Gameranger, is that an online service to play multiplayer? I hope so, it would be so fun to have several VGCharters to battle with.

Yeah, but there can be some connectivity issues at times, because it's peer-to-peer.

Hopefully this remake will have dedicated servers.

Gameranger is free (there are premium accounts available, but I'm not sure of the benefits). If you download it and want to add me, my username is GreyianStorm on it, I think. It has support for hundreds of games (all the AoEs, Borderlands, Rome: Total War just off the top of my head). Most players on Gameranger play with the 1.0c patch for AoE2. There is also an unofficial expansion pack available to use through Gameranger, called Forgotten Empires iirc.

Teutonic Knights were absolutely ridiculous, yeah :P

AoE II was great, but they could have done a better job on enhanching the graphics.

great news, maybe my favourite rts of all time but i think they should make a whole new aoe 2 and not only hd. everything like before just with 2013 graphics. 

Wow that looks terrible, and I'm not talking just about the graphics. The only RTS games that should be updated are DoW and SupCom.

I may be a minority, but I prefer the graphics like they are.

It's a bit of nostalgia and the fact that I prefer sprites over polygons in AoE for the "feeling" I get from them.

Then again, with enhanced graphics the remake would have been more expensive and may not have been given the green light.

I don't mind revisiting this. It is one phenomenal game.

That Age of Empires II HD runs Steam for it's mulitplayer options.   And that rumor Steam got rid of everyone working on the Steambox.

I'm just speculating, was surprized to see so much Steam intigration on a Microsoft designed game.  They could have released it on Xbox for Windows 8, but going to Steam is highly curious.

Yay! And now Blizzard do Warcraft II :)