At this time, telling a good story in an RTS was still something of a novelty, Blizzard had some success with Starcraft and Warcraft 3, but otherwise, everything was cheesy and hamfisted (I am looking at you Command and Conquer.) This still holds true today and these rollicking tales of discovery and destruction are just as entertaining. This was primarily due to the fantastic campaigns that featured in both the main game and two hefty expansions. Fast forward to 2020 and that daring approach may just mean that this title holds up in modern times better than than the other entries in the franchise.įor me, AoE3 was actually the game in the franchise I played the most. Despite that though, it was still a fantastic RTS experience in its own right and one that dared to shake up the established formula. It wasn’t ever as revered as AoE2: Age of Kings and there seems to be this feeling that perhaps in attempting to keep it fresh, Ensemble created an unbalanced game. Actually, a lot of the game feels that way, you’re simply rushing through the simplistic tech tree only to win, not to enjoy the process of aging up and unlocking new techs.Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition – War Is Not The Only Path PCĪge of Empires 3 was something of a different beast for Microsoft when it released in 2005. Instead in AoE IV the icons feel just like means to an end: “ you need to kill your enemy, so here’s a bunch of upgrades you need to go through, no time to explain”. I just don’t care now.Īt least AoE II tried to teach me something with the icons. If I don’t know what the heck “blooming” is, sure as hell the icon is not giving me any hints.
If you are being lazy, just name things the same way as you designed the icons, so it’s not as infuriating. The part where he talks about naming upgrades in an historically accurate way, only to use the exact same icons is true. Often I had a bunch of archers and started the armor upgrade for melee. Icons representing armor upgrades for melee and ranged units are stupidly similar, look identical from a distance and I found myself having to stop for a few seconds to understand what I was clicking. The icons as they are right now are terrible and Age of Noob is right.
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