Now you’ve done it Those are fighting words for many of the aoe 2 fans here
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Before playing I game, I need to have a interest in that particular game. for instance, I never played fornite, because It looks cartoony, I will never play age IV if they release the game with cartoon graphics. I don’t need to play the game first, I can watch and if there is some interest then I can play it and test.
Well there are still people that love DOW3, they have the right to do it, but call it a success well…
First off, there are barely any Triple A RTS games, secondly, what RTS games do you know that had a f2p model and succeeded?
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what have i just read
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anyways, its not the artstyle what makes aoe4 such a low tier game
its the lack of quality and the use of very old technology
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I’d rather play a game that has the worst possible graphics and have a great time playing it for years and years than play the game with the best graphics available and drop it like a hot potato within a few months
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Btw, AoEO is another proof that RTS dont work as free2play. Andy can tell you more about it. So not only has it not made enough profit from big MTX like new civs, nevermind skins. But one of the things people don’t get is the negative shock it created the moment it was announced it would be free. I know because I was there. Age fans couldn’t take it seriously when they found out it didn’t cost any money, they regarded it immediately as something cheap just thrown there, while people alien to the franchise disregarded it even more. The style of graphics didn’t help either, but that’s another discussion.
Now when people hear AoE4 is $60 they expect a product worthy of an AoE true successor (whether it delivers, we shall see), if it was free it would have had the same yawn impact as AoEO.
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they just did it the wrong way
and the game was awful looking to begin with
in my opinion at least
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We know that they are using essence engine created for Company of heroes (2006), that engine doesn’t get along with multicore CPUs. I don’t understand why they didn’t create a new engine for age IV.
Age of empires Online failed because it is cartoon, is the reality even if Andy thinks it is for a different reason 
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its not how the graphics are
its how the whole game feels
smooth, fun, enjoyable
this can be done with bad graphics, but its 2021 and aoe4 looks like a downgrade from aoe3…cmon…
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Totally. I think a free to play model would not work in this franchise and there’s no reason to relearn that all over again. AoE4 needs to dazzle the world at launch. There is no second chance. There is no fix it later. When I hear Adam Isgreen say things like they’ll keep working on naval until it’s perfect even if that is after launch, I think many players hear that as the testament to perfection that he intended those words to mean. But I hear that as a scarred AoEO player as a signal that AoE4 may play with the same fire that burned us last time.
We need a complete game on October 28 that deserves all the praise in the world.
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No, it failed because of microtransactions
Which you have been told multiple times yet are too ignorant to comprehend it
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So Microsoft/Relic in their imagination say, lest use the lowest posible graphics settings so people with intel integrate graphics can play. Then, people with video cards and decent computers look at age IV and they don’t buy the game because of its old, ugly cartoony graphics, ironic.
They can make a enhanced graphics DLC (free) for the people who don’t like the graphics. It is that simple. But they won’t do that if you don’t let them
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And because it was exclusive to GFWL. And Pay to Win. And two civs at launch with no freaking way to skirmish the AI.
There’s a gazillion things it did wrong at launch. All window dressing masking a beautiful game Ive played daily for the better part of 10 years. But holy cow are there lessons to be learnt from AoEO - both bad and good.
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Aoe4 gameplay reveal was probably the most disapointing things ive seen in gaming history
At least empire earth 3 had working arrows from the start
Im sure that video made many people nope out and look away from that franchise
A miracle would need to happen for the game not to flop
Oh no… I just asked many of my friends that told me that those cartoon graphics are u know… cartoon, also if you go to any age of empires community people will tell you the same… There are people that don’t like childish graphics/animations that’s the reason many people prefer diablo, grim dawn etc over torchlight
That is why it still has a playerbase that is growing. Because of “cartoon” graphics. Just goes to show that most people prefer gameplay over graphics
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It is false to put it that way. It is like saying Unreal engine was created for the first Unreal and Unreal Tournament 99 and now it is obsolete.
Nope, just like Unreal, Essence engine has had many itterations so far, the one used in AoE4 will be the 5th if I recall correctly and they mentioned they reworked very core aspects especially for AoE4.
Oh, I have played DoW3, which used Essence 4, and while I didnt like the game, damn technically it was almost perfect, very smooth and well optimised.
I don’t know about that, well those are good arguments, but I never touch that game you know why? It never interest me, it looked childish… there are many people that don’t even bothered installing AOEO… glad you managed to test it.