Interview with Gaute Godager - your questions

[SelfRez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bYi7-I-LN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_LG5NEdA-4

plus many many more from this Q&A if you follow the trial.

hold on tight!

Wow i hadnt heard that original plans about PVP levels and rewards before. What on earth happen to this?? .. its sounds pretty much the stuff PVP needs. long term goals and feel of success. Its would have been pretty HC to lose PVP xp too. No wonder Gaute wasnt happy how the game turned out.

[pekka]

The fact that Gaute Godager changed his career to become a psychologist

What can you tell us about trolls and pvp heroes as a psychologist? ^^

[barbaricwildcat2]

I would like to know that one as well :P

same here

i mean, kinda matters to sort things out when a title went down hill like it did

[cins]

A psychologist's opinion on keyboard warriors would actually be interesting. Doubly so for an ex-game maker psychologist's.

[kinlock]

I've been watching the Developers diaries of this game from way-back and some of the Q&A videos and it has brought back a lot of memories from 2008. Man, I was so pumped for this game and it blew me away when it released! Gaute and his team made one helluva game!

SOOO, most definitely express the gratitude from the hardcore Vets of AoC for the many years he and his team worked on AoC and just how awesome the game was and still is, despite all it's corporate shortcomings being released way too soon, unfinished as it was, and without so many of Gaute's original ideas. He made a goddamn great game!


Also, if he's any good at being a psychologist, he already knows what you're going to ask him and why you're asking it. lol.

[K4nnyc]

Would be nice for us if Gaute spilled the beans about AOC or funcom. Any juicy info would be fun I guess.

[Slith]

Would be nice for us if Gaute spilled the beans about AOC or funcom. Any juicy info would be fun I guess.

I have my question list pretty much fleshed out.

I will focus on:

1/ inspirations from Conan universe
2/ core features and their development (like combo system)
3/ things that didn't make it to the game (old features, old classes)
4/ few things that community argued about for years (like was AOC developed as pvp game, why do we have so many female mobs etc.).

[Religolibri]

4/ few things that community argued about for years (like was AOC developed as pvp game).

I'm ready for the MEGATON.

[Icoyce]

I feel the question of classes is a bit redundant. Almost all the old classes were merged into what we have today, except for Lich and Scourge of Derketo, who both disappeared completely. This was done to increase the diversity of each class.

Halberdier became polearm Guardian.

Liberator became dual-wield Conqueror.

Zealot became talisman Dark templar.

Reaver became dual-wield Barbarian.

Defiler, Lotus Master and Master Thief became what is now the Assassin.

Waylayer became crossbow Ranger.

Scion of Set and Stormcaller became Tempest of Set.

If anyone is curious, I have the old class descriptions somewhere...

[Slith]

I would prefer master thief over assassin :X

Its almost too bad to read old articles about AOC because I get like
" I WANT TO PLAY THAT GAME"