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A look at Cultural Armor in Age of Conan

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Age of Conan has been (in our view, fairly) criticized for lacking costume diversity. It’s not quite Age of Strikingly Similar If Slightly Recolored Leather, but it’s close. The huge revamp to the crafting system that was recently announced will do a lot to fix this, adding new crafting recipes for armor sets including the Cultural Armor sets.

We had initially thought that the ‘cultures’ mentioned would be the three in the game currently - Aquilonian, Cimmerian and Stygian - but a recent feature on the new sets has added Acheronian to the list. It’s accompanied by a lengthy piece of background text concerning niello, a substance that does exist in the real world, and will presumably appear in Age of Conan as a crafting material.

The whole piece, however, is clearly a FunCom addition to the work of Robert E Howard, and while it’s inevitable that the canon would have to be expanded upon in order to flesh out the game, we can’t help but raise an eyebrow at a chronicle by ‘Lascivicus’ that mentions ‘Deathcoils’ and ‘the Dark Lord’. A bit too black metal, perhaps. And Lascivicus? Come on, Funcom. The Bearded Clam was bad enough, but let’s steer cleer of the silly NPC names, eh?
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