Information about Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

[Uzbeki]

Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (AoC) is a low fantasy-themed MMORPG.

Developer: Funcom (http://www.funcom.com/)
Platform: PC, Possibly Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Release date: 25th March 2008
Status: Tech beta


Offical Website: http://www.ageofconan.com/

Unofficial System Requirements (These are subject to change and are in no way official, these are currently the beta system requirements)

Minimum Requirements:

CPU 3 GHz
1 GB RAM
Windows XP SP2
128 MB Video Card


Recommended Requirements:

Dual Core, each core 4 GHz
2 GB RAM
Windows Vista
512 MB Video Card

[Punchline]

I've been watching this game very closely. It seems as though it's been going sorta downhill from where it was a few months ago.

[Uzbeki]

AoC and Warhammer Online is my most anticipated games of the upcoming mmorpgs. I like the idea of a more mature enviroment but like you said; the last few months it seem to be moving slow in comparison to its unreleased competitors.

[Punchline]

Ya, the mature environment is sounding really nice, but I still think WAR will be the next WoW. I know that's a HUGE statement, just like when people were saying DDO would beat WoW, but I really do believe that WAR can do it. If any MMO does, it'll be WAR. Because of AoC's mature environment, I think it will lose players as well as gain them for the same reason. >.<

[Uzbeki]

Yeah, I predict that AoC will have a strong and tight community but a small one. WAR will be more mainstream like WoW and that looks to be the winning concept.

[Punchline]

Exactly my predictions. :)

[Sexie]

lol mine too

[Quazimodo]

Yup, Age of Conan will attract the more experienced MMO players who have run tired of the typical click and spam attack formula. The more inexperienced MMO players will probably resort to MMO's like WAR because of the simplier gaming.

[unska]

What is so special on this game?

[Quazimodo]

What is so special on this game?

Hmm, read up on some of the threads I've posted, you may find out some more. Or you could visit www.aocinformer.com

[The Bum]

This game is going to e very nice i think

[Quazimodo]

This game is going to e very nice i think

Haha, I'm gonna feel really retarded when the game is released, by then I've waited for it for a year! Oh well... You have to wait for good things!

[Quazimodo]

Here's a map of the potential size of the gaming world in Age of Conan excluding instanced dungeons etc.

http://www.aocinformer.com/images/aoci/Map.jpg

[Amoras]

Looks like an "okay" game. I might look into it.

[Quazimodo]

"Okay" game, what you mean by that?

[Valamir]

I am very skeptical about which games I like. Anyone who knows me can confirm this. AoC looks great, but I am afraid the game will be more along the lines of a system hog. When I see good looking games I am often reminded of how much more computer power it is required to just simply enjoy the game which means purchasing new computer hardware. Regardless of the minimum and recommended system configurations I know that I, myself, would have to get something twice as good to just play the game at its' full potential. Heck not even the development team knows what the minimum system requirements will be and the game is set to be released in the next four to six months.

So they have been doing beta testing since 2006, the game is claimed to be the most stable to date. Only playing it will give a true answer.

[godliest]

What's the point in having such a big world? I would prefer a smaller one. The bigger world the bigger the chance to get lost. Or simply lose connection to where you're supposed to be.

The game seems nice, if maybe a bit requiring in graphics. Not sure my computer will be able to handle the game, but maybe I will have time to buy new computer until the game is released.

[Valamir]

I added the unofficial system requirements up top.

[werdana]

I got AMD athlon (tm) 64 processor
3800+
2,41 ghz
and 1GB of RAM
and nvidia 8600gt 256MB.
Will i lag while i play AOC?

[Valamir]

To be honest at this point you possibly will if you went into the beta. The specs up top are unofficial and can be lowered upon official release. The best place for you to check if you can run it is go to http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest and select the game from the list, it will most likely ask you to install something, please accept it and install it.

[Gordonzolá]

hey guys,
i can't start playing AoC until now because it takes a long time to recieve the UK uncut gameversion (im living in Germany [lowest-gorelevel-ever]) but i guess i can start soon.

but i have a question:
i heard something about a ranksystem in pvp, like the old pretbc wow.
can you tell me something about it?how does it looks like?does it allready works?whats about item rewards?

i would like to read some answeres.

thank you for your time.

[Uzbeki]

Currently there is no ranking system or "PvP leveling" in the game but I have heard that they are adding it later this summer.

[xong319]

well this game Age of canon is good and interesting in some respect and it gives a good gaming experience but i was expecting something like Age of mythology or Age of empire