Slimebeast said:
Scoobes said:
Slimebeast said:
Scoobes said:
Slimebeast said:
I'm very sceptical about this as it looks as a cartoon and childish. Is it simplified?
No, why am I even trying. This game will never give me any of that satisfaction Age of Kings did. Oh, how I miss those times.
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It has elements of all the old Age of Empires games from the past. I wouldn't say it's simplified; you build up and gain access to technologies, upgrades and buildings as you play (not in real-time). The good stuff takes a lil' while as you need to be at lvl 20 (out of 40) to get access to Final Age techs, but theres strategy in what to unlock and what units to upgrade or specialise in. Theres a lot of customisation regardless of which civ you play as and your civ becomes what you want it to be (e.g. If you want powerful archers you can build an archery school in your home city and buy specilaised archer techs from their). The core gameplay is still intact though.
There is a non-real time area that doubles up as your city (like in Age III but with more depth). From there, you can invest in buildings that give you access to upgrades and get given story based quests (the campaign mode basically), co-op quests and PVP matches. Also, each unit has its own armor and weapon upgrades for you to attach that can also make a big difference when you play a quest/Real-Time game.
I'd say give it a go. Not sure it'll be the same as Age2... but lets face, not a lot will :P
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You're selling this game to me. There's so many good games coming and I have a huge back-logue and too little time but now I'm tempted to try this out, just for that good old Age-feeling (God I loved that feeling. AoE 2 is still in my top 3 games of all time). When is the 48h download window again?
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Now until Saturday morning-ish (but once you've signed up you'll be able to play whenever). Remember, it's free so what have you got to lose? And if theres stuff you don't like, just go on the forums and voice them! It's still in beta afterall :P
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I'm working on it. Already spent nearly one hour just to download and install it. I don't know why but the Windows Live client just freezes and slows down everything on my PC. It takes 15 minutes before it responds. And when it was about to install it crashed (just after the "do you accept these terms"-thingy). And why is it only a ~20Mb file? Is that another client?
Grrrrrr.
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Yeah, I wish they'd sort out GFWL. This is a step in the right direction for software at least.
