Age of Conan's Jason Stone Video at GDC '08

[B. de la Durantaye]

At GDC Cody Bye was able to sit down with Age of Conan Game Developer, Jason Stone. Jason was more than willing to answer a barrage of questions and tells us some new information about the depth of the game. He covers the DPS (Damage Per Second) of the classes, how healers will get to enjoy the combat as well, spellweaving (yes, it's still in!), PvP: its risks and rewards and the stats and levels of PvP as well as his definition of "active playing" and how it all plays out in Age of Conan. You're not going to want to miss this video.

• Check out the video here

• Now does that not sound like a FUN game? - A game where you can just kill and have fun, and while quests are available, fun is to be had simply with just the combat. Think it will shape up to be all that?

[Exilium]

*whew* Glad Cody didn't lick the guy


Nice to hear that spell weaving hasn't been scrapped. That might be the single largest reason I may go caster instead of my usual tank class.

[Spanier]

He said that killing players will give EXP, and killed by players will loose EXP.

I hope the link between loss an win of EXP on PVP will be well-conceived.

Maybe on a PVP-Server it will be hard to look around all the time...

[Protect]

I think it was this video, that instead of focusing on the point auto attack of most mmo's they looked at like a hack and slash, like Dynasty warriors (which for some strage reasong I love, hacking and mass slaughter of armies never gets old), and expanded upon that to fit it into an mmog. I really can not wait to try this system out, as he said he has killed thousands upon thousands of npc's and it never gets old.

[B. de la Durantaye]

That's what I'm looking forward to as well. A game where it's fun even if you're not questing or raiding.

[Adro]

largely I think people underestimate how a little required active playing can make a game more fun. Of course this is a balancing act that is extremely difficult, but if done right you can pull some of the appealing aspects of the FPS genre while keeping the rpg elements.
From all the videos we can see the vision of how it should be is there, I just hope the execution on release will be up to par. So many games have seemed to fail and fall into obscurity.
Adro

[ScottTheGR81]

Cool vid thanks.