The beta version included Dawn of Civilization, which is similar to the Egyptian campaign in the final version. The demo version also includes the Reign of the Hittites ( Hittites) campaign, which was later included in Definitive Edition, as well as the Bronze Age Art of War scenario. Campaigns are a collection of scenarios which are completed in a linear fashion. The game features four single-player campaigns in which the player is required to complete specific objectives. Advancement between ages is researched at the Town Center and each advancement brings the player new technologies, weapons, and units. These are the Stone Age (Mesolithic/Paleolithic), Tool Age (Neolithic/Chalcolithic), Bronze Age and Iron Age. A major component of the game is the advancement through four ages. Each civilization has technologies unique to them, so that no civilization possesses all the technologies possible within the game. Twelve civilizations are available, each with individual sets of attributes, including a varying number of available technologies and units. Resources must also be preserved, as no new resources become available as the game progresses, meaning if you cut a tree down, the tree will not grow back. To ensure victory, the player must gather resources in order to pay for new units, buildings and more advanced technologies.

The span of time represented by the game is roughly 12,000 BC to 500 AD. It’s evident that they can barely keep AoE DE 2 together so mixing that with AoE 1 DE stuff would surely end in disaster and I don’t like waiting months for patches to fix my 22 year old game, thank you.Age of Empires Official Trailer (1997, Ensemble Microsoft)Īge of Empires requires the player to develop a civilization from a handful of hunter-gatherers to an expansive Iron Age empire. That’s a lot less than what AoE 1 DE has to deal with but hey, we just had 2 months with broken pathfinding and the game still suffers from just dumb things like a freshly introduced fps lock that’s buggy. Keeping the two games separate would I think benefit both since if you look at AoE 2 DE without rose tinted glasses then it’s quite clear to see that it has its own issues too. Yep, that would most likely include bringing the game over to the much better AoE 2 engine on a technical level but let’s call that a “rework” instead. So what the game actually needs is not some Frankenstein monster AoE 2 DLC or “port” but a serious rework that makes use of what the team learned from remastering AoE 2. but these strenghts shine a lot less when they are put into a very mixed bag. The music is fantastic (better than AoE 2 DE in my opinion), the campaigns got reworked in a really nice way, the gameplay is smoother and smarter yet still faithful to the original etc. These flaws are quite serious and bring the game down a lot. The presentation is just weak and weird, I have never seen a more boring looking campaign menu for example. Lighting should absolutely be handled the same way as it is in AoE 2 DE, that’s how classic AoE actually looks like. The “lighting” is really bad, it washes out the colors of the game too much and as a result the game just doesn’t feel like AoE 1.

And what happened to composite bowmen because those mutant, Toxic Avenger looking creatures that are in the game are surely not composite bowmen. Just look at villagers carrying stuff and cry yourself to sleep when comparing it to the original animations. The assets should be repackaged that way.Ī bunch of really badly animated models, the animations are actually worse and stiffer than what we had in the more than two decade old original. I still don’t get why the zoom detail setting exists instead of high res graphics being handled the way they are in AoE 2 DE. Horrible performance, it’s kind of inexcusable how badly the game can perform even on competent machines. How can a game have pathfinding that sometimes makes units stuck permanently, like how does that get through testing and then not get fixed for 4 years? It’s just so ■■■■■■■ buggy, I can’t believe that I still get notifications about a bug I reported more than 2 years ago because other people encounter it and keep referring to it yet MS didn’t bother to fix it. As a huge fan of the first AoE (and somebody who doesn’t want too much AoE 2 stuff like formations in the remaster) the Definitive Edition is just very disappointing in a few aspects: I think that this idea is just a really weird way to present the actual problem which can be put quite simply as a gut feeling: AoE 1 DE kinda sucks as a remaster.

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