AoC: Cost me $1600 so far
I’ve been playing Age of Conan - Hyborian Adventures since release. Mike and Mark have purchased the game as well. We plan on giving it a try as a group Monday. Mike and I played for a few hours Saturday with two level 5s. It was a bit frustrating. We died a lot. Though there doesn’t seem to be any death penalty at that level. We ran a few quests and ended at level eight. My highest toon is 12.
You can easily switch from multi-player (day) to solo (night) play which is an interesting twist. Everybody talks about the fighting system. You must pay attention to what’s going on so you can optimize your attack. It keeps you engaged. There are plenty of quests, at least at these levels. I don’t think you get into the real world untill level 20 or so. I have no idea what that’s like
I’m enjoying the game so far. We’ve played many good games that just didn’t work with our group dynamics though. We need group challenge, not solo content. We’ll see how AoC works out. We aren’t planning on giving up WoW, it’s not even a desire. We are just giving the new-boy a try. I’ll have to say, they have had a very smooth roll out. Very professional.
My system is getting a bit long in the tooth. It’s no match for the newer high end games and is at the end of it’s P4 agp graphic-card life. I ordered a new computer yesterday. I priced out components for a new system at newegg, but eventually decided to pay the extra $s for a Dell. I just didn’t feel like building another computer. I wimped out and went with Windows XP. I’m not sure Vista isn’t a Windows ME kind of failure. I find Vista frustrating to work with. Even so, my newegg system included Vista Ultimate 64-bit. If the Dell system had offered it, I might have.