Age of Empires IV

[thecrazyscot]

HYPE

We know nothing yet

 

[Kyriakos]

Not looking forward to it. So many games died with full 3d or cis-full 3d. And the last of this series i played was Age of Mythology (where i kept the camera at the same angle pretty much for all the game ).

 

[thecrazyscot]

If you don't have to rotate the camera, why does it bother you? AoE2 was definitely the pinnacle, AoE3 wasn't as good, but it was still a good game. And AoM was pretty good too, though I would say it tried a few too many things.

There are several very good 3D RTSes...

 

[warpus]

I want to see some gameplay footage before I render my judgement. But they have my attention

 

[sherbz]

I think the glory day of RTS's is over. The last one i really enjoyed was warcraft 3. And that was aaaaages ago. Not played starcraft 2 though.

 

[Uberfrog]

Yeah that announcement really couldn't have told us less

Will they be following the series' chronology and set the fourth game in the post-Napoleonic period?

 

[Quintillus]

As you said, we don't know anything yet. Though they seem to hint at it perhaps spanning the timeframes of all three predecessors, which would be an ambitious goal. Rise of Nations did that fairly well (and Empire Earth did the same thing), but the pacing was quite a bit different than Age of Empires.

I'm mildly interested; I played a ton of AoE III a decade ago, a somewhat lesser but still noteworthy amount of AoE II five years before that, and still play a handful of games of them a year. But I also rarely play RTS games in general these days. Also bummed that it's Windows 10-only; Microsoft has a habit over the past decade of limiting games they publish to the most recent version of Windows for (Windows) marketing rather than technical reasons, occasionally cratering the game's audience as a result (looking at you, Halo 2 for Windows Vista).

Edit: Although if they use DX12 in order to allow a scale that simply wouldn't be possible with DX11, it may be a justified decision. But a purely marketing decision wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[civvver]

Edit: Although if they use DX12 in order to allow a scale that simply wouldn't be possible with DX11, it may be a justified decision. But a purely marketing decision wouldn't surprise me at all.

It's probably a new version of directX. If you look at steam stats 50% of all users have windows 10 anyway, so it's not a huge deal. Windows 10 is 2 years old and official support for 7 stopped 2 years ago.

 

[tesb]

• The mainstream support for Windows 7 (Service Pack 1) ended on January 13, 2015, and the extended support ends on January 14, 2020.

source:
https://www.guidingtech.com/67821/microsoft-support-end-windows-7-8-10/

 

[Quintillus]

It's probably a new version of directX. If you look at steam stats 50% of all users have windows 10 anyway, so it's not a huge deal. Windows 10 is 2 years old and official support for 7 stopped 2 years ago.

Yeah, I realized that this morning prior to seeing your post. With 50% share, they aren't hamstringing it anywhere near as much as they were with a 5% marketshare Vista in 2007.

But tesb is right about Windows 7 support - it will be supported until January of 2020 - just without feature updates.

 

[Maniacal]

I don't miss Windows 7.