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Age of Empires 2 is coming to Steam? [Update: Evidence continues to mount, 4-pack]
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Empire building waits for no one .
Well this is very good news very good news.
God I used to play this game so much as a kid it was one of the games that made me a PC gamer. I was just thinking a few weeks ago how much it sucked that I lost my CDs for it. As it has been a very long time since I last played it. When this hits Steam I will get it day 1.
Edit: Man just thinking about it is bringing back memories. I would always play as the Teutons and was always gold/yellow because I thought the Teutonic Knights were bad ass and looked most bad ass in that color. This better come out soon now as I am getting smacked hard by all the nostalgia.
God I used to play this game so much as a kid it was one of the games that made me a PC gamer. I was just thinking a few weeks ago how much it sucked that I lost my CDs for it. As it has been a very long time since I last played it. When this hits Steam I will get it day 1.
Edit: Man just thinking about it is bringing back memories. I would always play as the Teutons and was always gold/yellow because I thought the Teutonic Knights were bad ass and looked most bad ass in that color. This better come out soon now as I am getting smacked hard by all the nostalgia.
4 copies of AoE II...
Proelite
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4 digital copies tied to your account. You can't even sell the extras.
XANDER CAGE
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I mean, it's more stable than the current online play.
GhostWriter24
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There is a god =D
Syphon Filter
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Is this a starcraft style rts where you build or what?
yea but its takes 15 times longer
They aren't tied, they go into your steam inventory. At which point you can gift/trade them.
WAR recon zero
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Inject it in my veins.
Will not play competitively, but I will sure raise some empires and burn villagers with Trebuchets.
Will not play competitively, but I will sure raise some empires and burn villagers with Trebuchets.
MaritalWheat
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I'm going to buy so many copies to give people.
I almost hope HD only means it will support higher res displays, and not that they're touching the graphics in any way (which I doubt they would, honestly).
I almost hope HD only means it will support higher res displays, and not that they're touching the graphics in any way (which I doubt they would, honestly).
GhostWriter24
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When does this release?
Call Me Maybe
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It is the King of all RTS games. There flat out is not a single RTS ever made that is better than Age of Kings.
Ensemble Studios were Gods on Earth. Pity Microsoft had to go fuck them up like they did.
Synth_floyd
Banned
4 copies of the same game? LOL, that's pointless. Though I'm sure they'd rather sell you 4 copies for $20 than 1 copy for $5.
Well it's more like 4 copies of the game for 30 dollars instead of 4 people buying it for 10 dollars each. Save some money, promote multiplayer and playing with the folks you bought the pack with etc etc.
It's not rocket science!
Starcraft aint got shit on AOEII
Call Me Maybe
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The four pack is to promote multiplayer; you buy four copies, keep one for yourself, gift three to three of your friends, and then you all play with each other.
yea, actually more of an emphasis on building than starcraft does IMO. whenever i play starcraft i tend to follow a much more prescribed empire building formula than when i play AoE, where I tend to just build my empire to my choosing. you've got options like walls, towers, and trading centers to mix it up.
Nabs
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and you save 25% off the price
Holy cow...
If MGS is buddy-buddy with Steam now, this is a very positive sign that GFWL is practically on life support, and that they'll bring some of their good digital-only games from the consoles to Steamworks.
If MGS is buddy-buddy with Steam now, this is a very positive sign that GFWL is practically on life support, and that they'll bring some of their good digital-only games from the consoles to Steamworks.
Please God Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, and Perfect Dark HD and future HD/XBLA ports of older Rareware games like Killer Instinct, that'd be badass
Synth_floyd
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I guess. It just sounds like an excuse for them to charge more money and then say "well look at all the cool stuff you can do with 4 copies!"
If you only want 1-3 you get the individual version for cheaper.
This isn't something new, was done for Borderlands 2, Dead Island, etc.
Synth_floyd
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Oh, well if you can still buy single copies then that's fine. I thought they were making you buy 4 copies.
It's understandable if they haven't used Steam until recently, but otherwise I'm amazed the concept went unnoticed as Steam began selling multi-unit bundles more than four years ago with the original Left 4 Dead.
Call Me Maybe
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Meh. The vanilla Age of Empires II was so good that few to none modern RTSs match it in terms of quality. Microsoft does not have to worry about including any 'improvements' to Age of Kings. Age of Kings was so good that it was perfect; any perceived 'improvements' added to the core game after that only led to a deterioration in quality, as evidenced by the largely negative reception of Age of Empires III.
Console gamers just coming out of the walls right now.
MyAbsolution
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Been playing the Forgotten Empires expansion recently and have been thoroughly satisfied... hopefully more people will download and play it once they repurchase Age of Kings.
Call Me Maybe
Banned
What does Forgotten Empires add to the game?
scorpscarx
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My best friend always liked this game more than Starcraft, the only thing I liked to do in the game was spam the emotes and piss him off.
www.forgottenempires.net/features
well worth playing if you are a fan of AoE 2. The new AI alone would be enough
Call Me Maybe
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Looks awesome.
Cramoss
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We don't know yet.
Also doesn't this look like a HD remake not the original?
XANDER CAGE
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Yeah, like System motherfuckin' Shock 2.
Outside of the HD moniker there's nothing to suggest it's a remake.
Its most likely just a compatibility fix, switch to D3D, wide screen adjustments, and some Steamworks support.
We don't fully know but it is highly unlikely to have any other graphical enhancements.
It could use the AOE:Online assets?
AzureSkies
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For AoE2, yes.
It's awesome in AoEO. That game, after all the updates, deserved a lot more love. Being F2P really hurt it, and rightfully so. All that online crap kept detracting from the actual game experience.
That's a ridiculous amount of work and you lose some of the nostalgia factor.
Just read the whole OP. One of the original AoE designers over at Ensemble, now works at Valve, outlined exactly what would be done.
While not as broken and predictable as the original AI, the new AI still isn't great.
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