Age of Empires 4

They have to make it just like AoE 2 to be accepted right?

That is correct.

It will be shit.
Screencap this

I actually forgot this was a thing.

You just made my day better OP.

There's no way they can, if they follow the original design and go for a WWII to early 90s era. The best we can hope for is getting a Rise of Nations with expanded unit lists and better balance.

Or actually they could just throw all pretext of realism out the window and do make the game play exactly like the previous AoEs with a modern skin. It would make a great alt-history setting too, some excuse where small urban centers are somewhat isolated and raise their own standing armies and have localized conflicts with each other instead of massive troop movements would be fun to play at least.

AOE3: Asian Dynaties was the best game in the series. This game will be a watered down version of AOE2 with forced online. So basically, AOE Online.

>microsoft store exclusive
>relic

ahahaha
no

I enjoyed AoE 3.

It'll be made for consoles and ported to PC.

Pretty sure they abandoned this and will go back to the roots

I agree, I had the most fun playing AoE3, and that's saying something with as much fun as I had playing AoE2 at LANs. I really liked the deck system too, it was pretty neat since you could tailor it to particular strategies or keep it broad to have useful things in all situations. I do think manufacturies could've used some adjustment though, I hated how high value of target they were and would've rathered they been built very slowly or not been simply irreplaceable after dying, though that would make the game prolong itself quite a bit if they could.

That's disappointing. I've already played AoE1-3, and while I wouldn't mind getting a fresh coat of paint on it, the art in 1 and 2 are classic enough that I don't think it really needs it.

I swear to god if they remove formations I will lose my shit so hard that I will fly from my shithole just to punch the faggot who was in charge of removing it

Still no news on the fucking aoe definitive edition

>relic
Microsoft Studios will keep them on a short leash, r-right?

Im hype. The formula alone is fun. Even the changes in 3 I found interesting and I really loved it as a whole because it still felt like an AOE game

ENJOY YOUR COMPANY OF HEROES WITH AN AOE SKIN

NO FUCK YOU

>Age of Empires 4
this.

why did people hate it?

Im ok with that

>Trailer is literally just showing the first three games
>Literally makes zero commitments about anything

Whats the point?

Whats the point?

woops - ignore that greentext

Maps were tiny (and round, for some reason).

Home Cities added and element of progression. Mixed feelings on that, honestly.

Campaigns were pretty boring from what I remember.

I did like AoE III by the way, but I understand why a lot of people didn't.

yeah, a bit of a premature announcement

There honestly is no way that this won't be complete fucking garbage. I wish it wasn't the case, but I can't think how they could possible do this right.

I think it had to do with maps being really tiny along with special units and home city being kinda pointless since most of the bonuses you get are pointless on late game, also it looked ugly as fuck imo

I actually never played the campaign in any AoE, but I think that has to be a big part of why people didn't like 3 since it gets brought up so much. I could understand the deck too if you didn't play quite a bit or switched nations a lot.