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]]> By: Longasc http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/reviews/age-of-conan/comment-page-1#comment-11 Longasc Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:19:56 +0000 http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/?page_id=69#comment-11 I am a fan of Robert E. Howard. What Funcom did to the Hyperborean world is a tragedy. The game outright sucks. I named my favorite necromancer in Guild Wars after a minor character in "The Hour of the Dragon", the undead princess Akivasha. I played AoC through the first dungeon, excited to see her as final boss, and she was bugged. :( This was the final downer after a series of low-blows! :( BTW, compare these websites: http://www.enworld.org/Inzeladun/conan/akivasha.htm http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/akivasha.htm and this is what they made of Akivasha in Age of Conan: http://aoc.wikia.com/wiki/Akivasha She looks a bit like a Guild Wars Ritualist. Oh well. The savage barbarian world that I envisioned focused too much on scantly clad player characters and NPCs. The best part of the game was the intro/tutorial in Tortage, after that it became an abomination. Funcom wasted this wonderful world/scenario. I am really sad about this. I am a fan of Robert E. Howard. What Funcom did to the Hyperborean world is a tragedy. The game outright sucks.
I named my favorite necromancer in Guild Wars after a minor character in “The Hour of the Dragon”, the undead princess Akivasha.

I played AoC through the first dungeon, excited to see her as final boss, and she was bugged. :(

This was the final downer after a series of low-blows! :(

BTW, compare these websites:
http://www.enworld.org/Inzeladun/conan/akivasha.htm
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/akivasha.htm

and this is what they made of Akivasha in Age of Conan:
http://aoc.wikia.com/wiki/Akivasha

She looks a bit like a Guild Wars Ritualist.

Oh well. The savage barbarian world that I envisioned focused too much on scantly clad player characters and NPCs. The best part of the game was the intro/tutorial in Tortage, after that it became an abomination.

Funcom wasted this wonderful world/scenario. I am really sad about this.

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