lots of negative review,; is the game realy that bad ?

[Yagi]

title, cause I've some gameplay videos, environments; skill trees, its doesnt look or feel bad at all, are people just being to harsh with the game ? or there are realy things that makes the experience awful ?

geniunly asking, trying to understand

Im downloading it right, but my connection is so low, I will be able to play in 48h

thats why im asking, to know if its worthy of my downloading time

[GeminaLuna]

I don't think it's a bad game at all. It's an old game, and an MMORPG that tried to be different and innovative in it's genre, in a time where WoW was the big hype.
At it's time, it had REALLY good graphics for an MMORPG.
Now ofcourse, it's outdated. But I think it aged very well.

AoC was highly anticipated, and as it has been seen time and time again - highly anticipated games always seem to flop because people expect a miracle and just get a regular game. There was sort of a flop. A lot of people was considering to move from WoW to AoC, but after a couple of months most of them decided that it was too different from what they where used to, and they left AoC.

AoC IS different from WoW. It's way darker in it's atmosphere, it's more raw and explicit, and gameplaywise it's grindy, like WoW was before Cataclysm.
The thing is - Funcom hasn't changed the game since they made it.
It hasn't turned into a clusterf* of story/timelines, collectibles, achievements.
It's just a true MMORPG, as they where back in the day.

Some people like that, some people don't.

[NavFamG]

Well 1800 positive and only 800 negative and from a quick look at the negative ones, many seem to be because it doesn't play like newer games (controls), can't create an account, lack of players or just wasn't able to get it to work.

Yes for some reason, some people have problems either making an account or getting the game to run and with the game in maintenance mode we really don't have any customer support, other than that the only factor that really hurts the game is the pop is so low, but it's way past it's prime and players have moved on to newer games.

Outside of that it's a fun game, more so if you take the time to read the quest dialogues and play with your replies to the NPC's. It's a darker, ruder game so feel free to insult the NPC's and they'll do it right back and if the NPC shuts down the dialogue, you can just restart it with different replies.

One person mentioned how it wasn't really F2p because of a quest King Conan gives you. Well that's his last quest to you and it's a vector quest to the then new Godslayer expansion. Outside of that it's totally free to play up to max level. You have some extra buy to play zones and the 1 expansion and those are totally optional unless you're looking at getting into end game raiding (what there is of it), if so you'd need to buy the expansion and run a sub to unlock the gold cap so you can buy the faction gear raiding armor.

1 big 'shock' moment is after you finish the starter island of Tortage. Funcom put a LOT of money into it with full voice acting. Well once you finish and move off the island, voice acting is few and far between so that is a let down.
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Without seeing how far back the negative reviews go I'm not sure if it's a factor, but the game did have a horrible launch and there was a large leveling gap post Tortage (lvl 20) to lvl 30 which caused a lot of problems. I came to the game a year after it's launch and they had fixed it by then, but the bad memories hung on.

And while it's made to be a Pvp game cuz of the lore, the typical Pvp crowd and some inaction from Funcom killed that so now; whiles there's still a Pvp server, it has a VERY low population.

[Yagi]

Originally posted by GeminaLuna:

I don't think it's a bad game at all. It's an old game, and an MMORPG that tried to be different and innovative in it's genre, in a time where WoW was the big hype.
At it's time, it had REALLY good graphics for an MMORPG.
Now ofcourse, it's outdated. But I think it aged very well.

AoC was highly anticipated, and as it has been seen time and time again - highly anticipated games always seem to flop because people expect a miracle and just get a regular game. There was sort of a flop. A lot of people was considering to move from WoW to AoC, but after a couple of months most of them decided that it was too different from what they where used to, and they left AoC.

AoC IS different from WoW. It's way darker in it's atmosphere, it's more raw and explicit, and gameplaywise it's grindy, like WoW was before Cataclysm.
The thing is - Funcom hasn't changed the game since they made it.
It hasn't turned into a clusterf* of story/timelines, collectibles, achievements.
It's just a true MMORPG, as they where back in the day.

Some people like that, some people don't.

I see thanks for your review !

I def want to try it, since a friend show me an hour of gameplay, I enjoy old shcool softwares like that, stuck in time

thx again

[Yagi]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

Well 1800 positive and only 800 negative and from a quick look at the negative ones, many seem to be because it doesn't play like newer games (controls), can't create an account, lack of players or just wasn't able to get it to work.

Yes for some reason, some people have problems either making an account or getting the game to run and with the game in maintenance mode we really don't have any customer support, other than that the only factor that really hurts the game is the pop is so low, but it's way past it's prime and players have moved on to newer games.

Outside of that it's a fun game, more so if you take the time to read the quest dialogues and play with your replies to the NPC's. It's a darker, ruder game so feel free to insult the NPC's and they'll do it right back and if the NPC shuts down the dialogue, you can just restart it with different replies.

One person mentioned how it wasn't really F2p because of a quest King Conan gives you. Well that's his last quest to you and it's a vector quest to the then new Godslayer expansion. Outside of that it's totally free to play up to max level. You have some extra buy to play zones and the 1 expansion and those are totally optional unless you're looking at getting into end game raiding (what there is of it), if so you'd need to buy the expansion and run a sub to unlock the gold cap so you can buy the faction gear raiding armor.

1 big 'shock' moment is after you finish the starter island of Tortage. Funcom put a LOT of money into it with full voice acting. Well once you finish and move off the island, voice acting is few and far between so that is a let down.
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Without seeing how far back the negative reviews go I'm not sure if it's a factor, but the game did have a horrible launch and there was a large leveling gap post Tortage (lvl 20) to lvl 30 which caused a lot of problems. I came to the game a year after it's launch and they had fixed it by then, but the bad memories hung on.

And while it's made to be a Pvp game cuz of the lore, the typical Pvp crowd and some inaction from Funcom killed that so now; whiles there's still a Pvp server, it has a VERY low population.

thanks for your review !

which server should I play on to expect finding poeple ?

I want to, obviously , start with PvE, and later if I keep playing, do some PvP

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by Yagi:

which server should I play on to expect finding poeple ?
I want to, obviously , start with PvE, and later if I keep playing, do some PvP

You want to play on CROM which is the PvE server. By default the server selector seems to be stuck on Fury (Pvp server) and it's not always oblivious which is marked so be sure to click the Crom button.

Even though it's the PvE server, it does have Pvp zones and the last week of each month is Pvp week with a designated zone active.

You might not find much PvP but the option is there.

[LeRoot]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

You might not find much PvE, but the option is there.

There is plenty of PvE content still being played, though low level dungeons aren't done very often, except for the ones in Tarantia Common District. Level 80 dungeons and raids are usually done often. Best thing to do is to join an active guild.

[NavFamG]

Originally posted by LeRoot:

Originally posted by NavFamG:

You might not find much PvP*******, but the option is there.

There is plenty of PvE content still being played, though low level dungeons aren't done very often, except for the ones in Tarantia Common District. Level 80 dungeons and raids are usually done often. Best thing to do is to join an active guild.

Thanks for catching my typo.