Yeah agreed. I also tweeted the relic this photo (gave you credit too 
) let’s hope whatever aesthetic they choose (it is gonna be this one, they’re in production phase now can’t go back), they actually do good job with it. It has pissed off less than half of the community already with its color schemes and what not. Let’s go play AOE 2 DE now!!
I have never played Spellforce. How many units can the player make? I wonder because that has a HUGE impact on how much detail the game can conceivably have before performance becomes an issue. Age of empires typically has hundreds of units at any given time. Comparing to Ashes of the Singularity might be more appropriate.
Detail is certainly important, but I don’t want to have to have an RTX 2080 just to play it!
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Easy, I don’t even have to look for another developer: Company of Heroes
Any can see that mr obvious. But still Disney relistic. No imperfection, is no realistic art style.
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I played a map with 8 players: 1000 units (190/200 for each player).
Your comparison is like comparing Lord of the Rings and Twilight, both are movies based on books.
But anyway, I don’t know how old are you, maybe the art style is correct for you, pg13…
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Why you are reply to me? Im saying this is for young, if you want to know 33 years old.
Totally agree with you. My only Hope Is this lack of details on models Is relating to pre-alpha stage and this video Is recordes on medium settings
Lol.
Better texture , better proportion. You get more realistic, this isn’t hyper realism, believe me.
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i don;t know how I feel about this it looks a bit too cartoonie in my eyes yes i know RTS can’t look 100% realisic but still i am hopful that the gameplay will be good there are hints that it may be but remember this is the same companu that braught you COH2 and DOW3 and they were less then steller. This if I am being honist looks nothing like AOE and that worries me it feels like the city in the demo was maid by the A.I what if we loose the City bulding complexaty?
An exampe: lets assume that you open up a new game obvously you first have to set up a city center you decide after that tobuld a few more villgers o you do that and reach your population cap but then ahous suddenly pops in to existance when you had not asked for it you try to build a farm it pops up wherever the A.I wants it.
This is what I ama frade of i feel we may get better warfare but the trade off may be city bulding lets hope this is not the case.
As an insisder I will be tryig the betaand if it’s not up to scratch I will call Relic/Microsoft out as lazy developers.
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@ Lionkanzentai
can you please tell from what game do you have is this screen shot ?
War Selection. Soul succesor of empire earth.
I see that a lot of people are complaining about the art style, calling it cartoonish and that the developers can “do better”.
First of all, I really enjoy the vibrant art style that some games are using recently. But there are also a lot of other considerations to take into account, when choosing art styles and having a consistent and optimised cartoony art style isn’t necessarily easier to accomplish than a more realistic one and furthermore it’s also a choice. It’s not about if their artists are “good enough”. From looking at this footage they clearly are and as some also mentioned, it’s still pre-alpha, so they will probably bump up fidelity before release.
Personally I hope they stay on this path, since I really enjoy the more vibrant art styles, although I can see the concerns about making building and unit types more clear for easier spotting, but I think they are going in the correct direction.
I’m very much looking forward to seeing more, especially how the other civilisations will look.
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It seems that many people don’t like the Graphic style.
So, as i said, It would be a problem Also for the sells. I Remember well AOEO.
I Hope this Is relating to pre-alpha stage and many details and High poly models are not included in this trailer.
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AoE4’s graphics are better than the images you posted.
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I agree with you. About the art style seen in the trailer engine Is really superb. Only thing i ask Is High polished models. More details on them and this game Will be great
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Taken from REDDIT
This is how the game looks with some desaturation and you can set it from settings.
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So far, it looks cheap and cartoonish than I always liked Age of empires, it’s like a work of art, really, beautiful, historically what its like, and if everything is in the style of Settlers or Majesty 2, the fools will accept it with joy, but not for long, as lovers will continue to play 2nd and 3rd parts of age of Empires, and by the way crowds of units in the Total War style it will be a complete failure, and this game then there will be neither associated with the Age of Empires.
I personally waited from Era Empires 4, standard, very beautiful RTS, roughly era Napoleonic wars and not further, Pro 1-defective world I would made a separate 5-defective part of, and Pro 2-defective world 6-defective part of, and Pro modernity, this already 7-I part of AoE.
Пока что это выглядит дешево и мультяшно, чем мне всегда нравилась Эпоха империй, это как произведение искусства, серьёзно, красиво, исторически, за что её и любят, а если все будет в стиле Settlers или Majesty 2, то дураки воспримут её с радостью, но не надолго, а ценители продолжат играть во 2-ю и 3-ю части Эпохи Империй, и кстати толпы юнитов в стиле Total War это будет полный провал, и эта игра тогда не будет ни как ни связана с Эпохой Империй.
Я лично ждал от Эпохи Империй 4, стандартную, очень красивую ртс, примерно эпохи Наполеоновских войн и не дальше, про 1-ю мировую я бы сделал отдельную 5-ю часть, и про 2-ю мировую 6-ю часть, а про современность, это уже 7-я часть АоЕ.
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The lighting effects is different from textures, or more polygons… Still cartoony unrelistic palette.
Horrible siege tower, is that kind realistic , lol
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