"RAIDING PARTY!"
Man, Age of Empires II was awesome. Spamming British longbowmen could kill any unit in the game
Anyone remember the future soldiers in the first AOE that shoot lasers at people?
[QUOTE=-Chief-;20891265]"RAIDING PARTY!"
Man, Age of Empires II was awesome. Spamming British longbowmen could kill any unit in the game
Anyone remember the future soldiers in the first AOE that shoot lasers at people?[/QUOTE]
haha i miss cheating in AoE, getting one of those cars which could just one shot units and buildings.
afaik, my favorite unit was the Viking's special unit called the Beserk, those guys where indestructible.
[QUOTE=hehe;20891412]haha i miss [B]cheating[/B] in AoE, getting one of those cars which could just one shot units and buildings. [/QUOTE]
We used cheats very often in multiplayer to make the game faster while also staying alive for quite some time. But only cheats that would be fair to use, not like the cobra car.
Like the resource cheats and aegis aka instant produce or build.
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Also, the cobra cars are kinda weak against buildings, especially castles. It would take atleast 5-10 of them to bring one down over time.
I still remember seeing my father play AOE and AOE 2, he then let me play :3:
I still play AOE 2 today :buddy:
[QUOTE=Mislumz;20892934]We used cheats very often in multiplayer to make the game faster while also staying alive for quite some time. But only cheats that would be fair to use, not like the cobra car.
Like the resource cheats and aegis aka instant produce or build.
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Also, the cobra cars are kinda weak against buildings, especially castles. It would take atleast 5-10 of them to bring one down over time.[/QUOTE]
brb, installing all of them again.
I remember one game I had with friends on AoE2.
At the very beginning I declared Neutrality with most players on the map and made a massive cluster-fuck of farms, lumber camps mining camps and fishing docks across most of the southern half of the map. Hoping to "buy" defence from other players, I didn't make an army, I simply surrounded my main city with stone wall and the smaller resource camps with palisade, doting lookout-posts in the area around and guard towers guarding the walls
Most of my game was spent puppet mastering over the blue and green player to kill each-others resource camps so I could move into the areas and build my own camps. I did this for a lot of the game until I controlled 50% of the gold on the map and 7 out of the 9 relics that were found
When the blue player found out he was being played like a puppet. He told the green player and they both destroyed my entire city and all the small resource villages, almost all my villagers were killed by the spam of Viking berserker's, The last buildings I had were 3 houses, A dock and a very quickly built palisade wall.
they promised to let my 3 remaining villagers live on the condition that I give them all resources I had left apart from enough to build a Town Hall, a Marketplace and three houses and never returned to the south of the map again. I accepted, handed over the resources and boarded the last transport ship I had left and watched as the last camp I had left was annihilated from the face of the earth
This tiny group of 3 villagers and a transport ship was the only thing standing between my total defeat and survival.
I was not impressed with what the blue player did next.
backstabbing scumbag... >:C
Ah well, in their ceasefire to destroy me, the green player had a ton of soldiers moving around, a lot of those were in blues' city "just passing through to get one of oranges camps", after the betrayal, the war started again but bigger and without my puppet mastering.
AoE 1 & 2 are easily my favourite games of all time. 3 was alright, not a big fan of the setting but it's fun with a few friends.
[QUOTE=Loofiloo;20822163]The second game definitely has the best music though.[/QUOTE]
I put the music on a CD and put it in my car. Also the last track for the credits is like 14 minutes and pretty sure it's made by everyone who developed it. Or most of them, who play instruments.
[QUOTE=johnlukeg;20890528]I didn't much care for Age of Empires 3. Same with Empire: Total War, I just didn't like the setting or ranged combat.[/QUOTE]
The first two games had ranged combat... And it's not much of a huge difference if the units are fighting hand-to-hand or hitting each other from a few feet away. But a big difference in the third game is that the siege weapons don't just kill friendly units.
AoE3 was the next logical installment of the series, really. The first game involved Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians... The earliest of the world's empires.
Then the second game involved middle-age empires. Britons, Persians, Mongols, etc.
Then the third game involved the European empires of just 3 centuries ago or so. British, Portugese, French... All racing to expand their empire in the new world. For me this is the most understandable, and really the most fleshed-out setting so far.
If there was a remake of the first game with all the gameplay/interface enhancements of the third game, everyone would love it, but now they just shun the third game entirely because the setting is too modern. It's a crime
It's too bad the Online on the original game is completely dead :(
[QUOTE=aydin690;20890880]Are there any modern strategy games that have the same gameplay style as AOE/AOM?[/QUOTE]
Anyone?
Well that's a good question. Maybe Stronghold series but I wouldn't consider them as modern.
I don't understand why everybody thinks AoE3 is a pile of crap.
I think it was a worthy addition to the series.
I have also played all of the 3 games since 1999 and got the third and it's expansions as soon as i could.
It does have improvements over the first two but it is completely so much different in style and play.
I remember in the multiplayer the different nations and how they were hated/loved.
My strategy was the aggressive turtle, it consisted of sending two people, an explorer and outpost wagons nearby the enemy settlement, where i began to build a line of towers around them.
Next i would quickly shoot the animals so they would run from the enemy and use my army to try and defend the towers. By the fortress age i would have closed them in and started the process of starving the buggers out.
On maps with water i would get long range ships to bombard his factories, forts and irreplaceable buildings. Next i would try and kill the explorer, destroy the town halls and their outpost towers.
After that it was bombing the crap out the town and killing them.
This tactic works ok on non Russians and Non Dutch well. Most of the time it boiled down to people breaking through the defenses, them rage-quitting or fighting to the end.
Also i used this tactic to completely slow down a guy, who kept trying to find and rape me but could not, first he raped the defenses, then the town.
Then a village out in the country.
Then a tower, port and 2 houses with a small army.
Then a Outpost on a island and a dock.
Finally he found my explorer somewhere running away from a town center after he sweeped the map with horses.
give me your extra resources
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[QUOTE=liljoshy;20928368]give me your extra resources
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I question whether you're old enough to be on the internet
I remember that monster truck cheat.
Oh the fun times. :buddy:
Nostalgia Time
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Hey I was thinking of buying/downloading off steam AOE2 or AOE3, I'm a fan of good graphics but I love games such as RON and EE2....
[QUOTE=lifehole;20933183]Hey I was thinking of buying/downloading off steam AOE2 or AOE3, I'm a fan of good graphics but I love games such as RON and EE2....[/QUOTE]
I don't think they are on Steam.
[QUOTE=lifehole;20933183]Hey I was thinking of buying/downloading off steam AOE2 or AOE3, I'm a fan of good graphics but I love games such as RON and EE2....[/QUOTE]
Not on steam. i wish microsoft's library was on steam though.
After losing most of my discs, I bought the Ubisoft-published collector's edition. It's the first two games with both of their expansions on one disc.
Found my discs, AoE and AoE 2, I just wish I could run it at a higher resolution, or windowed mode.
Mongol, all mounted army. so much win.
Started playing virtual lan games on AoE2 again recently, trying to get my friends to play AoE3, but they dont like it, i just loved seeing a cannonball pillage a tower
We should get an FP game going, 4 of us on 4 NPCs on expert :3
When i was younger and the second one came out i was so great at it,
But now i'm a lousy veteran :frown:
I love AoE1, but I'm laughably shit at it in multiplayer. I'm a boomer, I hoard and build, don't like rushing things.
Also, Minoans friggin rule.
[QUOTE=Tickle;20980687]I love AoE1, but I'm laughably shit at it in multiplayer. I'm a boomer, I hoard and build, don't like rushing things.
Also, Minoans friggin rule.[/QUOTE]
im the same with AoE2. when i play with friends, were all more or less equal skill level, and dont rush, so we have fun games. played with a guy who may aswell be korean a while ago. by the time i was entering castle age, he was imperial, and had already took over half the map
When I play, I wall off a section and stay compact, Everything squished together, but I go through resources like no tomorow.
I try to annex stone and gold mines early on, lumber and food come easy.
I don't get why stone was so hard to find in AoE.
They're [I]stones.[/I] They should be everywhere...
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