[Suggestion for Age of Empires V] – Europe at War + New First-Person View Feature
Hi AoE community! I’d like to share an idea I have for a potential Age of Empires V — one that offers a fresh experience while keeping the spirit of the series alive.
Concept Name:Age of Empires V – Europe at War
General Overview:
This new title would focus exclusively on the European Middle Ages, featuring iconic civilizations such as the Teutons, Vikings, English, French, Polish, and others. It would highlight legendary historical battles like the Battle of Grunwald, Hastings, and Tours.
Main Features:
100% European medieval setting
Only European civilizations, with deeper cultural, military, and technological distinctions.
Historically grounded campaigns with greater narrative depth.
New mechanic: First, Third-person mode (campaigns and skirmishes only)
At any moment during gameplay, the player could switch from the traditional top-down view to a first-person perspective, controlling a selected soldier (inspired by games like Mount & Blade).
This would allow players to command troops, explore cities, or engage in battles from ground level.
Activated via a key combination and switchable at any time.
This feature would be limited to single-player modes (campaigns and skirmishes) to avoid affecting competitive balance.
Smooth cinematic camera transitions
A seamless and immersive transition between strategic overview and first-person view, with full unit and camera control in both.
Why this would work:
This idea blends the classic strategic gameplay of AoE with a new layer of immersion. It lets players not only command history — but experience it from the ground. It could be a new direction for the franchise without losing its identity.
Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear what others think and if anyone else would enjoy a feature like this.
It makes zero sense to have a first person mode in a rts game other than wasting like half of the budget.
The models aren’t high rez enough and usually optimized for performance and clarity in a rts so it would just look bad in first person.
Also there’s no point to limit only to europe, it doesn’t mske it better.
Age 5 could go back to Renaissance/dicovery era like age 3 but with more modern mechanics (so without the deck building and with dropoff point).
But i think they better focus on age 4 dlc for now as it’s probably too early for a new age game. Still a lot of missing civ and game modes that could be added.
It should have also drop off resource gather type.Units should switch to meele like the aoe3 and shouldnt have snare effect like aoe3.If its going to focus on middle ages they can add those civs to aoe 4.It should be at the same age period as aoe3.
No, please…not medieval again…it has to be colonial/early modern or modern…
Sure, I think the same… if AoE Online was and is in ancient times and AoE 4 is medieval, AoE 5 would have to be colonial/early modern (16th-19th centuries) or modern (20th-21st centuries)…
The closest thing currently available is photo mode. I don’t think it requires much innovation for that. I also don’t see why it’s controversial if it’s not part of the gameplay as he suggested.
That depends on what you’re looking for as a player. In SC-2, there are arcade minigames, which transform the game into a 2D format, and the community lets its creativity run wild. Imagine you have a first-person minigame that involves killing zombies in a forest.
you seriously want another medieval game? lol and a european exclusive one?
please try mount & blade and Manor lords like others mentioned already. you will love these games. This suggestion is not going to happen in this franchise for the next 15+ years
Please no.
Just make AoE V on Antiquity or Early Modern Era Period (as a spiritual successor of my beloved III)
Im tired of Medieval AoE, I just get enough with II and IV
