Age Of Conan's Fighting Is A Bloody Mess - Kotaku Comments

Age Of Conan's Fighting Is A Bloody Mess

angrymob — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:14:00 MDT

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

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Koztah — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:50:44 MDT

@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

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Jamie_W — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:44:18 MDT

Won't be buying this.

Jamie_W

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Rishathra — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:43:10 MDT

You can decapitate people with a KNEE TO THE CHIN? Okay, I'm sold.

Rishathra

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clintonskneecap — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:44:47 MDT

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

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Witzbold — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:44:00 MDT

No Grace Jones = No Sale. ;D

Witzbold

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smitty1123 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:11:45 MDT

@ErskinPig: Old != Bad

smitty1123

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Morberis — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:37:08 MDT

@Volomon:

Someone breaking an NDA, and you know Beta bugs always make it into the final game.

Morberis

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Cell9song — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:42:41 MDT

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

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:19:58 MDT

@Volomon: Whaddua mean? Buy City of Heroes, roll a Dual Blades/anything Scrapper.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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Volomon — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:05:33 MDT

To bad most of what their saying is a lie. Cause combos don't work.

Volomon

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Hostile — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:26:04 MDT

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

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CrimsonAngel — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:25:21 MDT

@bellini: I will get it because it is CONAN!!!!!!!

CrimsonAngel

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:41:06 MDT

@bellini: But it has gore and boobs!

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:40:52 MDT

@GHamilton: It also has boobs. I wouldn't be counting on low sales!

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bellini — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:38:49 MDT

Looks positively horrible. Lousy art direction, animations are awful, combat looks clunky, slow and dumb.

Dead on arrival.

bellini

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ErskinPig — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:25:14 MDT

@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

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Balius — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:18:09 MDT

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

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GHamilton — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:06:50 MDT

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

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Spiderbait — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:37:19 MDT

I demand that there be a decapitation football in the game!

Spiderbait

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ggodo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:35:41 MDT

@ErskinPig: True, but on the other hand, there are no elves.

Sorry if it double posts, yours came as I was typing.

ggodo

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ggodo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:34:24 MDT

@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

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Luziphir — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:34:16 MDT

@schizogony: Still a step up from a watch-fest.

Luziphir

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Voteforme2020 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:33:40 MDT

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

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ErskinPig — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:32:18 MDT

@ggodo: The developers chose it as subject matter for a game afterwards, though :P.

ErskinPig

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pylon_trooper — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:31:14 MDT

@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

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Fury-genesis — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:30:53 MDT

@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

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ggodo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:27:23 MDT

@ErskinPig: Conan was generic fantasy before it was generic!

ggodo

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pylon_trooper — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:25:24 MDT

@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

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DonCaballero — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:21:23 MDT

@schizogony:

Yep, looks like they're talking up the blood and titties because there's not much else to sell.

DonCaballero

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ErskinPig — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:21:11 MDT

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