Well I picked up Age of Conan over the weekend and started playing that.
The good, the combat is different although ‘twitchy’ and requires the dexerity of a three armed monkey, the graphics are good, it has naked boobs in it along with decaptitations an in general so far has had a very smooth launch. Granted I haven’t yet tried a full open retail session yet so that might change.
The bad, it requires the dexterity of a three armed monkey, you can only have eight total characters across all servers and they have 12 classes.
We’re on a RP-PVP server and the gankfests so far have been there but not horrible yet but then again I think most people are just trying to level so they can get high enough to come back and gankfest people on. I don’t get it myself, I enjoy PVP more than most but jumping someone 10 levels lower or after they’re 3/4 dead from fighting a mob all with the razor thin rationalization of “I’m roleplaying a psychotic killer.” just really makes me wonder about society. Remove the threat of penalty and consquences and all that. If you want more information on that just google it, smarter folks than me have done master thesis on such behaviours, all I know is that it sucks.
Anyway, I wouldn’t say I’m orgasmic like some MMOG hoppin’ monkeys tend to get but it’s so far a fairly stable, so so polished game at a time when I haven’t played a MMOG for about 18 months now so it’s mildly entertaining.
Your Mileage May Vary of course.
