My favorite game genres are strategy, adventures and puzzle games. Not only those of today, but also retro classics, because I love nostalgia. My platforms are mainly PC, X-Box and X-Box One.
I could be wrong but i think the low res of the time probably made it harder too, being probably 640x480 or something. You were pretty zoomed in. I loved this game but it took me ages as a child to work out that it's basically just a race to the flags and you win or lose in the first few seconds of the level.
I loved that game as a kid. I played this for HOURS on end and loved every second of it. Also, micromanaging unit was EXTREMELY effective. Manually controlling a light tank could take out a heavy or even a missle tank pretty easily, due to its speed and speed boost if engaged in combat and manually controlled.
Like I said in my review - many complain that the steam version does not contain most cut scenes, the intro and solves the puzzles automatically. I played this version - it´s the trilogy for 10 dollars and on sale it was much cheaper: www.gog.com/de/game/dracula_trilogy
Like I said in my review - many complain that the steam version does not contain most cut scenes, the intro and solves the puzzles automatically. I played this version - it´s the trilogy for 10 dollars and on sale it was much cheaper: www.gog.com/en/game/dracula_trilogy
If you want to get it right, watch my Return of Rome Review - but those added mission are in a way for free and extra content, so I don´t know why to complain. And yes, egypt is a tutorial somehow, but way more, like William Wallace in Age 2and the others are full missions and no demo.
I really liked that game when it came out and have fond memories of it, though I never played it after perhaps the first year from release. Simply not as catchy as Civilization or Age of Empires, its two obvious idols.
@@IHateRiot You can watch my Egyptian Campaign Let´s Play of the original AoE here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_6BDKn5xxAQ.htmlsi=cqEq_5epgoeisTfH
You're right, sorry about that. Full shame on me for diggin not deeper. Unfortunately it was not in the campaigns I played and the skirmish maps I tested with others. I have cut the part out of the clip.
As someone who has been playing Kingdom in 21:9 for years, it feels insanely limiting to see the game that way. Especially when you're playing zoomed in as close as you are.
If you want more overview to react earlier, zooming out might be a very good choice. Still, I just like this view better generally, because it drags me more into the game and it feels more like the view of the chosen one - and of cause explaining things seems better close than far away, as well.
This is not about the genre - I play Kingdom like this. I mean, you can´t compare this to AoE in respect of a RTS game, it´s more relaxed than Age and there is no micromanagemrnt and multiple troops to controll, so the basic gameplay does not really demand to be zoomed out. For me this is much more relaxing as Age and therefore I like the immersion more.
Idk man, how do you know it's a paid DLC? I mean nobody said anything about that yet. And if it were gonna be a paid one, how would the rank games work? I paid for Japan and you didn't so only i get to choose that civ and beat your azz with it? Doesn't sound half fair to me, dude.
Good point, the price is not mentioned there at the moment - but the DLC got it´s own Steam-page, that´s why it is likely to be a paid DLC. Free DLC don´t have their own page. And the rest is integrated similar to the Age2-DLCs that are paid - if I buy the Rome one, I have Rome (or Dukes or India). I don´t know how it is for ranked games, but this might work just the same. I personally think, they will release it in October for the 2nd anniversary of the game, so there is only one month to wait.
At first I didn't play AOE4 because I could not customize my hotkeys. But now I can and it feels good to play it. Still, playing campaigns and skirmish is not the greatest experience. Campaign is boring and skirmish AI is really weak. So to get the most out of this game I believe it's better to play with friends or ranked. About the things you find strange, that make you feel "not at home", I believe they had to do stuff differently from aoe2, otherwise there would be no point in buying this game. I started to like the age up system after understanding a bit about what the buildings were supposed to do. It also makes sense to select a villager, since the age up requires to build something now. Totally agree about the bell feature. It missing affects beginners harshly. It's just hard to control the villagers to safety when you are still learning the game. About the stone walls, I don't hate it, I don't like it... it's just different. About the way scouts work, I think it makes me kinda make 2 scouts most games, one for checking the enemy, one for close scouting and getting sheep. Overall, I enjoy it. But it's a different game, so you'll not "feel at home" unless you accept things are different and play it for a while to learn and get used to it. Ask some friends to play 1v1 our 2v2 with you. Maybe you like it, maybe you don't, but it's certainly better than playing campaign or vs AI.
Good review. Think too it's weird MS didn't just make a major update for AoE I DE (with AoE II DE Engine in the background for unified maintenance). Crucial points for me: 1.) Integration: The final integration feels odd. AoE I is a whole own game and should not only be a game mode for AoE II. Disappointing for AoE I community. 2.) Coexisting: Now AoE I DE and AoE II DE with RoR are strangely co-existing with two communites. I'm active AoE I DE player and me and other lobby room players feel the lack of proper maintenance very frustrating, lobby games in AoE I DE crashing very often. 3.) Graphics: Another sad point for me is that - in my opinion - the very beautiful crafted graphics of AoE I DE looks actually better than RoR. Second looks too much like AoE II and lacks the feeling of AoE I. I do not understand why MS didn't just use the already lovely remastered 4K-graphics as skin over the AoE II DE engine. Hope in the future MS listens to the community and provide a standalone AoE I game again as separate title next to AoE II, III and IV.
It's a good idea the problem is that Microsoft doesn't have a good anti-cheat system. Doesn't have a ladder system like Battlenet yet. They lack patience also they need to host tournaments if they really want this game to another level. Invite Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese to play tournaments and it will live for like 15 years more.
I feel like if they just went further with changes like you said at the end of the video, it would just be age of empires 2 with an age of empires 1 skin which i am strongly against. I love age of empires 1, and the gameplay changes they made here were good and enough to make age of empires 1 much more playable but kept things faithful to keep the gameplay from being completely unrecognizable from the original. I think the problem with the dlc was how buggy it was and the lack of original campaigns. But luckily they are adding those in too. I still think they should have had a discount for age of empires 1 DE owners though.
I dunno, but for the price of a burger these days - just to put things in relative perspective - much of the current online agonizing with regards to this DLC comes across as pretty lame to me. Overall, it's been good value for money in terms of getting a new civ to play, along with providing an interesting reboot of the much beloved (and hated in some respects; horrendously bugged pathfinding, for example) original that incorporates many features from AOE II DE. While the somewhat redundant development path is a bit curious in this instance, if nothing else, it's good to know that Microsoft is still devoting resources to the AOE game franchise as an ongoing venture, which is more than can be said about most long-deceased RTS games. Perhaps its aim was targeted more at casual fans (both new and old) of the game rather than the still sizeable corps of diehard fanatics that play it competitively online.
Yeah, which essentially only got rome. That lacks a lot of unique things. But acording to MS there are a lot who only or mainly play the campaign - so that should also be .. up to standard? I mean, its reselling an old game, it's not like they need a triple A Budget to make campaigns.
