Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

This is a really tough situation right now for Craig, with updates being few and far between for Age of Conan, layoffs, subs seeming to disappear (based on visual acuity as well as sources like Xfire).

With the announced layoffs, it seems that the forums have started to fill up at the community site for AoC with discussion of where Funcom is headed with Age of Conan. Several posts really speak out for how everyone is feeling both in the community and in the game as well...

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Finally, onto the combat itself. From what I’ve read, the game’s combat is somewhat slower than in other MMOs, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’d have to play it myself become I commented more on it, but don’t expect to be see casters being killed in two seconds flat like they can be in o...

Age of Conan is probably the closest anyone will get to a WoW-killer at any point in the next couple of years. There are plenty of MMOs coming out, but few have garnered the attention and hype that Funcom (the company behind Anarchy Online) have with their latest effort - in fact, over a millio...

While I wish Gaute the best of luck in his new career - and speculation on where that will be will only cause fear in the collective MMO community - I think it’s safe to say that MMO’s probably aren’t your forte. That might be a bit harsh, but for those keeping count, that’s 0/2 for Mr. Godager - Ana...

Erling Ellingsen: I disagree with you that the game launched without a PvP system. You could PvP players from day one, both in mini-games, in the open world and in sieges. One of the things we received the most positive feedback on was actually PvP, and Age of Conan is unique in regards to the fa...

By ferv0r 1) Funcom’s dedication to the game and past history with Anarchy Online Expansion next year? A Conan movie next year? Xbox 360 version? DirectX 10? PvP patch, new zones, new items, etc.? That sounds like an awful lot to handle for a company like Funcom. 4) The combat system

By Enrico S. If the attacking guild takes over a battlekeep, any city guards that are left will now despawn.Players can now only spawn a ballista while the city is vulnerable to attack.Catapult progress bar no longer shows Trebuchet Blast.Once the siege battle is finished, the siege weapons and siege c...

By Nicod3mus Overall - Age of Conan may be the first 3rd generation MMORPG to get the model right. Many have come and many have failed. I have never had this much fun in the earliest stages of any MMORPG and if the PVP and siege mechanics turn out to be as good as everyone thinks they will be Age of Conan: Hybordi...

News Are female characters really penalized in Age of Conan?First glimpse of Age of Conan PvP gear!AoC grinds out the fixesLinden Lab's big content takedownNew Final Fantasy XI update drops big changes into Vana'dielAT&T says internet data caps and overage fees 'inevitable'Is C...

By Shayalyn When Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures hit store shelves, there was a flurry by many MMOG gamers to pick up a copy and begin their journeys through the dark and bloody lands. For the past few weeks, Ten Ton Hammer's Cody "Micajah" Bye has been traversing those same hills and dales of Funcom's...

Of course he is writing about the Herald of Xotl, the class I played too. Scott says: "Age of Conan clearly has staked out a niche: people who like burning things. My suspicion is that this may be a fairly large niche." And my problem with AoC is probably that setting virtual people on fire only am...

I finally had a bit more time to play this weekend, and thus leveled my Age of Conan Herald of Xotl to level 30. I was looking forward to that, because the destiny quest which stopped at level 20 in Tortage continues at level 30. A friend of mine had the problem that his quest journal was full or som...

By Bildo(noreply@blogger.com) You won’t need to wait for an expansion pack to explore exciting new areas. In the next period, Funcom will include several new areas, as well as evolving already existing areas. This includes a brand new dungeon in Aquilonia, reshaping three dungeons in Stygia, and an entire mountain rang...

Age of Conan is the biggest MMORPG release this year and one of the biggest in recent years. Despite that, since it came a few years after its biggest competitors, it will not be pardoned too easy for its mistakes and bugs. And, apparently, the developers did not see a small bug in the game (and n...

MMORPG blog Key to the game's appeal is the new combat system, which favors the game's focus on player-versus-player combat. By forcing MMO gamers to think ... Age of Conan ships 1 million units Neoseeker Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures to break one million soon MMORPG blog

As many of you know I was in the AoC beta where I only managed to get to lev 15 or so with my barbarian, but since last Thursday, when I finally managed to get a copy of the game, I’ve been battling it out in Hyborian and currently have a lev 20 Demonologist. So I thought I’d give you guys my thoughts o...

By Mike Fahey Setting The Scene Combat If you were to take the MMO completely out, those first 20 levels would make an excellent, if somewhat short single-player RPG. That's really the highest praise you can give an MMO. I would buy a single player game that played like this.

I did both single player instance (Tortage night) and multiplayer instance (Tortage day) quests. I didn’t do any PvP minigames having tried them in the stress tests which was enough for me. I liked the idea of the destiny quest and ultimately how well it was executed in single player RPG fash...

Via Massively I got the news that leveling a character from 1 to 80 in Age of Conan will take 250 hours on average. For comparison the orignal Everquest was considered to take about 2,000 hour to reach the level cap, and the average number of hours to reach level 60 in World of Warcraft when it ca...

By Bildo(noreply@blogger.com) What most players will notice when first logging into AoC is that the entire starting area and its quests (which take place in a solo-only instance at night) feel very much like a single-player game. And that’s entirely because it used to be one. Just a little while back the first 20 levels of A...

This week has seen news across the MMOGosphere -- Age of Conan information, lots of City of Heroes and City of Villains information on upcoming Issue 12, the skinny on APB, and exclusives in Vanguard. Of course, added to this was the not-so-small media blitz by Blizzard with both Wrath of th...

Combat The vaunted combat system is a welcome departure from typical Diku MUD autoattack combat but not without its limitations. Attacks are left, middle, right (1,2,3 keys). You don’t swing, you don’t attack. As you progress, characters learn combos that are special attacks you can init...

What I did like in Age of Conan are the destiny quests in the single-player part of the game. For my first character, a Tempest of Set, they were not very class specific, I just had to kill stuff. But for my Barbarian, which is a rogue sub-class, I had several sneaking quests. The destiny quests ar...

As many MMO gamers already know, Age of Conan is boasting a new combat system unlike any other MMORPG out there. It is fast paced, action-oriented, and near-useless to the mage classes of the game. So where does that leave all the struggling magic-seekers during the beginnings of the game? P...

For one that has been generally a bit tired of fantasy MMORPG titles, Age of Conan feels different enough that it may be worth getting back into fantasy a bit - there are no elves, orcs or dwarves with beards or anyone called Legolass running around. Hopefully it stays that way later also.

1. PvE Raiding Gear that influences the outcome of PvP 2.1 Epic Dungeons and Raids can be fun if you design them that way! coming soon* 3.1 PvP Death Penalties and Progression coming soon* 4. AoC Specific: Battle Keeps and who gets them. The role of the Mini-games.

By Keen 1. PvE Raiding Gear that influences the outcome of PvP 2.1 Epic Dungeons and Raids can be fun if you design them that way! 3. Should only the Hardcore players get the gear? PvE and PvP. 3.1 PvP Death Penalties and Progression 4. AoC Specific: Battle Keeps and who gets them. The role of the Mini-games.

By Kyle Horner Filed under: Age of Conan, New titles, The Daily Grind We've asked if you were a collector or not, but now we're curious about one specific title. Namely, are you going to buy the CE for Age of Conan or will you be settling for the regular edition?

Filed under: Age of Conan, New titles, The Daily Grind We've asked if you were a collector or not, but now we're curious about one specific title. Namely, are you going to buy the CE for Age of Conan or will you be settling for the regular edition?

I will play some Age of Conan. Preferably in the free form of an open beta, but if that shouldn't be available, I'll buy the box and play for the free month. But if a reader hadn't asked me to, I wouldn't even have written about the game before playing it. Age of Conan isn't really the game I've been w...

By Martuk G4Tv's Friday special called the MMO Report covered many of the games that came out of the Game Developers Convention, but more importantly they covered the good one, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventure. Once you get past the review of Hello Kitty and World of Warcraft, you are treated to seve...