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Captain_Yuri said:

Age of Empires IV: Fan Preview

Lots of Gameplay shown. Coming out this fall on Steam, Xbox and Windows Store. Also AoE2DE and AoE3DE are getting more DLC.

Just finished watching both previews and my thoughts so far are:

looks alrightish I guess. Buildings look quite nice, but units look rather cartoony and less detailed, as well as being rather large (human units I mean) when standing next to buildings.

not a big fan of the UI though, kinda reminds me of Halo Wars (Also can't shake the feeling like it's being designed with Xbox in mind, not PC entirely, which would make porting to Xbox pointless as most RTS games have in the past).

Also found it a bit odd how they showed off China vs Mongols instead of any other nation in the franchise, but I guess Chinese marketing?.

After what Relic did to DoW 3, I'm quite sceptical on how they handle this, but visually, it could do with some more paint (like I said, the buildings are fine, but the units and animations need more polish, esp since this remains the last AAA RTS left standing, it needs to stand tall, coming for a trillion dollar company like MS). 

Yea graphically it doesn't look all that care worthy. Looks like an RTS game from a decade ago but then again, there haven't exactly been many big RTS games. I am assuming they are trying to keep it simple for esports as they'd want low end computers to play it. But yea, graphics and UI could be better.

Hopefully when it comes out, it will be good as my current RTS, Starcraft 2, has been dying for a long time. And while I applaud Blizzard for keeping it alive for this long, especially with new map updates every season, we all know Activision is just awaiting to pull the plug.