Why are we getting a remastered edition of Age of Empires 1?

>>380429145
>20 years old game
>w10 only

fuck that bullshit

>>380429145
Probably to fix all of that

>buying this game instead of starcraft

>>380429145
It will be dirt cheap to produce, and since RTS fans complain about anything and everything anyway it means easy money for little effort. Since trying anything new leads to dead games, this one will at least die out quick for little cost.

Which might translate to more later if sales are sufficient.

>>380429145
And campaigns are shit

>>380429145
They are going to put gameplay enhancements of AOE2 and AOM into this.

>>380429145
Because it isn't available anymore and they are afraid to even bother with AoE4

>>380429226
Can't believe I forgot to mention this

>>380429262
>>380429457
You might as well make a whole new game at that point, there's simply too many problems with AoE1. Notice how the trailer just showed a clustered blobs of strategically placed people hitting eachother?

>>380429410
From what I remember you're right, the missions weren't fun at all

>>380429405
You're correct that remasters are cheap to make. However if they're going to change core fundamentals of the game such as how it's balanced, it's going to take a lot more time and money that a conventional remaster.

>>380429607
>Available only on Windows 10

>>380429145
the dude at E3 said that they would add in some new features, he gave an idle villager button as an example, so at least some points you made might get resolved.

>>380429748
>You're correct that remasters are cheap to make. However if they're going to change core fundamentals of the game such as how it's balanced, it's going to take a lot more time and money that a conventional remaster.
You are assuming they will do anything more than a graphical upgrade along with maybe a population bump. Maybe take a gander at some community rebalancing if they exist.

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QUOTE ME IF YOU THINK AOE1 WAS THE COMFIEST GAME EVER

>>380431137
But anon, its all about esports now.

Weren't horse archers the most unbalanced thing?

>>380431367
>horse archers
They still are in AOE2.

>>380429145
>horse archers make infantry completely useless

welcome to history

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>>380429226
And here I was getting excited

Is this the one with those stupid chinese Chu Ko Nu rushing?

>just want to play my comfy childhood game again
>this gets announced, makes my day
>suddenly >>380429226
Fuck Microsoft, burn them to the ground and then oil their ashes so you can burn them again.

>They bump population to 5000
>they add civilization builder game mode where you just build cities
>they make the maps bigger

I'd love these but
>win 10
Nope

>>380429226
Wait, seriously? What the fuck?
I really hope some russians or chinese in their basement use their potato/rice magic so it can be played on OS that isn't complete spyware.

>>380433148
>win 10
Why?

>>380433148
>just build cities
I'm one of those guys, but I realized its retarded to play a RTS as a city builder

you've had this for sometime already
http://upatch-hd.weebly.com/

>>380431137
It was very aesthetic with a 10/10 look and soundtrack but it was only a GOAT rts when I was 6 and had never played any other.

>>380434558
Holy shit thank you

>>380429145
but OP, look at that tasty steak in the corner

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>>380435161
theres still folks playing the mp

>>380431137
>GIVE ME UPBOATS
Fuck off back to El Reddit

>doesn't really meet
>modern standards
you are a massive retard

>>380429145
We do know that they're updating the UI, pathfinding, etc, and it'll be using UPatch balancing. Not sure what will happen to the population limit though, since the devs supposedly want to keep to AoE I's concepts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_ZVRTJ5N4

Windows 10 app store exclusive though is kind of a shitty thing.

>>380429145
Seeing that picture reminded me of Ceaser III.
Can I get a remaster of that instead? Pharaoh would be nice too.

>>380432665
>>380431367
Realistic at least

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>>380435595
>host : Dmitri
>description : Only russian kids

>>380434558
my computer doesn't recognize the disc though (despite it being basically new) and i'm too lazy to put in the ten seconds it'd take to find a good download of it

>>380437653
yeah i just torrented mine from isozone i lost my cds many years ago

I just want new RTS

>>380431367
Chariot spam wasn't it?

>>380432665
If you had the right civ they're good, yeah. Way too expensive for most civs in AoC, and Parthian Tactics is the most exclusive tech in the game.

>>380437798
>Chariot
yes thats all you used in aoe and still is the way

>>380429145
They should remaster Empire Earth. The first one, not the trainwrecks that followed. EE1 was GOTYAY.

>>380437787
wish granted, but the game will suck and be forgotten

>>380431137
I loved the soundtrack, shame it will be killed by the remaster
https://youtu.be/9bq2lLhjxIc

>>380429226
Oh ok, guess I wasnt interested in it after all.

>>380429145
Gold edition fixed alot of those problems like 200 population limit and units could be queued

And who is to say the remaster wont fix alot of that stuff and make it more like AOE2

>>380440350
Do you honestly believe they will put any work in it? Because I remeber when AoE2 HD came out how fucking horrible it was, they only added "nicer" graphics but everything else was broken.

They will probably balance the game out ya know, OP.

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>>380429145
>i never bought gold edition: the post

Most of that shit was fixed around the turn of the century. Are you sure youre even a fan of the series?

>>380440668
AoE II HD had a shit launch, hell it didn't even have the full soundtrack initially, but at least they actually shaped it up to be something decent. A shame the pathfinding took a hit though

>>380429145

Hey cool, didn't know it was getting remastered. Nice.