Age of Conan 360 a year behind

By Oli Welsh Published 20 February, 2008

Expect it 12 months after PC.

Speaking at a GDC presentation yesterday, Funcom's Gaute Godager told videogaming247 that the 360 version of Age of Conan: Hyborian adventures will be available "around 12 months" after the PC release.

PC Age of Conan is scheduled to hit the shops on May 20th of this year.

Godager also said he believed the game's combo-based combat system was "ideal" for the console, and that the 360 version would include more content than its PC brother.

Sharp-eyed videogaming247 notes that the game is looking "markedly more accomplished" than it was at previous showings - an encouraging sign, with release just a few months away.

Look out for a detailed preview of Age of Conan when our MMO channel launches soon.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • JediMasterMalik #1 4 years ago

    That's quite a big disparancy...

  • muscleblade #2 4 years ago

    That sucks. Plenty of other great games coming for the 360 this year though.

  • barnard666 #3 4 years ago

    so if it bombs, will they can the 360 version 6 months down the line?

  • ZuluHero #4 4 years ago

    so get it on pc then? check!

  • convercide #5 4 years ago

    There's an option to edit your posts....

    What's wrong with an MMORPG on a console? Seriously? Justify your wild statement because Final Fantasy XI did quite well.

  • Olemak #6 4 years ago

    FluffyTucker: Uhm, right. Whatever. Excellent logic - NOT! Haha.
    I do, however, agree that an MMO that works on a console will not be iether WoW nor SWG.
    That is not neccesarily a bad thing. Voice chat instead of text bubbles, twitch combat instead of hotkeys and attack quues - that just might work out very well. We'll see.


    Will this be the first (and only) MMO for the Xbox 360?
    It will be interesting to see how much of an interest there is for this sort of thing among the console crowd.
    Maybe the expense for bot Live membership AND a monthly sub fee will add up a bit too much for folks... and then there is the playabilty factor of course. But as the whole game has been designed to work well with twitch combat, gamepad control and voice chat, I think it will be pretty playable. Also, talking one full year to polish and kill bugs after the initial PC release means that the Xbox version might ship in a fairly finished state.

  • Wash #7 4 years ago

    "Will this be the first (and only) MMO for the Xbox 360? "

    err... no, Final Fantasy has been out for an age.

    Seems a bit cack to me, and Final Fantasy was rubbish. blurgggggggggggh.

    "No addon support, limited size of content patches, game populated entirely by console gamers. Epic fail."

    No addon support? wah?, A quick check of LOTR online on my pc tells me the 360 20gig hdd will be enough. Console gamers for the win, mostly because only a cock would say something like that.
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 09:56

  • Gurgeh #8 4 years ago

    "A quick check of LOTR online on my pc tells me the 360 20gig hdd will be enough"

    The current beta build of AoC is 18 GB
    *edit* and not very good
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 09:58

  • Wash #9 4 years ago

    "The current beta build of AoC is 18 GB "

    I'm sure they'll cut that down, or is AoC about to set a new benchmark for being the largest pc install ever by a game.... then agen flight sim was pretty high.

    How big is the b3ta anyway? - i'd suspect with a such largness the world is vast, and content plentiful.

    On thinking aboot it, releasing a pay per play game 3yrs+ into a consoles 5yr life span - i reckon it will die a short death, if it isnt cancelled before release due to dire pc sales.

  • Huddy #10 4 years ago

    I'll believe it when I see it on the retail shelves, I smell vapourware. Phantom anyone ? ;)

  • convercide #11 4 years ago

    "No addon support, limited size of content patches, game populated entirely by console gamers. Epic fail."

    "Conslols"

    Oh well, back to my consoles I go where I have everything I need ready to play the latest games and don't need to spend money on replacement parts/upgrades every time a games developer releases a tech demo that PC gamers call a 'game.'

  • Wash #12 4 years ago

    "Even WoW is about 10 gigs now"

    Exactly now, its been going a while... its a bit of a jump to have wow being round for 3yrs or wotever and finally working its way up to 10gig thru patches and expansions, then for a game to land at 18gig installation.

  • ZuluHero #13 4 years ago

    keyboard and 360 pad id imagine - like ffXI does.

    But tbh, the FFXI comparrison isnt a fair one as it was originally for the ps2, then ported to PC then ported to 360. So it is essentially a console MMO to begin with.
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 10:30

  • MasterNameless #14 4 years ago

    Fluffy trolls are the cuter variety I guess, but could we get it removed somehow?

  • Res #15 4 years ago

    "I'm sure they'll cut that down, or is AoC about to set a new benchmark for being the largest pc install ever by a game.... then agen flight sim was pretty high. "

    I still have Vanguard installed from when I used to play it and that is over 18gig as well.

  • J.C #16 4 years ago

    12 months aye? stick it up ya fucking asses!
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 10:41

  • MightyMouse #17 4 years ago

    Then again they may be planning to use some innovative design so that you don't have large periods of boring grind where you'd rather watch a dvd.

    /defeats Napoleon at Waterloo

  • Katsumoto #18 4 years ago

    "Oh well, back to my consoles I go where I have everything I need ready to play the latest games and don't need to spend money on replacement parts/upgrades every time a games developer releases a tech demo that PC gamers call a 'game.'"

    I'm not sure what that's referring to, but it certainly ain't pc gaming. Weirdly, I have everything I need to play games too, and have only spent money on replacements/upgrades three times in the last 10 years. Which is about how many times you've bought a console, no?

  • 4thVariety #19 4 years ago

    Why should I play a game for 200h because the end game will be good? If I buy a game I expect it to grasp me from the beginning. And if the game is no longer fun after 200h then you should do what people have always done, buy the next game.

    If a game becomes too repetitive, people will not like it. No matter how high rating some games got in the past, in the end they all got abandoned, because they all are no longer fun to play. The only thing grind really ads is giving the player a weird sense of incompletion. If you can't stand not having 100% you are fooled into doing the same thing over and over for minute rewards.

  • convercide #20 4 years ago

    "I'm not sure what that's referring to, but it certainly ain't pc gaming. Weirdly, I have everything I need to play games too, and have only spent money on replacements/upgrades three times in the last 10 years. Which is about how many times you've bought a console, no?"

    I'm afraid there are people who upgrade and the slightest hint of some graphical wankfest being released (Crysis currently, I'm guessing Doom 4 next). I know a few who do. It was a generalisation in retaliation to FluffyTuckers generalisation about console gamers. It had a hint of irony.

    I've just put him on ignore anyway. Can't be bothered acting out the Billy Goats Gruff.

    The truth is I'm a gamer and will find the easier avenue to play the best games at the time. I'm saying that with consoles you don't have to make a ridiculous effort to play a game on one. They work straight out of the box and don't need you to fiddle with settings to get them running.

  • 4thVariety #21 4 years ago

    So basically you do say that it is a bad thing when people do not want to do the same things over and over if they are not having fun? Congratulations with that attitude you could become a millionaire doing treadmill work while maintaining sanity. The rest of us shall squabble back to their PC and ruin your experience.

  • Gurgeh #22 4 years ago

    Quite why the AoC beta is so large... who knows. It certainly isn't a vast amount of content (up until recently there was no real high level content in the game). There was one ridiculous 6 GB beta "patch" which turned out to be a promotional video. Funcom are apparently contractually obliged to fit in-game advertising into AoC, which is obviously a problem as Conan wasn't previously known for his love of Diet Coke and Nike trainers. So Funcom is experimenting with how to get adverts to subscribers without interfering with the game.

  • MuppetThumper #23 4 years ago

    well I liked WoW from the beginning and found grinding too be reasonable fun when in some good company (and in an exotic location, which WoW has in abundance). I played the game a healthy amount, which is to say on and off over 18 months and even during the 'on' periods never more than a few hours in a day. I can imagine grinding for 6hours+ a day to be a real bore.

    In fact, I can imagine taking the game too seriously to be a bore full-stop. The reason I stopped playing (I didn't even make it to level 60, it was level 55) was because some knob-ends in a dungeon party made me feel like sh*t for not being an effective enough tank. Sorry, I played the game to have fun, not to learn the bloody number probabilities and hidden rules behind the scenes. Of course you can say, don't let the attitude of others affect you, but it did. I have been meaning to go back to WoW for 9 months now, and will do so at some point I hope. Grinding and all.

  • MuppetThumper #24 4 years ago

    and if you're wondering what relevance my comment has to the entire thread, its in response to the argument about being grabbed by a game at the beginning or end.

    had to remind myself as it wasn't clear on reading through :)

  • UncleLou #25 4 years ago

    The truth is I'm a gamer and will find the easier avenue to play the best games at the time. I'm saying that with consoles you don't have to make a ridiculous effort to play a game on one. They work straight out of the box and don't need you to fiddle with settings to get them running

    Bloody spineless casual gamers ruining the industry.

  • convercide #26 4 years ago

    Casual gamer from that? Justify your remark. I've been playing videogames since the early 1980s.

  • actionfitz #27 4 years ago

    Olemak:
    "I think it will be pretty playable. Also, talking one full year to polish and kill bugs after the initial PC release means that the Xbox version might ship in a fairly finished state."

    Exactly.
    Vanguard anyone? can you imagine if that game had a simultaneous console release?

    In about a year from now, if the PC version manages to do well (not kill WoW but maintain a several hundred thousand subs at least), then the console guys will get a far more polished and stable game.

  • olivishadow #28 4 years ago

    ive been looking forward to this game for months, i have ben checking the official site for a uk release date for this game ever since i first heard about it. and to find out out that i have to wait another 12 months!!!.
    thats just taking the piss! im soooo sick of games like WoW which to seem so dainty and cartoony i want some real games like age of conan. (no doubt that WoW is probably a good game). but if i have to wait 12 months!! and then have pay on a monthly basis im going to send thier back to them on fire.
    who else thinks that if yor going to release a game like this then you should try and release it at the same time as the other formats? and so what if there are bugs i would happily wait a month or two for the bugs to be moderatly fixed than have to wait 12 months for the version i want to come out!!

  • HOPPERMANTIS #29 4 years ago

    OMG !!! THIS GAME ROCKS !!! and if you hear any to the contrary its to only help keep people from quiting the games they are playing!!!!!!!!!!!! And as for the grind, man so awesome .... grinding is primarily for the guild purpose mainly .... personaly the PvE servers ARE my favorite but the pvp servers have fixed a lot of harrasement issues. They pretty much took the cream of EQ2/WoW, Lineage2,tabula rasa and rolled it into 1 awesome game.... BuGs ARE getting fixed... takes time but hey very massive game!! which brings to mind second issue .... YOU CANNOT USE YOUR DADDIES COMPUTER .... YOU MUST HAVE A GAMERS RIG .... BUT HEY .... a mmo requirements running in par with game crisis .... should tell ya the level of excitement .... i reccomend seeing a doctor if you have any health problems before playing , it will bring up your heart rate !!!!!!!!!!!!