• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Age of Empires Definitive Edition Announced [Windows 10]

Time to get out my Age of Empires Nutri Grain edition and wait for the update!

I hope they up the population cap and make larger maps 50 people wasn't enough
 
It was literally the first game I ever played as a kid. It made me love history. I can't fucking believe that people at MS remembered it.


Same.

I still remember coming home, 6 or 7 years old...my dad was on the computer and said "hey check this out"

Whipped out a photon man. And I was hooked lol
 
But the first game is awesome.

It was literally the first game I ever played as a kid. It made me love history. I can't fucking believe that people at MS remembered it.

in my case, it wasn't my first PC game (not even close), but it did change my life - it made me love history, just like you. AoE means a lot to me.
 
Will this be the game to get people to use the Windows Store?
no, no it won't be

Nice to see it being made though, hopefully it will be available on a better store when time comes.
 
All I want is a legal, solid port of AoE2 for Mac.

I don't PC game, I'm not buying a new laptop anytime soon, just let me play the fucking game without having to jump through hoops and install and dick around with complicated software.
 
The game will be exclusive to the Windows Store

<the collective WOLOLO of 4 million disappointed players>

The game will also release on Steam
 
Fight your way across antiquity and relive some of the most famed campaigns from the Stone Age all the way through the Iron Age.
  • Ascent of Egypt
  • Voices of Babylon
  • Glory of Greece
  • Yamato Empire of the Rising Sun
  • Reign of the Hittites
  • Rise of Rome
  • Ave Caesar
  • Imperium Romanum
  • Enemies of Rome
  • First Punic War

it's got the Trial Version campaigns (from both the vanilla game and the RoR expansion), yay!
 
Yeah still believe it'll come to Steam eventually.

Age of Empires 2 HD probably sold more there in a day than Halo Wars 2 did on the MS Store in its lifetime.
 
Can't wait to play this again.

The best level was in the demo where you started with two priests and you built your empire by converting villagers.

I hope they add it to this game.
 
Can't wait to play this again.

The best level was in the demo where you started with two priests and you built your empire by converting villagers.

I hope they add it to this game.

they're going to have the Trial Version/Demo campaign, so yeah!

And that level took me forever
I could only play on my dad's work laptop a couple of hours during the weekend, so...
when I was a kid. I was so happy when I finally managed to beat it!
 
Eeeeh.. Not particularly keen on spending into the Xbox ecosystem when I don't have any friends on there for some classic skirmishes, let alone the usual mess and uncertainty in there. Fucking cool that they got an Orchestra in for the re-worked soundtrack though. Will probably pass and stick with my old back up.

But man, a new AoE soon would be dope
 
But stil ancient civilizations>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>medieval times.

I agree .

I like the Medieval Era .. but my childhood obsession with ancient history & the mists of antiquity will never waver ..

Age of Kings is superior in most gameplay aspects, but the original has its quirky charms that still gets me nostalgic.

that being said .. if it's Windows Store exclusive, then I'm out.
 
There needs to be an E3 rule where you can't name drop Westwood/Command and Conquer only to reveal something like this, holy hell what a disappointment.
 
Is it only the first game? Like seriously

And only win10 fuck off

If it's uwp only too then reallyyyyy fuck off

AOE2HD regularly goes on sale for $5 on Steam.

It's awesome.

Also this will be on Steam. The AoE audience on Steam is way too huge for them to release a remaster of AoE1 only on Windows 10 store.
 
Sign Up for the beta doesnt work for me :/

The website is just overloaded right now. I've been working at it for 4 hours now and i'm finally at step 4 out of 4. You gotta be patient if you want to sign up right now, you have to go through like 5 different pages and each one takes forever to load.
 
they're going to have the Trial Version/Demo campaign, so yeah!

And that level took me forever
I could only play on my dad's work laptop a couple of hours during the weekend, so...
when I was a kid. I was so happy when I finally managed to beat it!

Good to hear. The only thing missing in that level was a few gold mines.
 
Yeah still believe it'll come to Steam eventually.

Age of Empires 2 HD probably sold more there in a day than Halo Wars 2 did on the MS Store in its lifetime.

Yeah it will probably come to Steam when they look at the Windows 10 store sales and realize they need to make some money on the game.
 
Screenshots:
Age-of-Empires_Phoenician-Harbor.png
 
Top Bottom