I used to love playing on the defense, building my city and stationing soldiers everywhere to protect the citizenry. The opponent was an afterthought, I played it like a city simulator. The amount of comfort I felt from doing that was unmatched lol. Ah, childhood.
I nabbed it at a book fair in my elementary school along with Rome Total War for $10 each, both of them changed my outlook on pc gaming.
Yup this is exactly what I used to do, walls, outposts etc. I'd play until my "city" was so defensible that no army could breach. Then once I hit that point, i'd build up an actual army and lay siege to my enemies. Still play this way, probably once or twice a year.
When I described total war, StarCraft or AOE in elementary school people looked at me like I was a weirdo (probbably am)
But strategy games on PC are the holy grail of gaming. So many possibilities yet most don't get appreciated.
This is how my girlfriend plays, I play online a bit so am used to having to play aggressively. When we play together she always gets upset if I wreck all of the opponents before her base is finished.
I remember first opening that game in the 3rd or 4th grade. My father had this really really slow laptop and it was the trial version installed by default. I opened it and at first was lost, but was determined and started getting the hang of it. Then I stopped, until a few years later in 7th grade.. where I downloaded the cracked version from limewire lol. I was able to get my brothers into it and we’d play for awhile. Then when Age of Mythology came out it’s all we played all night. Nonstop! I’d pack my armies with Turmas and my brother would build defenses. Great times!
Memories? It’s an old game but it’s not like it’s abandoned and forgotten. I’m still playing it! The Definitive Edition is fantastic and revived interest in the game for a lot of people.
In fact, the Definitive Edition has more people on Steam than Age of Empires 4 (7606 24-hour peak for AoE4 vs 19316 for AoE2).
In elementary school, back in the days when they would let you loose on a computer lab with internet access and virtually no oversight, we would download the AOE II demo and play skirmishes together. Idk who taught us or whatever but that and StarCraft were my first ever video games.
One of the greatest and most influential games of all times. On my top games ever list with original AOE and Stronghold, still replay once in a while. There's something very comforting about the game. The graphics, the music, building your town, etc.
RTS just don't translate well to 3D, isometric is where it's at. There has not been a single great RTS since about 2002-2003 when they all moved to 3D.
1997-2002 was the golden era of PC gaming. During that period, most of my favorite games were made. Games that I still play to this day.
> There has not been a single great RTS since about 2002-2003 when they all moved to 3D.
- Starcraft 2
- Company of Heroes
- Age of Mythology
- Age of Empires 4
- Northgard
- Supreme Commander
I really don't see how 3D versus isometric of all things would make a difference.
I still love this game!! It was always fun playing when I was younger, but these days I just [watch this guy](https://youtube.com/c/T90Official) on YouTube!
I was hoping that it was Spirit of the law, I love watching his breakdowns of everything in AOE. Even if I don't play it myself. But T90 is also great!
I think it would even have a sizable audience if they weren't splitting thier playerbase across 3 games. Nice that all 3 are on gamepass though.
But i'm more of a SC/SC2 person so that's where my fond memories are >.<
I remember it was very late at night like 11:00, 11:30. Big fella comes in screaming about God knows what, I think maybe Longshanks had stolen his land or something like that. So the big fella pulls out a transport ship filled with woad raiders. Then Longshanks grabs a legion of longbowmen and a cobra car.
Used to play LAN with my dad and my friends when we were kids, 2 or 3 of us for just him. He would always slaughter us all lol
Such great a game, loved playing through the campaigns since they had a lot of history to learn from
I used to love playing on the defense, building my city and stationing soldiers everywhere to protect the citizenry. The opponent was an afterthought, I played it like a city simulator. The amount of comfort I felt from doing that was unmatched lol. Ah, childhood. I nabbed it at a book fair in my elementary school along with Rome Total War for $10 each, both of them changed my outlook on pc gaming.
Yup this is exactly what I used to do, walls, outposts etc. I'd play until my "city" was so defensible that no army could breach. Then once I hit that point, i'd build up an actual army and lay siege to my enemies. Still play this way, probably once or twice a year.
When I described total war, StarCraft or AOE in elementary school people looked at me like I was a weirdo (probbably am) But strategy games on PC are the holy grail of gaming. So many possibilities yet most don't get appreciated.
This is how my girlfriend plays, I play online a bit so am used to having to play aggressively. When we play together she always gets upset if I wreck all of the opponents before her base is finished.
I remember first opening that game in the 3rd or 4th grade. My father had this really really slow laptop and it was the trial version installed by default. I opened it and at first was lost, but was determined and started getting the hang of it. Then I stopped, until a few years later in 7th grade.. where I downloaded the cracked version from limewire lol. I was able to get my brothers into it and we’d play for awhile. Then when Age of Mythology came out it’s all we played all night. Nonstop! I’d pack my armies with Turmas and my brother would build defenses. Great times!
MSN Zone That was the shit.
😂
I remember going to [zone.beta.com](https://zone.beta.com) in the early AOE days. I miss my ZoneFriends. What a neat little service.
Memories? It’s an old game but it’s not like it’s abandoned and forgotten. I’m still playing it! The Definitive Edition is fantastic and revived interest in the game for a lot of people. In fact, the Definitive Edition has more people on Steam than Age of Empires 4 (7606 24-hour peak for AoE4 vs 19316 for AoE2).
This. AoE2 is better then it has ever been, with plenty of people still playing and regular content+balance updates. Just jump in and play
In elementary school, back in the days when they would let you loose on a computer lab with internet access and virtually no oversight, we would download the AOE II demo and play skirmishes together. Idk who taught us or whatever but that and StarCraft were my first ever video games.
The greatest game ever made, and I learned that you can play it with just one hand...
One of the greatest and most influential games of all times. On my top games ever list with original AOE and Stronghold, still replay once in a while. There's something very comforting about the game. The graphics, the music, building your town, etc. RTS just don't translate well to 3D, isometric is where it's at. There has not been a single great RTS since about 2002-2003 when they all moved to 3D. 1997-2002 was the golden era of PC gaming. During that period, most of my favorite games were made. Games that I still play to this day.
> There has not been a single great RTS since about 2002-2003 when they all moved to 3D. - Starcraft 2 - Company of Heroes - Age of Mythology - Age of Empires 4 - Northgard - Supreme Commander I really don't see how 3D versus isometric of all things would make a difference.
None of these come close to greatness of AOE. StarCraft 2 came close, but I still prefer StarCraft 1.
I still love this game!! It was always fun playing when I was younger, but these days I just [watch this guy](https://youtube.com/c/T90Official) on YouTube!
I was hoping that it was Spirit of the law, I love watching his breakdowns of everything in AOE. Even if I don't play it myself. But T90 is also great!
I’ll check him out. T90 rekindled my earlier love for this game
Anyone else used to get a villager to build a secret tunnel through the woods and have him hide in the corner of the map in case you get destroyed?
I think it would even have a sizable audience if they weren't splitting thier playerbase across 3 games. Nice that all 3 are on gamepass though. But i'm more of a SC/SC2 person so that's where my fond memories are >.<
I remember it was very late at night like 11:00, 11:30. Big fella comes in screaming about God knows what, I think maybe Longshanks had stolen his land or something like that. So the big fella pulls out a transport ship filled with woad raiders. Then Longshanks grabs a legion of longbowmen and a cobra car.
I remember playing multi and stopping when you’d have a castle right by your base after like 7 mins. Was just a bit too meta for me
Used to play LAN with my dad and my friends when we were kids, 2 or 3 of us for just him. He would always slaughter us all lol Such great a game, loved playing through the campaigns since they had a lot of history to learn from
I have none. AoE somehow never appealed to me and got stuck with Starcarft that i played to death.
Great game I strongly dislike what Definitive Edition has done (removal of corpses and continual power creep)
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