Am I good at this Age of Empires thread ?

>>388096256
Man, it's such a shame that AoE 3 campaign is bad. It tried to be AoM campaign but ended up like Assassin Creed plot. At least Asian Dynasties tried to fix this.

NO STEAM NO BUY

>>388096491
>RTS plot
The only one I've ever cared about was C&C

>>388096491
>playing the campaign

>>388096592
Well, it's supposed to be historical adaptation of some historical figures, not full blown fiction.

>>388096660
Multiplayer is unbalanced especially with native Americans.

>>388096586
>This is how retarded volvotards are
It's a shame your Stockholm syndrome keeps you from being reasonable.
Physical > Digital

>>388096907
>having a disc tray in current year
god to bed old man

>>388096586
this tbqh
fuck winstore

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>>388096256
>228 986 food

>>388096586
>wanting a monopoly

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>>388096256
What happened to properly sized buildings in RTS games? Not even Cossacks 3 has them anymore. It's all clown-closets.

>>388096907
gramps..... easy on the alzheimers......

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>>388096586
If you only use Steam, GoG, and piracy you're part of the reason PC gaming is up shit creek

>>388096889
Nonsense, the cheese native american strats can be spotted a mile away and then you auto win the game. Skill still prevails in multiplayer everytime.

>>388100396
What do you do then? Genuinely curious.

>>388096491
Asian Dynasties had a much better campaign plot. But honestly, the campaigns aren't particularly memorable in AoE games.

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>>388100797
I assume you say that because it technically discounts this games incredible campaign.

>>388099907
>microsoft enforces monopoly on select titles
That is literally the point in not buying it, retard.

>>388096586
Age of Empires 3 is on Steam, what are you on about?

Or are you talking about Age of Empires Definitive Edition? In that case, why do you give a shit whether it is on Winstore or Steam? Both use DRM and restrict your abilities as a user.

Why are Native Americans unbalanced?

>>388100905
Okay, I will admit: the characters in AoM were pretty memorable.

>>388101030
If you mean disadvantaged, it is because there are historical problems.

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>>388101039
Is that an accomplishment? Literally transplanted mythology.

>>388100558
>cheapshark to see who has the games the cheapest (most important, I look up every game there before I buy it)
>I have Origin access/Origin in general because I ended my boycott of EA last year so I a set library of games/discounts from there
>Windows 10 store although sparingly just for Xbone ports like Killer Instinct
>GoG
>Steam
>Bundles (Usually Humble)
>Sparing piracy (Sparing mostly to avoid pirates fatigue)
Is my combo. You're gimping yourself if you don't cast a wide net. Some of these smaller websites sell games at stupid discounts to draw in business.

>>388101146
Gargarensis?
Arkantos?
Kastor?

>>388101146
The campaign itself is really good though, some really unique missions in there.

>>388101484
You mean mechanics and objectives? Yeah, it was good and more varied that build up and kill.

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>>388096491
This.
>MC is a half iroqui half european
>Hangs around with kanyenkehaka best friend
>Appears at all key moments of the American revolution
>Costume is a revolutionary outfit with native embellishments
>Fights with a tomahawk and gun combo
>Forefather is from the British isles who had adventures with pirates in the Carribean
>Race against an evil knight order who's after supernatural treasure in the new world.
I'm talking about Nathaniel Black

>>388101146
>Is that an accomplishment? Literally transplanted mythology.

Arkantos, Atlantis and just about all that jazz around it is their own making. They simply did their best to make it look like a passable mythical story.

Best campaign with AoE3 in tow. AoEO gets third place because it had a crapload of campaigns and fun missions in it, all strongly a part of that era's history (and covering just about everything really, early Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Celtic migrations and expansions, Sea People invasion, Egyptian conquest of Numibia, Greco-Persian wars, establishment of the Persian empire... I think they only missed out on Alexander and I never got to play the Norse so I have no idea how they actually fit those in). AoE2 and AoE1 just give some basic childre book history text excerpt before throwing you into a bog-standard 90s RTS mission.

AoE3 is super comfy.

>>388101146
So shitskins were the inventors of furfags?

>>388100797
> the campaigns aren't particularly memorable in AoE games.

what the fuck kind of a crack head are you?

>>388101698
It is.

>>388101732
Everyone was a furfag back then. Being pedo and gay was also popular.

>Access to beta requires XBox account

>>388101732
Romans invented fursuits first.

>>388101732
Indo Europeans (Celts, Slavs, Germans, Persians, Indians) are the original furries.
You can literally read up on our collective history where the inauguration of a king employed him fucking a mare while the queen kills a stallion to use his cock as a dildo.
After they were done with them, the animals were cooked and served to spread wealth and power to the people. Also, just about everything in mainland Europe used animalistic religions.

You simply do not fuck with us white people.

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I don't think I played AoE except 1 (or 2?) when I got my first computer 15 or so years ago. I want to like RTS but I want something real slow, preferably oriented for solo play, so that I don't suffer zerg rush that end a game in 10 minutes. When I played C&C on the N64 ;_; I remember clearing every corner of the map before attacking the enemy, and the last mission taking 3h or so.
So, is AoE something I'd like? If not, what are the alternatives?

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>>388096491
This made me think, I saw a video about Forgotten Empires saying they will try to make AoE:DE campaigns more historically accurate. But what does that mean for AoE2:DE (who took some creative liberties) and AoE3:DE who is at least 75% fictional.

>>388102374
I mostly play AOE 2 as a comp stomp kinda game. It can definitely be played that way just gotta find the difficulty setting for you.

>>388101732
Zeus was the biggest furfag

>>388102374
>I want to like RTS but I want something real slow, preferably oriented for solo play, so that I don't suffer zerg rush that end a game in 10 minutes.

You are kind of conflicting yourself. If a gae allows you to build up, a rush (literally abusing someone's weakness of building up) is always an option and one that hands you free wins.

There is no passive play, only games that force you to be agressive by not giving you a chance to build up, Company of Heroes being the most well known and beloved example of this (resources are territory and win condition is tied to a special territory there is always an uneven number of, you can't make anything unless you take territory and thus engage in the game).

But I mean, you can build up in singleplayer all you want. There is no single RTS game that would have AI good enough to dislodge you or make you pay for not playing the game aside form WC3 where the upkeep and hero levels mean you'll get rolled even by Easy AI.

>>388102564
Thanks, I think I played AoE 1 so I might look up 2.

>>388102846
I don't know, I'm not saying it's not a viable strategy but if you can make huge bases why not? And then, the fact that an "army" of ten people could destroy me because I chose to expand instead feels retarded. In a good game, it would be hard to destroy a base with lances, axes or whatever.
Oh well, I can stay out of that genre, it's not like it's the only one out there.
Competitive was a mistake.

>>388102846
One of the reasons RTS genre is so dire these days. With so much potential handed to the player, it is intimidating and hard to get into. People don't want to work and it's a damn shame.

>>388103136
You're the embodiment of my post
>>388103143
Your casual ass makes me sick.

>>388103353
>Of my post

Which is? I'm >>388102846 BTW.

>>388103409
The post I literally linked immediately after saying that silly.

>>388103136
>it would be hard to destroy a base with lances, axes or whatever.

It's just an abstraction. Both Cossacks and Age of Empires 3 has them set fire to the unprotected buildings which is exactly what happens.

A base with no soldiers in it could be set on fire by a single 10 year old kid with matches, let alone 10 angry dudes with armor and torches.

>>388099907
You're right, I'll accept GOG as well.
>>388100984
I was talking about the definitive editions and AoE IV. I have Windows 10 but I refuse to use the Windows Store. I don't even have a Microsoft account.

>>388102374
Not in multiplayer - you're just gonna get outcalculated by tryhards that know when to attack as every civ and rush you at the first convenience.

It's perfectly viable in campaign though. Not every scenario, because some are storytelling maps or unorthodox challenges. Say, you're given 5 units and you need to get them across entire heavily fortified map. Still, those are fun.
Most scenarios allow you to build up and finish the map as you please.

>>388103353
>>388103593
I don't see how casual it is to want something slow-paced, not everything has to be 2-minute matches.
>it is intimidating and hard to get into
>People don't want to work
So yeah you admit it's intimidating but shit on people who'd find it intimidating. I have a job and don't want to spend 100h learning some RTS game so that I can outsmart XXXdeathstalkerXXX in an APM contest.

>>388103890
Thanks for your input, I'll definitely look up AoE2.

>>388103890
>you're just gonna get outcalculated by tryhards that know when to attack as every civ and rush you at the first convenience.

I don't see where the tryhard part comes in.
It's like complaining about a person who knows blocking in a fighting game instead of mashing the controller like you do.
Yes, he will rape your ass, but he did so because he looked into the game's controls unlike you.

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hey guys
that's a nice thread you have

>>388104284
Is there a single land unit besides monks that can defeat a mameluke?

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>>388102564
I feel the game's AI (at least the HD version) is a tad odd when it comes to the difficulty settings.

The easiest difficulty is a total pushover and might be comfy enough for the anon you were replying to. The second one (i think it's called standard?) seems to pick randomly between trying to attack you or do nothing but the very next difficulty level (moderate I think) advances really fucking fast to castle and knight rushes you to the point I've seen bots that try to imitate online players (like Resonance and Bruteforce) lose to it.

>>388104284
I don't remember this guys ever being relevant. Is this an HD thing (now that camels stopped being boats)?

I tried to get my copy of AoEIII off of Games For Windows Lives cold dead body but it's impossible.

Of well.

>>388104665
mamelukes are really weak to ranged units and also really expensive
cost wise you can beat easily with plumed archers or longbow man
pike line can also deal with it well

>>388100972
>Complain about Microsoft having a monopoly
>Like Steam
Nice logic.

>>388096586
who cares about steam as long as its not windows 10 exclusive

>>388105747
I know it's expensive. Aside from siege weapons and monks I can't think of a unit that costs more gold. I was just wondering if anything could beat it 1v1, even if the results of such a match would not apply to a real battle.

AoE4 got announced FYI, saw Microsoft's vid on YouTube about all that shit.

post AoE IV wish list
>longships that can be carried over ground
>fire mechanics
>you can walk on walls
>functional pike squares
>stealth units
>terrain bonuses (deep/shallow water, deserts, swamps, etc)

>>388107428
We don't even know about the time frame.

>>388107258
I really hope it isn't set in the 20th century, but I don't know what it could be if it isn't. It's just that there are already so many games set in that era... Age of Empires would no longer be unique.

>>388106495
He complains about it being monopolized by Microsoft, by that logic adding it to the Steam store would remove the monopoly.

>>388107683
With the remasters coming up, they either give in to the old joke, make an Empire Earth-like experience with actual budget (since EE was always rather low-key and poor) or say fuck it and make AoE2:Electric Boogaloo, just in 3D, different units and shit like that.

>>388107683
Going by the trailer it's gonna be multi-era with the same time periods as AoE3.

>>388107923
The trailer showed all previous AoE games to keep you on the ropes for as long as it could, anon.
All the art was from the previous games.

>>388107683
19th/20th century That'd be nice. Your opinion is shit

>>388107683
I hope it is 1700s to the great war.

>>388107923
>>388108026
It's going to be a shameless cashgrab. They are going to milk the ip for all it's worth to make people buy this new unrelated game by a new unrelated developer so microsoft can stuff their pockets and then discard the franchise.

>>388104284
As someone who had a Mameluke ancestor, it's nice to see them in at least AoE.

>>388107683
If we go according to the original artwork that they released a decade ago, it was like Nam era or something.

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>>388108587
God I will fucking orgasm on the spot if they announce they're gonna make the 4 and 5 from the artbook.

>>388108656
Space Imperialism would be pretty nice. I wouldn't mind a game that covered the greatest moments of imperialism in human history. Say shit from age of discovery to the space age where Space USA is kicking the asses of the bastard neutrals.

>>388107707
>It's okay when Valve does it!
Double standards.

I don't care about any number bigger than two.

Just gimme the definitive editions and I'm good.

Also
>relic

>>388108587
Then it will be guerilla wars and no basebuilding, which is like CoH. All you gotta do is to tell Charlies to get some and smell the napalm in the morning.

>>388108836
I agree. I'm much more hype about the definitive edition than I am AoE4

>>388100275
Yeah, it's sad. Takes out the enjoyment of destroying them.

How the fuck do you get AoE3 to run on Windows 7? It simply refuses to launch when I install it from my discs. Does the Steam or GOG version have compatibility fixes?

>>388108803
I think you struggle to understand what a monopoly means. If you add a game to steam that used to be exclusive to the win store, there would be no monopoly, since there would be several retailers avaliable.

Steam having monopolies on other games is irrelevant, we were specifically talking about a game exclusive to microsoft. But to answer your shitty attempt at derailing; if all the games exclusive to steam got added to gog and other retailers that would indeed be a good thing.

>>388110292
need DX thing, cant remember what its called but its on piratebay

>>388110292
Steam version runs totally fine.

>>388110292
worked fine when i last time tried it. but my copy was from the microsoft's store that probably doesn't exist anymore. it was either free or they sold the complete pack for few cents. now it's lost forever. need to pirate. not going to buy it again.

>>388102846

You are the reason RTS games are dead. Kill yourself.

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>>388110847
>real time strategy games are dead because of people who want it to be about strategy rather than just a dumbed-down city builder

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>>388107034
i would say mangudai
mams do have the camels vs horse advantage but since mangudai have higher range, movement speed, firing speed and attack at the start of their animation they can easily micro a mameluke
mangudais are fucking scary

So what the hell is the 'Definitive Editions' going to be for AoE 1 and 2? And how is it going to be different from AoE 2 HD that was already released and is now on a completely different development path?

>>388111762
Basically, the DEs are remakes done on a new engine with all of what that entails. the HD version of two on the other hand seems to be just an upscaled game mostly built under a 20 years old engine.

>>388108836
Are they gonna unperson the HD edition of 2?

>>388111762
Nostalgia cash grabs that will not be focusing on competitive integrity. Will split the playerbase further between voobly, hd and definitive too. I really hope otherwise, but I can't help but be concerned. The piss poor handling of HD was already evident of that. Now let's make another remake!

>>388112860
>Will split the playerbase further between voobly, hd and definitive
This is gonna be the worst

I always want to build big armies but for some reason the game won't allow you to command more than a certain number of units at a time

Cossacks / American Conquest is better

>>388112691
>Basically, the DEs are remakes done on a new engine with all of what that entails.

Not at all. They are literally building AoE:DE on top of the original AoE.
That's why they brought in the old lead programmer to help them navigate the old code.

The game will have an option to change back and forth between the new looks and the old looks just like in that Halo remaster.

>>388107683

Please be 1850-1920. Early modern battles in the first ages and scorched earth in the last.

>>388110336
I think you're struggling with reading comprehension. He has zero rights to complain about monopolies if he's okay with Steam.