Age of Empires Online

This reminds me of the live action Yogi Bear.
 
Can't be that bad. Seems like a neat idea. It's not like the series has elsewhere to go except "Let's do this again only with more graphics and different time period."
 
I don't understand how your civilisation will carry on living when you're offline? Surely you'll just get destroyed by someone else?

Could be cool to kill some time like a facebook game, though :)
 
Signed up for the beta, I'm going to check this out.
 
Why is every RTS going the way of MMOs? :(

Company of Heroes, Dungeon Keeper, and now AoE?
 
The game looks fine, but why stick Age of Empires name on this?
 
Cashing in on browser games? Or is it going to be more like Company of Heroes online? CoH online looks like a hell of a time since the actual online isn't too populated anymore... which is strange for one of the top tier RTS games of all time. I wish I had motivation to play the single player, but if you know me you know I hate with all the passion I have left for videogames to have to restart RTS missions... and CoH has some tough ones.
 
> Create successful franchise made up of several fully fledged games released over a decade
> Fire dev team responsible
> Wait the prerequisite mourning time (aka: until no one cares any more)
> Make shitty browser-based cartoon reboot to capitalize on said success after the fact
> ...
> Profit?

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Also, being forced to use Windows Live.

And I don't know about anyone else but I wanted a new Age of Mythology more than another AoE.
 
Why can't Devs let good games die with glory instead of reviving them and then beating them with a baseball bat covered in barbed wire.
 
Actually most of the time, the rights to a game series wind up with the evil publisher who then proceed to milk it to death.

In the case of Age of Empires the dev team never did own the rights. Microsoft owned Age of Empires from the start.
 
Remus said:
Actually most of the time, the rights to a game series wind up with the evil publisher who then proceed to milk it to death.

In the case of Age of Empires the dev team never did own the rights. Microsoft owned Age of Empires from the start.
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Yeah the game industry is a funky bunch of people. Intellectual properties and franchises are bought, sold, rehashed and tossed around all the time. As a developer you can try to grind it out solo and hope you can squeeze out a game to a friendly publisher that brands you "Indy" and lets you charge all of $20 max for your game. Of course if it's a small team you'll make some money and avoid the heavy costs you get in making a game with a big company. However, most of the time these small devs get bought up and integrated into massive conglomerates like MS and EA where their creations are squeezed for all of their juices. Sometimes they'll take popular franchise and just sit on it... that's why we'll probably never see another Alpha Centauri...
 
Impressions:
So, now that we know what it isn't, one has to wonder: what IS it? Well, it is Age of Empires- easy as that. The gameplay is the same, and has lost little of its depth- still got 4 ressources, infantry, archers, ships, cavalry and siege engines. All missions (they are called quests) are played on a seperate map away from your capital, as they were before. For the purpose of the core gameplay, the capital city might just as well be a graphical represenation of a menu- you choose which mission you want to play from a map, and then start the mission; just as it always has been, though the freedom to choose which mission to tackle is new in Age, while other games have used it before. Also, contratry to browser games, your capital is off-limits- nobody can attack it and destroy it. PVP is purely consentual by using matchmaking as in other rts games- nobody will ravage your empire while you sleep. All gameplay is 100% session based (again, as it was before in Age, or the way it is in MW or BF).
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I really like the art style. It reminds me of the comic Asterix.

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I don't know what to think of this game It looks interesting, but I would never pay a monthly fee for a RTS game.
 
I just wanted to say I got in to this beta. I haven't played much, but it doesn't seem too bad.
 
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