As always, AOE3 civs take longer to make. Campaigns, on the contrary, take relatively less effort and still introduces more content to the game. Not to mention there isn’t a large number of campaigns in AOE3 right now, and most are fictional. Also there are still several civs that are not visited in the campaigns, and a lot of assets in the game that can be directly re-used.
I’d like to see a campaign pack that contains either 2~3 full-length campaigns or a collection of unrelated battles, even a paid one.
Completely agree. While it is more difficult to create campaign content for fully 3d content (to a degree) I would absolutely pay for more many campaigns just like aoe2 got as has been mentioned. I would also be very pleased if they would update the content the aoe3 campaigns already have such as adding the new USA faction to the original aoe3 campaigns which actually had the USA as a playable faction. Really weird to see the act 3 campaign use a pseudo custom “faction” when there is a time period accurate faction currently available to the game. Same goes for having campaigns for revolutionary nations.
Not having a proper campaign is one of the primary tragedies of AOE3. If DE added at least three historical campaigns from the European point-of-view it would truly make DE the “definitive” version of AOE3.
I would definitely prefer if the African expansion came with campaigns for the French, Dutch and Portuguese rather than campaigns for the African civs.
I would prefer if they added new campaigns for the new civs of the DLC myself. Which is why I was sad the Aztecs didn’t get a campaign in TWC, and that DE didn’t have Inca and Swedish campaigns.
They could have atleast added more historical battles including an Inca and a Swede battle scenarios during launch to promote the two civs and act as the “tutorial” for those civs.
Yeah campaigns don’t really have much replayability value. And scenario designers can create many content if they just provide us with new civs, units and graphical content.
In my opinion instead of giving us some random event challenges, it would be much more awesome if they add new scenario to historical battle section in each new update.
A campaign usually needs a base civ the player plays with, although this civ is usually less then a normal civ combined with the campaign, story writing, balancing and making everything work Im pretty sure 1 campaing takes longer then 1-2 civs.