NEW Age of Empires on the way (KING of SRPG's RETURNS?)!! -- Rumor

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Grey21 said:

Scoobes said:

Grey21 said:

Asmo said:

richardhutnik said:

 

Anyhow, if it does go to the 360, I hope Microsoft can nail down a full-blow RTS title for the 360.

 

God NO ! that'd be awful ! It needs to be on PC.

No it definatly should not go to PC. PC has enough RTS games including many for more suited for the platform like the Total War series.  Age of Empires is a very simple RTS game, the PC deserves better but it's perfect for consoles. And if they do make it for the 360 then they could build it around Natal which would be great because I always wanted to controle my RTS games that way. Especially Black and White but I think EA owns that license or did Microsoft get it along with Lionhead?

I think the word you're looking for is traditional, not simple. And no, it really would never work on a console. No matter how good Natal is it just will not work. You need a keyboard for the hotkeys and the grouping of units, and quite frankly, I can't remember vids too well but I don't remember an accurate and quick enough pointing device with Natal.

Your thinking of taking AoE1/2/3 and using the same concept on the 360, like I said you need to rethink the way you can control rts games because Natal has ways of controlling your games that weren't possible before. And I stand by what I said, AoE is really simple to controle and yes back then that was traditional, but RTS games are still being made that way and compaired to others in the genre they are simple RTS games.

The simple structure of AoE can easily be controlled with Natal, using both hands to move units and scroll around the map. Putting 1 finger up to select army 1 and putting up 2 fingers (peace sign) to controle army 2, etc. I think it could be a very fun and fats way to take controle over the battlefield. AoE is the perfect franchise for this, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a huge fan that doesnt own a gaming PC.

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree here as I think that control scheme sounds terrible. Part of that is because I'm highly sceptical of Natal in general (especially for the accuracy you seem to be talking about), the other part is because it just sounds terrible imo! They do need to do something a bit more orginal, but they can do that on PC. IMO, if its not on PC, it just won't work.