Age of Conan

I see FC kinda like as an ex-girlfriend who stole my money and cheated on me for months before getting caught. Of course I will break up with her and move on, but deep inside I get pleasure if she suffers and is unhappy, because I feel she deserves it. It's evil but that's human nature. We like it when bad things happen to bad people.

 

Or this analogy..

She cheated on ya, and then realized what she got was not that good, and decided to come back...only now she is going out of her way to pleasure you even moreso...She is twice as wild in the bedroom, cooks for you all the time or even will eventually pay for your meal to show you how much she feels she messed up...

Might at well use that to my advantage and take her back...and if she screws up again dump her (you should see how she jumps when I tell her to get me a beer)

AOC, like AO at release, has potential.

In a year? It may be the best thing since sliced bread, once you get used to the grabass zonelines and odd warp NPC placement in relation to what neighboring terrain is.

The engine is laughibly bad, even for a beefed up AO engine (and it is) - I doubt it will run properly on any system for the next several years simply due to that.

The texturing, skills, controls, sound, leveling is all pretty decent, though I did learn to hate Conarch Valley or whatever it is. (Snowy area with nasty frostgiant things)

I really felt that...

They did such a good job on Tortage, the lack of polish and general odd problems with the game later on came to leave a sour taste in alot of peopels' mouths. (Tortage is excellence!)

Originally posted by Cams69

AOC, like AO at release, has potential.

 

In a year? It may be the best thing since sliced bread, once you get used to the grabass zonelines and odd warp NPC placement in relation to what neighboring terrain is.

 

The engine is laughibly bad, even for a beefed up AO engine (and it is) - I doubt it will run properly on any system for the next several years simply due to that.

The texturing, skills, controls, sound, leveling is all pretty decent, though I did learn to hate Conarch Valley or whatever it is. (Snowy area with nasty frostgiant things)

 

I really felt that...

They did such a good job on Tortage, the lack of polish and general odd problems with the game later on came to leave a sour taste in alot of peopels' mouths. (Tortage is excellence!)

 

You have not tried the engine recently then...but of course, hardware is required..

I have a 4870 512mb, 4 gigs and Vista 64, and get a constant 60FPS ...WITH Shadows..

So, the game engine is future proofed. This same system though runs Vanguard, LOTRO, EQ2 and WAR like crap...why? Backwards looking engines.

But, as to the Tortage statement ..I agree. I have stated in the past, 40 levels would have been enough. Polish that 40, add full voiceovers, and then worked on PvP AFTER launch, and then 3 months down the road, release it as a free content update.
 

The bitching then would have been 50% less...guaranteed.

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Originally posted by Scared
I see FC kinda like as an ex-girlfriend who stole my money and cheated on me for months before getting caught. Of course I will break up with her and move on, but deep inside I get pleasure if she suffers and is unhappy, because I feel she deserves it. It's evil but that's human nature. We like it when bad things happen to bad people.

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What about

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I had good times with AoC but the endgame just wasn't there.

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Speaking in the language of your "ex-girlfriend" metaphor:
You've met a girl, she was nice, but after a couple of month together you started to realize that she's not up to your taste. Instead of just breaking up and finding another girl you became jealous, started to accuse her in cheating on you and stealing your money (though even she's got her own job, and you don't) and finally cheated on her yourself. She has left you, but once in a while you send to her hate mails saying how much you want her to have a cancer. As well as all her family and friends.

And then, when her grandpa finally gets a cancer, it's the best day in your pathetic life.

Originally posted by ruslans

 

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Originally posted by Scared
I see FC kinda like as an ex-girlfriend who stole my money and cheated on me for months before getting caught. Of course I will break up with her and move on, but deep inside I get pleasure if she suffers and is unhappy, because I feel she deserves it. It's evil but that's human nature. We like it when bad things happen to bad people.

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Bad people? Man, are you serious? You mean, all 150+ people working in the company? Everyone personally cheated on you, humiliated you and stole you money?

 

What about

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I had good times with AoC but the endgame just wasn't there.

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Speaking in the language of your "ex-girlfriend" metaphor:
You've met a girl, she was nice, but after a couple of month together you started to realize that she's not up to your taste. Instead of just breaking up and finding another girl you became jealous, started to accuse her in cheating on you and stealing your money (though even she's got her own job, and you don't) and finally cheated on her yourself. She has left you, but once in a while you send to her hate mails saying how much you want her to have a cancer. As well as all her family and friends.

And then, when her grandpa finally gets a cancer, it's the best day in your pathetic life.

I think a more accurate "ex-girlfriend" metaphor for AoC would be:

You're out and see this attractive woman at the bar/club/whatever.  You two start chatting, have some drinks, dance, and enjoy each other's company for a few hours.

Then you get her home and find out that "she" is a pre-op tranny.

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Originally posted by smokeyjon

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Originally posted by ruslans

 

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Originally posted by Scared
I see FC kinda like as an ex-girlfriend who stole my money and cheated on me for months before getting caught. Of course I will break up with her and move on, but deep inside I get pleasure if she suffers and is unhappy, because I feel she deserves it. It's evil but that's human nature. We like it when bad things happen to bad people.

 
Bad people? Man, are you serious? You mean, all 150+ people working in the company? Everyone personally cheated on you, humiliated you and stole you money?
 
What about

I had good times with AoC but the endgame just wasn't there.

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Speaking in the language of your "ex-girlfriend" metaphor:
You've met a girl, she was nice, but after a couple of month together you started to realize that she's not up to your taste. Instead of just breaking up and finding another girl you became jealous, started to accuse her in cheating on you and stealing your money (though even she's got her own job, and you don't) and finally cheated on her yourself. She has left you, but once in a while you send to her hate mails saying how much you want her to have a cancer. As well as all her family and friends.
And then, when her grandpa finally gets a cancer, it's the best day in your pathetic life.

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I think a more accurate "ex-girlfriend" metaphor for AoC would be:
You're out and see this attractive woman at the bar/club/whatever.  You two start chatting, have some drinks, dance, and enjoy each other's company for a few hours.
Then you get her home and find out that "she" is a pre-op tranny.

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hahahahahaha! Im glad I wasnt drinking my morning coffee while I read that.

Originally posted by ruslans

 

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Originally posted by Scared
I see FC kinda like as an ex-girlfriend who stole my money and cheated on me for months before getting caught. Of course I will break up with her and move on, but deep inside I get pleasure if she suffers and is unhappy, because I feel she deserves it. It's evil but that's human nature. We like it when bad things happen to bad people.

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Bad people? Man, are you serious? You mean, all 150+ people working in the company? Everyone personally cheated on you, humiliated you and stole you money?

 

Like I said before, I feel bad for the hard working developers who had no part in FC's lying and amateur behaviour. They are the biggest victims here, not the players. They were betrayed by the management.

After FC goes bankrupt it can be difficult for them to find a new job. I would imagine being an ex-AoC dev does not look good on your CV (unless you worked with graphics or sound).

Originally posted by Scared

Originally posted by ruslans

 

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Originally posted by Scared
I see FC kinda like as an ex-girlfriend who stole my money and cheated on me for months before getting caught. Of course I will break up with her and move on, but deep inside I get pleasure if she suffers and is unhappy, because I feel she deserves it. It's evil but that's human nature. We like it when bad things happen to bad people.

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Bad people? Man, are you serious? You mean, all 150+ people working in the company? Everyone personally cheated on you, humiliated you and stole you money?

 

 

Like I said before, I feel bad for the hard working developers who had no part in FC's lying and amateur behaviour. They are the biggest victims here, not the players. They were betrayed by the management.

After FC goes bankrupt it can be difficult for them to find a new job. I would imagine being an ex-AoC dev does not look good on your CV (unless you worked with graphics or sound).

Agreed...

Direction was the issue here, not the game itself.

I have said it over and over that the game is good, but Funcom is the issue. Misguided choices led this title down it's rocky path.

Time will only tell if it can get off that road and hit some smooth pavement.