Germany became an empire because of Hitler, he crafted that empire. Supported the way The Third Reich operated is supporting Hitler.
Sorry if I was misunderstood. I do not support either Hitler or what he did. But I do support the fine people of Germany. They were intelligent enough to bring a small nation almost to global domination in a few short years.
Like I said, Hitler was the one who crafted the Third Reich, it had nothing to do with the German people.
OK, I will let it go at that. We can discuss history whenever we want. AOE is all about history. It wakes it up for us.
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AOE4 has been affected by the players of AOE2, it is only AOE 2+2,
There is no evolution of the times, no tanks, no machine guns, and no bombers.
The greatest success of the work is to remake the content of AOE2 again.
The biggest failure of the work is that the name is called AOE4
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I do not think its related to âboring timelineâ cossacks and total war did work there pretty well.
Its actually more related what developer make out of the game.
But why would we need AoE gameplay in WW1/WW2 timeline? I mean itâs not like it wasnât tried before like with Empire Earth or Rise of Nations, but even there the people preferred Middle Ages.
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I think thatâs actually cool. It means the the development company behind the game is really taking playbase advice/feedback seriously. Iâd say thatâs a very positive thing. Thereâs nothing wrong with multiple games set in the same era. There are other franchises doing the same and produce successful and fun games. No reason why AoE canât do that.
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i personally find it boring in sense of age of empires, the game was built up with horseman, swordsmen and archers in mind and going further like ww1 or victorian age will have radically change the game from tank and machineguns to airplanes to base building (which honestly believe it will boring since i donât how could make a beautiful city in ww setting) and those will have to radically change the game core mechanic which at the end will not feel like an age of empire game aside from hurry! we are in the third age!
i personally finds that ancient and medieval setting have charm that no other setting has, because i always find it fun to have wide variety of units from spear to archer to swords to knights etc etc etc and the counter units are always fun and engaging compared to tank, machineguns, airplanes and artilleries
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Portugal literally had the first GLOBAL Empire.
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Dev choose Medieval period because it is the most requested and beautiful period for many peoples in general, not necessarily just because of the AOE2 success , just look how this period is requested the most in many games like for example in Total War.
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When people think of Medieval they mostly think of Late Medieval. I think thatâs what AoE4 will focus on, like AoE2 already did. Between Late Antiquity and High Middle Ages there is barely anything in AoE2.
The late Middle Ages have some advantages as a setting. The world was split up in a lot of smaller countries compared to later times but we also have a lot more documentation of a lot of places in the world.
The earlier half of the Middle Ages is barely documented in West Europe.
The second half of the Middle Ages also has the Mongoles that connect Chinese with European history and before that the Crusades that connect Europe with the Middle East.
Renaissance is also a part of History that AoE barely touched so far.
AoE2 ends in the lade Middle Ages were gunpowder weapons were still primitive while AoE3 already starts with Musketeers with Bayonets that only really appeared after the 30 years war.
Renaissance would allow more gunpowder units while also allowing other unit types like the rise of two handed swords in the period. At the same time old weapons like the Longbow were still used till the time of the end of the 30 years war (English civil war).
On the other end of the world it would also include the famous Sengoku period in Japan or the hight of the Ming empire. Also donât forget the Ottomans, Mamluk Sultanate, Vijayanagara Empire or the rise of the Mughals.
Including the Aztecs and Inca would also make more sense, but I still have to feeling we need to wait for an Expansion for them.
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I think itâs fine the AOE 4 is a âsequelâ to AOE 2 I mean itâs been done by other franchises. Total war for example has Medevial 2, Rome 2, Shogun 2.
Also people love AOE 2, so thereâs only so many changes that will be made to that game, while there are lots of interesting mechanics to explore that AOE 2 can never have. As theyâve already said, the game will have more focus on siege, which is very exciting I think. They can create a Medeival RTS with focus on siege and more realistic battles which might be a lot of fun to play.
AOE 2 was a huge success, and I still play it every day, but it can never evolve into having more focus on battle tactics/micro then it does now, because that would change the game that it is, which is a game many of us love.
In other words AOE 4 has a chance to do something new with the timeline using the developments that have been made in gaming in that 20+ years since AOE2 was released.
I get it, some people wanted tanks and planes, and honestly a fifth game with a time frame of 1800 - 1950 could be amazing, I wonât deny that. But AOE 4 also doesnât rule that out.
I agree, but other conquorors from earlier times were not much different. But those we are cool with lol. its just cause he is in recent memory. if you hate one gotta hate em all.
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No, devs chose Medieval period, because aoe2 is the most popular by far. They just want to get lots of $$, milk the players and destroy the community.
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Returning to the easiest timeline to reboot the franchise is milking the players and destroying the community, but wanting 48+ civs for AoE2, hence splitting the community is fine. Gotcha
Please name them, I doubt that people are âcool with themâ if they were similar to Hitler or Stalin. I donât know many people that committed mass genocide(Hitler and the Holocaust especially) and people are âcool with themâ
Other than communist China of course, the world is just blind, or ignores that
Atille the hun responsible for 40 million deaths
Genhis khan, another 40 mill
julius cease, 2 mill
list goes on.
But because we arent within 100 years of those people we see them differently.
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Thatâs pretty much what hey have been used for in real life. Throwing small rocks onto enemy formations. Most medieval âSiegeâ weaponry was pretty damn ineffective in breaking down fortifications and rather was anti person weaponry.
field artillery first became normal with the invention of the cannon.
I donât see many people saying," Attila the Hun? Oh yeah, what a great guy! Oh, and Genghis Khan? Heâs my role model."
Do you?