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Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 15:59
by oksnoop2
http://www.ageofempiresonline.com/
After looking over the site. I feel sad. I signed up for the beta but I bet this game will upset the fan base and fail to attract a new one. Though I will try to hold my pessimism at bay until i can actually play it. Anyone else have an opinion on AoE:O?
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 16:01
by 1v0ry_k1ng
what a sack of shit
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 16:15
by knorke
what a sack of shit
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 16:16
by luckywaldo7
Age of Empires meets Farmville!
I really really really hope that website is just a joke.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 16:33
by scifi
its not a joke,
ITS MICROSOFT KILLING ANOTHER GOOD GENRE PFF
i repeat this epic image once more
but the thing is it will have players, and if its facebook wise it will have even more witch almost kills me.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 22:25
by SanadaUjiosan
I'm willing to be faithful to what was once Ensemble.
That and it'll be a digital distribution, which makes me think that this isn't going to be a major project. Could be wrong of course.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 22:46
by maackey
I was pretty disappointed with AOE III mostly because of the home cities. That and I had been playing the relatively realistic Rome Total War just previous (total realism mod later snuffed days of my life away) and the transition from large scale awesome armies to cartoony individual units was pretty jarring.
This looks even more childish. I almost didn't care to post because it is just that unappealing but I got to mention Rome Total War which is as close of perfection as historical war games get.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 19 Aug 2010, 22:51
by oksnoop2
yeah i like RTW if only it was not powered by game spy...*shudders*
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 04:30
by SanadaUjiosan
maackey wrote:I was pretty disappointed with AOE III mostly because of the home cities. That and I had been playing the relatively realistic Rome Total War just previous (total realism mod later snuffed days of my life away) and the transition from large scale awesome armies to cartoony individual units was pretty jarring.
This looks even more childish. I almost didn't care to post because it is just that unappealing but I got to mention Rome Total War which is as close of perfection as historical war games get.
I maintain that the Total War games should not be closely compared to RTS because they're not in that genre. That being said, I've heard that Rome TW was considered the least historically accurate TW game. But I know the Total Realism mod was an attempt to fix that.
I think AoE3 was one of the best RTS I've ever played. Lots of fun, really balanced, really epic moments.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 05:42
by HeavyLancer
This is what went on in the meeting:
"Hey, Farmville is making huge amounts of money! Let's cash in!"
"What's the nearest piece of IP we haven't raped utterly in the past two years?"
"How about Age Of Empires? It's an RTS, so it sounds sort of related!"
"What's an RTS?"
"Some kind of tech-head word for 'potential cash-cow'"
"Perfect!"
It's an MMO/social media/micropayments buzzword filled piece of crap. I hope it fails miserably.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 10:12
by Sabutai
Don't get me wrong, if Spore was like that it'd be kinda cool. Kinda...
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 12:38
by Licho
I could not even stand AOE3, because I was playing imo much more better Rise of nations at that time.
This could be fun, but not for hardcore RTS players I guess :)
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 13:04
by PicassoCT
Are there any franchises that have not been raped yet, wait, wasnt there this RTS, how was it called again, right Total Annihilation, how about we make a Facebookgame out of it... think of the gaudium this would cause, and the cashboxsounds. Suddenly, the fun was over.
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 22 Aug 2010, 15:24
by Machete234
How will it be financed?
I must say Im not a big fan of 3D comic graphics
But I like things like quake live that are financed by ads that I can block with adblock
There is the chance that they will balance it well and not turn it into shit so it would be okay and a lot of people could play it.
Windows life sounds like shit though
Just read they want money for it
Re: Age of Empires...Online
Posted: 22 Aug 2010, 16:33
by 1v0ry_k1ng
Licho wrote:I could not even stand AOE3, because I was playing imo much more better Rise of nations at that time.
This could be fun, but not for hardcore RTS players I guess :)