Let's confuse everyone and play AoE3 instead. Just got the game on the Steam winter sale
It was very disappointing for people accustomed to classic AoE2.I sincerely support this. I first played AoE3 as a kid then maybe a year later AoE2 so AoE3 is the ultimate nostalgia game for me. People here just see it as a complete failure, something not even worth their time bashing and this really saddens me.
I don't exactly know how people reacted when AoE3 first came out since I was just a kid then, but like I said a while ago, I think there wasn't, isn't and won't ever be a single AoE community. Each AoE game has its own community and they all kinda hate each other. Microsoft assumed that making AoE4 more akin to AoE2 instead of progressing through history like the first three games did would surely attract AoE2 fans and avoid the "AoE3 mistake" and see how that turned out. Diehard AoE2 fans really just want AoE2 and I don't really like this mindset, being an AoE3 fan and all.It was very disappointing for people accustomed to classic AoE2.
Yeah I was just explaining to you why some AoE2 fans seem to dislike AoE3 so much.I don't exactly know how people reacted when AoE3 first came out since I was just a kid then, but like I said a while ago, I think there wasn't, isn't and won't ever be a single AoE community. Each AoE game has its own community and they all kinda hate each other. Microsoft assumed that making AoE4 more akin to AoE2 instead of progressing through history like the first three games did would surely attract AoE2 fans and avoid the "AoE3 mistake" and see how that turned out. Diehard AoE2 fans really just want AoE2 and I don't really like this mindset, being an AoE3 fan and all.
AoE4 has quite the same feeling of disappointment when you start it up and begin playing doesn't it.I remember when Aoe3 first came out. Very excited at the time and was going to buy on release. Ended up playing it at a friends house and took about 20 mins before I thought “how is this new game worse than the old one?”. It was the first time I experienced a game sequel being so much worse than the previous. Booted up Aoe2 and actually felt relief.
Something about history repeating.
You got it backwards. AoE 3 community is different from AoE 2 community because most of AoE 2 community was grossly disappointed with the game and after playing through it a bit, didn't want to touch it again and went back to AoE 2 (me included... i was looking forward to it but it's not even close to 2's level). It's obvious that people who still played AoE 3 would be different ones.I don't exactly know how people reacted when AoE3 first came out since I was just a kid then, but like I said a while ago, I think there wasn't, isn't and won't ever be a single AoE community. Each AoE game has its own community and they all kinda hate each other. Microsoft assumed that making AoE4 more akin to AoE2 instead of progressing through history like the first three games did would surely attract AoE2 fans and avoid the "AoE3 mistake" and see how that turned out. Diehard AoE2 fans really just want AoE2 and I don't really like this mindset, being an AoE3 fan and all.
Yeah this really the key point. AoE4 does not feel like it was strictly necessary and DE is objectively an underwhelming remaster that seems like it would probably have been far better if it had received all the resources allocated to development of AoE4 instead.And now AoE 4 came out when nobody needed it since AoE 2 was rapidly flourishing and all AoE 4 did was stump its growth so it's obvious it would receive backlash.
"Objectively" underwhelming... you can't be playing a lot of remasters.Yeah this really the key point. AoE4 does not feel like it was strictly necessary and DE is objectively an underwhelming remaster that seems like it would probably have been far better if it had received all the resources allocated to development of AoE4 instead.
This doesn't make any sense unless you are just trying to make a joke about game remasters generally being low quality."Objectively" underwhelming... you can't be playing a lot of remasters.
They can (almost) all be underwhelming, i see no issue with such statement. DE is definitely among the better remasters in the gaming world but it does have a lot of issues too. IMO remasters should be compared to base games, not to each other."Objectively" underwhelming... you can't be playing a lot of remasters.
Yup, just imagine if instead of wasting so much time and resources on hiring Relic to do buggy AoE 4, they were able to allocate more employees to DE.Yeah this really the key point. AoE4 does not feel like it was strictly necessary and DE is objectively an underwhelming remaster that seems like it would probably have been far better if it had received all the resources allocated to development of AoE4 instead.
I disagree with your assessment of DE as a remaster but otherwise yes.They can (almost) all be underwhelming, i see no issue with such statement. DE is definitely among the better remasters in the gaming world but it does have a lot of issues too. IMO remasters should be compared to base games, not to each other.
DE has loads of improvements in QoL, graphics, server based multiplayer having better ping, frequent patches keeping meta fresh and/or perfecting balance but it also has crucial flaws like all the teamgame issues making the mode borderline unplayable to many, bugs being added with new patches, some of old issues not getting fixed.
Yup, just imagine if instead of wasting so much time and resources on hiring Relic to do buggy AoE 4, they were able to allocate more employees to DE.
There's also this weird situation of Age of Empires 2 DE being active, receiving patches at the same as AoE 4 comes out and they are different games but cover the same historical era. It's very confusing to potential new people to the franchise.
WWBD?Yup, just imagine if instead of wasting so much time and resources on hiring Relic to do buggy AoE 4, they were able to allocate more employees to DE.
If it was a good enough game, aoe2 players would have moved.I don't exactly know how people reacted when AoE3 first came out since I was just a kid then, but like I said a while ago, I think there wasn't, isn't and won't ever be a single AoE community. Each AoE game has its own community and they all kinda hate each other. Microsoft assumed that making AoE4 more akin to AoE2 instead of progressing through history like the first three games did would surely attract AoE2 fans and avoid the "AoE3 mistake" and see how that turned out. Diehard AoE2 fans really just want AoE2 and I don't really like this mindset, being an AoE3 fan and all.