Wow Xbox One games going Free-to-Play..... is this their counter to PS4

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shikamaru317 said:

generic-user-1 said:

 

i have AoE2 for the ps2 and its meh at best, the game is realy great on pc and the port is good, but it still doesnt work right.

i dont have so high hopes, if one of the greates RTS series couldnt make a good transition in its prime, how should lesser games do it?

all great rts series tried console, and it never worked realy great.

Age of Empires 2 released on PS2? How did I not know that? That doesn't sound quite right to me, it was a Microsoft Studios franchise, why would they release it on PS2 and not Xbox?

Maybe that port was just poorly done. I played both Battle For Middle-Earth 2 and the Halo Wars demo on 360, I thought they were both good even if the controls weren't quite as intuitive as mouse and keyboard. So I have some hope of possible Xbox One ports of the RTS games that Microsoft's new RTS studio is working on turning out pretty good.

the port wasnt bad, but the game just doesnt fit console controlls. 

halo wars is a realy well made console RTS, but its still not realy good if compared to the big PC rts.   BfME2 was just crap.  the IP is just poorly used and Wc3 and Total war mods use the IP a lot better.

 

i dont think there is a market for core RTS on console, its a tiny market, that doesnt buy much of games, but wants a lot, like modsupport and good working servers.   casuals may buy some RTS, but i dont think it will be a big market, casual RTS arent a thing because you cant dumb don the concept enough to make it interesting for more than 2 hours...