Looking for Age of Empires: Age of Kings

[Redwood]

Does anyone here know if Age of Empires II HD Edition starts with cavemen like Age of Kings? Also does Age of Empires II HD Edition include Age of Kings? I loved Age of Kings and the cavemen.

[TheDiaz]

Aren't you talking about the first Age of Empires? Age of Kings starts on the Dark Age of the middle times and this is the base game + the conquerors expnansion.

[Jagulars]

All hail the king of the cave!

[Redwood]

I am trying to find an Age of Empires game that starts with primitive men hitting with crude weapons, picking berries, chopping wood, mining stone and fishing . All of this is fun to me. If all this is in Steam's "Age of Empires II HD Edition" please let me know. If it is only in "Age of Empires: Age of Kings" then please tell me how to get this one from Steam without buying the $60 multi-pack.

[chaosbringer42]

Age of kings was an Age of Empires 2 thing. You are looking for Age of Empires. Its on the windows store if you REALLY want it right this minute.

[TheDiaz]

Originally posted by gmearnest:

I am trying to find an Age of Empires game that starts with primitive men hitting with crude weapons, picking berries, chopping wood, mining stone and fishing . All of this is fun to me. If all this is in Steam's "Age of Empires II HD Edition" please let me know. If it is only in "Age of Empires: Age of Kings" then please tell me how to get this one from Steam without buying the $60 multi-pack.

I already asked you which version where you looking for, and there's no Age of Empires 1: Age of Kings, is just Age of Empires. Age of Kings is on the middle ages.

[talgaby]

Like they said, Age of Kings was the subtitle of the base Age of Empires 2. The game you describe is clearly Age of Empires 1, which starts in the stone age. Its graphically-enhanced edition is available on the Windows Store (or you can try to track down an old CD copy of the Gold Edition and get the community UserPatch that lets it run on a modern system).

[aflashman]

The OP is defnitely talking about Age of Empires 1. The "cavemen" he refers to are actually called "clubmen" in the game. It is a very similar game to Age of Empires 2, except Age of Empires 2 is better in pretty much every way. Age of Empires 3 on the other hand was a radical departure from the formula.

As has been stated you can get the Definitive Edition of AoE 1 on the Windows Stores. The single player game is good. Not sure whether or not they have ironed out the many bugs with online play yet. It was a disaster the last few times I tried it.

[Redwood]

I give up tring to find "Age of Empires II: The Age of KIngs" then. I know it exists because I have a players tips book by that title. I am also looking for "Age of Empires I" but I have no idea where "Windows Stores" is. What I am really looking for is an "Age of Empires" game that starts by kindling of the fire. Is this in "Age of Empires III?" I know one understands what I mean but I try.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by gmearnest:

I give up tring to find "Age of Empires II: The Age of KIngs" then. I know it exists because I have a players tips book by that title. I am also looking for "Age of Empires I" but I have no idea where "Windows Stores" is. What I am really looking for is an "Age of Empires" game that starts by kindling of the fire. Is this in "Age of Empires III?" I know one understands what I mean but I try.

-I believe your question has been answered. Are you looking for something else?

[Redwood]

Yes I am pretty sure "Age of Empires: Age of Kings" exists on Steam as "Age of Empires II HD Edition." Yes that was what I was looking for. Nothing can beat that game.

[TriRem]

The game with the clubman and starting in the Stone Age is called Age of Empires, and is not sold on steam. You can buy the Definitive Edition on the Windows Store.

Age of Empires II : The age of Kings is the name of the second Age of Empires, and is sold as Age of Empires II HD on steam, coupled with the expansion The Conquerors.

[Redwood]

Thanks for confirming that TriRem. It is worth what the $20 they charge for it.

[talgaby]

The game where the intro is two kings sitting at a hearth playing chess was the old Age of Empires 2 intro, yes. It has been replaced once the Conquerors expansion came out.

This HD version is a modified edition of the Age of Kings combined with its expansion disk, the Conquerors.

What confused us is that cavemen and clubmen exist only in AoE1, since it normally starts in the stone age, around 3000-5000 BC or so. Age of Kings starts roughly around 400-600 AD, after the fall of the Roman Empire, and the starting units are town militias armed with crude melee weapons.

Also, Windows Store is what it sounds like. If you are on Windows 10, the Start menu has a giant-ass "Store" button by default. It is where Microsoft sells the recently-released high-definition graphically enhanced version of the original Age of Empires 1 (the one released before Age of Kings).

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Technically, if you buy this AoE2 HD edition, then you will get the Age of Kings campaigns, but not the gameplay. It is nearly impossible now to play the old Age of Kings rules, where you had much fewer civilisations, no farming queues, no halberdiers, only one unique technology per civilisation, no ram garrison, no automatic villager assignments, and when bombard cannons or hand cannoneers were useless but bombard towers, paladins, and monk rushes were borderline unbeatable.

It is only possible now to play the AoK rules if you somehow manage to find a disk edition of the game that came on two separate disks, so you can install just AoK. But AoK in itself is difficult to run on a modern system, and all community patches only exist for the Conquerors. So, in the end, nowadays it is extremely difficult to play on Age of Kings, most people play the either the Conquerors or the HD and its three additional expansions.

[NIKFS]

What you are looking for is "age of empires 1 rise of rome" ;) you can get it cheap from amazon afaik ^^

well or buy the windows store version if you must, but i heard it runs like crap (and is on windows store )

[NIKFS]

Originally posted by talgaby:

The game where the intro is two kings sitting at a hearth playing chess was the old Age of Empires 2 intro, yes. It has been replaced once the Conquerors expansion came out.

This HD version is a modified edition of the Age of Kings combined with its expansion disk, the Conquerors.

What confused us is that cavemen and clubmen exist only in AoE1, since it normally starts in the stone age, around 3000-5000 BC or so. Age of Kings starts roughly around 400-600 AD, after the fall of the Roman Empire, and the starting units are town militias armed with crude melee weapons.

Also, Windows Store is what it sounds like. If you are on Windows 10, the Start menu has a giant-ass "Store" button by default. It is where Microsoft sells the recently-released high-definition graphically enhanced version of the original Age of Empires 1 (the one released before Age of Kings).

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Technically, if you buy this AoE2 HD edition, then you will get the Age of Kings campaigns, but not the gameplay. It is nearly impossible now to play the old Age of Kings rules, where you had much fewer civilisations, no farming queues, no halberdiers, only one unique technology per civilisation, no ram garrison, no automatic villager assignments, and when bombard cannons or hand cannoneers were useless but bombard towers, paladins, and monk rushes were borderline unbeatable.

It is only possible now to play the AoK rules if you somehow manage to find a disk edition of the game that came on two separate disks, so you can install just AoK. But AoK in itself is difficult to run on a modern system, and all community patches only exist for the Conquerors. So, in the end, nowadays it is extremely difficult to play on Age of Kings, most people play the either the Conquerors or the HD and its three additional expansions.

actually the version that has both aok and aoc on one disk also installs both aok and aoc, you can then run the aok exe instead of the aoc exe and have aok

or at least mine does so which is the age gold edition or something with all 4 2d age titles (age 1+expansion and age2+expansion)