This topic on reddit said the devs confirmed on facebook that there will be NO AoE 1 campaigns in the RoR DLC.
Was it not supposed to be the fully package of AoE 1 going to AoE 2 ?? If this is true, the content of this DLC is absolutely small! You are paying again for AoE 1 for half it’s content!
I think I will refund my pre-order because my main reason to buy was to play the campaigns. (unless they promise to include later)
It’s sad, but maybe the reason why they don’t add them is that they don’t want to update them in later when some important missing civs will be added. Of course this won’t be an issue in all campaigns, but would be big problem with lot of original roman campaigns. So lets hope they will be added when some relevant missing civs will be added to the game.
I’m not surprised given how much of an overhaul would have been needed. Remaking them would have been much more than reworking The Forgotten campaigns for AOE2DE.
I am honestly fine with that. The original campaigns were…abstract at best and a chore at worst.
The AoE2 style campaigns are more evocative, and I am hoping this means we can see more campaigns in the future for Egyptians, Greeks, Yamato etc, that all follow famous people rather than abstract concepts.
Yes, another major difference is that most AOE1 campaigns span the length of an entire empire, the greek campaign covers Alexander in one single mission. While most AOE2 campaigns focus on one character with maybe its direct inheritance in the last 1 or 2 missions, allowing a greater focus on characters.
When I was a teenager, I didn’t like the AoE1 campaigns much, because they were weird and hard. I much preferred the campaigns in StarCraft.
I replayed the original AoE1 campaigns recently, and I really enjoyed them, because they were weird and hard. I also replayed the StarCraft campaigns, and they were kind of disappointing.
I don’t think the AoE1 campaigns would translate well to RoR though. To me, one of the improvements AoE2 made over AoE1 was that each campaign focussed on a single historical figure, giving a much stronger narrative and theme. I agree with the decision to make new campaigns for RoR rather than remake old ones.
Also, I guess someone will probably remake the old ones as custom campaigns anyway.
I mean, even if you wanted to have all campaigns again remade for RoR that would have mean practically redesigning an entire game… Not a dlc anymore but more like an aoe1 de… again.
It’s a little too much to ask for in 6 months and for the price of a dlc, given they had other projects to work on in the meanwhile I imagine.
And yeah I’m fond of aoe1 but campaigns could just be redesigned, maybe keeping some key element in scenarios, the general historical focus (which I don’t even know what was most of the times tbh) and small reminders but I don’t see the point in just porting them again as bare bones as they were, not even having triggers and narration…
The Reddit post says someone on Steam forums said the Devs said in some fb comments. That’s quite the chain. Personally would feel more confident in all this with direct link to the fb comments (or screenshot)
The thing is that they actually said earlier on some podcast that they are going to port all AoE1 content to AoE2DE, that should mean campaigns as well and now much later they confirmed nope there won’t other campaigns beside these 3 new one.
You’re right, they should have been more precise. All this dlc marketing campaign was not good for sure.
But I’m personally more curious to see the new campaigns, specially with triggers and narration, than another “greek glory” revamp and imagine how many new ones they can create like that…
Still everything about this dlc pre launch was pretty badly handled, not gonna lie.
) it is confirmed…
