Ensemble Studios official closes its doors...

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Chrizum on 30 January 2009

I still haven't forgiven Microsoft for this. It's just low. Buy up a studio and after a couple years closing it down... They just screwed so many gamers with this move. Unforgivable.

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Son1x on 30 January 2009

No... Age of Empires :(
How could they...

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makingmusic476 on 30 January 2009

Avalach21 said:

makingmusic476 said:

disolitude said:
lol...i dont want to sound conspicuous but a lot of Sony ps3 fans seem to have an emotional attachment to Ensemble studios.

While I agree that its sad to see them go...I personally never heard of them until i heard of halo wars. Hope their last game is a good swansong...

Have you seriously never heard of Age of Empires? The best friggin' RTS series out there?

Only the Battle for Middle-earth II and Supreme Commander touch the masterpieces that Ensemble has made (in my opinion - games like Company of Heroes are up there as well).

I don't care how far along this thread has come from here. I hope someone has put you in your place before me, and if not, how dare you not mention Blizzard (Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, STARCRAFT?) or Command and Conquer (pre EA). Age of Empires series is definitely quality, but it's far from the best.

The older C&C games are great, but they never held me quite like BFMEII, SupCom, AoEII, and especially AoM.

As for Blizzard, WCII is alright, but WCIII isn't much of an RTS. It's more of an RTS/RPG hybrid, and the RTS gameplay suffers because of it. I honestly can't stand the game.

And I can't comment on Starcraft, as I have yet to play it. >_>

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Hammer-of-Dawn on 30 January 2009

there not closed as in a skeleton crew of ensemble will be made into a new studio that will focus on 360 and not PC.

never cared for age of empires but I all ready am loving Halo wars.

so basically..........score for the 360 gamers and not so much for the PC ones.