So, the release of our great game is tomorrow, and I think everyone is excited. The hour X is coming, and it is necessary to say the last words before this event.
I have been watching this forum for a long time, I fought with local “experts” more than once, and so on, it was fun.
But today I want to make a request to the community, yes it is with a request, for me this is unusual.
I think most would agree that Relic and its companion studios have a fascinating RTS, the only major RTS in many years that should draw attention to the genre, there are simply no others, and that’s very important.
I think many would like a little more from the game, and today I want to ask people to show patience, yes, patience, give this game a chance, let the developers polish it without overwhelming the game with a brown tsunami, this has already ruined more than one promising project, I understand that many people itch in very different places, but this is a game, it is special … An analogy with a little deer is suitable here, he was just born and does not even know how to stand, if wolves attack him now, he will die. Let the fawn grow up, don’t kill it.
Almost all the problems of the game relate to visual details that are being fixed literally in the near future, if Microsoft actively patches the game, this will be easily solved.
I know, there will definitely be people who will write - “Well, I wanted siege teams” or “Well, I wanted graphics like in TW”, and so especially for these people. These are not problems or mistakes of the game, these are specifically your desires. Unfortunately, some of the desires of the local inhabitants are meaningless, or may even harm the game, such as siege teams, I understand that it looks nice in my head, but in fact you yourself will not like it.
Or someone could write “Why is my nation not in the game?” And why should it be? What should we do if all 2000 nationalities come to us and say they want to be in the game? All of them are important in their own way. The game is not going to be AoE 2, it is original, it wants to have a small number of developed factions.
I’ve also seen complaints like “The game is not realistic enough”, really? Age of Empires has to be realistic? This is literally a Civilization in real time, you have here the Huns ride in plate armor. Considering that the developers themselves said that they are making a “Solar Game”, I think everything is obvious with this claim, it is meaningless.
Further, someone wrote “I have played AoE 2 all my life and it is better”, but perhaps for a person who has warm feelings of nostalgia, AoE 2 will be better, but unfortunately for more modern players it does not fit, it is too old, and this not a single remaster will fix it. (Personally, I don’t like the fact that there is essentially one faction in the game)
Then I saw the complaint “The game is too expensive”, and this is the most powerful complaint of all. Yes, the game is not cheap to build, but look at other games? Battlefield costs $ 100, it’s crazy, but these are the current prices for games, they are growing. You will not play this game for a day or two, but perhaps for years or months, you buy emotions and entertainment. Yes, it is more expensive than remasters, but it’s obvious, remasters are old games, but they shouldn’t be expensive either, consider DE versions a Christmas present. (Hi Rockstar, what’s the price for your remasters?)
What I want to say at the end. This is a really good game, I enjoyed playing in the closed and open beta and I will be happy to play when it comes out, I hope a lot of people will enjoy the game and stay playing it for many many years. And to skeptics or haters, I want to say the following, give her a chance, she deserves it, not every year there are similar RTSs.
I am leaving this forum, my mission here is completed.
PS
Maybe someday after a couple of years I will come back here to remind of today, and show that I was not mistaken in my feelings, and AoE 4 has become the largest RTS on the market. May be.
PSS
Forgot to add) Look how cool the story campaigns are made, videos with real people, historical references … It’s very cool, the work done by the sound designers is beyond praise, it’s really very cool.
i am with you on this.