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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
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Posted - 2017.02.05 23:55:35 -
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Interesting game but maybe a day late and a dollar short.
With any luck it'll have a better combat system than the other Conan-based MMO
Bring back DEEEEP Space!
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Sweet Adamas
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
33
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Posted - 2017.02.06 00:47:26 -
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It looks ok but only time will tell.
Can you play as a man or is it fat boobs only? |
Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
1982
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Posted - 2017.02.06 07:31:15 -
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Sweet Adamas wrote:It looks ok but only time will tell.
Can you play as a man or is it fat boobs only?
You can play as a man. There's pecs and dong sliders for men during character creation. You will start out completely naked and crucified, man or woman.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25270
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Posted - 2017.02.06 07:49:14 -
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If you need to see some floppy dongs flailing around, that is your game.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4889
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Posted - 2017.02.07 00:13:45 -
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I'm a huge Robert E. Howard fan, and I always wanted a sandbox MMO like Eve with a swords and castles setting. Too bad about the dong slider and the graphic gore gnarliness. |
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25381
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Posted - 2017.02.07 09:08:33 -
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I think that its enough multiplayer already to have some fun. I have nothing against dongs and breasts. For me it adds to barbarism. You can also have slaves, but I see potential when you RP and dont use slaves for anything.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
1994
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Posted - 2017.02.07 09:58:15 -
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Kergit, you are a fan of Robert E. Howard but you are also squeamish over all that savagery and barbarism? I mean, even Solomon Kane has some really gruesome stuff in there, and that's one of his tamer series.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25382
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Posted - 2017.02.07 11:09:42 -
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Well, it look somewhat primitive in the gore dept. I mean, punching someone and he disjoints in half? Technology isnt there I would say. It looks unpolished.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Yiole Gionglao
13475
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Posted - 2017.02.07 14:34:13 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:Well, it look somewhat primitive in the gore dept. I mean, punching someone and he disjoints in half? Technology isnt there I would say. It looks unpolished.
Well, it's oh-damn-we-ran-out-of-money-and-isn't-finished-yet "early access". It's a different way to die for games that didn't made it through development.
Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an alpha / And so it's you
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25396
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Posted - 2017.02.07 14:44:35 -
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I would be surprised if they would not make access in alpha for money. Funcom just hoped on the same wagon basically everybody else is riding right now, at least in construct and survive dept. Unpolished elements are here and there.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4892
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Posted - 2017.02.07 22:24:13 -
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Elmund Egivand wrote:Kergit, you are a fan of Robert E. Howard but you are also squeamish over all that savagery and barbarism? I mean, even Solomon Kane has some really gruesome stuff in there, and that's one of his tamer series. Elmund, I'm a great fan of R.E.H.'s "the Pict fell with a yard of steel protruding from his back," "Conan's sword flashed and the guard's head leaped from his shoulders," etc. But somehow the Age of Conan MMO world seems... I don't know, more sadistic than R.E.H.'s. R.E.H.'s Hyborian Age world has lots of blood and gore, but they come out of men and monsters who deserved it, and who put up wicked fights. ItGÇÖs full of rogues, thieves and all kinds of greedy curs, but thereGÇÖs not much misery or suffering on, itGÇÖs a pretty fun world. It just that R.E.H.GÇÖs heroes go out looking for gudfights and "great gouts of black blood.GÇ¥
But with AOC, itGÇÖs like the whole Hyborian Age is one continuously nasty place, with cruelty, torture, and gnarliness going on everywhere you look. Kind of a gratuitous gnarliness game world, not like R.E.H.GÇÖs Hyborian Age. Disappointing to me, I really wanted to like AOC.
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25413
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Posted - 2017.02.07 23:54:53 -
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This is why I liked to summon a chicken or a cat and walk in the Conarch Village with shovel while emoting and greeting strangers. I really wanted to make it more life-like.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4892
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Posted - 2017.02.08 05:32:33 -
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Heresy. Blasphemy. Ignorance and philistinism. Gone all backwards, stupid, and insipid. Why you do that FunCom? Why you do that controllers of Robert E. Howard estate? Such a waste.... Crying shame.... It all started with that horrible Arnold Dino de Laurentis cheesy Conan movie. Yes, it was horrible cheesy and a dishonor to the writer and the character. Dino, maker of bombastic 70s disaster movies. King Kong featuring Jessica Lange (ruined her career, she was a good actress but bye bye after the sitting in giant plastic Kong hand prop), Arnold and James Earl Jones as Thoth Amon (way, way too much screen time for a minor character)...
What a waste, a waste, a travesty.... Worst of all is a whole generation met Conan of Cimmeria through that bunk, and the sequel. Missed the original writing, or even the comics illustrated adaptations. And then the next-gen Funcom meme-ing.... OK, I get out now
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Yiole Gionglao
13504
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Posted - 2017.02.08 07:55:35 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Elmund Egivand wrote:Kergit, you are a fan of Robert E. Howard but you are also squeamish over all that savagery and barbarism? I mean, even Solomon Kane has some really gruesome stuff in there, and that's one of his tamer series. Elmund, I'm a great fan of R.E.H.'s "the Pict fell with a yard of steel protruding from his back," "Conan's sword flashed and the guard's head leaped from his shoulders," etc. But somehow the Age of Conan MMO world seems... I don't know, more sadistic than R.E.H.'s. R.E.H.'s Hyborian Age world has lots of blood and gore, but they come out of men and monsters who deserved it, and who put up wicked fights. ItGÇÖs full of rogues, thieves and all kinds of greedy curs, but thereGÇÖs not much misery or suffering on, itGÇÖs a pretty fun world. It just that R.E.H.GÇÖs heroes go out looking for gudfights and "great gouts of black blood.GÇ¥ But with AOC, itGÇÖs like the whole Hyborian Age is one continuously nasty place, with cruelty, torture, and gnarliness going on everywhere you look. Kind of a gratuitous gnarliness game world, not like R.E.H.GÇÖs Hyborian Age. Disappointing to me, I really wanted to like AOC.
One of the thigns I hated abut AoC was the fact that, since it had level-gated maps, one had to fight its way continuously to do everything. Go to pick A... kill three mobs... pick A and go back to the city... kill the same three mobs again... over and over and over again. Traveling the map was literally a struggle, and it grew old very soon.
Knowing that Funcom did exactly the same with The Secret World (just even more boring), I'm just passing on Exiles. Certainly not paying 30 eypo just to see some boobs juggle around between killing mob #1457 and mob #1458...
Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an alpha / And so it's you
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25421
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Posted - 2017.02.08 08:54:54 -
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I always have seen Conan books as rather unsophisticated kind of fun. Some revievers in my country even call this kind of literature, a S&S literature, but they refer to it as in: "Sword & Shlong".
I dont have anything against all those things people make to sell more Conan. Howard might have been a nutter personally, and his books might have been the toilet grade paper books in his times, but he knew what kind of fun sells things. I think Howard always wanted to express his urges to show life from this more savage, more primal and sexy side. Dealing justice by administering heavy blows around to save opressed princesses. Like a Cimmerian Mario!
Its'a me, barbarian!
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Yiole Gionglao
13523
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Posted - 2017.02.08 14:48:00 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:I always have seen Conan books as rather unsophisticated kind of fun. Some revievers in my country even call this kind of literature, a S&S literature, but they refer to it as in: "Sword & Shlong". I dont have anything against all those things people make to sell more Conan. Howard might have been a nutter personally, and his books might have been the toilet grade paper books in his times, but he knew what kind of fun sells things. I think Howard always wanted to express his urges to show life from this more savage, more primal and sexy side, and it sells by the way. Too bad not everyone can be a hero, until you have a game about hero, not only about his world. Dealing justice by administering heavy blows around to save opressed princesses. Like a Cimmerian Mario! Its'a me, barbarian!BTW, Basil Poledouris soundtrack decapitates.
Fantasy is usually funnier than reality. Think of American Western myths. The lone WASP cowboy, smartly dressed in a Stetson hat and imparting justice from the barrel of a six-shooter... not exactly the same as the actual cowboys: 20-raced, STD ridden, bowler-hat wearing hobos who learned their job and name form Mexican vaqueros and who wouldn't use a six-shooter instead of a shotgun or rifle unless they were desperate -and were out of a town since carrying firearms was forbidden, btw.
Yeah. Totally Outlaws.
(Which was a nice yet underrated game back in 1997... I still owe my copy and its box. The memories...)
Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an alpha / And so it's you
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
1999
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Posted - 2017.02.09 02:47:41 -
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Yiole Gionglao wrote:Nana Skalski wrote:I always have seen Conan books as rather unsophisticated kind of fun. Some revievers in my country even call this kind of literature, a S&S literature, but they refer to it as in: "Sword & Shlong". I dont have anything against all those things people make to sell more Conan. Howard might have been a nutter personally, and his books might have been the toilet grade paper books in his times, but he knew what kind of fun sells things. I think Howard always wanted to express his urges to show life from this more savage, more primal and sexy side, and it sells by the way. Too bad not everyone can be a hero, until you have a game about hero, not only about his world. Dealing justice by administering heavy blows around to save opressed princesses. Like a Cimmerian Mario! Its'a me, barbarian!BTW, Basil Poledouris soundtrack decapitates. Fantasy is usually funnier than reality. Think of American Western myths. The lone WASP cowboy, smartly dressed in a Stetson hat and imparting justice from the barrel of a six-shooter... not exactly the same as the actual cowboys: 20-raced, STD ridden, bowler-hat wearing hobos who learned their job and name form Mexican vaqueros and who wouldn't use a six-shooter instead of a shotgun or rifle unless they were desperate -and were out of a town since carrying firearms was forbidden, btw. Yeah. Totally Outlaws. (Which was a nice yet underrated game back in 1997... I still owe my copy and its box. The memories...)
So far, the only Fantasy fiction I do not fantasize about (as in, I absolute don't want to live in it) is Warhammer Fantasy (RIP). Goodness me. Randomly getting abducted by skaven or cultists and become Chaos God junk food? Not fun man. Even if I end up in Warhammer Fantasy setting as Karl Franz I will not be having fun.
Goddamn Imperial politics and Northmen.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union Gallente Federation
2004
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Posted - 2017.02.09 08:52:05 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Heresy. Blasphemy. Ignorance and philistinism. Gone all backwards, stupid, and insipid. Why you do that Funcom? Why you do that controllers of Robert E. Howard estate? Such a waste.... Crying shame.... It all started with that horrible Arnold Dino de Laurentis cheesy Conan movie. Yes, it was horrible cheesy and a dishonor to the writer and the character. Dino, maker of bombastic 70s disaster movies. King Kong featuring Jessica Lange (ruined her career, she was a good actress but bye bye after the sitting in giant plastic Kong hand prop), Arnold and James Earl Jones as Thoth Amon (way, way too much screen time for a minor character)...
What a waste, a waste, a travesty.... Worst of all is a whole generation met Conan of Cimmeria through that bunk, and the sequel. Missed the original writing, or even the comics illustrated adaptations. And then the next-gen Funcom meme-ing....
RIP Robert E. Howard H.P. Lovecraft Other crazy talented weirdos who dreamt up weird tales and told them in words, back in the day. Shame be on who makes them into licensed properties, and not faithful to the original creators.
I don't know man. The old Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was a good, albeit buggy-as-all-hell game that was very Lovecraftian in every way. The up and coming Call of Cthulhu game looks like it just might nail the Lovecraftian Horror factor.
Besides, we already have other games that do get what Lovecraft is about. Darkest Dungeon and Bloodborne being the ones I could think off right off the bat. We might just be seeing a Cosmic Horror Renaissance here.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4895
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Posted - 2017.02.09 17:20:03 -
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Yeah, I'd agree, the Lovecraft games seem to nail the Cthulhu mythos. Many movies have too.
Nana, oh yes Howard was kind of a nutter. From some of his letters to other writers, it seems that he wasn't quite sure that Conan wasn't real. He says the stories just came to him as if he were channeling a Conan entity, and he had to write them down as fast as he could. He also said that he didn't know what happened to Conan after the last story, when the character was about 60 years old I think. "He just disappears." Pretty strange. There's a movie about Howard and this stuff called The Whole Wide World.
R.E.H.'s stories are mostly about people with too much testosterone beating down other people/creatures with too much testosterone. But there's a kind of sophisticated arcane metaphysical world order behind them too. (The story The Tower of the Elephant is a good example). There are subtleties and weirdnesses, and Conan is a barbarian whose strategy is to ignore them as best he can and brawl his way through them.
That's my objection to the Conan movies and AOC. The focus just on the muscles and the brawling, and made Conan's world just a World Wrestling Federation with swords. (Marvel Comics didn't help either by putting Conan in just boots and a Speedo-- a visual meme that embedded now. Conan actually wears armor, kaftans, furs, or whatever he happens to have). They don't have enough weirdness in them. |
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25550
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Posted - 2017.02.09 19:34:53 -
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Yes I have seen the movies, all of them about Conan, even this recent one, Yes I have read original stories and those continuations by various other authors.
The movies. I really like the first one with Governator, despite it being such a wild outtake from original stories. The visuals and music are beatiful, and story is like an original take on "what indeed have happened to Conan, not those myths by Howard". It does have impact, all of it, despite lack of all those lore things and details. It does have a strong message and strong opponent for Conan, its like battle of night and day. Thulsa is really good at being cunning and evil, is very intelligent. Conan is really good at being brutal and is representing justice in its more crude, uncivilized form, a barbaric revenge. Such is a cinematic medium and here it was fully exploited what had to be. Its full of strong archetypes, brutal and honest. In Conan stories its not an intelleigence and civilization that is winning at the end. Its strength of will and human urges. This is prevalent even in the hyborian history piece writen by Howard.
You can see that Conan sits on the throne in the end of that first movie. I think this little teaser will result in the last Conan in the series. Not the second. There is one more film that will be made.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
25552
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Posted - 2017.02.09 19:50:10 -
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Actualy I think Howard's mind was so bent on getting rid of all those societal norms, that it created Conan to discharge all this pressure.
We can see a renaissance of barbarism in this highly civilized world also. I feel all this populism, all this porn, its all so basic, all the values are shifting, when people see how the elites are using civilization to harvest the "best grains" and use their position to then harvest even more. This results in "Barbaric kings", and people want to flip the table. They want something too from that table. And they want revenge.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4896
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Posted - 2017.02.09 20:11:58 -
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Nana Skalski wrote:...In Conan stories its not an intelleigence and civilization that is winning at the end. Its strength of will and human urges. This is prevalent even in the hyborian history piece writen by Howard.
Well said mate, indeed. |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
8213
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Posted - 2017.02.11 22:02:03 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Heresy. Blasphemy. Ignorance and philistinism. Gone all backwards, stupid, and insipid. Why you do that Funcom? Why you do that controllers of Robert E. Howard estate? Such a waste.... Crying shame.... It all started with that horrible Arnold Dino de Laurentis cheesy Conan movie. Yes, it was horrible cheesy and a dishonor to the writer and the character. Dino, maker of bombastic 70s disaster movies. King Kong featuring Jessica Lange (ruined her career, she was a good actress but bye bye after the sitting in giant plastic Kong hand prop), Arnold and James Earl Jones as Thoth Amon (way, way too much screen time for a minor character)...
What a waste, a waste, a travesty.... Worst of all is a whole generation met Conan of Cimmeria through that bunk, and the sequel. Missed the original writing, or even the comics illustrated adaptations. And then the next-gen Funcom meme-ing....
RIP Robert E. Howard H.P. Lovecraft Other crazy talented weirdos who dreamt up weird tales and told them in words, back in the day. Shame be on who makes them into licensed properties, and not faithful to the original creators.
I feel like trashing the coffee house and going to the nearest library to hit on the librarian after reading that.
Bring back DEEEEP Space!
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Hazel TuckerTS
University of Caille Gallente Federation
111
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Posted - 2017.02.11 23:36:32 -
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Black desert isn't bad
code can lick my kevin schwantz at high noon in jita
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Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
26810
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Posted - 2017.02.19 16:48:13 -
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Funcom was so happy releasing floppy dongs to the wider audience that they leaked a DRM version of the game. Pirates now.
Every part of a game helps to tell a story =ƒôò
Where is Angry CONCORD guy when you need him
Osprey =ƒÜÇ
GëíGïüGëí GÖÑ
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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
18723
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Posted - 2017.02.20 23:21:08 -
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I support any game with the balls (lol) to blatantly dong it up. About time. I played AoC for a time. Had it's moments. And it's running jokes. "How do you know if a player is actually a real girl?" "Look for the ones with all their clothes slots equipped." =ƒÿé |
Commissar Kate
NulzSec
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Posted - 2017.02.20 23:52:26 -
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Eurydia Vespasian wrote:I support any game with the balls (lol) to blatantly dong it up. About time. I played AoC for a time. Had it's moments. And it's running jokes. "How do you know if a player is actually a real girl?" "Look for the ones with all their clothes slots equipped." =ƒÿé If you are a really are a real "girl" then then why don't you have your "outer clothing" slot equipped for your Eve character? =ƒÿü
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My Fanclub
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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
18724
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Posted - 2017.02.21 01:53:24 -
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Haven't logged in to buy one I like I suppose! |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
8228
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Posted - 2017.02.21 04:32:16 -
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Khergit Deserters wrote:Nana Skalski wrote:...In Conan stories its not an intelleigence and civilization that is winning at the end. Its strength of will and human urges. This is prevalent even in the hyborian history piece writen by Howard.
Well said mate, indeed.
Hey by the way are you familiar with the discussion going on about old school "pulp" of which REH is considered essential?
Bring back DEEEEP Space!
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
4929
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Posted - 2017.02.22 01:47:30 -
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Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:Khergit Deserters wrote:Nana Skalski wrote:...In Conan stories its not an intelleigence and civilization that is winning at the end. Its strength of will and human urges. This is prevalent even in the hyborian history piece writen by Howard.
Well said mate, indeed. Hey by the way are you familiar with the discussion going on about old school "pulp" of which REH is considered essential? Thanks Herzog. I am among my own there, I feel better now.
Speaking of good pulp, we need a good game based on Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Or probably better yet, just a good TV series based on the stories. Fritz, that's another genius, but a merry prankster one. |
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