This game is inferior to its successor

[FloosWorld]

It’s funny because the OP from the thread you refer to meant AoE 4’s direct predecessor, aka AoE 3.

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@Therenegade30

Since I usually play COH I got interested and bought it, since they have developers in common. However I wasn’t very impressed, because Relic knows how to recreate scenarios and war conflicts very well, and I don’t see much of that in this game. I was even less interested in the series, until a friend suggested I try Age of Empires 3, which had a free trial.

I thought it would be more of the same, but what a pleasant surprise I got. I loved how the cannonballs shoot down troops, the naval battles, and all the things you can interact with on the maps, like the tribes. I didn’t know this game was so different from the others in the franchise, and that’s why I never got interested in it at all. I don’t know why this new version was designed to feel so hollow in comparison.

The Age of Empires series does not only consist of AoE 2 and AoE 4.