Joystiq primer: Age of Conan

20 Comments by Ross Miller May 19th 2008 6:30PM
Filed under: PC, Adventure, Online, RPGs, MMO

Tomorrow marks the release of Funcom's Age of Conan for PC, an MMO with enough pre-release hype to actually create a blip on the map so long dominated by World of Warcraft. In case you need a introduction to the M-rated online adventure, we've compiled a list of impressions and guides that you can peruse after the break. (Big thanks to Massively and BigDownload.)

What is Age of Conan?

Gallery: Age of Conan

Hardware

Big Iron: Age of Conan's demanding tribute – The requirements
Age of Conan survival guide (for your computer) – Optimization tips
MMOGology: Age of Conan, PC vs 360 – Console version due in 2009

Starting the game

Gallery: Age of Conan: the first steps in Tortage

Class Overviews

Beta guide: The priests (also: Hands-on with the priests)
Beta guide: The mages (also: Hands-on in PvP with mages)
Twelve Trails of Blood (Class overview)

Gallery: Twelve trails of blood in Age of Conan

(Page 1) Reader Comments

Mars: May 19th 2008; 6:43PM

Shouldn't it be Age of Conan: a premier?

Wil: May 19th 2008; 6:48PM

prim·er1 (prĭm'ər)
n.
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2. A book that covers the basic elements of a subject.

GenBanks: May 19th 2008; 6:57PM

For lack of better new titles on PC lately, I might actually get this... must resist though, and wait for reviews.

Haggard: May 19th 2008; 7:08PM

You also gotta find out whether it'll be worth the subscription fee. I've been considering this one though.. long time player of Guild Wars but with new content only appearing in new campaigns and the expansion pack i've been looking for another MMO to recreate the nostalgia I have for the 'old days of GW'

Tone: May 19th 2008; 7:05PM

Might pick this up this week due to getting my stimulas check today.....

phobic99: May 19th 2008; 7:13PM

I have a level 23 Tempest of Set right now and I have to say I'm really enjoying this game a lot. Plus, the graphics are pretty damn good too.

For the curious, you can try and score a buddy key from someone as they are included with the collector's edition (and I think 1 is included with the regular version).

theturtle363: May 19th 2008; 7:22PM

hey dude can i have a buddy key?

br3ntbr0: May 19th 2008; 7:33PM

I have a review of my 2 days in the early start compared to my time in closed beta, the game is greatly improved and has won me over enough for me to pick up my preorder and give this game a good run:

http://textwall.blogspot.com/2008/05/age-of-conan-early-start-is-resounding.html

Here's to hoping the official launch tomorrow goes as smooth as the early start did!

Carrie: May 19th 2008; 7:37PM

I'm also enjoying the game in the Early Access, it lives up to a lot of the hype so far.

friday: May 19th 2008; 7:50PM

I was a closed beta tester and this game is running so much better then the beta client. I am playing with 2 other friends right now and the FFA of pvp is too hard to resist, we rock a nice death-march. I hope tomorrow goes well, early access has been super smooth.

Meta: May 19th 2008; 11:09PM

30gb of hard drive space? wow.

pwnetheus: May 19th 2008; 11:56PM

Can't wait to get this. It should hold me over until WarHammer comes out this fall.(hopefully)

Omega2k3: May 20th 2008; 1:34AM

Well, when you get bored of "Dark Age of Camelot 2: Lite Edition, featuring Warhammer" we'll welcome you back with open, consoling, arms.

Anticrawl: May 20th 2008; 12:33AM

The game is incredible, to bad I don't want to pay the monthy fee. Tried it out at a friends house who is in the early launch. I'll keep playing Guild Wars until Guild Wars 2 releases.

Anticrawl: May 20th 2008; 12:36AM

Also Age of Conan here 10 dollars off.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?linkid=j13459594k31063&affiliateid=k31063&mid=&oid=211917&WT.mc_n=777592&WT.mc_t=U&cm_ven=AFFILIATE%20MARKETING&cm_cat=PERFORMICS&cm_pla=AFFILIATE%20WEEKLY%20NEWSLETT->BYOL&cm_ite=273897%2020080221_NON%20REDIRRECTING%20FOR%20BYOL%20TEST&cm_keycode=777592

Wes: May 20th 2008; 5:03AM

I'm sorry that you can't afford the monthly fee. Your missing out on a great game.

Its a shame the cost of buying 1 bottle of pop from a vending machine once every 3 days is not worth a good gaming experience to you, being part of a community, playing with friends and getting bug fixes/content updates.

Your basically paying on a monthly basis for your mini-expansion packs. Look at wow with its Patch 2.4, adding x instance, Patch 2.3 adding the temple of blah.

Anticrawl: May 20th 2008; 5:37AM

I don't drink soda, just tap water. I'm a poor gamer and I already pay for xbox live haha. Comes with the being a college student thing. It's eat or play games, not both.

Mojo: May 20th 2008; 9:50AM

I hear you, brother. I'm excited about this game, too, but moneys is moneys. Even if it is soda-equivalent

Felnor: May 20th 2008; 9:45AM

I just got on to play this morning. Never was in Beta or EA(Early Access) and I can tell you the game plays quite well. It took me a bit to figure out the combat but once you do(Only 5mins) you'll be making Blood Bath ala Enemy in no time.

shoorty: May 30th 2008; 7:35AM

Zapraszam na polskie forum gry:
http://www.ageofconanforum.pl

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