Any AOE Fans?

[Chukchi Husky]

The original Age of Empires was the first demo I ever played and one of the first PC games that I got and played. I ended up getting the game three times, first by itself, second in a Gold release with it's expansion, and third in a Collector's box set so I could get the Conquerors (and it was £3). I have the sequal twice because I originally got it by itself, and I have Age of Mythology with the expansion.

I used to play the original game all the time, and it was one of the few games that I played online. I wasn't any good at it though, probably didn't help that I didn't know any hot keys. I did know cheats that made ridiculous things appear, like a Camaro, a man with a laser and a mech like the one from RoboCop.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

... probably didn't help that I didn't know any hot keys.

I still don't know the hotkeys. And it's been what, 10 years?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I don't know any of them except for the one to centre on the town centre and then build a villager (H then V I think). Knowing the hot keys makes playing the game a lot faster.

 

[Tiigon]

AoE is good game, but I'm really bad at it - I've lost an online 1 vs 1 game in like 15-20 minutes

 

[Heretic_Cata]

AoE is good game, but I'm really bad at it - I've lost an online 1 vs 1 game in like 15-20 minutes

I know the feeling - i love the game. But i really suck at it in multi. Couldn't even finish some missions in the campaigns without resource cheats.

 

[Tiigon]

I know the feeling - i love the game. But i really suck at it in multi. Couldn't even finish some missions in the campaigns without resource cheats.

I can't even complete the third (or fourth?) scenario in the learning campaign

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

The way I first completed scenario 3 of the Egyptian campaign was to hastily train two more villagers and then take them all out hunting for the discoveries. Gamespot's guide recommended that you should, uhm, train three more villagers, use the starting villager and the first trained one the forage, use the second trained one to cut wood, and use the fourth to build a house. The discoveries are located at the four corners of the world (well, map) and near the Libyan settlement at the center.

 

[azzaman333]

The way I first completed scenario 3 of the Egyptian campaign was to hastily train two more villagers and then take them all out hunting for the discoveries. Gamespot's guide recommended that you should, uhm, train three more villagers, use the starting villager and the first trained one the forage, use the second trained one to cut wood, and use the fourth to build a house. The discoveries are located at the four corners of the world (well, map) and near the Libyan settlement at the center.

ProTip; More fun to do it yourself than copy a guide's recommendation.

 

[MadScotsMan]

The only mission on the learning missions was the one where you had to find all the white chalk drawings in the ground. Took me forever to find the last one. I think it's the third mission...

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

ProTip; More fun to do it yourself than copy a guide's recommendation.

Well, I've done it before without a guide, so that's why I want to use one.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Well, I've done it before without a guide, so that's why I want to use one.

I do not understand this idea in the slightest. You did not feel any fulfillment in doing something yourself? You needed a website to tell you how to do it again?

 

[Stuck in Pi]

AoE 2. Man, great game. Even though it got me hooked on trying not to lose a single unit all game...

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

AoE 2. Man, great game. Even though it got me hooked on trying not to lose a single unit all game...

I've been there...

 

[Harbringer]

Didn't like the first one, was addicted to the second one, had a bad breakup with it when it cheated on me with my father for about a year, left him ad tried to come back to me but I just told that . .. .. .. .. . to be cool and then walked off into the sunset all smokin and stuff. I thought the third one was pretty good, but it felt down rite archaic and the setting didn't change the game play, the only real difference is that now every unit is an archer with a gun.

 

[LordKestrel]

I think Rise of Rome was the best version of this game. I played countless hours of that against friends on a lan.

 

[Clam Spammer]

I liked AOE2 much more than 1, and it is still one of my favorite games. Age of Mythology has the best campaign though.

 

[sir_schwick]

I do not understand this idea in the slightest. You did not feel any fulfillment in doing something yourself? You needed a website to tell you how to do it again?

Now your just busting his chops cause its Swein. All of of us read strategy forums to participate in a discussion of the game. Repeat play throughs as suggested by a guide is another way of furthering that discussion by being shown what the guidemaker's opinion is.

AoE is good game, but I'm really bad at it - I've lost an online 1 vs 1 game in like 15-20 minutes

I definitely feel your pain here. Could never really play RTS from that era.

They obviously didn't hold it in context to the rest of the series.

I thought that was one of AOE3's strengths. They were willing to experiment with new concepts. This means it wasn't as polished as AOE2 and some things didn't work. Also the chronological choice seems logical, as the colonial period was still a period of Empires.

 

[Dreadnought]

AoE2 is on my top 3 games of all time. I loved it.

AoE3, in my opinion, didn't have the same flare.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Now your just busting his chops cause its Swein. All of of us read strategy forums to participate in a discussion of the game. Repeat play throughs as suggested by a guide is another way of furthering that discussion by being shown what the guidemaker's opinion is.

Not me! It's my way or the highway, unless my way doesn't work.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Also the chronological choice seems logical, as the colonial period was still a period of Empires.

Oh, I have no problem with that. What really stood out to me was the campaign. Where AoE 1 and 2's campaigns were based on historical events from a wide swath of cultures, AoE3's story was narrow, and in retrospect quite absurd. It was more like AoM than AoE.