Buy or Miss?

[spinoben1]

Never played AOE, is this game worth buying? I come from the TW and Crusader kings background. Could someone explain to me what this is game is about?

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I will never buy the product of these companies again

DEVELOPER:
World's Edge
Relic Entertainment,
Forgotten Empires,
Climax Studios
Xbox Game Studios

[no_nic]

bad MP balance, poor dev feedback and overall a much worse game then Age of empires 2

cam"pain" is decent if you buy it on a discount

[Ternume]

It's RTS. Real Time Strategy. Up to 1vs1 to 4vs4 (I think can 8 person ffa also). You start with six villagers and a scout, with a town center to produce more villagers. You must collect resources (food, wood, gold, stone) to begin producing military units and upgrade your Age (tiers of tech/units, etc...) while battling your enemy for strategic supremacy of the map and it's resources. Essentially rock/paper/scissor match ups with quite a few unique units/upgrades. The civilizations are unique in their approach to different situations/units. Campaign is decent. Games last around thirty minutes to an hour (sometimes longer /facepalm.) To excel you need to be good at micro management as there is a lot going on at times with population cap of 200 (if not modded). AI opponents aren't the greatest and with human opponents, as stated above, matchmaking isn't great either. I have 241 hours or so at the time of this post, but used to play games like Warcraft, Starcraft, Rise of Nations, and the original Age of Empires, so I do enjoy this genre.

[Zhen]

It's definitely worth buying. As Ternume said above, the games are mostly 30-60 minutes so much, much shorter than TW or CK. It's somewhat like a single TW combat, but with empire building and unit training going on at the same time. In general while it tackles a similar topic, AoE series has a faster pace and is more micro intensive. Personally, I used to play plenty of TW, had lots of fun with CK/EU, I absolutely love AoE4.

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Ternume

Zhen

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[MrSoul]

Game is fine overall, I’d say deff worth it on sale especially, maybe bit much full price tho.

If looking mainly for casual solo experience like tw I’d pass(campaign isn’t awful, just not the same kind of slow burn, high replay value, and instead narrative set pieces surrounding historical events of specific factions, again not awful just very old school RTS mission design) but if think you’ll get into skirmish with randos, or coop to bot stomp like I do with a friend, it’s really fun.

[dynatierchen]

if u are interested in online multiplayer and you are willing to invest a bit of effort to learn more about the game here and there

absolutely yes

if you are only interested in single player. idk. probably still worth it if you are only want to play vs AI a bit and look into the campaign etc. but i think then its a money question. if you dont mind spending the cash why not

[FloosWorld]

Originally posted by spinoben1:

Could someone explain to me what this is game is about?

The AoE series is real time strategy with base building. In general, you've got 4 resources to take care off (Wood, Food, Gold, Stone) and always have to find the right balance between economy and military.

Resources are in general finite, however, Gold is theoratically infinite in this game as you've got several ways to generate gold by e.g. collecting Relics that are spread across the map or by sending trade carts to trade with either the neutral markets on the map or with your allies.

[Judeo-communism]

I'm having a blast learning AoE4, I tried learning AoE2 but it's actually way more complicated and has horrible path finding issues. I come from Stronghold and Knights of Honor 2 as my RTS games, so the skills transferred to AoE4 pretty well.

AoE4 has a lot of polish that AoE2 lacks.

[Fiddlesticks]

Don´t listen to these people who are just to bad for a competitive game so they complain it on the "balance". Ofc some civs are better than others but the gaps are not so huge. It´s a skill game and it has depth and good counter system more or less so it´s a good game

[Insecticide]

Originally posted by spinoben1:

Never played AOE, is this game worth buying? I come from the TW and Crusader kings background. Could someone explain to me what this is game is about?

Magnificent game and easily perfect to enjoy.

[Eazy_V]

This is honestly one of the best games I've played recently. It's super balanced almost every civ is viable, they all look unique and are good fun. Personally It's my favorite Age game in the series.

AoE2 Civs feel all the same to me, I just never liked it that much. On the other hand AoE4 is a blast to play, easy to learn hard to master. It's the classic RTS formula - Build economy build units kill enemy with rock paper scissors balance (Spearmen counters horsemen - horsemen counter archers - archers counter spearmen & you got Men at Arms who are tanky heavy frontline units )

My suggestion is get AoE4, while AoE2 has on paper more content most of the civs there look and feel the same, while in AoE4 each civ has a distinctive look to it, every single unit is modeled differently for each civ.

[YouMoMCallME]

The game is great.

[FloosWorld]

Originally posted by V_99:

This is honestly one of the best games I've played recently. It's super balanced almost every civ is viable, they all look unique and are good fun. Personally It's my favorite Age game in the series.

AoE2 Civs feel all the same to me, I just never liked it that much. On the other hand AoE4 is a blast to play, easy to learn hard to master. It's the classic RTS formula - Build economy build units kill enemy with rock paper scissors balance (Spearmen counters horsemen - horsemen counter archers - archers counter spearmen & you got Men at Arms who are tanky heavy frontline units )

My suggestion is get AoE4, while AoE2 has on paper more content most of the civs there look and feel the same, while in AoE4 each civ has a distinctive look to it, every single unit is modeled differently for each civ.

I'd like to note that it gets a while to get behind the civ design in AoE 2 to notice that civs indeed feel different because you play Britons nothing like you'd play Ethiopeans or Vietnamese despite all being labled as Archer civs. :P

But yeah, for a new player, 4 might be the better first-time experience and for casual fun, the visual different look is probably also better to get behind to.

[Lotor13]

Originally posted by spinoben1:

Never played AOE, is this game worth buying?

Yes, especially now on sale

Originally posted by spinoben1:

I come from the TW and Crusader kings background.

It is completetly different type of game - classic RTS with base building. It is possible, it would not be Your cup of tea, chect the gameplay video

Especially with Crusader kings, aside of medieval setting, AoE has nothing common with.

Originally posted by spinoben1:

Could someone explain to me what this is game is about?

classic RTS with base building - You gather resorces with Your workers, build production buildings, where You train units, research uprages for units, economy, and develop yourself, with a goal to defeat enemy - there are multiple ways, destroy enemy's building, build the victory building and defend it, hold victory sites.

This is a simple gameplay in practice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w-gEiR6MaQ

You can play the single-player campaigns with set of prepared missions, random skirmish against (or with) AI, or multiplayer against other players in custom or ranked modes