There is no point in comparison, age lll owns age IV graphics by a lot!
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Age lll is not more popular than age 2 for the simple reason that age ll is set in the medieval timeâŠ
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Including, but not only on this, this is only the top of the iceberg.
you could literally use the old tetris engine and put 3D 4k blocks with ultra realistic textures on top with some additions. Age 3 already had 3D models, they just need to be updated and some coding edited.
i only hope for the water fix. rest will be amazing, it already looks great.
This is of course not true at all. Are you deliberately distorting reality or do you really believe what you say? Open your eyes and look at the models of units, buildings and other objects, they are angular, they still look like something old and made more detailed. I donât argue that this is a beautiful game, but it doesnât look the way you present it. To this I add my words about the specific gameplay.
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In fact, this proves once again my words that the RTS looks good enough only from above, because as a top view AoE 3 DE works well, if you do not look at the models they look really good, namely from a height you will be looking at most of the time. the game.
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that is still entirely up to personal preference.
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its a remaster or remake from last year. and it actually does NOT have better graphics, but different ones.
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Waters, effects, Building, terrains are Better. My videos explains this very well: itâs a gameplay video. In Age of Empires 4 there are not material textures.
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Have you already played the final build of AoE 4 to make this conclusion? If not, then you shouldnât shake the air in vain. You have already explained everything with the post above.
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Initially, the community considers AoE 3 to be a black sheep , with all the features of AoM, AoE 3 is still too different, too out of the series. The number of changes for the sake of changes kept the game from becoming popular.
I think one of the reasons it was less popular was because it was much harder to run and many people PCs couldnât play it smoothly. Also saying a third of the series doesnât fit because it is a not like age of empire 2 is nonsense.
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And now with DE, the game is still much heavier for casual player to run than the 2nd one.
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Dude, I did the moment I saw that â â â â , then the darkness increases in the game. Now I play with a full bright monitor. Do you understand my pain?
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Aoe4 water and ships looks unfortunately trash compare to Aoe3DE I would say even compare to old Aoe3 they dont look great. When I saw new video about AoE4 I was happy they have improved things, but when I saw ships and water I was like âDafuq is this?â
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but look at these UGLY textures at the bottomâŠthats so impressively bad looking to me that I wont even be able to focus on the water effects. which certainly look much better in age 3.
Buildings though - not a chance. that is completely due to a different artstyle, nothing technical
they probably focused on gameplay first to show us that. And that looks great to me. Of course water will be fixed afterwards. They dont need beautiful water if in the end they scrap all water realted stuff becaus eits no fun.
Thats usually how it works. You first build a playable concept and if the mechanics seem to be fun, you can continue with more detailed models
I agree with you that buildings seems to be only thing which seems to look kind of better in AoE4 than AoE3DE. They improved their textures but models seems very similar to old AoE3.
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that of course is (as this whole topic) very opinion related.
Besides the nuilding, I also think environment apart from water looks much better in age 4. So its a tie, somewhat, as Units/water are better in age 3 (compareddto the last Age 4 build we saw which is now probably 2 months old) and buildings/general environment in age 3^^
Yeah a little bit, but it doesnât take much to run it
Overall Age of Empires 3 DE looks better. Destruction animations are best in original Age of Empires 3. Building architecture is good in both games Aoe3 & Aoe4. But to be honest graphics niveau of Aoe3 DE was the minimum I expected for Age of Empires 4.
Itâs weird how they made one of the best looking RTS remasters, but their flagship Aoe4 looks like a mediocre game at best. Okay, 2 different developers and other engines, but they obviously wouldâve been able to make better graphics. Imo they overfocussed on readability and heard too much on the council. They shouldâve give us more information and gameplay in the last months and years.
Also they saw how much the community likes detailed graphics. The most positive feedback I heard about the DEâs was the graphic. Especially Aoe1 DE wouldâve never been played by so many people, if graphics werenât much improved. Original game was already dead and yeah, Aoe1 DE is dead now again, but probably because of bad pathfinding and lack of support.
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