@Joker-yw9hl

1 year ago

I was born in '94 so was just a tyke when the OG Age of Empires came out. I would watch my uncle and older sister play it, and to this day can remember marvelling at how much of a tank a lone hoplite was, taking out so many enemies. I first played at 3 or 4 years old, and can still remember my first "You are Victorious!" I can remember hyping hard for Age of Kings (I was like 5), and wasn't disappointed. Weirdly AOE 2 is the AOE I've played the least of overall. I say weirdly because it's the most popular, but it was never the most fun for me. I remember my uncle giving me Age of Conquerors on my mum's birthday and her being pissed that he got me another game haha. Good times. I hyped for AoM and to this day love it to pieces. I remember watching the trailer and being blown away by the Nidhogg. What a game. By far the best campaign in the series too. Just incredible, really. Not my most played game but perhaps my most treasured. AOE 3 came around at a time when graphics really were starting to improve a lot. For its day the graphics and physics were mindblowing, but I never had a PC that could run it well. It was very different to what we had before - I remember initially finding it weird that you could recruit 5 units at once, and wasn't sure if I liked it or not. But I got used to it, and to this day it has got to be my most played AOE. I know a lot of people don't like AOE 3 and I can understand why. It is faster paced, more streamlined and you're not really seeing much melee combat (relative to the others). I can empathise with those not liking the Home City system too, but I love it. The cards add another layer of tactics to the game - but I genuinely can see why it's an immediate turn off for some. I do like though that a game on AOE 3 can last 20-30 minutes instead of well over an hour - which is often the case with AOE 2. AOE2 burns me out a lot harder and a lot faster than the other AOEs. It's by far the slowest paced of them all, and the exception, not the norm. Loved all the Definitive Editions and even some of the DLCs have been great. Was especially great to give the OG AOE the definitive makeover it deserved and had a lot of fun with that. I mostly sesh AOE 3 DE but I do play the occasional AOE 4 game. AOE 4 is pretty good all things considered. It's very cartoony and different, but it is a good game in its own right. In truth after the announcement trailer for AOE 4 saying that "a new age is upon us" I had it in my mind that that meant a new time period, or perhaps even a sci-fi setting, not that it was just another age game. So was disappointed to learn it was Medieval again like AOE 2 (even though that's a great setting). Couldn't complain though as I'd been wanting an AOE 4 for over a decade, and I was pleasantly surprised upon launch that the game surpassed my expectations. It's very unique and I like that the civilisations are completely different from one another. That's one of the things about AOE 3 that I love too. Adds so much replayability. Here's to many more Age of Empires games

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