I wonder did they fired the crew who made Sultans Ascend dlc?
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kinda feels good to be abandoned as an aoe3 fan, at least weâre spared the slop other games are getting
âyou either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villainâ
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I like the new AOM content. They did a much better job with Chinese this time around than their old Chinese they replaced. AOM is grossly underappreciated. AOE2 Heros yeah thatâs not great, but I think they are just running out of ideas for AOE2. AOE1 is such a shame because itâs a great time period with a lot of potential. They should have kept updating AOE1 until it was great instead of abandoning it and then trying to bring it half-baked into AOE2. AOE3 feels the most outdated to me - itâs the one I have the least amount of fun with.
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How so? 
What makes it outdated for you?
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So much of itâs outdated:
- Home city shipments: AoEIV doesnât use anything resembling such outdated things at allâŠ
- Influence/aura unit systems: AoEIV doesnât use anything resembling such outdated things at allâŠ
- (Asian) Wonders to age up: AoEIV doesnât use anything resembling such outdated things at allâŠ
Also, the proportions! AoE3 is so outdated that the proportions of the units and buildings are almost realistic - how silly!
In all seriousness, outdated seems like the wrong term - I get that gameplay-wise itâs fairly different and probably not your jam, though Iâd say that thereâs a fair amount in that game thatâs forward-thinking enough to be syphoned into other AOEs.
Unit readability, silhouettes, obvious differences? Iâd say thatâs pretty outdated compared to AOEIV for newer players as itâs not as clear-cut/simple (and I mean that in a good way) to process.
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Civilisations II, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII all have their roots in the first Civilisation game, and indeed carry over a number of core principles.
That doesnât mean people canât find Civ I (or any other older iteration) outdated by comparison. Itâs an opinion. People have them. If I decided to post in the AoE III subforum every time someone mentioned IV in a bad light, Iâd never get anything done 
The purpose of my post wasnât to hate on AOE3 and trigger all the AOE3 fanboys. I actually enjoy all the AOE/AOM games. Iâm on a monthly rotation of all 4 games for online play with my friends (AOE2, AOE3, AOE4, AOM). My point on being outdated isnât so much the mechanics, like you said it has many great ideas that can work in an RTS (home city shipments, influence/aura, etc). My point was the game itself is not as polished/remastered as the others. The interface and graphics feel very early 2000s. The way you matchmake, loading screens, everything - you can tell they just put less effort into modernizing it than the others. Some of this is true for AOE2 and AOM, but it really stands out in AOE3.
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mmm no se a que te refieres, al menos yo e jugado el aoe 3 DE y ni de chiste tiene graficos de principios de los 2000, si quiera viste como se veia el aoe 3 original? ahora incluso se les puede ver las siluetas del rostro y bien definidos y parte de que aoe 3 DE aun tenga problemas, se debe principalmente a que loa abandonaron xd
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At least you can still play the game. I have not been able to since the early Nov update. Like many others I can not play the game due to âstuttersâ in the menu structures making the game totally unplayable. Their âfix patchâ is bullshit, makes no difference and their explanations make no sense, appears to be more politicians employed than coders! There has been zero feedback from the so called support team and Iâm pretty pissed off. A shocking service from a company that needs to be better!
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still amazed that you defended things like the editor and the things thta were broken and still. Also the state of the game is connected with the communitty desire i mean we got a lot of this kind of response like it were a ânegationâ back then. I can see you havent changed. expect more responses in the future
Iâm an active critic on this forum.
I donât disagree with the premise of each point. However, the title is simply wrong. The game has objectively been improved by almost every patch and we wouldâve been blessed for it to have been launched this way rather the way it was back then. My only massive complaint are variants in regards to content, I wouldâve preferred them to find a way to deliver regular civilizations instead.
Either way, the title is just objectively wrong. So much so that I insist you change it or just take down the post. The criticisms are fine, but they do not add up to your conclusion and instead, seem to be ragebaiting people into unproductive discussion.
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All I can say on this topic is:
We could have gotten
-Hungary
-Poland
-Spain
-Portugal
-Venice
-Switzerland
-Bohemia
-Denmark (Norway)
-Korea
-Dai Viet
-Siam
-Khmer
-Aztecs, Incas, Mayans (God forgive me)
and other truly unique cultures, but in return we got:
-The Warhammer Order in golden armor
-fantastic monks
-Joan of Arc (no comment)
-an 80-year-old elephant dynasty
-and other fantastic beastsâŠ
Maybe itâs time to put in the effort and stop looking for the easy way out?
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