femalegamer

Well, we did it, we’re putting World of Warcraft down for a while (though I’m guessing we’ll be back). On Friday I picked up two copies of Age of Conan for myself and my husband. I was hoping to have the game installed and good to go by the time he got home from work… I forgot about the PC game to Mac conversion issue.

Instead he got surprised with the game boxes and the several hours of work involved getting the game installed on his PC and Mac’s “Windows program” Boot Camp and the game installed on my MacBook Pro.

Nonetheless, we got a decent amount of playtime in this weekend and so far I have a Level 20 Stygian Demonologist and he has a level 18 Cimmerian Bear Shaman.

I have to admit, we’re both very impressed with the game so far! Beautiful graphics; interesting, immersive quests; nice spells for my Demonologist and a more detailed melee system for his Bear Shaman; the ability to do a solo quest thread in your own personal night instance; and an interesting loot system.

It has already held our interest more than any other MMO we’ve tried since picking up WoW. Then again, that’s not hard to do… There was one in which I played for five minutes and proceeded to get my character stuck on a water well (Dark Age of Camelot, I think). When I realized my character was there for good, I called it quits out of annoyance… five minutes! Maybe we should have given it a better shot.

Although we normally play together, I like that this game has you to play solo in your own instanced world a decent amount. If nothing else, it’s forcing us to really learn our classes right off the bat and not rely upon one another as a crutch all the time.

My biggest complaints so far are the storage opportunities. Your bank bag also serves as the area in which your “trade post” (auction house) items are stored and it isn’t very big. And I’m a pack rat… Mine is full already. In Warcraft we used to use the mail system as backup storage, sending items to one another. In AoC it seems as though there is a limit on the number of items you can send a character… That will get old very quickly.

Anyway, and on an aside, I’m impressed with Boot Camp for running the game. Though I feel dirty logging onto my Mac and having it act as a Windows PC. I’m just waiting for the blue screen of death.

Note to game developers… make more games Mac friendly!

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