Last Updated (Saturday, 23 August 2008 16:14) Written by Child Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:59

It's been a few months since Age Of Conan hit the shelves, we covered an initial release of Age of Conan, and we've covered the updates they're making to the PVP, and we've also covered the fact that AoC is doing well fighting for the # 2 MMO spot and may continue to do well. Well, it seems like Funcom is really keeping to their word on delivering what players want, or at least trying too. It seems the upcoming updates are pretty big, and look pretty neat. It's definitely apparent that the AoC crew is at least trying to keep their jobs, and keep people interested in their lovely little world of decapitation, scantly clad women, and demons.

Recently, a little video popped up on the internet that is a 25 minute long video introducing a lot of Age of Conan's new updates, it's long, and the guys on the video are a little goofy and have accents, which is always amusing. Anywho, Here's the down low.

• New slum neighborhood area that they refer too as, "a bad bad neighborhood that you wouldn't want to walk into at night"

• In the slums, there will be 2 gang factions and you will have to choose a side
• Quests involving the gang factions will involve roof top jumping, climbing in windows, and forcing people to walk PLANKS
• Revamped dungeons with traps and more elaborate boss encounters
• New outdoor area with giants, local-wide quests that effect all players, and a new dungeon with a demi-god chained inside
• Lots of new equipment and items with more aesthetics and variety added

So out of it all, it really seems like they are really trying to pump AoC full of the precious content and the fun that it is going to need if it wants to have staying power in todays harsh, enormous, and some-what insane MMO market. A lot of the new stuff looks really fun (ie; jumping from roof top to roof top, breaking into homes, and murdering people on buildings) and they're trying to think out side of the box when coming up with new quests, and attempting to avoid fetch quests. One example is as follows; a gang wants you to bring them the finger of a rival gang member and you have the choice of either obliging fully or you can take the finger of a dead body in the streets. The developers also make note that if you get to caught cheating them something bad may happen, which we assume will lead to some sort of disfigurement involving a broken bottle. Of course, the new gear looks pretty awesome and anything that makes me look not like a ninja or warlord with flip flops is a plus in the goblins book.

The main problem was the lack of content at level 40+ and the strive to fill that area is starting to stumble in, and as the days press on, it looks like players requests are being answered. So if you still have your AoC account laying around, or haven't played in a bit, jump on and try some of the new fun out!

If you're interested in the video, you can check out the entire thing here.
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