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Man I miss AoK/AoC on Zone... Think it's still the most fun I've ever had in a multiplayer game. I was decent, I think I was like 1,900-2,000ish on zone but it was so long ago I can't really remember. I remember idolizing Arch Koven, Grunt, Halen, Arch Vile, RD_Champion etc.
Team games was where AoC really shined though imo. Team/ffa games were always so epic, much more so than SC2 imo. The game had so much depth with the widely varying maps, cool units and civilizations, etc. I also enjoyed the extra strategy that maps with water on them brought about. DM mode was also pretty fun and I always wish SC2 had it, there was even a ladder for DM making it a legitimate alternative way to enjoy the game. Nexus Wars and so on aren't half as good as DM was.
I would kill for just an updated AoC with modern graphics, online support, maybe a few more units, balancing etc. Honestly think it would be amazing and sell pretty well and actually offer a least a tiny bit of SC2 competition in the RTS field. Too bad Ensemble is dead  I really wish smaller companies like Ensemble would stop letting themselves get brought out by the bigger corporations like microsoft, ea, activision etc. Microsoft killed Ensemble imo, especially having them do Halo Wars.. AoM and AoE3 were just not the same either. Such a shame, amazing company and amazing game in AoK/AoC.
http://www.mrfixitonline.com/viewtopic.php?t=3786
<3 nostalgia
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I played a lot of AOE2 and my roots of my style pretty much come from that game... Infantry rushes into eventually knights and scouts for harassing high end res)ource expansions (gold/stone/etc)
English longbowman were a lot of fun on maps that permitted you getting that far, I really loved the huns special unit (forgot name) but they were basically the reapers of that game, mounted and had sapper like damage killing builds super fast, i absolutely loved picking them and just completely killing entire bases if they moved out any large force
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"I would kill for just an updated AoC with modern graphics"
Here here!
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Right sorry for spam but I've had enough; where can I play AoC online - I have the retail version and I'm going back to old school? Anyone?
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Anybody up to some aoe2 or aoe1 games some day ? (even though i was a kid when i played the first 1 and never thought of playing it against other players :p)
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On November 24 2011 21:49 kemsley wrote:
Right sorry for spam but I've had enough; where can I play AoC online - I have the retail version and I'm going back to old school? Anyone?
www.voobly.com has around 1000+ players on weekends, sort of your best bet.
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Cheers Rob, signing up now: Vagabond_Merv!
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On November 24 2011 05:45 Grettin wrote:Show nested quote +On November 23 2011 09:42 Garnet wrote:
The AoE1 Chinese and Vietnamese pro's have quite some APM. Too bad they probably won't ever switch. I have to ask, Do any of you have any (FP)VoDs of these matches? always wanted to see/watch one. Much appreciated if someone can link me some.
A lot of videos to download.
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This interview is too good. Artosis has never changed from then till now :D
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I played aok for 3 years on zone.com... i'm no one known but mid master here in sc2 ^_______^
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I think the biggest reason there is no real Age Player who has become pro in SC2 is because most of them retired years before the beta in SC2, so even if they started playing again, they where a lot more behind.
I know a couple of Top AoE3 players around the HighMasters (near to GM) but I don't think they are taking it to serious.
From my point it would be very nice to see one of the old Age "Pros" (AoE2 or AoE3/AoM) in the bigger offline events of SC2, but I don't see it happen.
The greatest thing about the Age-Series was that the teamgames where a big fun and you could play 3v3s or 4v4s competively.
BTW: at my peak I was around lvl 42 in AoE3 (forgot the ELO) made it to a WCG National(Germany) offline final to take the 7th-8th place and get nothing :D but never was really near the top in 1v1.
AoK is sadly to long ago but there I was bloody noob :D
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I played Age of Mythology and The Titans for years. Reached #1 on both ladders multiple times, but this was several years after the game was released, and the game population was quite down (although still had a religious following of 1-2k).
Best I did in Sc2 was finish #15 in GM season 2 and occasionally beat a korean  .
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Ok, as for AoE3, the game is just finally dying out now, a lot of the best players stopped playing a while ago.
I got too lvl 37 Colonel on AoE 3 vanilla, after switching from AoE3 to SC2, I have tried to get other players/friends too come over also.
Most of you probably stopped playing ages ago and won't know them but Grey_Foxx, Umeu, Leonard and myself have all just switched over too SC2, hopefully to be followed with SoapMacTavish and Fourby (i think) plays on SEA server.
Then as far as players from the amazing game that is AoM.
SpOeFt, Narcotic, Mista, Adhafang, Nigam and a whole bunch of other people I can't remember all switched and are doing pretty well.
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Rise of Rome still has a competitive scene at RoR-News
Someone posted a video of Dinosaur vs RFR_Gold previously, and there are many better games than those. That was a game trying to unite two of the main communities of RoR remaining (being NA/Europe and Vietnam/China). RFR_Gold manages the website so he was able to arrange a few games with Dinosaur through some of Dino's fans. Dinosaur is considered top 3-5 in the world atm. Players like shenlong, super0dfx and Lol2d are some of the current top players around AoE/RoR. (Two of which are asian, of course)
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Aoe2 was my first online RTS, I really liked the game but I quite sucked at it and never reached past 1700 I think. I also had horrible internet at the time so I could not really play well, still one of the great RTSes.
AoM I played online much more and barely touched 2k but a bit later in the game's lifecycle so that really wasn't anything special. I liked the game and the setting quite a bit but from a competetive point the game sucked with things like autoqueing and the like, this drove away alot of the more skilled played from the series I think. Balance ofcourse was horrible too, and the titans version was dominated for a long time in the end by titan rushing with isis.
AoE3 I played quite a bit when it just came out and was in top 10 of the rankings during that time. That ranking was not really official though and there didn't seem to be any real RTS talents playing the game. I wonder what artosis' nick was as I might have played him a couple time then. Starsky and I believe iamgrunt where on top at the time and beat me quite hard but I can't recall there being any other good players out there. The game was stupid broken in the beginning and Germany was best by far imo. I was one of the first to abuse german mercenary shipments much and basically beat most people simply doing that, I heard the game got fixed a bit more later on and then broken again by the expansion but I never played these. There was something dull about the game that simply made it too boring. Combat has always been a bit boring in the AoE series but after AoE2 they dumbed down the macro part so much that the series just became too simple compared to starcraft and others.
That's also the reason I think that no AoE players have done well in starcraft. After AoE2 the games were too simple to interest good players really. Some of the top AoM players played wc3 but never seemed to be anything special either.
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I want to know if players like Arch_Koven, Grunt and IamChris, would be competitive at Sc2?
The only Age player I have seen is Capoch who I ran into on the ladder playing GM on the NA server.
Koven and Grunt both play, but they're only mid masters. Last time I talked to Chris he was still playing HoN, though I suppose he's playing Dota 2 now.
Arch Vile, as far as I know, is still playing AoC - but he's fallen in rating quite a bit. Most of the newer players are mechanically better than people that do weird ass shit every game like Vile.
Viper and Tim are like the only people that still play AoC at their 2007-2009 skill level.
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kiljardi is also playing on very high msaters, wondering when he will get GM on EU
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Awesome thread, worthy of my first TL post 
So fun to see old names like Kkab, Koven, and Grunt thrown around. I come from a long Age Of Empires background, played since aoe1, and started SC2 in April. (well, played a couple weeks in beta but nothing serious)
In AoC I was 2200 or so (Pray_4YourLife, L_Clan_Socrates) and was 2400 or so in AOE3 (WaCkO). Took a large break from AoC at some point then came back to what felt like a completely different game (transitioned from Chinese dominance to Huns)
Would be great to get some games in with some former AOE players.
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After reading this thread I reinstalled AoE2 (no Conquerors yet, I'll get to that after). My disk from 2000 still works just fine even though it is scratched like crazy (and I even have my manual and giant box still. Why don't they still sell PC games in those huge boxes, they're so sick). The music in vanilla AoE2 is so good, though that might be the giant nostalgia high I had while playing that affecting it.
It feels easy, but still super fast. The AI proxies barracks and archery ranges constantly (I did FFA against 7 computers and 3 of them proxied buildings and tried to kill me).
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I started online gaming with AOK on DM mode and then played AOM at a pretty good lvl for like 8 months, arround 2K points in the ladder. Then I figured that Blizzard RTS had more future and switched to W3 :p
For those who might know them:
Salska (also known as JohnDoe on AOEIII) tryed SC2 but that's all. Sadly he is more in WOW for some years.
Tamock from AOC plays a bit of SC2 and is ranked in master league
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