ageof conan GOLD

Age of Conan has arguably the most realistic, high-end graphics for any MMO, and a low-fantasy setting conducive to real RPing, yet there are few emote animations that the player can use to characterize their player.

I applaud Funcom age of conan gold for focusing their time developing the core mechanics and graphics for a truly great game; I’m going to posit a few suggestions to “flesh it out” with some non-essential material that might make the game more interesting for those that want more to an MMO experience than just end-game and pvp.

I suggest an animation/emote/sound & voice tree like a feat tree where a player can use another set of “character individuality” points to customize different aspects of character’s look, animations, and use of voice & sound tracks in-game.

There could be different “characterization” lines just like feat lines. One could be “appearance”, where the player can further adjust the appearance of their character beyond what they did to create their character, adding different hairstyles, makeup, scars, tattoos, adornments (ribbons, jewelry, piercings, etc.), and civilian clothes. A second line could be animation emotes, with various aspects such as laughing, dancing, threats, cheers, crying, flirting, etc. The third line could be where the commands could initiate various sound and voice tracks; again, it could be praise, admonishments, threats, appreciation, flirting, etc. and music, replete with musical instruments and learning various music tracks to play; Say what you want to about Acheron’s Call 2, but they had a killer music system where everyone could gather around and play music together on different instruments and using different tracks.

I realize this kind of stuff is aoc gold non-essential, but non-essential stuff becomes more important when people tire of, or need to take a break from the core aspects of the game.
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