Internationally speaking, what civilization would you pick in Age of Empires?Which civ would you hold a grudge against and target first?
>>220705052I just don't know what the fuck they are doing to AoE2 DELike fishing gold? 500000 types of boats?
>>220705052Assyrians. Execute all Hittites.>>220705332Age 2 peaked in both quality and player count right before the first DLC with Burgundians and Sicilians. Ever since then they have been using it as a way to milk money out of a dying playerbase by introducing increasingly out of place slop to the game and locking it behind DLC.
>>220705332>Like fishing gold?Like from shipwrecks that were transporting gold or something or how does that work?
>>220705463There are whales that fisherman basically sell for gold, that's the lore
>>220705486How is that not fishing for food? Then you should be using the market to trade for excess food for gold...?Would've been way better if they implemented some scavenging thing where you could recoup some resources from destroyed ships.
>>220705052I forget which of the RTS games it was but I once conquered the entire planet with Mayans that converted to Shinto-Judaism
>>220705052As a kid I liked the Sumerians because they were the oldest civ
>>220705052Minoans, I love those niggastotal egyptian death total chariotspammer death
>>220705332I don't mind the balance changes or even the civs introduced but I'm mildly buttmad about hero units + the fact there are so many civs you have to learn.
>>220705052How contrarian of you to play AoE instead of AoE2. I can understand not playing AoE3, I personally like it but I can get why others don't, but playing fucking AoE is like playing Warcraft 1 or Fallout 1. It just makes you a poser trying way too hard to be cool.
>>220705332>what the fuck they are doing to AoE2 DEthey're releasing the best content in AoE2's long history, it's pure ludokino>muh champi rush muh smurfs muh gold foxesnot my problemChronicleschads keep winning, see you at the Chronicles: Punic Wars DLC later this year little bro
AoE2 RoR mode is pretty fun but it also highlights how awkward the first game's design isThe Hittites felt like the strongest civ IMO but I'd have to go with the classic Romans
>>220705052i tried to play this game once as a kid but it was too confusing for me
>>220705486>>220705533https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_oil
>>220706794It's fun to go back for the novelty and vibes but yeah it's strictly worse than 2. Still fun though.
>>220705052Persians because they had elephants as their special unit. Then when DE came out I used khmer because they had elephants with giant crossbows on their backs which was even cooler.
>>220705052PROSTAGMAVULOMEETIMOS
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>>220707901I really hope they nail the AztecsChinese are ok but Japanese are my favourite civ now I love them
>>220706708I think a Pyrrhus, Carthage, Rome chronicle would be kino and I can’t think of any other way they’ll do it since that’s the next point in time and also the most exciting years of Roman history
>>220705052My ancestors
>>220705052I mostly play Franks, Mongols and China in AoE2.
>>220707962>2>11
>>220706673Calm down it's a picture of a video game due
>>220705052Hittites execute all assyrians
>>220705052AoE i cant remember Hittites AoE2 china or teutonsAoE3 ottomans or Prussia
>>220709192that would be cool, but I don't think they'll do Pyrrhus in Chronicles because they already made a campaign for him in RoR
>>220705052>Lac Viet>Choson>Yamatolitterally nigger tribemans before Chineseman come and they counted it as separates civilization
>>220706673>You can't like good games from a time when games were good!!>You have to like the popular garbage everybody else likes!!!!Normies are so horrible people
The best AoE is the third one and it's not even close, strategically wise was the most sound as you could have proper formations that made sense, and the whole metropolis and explorer stuff added an RPG, strategic, tactical and progression element that was really cool and far more reaching than the previous iterations. Of course this absolutely infuriated the APM autists who still managed, nonetheless, to turn the game into a spam/"build barracks and shit units non-stop next to enemy base" shitfest. The RTS genre was killed by RTS players.
>>220714407>NOOOOO THAT’S NOT HOW YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY ITRTS players are just optimization autists. If your game is shit enough to have a shit meta, then it’s on you.
>>220714407Anyone who liked the strategy and tactical element of RTS games has moved to "Total War-like" games. The rest got stuck in in decades old RTS like trannies doing the same speedrun for a millionth time.
>>220714433Fair point, that's why most people moved on.
>>220714451luv me Zero-k
>>220705052When I was a kid, my favourite was Persians, but now my favorite is either Assyrians or Yamato
>>220715031Also, for AoE 2 it was Aztecs and Mongols; and for AoE:M it was Loki and Set.
>>220705441>>220711604fight fight fight
I really love AOE but micromanaging economy is pretty shittymoreover the way to win is not actually fighting armies but comitting war crimes slaughtering peasants which is not historicalthe game can be fun but what was supposed to be its flavor dies with the meta
