If you play both which do you prefer the graphics on?
And which do you prefer to play and why?
All comments welcome.
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AoE4 by a long shot.
I don’t think AoM looks bad, but I think it’s something about the way units move or something that just feels off.
And controlling units feels so clunky I can’t hardly stand multiplayer.
I had fun with the campaigns in AoM though.
I prefer AoM graphics and gameplay wise. But AoM at the moment probably has massive balance issues. AoE IV is mainly designed to be a multiplayer game. AoM has great single player content.
Edit: I only play team games in RTS. Both have great team games. AoM is personally slightly better in my opinion in terms of chaos.
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Graphics-wise I don’t really care.
For playing, I prefer AoM at the moment. I’ve played a lot of AoE4 and it’s novelty has worn off a bit. The reveal that we’d only be getting variants in the next DLC also left a sour taste in my mouth.
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Honestly as a Delhi enjoyer I was super hyped to see Delhi getting a variant. But then read into their design and was just… meh… I don’t why do they mess up their variant civs this bad. none of them feel good to play I enjoy none of the DLCs I purchased.
AoM is basically variant civs but they feel A WHOLE LOT BETTER to play. and I don’t mean balance wise. I mean fun wise. Like woah playing Fu’xi is a blast and also playing nuwa feels fun.
But in AoEIV I’d always perfer abbasids over ayyubids. Ayubids are just boring abbasids in my opinion.
In terms of graphics, from best to worst:
AOE3DE
AOMR
AOE2DE
AOE4
Aside from being 3D, there’s nothing to say about aoe4 graphics. It’s one of its biggest criticism.
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Both have their own looks so there are upsides and downsides to both.
AoE4 has real HDR support unlike AoMR (or AoE3DE) but AoMR (and even AoE3DE) has higher quality assets.
AoE4 is generally technically better but worse in art direction.
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This is a common misunderstanding due to the confusing way HDR works on windows. All 3 games are equally capable of HDR.
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Graphics of AoM
Gameplay of AoE IV
Thats all kid!
Yeah exactly, in terms of Chaos and unexpected things all around the map AoM is way better than AoE IV
The God Powers give the game fun and variety!
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Just to clarify, games don’t use real HDR for performance reasons. HDR frames require 16 bits per pixel, which doubles the memory bandwidth for GPUs over the standard 8 bit for SDR. Instead, games will use pixel shaders to map the input 8bit to 16bit fp output.
The OS automatically detects the output frame format and switches on HDR if the display hardware also supports it.
All 3 games use this trick, and it is used by virtually every game, with various levels of success.
Also since God powers can be used for allies it opens up lots of fun interactions with team mates.
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A bad mix of lightning, colour, saturation, contrast plus very small textures and atrocious unit/building scale ratio make it very weird!
i think gameplay wise its a toss up, i only pick AOM because its controls aren’t delayed like they are in aoe4
as for graphics, the winner is clear, while i do think aoe3 DE and aoe2 DE win in terms of detail by a mile, AOM retold still stays in tow and once effects like ray tracing are considered its a step up (only held back by old AOM’s art being based on limited poly counts of original game)
as for age of empires IV graphics, i think the quote from winterstarcraft’s review describes it best
“Age of empires IV has graphics”
thats about how confident i am in its visuals, ig combo of bad art calls and essence engine’s ancient rendering pipeline wasn’t suited for year 2021
age 4 does however win easily in the sound design department, that side is excellent
I prefer playing aom retold,it is “more fast and fun in my opinion” also it is nostalgic and graphics are fine.
I played aoe4 a lot and enjoyed it but with the release of the lancasters I quit playing.Now they are going to give us another 4 variant civs.I will get back to playing aoe 4 when they make one of those “danes,polish,spanish,aztecs”, long story short a new civ.At first I liked the variant civs but they made a lot of variant civs that I cant enjoy the game anymore.I feel like I am playing the same civs altough they have new mechanics.Also I am an ottoman player and I like using jans but only thing they are good against is cav I was expecting them to be the one of the strongest gunpowder unit but they are the weakest one they are weak against ranged attacks and if you dont kite even spearmen can take them down you need crossbows or cannons but producing cannons costs a lot and you have to be at the age 4.Jans main role is to protect your archers or siege weapons which makes them passive or boring “according to me”.Ottomans need and update or armor piercing gunpowder unit “in my opinion”.
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