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Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by Tiktaalik »

thegeekpirate wrote: post #9
TulliusCicero wrote: post #3

Neat. Man, I'd love to see this happen to Starcraft 1.

It's happening. And not only for StarCraft =) http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id... http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id...

No mention of Warcraft 2 in those job postings? That's disappointing.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by pm90 »

AoE 2 in likely the most engaging strategy game I've ever played. I got rather involved in it in college, but was surprised that there were certain "basic strategies" that one had to follow to hope to even survive (e.g. getting to castle age within a certain time for a certain civilization). With the voobly client, its possible to challenge aoe players across the world for a game, and its kinda awesome to cooperate and deal with the mess that comes from playing an RTS game at that level.

Probably true for most strategy games, but aoe seems light enough (requirements wise) and has a great enough balance (and the fact that the game is almost freely available worldwide) enables anyone with a computer with a decent internet connection to play.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by johnloeber »

Aqwis wrote: post #12

One thing I'd like to see improved is the unit AI, which is frustratingly poor. This would probably annoy some serious multiplayers, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

There are custom (modded) AIs available that you can download. I've heard that the Barbarian AI is meant to be able to give even seasoned players a serious challenge. I've also heard that a much stronger AI has been bundled with the most recent expansion.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by rmm »

Played a LOT of AOE2 back in the day.

However, I was always more of a fan of AoE1 RoR expansion. Anyone else? Something about the brutal simplicity of it, made it much more fun for me and my friends?

Would love to see that "HD'ified"!

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by renekooi »

Aqwis wrote: post #12

One thing I'd like to see improved is the unit AI, which is frustratingly poor. This would probably annoy some serious multiplayers, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The HD Edition has a new AI[0] that's much stronger than the old one. It's built by Promiskuitiv and Archon, two well-known AI scripters in the Age of Empires scene :)

[0]: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221380/discussions/1/540744934...

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by JoshGlazebrook »

Age of Mythology is still one of my favorite games ever. What made it fun is not the real time strategy, but the custom scenario maps that people could create. This wasn't just the terrain, but the mechanics of the maps themselves. It was part "programming" as well as part design.

The multiplayer servers are still online, but the certificate expired years ago. You can force AOM to connect to them with fiddler2, but you have to have an existing account.

But now there is the steam re-release, and of course Voobly/GameRanger for the original release, but the steam version is full of bugs that have not been fixed in over a year.

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