Games! God the Games….

So, on Monday I decided to dig my teeth into a MMO. Oh I’ve tried before trust me on that but I decided “Well what the hell, I may as well”. 11 weeks off school and counting, I thought I may as well do something constructive. So I bought Funcom’s “Age Of Conan“, and surprisingly it rocks. I’m saying surprisingly because all reviews have just compared it to “Teh mighty WoW lol” and gave it a bad mark but personally, I think it’s the most fresh, fun and  beautiful MMO on the market. So yea, I’m addicted 😛

 

I’m a level 13 Cimmerian Barbarian, currently exploring the area around the pirate city of Tortage (man it feels nerdy to say that :D). I think the best thing  for me is, is that my Dad is a major Robert.E Howard fan. I mean, as I sit here I can see 72 Conan books and behind me there’s probably thousands of Conan comics. I’m saying probably, there will be. He has 11,000 comics altogether (Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, EC) and told me that he had “Every single Conan comic ever published”. I just took that as he had.

 

So yea! Conan. Brilliant game, in fact one of the best I’ve played. But I do have one warning for all those who want to play it. For the love of God, don’t trust can you run it?, the Internet application that analyses your computer to test how games will perform. This is what it said about me:

A lot of red… So this is what it expected me to play it like:

If you can’t see from the image the draw distance is horrible, the edges are very rough and it just generally looks rather bad.

 

However, upon being prompted by my girlfriend I knocked it up to high and… I could play it on extremely high… I’d post a comparison screen shot but looking at it now, you can’t really see much of a difference because of  where I am. A volcano at night 😛

 

So “Age Of Conan” has given me a very, very good MMO to play. But then the inevitable happened. 

You see that right there? Yea, that’s a freak of nature created by me. Spore has decided to show it’s freakish head to me this week and the devastating thing is, is that I promised I wouldn’t buy any other games this year due to the quite frankly ridiculous “Age Of Conan” subscription fees. But then again, I do have the whole summer ahead of me! So what is there to loose? 😛

 

Oh, and also. Team Fortress 2 updates are out today (at some point), including the fantastic new Pyro weapons and achievements, I’ll probably no doubt be commenting on them tomorrow :P. Either way, it looks like Age Of Conan may not even get played tonight 😐

 

I’m off down a stream now with some friends. Why a stream? Why not!