campaigns are pretty boring

[SamsTheMan]

Granted I've only finished the normon campaign and the mongol campaign, but none of those maps were very interesting. The mongol one where you have to kill the army before reinforcements arrive I guess would be the closest

but there are none of the fun missions like aoe 2 had where theres 6 different factions you have to beat, each does it's own things, sometimes you can complete side quests to get one to ally you. or a mission like attila where you have to balance looting buildings for gold with building up an army to attack constantinople. or really any map where I feel like I'm actually in danger of losing. Is it just those campaigns that are standard and boring or is it all of them? I guess I can give them a break since its the first campaigns of a new game but I really hope they step it up with the inevitible expansion

[Sir Clavius]

Its very subjective.

[Elriadon]

Tbh, so far, I found the AoE2 DE dlc campaigns more moew fun to play. I'm also not a fan of the in-game narration. That should've been limited to the history videos imo. I guess it saved them money on voice acting though.

[SamsTheMan]

Originally posted by Ulrich:

Its very subjective.

why someone feels that opinion being subjective is something worth saying I'll never figure out

[Tommyjw]

Originally posted by vsatyk:

I couldn't even get past the second mission in the first Norman campaign it was so boring. MP is much better and this game seems to be designed for that.

Like 40 campaign missions and the campaign overall is boring because you ... couldnt get past the 2nd?

[Eric]

fun mission on aoe 2? LOL you must be joking everything is just build big army and a-move or sorround yourself with wall cuz of the first wall and then a move, or spam castle near their building, actually it's all about spamming castle near their main lmao

[SamsTheMan]

Originally posted by Amph:

fun mission on aoe 2? LOL you must be joking everything is just build big army and a-move or sorround yourself with wall cuz of the first wall and then a move, or spam castle near their building, actually it's all about spamming castle near their main lmao

lol says the guy who never played aoe2 since theres not an a move idiot

please describe a campaign mission in 4 that is as fun as the ones i mentioned in 2

[Astachoth]

Originally posted by SamsTheMan:

Granted I've only finished the normon campaign and the mongol campaign, but none of those maps were very interesting. The mongol one where you have to kill the army before reinforcements arrive I guess would be the closest

but there are none of the fun missions like aoe 2 had where theres 6 different factions you have to beat, each does it's own things, sometimes you can complete side quests to get one to ally you. or a mission like attila where you have to balance looting buildings for gold with building up an army to attack constantinople. or really any map where I feel like I'm actually in danger of losing. Is it just those campaigns that are standard and boring or is it all of them? I guess I can give them a break since its the first campaigns of a new game but I really hope they step it up with the inevitible expansion

I never played the campaign in Age of Empires 2, but I found the original Age of Mythology campaign very interesting.

[Amoc]

Originally posted by Tommyjw:

Originally posted by vsatyk:

I couldn't even get past the second mission in the first Norman campaign it was so boring. MP is much better and this game seems to be designed for that.

Like 40 campaign missions and the campaign overall is boring because you ... couldnt get past the 2nd?

Well if the first two are really boring, why would you play the following 38 to find out?

That's chicken before egg logic there bud. I think I played the first 4-5 campaign missions and I felt the same. It was boring. The missions weren't very interesting and were more like long-winded tutorials, and the way they jumped around from decade to decade and era to era made it feel like you were just playing through a history lesson. I love history, but it all felt very disconnected and contrived.

[Eric]

Originally posted by SamsTheMan:

Originally posted by Amph:

fun mission on aoe 2? LOL you must be joking everything is just build big army and a-move or sorround yourself with wall cuz of the first wall and then a move, or spam castle near their building, actually it's all about spamming castle near their main lmao

lol says the guy who never played aoe2 since theres not an a move idiot

please describe a campaign mission in 4 that is as fun as the ones i mentioned in 2

there is a move was added in the forgotten you noob

even the rus one that i'm doing are more fun, i enjoied the one against the mongol where they have 10 waves

[Tommyjw]

Originally posted by Amoc:

Originally posted by Tommyjw:

Like 40 campaign missions and the campaign overall is boring because you ... couldnt get past the 2nd?

Well if the first two are really boring, why would you play the following 38 to find out?

Because unless you've never played any game before in your life, you'd realise the first few missions of any game are basically (if not specifically saying they are) psuedo-tutorials full of babying to get you into the game. Of course later missions will therefore be more interesting.

[SamsTheMan]

Originally posted by Rexali_:

It's best they can do . . . You couldn't have expect something different campaign for a RTS game , Warcraft III , Stronghold Series , previous AOE games . . . All RTS stories are like this and can't make it in other way . . .

What did you expect from a RTS game ??? Do you have an idea to make a different campaign for a RTS game ????

warcraft 3, stronghold series, previous aoe games ALL have more interesting campaigns than aoe 4. What are you trying to communicate here?

[SamsTheMan]

Originally posted by Amph:

Originally posted by SamsTheMan:

lol says the guy who never played aoe2 since theres not an a move idiot

please describe a campaign mission in 4 that is as fun as the ones i mentioned in 2

there is a move was added in the forgotten you noob

even the rus one that i'm doing are more fun, i enjoied the one against the mongol where they have 10 waves

oh so theres 1 fun mission in aoe 4?

[Mythos]

Personally I'm not find them boring. I DO wish there was more map utilization and exploring with a bit more freedom. Some of the missions do feel a bit on-rails. Otherwise I think they are actually better than AOE 2 but not AOE 3.

[SomeoneSomewhere]

It's the reason I didn't even bother finishing the English campaign. It's so on rails and at the same time derailed to the point i was bored the second I booted up a campaign.

[MaGicBush]

Originally posted by SamsTheMan:

Originally posted by Ulrich:

Its very subjective.

why someone feels that opinion being subjective is something worth saying I'll never figure out

Probably because these days people take their opinions as a fact. If you disagree then your completely wrong. So it's a good idea to remind them we are not all little drones that follow some formula on what we enjoy. This applies to opinions on a lot in life besides video games.