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| Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Collector's Edition | 
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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: $84.99
Buy New: $69.00
You Save: $15.99 (19%)
New (27) Used (5) from $64.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 2007
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 11.1 x 3
MPN: SAGECPUS01
Model: SAGECPUS01
UPC: 788687100748
EAN: 0788687100748
ASIN: B000V1OUTU
Release Date: May 20, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW SEALED IN PLASTIC. WILL SHIP OUT FROM MY HOME WITHIN 1-2 BUSINESS DAYS
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| Customer Reviews:
 Entertaining game but still feels like you're playing a Beta version June 4, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've had this game for a couple weeks now and I've played it fairly regularly during that time (70+ hrs. accrued), so here are my thoughts on it:
The Pros:
This game is very entertaining. The graphics are very good. Engrossing storyline.
The Cons:
1. Still very much a work in progress with system issues. At the time of this writing, there are still major problems with the game. (Ex. Gemcutter profession causing crashing to the desktop.) While FunCom is working to address these, these should've been handled prior to release. When you first install, expect to spend literally hours or days (depending on your connection speed) to download the updates to fix them.
2. Playability issues - I've only had experience with the Necromancer class, so I can only report on that (as well as general issues):
A. Resource Gathering - At level 20, you become able to gather resources, but if it comes from anything other than fallen enemies, it comes from a resource node. These nodes have terrible recharge rates (ex. I went to mine Silver and needed to wait for the node to recharge. I waited an entire 45 minutes and the node was at less than 30% capacity after that). Expect to spend tons of time waiting for resources.
B. Boss/Quest Item spawning - Like resource nodes, these have terrible spawn rates. Also, be wary of other players present, because if you need to kill X, the game only recognizes the first player (unless you are in a group) as to damage X as the "killer" of X. Ex. People A & B need to kill monster Y. B hits first for 1% and then gets slain by Y. A finishes it off. B gets the credits (and spoils) where A gets nothing and will need to wait for Y to spawn again.
C. Unreasonable targetting - As a Necromancer, one gets to summon undead minions to help you (obviously). Well, once you send your minions to attack, the adversary immediately tracks and attacks you, and ignores your minions. Why? I don't understand this aspect. I've sent various minions to attack at extreme range, and then I go around a corner to hide, and yet, I am still targetted. Why? The monsters have no way of seeing me or detecting me. (There are skills that reduce the auto-targetting, but these generally are worthless (1% reduction of being attacked automatically = useless in my book).) I guess I'm expecting more of a realistic approach (like in Guild Wars), where one's minions are treated as valid targets for attack just like everyone else.
3. Very poor documentation - A lot of aspects of this game are not covered or are just plain wrong in the manual. Ex. "Spells can be acquired from merchants" - no, they are acquired by levelling up or spending points for feats which grant spells. There are no skill/spell merchants (as in Guild Wars). Ex. Item distribution in groups. If an item is acquired by a group a window pops up showing the item with buttons of "Need" and "Greed". Nowhere in the manual is this discussed. So, one is often left wondering what the heck to do. (Yes, you can go online and check various forums to get the necessary info., but documentation should cover basics and be accurate).
4. Ambiguous quests - This is mainly the resource tree quests. You will be given quests like "Gather Tin". Unfortunately, it doesn't tell you where to get tin. Only through trial and error (or looking at the online forums) you find out that it comes from a copper resource node, and hope that while you're collecting copper, you'll get a tin drop.
General Overall feeling:
This game is neat and the storyline is intriguing, but feels like that I'm playing a beta version of the game. While I fully believe that FunCom will address all the issues (system and playability alike), these shouldn't have even arisen in a "live" version. (Especially with a subscription-based model.) The various extras that came with the Collector's edition are nice; I especially liked the soundtrack.
 Amazon has these in stock.!!! June 2, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I ordered this 4 days ago hoping maybe they had them, and the next thing i know i get a shipped notice from amazon. W00t!! Great game and a great collectors edition.
Great game May 29, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the most awesome game I have ever seen in a long time. I have played many MMO's from Ultima Online, Everquest, to World of Warcraft. This is the BEST. The graphics are rich, the gameplay is awesome and for a new game it is just awesome. I am disappointed with the level of service I received from Amazon.com though. I never got the early play key, when i received the game I was never able to get the early purchase bonus item "the amazon bow". I even received an e-mail from amazon.com that they would not be able to fill my order as they did not have enough in stock. When I complained, "A miracle" I got a copy. Hmmm..fishy.
 Amazon, you're full of it! May 28, 2008
1 out of 18 found this review helpful
I preordered this in January. When May came around it was kicked out because they failed to send me any warning that it was out of stock. I was able to get on the early access and was happy as could be until Amazon screwed everything up and failed to get me the collector's edition. Now its in stock after I had to shell out some cash to Gamestop for the regular version of the game. You're unbelievable Amazon! How many emails did you send me, all of which said your not getting any copies. WTF! Well I learned my lesson. I'll never preorder or trust Amazon again.
 Amazon preorder worthless May 28, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I will not be pre-ordering from Amazon again. I don't usually purchase games through Amazon, (they're great for lots of other things), but I decided to grab Conan CE since I do a lot of other business with them. The whole point of pre-ordering this sort of game is to insure you get to be one of the first people playing. Instead all my friends who ran out to Best Buy, Gamestop, whatever are playing and I'm not. Current delay has been bumped up to 6/6 -6/13. The game came out 5/20. I'll stick with the people that know how to sell games next time.
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