Just announced and you can sign up for the beta. I love AoEII and enjoyed AoEIII and I've been waiting for a new AoE for a while and looks like my wait is now excited.

http://ageofempiresonline.com/

What are your guys' thoughts?

Moving_Target wrote:Just announced and you can sign up for the beta. I love AoEII and enjoyed AoEIII and I've been waiting for a new AoE for a while and looks like my wait is now excited.

http://ageofempiresonline.com/

What are your guys' thoughts?

Age of Empires is a great game, but truth be told I'm not exactly thrilled about having to constantly go online to play it; multiplayer has never interested me in the slightest. And I hate to be a downer, but the graphics looks a little bit too absurd; it actually makes Wind Waker look realistic, to be brutally honest.

But if there is a single-player mode, I hope they make the difficulty more balanced; in AoE 3, the AI is too hard for me on moderate, but is criminally easy on Easy; since there's no in-between, I have absolutely no idea how to improve.

I think it looks cool, although I'm a little curious about the persistent world thing, and how that will work. I guess we'll see. Personally, I don't mind the graphics.

Looking at it again, it probably doesn't seem too bad. I may get it, but since I've never been a MP fan, I'm still unsure if it's worth it.

Huh, interesting. AoE has always been my favorite RTS series, so this is great to see a new one, even if it's entirely online. I'm still waiting for the other two that were advertised in some magazine a few years ago, though.

Talking about the WWII AoE and the future one?

In the FAQ they talk about singleplayer.

Looks to me like another once great series has been butchered.

SilvaDalek wrote:Looks to me like another once great series has been butchered.

Yeah, I guess that's the vibe I'm getting myself.

Rogan?


I dunno, it looks quite cartoony and blocky. Yeah it'll be small on yer screen so you won't notice, but take the warhammer games for instance, I would like the graphics to be more like that Guess it's aimed at a younger audience....

Me personal favorite is POW.

The_Emperor wrote:Rogan?


I dunno, it looks quite cartoony and blocky. Yeah it'll be small on yer screen so you won't notice, but take the warhammer games for instance, I would like the graphics to be more like that Guess it's aimed at a younger audience....

Hidden/Spoiler:

wololooo! Also, E=MC2 TROOPER, BIG BERTHA, JACK BE NIMBLE, FLYING DUTCHMAN, HOYOHOYO, PHOTON MAN, BIGDADDY, CONVERT THIS!, STORMBILLY, BIG MOMMA, POW, UPSIDFLINTMOBILE

Cheat codes?

GangsterJawa wrote:

The_Emperor wrote:Rogan?


I dunno, it looks quite cartoony and blocky. Yeah it'll be small on yer screen so you won't notice, but take the warhammer games for instance, I would like the graphics to be more like that Guess it's aimed at a younger audience....

Hidden/Spoiler:

wololooo! Also, E=MC2 TROOPER, BIG BERTHA, JACK BE NIMBLE, FLYING DUTCHMAN, HOYOHOYO, PHOTON MAN, BIGDADDY, CONVERT THIS!, STORMBILLY, BIG MOMMA, POW, UPSIDFLINTMOBILE

Cheat codes?

From the very first AoE.

Speaking of AoE, I reinstalled number two onto my comp. Thing is, since AoE 2 is a bit old, the ground has all these red dots on it and the water looks purple. It made me feel like I was on acid, TBH.

The cartoony models and textures kind of remind me of the old settlers games. I'm not really sure why they chose the cartoony styled models, as all the other AOE games have aimed for a more realistic appearance. I doubt I'll bother with this, as i've never played multiplayer AOE in my life, and am happy to keep it that way. AOE has always been a singleplayer game IMO.

Wrong. AoE is best played, and has always been best played, with friends on a local network. Most games are the same, actually.

GangsterJawa wrote:Wrong. AoE is best played, and has always been best played, with friends on a local network. Most games are the same, actually.

That's your opinion. I personally do no other mode besides single-player.

Ping wrote:

GangsterJawa wrote:Wrong. AoE is best played, and has always been best played, with friends on a local network. Most games are the same, actually.

That's your opinion. I personally do no other mode besides single-player.

Haha, I know. Just had to put my stubborn mule's two cents in.

Actually i do kind of agree with you, gangsterjawa, as LAN games at school and home are awesome fun with friends, but I've never played online/on the internet.

lucasfart wrote:Actually i do kind of agree with you, gangsterjawa, as LAN games at school and home are awesome fun with friends, but I've never played online/on the internet.

You guys are able to play with friends over LAN? I'm the only person in my sparsely populated area that seems into strategy games. Everyone else seems to only care about Halo or Call of Duty. Annoys me to no end, though at the same time, I'm okay with it; I've never really been a people person, which is why I guess I have a general....distaste for multiplayer.

Ping wrote:

lucasfart wrote:Actually i do kind of agree with you, gangsterjawa, as LAN games at school and home are awesome fun with friends, but I've never played online/on the internet.

You guys are able to play with friends over LAN? I'm the only person in my sparsely populated area that seems into strategy games. Everyone else seems to only care about Halo or Call of Duty. Annoys me to no end, though at the same time, I'm okay with it; I've never really been a people person, which is why I guess I have a general....distaste for multiplayer.

Haha, yeah... We have 2 (3 counting my brother's laptop) computers in my home, so whenever I have a friend over we do LAN stuff.

That's sucks. I have like 7 friends who love RTSs and AoE. We lan AoEII whenever we can.