Honestly, I’m a bit tired of people talking like if gameplay and graphics were two opposed extremes of the same thing, only being able to excel at one at once.
I don’t hate the graphics we’ve seen, but the scale and poor detail in units and animations is a fact. Are you telling me that adding a bit more detail and improving animations is gonna affect negatively the gameplay? How in the world would it?
I understand it with the scale, for example. I would love to see a configurable option that can tweak it a bit, like between the XO19 scale and the fan preview one, but I understand this can be a little more unlikely to get. But the level of detail and animations of units… come on, it would negatively affect zero to the gameplay.
And please, please, please: stop claiming that if AoE II DE is doing really good with concurrent players means that worse graphics are better… that’s only a blatant nonsense that I don’t know how has become recurrent in this kind of discussion. AoE II DE looks absolutely impressive for a 2D game remaster, so it’s definitely not an example of super-simplistic graphics.