I’m so disappointed, can’t believe they would add 3 ancient civs that are just literally the same people as the Chinese instead of actual medieval civilizations from the area, also Khitans also representing the Tanguts? What? It doesn’t make any sense
I mean, it’s literally worse than our worst case scenario predictions (3 actual civs + 2 of the Three Kingdoms with Chinese representing the 3rd)
I wouldn’t even be mad if the three kingdoms civs were not in ranked, but they are, this is way worse than Romans, they just don’t fit the period of the game AT ALL, with all the amazing MEDIEVAL civs yet to be added they do this
It feels like an April fools joke ngl, I want them to come out and say that this was a joke and that the Dali, Tanguts and Tibetans are actually the three new civs and the Three Kingdoms are 1000% a Chronicles thing
PS: The new update with the castles and elite units are amazing, but damn, the Three Kingdoms thing just spoiled the entire announcement for me, I can’t be excited and mad at the same time
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Welcome to Romans 1, Romans 2, Romans 3 and Romans 4. They’re exactly as bad.
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Disappointed as well that we got variants (thanks AOE4) but I’ll enjoy making cities in the scenario editor.
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Nope, they are WAAAAY worse, Romans are at least adjacent to the medieval period, the Three Kingdoms are 200 years before, they don’t interact with any other civ in the game because they literally are splits of a civ that already exist, but in the past, all of which only existed for 100 years
With Romans at least you can argue that they represent a different place geographically than Byzantines and Italians (which are based on north Italy), these civs are literally just Chinese in the past
I remember seeing the freaking Joan of Arc civ for AoE4 and thinking “I REALLY hope this doesn’t become a thing in AoE2”
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For me, Romans are half of the civs already present in the past having a burning town center in Dark Age somehow being a fully playable civ being able to reach the Imperial Age facing their grandsons. Romans never belonged in this game at all. For some reasons, some gamers are fan of them, but it’s not like they’re already present in tons of other games. To be honest, I would have preferred to see Vandals with Return of Rome instead of Romans if you really want to add an early medieval civ with the AOE1 game mode, though the DLC probably should have been called Wrath of the Vandals or something like that instead should this have been the case 11
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And as you say, the Romans had interactions with many other civilisations in the game. Besides the fact that they cover not only Italy, but the whole of Romanised Europe.
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Hear me: next DLC will be Octavius, Anthony and Lepidus “civs” on ranked.
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Ehy don’t give them any ideas!
I also thought we agreed that the next DLC would be to add the Genovese, Milanese, Florentines and Neapolitans. Obviously leaving the Italians in place.
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NOT A BIG THING but they just changed the Mayans to Maya and Incas to Inca YET aren’t giving the Slavs the same treatment.
People would be really against that idea up until yesterday.
But now that they not only opened the Pandora’s box but also smashed it onto the ground, these all sound brilliant now —— at least they are medieval.
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And the Three Kingdom civs cover a huge chunk of China which is huge. I really don’t understand people defending Romans yet hating on 3 Kingdom civs. They’re literally the same in not fitting in terms of time scope, just in another region. Be consistent at least.
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3 chronicles civilisations, but not in chronicles. 2 new civs without a campaign, and still no campaign for either Chinese or Koreans. This is just a dumb joke, or I have no idea what was the thought process of those in charge of this abomination.
It would have been much better if we got “just” 2 new civs, Chinese rebrand, and 4 new campaigns instead (for those 2 new civs, and for the long awaited Chinese and Koreans…They could have even used up the demo Kaesong for that…)…alas.
Victors and Vanquished, Chronicles, and now this. Couldn’t be more disappointed (and I must be a significant minority, given that I loved the Mountain Royals, Return of Rome (albeit without all the campaigns), and strongly disliked Chronicles…)
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I was sort of hoping that this DLC would be the point of explosion of aoe 2 in China and lead to massive sponsorship and increased eSports activity. Too bad they did something stupid again in representing people’s history inaccurately yet again.
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Again, at least that would make SOME sense, the Three Kingdoms are way worse because they are BOTH anachronistic AND small political entities, and the ones you mentioned at least lasted for more than 100 years
Okay, Romans are bad, I would preferred Vandals too! But compared to this they aren’t that bad, they actually interact with other civs in the game (Huns, Goths, etc.), they are way closer to the time frame, they lasted more than 100 years and it’s just 1 civ and not three (also again, I could argue that they do represent Central Italy instead of Northern Italy which is Italians or Southern Italy that is Sicilians, but that is a stretch)s
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