Zero Punctuation visits Conan in Hyboria

26 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Jul 23rd 2008 9:00PM
Filed under: Culture, PC, Online, RPGs, MMO

No matter how much the hardcore MMORPG crowd may want to deny it, almost every game in the genre wants to be, or wishes it could have been, World or Warcraft. This week's Zero Punctuation says as much, with Yahtzee trying to enjoy his Hyborian adventure but wandering into familiar -- but not quite right -- WoW territory.

Check out the NSFW review of Age of Conan after the break.

Tags: age-of-conan, age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures, conan, escapist, escapist-magazine, yahtzee, zero-punctuation, zeropunctuation

(Page 1) Reader Comments

RetVersus: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:03PM

A little bit off the mark and not one of the funnier videos. He gets one thing right though; Patch Patch Patch.

VoLiTioN: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:08PM

... Like every other MMO.

Boytisoy: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:16PM

Really? Every MMORPG patches more than 1 gig worth of data in the first month alone? Can you name one please?

Kassu: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:09PM

His way with words just keeps getting better and better.

Psyclerk: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:22PM

Maybe he'll figure out the correct way to pronounce some of those words by the next installment. He mangled a few in that flood.

unfriendly_cat: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:43PM

To be fair, he gets 'MMORPG' right.

Poisoned Al: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:12PM

Not as funny as the last few, but it killed a few minutes for free, so why complain?

Nutchos: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:19PM

Right on. I tried it but I really didn't feel like it was going anywhere. Also knowing absolutely nothing about the conan history (haven't even seen the movie) made me feel like i'd probably not get a lot of what the game would be about at the later levels.

Although the NPC dialog structure was way better than WOW's crappy skim for quest details and go do it.

Lactose The Intolerant: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:20PM

What the shit was that garbage after the video? It looks about as enjoyable as hammering nails through my dick.

Neebs: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:23PM

The advertisement you hit the pause button for and never look back.

Roto13: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:27PM

Yeah, I really don't like that they added advertisements to ZP. Blargh.

AoE: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:51PM

question for Lactose & Roto13...

why the hell do you watch past the credits?!

Rod Munch: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:56PM

Well give them lots of money so they can do business and make a profit without ads.

PersonOfSorts: Jul 23rd 2008; 10:04PM

At least they don't put the ads before the video -- unlike IGN's video section which generally convinces me the clip I'm about to see "isn't worth this shit."

Shignami: Jul 23rd 2008; 9:29PM

You know, these videos get posted like 10 hours before this update ever appears.

Whats up with that?

Cal: Jul 24th 2008; 6:55AM

They're usually posted at 6PM BST on Wednesdays, but I'm guessing they appear here whenever someone needs an extra post for their quota...

DeaconGTG: Jul 23rd 2008; 10:31PM

Fairly interesting that there is currently a full screen ad for Age of Conan SURROUNDING the Yahtzee's review on the escapist website. Oops.

DeaconGTG: Jul 23rd 2008; 10:31PM

Yeah, I'm not sure why I called him "the" Yahtzee either.

Danny: Jul 24th 2008; 12:04AM

I noticed that, shortly before watching the video. Needless to say, I scrutinised every second for untoward niceties... because I'm that sad.

Mr.ESC: Jul 24th 2008; 12:13AM

Good the Escapist isn't GS.

t_m: Jul 23rd 2008; 10:48PM

All these MMOs have built some pretty amazing worlds... I wish they'd put some games into them.. sigh.

eldee: Jul 23rd 2008; 11:43PM

anybody else find it ironic that AoC ads were plastered all over the escapist site while watching a relatively negative review of the game. heh.. at least the review is honest, even though the company hosting it is obviously shilling.

BPM [MSN: BPMdotEXE @ hotmail.com]: Jul 23rd 2008; 11:50PM

I'd like to show the girl with the bare [jugs] my [blimey].

Sorry, don't mind me. Just wanted to make reference to the somewhat-amusing censor bars in this ZP.

Shaq-Fu: Jul 24th 2008; 2:00AM

If that nude server thing happens, I will gladly buy AoC

Replica23: Jul 24th 2008; 1:16PM

Funny as always (well, almost always) but when he actually "reviews" a game I've played in depth it's hard to ignore the ridiculous ammount of exaggerate he injects into it. It's almost like he needs to skew the facts to make it funny, which is fine. Just saying.

Infidel: Jul 24th 2008; 2:52PM

Lolz he made a joke about Essex.

I come from Essex.

I get what he's on about.

Lolz

Go me.

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