I got my girlfriend addicted to WoW. Issues of videogame related strife are now a thing of the past, as she occasionally encourages me to play more.
3 of my friends have gotten their wives to play. Your situation is a common one.
However, my girlfriend utterly refuses to play video games. There's still some realted strife here and there, but she treats it like an addiction. I/We figure her efforts would be better spent on getting me to drink less
How have you felt about AoC so far, CS? I bought it because of the more mature basis, great premade backstory, more brutal combat, and absolutely beautiful graphics.
The graphics are unmatched. The mature basis and brutal combat ("come on!? boobs and decapitation ftw!" as one friend put it) are a plus. I really like the Robert E. Howard world of
Hyboria and how close the game has stayed true to his vision.
I didn't realize that he wrote all his stuff before Tolkien.
I also really like the combat system. I played my firend's WOW toon the other day and fighting consisted of pressing auto-attack and waiting for the battle to finish. It seems so "out of my hands".
I then determined that I didn't particularly like a lot of things about the game engine,
Like what?
They've fixed a lot of the bugs and memory leaks and things that were causing so many problems in the beginning. They really just released the game too early.
The PvP stuff is up and running, the mini-games are really cool but I suck and there's some people out there who are really good
Also, at the high end of the game there's a lot of ganking going on.
and never really found a class I enjoyed much.
another down side is the lack of races. Some friends are playing EQ2 and seeing the rat-men and frog-guys makes it seem to kiddy to me. Plus its really colorful and ghey. I like the dark brutal setting of Conan.
As far as classes, there's always the basic fighter, or a tank or a healer or DD mage.
I have a level 74 Demonologist that makes the phrase "glass-canon" an understatement.
I just like character development, I guess, which you can get from any MMORPG. I like Conan in particular for the 'other' reasons. The look and feal, the setting, the combat system.
But I know they've made some very significant changes over the months since release
There's a lot of little things that they've added that I've found helpful.
Looted items display the vendor price that they go far. No more wondering which item to drop and which to hold when your bag is full.
There's pretty much a pathfinder for every zone so you don't have to spend any time traveling.
and most of the bugs have been removed.
Is it worth me picking it up again for a second chance?
If you only played the game in the first few months after release, then I'd say go for a second chance. The really improved it from there.