Early impressions mean zilch

Hi everybody, haven’t posted for a few days now, mainly because all of my computer time has gone into playing Age of Conan. If you haven’t read the post before this one, I wrote about my early impressions of about 4 hours of playtime. My initial impressions were, meh. I thought that the game wasn’t that good and for all the wait I was a but disappointed. I must say that pretty much the next time I played the game after making that post I changed my mind. It just clicked for me. All of the game mechanics fell into place and I started thoroughly enjoying the game. That’s not to say that some of the graphics issues I was having improved, it’s just that the game-play and pretty much all of my experiences in game were really great and fun.

Below are one or two things that really stood out for me.

I love the class I chose, even though I did mention that I thought it was a glass cannon. The Assassin is great fun and the DPS I can deal in phenomenal. I always try to attack from hide mode, and after I’ve done the initial attack, the NPC is already down to half health, then it’s just a matter of going through my combos in order of DPS and there dead. The Assassin is also really great looking, I love the whole Assassin’s Creed, hiding in the shadows and duel wielding look. Roll an Assassin and you’ll know what I mean. All of the equipment you get through quests and grinding, all suit the look of what I think an Assassin would look like.

I like the choice of races you can have. Each of the three races are very unique and special. I chose an Aquilonian because I think it suited the Assassin class better than a Stygian. Each of the races homelands are beautiful and very unique. Their capital cities are each a real site to look at and I spend most of my time in ALT + Z mode running around each of them in turn.

The quests are very different and new. I thought the night time quests in Tortage to be very spectacular and interesting. It felt really good to kill all the “baddies” you had encountered so far in the game on the way to Strom. Slitting his throat was perfect. Once I moved to the Wilds as my next zone, I was a but miffed at having to read all of the quest conversations as was everyone. Some of the quests were incredibly evil, burning down someones house for the bastard mentioned below’s power, telling a husband I had just killed his wife who had been cheating on him and bribing a priest into helping a complete bastard out. I have to say I did feel quite bad after a few of them.

My only meh

I’m still getting those graphical problems where textures won’t load until I’ve stared at them for a few seconds, I have a very good PC as well, (Quad core CPU, 8800GT 512MB GPU, 4 GB RAM, 22 inch monitor, Windows XP, Raptor HD 10,000RPM.) I’ve tried changing the options to no luck at all. If you have any tips feel free to write in the comments.

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On another note, I have the following week off from school, and at the time of writing I’m level 26, I hope to get to 40 in this week. I’m on the EU Ymir PVE server, because that’s where my guild is.

In the near future, I’m going to write up my journey so far in game with lots of screenshots, so make sure you catch it.

Conan Watch