Age of Empires Online Open Beta!

[vlad321]

Slimebeast said:

vlad321 said:

Meh. THat's about it. I hate the levelling. Absolutely hated it. I find it utterly pointless. This MAY have changed the game since last i played ( 1 month ago, maybe more) but they didn't even give you detailed information like armor and damage of pearticular units. There is a really good core, but it is covered by a whoooole lot of shit, and you have to dig deep to get to play the game in a state that is trully enjoyable and worthy of AoE.  Once you get there though, pretty fucking awesome.

Interesting but could you elaborate some more. First, do you mean the leveling is time-consuming, meaningless and boring but once you've done that the game becomes good?

And if so, how does it get good? (from an AoE 2 perspective)

Yes that is exactly what I mean. It is a worthless time sink that shouldn't exist, and it takes much longer than it should to get through it. The single-player quests I played weren't all that interesting (It's basically just AoE 2 missions with some improvements here or there, nothing on the scale of SC2 variety) and time consuming.

If the goal is an AoE2-like gameplay then the game is basically the escape sequence of Shawshank Redemption. You crawl through shit for a ridiculously long time and it is absolutely terrible, but then it is glorious.

I am also unsure that there is off-line play either, for LANs and stuff.