Always wanted an RTS in the Hyboria age (A Conan Total War was always a dream of mine) It's a competent dev, and a decent publisher so I'm reasonably excited.
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Conan Unconquered (RTS, Command and Conquer Remaster Devs Petroglyph, Published by Funcom)
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Now that you mention it sounds exactly like Age of Mythology, especially with the god and artifact bit.
Does anyone know who the Golem/God in the trailer is suppose to be? Or is it just a made up character for this game in specific?
C&C remaster involved a bunch of studios, they aren't the only one. Some of these other studios also involved in remastering Starcraft.
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That's why I love Conan. It's the dying age of magic and monsters. There still there, but they only haunt forgotten ruins and decaying strongholds.
In the original stories, Conan's first reaction when he see's an ancient horror or a powerful wizard is to run away.
Awesome! That's not the genre I expected Conan to ever get into but it has such a rich history it can easily be fit into it.
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But on this note...I'll take unit diversity over faithfulness any day.
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I personally want Frost Giants, and Mammoths, but since it's in the desert, it's unlikely.
You think? Everything looks so low-detailed, slightly cel-shaded and deformed. Just...outdated. Don't know a better term.
its set in the desert what more do you want
edit: nm wasnt wearing my glasses
It could easily move beyond that, and not like armies haven't been known to travel vast distances and invade so you might.
I dunno, I kinda dig the old-school look, at second glance it does look like kinda blurry but I can't tell if that's just the screenshots or not.
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The Graphics are always going to take a hit when you have to render hundreds, if not thousands of units at a time. It looks fine for an RTS title.
There is still time for things to be improved as well, it's not like it's out next week so they could tweak and fix things to look nicer.
same. i prefer my magic and monsters rare, mysterious, and not to be trifled with. not as a unit to be fielded alongside grunts and what have you.
either way, i... well, i probably wont play it because i dont have a working PC atm. and i buy/play games so rarely due to time and money that if it came down to it, this is low on the list. but still, good for them!
Grey Goo was unbelievable so I concur that it's great to see Petroglyph being attached to this project.
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I have a combined 1600 hours in both TWW games, and there both the biggest graphics hogs ever made (and I say that as a massive fan of both of them). Even with a beast of a computer, once more then four thousands units appear on the screen the game is going to to take a massive performance hit, on anything over high. The game looks amazing, but it pays for it by having horrible performance.
Depends on the rig I guess. I had some problems with my old PC on relatively high settings but only in really absurdly big battles, which are few and far in between. WIth my new high end PC I have no problems at all with everything set to the max.
It kinda sucks you need a good PC to enjoy the game, but goddamn if it doesn't come close to fulfilling that fantasy of playing a Lord of the Rings movie style battle in full scale by yourself. And imo Conan needs something like this as well.
TWW units (quality, quantity and animations) are great, but the landscapes are poor. The environments are highly repetitive ground textures over the bumpy terrain + a few scattered objects. For that game, it works, because it is only about units clashing. The game doesn't look good from the far for me, and 3vs3/4vs4 never runs smoothly.
For the game like Conan, you need to have full map, bases, workers etc. There is much more going on than just one army clashing with another. The assets themselves have to be simplified, you cannot have massive structures like castle walls in TWW, you need something that players can use like Legos. This Conan game is just not going after replicating the TW experience, it is going to be more traditional, Stronghold/AoE-like style/camera/controls type of the game. They are Billions was super successful with RTS PVE design, so the Conan is smart to NOT go into the PVP RTS financial slaughterhouse.
I have a personal criticism that TWW is trash online. Even picking a faction is stupid because it is a lot like rock-paper-scissors and the opponent can just counter-pick. It is simply not built for MP: the map is just nothing. Go, fight, I guess? (but also should you fight in the community tournament, there is a list of 20 genteman's rules to make the game actually interesting and balanced.) The AI was never meant for co-op, it doesn't do anything interesting, and there is always a point half-way into the round where you know you have won the game, and just mopping them down. I would rather have much lower visual fidelity, but much more engaging scenario design.
Plus, CA obviously has more experience, more funding, more resources which they use to re-build the same core game over and over again. I doubt the Conan game is going to be more than $30.
Not a big fan of the graphic style they went with, but if the gameplay is good I'm in.
I think if you are doing desert maps a more cartoony style fits better. This makes it all feel rather bland.
Also, the units don't really pop. Which would make it feel much more alive.
But this is on my list.
I think if you are doing desert maps a more cartoony style fits better. This makes it all feel rather bland.
Also, the units don't really pop. Which would make it feel much more alive.
But this is on my list.
