Until I can type H to have a villager build a house, my fingers will not permit me to play AoE4. That has nothing to do with nostalgia.
Would that AoE4 come remotely close to Age of Empires Online’s smoothness.
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It doesn’t matter how many vills you start with people play because they have fun. Also if everyone played because of nostalgia like you say they would be starting with 3 vill as standard. So you just proved that the game is still played because people enjoy it.
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That’s why I always believe for the sake of the game it is better to remove “age of empires” from its title. It does no harm only good and pleases everyone alike:
- The evil nostalgic players will no longer consider it as an AOE or compare it with AOE2. So they are more willing to try it out, get their minds blown away and ever return to AOE2.
- The developers did not need to refer to AOE2 a million times in the promotion, spend time implementing useless features like sp contents or color selection which only nostalgic players would need, and better utilize their resources for the competitive pvp which is the only important thing in the modern world.
- Poor little Relic and its fans will not suffer from this unprecedented level of negativity it has never seen before only because the game is called AOE.
Only with that the game will gain 70k constant players on steam, replace SC2 as the one and only esports RTS, become a required course for all history majors in US and the next national sports in Korea, get preinstalled in every PC in Vietnam, and live happy every after.
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They needed to do this to ride off of the success and fame of AoE 2 to get peoples attention and to try the game. AoE 2 is and will always be the king of the franchise, it is a legendary RTS game. Also notice what game got ported to XBox first.
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with that little humility I’m not surprised 18 years to see the number of villagers in each resource, now it makes sense 
I can loudly speak this out in every AOE2 forum:
- Not displaying villagers counts next to resources is an outdated design.
- AOE2HD not implementing this feature is an oversight and laziness.
Now your turn:
AOE4 taking a year to get color selection is an oversight and laziness.
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True, but you do realize that there was a button near the mini map that when clicked brought up how many farmers you had, builders, lumber jacks, miners, and also how many of each type of military unit archers cavalry etc this was as in the original CD version of the game. Also if you want to complain about that AoE 4 didn’t even have color selection on release.
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Good thing they put the colors in time because it was unplayable xd 
Relic, see it? People don’t need that.
Better spend your efforts on making pros defeat non-pros in 5min.
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No definitely not. The game is great on its own. There is no need to ride on the success of some old game who did not have modern features when released in 1999. The 70k players on steam came because the game is good. It has nothing to do with what it is called and how it was advertised.
In fact very few players of previous games stayed in this game because they were nostalgic. All existing players are open-minded new generation.
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Eed Bull wololo
why do they play Empires Wars? better let them enjoy a game of 95 hours
…countdown to censorship
Because they are nostalgic AND only willing to play the classic mode I guess?
And of course both the streamers and the viewers were torturing themselves in that video. Better be saved by the savior AOE4 where you beat a non-pro in 5min.
Countdown to the arrival of the great unbiased justiciar.
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Exactly as disgusting is dismissing everything new by appealing to the “golden days” of the past or “every old game is better”.
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Of course aoe2 is more popular than aoe4 because its nostalgic, that’s why aoe is more popular than aoe2 , or dota is more popular than dota 2 , or cs 1.6 is more popular than csgo… Oh wait…
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Yeah because all the people that are disappointed with AoEIV for one reason or another didn’t want the game to succeed at all after almost 20 years without a proper iteration in the series. All those set in their ways nearing retirement old codgers actually rooted against AoEIV from the very beginning.
Those pesky naysayers flooding this forum with constructive criticism ranging from siege lacking any punch to static chickens to missing basic features that took over a year to implement. But let’s ignore any merits they say about the game like masteries and biomes (those could be much better with more fauna) btw because the narrative is they simply hate anything new. Of course, the majority of those old timers say this stuff just to hate on the game and not because they want it to improve.
I don’t know about you but I find this unacceptable and downright embarrassing for a game that was released in 2021. I’d say this even if I loved the game. Thanks to @TheAchronic for the picture.
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I had to see constructive criticism well done and also destructive criticism (or disrespect) flooding the forum with alarming toxicity and a hostile environment at the time. That’s why other users chose to go to Reddit (or the official discord) and not interact on the forum. You just want to see the first few reviews and ignore the rest like they don’t exist, I see both.
When the PuP comes out, it will most likely open a comment thread and add whatever is necessary there.
P.S: Those of us who have been at this for years know that even if the game already has all the necessary tools for quality of life customization, graphics/textures/animation enhancement, and more SP content, the game will still carry a negative stigma like AoE3 was.
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not really annoying. they are just being tad immature imo. if they reply with nonsensical statement trying to avoid and address actual concern or replying repeatedly with something irrelevant, then you can simply just ignore them if you wish.
what other way to show them how wrong they are by presenting the stats mm?
I was sure reddit for AOE4 is definitely more toxic than forum. bunch of people there couldnt take any criticism at all. well they can continue enjoying a dying game.
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True!
They do not read to understand any criticism.
They flood in and downvote because they are closed-minded.
When I ask for a reason, they don’t have any.
And that illustrates how fake they are.
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