A good example for tactical pause would be Total War Series, where you can pause the game and assign units what they should do.
Online games usually have only one speed. Look how similar they are, all clear too see and tell apart, but too fast to manage. To be fair AoE Online isn’t the only RTS where fast speed had a “subconscious” negative effect on the player base. We have seen 1to1 same by DoW3 or Red Alert 3 and many other RTS. Sure you can see and identify the units. But a lot people rather have a problem, it’s all so fast they just can’t keep up to give units in time their orders.
Look in any AoE lobby, if it’s possible, there are many people play on slow and medium speed.
I agree.
But sure they have to show something more, spend 60$ and don’t know what you get…
So you cannot have impressions about gameplay, sound and so on until you buy it?
It’s a product, and as for everything before to buy it, you evaluate if it’s worth buy it.
Hi dude, i liked your video about AOE4’s graphic and i made a thread on this aspect some months ago. I totally agree with you and as i often said in different threads many people were expecting something different from the next AOE isntallement: aN AAA RTS with huge investments.
The main problem Is not the graphic style, colorated or not but the lack of details, textures, animations. I made the example of the next Settlers game: a colorful RTS with an amount od details on terrains water and units. Looks stunning. Many people were waiting for something like this and After seen how beautiful AOE3de Is: AOE4 had to been much Better than this, imho.
Of course you have a first impression as with almost all things, but that shouldn’t be the core of my statement.
I just wanted to get to the point that nowadays almost everything is judged far too quickly even though you don’t really know any deeper details… thats all.
To be fair, I think people simply have meanwhile bad association with such graphics like too fast game pace. I think main issue, is you kind of get people to test who are good at play the game, especially play it online and there you open a Pandora box. As a result, is tended to be fast-paced. Maybe too fast?
There is a game out there, that proofs AOE online graphics are not the main issue. As it looks pretty similar, but is slower paced, Northgard. Game from 2018 Over 3000 people online right now.
Another interesting video from this guy. Definitely worth a look even if you disagree with the “other” side. A better product is a win-win for everyone. I know a delay is inevitable.
I don’t understand why/how you are comparing it to Forza Horizon 4 or 5 and why do you think Forza Horizon is worth $60? Because of high fidelity graphics? For me it is not worth the money, because it’s not what I want from a car game (to roam around an open world for no reason or to do silly objectives). For others it might be exactly their cup of tea.
Coming back to AoE4, you need to judge whether AoE4 excels in the things that have to do with an RTS. You can put graphics into that as well, of course, if they are important for you (they are important for me as well, but not the most important by far). But for the rest of it, we don’t know much about it yet. However, from the bits of info we have so far, I sure know there’s way more content and proper RTS features than lets say Iron Harvest, which was almost $60 as well.
Sure, I guess we could say if enough work has been put into it to warrant a $60 price tag, and from what I’ve gathered so far, I think it does. But I have to see the execution of its many different parts as well, IF there are indeed “many”, and I will be among the first to criticize if the game turns out to be lacking.
Yes aoe was always goofy, but at the same time it was heading towards serious
It was the beauty of it, the hidden goofyness
But now its just full out clown show…
Good video. I’m with him on the graphics, the boats rolling around on top of the water, the goofy arrows, the torches that bend in flight. None of this is acceptable in 2021.
Full clown show was AoE Online, without exaggerating at all. That is actually the perfect wording for its graphics. But AoE4? Come on…
Btw, regarding vanity (you folks mean skins, right?), there will be modding possibilities so people will just make mods with those, and plenty of them. It’s unbelievable to me that in the era of monetizing fully priced games (micro-transactions) and the massive outrage and backlash this attracts, some people here want AoE4 to be monetized like that. Andy, Im looking at you, mate
No, I wasn’t talking about using mods to fix the game, obviously things that really need fixing have to be fixed, I was talking about MTX for skins just for the sake of it when we could have these from mods.
