I still play AoE2 from time to time.

None of my friends are that interested in RTS which stinks because I found myself playing more of the custom 'blood' scenarios back in the days of the Zone which were more strategy and action rather than building and researching.

Microsoft sucks lol (the video said that. Not me !)

AoE is my favourite RTS franchise ever and yeah I also liked AoE III VERY much.
Though the 2nd game is still the king

Age of Empire 1 and Age of Empires 2 were amazing, i spent countless hours playing that game.

I hated Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III tho.

AOE 3 was great for variety especially if you liked all the civs and they game tended to be fairer in that you can come back in it.

AOE 2 was great if you liked to perfect core skills like micro, economy, build orders etc. Brutal game, if that boar killed your villager in AOE2 you're tempted to resign as its very hard to come back once behind unless you can pull off an epic raid in the third age or something.

I miss it 2 :S

i loved age of empires but when Rome total war came out...no competetion there

You miss a game? Easy solution: Play it again.

Also, I find it ironic that someone who misses Age of Empires, doesn't even know about AoE III (which was released in NA more than 4 years ago, on 18 Oct 2005).

I miss Age of Mythology

I love them all. In fact, I don't think I've played a game made by Ensemble that I haven't enjoyed. I miss it too, so I still periodically play an "Age of" game when I've got nothing else to play.

Microsoft disbanded Ensemble along with most of their first-party PC centric studios to concentrate on second-party and 360 development. Was a real shame with the amount of success Age of Empires had too. The staff went on to form a number of new dev studios:

Robot Entertainment

Bonfire Studios

Windstorm Studios

Newtoy Inc.

I believe Robot is responsible for maintaining and supporting Halo Wars so they'd most likely be the ones to continue Age of Empires if Microsoft desires it.