
Fury-genesis
Posted 1:30 PM 21/3/08
@ErskinPig: You do realize there's a pretty gigantic difference between LoTR style high fantasy and Conan style fantasy? It's two different genres.
Whereas you'll find elves and orcs in high fantasy like LoTR and Warcraft, you'll find over the top violence, demons and lots of nekkid ladies in "low fantasy" like Conan and Heavy Metal.
Fury-genesis