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I am not quite as patient depending on the game so I generally use cdkeys or greenmangaming to get 20-30% off pre-orders/launches.

Idk if I'd ever actually buy AoE IV after playing it on gamepass. It lacks the spark of AoE 2. It looks too off beat stylistically but the FMV sequences can be neat in the campaign.

Yeah, ngl, I saw some of the day 1 footage and saw that physics for projectiles were tied to something other than where the unit is standing, and how they home in like darts on any sort of unit no matter the distance and that will forever be etched into my mind.

The other fact that the game looks a bit more cartoony/mobile-like and the too clean UI (reminds me instantly of DoW III and not AoE II) put me off for the most part. The lack of other civs atm makes me not wanna touch it. The only time I'm ever likely to buy this is at a probable deep discount, and since it's not on a must have list for me, I'm fine waiting for years till it goes cheap.

Hopefully there will be more RTS's in the next few years, that might spark MS to actually do a bit more with the genre, since EA just did the remaster C&C collection of two games and then stopped caring after that (no known plans to do with the franchise since that collection's release). I don't see SC 3 being a thing for at least another 5 or more years either, so I'm gonna hope Homeworld 3 does something great, as well as that RTS from Ex Blizz devs are supposed to be working on rn. 

I still don't think AAA pubs/devs are into full on effort for the genre just yet. Prob gonna be another one of those jobs for indie devs to prove that the genre is still viable (I mean it should be, every genre should be viable and treated with respect). 

Yea it's pretty annoying the state of RTS games. The only ones that are worth buying these days are Total War series and 4X Civ games but neither of them are really the style of games that I enjoy all that much.

I like games that are more so Starcraft, C&C, AoE and Battle for Middle Earth. But sadly, it will be a long while before we get a proper sequel if ever. With some hope, maybe MS will do a sequel to Starcraft/Warcraft but who knows if they will be done properly. Especially as Blizzard would rather make a survival game in an era where we have too many survival/battle royal games.

It's annoying because I am only 29 but it feels like the games that I am interested in are continuously shrinking. The obscured sales expectations of publishers are continuing to lead them to the path where games feel more generic than anything. And the insane development times of modern games are ensuring that we get less and less games coming out like GTA. And I haven't really seen indies pick up the slack but it would be easy to miss in a sea of artsy games that come out daily.

All in all, we will see what happens but man, I give anything to have a proper sequel to one of my favorite RTS games.