This or AoE 2 DE ?

[☧ Voievod]

I wish to try a new RTS game besides the one I play currently (CoH2).

What AoE should I get. This one being the newest or stick to AoE 2 DE?

[ThunderClap]

Try this one, I'm also doing the same now

[Lotor13]

AoE 2 DE

https://youtu.be/gu0YQQvsHz8

AoE 4

https://youtu.be/1w-gEiR6MaQ

Note, that AoE2 DE is cheaper and has more (a lot) single player content

[Lotor13]

Originally posted by costencucaius:

Try this one, I'm also doing the same now

+1 for AoE4, but that my personal opinion

[FloosWorld]

Originally posted by ☧ Voievod:

I wish to try a new RTS game besides the one I play currently (CoH2).

What AoE should I get. This one being the newest or stick to AoE 2 DE?

As you play CoH2, you'll probably wanna try AoE 4 then because it's the same developer.

[Soccer]

If you don´t have a good pc
Age 2 > Age 4

If you want a good prize
Currently Age 2 > Age 4

If you want a more forgiven game in the beginning of the game
Age 4 > Age 2

If you want the biggest player base
Age 2 > Age 4

If you want the best graphics
Age 3 > (Age 2 <> Age 4)

If you want units on walls
Age 4 > Age 2-3

If you want accessablity over deepth
Age 4 > Age 2

Whats imporant to you when starting a new RTS?

[General Plastro]

Originally posted by UFL:

If you don´t have a good pc
Age 2 > Age 4

If you want a good prize
Currently Age 2 > Age 4

If you want a more forgiven game in the beginning of the game
Age 4 > Age 2

If you want the biggest player base
Age 2 > Age 4

If you want the best graphics
Age 3 > (Age 2 <> Age 4)

If you want units on walls
Age 4 > Age 2-3

If you want accessablity over deepth
Age 4 > Age 2

Whats imporant to you when starting a new RTS?

If you want Single Player content (official or custom): Age2

[exwhyze]

aoe2 has more polish. aoe4 seems to be an amalgam of 2 and 3. personally i prefer aoe2. aoe1 was my favorite, probably due to nostalgia, but the aoe1 definitive edition fell way short of my expectations.

[Zero]

Just wondering, what about AoE 3DE
?

[Soccer]

Originally posted by Zero:

Just wondering, what about AoE 3DE
?

Great graphics, many new features (villagers do not need to bring ressources back to a building), Also a card system where you can build a deck and get boni.

Age 2 has more player and more challenging opponents if you play eSports.

Age 4 is very accessable, if you use tutorial vids. Have a higher winning rate after a few hours, then after playing age 2 for many hours, as most people in age2, know the game in and out.

[🫐ĿᐄṾᐄṆↁ3☈🫐]

AoE2 is the GOAT.

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

Single player and/or campaigns? AoE2 and/or AoE3.
Esport? AoE2 and/or AoE4.

[againer]

Single player experience: AoE2
Multiplayer: AoE4

[IchBinBartlos]

why not both

[Plastic Master]

AOE2 is way better!
Bigger community, lots of coolness, cheaper, more content, not as repetitive as AOE4 and got better combat.

AOE4 is too repetitive, combat is boring, no cool aspect and got little community. So it will take ages to find a game on MP and has little SP content and AIs are stupid

[FloosWorld]

Originally posted by Plastic Master:

Bigger community

Which is something that shouldn't be too surprising considering 2 is out for a while now. AoE 2's community grew over time and so will the one from AoE 4.

Originally posted by Plastic Master:

more content

A remaster of a 1999 game has more content than the new entry that was released in 2021? Wow.

Originally posted by Plastic Master:

not as repetitive as AOE4 and got better combat.

Ehh... people complain that AoE 2 is the same old Archer and Knights meta. AoE 4 tried to shake that up by making MAA actually viable.

Originally posted by Plastic Master:

So it will take ages to find a game on MP

Last time I queued up for ranked/quick play in AoE 4, it took me iirc 2 minutes to find a game - just as in AoE 2. It depends heavily on the time of the day.


That being said - both are good games in their own right, they are not rivals. That being said, I'd suggest trying both, maybe AoE 4 first due to the CoH background.