Man even if I never played any of the AoE games online this thread gave me a nice read. I played AoE1 and AoE2 like 10 years ago on my first computer, but just offline together with my brother, good times ...
But whats funny is that I heard the names BlinG/Mista a few times in this thread and I am actually a big fan of BlinG and i've played GreatMista just like 1 week ago on ladder =D
I think its very interesting to read or hear about players backgrounds. I think a thread like "which RTS game did you play before your transition to SC2" would be very interesting. I persnally am from the Battle for middle earth series (mainly Battle for Middle earth 2) and since I use the same nick in SC2 as I used in BFME I already met quite a few guys on ladder who know me. I think things like that are really nice and its good to see that there are players from a lot of RTS games in SC2
I played Age of Empires I in a client called "Gamespy" dont know if this stuff still exists. It kind of simulated lan because there where no real Multiplayer.
However, i didnt play competetive as i was ... 13 years old or something. I then played AoE2 (still not competetive) and started to understand the "makro" faktor and multiple Military Buildings would be more usefull then just 1 with 10 queued soldiers.
On November 24 2011 06:19 Scereye wrote: I played Age of Empires I in a client called "Gamespy" dont know if this stuff still exists. It kind of simulated lan because there where no real Multiplayer.
However, i didnt play competetive as i was ... 13 years old or something. I then played AoE2 (still not competetive) and started to understand the "makro" faktor and multiple Military Buildings would be more usefull then just 1 with 10 queued soldiers.
Good times... <3
Oh my god Gamespy :D
It was like literally after every game you installed it would ask you whether you would like to install stupid Gamespy, even if you already had it installed
Those were good times
And the day we figured out how to circumvent the 200 supply limitation in Age of empires remains up until today the happiest day of my life.... of course that is before we discovered that our crappy PCs couldnt handle bigger armies anyways
I played AOE2 with friends but I was terrible and a bit full of myself so I never really got better :p It was fun but a bit bland compared to how good Starcraft is/was.
I played AOE3 Vanilla - abit before TWC came out i was 2350+ elo (top 10) and 47 pr i think (one rank below general). due to not being able to change name i ended up being called.. IGL_iGL_Riskio came 2nd with iGL in one of the RTSL seasons (should have won teh final but i turned up drunk)
im a top 25 masters now on EU and NA but jobs got in the way of playing abit. After TWC came out balance went screwy again didnt play it too competitively after that.
(i also played star wars galactice battle ground - which was aoe engine but with star wars units)
On November 24 2011 06:19 Scereye wrote: I played Age of Empires I in a client called "Gamespy" dont know if this stuff still exists. It kind of simulated lan because there where no real Multiplayer.
However, i didnt play competetive as i was ... 13 years old or something. I then played AoE2 (still not competetive) and started to understand the "makro" faktor and multiple Military Buildings would be more usefull then just 1 with 10 queued soldiers.
Good times... <3
Oh my god Gamespy :D
It was like literally after every game you installed it would ask you whether you would like to install stupid Gamespy, even if you already had it installed
Those were good times
And the day we figured out how to circumvent the 200 supply limitation in Age of empires remains up until today the happiest day of my life.... of course that is before we discovered that our crappy PCs couldnt handle bigger armies anyways
Oh yeah! That was fun haha.
And then the modding of AoE2 started, those where my first steps in the modding scene. I made graphics in MSPaint (!!! :D) which then got included as buildings in AoE2.
Oh god, nerd chills all over the place.
Someone out there: GO organize a AoE I / AoE II tournament! ;D
On November 24 2011 06:19 Scereye wrote: I played Age of Empires I in a client called "Gamespy" dont know if this stuff still exists. It kind of simulated lan because there where no real Multiplayer.
However, i didnt play competetive as i was ... 13 years old or something. I then played AoE2 (still not competetive) and started to understand the "makro" faktor and multiple Military Buildings would be more usefull then just 1 with 10 queued soldiers.
Good times... <3
Oh my god Gamespy :D
It was like literally after every game you installed it would ask you whether you would like to install stupid Gamespy, even if you already had it installed
Those were good times
And the day we figured out how to circumvent the 200 supply limitation in Age of empires remains up until today the happiest day of my life.... of course that is before we discovered that our crappy PCs couldnt handle bigger armies anyways
how did you get around the supply limit? mass monks?
On November 23 2011 12:34 Powster wrote: I have been wondering if there are any aok hero fest/world map players.. Those 2 custom scenarios took lots of skill and were very fun.. I played AoE1and then Age of kings random map years till eventually got addicted to hero fest and world map.
Hero fest is played in AoC quite a bit on Voobly. World map has been mostly replaced by random europe scenario. 8 spawning locations randomized on a map of europe.
On November 24 2011 06:47 MCDayC wrote: A couple of people have asked for it, but no one has given one. Are there any recorded games of AoE? I literally have no idea what it would look like.
The only one i found:
(and related videos, but as far as i can see those are no "real" competetive games with no commentary)
But the commentators are terrible (Edit: Ok, thats a bit harsh. We probably just have another standard today. Huge kudos to the casters for their effort non the less!!!!) and only explaning the VERY basics and their english is poor.
Well... and of course at thos times Observermode was like talking about Hoverboards nowadays.
On November 24 2011 06:47 MCDayC wrote: A couple of people have asked for it, but no one has given one. Are there any recorded games of AoE? I literally have no idea what it would look like.
Google Skwizz, if you remember that clan, it was with the top players from AoE3, I believe they have replays of showmatches and tournaments.
On November 23 2011 13:38 Beerdrinker wrote: Any other MFO forum users on here?
I remember you! I was Dante, I won the first two WCG's for the USA, went to Korea both times with Randy/Stalin who went on to work at Microsoft. Chris, I and DjaDja were the three best NA 1v1 players for just about all of AoC, the x-pack for AoE2.
When AoM came out and was such crap, it decimated the AoE2 community. It halted all the tournaments but didn't provide a good game to move on to, so a lot of guys either idled in AoE2 or just dissapeared. I ended up playing poker, and I still follow SC2 like crazy but mostly just watching on my phone from the poker table .
I miss so many of the guys from AoE2... The Legion clan tournament in Almaty, Kazahkstan, hosted by a suspicious character who loved the game, going out to Korean bars when we were only 16 at the WCG, a lot of great memories.
Koven/Grunt were by far the best AoE players, and would do well in SC2. I think guys like GeeK, Chris, Elfanor, (myself?) would all do well in SC2 if we committed to it.
Edit: I remember you too GX_Iron; I remember hating that you got to go to that big Microsoft tournament because it was 18+ and I was still 17. Missing me/chris because we were too young was such a bummer.
Hello as well. Good times back in the day, wish we had YouTube around back then to document it! Its a shame that MFO's recorded game collection got wiped. Also wish we could download AOC on steam, I suppose I could buy a physical copy online, but using CD check to launch a game is so archaic. I remember the WCG qualifier that you won, it was a shame being 17 and not being able to go places (either legally or with parents permission).
Hi to Iron as well. If my memory serves, you had a head start on people in AOM because you tested it before release (were you a paid tester for Ensemble? I remember WX_Swinger was, he was a guy I used to chat with on the zone). I remember you were a different beast in AOM than AOC.
On November 24 2011 06:47 MCDayC wrote: A couple of people have asked for it, but no one has given one. Are there any recorded games of AoE? I literally have no idea what it would look like.
On November 23 2011 13:38 Beerdrinker wrote: Any other MFO forum users on here?
I remember you! I was Dante, I won the first two WCG's for the USA, went to Korea both times with Randy/Stalin who went on to work at Microsoft. Chris, I and DjaDja were the three best NA 1v1 players for just about all of AoC, the x-pack for AoE2.
When AoM came out and was such crap, it decimated the AoE2 community. It halted all the tournaments but didn't provide a good game to move on to, so a lot of guys either idled in AoE2 or just dissapeared. I ended up playing poker, and I still follow SC2 like crazy but mostly just watching on my phone from the poker table .
I miss so many of the guys from AoE2... The Legion clan tournament in Almaty, Kazahkstan, hosted by a suspicious character who loved the game, going out to Korean bars when we were only 16 at the WCG, a lot of great memories.
Koven/Grunt were by far the best AoE players, and would do well in SC2. I think guys like GeeK, Chris, Elfanor, (myself?) would all do well in SC2 if we committed to it.
Edit: I remember you too GX_Iron; I remember hating that you got to go to that big Microsoft tournament because it was 18+ and I was still 17. Missing me/chris because we were too young was such a bummer.
Hello as well. Good times back in the day, wish we had YouTube around back then to document it! Its a shame that MFO's recorded game collection got wiped. Also wish we could download AOC on steam, I suppose I could buy a physical copy online, but using CD check to launch a game is so archaic. I remember the WCG qualifier that you won, it was a shame being 17 and not being able to go places (either legally or with parents permission).
Hi to Iron as well. If my memory serves, you had a head start on people in AOM because you tested it before release (were you a paid tester for Ensemble? I remember WX_Swinger was, he was a guy I used to chat with on the zone). I remember you were a different beast in AOM than AOC.
Hi to everyone else from the 2001-2002 AOC scene.
Iron was very good at AoC. The game I guess we all remember is the semi-finals of the MS International. Grunt vs Iron on mediterranean. Iron goes huns and wins the water, grunt goes vikings and ultimately wins on land. It was a close game though and I dont think many of us could of come so close against Grunt. I think Iron may have also beaten GP in that tournament, which was no small feat.
I've played AoC a great lot during 2001-2004 and had the most fun in gaming I've ever had during those years. I've played all of the Age games, AoE1/RoR not so much cause of school at that time, and AoK/AoC was by far the best and most fun among them. For comparison sake I didnt play AoM/AoE3 for more than a couple months before i got bored and quit. Was also a frequent MFO user, and that was the place to be a better gamer at that time.
The game wasn't pristinely balanced, and that was kidna ok too since it derived by the civilizations being too close together and the map diversity being quite large making certain traits more suited for different maps. Huns became dominant in the definate 1v1 competitive map, arabia, but huns vs huns still produced a lot of absolutely fabulous games. Also keep in mind by all the civs being branches of a core civilization, players were able to play all civs adeptly, so it is nowhere like race switching in starcraft.
But what I really loved the most in that game was the teamgames. Team games not only were much more fun and fluid than any other RTS I've played, but they could also get really competitice and balanced at the highest level of play. Playing 3v3/4v4 at Full Random/Arabia with good players was an absolute delight, and a great lot of the tournaments were team tournaments. I can still remember games like the USA vs Italy on islands for some tournament like 10 years played actually by players like Haws and Dante that posted here if I recall correctly.
was going under Pezeteros/StorM_Sarissa/redhair_LOLITA back then
On November 24 2011 07:09 Pezeteros wrote: I've played AoC a great lot during 2001-2004 and had the most fun in gaming I've ever had during those years. I've played all of the Age games, AoE1/RoR not so much cause of school at that time, and AoK/AoC was by far the best and most fun among them. For comparison sake I didnt play AoM/AoE3 for more than a couple months before i got bored and quit. Was also a frequent MFO user, and that was the place to be a better gamer at that time.
The game wasn't pristinely balanced, and that was kidna ok too since it derived by the civilizations being too close together and the map diversity being quite large making certain traits more suited for different maps. Huns became dominant in the definate 1v1 competitive map, arabia, but huns vs huns still produced a lot of absolutely fabulous games. Also keep in mind by all the civs being branches of a core civilization, players were able to play all civs adeptly, so it is nowhere like race switching in starcraft.
But what I really loved the most in that game was the teamgames. Team games not only were much more fun and fluid than any other RTS I've played, but they could also get really competitice and balanced at the highest level of play. Playing 3v3/4v4 at Full Random/Arabia with good players was an absolute delight, and a great lot of the tournaments were team tournaments. I can still remember games like the USA vs Italy on islands for some tournament like 10 years played actually by players like Haws and Dante that posted here if I recall correctly.
was going under Pezeteros/StorM_Sarissa/redhair_LOLITA back then
That is my biggest dislike with SC2. The great 1v1 gameplay does not also make for great team games. I dont think any of us would say that SC2 1v1 is not great, because it is. But SC2 team games are another story.
I actually remember the names of all of the old players who have posted here I am not sure how many will know mine as I was only a run of the mill 2k player in AoC. I got closer to the top later in AoM.
On November 24 2011 06:47 MCDayC wrote: A couple of people have asked for it, but no one has given one. Are there any recorded games of AoE? I literally have no idea what it would look like.
On November 23 2011 09:11 blade55555 wrote: No, no aoe3 players have had any good results in sc2. H20 did in the first beta tournament but quit due to falling behind and the game being to hard for him, TLS had decent results not sure how he is now. The only aoe3 players who used to play it that went to sc2 are me/tsl (aka ourk in sc2) and naugim but don't think he's had any results either. The rest that tried quit (I believe grunt tried but went into military service).
Capoch was "good" in the beta when 4 gate was strong, ever since 4 gate is a free win he hasn't done anything in tournaments. And idk the other 2 guys.
No one said aoe3. They said aoe. And its not like aoe players we bad by any means, they would do fine if they played. I only play casually, and i am masters, i didnt play any sc. ever. only aoe1/2/3. Grunt would have been amazing. I think starsky and np would have been too. But most aoe3 players, like u mentioned, had been playing aoe since aoe came out, and were already in their mid twenties, i believe.
Yes Dante and Chris could not play for the 50K microsoft tournament, although Chris was Canadian so I didnt have to worry about him to qualify. The qualification rounds were on continental though, and I was always a random map player. Iketh was my main competition for the qualifier. Only one round of the finals was on Arabia, so it was a bit different of a tournament. Most 1v1 arabia players were not really interested in playing anything other than 1v1 arabia. The reason I stayed up everynight playing the koreans was to get past that 2nd 1v1 arabia round in the finals.
I did end up winning that game, by walling off arabia and building horse archers. It was vs the French guy DK_Deathnight, who went ahead and guaranteed a victory to the press since he knew I was a random map player. He threw his shit and stormed off after I won the game. One of my more proud rts moments.
Yes I did have a head start on AOM, I worked for Ensemble as they hired me after that microsoft tourney. I only played the first few months before I moved on to my construction company.
Edit: Crexis won the Canadian title, so Canada was still well represented.
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