00:14Angel Conan is a mature fantasy. It's not about elves, you know, throwing, you know, throwing flowers at each other,
00:22it's about, you know, men with big muscles, you know, crushing each other's skulls and cutting off each other's head.
00:30My name is Erling Ellingson. It's a Norwegian name, very difficult to pronounce, I think. I work as a product
00:37manager for Funcom. So I work on all of our different titles. But, you know, right now I'm spending most
00:42time on Agent Corona.
00:43It is really a game that sort of directs itself towards the mature audience or grown-ups. I mean, grown
00:50-ups. It's a game made by grown-ups for grown-ups. That's what we usually say.
00:53And, I mean, there's also all these different things that just makes this game so unique. You have the active
00:59revolutionary combat system, you know, combat system that has never before been seen in a massively multiplayer online game.
01:06So it's going to revolutionize the way you think about combat in games. And then you have, you know, the
01:11incredible graphical detail, the massive sieges, which is sort of like Braveheart meets Troy meets the Kingdom of Heaven.
01:18And inside a game, you know, it's completely, it's going to blow people away, I think.
01:22One of the most important things in an MMO is having ownership of your character and, you know, the person
01:29that you want to be.
01:30You know, it starts with character creation where you can tweak your character's appearance in any way you'd like.
01:36You know, you can pull and tug at every little bone and muscle in your character's face.
01:40You know, you can make yourself ugly, pretty, anything in between.
01:43You can give yourself a broken nose, a blue eye, a black eye.
01:47You know, scarred up, or you can make yourself Prince Charming, if that's what you want to.
01:51You can truly make your character look unique.
01:53And it's actually, the character creation tool is so powerful that you can actually create a character that looks different
02:00from all the other players that are on the same server as you.
02:03Something that has never been done before in an MMO.
02:06That's truly going to give you a sense of ownership of the character that you're playing.
02:10You feel that this is you.
02:11One of the things I've been focusing most on is staying true to the original Conan lore.
02:15When we started working on Age of Conan, we said, okay, this is going to be a game that has
02:19the vision of Robert E. Howard, you know, the guy who wrote the Conan stories 70 years ago.
02:25A brilliant author in every way possible.
02:27I mean, if you haven't read the books, I mean, go out and buy them right away because it's some
02:32of the best literature that I've ever read.
02:33And it's fantasy.
02:35It's incredible.
02:37And staying true to those things and pulling all the different stuff from his stories into the game has been
02:42very important.
02:43And we actually have people who work on the game whose only job is to sit there and read through
02:49Conan stories and point out different things they want to be in the game.
02:53That's an entire job position of the Conan lore has so many unique monsters, you know, tapping into the mind
03:01of Robert E. Howard has just been amazing.
03:03I mean, he envisioned some seriously dark, evil monsters, you know, creatures that just feels like they crawled up from
03:12hell.
03:13And they're really pissed about being in our world, pretty much.
03:16And you have anything from, you know, the sexy succubus, this winged woman demon, you know, looks pretty.
03:24Once you get up close, you're just going to kick your ass.
03:26And then you have the incubus, a huge, towering male guy with, you know, wings.
03:33You have the yeti who's equipped with an entire tree, swinging his tree at you.
03:38You have the soul eater who's like devouring souls as he's fighting you.
03:43You know, you have all these different things.
03:45You have sort of like half men, half horses with giant snakes.
03:52The tail of these horses, giant snake heads coming after you.
03:57You know, it's some of the darkest and most evil creatures that you've ever seen in MMO.
04:01In Age of Conan, user-created content is actually quite important.
04:05I think it's going to be incredibly interesting to see how just the political world is going to evolve as
04:10we open up the servers for players.
04:12You're going to have guilds who are going to grow big very quickly.
04:17You know, they're going to start building their cities.
04:20They're going to start building their battle keeps.
04:21They're going to start dominating.
04:23And you're going to see some guilds who are going to challenge their power.
04:26You're going to attack them.
04:27You know, hundreds of players on the battlefield rushing towards each other.
04:31You're going to break down their walls.
04:32And it's this really, really deep political game behind it all.
04:37It's not just a static world.
04:39It's not just a static world where things are happening that you don't have control over.
04:43You can really, you know, you can really build your own career, political career as you go up and work
04:49your way up to the guild ranks.
04:51We really hope that it's going to come out there and people are going to embrace it.
04:54And I really hope that people are going to enjoy the power that they have to create their own world
05:02in this game.
05:03You know, that they're going to get into that guild experience.
05:05And I hope that people who have not played in guilds before, they're going to be pulled into that social
05:11element in the game.
05:12And really become a part of something bigger.
05:17And I hope players are going to stick with us as we continue to fine-tune the game and polish
05:22the game and add more stuff.
05:24Pushing out more expansions, just expanding this world far beyond the borders of what's there today.
05:34Pushing out more expansions, just expanding this world far beyond the borders of what's there today.
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