Why does Sony fail at making another mega franchise?

[Scoobes]

Slimebeast said:

Scoobes said:

Slimebeast said:

When did you start playing Age of Empires II?

(same question to you Crazzyman)

Pretty much since it was released. It's actually my favourite RTS franchise and I've been playing it since the original was first released. And I actually quite liked 3.

Used to play the second with my mates. I wasn't that good to be honest so I always chose Byzantines as most of my mates picked the British. The cheap skirmishers would always save me from those bloody longbowman. I still play Age of Mythology with my girlfriend from time to time as she likes the anchient mythology setting.

Cool. I tried out Age of Empires at release but never owned it (until much later).

I started Age 2 in Jan 2000, so only a couple months after release.

Longbowmen are a sweet unit. I think my favorite civ all time is the Chinese. I also love the Teuts because they're versatile when you play DM (lol) and similar modes.

When I first started AoE II the Teutons and their Knights were my favourite. Used to quickly build a group of Knights and send them with a few trebuchets and the amount of damage that'd cause was suprising at times. Then I found out I could get to the final age faster with the Byzantines and they had a whole host of cheaper units to deal with the pesky longbowman!

I also really liked the Koreans in the Conq's too. Expensive and slow to build up, but a strategy mixing Onagers with War wagons used to decimate everyone.