What is there’s gonna be Chinese of stuff for Age of mythology retold in tokyo game show 2024
If it is going to be there, which I don’t know, I couldn’t find anything connecting the Tokyo game show and AoM Retold, it would likely be to reveal the announced China DLC. Which would probably be way too early.
The Chinese DLC is supposed to release this year so I don’t think it would be too early.
It’s not like they just started working on it, I’m pretty sure it was already largely done when AoMR released.
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If it was done by then, why not release it alongside? Doesn’t really make much sense to me.
I’m sure they had already started before the release of Retold. But I don’t think they’re done. Otherwise, why hold back? How does that make sense?
You hold back to increase demand so you have higher sales. Not complicated.
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They have mentioned Chinese being developed mostly alongside rest of the game few times in interviews.
But even the game itself took a lot of time to make, I think Hagrit mentioned, when he actually got onto the project: interview/QA with him Simple answer, why hold back ? Because it was impossible to reach targeted release date. AoTG is victim of it as well, it was moved back.
They just have to work on multiple features/content in parallel, otherwise you would wait for months for simple patches and years between content releases.
You can also look at the AoM Retold credits, there is more than 6 studios working on it, each studio is responsible for something different and some work on main branch, others on future branches.
Game development and in general software development has it almost impossible with predicting how much time it will take to develop anything, even simple thing. There is always some unexpected and unpredictable issue that can happen…
I’m not saying I think they’re just getting started. I also assume they’ve been working on it for a while already.
But if they’re done, like, they’re finished, why wait no idea how long to release?
I can understand if they want to do a marketing period, but in that case, we should have seen trailers and screenshots ages ago.
Normally trailers and screenshots that are representative of what the finished game will look like can be produced months before they’re done.
Simply don’t put stuff that’s not done yet in front of the camera, and cut bugs and glitches from the footage.
Even if it has been in development for a large portion of the time AoM Retold was in development, and they are nearing the finish line, it doesn’t mean they’re there yet.
Stuff like that has a lot of prerun and they need time for balancing, polishing and localisation.
The campaign has to be feature complete before they can start recording the voices in all languages. All of that takes time.
So if they plan on releasing it this year and not at the very end of December, then they would have to be mostly done with the core elements of the DLC a few months ahead of time.
Another reason why I think the Chinese are already mostly done is because I think they originally planned to have them be included in the base game and only relatively recently decided to leave them out so they can focus on getting the core 4 civilisations ready.
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Game development and in general software development has it almost impossible with predicting how much time it will take to develop anything, even simple thing. There is always some unexpected and unpredictable issue that can happen…
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I gotta explain that to my clients at work all the time. It’s annoying.
Balancing, polishing, localisation can be done during the marketing phase.
If the campaign isn’t done, I don’t see how this could be considered done.
Maybe we have different concepts of “done”
I highly doubt they tried to include them in the base game. With how nearly universally hated Tale of the Dragon was and still is, the absence of the Chinese was actually a selling point for the base game.
They would have lost quite a few buyers, had they decided to include the Chinese, even if they’re totally different and remade from the ground up.
In the first teaser, there’s also no hint of the Atlanteans. So they may even have considered removing them…
What I can imagine is that they originally wanted to release the Chinese DLC alongside the base game, like with the Freyr Pack.
Edit: Oh, “Mostly”. Now I get it. Sorry. I completely missed the “mostly” in mostly done, and thought you meant fully done. My mistake.
no problem
I do think they kinda struck a good balance by practically including them in the base game but not doing so on paper.
If the Chinese would not be there on release and would not be promised as a free DLC for Premium Edition owners then a lot of people would feel like they are getting less then with the Extended Edition.
None Definitive Edition has did remove any of the previous Expansion or DLC content, only replaced some of it with better content.
So this is the first time we get less then before, and we even pay more.
Yes, and normally, looking at this information without the context, we’d all complain, and rightfully so. But with the Chinese in Tale of the Dragon, with the quality it had, I haven’t seen a single soul complain. If anything, I’ve seen people cheer.
Some People complained, even some reviewers complained that Chinese are part of Premium Edition/DLC…
I think Tokyo game show 2024 there have AOMR news,excited!
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Is there a high quality version of the trailer uploaded anywhere yet?
It’s not on the official Age of Empires youtube channel yet.
currently not . Steam page is also not online yet
The stream recording is very bad quality on youtube and you can’t even link a time stamp because the stream is still live.
I guess we’ll have to wait a little.
But that confirms my suspicion that the Chinese were already almost done by release but they decided to delay them so they can focus on the 4 old civilisations.
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