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Posted by Stropp on May 24, 2008

I sit here underwhelmed.

I’ve spent my first complete day playing Age of Conan, and I love it. My first character, a Dark Templar named Stropp (what else would I name him?) has reached level 11 after about 7 hours of play time.

I’m going to post more on my first day in AoC tomorrow, I’m getting ready to head out to have dinner and see the new Indiana Jones with friends, but I’d like to post one of my observations about the game now.

All the hype about sex, nudity, and extreme violence — which admittedly I have contributed to — doesn’t appear to be based in reality. At least not up to the level I have reached. That may change later when I get out of Tortage.

Or maybe there is a setting I haven’t found yet. We’ll have to wait and see.

But so far I haven’t seen any nudity, and the violence is no worse than you’d find in any one of Id Softwares First Person Shooters.

Sure, there’s blood, and blood spatter on the screen. And I’ve decapitated someone at least once. But I’ve got to say, if that’s it… well, it’s not much more than you get on TV… minus the gibs perhaps.

Apparently the nudity, or toplessness, only really exists when a player creates a female avatar and takes her shirt off. Tobold posted about this the other day, he did the work so I don’t have too. If you’d like to find out more about that, check out Tobold’s post. I haven’t even see any players pole-dancing near the mailbox — in fact I don’t know where the mailbox is!

Age of Conan is still mature content, and not really family friendly. While there are no naughty bits flaunting themselves around every corner, some of the conversation with quest givers and NPCs gets a bit risque. But again, it’s nothing you don’t already see or hear late in the evening on TV.

One of my concerns before getting this game was that it might be a little too over the top violence-wise for me. Some of the things I read about sounded like they might be over the line for my comfort level. Fortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Age of Conan is shaping up to be a fine game experience.

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