The Age of Empire is a series of realtime stratagy game and was started in 1997 in Ensemble Studios and is published by Microsoft
The first AOE game is based around the time of the Greeks, babylonians and Egyptians, an expansion pack, Age of Empires: The Rise of the Roman Expansion was released a year later.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_(video_game[/url])
Age of Empires 2: The Age of Kings (the best one IMO although I've never played the first one) was released in 1999 and is based in the middle ages unlike then its predecessor, The Conquerors expansion pack released in 2000 added the Mayans, Koreans, Spanish, Huns, and Aztecs
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_II:_The_Age_of_Kings[/url]
Age of Empires 3, released in 2005 is around the time of the discovery of the Americas and the colonies, two expansion packs were made for this version, The Warchiefs, and The Asian Dynasties.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_III[/url]
I need to play AOE II again.
AOE 2 was amazing and would never get boring back in the day.Now I get bored after 1 hour of playing it.
Age of Empires 1/2 is awesome.
Too bad you have to disable aero/make a script that kills explorer.exe each time you launch AoE2 on Windows 7, otherwise colors on the grass/water messes up.
I'm been playing the third game recently, and I just couldn't go back to the second one. By comparison, it's so much more tedious. It takes so much more effort to defeat enemies, and gathering resources is so much more cumbersome, having to constantly build storage yards for the different resources. Those masses of storage areas are part of what made it so much harder to defeat an enemy civilization. You had to hunt down a million insignificant buildings. Farms were such a pain too. A farm gets exhausted, so the farmer just stands over it going "DURRR WHAT NOW?" so it's just a massive chore maintaining those things. Plus, only being able to produce troops one at a time made it take sooooo long to build up an attack.
But at least the second one was still a step over the first, where they didn't even alert you if a farm was exhausted, and you couldn't have several units lined up to be produced at a time, and armies don't move in formation, and so much other crap.
[QUOTE=Loofiloo;20817437]I'm been playing the third game recently, and I just couldn't go back to the second one. By comparison, it's so much more tedious. It takes so much more effort to defeat enemies, and gathering resources is so much more cumbersome, having to constantly build storage yards for the different resources. Those masses of storage areas are part of what made it so much harder to defeat an enemy civilization. You had to hunt down a million insignificant buildings. Farms were such a pain too. A farm gets exhausted, so the farmer just stands over it going "DURRR WHAT NOW?" so it's just a massive chore maintaining those things. Plus, only being able to produce troops one at a time made it take sooooo long to build up an attack.
But at least the second one was still a step over the first, where they didn't even alert you if a farm was exhausted, and you couldn't have several units lined up to be produced at a time, and armies don't move in formation, and so much other crap.[/QUOTE]
Cool, I played the third one, I still thought that AOE 2 was better.
AoE3 was a let down. It was crap compared to AoE2
I've been playing AoE2 lately. It's awesome. I had a 2 hour game with the AI that wouldn't end though...
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Age of Mythology is pretty good too.
[QUOTE=cup-a-soup;20820223]Cool, I played the third one, I still thought that AOE 2 was better.[/QUOTE]
It was harder for me to get used to, but before I realized it, I was accustomed to the new one and couldn't go back.
The second game definitely has the best music though.
The third game does have a few problems. The biggest one for me is that when playing a random map, you can only assign up to 2 teams before the match. So if you want to do a 2 vs. 2 vs. 2, too bad. I don't know why they would go from allowing... What, 8 teams in the old games? to only allowing 2 in the newest one. It's not like they have anything to lose by giving people more options in that way.
1st one was one of the first games I bought. Was 7 years old or so.
I'd say I definitely played the most of the first game. I got to know all the units and everything, but in the 2nd and 3rd I still can't name half of them.
Also, for some reason I will probably never forget that in the first game, a centurion can kill a villager in one hit.
Got the 3rd, love it.
Age of mythology is my favorite RTS game.It has an amazing story.
AoE 2 was the best
AoM was second
AoE 1 was third.
I'll deny the existence of any other AoE games because they were shit.
I don't get one thing about people who play Age of Empires. They love the first two, hate the third.
The third is exactly the same as the first two but with better graphics.
You guys just love the original cause they were good for their time and you have nostalgia goggles glued to your faces.
I love the Third more compared to the Second, I don't understand what's so bad about it.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;20823059]I don't get one thing about people who play Age of Empires. They love the first two, hate the third.
The third is exactly the same as the first two but with better graphics.
You guys just love the original cause they were good for their time and you have nostalgia goggles glued to your faces.[/QUOTE]
Well the third game made more changes than the second did to gameplay, but it also had lots of improvements, and I think most of the changes made in the third game just serve to keep action flowing better.
Villagers don't have to return resources to some stockpile, so they tend to stay more organized, and you don't end up building storage pits/lumber yards/mining camps everywhere. Also like I said before, farms don't have to constantly be rebuilt. That was always just a chore, nothing else.
You can queue up 5 troops at a time from one military building, so it's a lot easier to build up an attack force quickly. No need to build a shitload of the same military building if you ever hope to defend your town.
They added plenty of awesome new shit, like trading posts and home city shipments, which you unlock more of the more maps you play. Not to mention the strongly upgraded graphics, crumbling building/ship physics, and enemies flying through the air when shot with cannons. Speaking of cannons, the thing that annoyed me to no end in the old games was siege equipment. Specifically, catapults. They're the only way to take down a building in less than 3 hours, but they kill all your troops who get in the way, canceling out their effectiveness.
I used to play aoe1 with my friend back when we were like 9-10. T'was awesome
Age of Mythology is the greatest Empire/RTS game ever made.
The online gamemodes are amazing (Cat & Mouse <3)
the 2nd was teh bomb,
The wonder, the wonder, the - nooooo lmao...
AoE is the best RTS I've ever played. It's so great, I can play for so long.
AoE3 just doesn't feel like the other AoE games. It's because it has real words in it.
*place unit* "Attehubblmmbmumble"
I remember way back in the day when my friends and I would have long hours of just random AoE II games of us screwing around. Good times.
[QUOTE=geogzm;20834081]AoE3 just doesn't feel like the other AoE games. It's because it has real words in it.
*place unit* "Attehubblmmbmumble"[/QUOTE]
Wololo is a real word
[QUOTE=geogzm;20834081]AoE3 just doesn't feel like the other AoE games. It's because it has real words in it.
*place unit* "Attehubblmmbmumble"[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure they were in a mixture of different languages, I'm sure I recognised some German and possibly something like Latin.
I used to play AoE2 all the time years ago. I never really liked the third or first ones. I recently re-bought the first two and their expansions after they got lost when we moved house a while ago. I was sorely disappointed that the brilliant music in AoE2 doesn't work at all on the Gold Edition because it doesn't read it from the DVD or something, it's either a software or hardware problem with new computers, I forget which.
Ended up playing the music directly from the disk while I played, it wasn't the same - I swear some of those tracks (Like 5/12) were never in the game, they sounded like Sim City or some shit.
AoE2 and Rise of Nations still are my favorite RTS games, it's sad to see there isn't a large selection of these specific type of base building RTS games.
I loved AoM, and its expansion pack. Vikings hacking Egyptians to pieces with broadswords and axes, whilst being shot at by centaurs, which are in turn being stomped flat by war elephants... oh, those were the days...
Christ, I remember the Egyptian AI would build loads of fortresses, then make hundreds of war elephants that were almost myth units in themselves.
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