Kantor on 30 August 2012
They murdered the setting. Age of Empires 2 was about the great historical military campaigns. The campaigns were brief. They didn't drag on. They weren't about some random Scotsman in the New World. The game had some charm and a heart.
Perhaps they were trying to emulate Age of Mythology with AoE3. They failed. AOM had one of the most epic campaigns of any RTS ever, and was about mythology, which is awesome, and not about the colonisation of America, which is much less awesome.
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