As a fan of both Tolkien and Howard, I would enjoy hearing more about this.
One of the strong points about Conan, being a sandbox, is that you dont need to know or care about REH universe to play it and enjoy it.
That is one thing Theme Park has problems with. If you grow âtiredâ of the World of Warcraft, you hardly will stay for the âwonderful mechanicsâ and âamazing communityâ, because to enjoy the âarguably existenceâ of both, you have to endure much of the âWorld of Warcraftâ.
Final Fantasy, EVE Online, the same thing, as Theme Park games, you need to endure some of the ârailed contentâ, and that might put people off when they see that what else these games offer, other better games might.
Conan Exiles, being a sandbox, already start from the point you can just make yourself your game in it and dont care about the World backstory details (which many players dont even know. Pick a random WoW player that doesnt know or have been painfully explained who Thrall is âŠ)
That is to all sandbox games, but one thing that is particular to Conan Exiles is that the game does it further than other games. Most Sandbox games will have a set of âtheme park mechanicsâ that compel you to go to the content the game has railed, as if the devs want you to go and experience it regardless of you wanting it or not.
In Conan Exiles you cant just ârun off the Worldâ, but as far as combat does not prevents you, nothing else will. And it offers easy ways to solo game your âcreative modeâ out. It is hard be fully burned out about the game.
As I said before, Funcom seems to be sitting on a unique concept without evolving it, seemingly waiting someone else discover that players are tired of being told they âare having fun wrongâ.
Sadly to Conan, some studios are learning that.
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I simply cannot play a male character for this exact reason!
I made a session where @AndyB would lvl up to 60 only in unnamed city starting from zero and having only 25 minutes to gather useful supplies and enter the unnamed city.
I tried to fix a character to look like him and give him the less possible muscles. Still he was like Arnold but walk like an ape 
. Even the way male characters hold the katana while they run is different and ugly, they hold it on the side not like the females that hold it up. Andy of course melt the whole unnamed city and managed to go lvl 60 in 2.5 hours, but the only reason i âsufferedâ this is because in my head Andy was the super hero in this tale. Devs must give us a more fluid male version, a more agile movement, athletic yes, but not bodybuilder only. Itâs not fair and itâs ugly!
Well the term elf is never used. I want to point that out. But if you delve into mythology of different regions, what would be an âelfâ is definitely present. Specifically the Imps and Goblinoids. Elves are not pretty creatures in every culture for sure.
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