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Trying to clear all Age of Empires 2 campaigns on hard. This was a mistake.
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:43 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness Thanks to all the expansions, there are currently *23* separate campaigns in the game. Not campaign missions, full campaigns. That's 124 total missions and almost all of them take a half hour at minimum. Some can take 2+ hours.
I really like Age of Empires but this has basically been the only game I've played in the past 4 months as a result.
Also, if you're one of the guys who got this thanks to my trolling, save the Forgotten campaigns for last. They're both the hardest, the weirdest, and probably overall the worst, since all of them started as part of a mod rather than being designed by professionals. |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:44 AM Author: haunting rough-skinned meetinghouse $4? I remember playing this 20 years ago and liking it a lot. Can I play it leisurely on normal difficulty on my work laptop? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37380958) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:45 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness Yeah playing on Normal shouldn't be too bad at all.
Also, get the expansions and then play me online. |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:56 AM Author: haunting rough-skinned meetinghouse i can't play people online. I still have PTSD from "fun" starcraft games online. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381165) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:57 AM Author: bull headed ruby puppy what was so bad about them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381167) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:58 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness But we are your zozo buddies. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381169) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:52 AM Author: underhanded cruise ship liquid oxygen LAW | CRYPTO | AOE2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37380982) |
Date: December 10th, 2018 12:52 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness Progress so far:
Joan of Arc 6/6 Genghis Khan 5/6 Saladin 6/6 Barbarossa 6/6 Attila the Hun 6/6 El Cid 6/6 Montezuma 6/6 Battles of the Conquerors 8/8 El Dorado 4/4 Alaric 4/4 Sforza 4/5 Bari 1/3 Dracula 5/5 Prithviraj 1/4 Battles of the Forgotten 3/8 Yodit 3/5 Sundjata 1/5 Francisco de Alameida 0/5 Tariq ibn Ziyad 2/5 Bayinnaung 4/5 Suryavarman 5/5 Gajeh Mada 2/5 Le Loi 0/5
So far the Conquerors campaigns have been on balance the best, although the Bayinnaung campaign in Rajas is also particularly good. The African campaigns are good but fucking hard on, well, Hard. The Forgotten missions have a lot of neat ideas but swing between being too easy or being brutal with an overreliance on enemies who have unlimited resources and just spam units. |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:53 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness Also, playing all the Southeast Asia campaigns is taking me back to childhood where AOE2 is how I first learned the basic outline of medieval history. I know NOTHING about Southeast Asian history so it's cool to get a basic introduction to some big figures through this game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37380989) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:59 AM Author: underhanded cruise ship liquid oxygen They need to redo AOE1 and make it as playable as AOE2. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381010) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:00 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness They did a Definitive Edition recently that improved the graphics and added a lot of quality-of-life improvements but ultimately it's just a more primitive game. I agree that a full-blown sequel playing similar to AOE2 would be 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381014) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 12:59 AM Author: Big Canary Dragon Crackhouse How does AoE compare to the civilization series? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381008) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:02 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness Very different other than the historical flavor. It's an RTS and unless you're playing on a very low difficulty, any game is going to be pretty frenetic. Civilization has a very relaxing, almost hypnotic feel much of the time.
It's also a war-focused game, there's no victory points from cultural achievements or spreading your religion or whatever.
Really, I'd say they're only alike in being strategy games set in the past. |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:07 AM Author: underhanded cruise ship liquid oxygen Never played Civ myself, but watched people play it and I don't think they are anything alike. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381032) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:04 AM Author: laughsome partner My very first online game was the original AOE on MSN gaming zone. Used to be a deathmatch fiend.
Do people still really play AOE 2 online? |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:06 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness Yes, and not only that, it's been steadily rising in popularity thanks to three new expansions. The Golden Age of AOE2 play is literally right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381029) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:09 AM Author: laughsome partner Weird. Is it still the same graphics or did one of the expansions upgrade the engine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381040) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:12 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness The HD edition made some small graphical improvements but also added some odd glitches. The most popular way to play online is actually to apply a patch that allows the expansion content to be used in the old pre-HD edition of the game. That's how people play on Voobly (which is the main multiplayer platform for serious players, rather than Steam).
It helps of course that AOE2 was one of the last 2D strategy games, so the pixel art has held up a lot better aesthetically than early 3D games. |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:19 AM Author: bull headed ruby puppy C12 can you compare AOE2 to other RTS? Like Warcraft 3? Starcraft 2? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381057) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:20 AM Author: Big Canary Dragon Crackhouse I'd love to know how it compares to Starcraft rather than Starcraft 2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381059) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:30 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness I haven't played quite a few of the major RTS games; notably I've literally never played Starcraft, Warcraft, or pretty much any RTS made after 2007 or so (unless we count Total War).
In general, AOE2 stands out for its more intense economic system. There are 4 resources and efficiently acquiring them is a critical part of the game. Rise of Nations is probably the closest in style, and clearly tries to find a middle point between AOE and Civiliation by covering all of history, having wonders with in-game effects, etc. There is a greater variety of resources needed, but otherwise economy is a more basic since villagers just endlessly harvest static resources rather than having to move around the map depleting them. So, the game is ultimately more focused on combat and tactics.
Command and Conquer is similarly way more combat focused, as you only collect one basic type of resource with basically no management involved.
Probably the closest game to AOE2 is Cossacks, which I sometimes describe as the Dragonball Z version of AOE since it follows the same basic format but is just more over the top and intense. You can research most techs over and over until you're getting resources and units at ridiculous speeds, battles can involve thousands of units, etc. |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 8:37 AM Author: Swashbuckling Stock Car Depressive Cossacks has to be one of the most underrated games of all time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381660) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 1:45 AM Author: laughsome partner It's been years, but the games are generally longer. I remember quite a few epic AOE games that took an hour or even two. This allows for a good deal more economic planning. In sc and wc the economy side of things is very simple and average game length is 10-15 min unless you are either very good or very bad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4152957&forum_id=2Reputation#37381122) |
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Date: December 10th, 2018 8:02 AM Author: Costumed provocative messiness On the most popular settings (Tiny 1v1 Arabia) games tend to be a half hour to 50 minutes, assuming a person is a good sport and resigns once they can’t win instead of walling up in a corner or something.
Team Black Forest maps (popular with newer players) can take an eternity though. |
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