In lieu of anything interesting to write, here are today’s screenshots from Age of Conan that made me grin. First, my Herald of Xotli:
And then one of the ambient animals we ran past last night which made me hit the screenshot button:
I know, I know, it’s all very very juvenile. We’re definitely enjoying the game at the moment and I have lots of posts I’m ready to write about any number of topics… but it’ll have to wait till next week because I’m at work tomorrow.
Way back when Age of Conan was released I didn’t really feel any pull to play it. Not because it had skimpily-dressed women chars, that doesn’t bother me, simply because I have no sense of the setting and the timing was bad for me starting a new game since I had LotRO and was heavily anticipating WAR’s release and trying to save myself for that (more fool me, eh?). That didn’t stop us relentlessly teasing our male friends that were playing about all the breasts in the game, and breast powahhh!!
So now after a while of grinding in LotRO, WAR’s hiatus for me (I play a little, but am really treading water there until something more interesting happens), and a spell in Vanguard, we decided to test out Age of Conan and I’m quite enjoying it. I have a Bear Shaman and a Herald of Xotli. Playing the Herald more in the group as it’s the right level, but I might play some of the Shaman today. There’s 3 women playing this time around and something unpredictable is happening… we’re all trying to get our clothing as skimpy as possible. When Milinia announced she had a see-through bikini, we demanded to see it and were quite impressed! My herald had a robe for the longest time possible, but yesterday got a croc-skin top with barely any side to it, it was my best moment in the game so far!
So, what Age of Conan really needs, is cosmetic clothing. Seriously. And for the record, we’re now very close to level 20 so will see if the content goes downhill from hereon in. Am impressed with the nighttime/daytime questing split and the look of the game. Will soon see if it captures our attention enough to pay for a month of play though…
As Syp has noticed, we’re a transitory bunch at the moment, desperately looking for a fix of a new game until our ‘preferred’ games have updated, or got better, or got rid of bugs, or maybe we’re just disenchanted with them anyway and nothing we’re desperate to play is about to launch (for some of us, I know Jumpgate and Champions are on the map for sooon).
Ysharros posits it’s more of a move to games that we can play for a few months, and that’s what we’re becoming (ok, so she’s talking about herself, but as I read it, it sounded so much like something I might have thought, that I’ve applied it to the blogosphere anyway!). Either way, we’re hopping from game-to-game almost as often as a certain burglar in LotRO changes his trousers (in-game!).
Vanguard was fun, it really was. But there’s no getting around the fact it still had a few issues, and well… we haven’t played it in a week or so, instead we’ve been getting on with the LotRO rep grind (yay, I’m done with it now), and then the crafting instance grind (I can’t suck myself away from this one, despite getting a CRAPPY reward for my gamble last night).
The guys in my stable group (I think that’s better than fixed, because we don’t do everything together), played Age of Conan when it came out, and me and Milinia didn’t, mostly cos we were still enjoying LotRO to the fullest at the time, and also because I was waiting for WAR to come out and didn’t really want to mess about with another game at the time. And I teased them relentlessly about the breasts in-game, not because it offends me (prob. obvious from my post title), but mostly to take the piss out of the fact that was the only thing most people knew about Conan, myself included!
But they made the game sound fun for the first 20 levels, and it made me think about giving it a go. So the free trial client is downloaded and waiting for some action this week. I also bought a copy of the game for under £6 just in case I wanted to play it after the free trial period, and I’m guessing a month will probably be enough before our flightiness takes us to EQ2 or City of Heroes (I think they’re the next front-runners in ways to spend a month before either Land of the Dead (WAR) or Book 8 (LotRO) come out).
And all this talk of Age of Conan gives me a complete excuse to link to this MMORPG interview with the live producer, Henning Solberg.
Not booted up the game yet, cos the trial may as well last as long as possible, so I haven’t got to see character creation, but am sure breasts will play a very large role in my enjoyment of the game. Oh yes.
