Age of Conan Beta

[BigBlack]

...The game has tits!

[Ghambit]

...The game has tits!

...and ASS!

[Nija]

And apparently dingleberries.

[Mrbloodworth]

And apparently dingleberries.

That have teeth?

[Signe]

I missed something! 

[geldonyetich2]

The last five posts define the Internet.  Conan, however, remains the ever-ambiguous Funcom MMORPG mk. 2

[Ragnoros]

All you have to do is invoke the name of 4chan and the peoples get stupids. 

[Xuri]

A new, and in my opinion pretty awesome AoC trailer is available on Gametrailers:
Exclusive Bar Story Trailer HD

Btw, since this seems to have become the thread for all things AoC-related, perhaps removing the word "Beta" from the title thread would be apropriate? *shrug*

[K9]

Those are some beautiful landscapes, by the standard of any game. I just hope the gameplay can match the art direction.

[CharlieMopps]

Those are some beautiful landscapes, by the standard of any game. I just hope the gameplay can match the art direction.

This game is still worthy of our attention.  That's all I'm saying 

[dr_dre]

This game is still worthy of our attention.  That's all I'm saying 
[/quote]

Of course its stil worthy. It has Tits and ass 

[WayAbvPar]

This game is still worthy of our attention.  That's all I'm saying 

Of course its stil worthy. It has Tits and ass 

Tits and ass, Tits and ass, Tits and ass, Tits and ass!

One of the few roles in which Jim Belushi was even watchable 

[DarkSign]

the song goes... *clears throat* *does operatic scale*

ass...titties, ass and titties, ass ass titties titties, ass 'n' titties.

I love how they were trying to hype the game by saying how many beta testers they have. R00fles! Richard Garriott has said that they had too many beta testers play an unpolished game and that it hurt initial sales. Trying to use betas as marketing instead of testing usually turns out bad.

[schild]

Every game uses beta as marketing. Including WoW.

Richard Garriott's too many testers is a load of bollocks. he can blame his beta schedule, but not the ability to his game to impress enough people that the beta could be considered a success.

[MrHat]

It's only good marketing if there's no NDA.

And there's only no NDA if the game is actually good.

[CharlieMopps]

It's only good marketing if there's no NDA.

And there's only no NDA if the game is actually good.

The NDA is more there to prevent people from popping out videos that show a crap loads of bugs and turn off the uninformed.
Trust me, Vanguard this game is not. Can't wait for open beta (if there is one)

[sam, an eggplant]

Richard Garriott's too many testers is a load of bollocks. he can blame his beta schedule, but not the ability to his game to impress enough people that the beta could be considered a success.

He was right on the money. They let too many players in too early. The players saw that the game sucked, told their friends, and never came back. I was one of them.

Did it get better since? Presumably, but it would take a lot more than an EQ2 style turnaround to get me to even look at it again. I'm just not interested.

[BigBlack]

Richard Garriot made an FPS where ducking behind a wall means the bullets swerve around the wall to hit you.

He loses the right to speak on any topic other than castle ownership.

[IainC]

Richard Garriott's too many testers is a load of bollocks. he can blame his beta schedule, but not the ability to his game to impress enough people that the beta could be considered a success.

He was right on the money. They let too many players in too early. The players saw that the game sucked, told their friends, and never came back. I was one of them.

Did it get better since? Presumably, but it would take a lot more than an EQ2 style turnaround to get me to even look at it again. I'm just not interested.

If your entire community is in early beta then you have more problems than trying to win marketing points.

[Venkman]

We've known this forever. It was "proven" in AO. Why is this news?

[schild]

I stand by my original statements that Tabula Rasa's original incarnation was vastly superior and far more interesting.

[Ratman_tf]

I stand by my original statements that Tabula Rasa's original incarnation was vastly superior and far more interesting.

But then reality came and slapped it around like the little bitch it was.

[sam, an eggplant]

C'mon now. Do you really want to play a flying rainbow pooping my-little-unicorn in Garriot's hilariously off-target vision of a game designed by committee to appeal to both americans and asians, or was that hyperbole intended to emphasize how bland the generi-fi setting in the released TR turned out?

[schild]

Yes, I want to play a flying rainbow pooping my-little-unicorn game.

Also, I want a harp.

[Signe]

All us girls have always wanted the game where you had a unicorn that cvould shoot stuff out of it's horn.  That version of the game was much more pink and sparkly.  They were fools to change it.  Me, Schildy, Voodoo, Xanthippe, Lantyssa and the rest of us girls would have SO played that game.  For weeks, even!

[Ratman_tf]

All us girls have always wanted the game where you had a unicorn that cvould shoot stuff out of it's horn.  That version of the game was much more pink and sparkly.  They were fools to change it.  Me, Schildy, Voodoo, Xanthippe, Lantyssa and the rest of us girls would have SO played that game.  For weeks, even!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bBGKLrit5k

[WayAbvPar]

All us girls have always wanted the game where you had a unicorn that cvould shoot stuff out of it's horn.  That version of the game was much more pink and sparkly.  They were fools to change it.  Me, Schildy, Voodoo, Xanthippe, Lantyssa and the rest of us girls would have SO played that game.  For weeks, even!

I would have played that just so I could name a unicorn Peter North.

[cmlancas]

I'll be your Ron Jeremy sidekick? Even after the game is long gone, I'll still hold onto the notion that I'm someone important. 

[HaemishM]

As Froofy as it was, I preferred TR's initial rainbow brite art/game design to the shit they ended up putting out as well. Generic space marine sci-fi with boring game mechanics = boring game. At least the Froofy style would have differentiated it in the US market.

[geldonyetich2]

I haven't played any good projectile-spewing unicorn games, but I ran across this game when I was meddling with GameTap yesterday and thought it was some kind of kitschy Japanime awesome.

[raydeen]

I haven't played any good projectile-spewing unicorn games, but I ran across this game when I was meddling with GameTap yesterday and thought it was some kind of kitschy Japanime awesome.

Ah yes. Twinkle Star Sprites (or something like that). NeoGeo game I believe. I had it on MAME years ago. Good fun.

[Belle Elegant]

Not sure if anyone has read the interview posted over at Massively yet.  http://www.massively.com/2007/12/14/age-of-conan-product-developer-interview-with-gameplay-video/

Anyway, according to developer Jørgen Tharaldsen:
 

Through your IP we can control what kind of content you'll see, so let's say you come from Germany, you might not see all the fatality moves, but we hope you will see all of them, we'll know soon when we hear back from the ratings boards, whereas in the US you might not see nipples. But you probably will see nipples in Norway, for instance.

No nipples? 

 

[Signe]

Well, that's just not fair!  I might not play to protest the nipplelessness!

[Samwise]

If only playing through a Norway proxy wouldn't fuck the latency to hell and back...

[Venkman]

The time it'll take to get around that restriction is so small it cannot be measured by modern instruments