Poll of the Day > Age of Empires IV announced

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwZ6GZXWhA

Also Age II and III definite editions planned, along for Age I.

Good-bye world, I'll be going back to my first love.

Now they just need a Viewtiful Joe 3, and all will b well in the world.

@agesboy
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So it's going to be a more recent age of time, following the trend, then? I'd rather they revisit older times, with an updated game engine.

Loved AoE II especially, I kept my graphics card from updating beyond 2008 updates for over five years just so I could play it w/o the graphics getting messed up.
III just wasn't as fun, couldn't turtle at all anymore. I LIKED having endless hordes of foes die on my walls and end battles w/ a 20 to 1 kill ratio. :(

streamofthesky posted...

So it's going to be a more recent age of time, following the trend, then? I'd rather they revisit older times, with an updated game engine.

That's the guess, but we know jack-shit about the game save for it's existence and Relic is making.

Also, they are updating Age I, II, and III in the exact way you described, 4K graphics and improved engines, AI, etc. Called the "definitive" edition. The one for Age 1 is due in October, on the 20 year anniversary. Actual gameplay improvements are sparse though, save for attack-move being added (no idea if they are balancing anything else).

Loved AoE II especially, I kept my graphics card from updating beyond 2008 updates for over five years just so I could play it w/o the graphics getting messed up.
III just wasn't as fun, couldn't turtle at all anymore. I LIKED having endless hordes of foes die on my walls and end battles w/ a 20 to 1 kill ratio. :(

I mean, trebuchets still out-range everything save for Longbowmen, but the ability to build a billions towers and castles made turtling a wee-bit silly in Age II.
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I mean, trebuchets still out-range everything save for Longbowmen, but the ability to build a billions towers and castles made turtling a wee-bit silly in Age II.

Walls, castles, towers, and only ever play on Black Forest!
Swipe all the stone mines I can early on so I can build my fortress and the enemies have to buy their stone!
And keeping a cavalry for the sole reason of intercepting trebuchets before they can reach me.
Good times.

I really don't think it was too obscene. I managed to defeat walled-in computers with few losses with a small/moderate invasion force usually (20-40 guys plus 4-6 trebuchets or canons) after they had up to an hour to build regularly. *shrug*
Not sure how it went in PvP, didn't really do that at all. But I really doubt collecting resources and building up walls and castles for 20 min before even considering attacking works much better in AoE II PvP than it does any other RTS PvP.
I was just obsessive-compulsive / elitist about the "value" of my soldiers compared to the enemy's and wanted to really run up that ratio.

I’ve only ever played age of empires 3, but I enjoyed it
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Wololo wololo! I think my interested stopped after AoE II. AoE III didn't draw me in
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now we just need warcraft 4 (not world of warcraft I'm talking old school warcraft)
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BlazeAndBlade posted...

now we just need warcraft 4 (not world of warcraft I'm talking old school warcraft)

Wishful thought but I doubt we'll get it until World of Warcraft is gone. Plus with Starcraft II still around, I feel Blizzard does not want to split its RTS fanbase between two games. Granted Starcraft was still quite popular even around Warcraft III release.
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Old ass image from a concept art book coming through.


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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Old ass image from a concept art book coming through.

Yeah, that was before MS disbanded Ensemble tho
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Ugh... I don't want a WW I or WW II AoE game...