BetterWorldz
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Oh you're right, it still must be. Still, it would definitely benefit from the Steam community.
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Age of Empires 2 is coming to Steam? [Update: Evidence continues to mount, 4-pack]
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Oh you're right, it still must be. Still, it would definitely benefit from the Steam community.
And digital distribution.
Byzantine Longbow Archers will stop Teutonic Knights and Elephants in their respective tracks.
Terra Firma
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I'm hoping that Matt P has gone "radio silent" because there's going to be some good news announced soon, hopefully about a modified release of AoK. Matt P was talking about modifying the graphics engine a bit, for example. He was also the guy who did all the official patches for the game. He was also one of two primary coders for the game.
Britain had the longbows....noob! Byzantine had a cavalry unit.
Terra Firma
Banned
The Byzantine "cavalry" unit (the Cataphract) was misidentified in the game, though. Anti-cavalry units had no bonus damage against it (spearmen/pikemen/halberdiers, camels, mamelukes). Archers were very effective against it, though.
I knew it was one or the other. I havent played in nearly a decade, I'll let this one slide if you do.
Yep you are right.
Subs of the original one have been added:
AOE II HD 4 pack: http://steamdb.info/sub/19339/
AOE II HD: http://steamdb.info/sub/26117/
HD!!! Hnnggg!!!
1080p AoEII straight into my veins. That would look so godly.
I would love for Robot Entertainment to somehow be able to make AoM 2. Needs to be kick started.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Unlike AoE III. Never bought that one, and it's still too high.
Well, 40$ is too much for it, but it did drop to 10$ for quite a few times.
Didn't GFWL have a promotion, giving it away for 10 cents or something along those lines.
They did. I think it was when the GFWL store first opened.
There might be hope for some of the other registry leaks as well.
Everything that has popped up on the registry lately has been released, even some of the more unexpected ones like AoE II and Brutal Legend.
I hope to see the Halo series soon!
Hah, AoE II was the first RTS I ever played online. I picked Britain and the other guy was Turk I believe. I just kept building castles closer and closer to the area of the map he had barricaded himself behind with like three layers of walls.
In terms of horrible noob strategies remember that Castle Creep beats Wall Turtle!
In terms of horrible noob strategies remember that Castle Creep beats Wall Turtle!
No the registry doesn't give any clues like that.
Has to be very soon though if they added in billing for pre orders.
Age of Empires II is probably my personal favorite RTS of all-time. It's at its best when played casually, in hour(s)-long matches spent building serpentine walls around the map and occasionally summoning fleets of rocket-firing sportscars. No fretting about CPM or micromanagement. Love it.
They would have to sine the Zone no longer exists.
My first reaction as well, but it could be for LAN play as well.
Just playing devil's advocate here, we would all love to see some true multiplayer here with Steamworks.
CrocMother
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They don't need to mess with the gfx; they are timeless.
An online renaissance for this game would bring so much happiness into my life you have no idea.
Do you think there is any chance they would release this without adding online multiplayer support? That would be so, so sad. I'm one one of the people who continued to play the game for years after the zone went down. I went through another spell last year and there were still thousands of people playing. This is a smart move all around.
An online renaissance for this game would bring so much happiness into my life you have no idea.
Do you think there is any chance they would release this without adding online multiplayer support? That would be so, so sad. I'm one one of the people who continued to play the game for years after the zone went down. I went through another spell last year and there were still thousands of people playing. This is a smart move all around.
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Jotamide
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Hook it to my veins, now!
Its looking like it might have online multiplayer, still up in the air.
The achievements don't seem to reflect this though.
dinosaur_hunter2
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I can't believe my eyes. I usually suck at RTS's, but Age of Empires 2 was an exception to that (I sucked less at it). I may have played more than a thousand online matches, if I'm not mistaken. Amazing news.
Frankenstrat
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This, hard. Same for AoM, if it ever gets a steam release.
Installed the demo at least, so I'll check it out when I get home.
As for all the comments I'm seeing "I never played RTS', but played AoE2 for thousands of hours!" or "I was always terrible at RTS games, but I loved this!!" Enlighten me, I am anxious to play this and am excited for a release on Steam, but would love to hear what made it so unique in that case to have such appeal.
As for all the comments I'm seeing "I never played RTS', but played AoE2 for thousands of hours!" or "I was always terrible at RTS games, but I loved this!!" Enlighten me, I am anxious to play this and am excited for a release on Steam, but would love to hear what made it so unique in that case to have such appeal.
TouchMyBox
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Microsoft ANTS! all up in this place.
Microsoft has a huge back catalog of classic games to release.
I think they are starting to realize they are leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars just sitting on the table by not releasing things like Halo 3, AoE II, AoM, etc.
They even own Banjo-Kazooie, Jet Force Gemini, and Perfect Dark now. I would love to see HD versions of some of these games on PC, though likely they would be on the console.
Makes me think of Sim Ant way back in the day. Now that game was awesome.
TouchMyBox
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You'd best not be implying that Microsoft ANTS! wasn't the best game ever made.
Yup. There is no doubt about it, I will be loving every facet of this voluptuous game.
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