The problem is that otherwise it limits the historical periods that you can use and people will get tired of always using the same periods (antiquity, medieval and colonial)… I’m also curious how Relic would adapt an AoE in the 20th century, without having to become a CoH…
Maybe we should listen to Ian Malcolm: we are so worried if we can that we haven’t stopped to ask if we should
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no it wasn’t.
chariots need open ground which makes them easy targets for guns.
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But if a group of chariots are lucky enough to run into a line infantry formation, they could still hurt a lot of people.
While if a group of spearmen surrounds a tank, they could do nothing about it.
Wise.
Personally, I don’t like the idea of an AoE going past AoE3’s timeline. I don’t think it would feel very AoE to me.
AoEV is such a long way away I barely even think about it. All I know is I want Relic far away from the project should we get one. World’s Edge doesn’t inspire much faith in me.
I’d rather just ride the AoE3E train for the next decade than worry about AoEV. And yes, I know that is unrealistic
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There are several problems with this and I think that’s why in AOE-4 they decided to go back in the timeline instead of forward. A more modern age in my opinion would be incompatible with the saga. Why?:
Goodbye melee attacks. These would no longer make sense.
Goodbye to cavalry and the role of animals in war. I think people like this.
The villagers would be replaced by industrial machinery. It wouldn’t make sense for a worker to pick berries next to a nuclear missile or an aircraft carrier. I have been told that there are games like this, but I think that in AOE it would be better if it were not so meme.
Everything would be too industrial, and the resources would be others. Goodbye to wood for example.
Formations and attack modes lose relevance. This would lead to giving all units abilities like in StarCraft.
What I think is that the next AOE should be based on the mechanics of AOE-3, such as native allies and the standard creation of units in batches of 5 (At least).
I think they should rescue more mechanics from AOE-3 and AOM like. And make the maps more vigorous and full of life like AOE-3 does, but much better.
chariots where historically almost exclusively used as archer platforms.
and going by that logic a mortar hitting the top of a modern IFV or tank could also take those out, its just entirely unrealistic that will ever happen.
As long as there are empires, 4 ages with which to advance, tc and workers, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be an aoe…
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Age4 is called the age for noob. And it is right.
.it is an horrible age2 more easy to be played.
Whit few strategies, few micro, no need apm.
Age3 is amazing. But RTS are not a gamestyle who is actually reclamed by players.
Age3 is difficult to learn to play compared to age2 and age4.
Players now want to be good soon and whitout hands
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Light infantry that the sea people’s famously used was completely effective against chariots as they were able to maneuver and surround chariots which were very expensive for armies to make and maintain.
These surveys show that people prefer more archaic periods than more contemporary periods. I am not saying that an AOE with tanks is not good to play, but it is more romantic to set the game in the remote past.
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bueno sera opinion mia nada más y hablo por mi, pero el periodo de la edad media ya me tiene podrido xd, es que amigo literal hay novelas, peliculas, juegos, animes y un largo etc de cosas que sobreexplotan esa epoca y amigo seamos justos, cansa un poco, yo sinceramente votaria por un age ambientado del siglo XVIII Hasta a principios del siglo XX hasta finales de 1919 o incluso uno de la edad clasica con griegos y persas a flor de fuego pero con cualidades unicas como aoe 3
You’re right, but the Middle Ages are not the same as classical antiquity. I’m also tired of the middle ages if you ask me.
I didn’t explain that this is the time I would like to go back to, because I thought the polls would be self-explanatory. Most prefer classical antiquity. (Romans, ancient Egyptians, etc)
How about late antiquity? Like, Diocletian untill the rise of Islam
leyeron mi comentario completo? dije que incluso uno de la edad clasica con griegos y persas a flor de fuego estaria bien, pero con cualidades unicas como se ve en aoe 3 (para que no sean iguales o no tan iguales entre si xd)
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The problem is when they overexploit a historical period because it’s popular (cough cough the medieval by aoe 2 cough cough)…if aoe 2 didn’t exist, there would be a lot more people who would play aoe 3 and overexploit the colonial period like it happens with the cossack saga…
Sí,pero el tema es que precisamente esos aoe ya existen: aoe 3 (en sus ultimas tres edades) y aoe online (ambientado en la antiguedad con griegos y persas y demás civs con unidades,cualidades y habilidades unicas como aoe 3)…en la saga ya tenés 2 juegos en la antiguedad (aoe 1 y aoeo),2 medievales (aoe 2 y aoe 4),uno colonial (aoe 3) y uno mitologico (aom)…ya el proximo aoe tendrá que ser si o sí colonial (no creo ya que aoe 3 todavía se siente un juego moderno) o de un período posterior…
AoEO is your answer…
That is partly what the Return of Rome dlc and the campaigns of Alaric and Attila are for, the only thing that would be missing would be a campaign of Belisarius and one of the rise of Islam…
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Hmmm, i think that both sides have a point here, since , having played a lot of rts like cnc,coh and sc, i do agree that aoe will lose some of its charm by having it be more modern, like some people have said here, a lot of stuff that make aoe will have to be changed, (like melee attacks not being viable, villagers having to be reworked and horses also being really not viable with tanks) but like i said in a previous post here i think we shouldn’t follow aoe4’s foorsteps with aoe5 and go back to aoe1,since the ancient era has been done to death (aoe online, that is being maintanted by the community now, age of mythology retold, aoe 2 de new dlc on aoe1) so if we reallyyyy have to not go modern, exploring the time between aoe2 and aoe3 and a bit after aoe3 (like until 1860) should be done, though like i said in my opinion i think best case scenario for having aoe gameplay but with modern tech is to colonise planets in a sci-fi setting, sure it will ruin the “historical” aspect of aoe(i have seen a lot of people saying that aoe isn’t totally historically accurate, since that would be boring )but it will keep the "making a new empire " feeling.All in all i think if going towards ww1 is such a big issue ,they should at least not revisit the ancient times and if doing sci-fi is not an option either, revisiting the time period of aoe3 should be the best choice.
Yeah,but for that you already have AoE 3 DE…and AoE 3 DE i feels that is not outdated yet in a mechanical and gameplay level…i don’t want that aoe 5 being a worst copy of aoe 3 with generical History Channel campaigns and cannons without siege crew like aoe 4…the World Wars-Cold War setting in the AoE scale i feel that would be interesting and new (at least for the saga)…then in aoe 6 you can go to the far future and space age…and in aoe 7 (in 12-18 years) you could back to the ancients times…it for no burn the people with the same historical periods (with the DE editions is fine for now)…
yeah tbh i said going to aoe3 again is the best choice if you remove going to towards ww1 or sci-fi, since aoe4 was about medieval times. I don’t think aoe5 will do that again , so the remaining choices are going even further back from medieval times (aka towards the ancient times) or going after aoe2 ,but not touching ww1, and ,in my opinion but also the fact that aoe online,aoe1 dlc for aoe2 de and retold exist, aoe1 era has been done to death,so by process of elimination going back to the aoe3 era is the only good choice.However yes i do agree that aoe3 de is a pretty good game and there is no need for the new aoe game to compete with it, but when you eliminate everything else , there’s nothing left.
Yes, that is, there are no more options for that reason… There is already a lot of content in the saga set in antiquity today (AoE Online with the Indians, Return of Rome for 2 DE and AoM Retold), the Middle Ages will not return (because it is already AoE 4)…So there is only the colonial period (I could accept it only if they make good campaigns, but save it)…and then the twentieth century (of which Relic is an expert for doing CoH, but the issue is that it ends up looking a lot like the latter)… The same we are 4 years away for another AoE entry…
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