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Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by roymurdock » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:31 AM UTC

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

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 y…

Slightly off topic but one of my best musical decisions of 2015 was to purchase the AoM soundtrack...amazing study/writing ambient music with just the right amount of nostalgia.

If you still have the game CD you can find the files there. For the rest of us...Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TL16O6?ie=UTF8&qid=&re...

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by thejj » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC

I'd like to remind you that there's openage, a free engine for Age of Empires 2.

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

It will be the future if you wanna accomplish things the original engine is incapable of doing, especially a sane mod API.

Help us make it more awesome :)

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by TulliusCicero » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:36 AM UTC

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...

I'm aware of the postings, but in I think an interview (maybe at Blizzcon?), Blizzard said that they weren't getting around to actually updating them anytime soon.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by junto » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:36 AM UTC

snydly wrote: post #19

One of the greatest breakthroughs of my life was realizing that you only had to type "cheese steak jimmy's" once, then ctrl-c, then ctrl-v as much as you want. It was a great day.

Indeed, alongside lumberjack, robin hood and rock on. Even in LAN party multi player mode we used to allow these cheats, as it made the game more fun. Players would build enormous defensives with those resources until the mother of all battles would conclude the game.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by tough_luck » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:51 AM UTC

ndesaulniers wrote: post #16

I still play a ton of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which is just a Star Wars re-skin of AoE2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Galactic_Battlegrou...

So this is the game I played years ago. Thanks. I found demo of this game on one of the cd that came with Digit mag.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by TulliusCicero » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 1:57 AM UTC

Tiktaalik wrote: post #11

thegeekpirate wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, but there is someone who's basically made a 'modern' version of War2 in the browser: http://www.littlewargame.com/

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by rasz_pl » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 2:10 AM UTC

ndesaulniers wrote: post #16

I still play a ton of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which is just a Star Wars re-skin of AoE2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Galactic_Battlegrou...

you might like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvorYrXyxU

Star Wars: Galaxy at War Mod - world at war mod

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by mhuangw » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 2:13 AM UTC

snydly wrote: post #19

One of the greatest breakthroughs of my life was realizing that you only had to type "cheese steak jimmy's" once, then ctrl-c, then ctrl-v as much as you want. It was a great day.

howdoyouturnthison

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by rietta » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 2:17 AM UTC

Oh! I loved that game as a teenager. Actually, the first one even more so.

Re: Why Age of Empires 2 is still growing

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Post by gamesbrainiac » Sun, Jan 03, 2016, 2:18 AM UTC

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #18

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 y…

AoM is still my favorite game of all time. Its hard to find a fault with and, and still to this day I can end up spending hours and hours on it to no end.

The graphics are pretty awesome. I know there have been a lot of improvements to graphics over the years, but for me AoM's colors and graphics just seem so nice to look at. When it first came out, it probably had the best graphics of any RTS game.

The campaign was phenomenal. I can't remember how many times I've finished and then re-finished the campaign.

So I can't wait for the new expansion, "The Tales of the Dragon" to come out, which feature the Chinese and their deities.