They are making Age of Empires, not DoW or CoH.
Then why hire Relic who have never made a game outside of the CoH/DoW style?
Then why hire Relic who have never made a game outside of the CoH/DoW style?
Not that I'm aware of, but they are one of the only publishers/devs left standing I would trust with a license like AoE.
They would want more independence though than MS would provide.
It's kinda funny how Sega became the RTS Publisher by owning Relic and CA (I know Sega isn't the actual publisher of the game)
It's kinda funny how Sega became the RTS Publisher by owning Relic and CA (I know Sega isn't the actual publisher of the game)
You want to revive your dormant RTS franchise? Better call Sega.
At this point I'm almost expecting a C&C revival from Creative Assembly
Has Paradox developed/funded any RTS games?
I think doubting Relic because of one middling game is really selling short the good work they've done in RTS games for a number of years.
It's kinda funny how Sega became the RTS Publisher by owning Relic and CA (I know Sega isn't the actual publisher of the game)
You want to revive your dormant RTS franchise? Better call Sega.
At this point I'm almost expecting a C&C revival from Creative Assembly
Warcraft 4 VS Age of Empires 4
Battle of the RTS Titans.
Let's go.
Sorry, but was AoE ever in the same league as Blizzard's RTSes?
With 2 yesSorry, but was AoE ever in the same league as Blizzard's RTSes?
Sorry, but was AoE ever in the same league as Blizzard's RTSes?
Absolutely, with Age of Empires 2 and later the Conquerors epansion they were in the highest echelon of strategy makers. As fate would have it, Age of Mythology and Warcraft 3 came out at about the same time. One local magazine had the beggining of the article something like the rts empire is dominated by the two rival houses, Ensemble and Blizzard. Age of Empires is a series that sold tens of millions of copies. Age of Empires is in the elite with the likes of Command&Conquer or Starcraft
this... Relic and Microsoft can't fuck this release up the pc gaming community would torch them...
Xbox have to give all their exclusives to PC while PC doesn't. Seems fair
If they develop both at the same time of course it will compromise the game.
At this point I'm almost expecting a C&C revival from Creative Assembly
AOE3 has lots of things that I loved
-The graphics are gorgeous, even today. Everything looked so big and detailed, and it was cool to see more differences between the units of the civilizations. Also the physics of the game blowed my mind back then. Also the unique units felt cooler than ever, specially those bigs cannons of the ottomans, or the british red jackets
-The upgraded evolution of eras was awesome.
-I loved the deck system, and it was super cool to see the biggest port/capital of each empire, even the native americans ones which were little settlements were cool to see.
-I liked the campaign of the first game, never played the campaigns of the expansions though
In my experience, that's never ever how it happens for games envisioned from the start to also appear on consoles. (See Diablo 3 for a high-profile example)Not if they design the game for the mouse+keyboard first, and then try to make it work with a controller.
Not if they design the game for the mouse+keyboard first, and then try to make it work with a controller.
It's by Relic.
AOE3 is only criticized because of its differences from AOE2. I've seen very few people attempt to make a solid argument as to how those differences make AOE3 *worse* than AOE2 and not simply different.
However, it's more RTT than RTS. There is no base building or anything. You purchase units with points and etc. Really good game though!
Yep. The last great RTS developer. We should be pretty happy.
AOE3 is only criticized because of its differences from AOE2. I've seen very few people attempt to make a solid argument as to how those differences make AOE3 *worse* than AOE2 and not simply different.
Their 2 most recent games have had pretty significant flaws though, especially Dawn of War 3 which it seems a massive amount of people considered to just be the complete wrong direction for the series and them not really getting what people liked about the previous 2 games.
Sorry, but was AoE ever in the same league as Blizzard's RTSes?
Sorry, but was AoE ever in the same league as Blizzard's RTSes?
Sorry, but was AoE ever in the same league as Blizzard's RTSes?
How do you turn this onStart the game already