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Age of Empires IV - X019 - Gameplay Reveal - Medieval era
- Thread starter Theorry
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I honestly wanted a move to the next chronological age, but this is fine so far. If anything, I'm most concerned about performance and UI design given Relic's more recent offerings.
It's fucking crazy though that we're associating the strong colour saturation with "mobile game visuals". The visual designs for both buildings and civilian + military units suggest the opposite.
For a game with actual cartoon style, see Age of Empires Online, and that was built off Age of Empires III's BANG engine.
It's fucking crazy though that we're associating the strong colour saturation with "mobile game visuals". The visual designs for both buildings and civilian + military units suggest the opposite.
For a game with actual cartoon style, see Age of Empires Online, and that was built off Age of Empires III's BANG engine.
I think it looks great. Looks extremely familiar as the Age of Empires I know and love but... better.
Excellent little tidbits in there, with standouts for me being:
- Broader timeline than AoE II, so before the fall of Rome in the west and up to the Renaissance (we could see legionaires at one end and arquebusiers at the other, which would be pretty neat)
- A new take on singleplayer campaign, again could be great
- Mongols are confirmed as being unlike what people have played in an Age game before. I'd be very happy if they embraced the weirdness and give them mobile buildings and just a completely different sort of playstyle
You mean AoE2: DE? The remaster?
AoE4 won't be the same gameplay-wise. I don't believe Relic would just implement archaic controls and unit command system. I think they will go with controlling the whole squad, like in Company of Heroes game. I also think we will have really unique and different factions, but there will be less factions overall.
So yeah, this will be something different. Not "direct competition". It will launch in 2021 anyways :d
I'm hoping Relic can pull it off while making this not feel like a Relic game. Moving to squads would be a disappointing start to that imo.
With Crusader Kings 3 and new Knights of Honor coming in 2020 I wonder when this will be released.
Anyway - looking forward to it. More good RTS is what we need!
Anyway - looking forward to it. More good RTS is what we need!
Buncha clowns that have already forgotten Age of Empires Online. High color saturation does not equal cartoony!
The way the town in the video is set up suggests a much different way you build a town - streets etc may point to something a little bit more like Anno?
I hope they still handle everything a lot like aoe2 - with a modern coat of quality of life features of course.
I hope they still handle everything a lot like aoe2 - with a modern coat of quality of life features of course.
With it being medieval era i wonder how much they're going to change for the formular.
As it's been 15 years since the last new game i want it to remain oldschool, but simultaniously, if you stay too oldschool, you risk it being a glorified AoE2 Remaster/Remake, of which we already have two now.
As it's been 15 years since the last new game i want it to remain oldschool, but simultaniously, if you stay too oldschool, you risk it being a glorified AoE2 Remaster/Remake, of which we already have two now.
Holy crap this looks incredible.
From the trailer I don't know how they're going to balance it properly though, or it's gonna end up being just a visual treat and people will go back to just playing AOE2.
From the trailer I don't know how they're going to balance it properly though, or it's gonna end up being just a visual treat and people will go back to just playing AOE2.
People are dicks. This looks literally perfect and as good as anyone could possibly hope for.
I'm already starting to think about the randomness of AOE maps, and how the potentially the random vertically will effect games.
Isgreen mentions in the IGN Live video posted above that the Mongols are a more "extreme" example of a civilisation that offers a unique gameplay experience, so it sounds like each civilisation is going to have its own set of quirks that build upon the base formula in special ways.
The people who say this looks like a mobile game have never played a mobile game in their life. Watch the video at 4k and the level of detail you see there is far beyond what any other strategy game has. To the point that I'm wondering how well this will run.
This looks fantastic. Hope we'll see more of the destruction, effects and base building soon. I'm really happy with the era they've chosen.
I suppose they don't want keyboard + mouse only games on their console for now.
I suppose they don't want keyboard + mouse only games on their console for now.
Yep, there's some nice teasers in there and happy to hear a greater coverage of late antiquity hinted. As I mentioned AoE2 already dabbled in this a bit, but it was kind of a stretch.
Also he mentioned Relic travelled around the world to research each civ.
I know some people would have preferred a new period...but I feel like with the RTS genre having lay fallow for a long time, this is a good opportunity to revisit the Middle Ages. And a luxurious long period of time is better suited to AoE's "Ages", a concept that will hopefully be developed further.
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I agree. TW looks beautiful, but it ends up being blob on blob. AOE is more of a true RTS.
"AOE community"
Why wrap everyone in the same blanket? This thread alone shows there how much praise it's getting.
Yeah, the base building aspect is something I really want to learn more about. But what the trailer showed was really impressive already.
RIP original Ensemble's vision, this is sad.
Or good.
RIP original Ensemble's vision, this is sad.
naw fuck that dumb shit. nostalgia for some dumb game we never even saw is a new one.
RIP original Ensemble's vision, this is sad.
Nah, it's good.
I wonder how the development of this game is going, and how far it is. I expect them to show a bit more after so long.
I was kinda hoping they'd go into the industrial era, but this is alright too, I suppose. As long as it's a good game, there's nothing to complain about.
Welp, guess i know what im playing next year on my new PC.
Shit looks great.
Remind me of when I played total war for the first time on my friends old as Alienware, and was just blown away by how clear and clean everything looked.
Relic is the goat!!!
Shit looks great.
Remind me of when I played total war for the first time on my friends old as Alienware, and was just blown away by how clear and clean everything looked.
Relic is the goat!!!
Yes that's great news! Can't wait!
It will be time for me to build a new gaming pc by the time this releases.
I saw the XBoX logo so I assumed that this was coming to the console.
Xbox is the gaming brand. Xbox can mean PC, console or mobile. Microsoft is building more PC only games than Xbox only games at the moment.
Well age of empires is kind of a specific series to be honest. While Civilization has always been more popular, age of empires and total war series are kind of the goats for RTS.
And relic has a great track record for RTS games. Also Total war series has done a lot of similar stuff in the past couple entries. So it really clicks with people who love the Age of empire series.
But don't fret, we are here with you :)
RIP original Ensemble's vision, this is sad.
Relic did WW2 in the form of Company of heroes, even though it was no age of empires.
Yeah. ERA's RTS/Grand strategy community isn't as big as other places but we are here :)
ERA and the former GAF always felt like it has a primarily a console focus, tbh, so not really surprised that the mostly PC strategy genre isn't as big here.
