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Well, Age of Conan fell flat. Yes, you can have topless female characters. Yes, the graphics are gorgeous. But getting in on the ground floor of a brand new game from a freshman game producer just kind of sucks. You can't explore the environment, you're stuck on these little paths that direct you to & fro... and that's when the servers are up and you can actually play. Out of a week, I think Rob managed to play a total of 16 hours spread out over a number of days.
So he decided to try out Guild Wars. He figured that if the game was a bomb, at least there was no monthly fee for it. It also has beautiful graphics, and while still limited compared to WoW, much more freedom to explore the environment than AoC. All the male characters look like emo-kids or metrosexuals, but Rob's found a build he can live with. He's a level 7. We've been struggling to figure out how to get him out of the starting area & into the rest of the world. He's been stuck in someplace called Ascalon City - but the maps of Ascalon City I've been finding show far more NPC's than the ones in the city. So I finally typed "I'm in Ascalon City, where the hell are all the merchants?" into the search engine & came up w/a couple of hits on my exact question. the reply to my question is "You are still in the tutorial."
If what Rob's been doing the past couple of days are the tutorial, holy crap, what does the rest of the game look like?!
So he decided to try out Guild Wars. He figured that if the game was a bomb, at least there was no monthly fee for it. It also has beautiful graphics, and while still limited compared to WoW, much more freedom to explore the environment than AoC. All the male characters look like emo-kids or metrosexuals, but Rob's found a build he can live with. He's a level 7. We've been struggling to figure out how to get him out of the starting area & into the rest of the world. He's been stuck in someplace called Ascalon City - but the maps of Ascalon City I've been finding show far more NPC's than the ones in the city. So I finally typed "I'm in Ascalon City, where the hell are all the merchants?" into the search engine & came up w/a couple of hits on my exact question. the reply to my question is "You are still in the tutorial."
If what Rob's been doing the past couple of days are the tutorial, holy crap, what does the rest of the game look like?!
