Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures

Okay, I have been playing AoC off and on since just a few months after release, and I have to say that I was shocked when I came on Amazon and saw how low the rating for this game is. Then I read some reviews and realized that most of them are from very early in the games life. You see, being that it is an MMO, content is updated and debugged live. I can honestly say that being a player for a while now, that the game has grown in leaps and bounds. All of the bugs and lack of content that was experienced toward release has all been changed. Reviews on products like these should have a shelf life. The game is was pretty good before, but it is AMAZING now! I hope to see more people back me on this, because it would really be a shame to see people shy away from giving this game a chance because it didnt get a fair review. Hope to see ya in Hyborea : )

I am writing this review because I see all the old 2008 reviews which really don't do justice to the bonecrunching, blood and gore awesomeness of this game. I didn't play Age of Conan (AoC) when it came out in 2008 because I was in the middle of my 2 year World of Warcraft (WoW) stint. I have to assume that however messed up AoC was at launch, most of those problems have been fixed because I haven't encountered any of the problems mentioned in the old 2008 reviews. I really enjoyed playing WoW, but after two years I felt that I'd "accomplished" all I wanted to in that game (in terms of PvP, endgame raiding, flying mounts, armor sets, rep grinds, etc.) and I wanted to try something new. I was scared off of AoC last year because of all the bad reviews. But out of sheer curiosity and because it was free, I played AoC's free trial this past summer and found it an amazing game with great content for mature players. I really like this game and I'm looking forward to the expansion Rise of... Read more

Bought and tried to install and run AoC on my new high end computer late last year. No success. AoC did not support Vista DX10 and it got nowhere in Windows XP mode. Then a couple of months ago I got the Funcom e-mail inviting my return for another try. Big improvements they said. They were right. Runs great in 2560x1600 rez and only a few intermittant crashes resulting from my pushing the performance envelope. I'm playing on a PvE server but plan to hunt around for some PvP action (select locations) because once you reach lvl 80, there is not much left to do with your character except PvP or create new characters of different professions and do it all over again with new skills. The AoC map is rather extensive with multiple distant locations and accompanying quests that sometimes make you wish you brought a group with you, if you didn't, because that dungeon with mobs at your level all fight like bosses. Elite mobs are not identified and you can find yourself in a lot of b... Read more

I played Age of Conan:Hyborian Adventures...after listeng to some people one day talk about it owhen I was playing World of Warcraft....some had good and bad things to say about it, To me it is a good game graphics are good and looks to fallow Conan's world. I did have one small bit of trouble when exploring I fell into ditch or cannel with water in it that I was not able to climb out of...dispite there was a ramp leading up but when I walked on it, it was not solid..since it was at the begaining of the game just delted the chracter and started over again. aside from that small problem the game and story lines Are well done and I was impressed...I recommened this game. to any who wish to try it out.

I picked it up 3 weeks ago and am currently a level 35 Cimmerian Conqueror. I checked it out at a buddy's place when the game launched and although I was impressed by some things, the numerous issues/bugs kept me away. I wasn't going to shell out 50 bucks and a 15 dollar monthly fee - even though I wanted to bodily fling myself at the game. Totally different story now. Seriously, AoC has been improved DRAMATICALLY since launch. You just need to be patient for it to go through some collossal updates. Although Funcom can be blamed for not ensuring the current level of quality at launch, I give them kudos for actually fixing the issues and adding new stuff. There can be some minor nuisances here and there but nothing that'll bring the gaming experience to a screeching halt. I've long been an avid Conan fan and as such I appreciate the faithful recreation of Hyboria - at least the three regions we are exposed to (Cimmeria, Aquilonia and Stygia). A large part of that is because of th... Read more

Well, it starts iff good, you are on this island, and you basically have to complete a long-ass quest chain to get off it (took roughly three days time for me). The moment I leave the island I am beset by a number of petty glitches and catches that shouldn't be there that affect the game and limits what I do. Examples include: No NPC's will make sound when they talk,and quests that are virtually uncompleteable because something is missing or has glitched to where it won't appear. One glitch I remember took away half of our HP!!!, so if I had 1,000 HP normally this glitch made me have 500 :( - I took them a while to fix that too. Just a number of small things like that that ruin the fun. It takes so much to run this game, such new things, new comps, new graphics cards, things that aren't even worth buying because the game isn't worth it. I have a 5 month old computer. The graphics on this game my comp cannot support fully. Even if it could, the framerate would be too high t... Read more