Maybe Dante and Storm Panther could make some update in this sticky post in L_Clan forums (really nice thread) http://www.lclan.com/showthread.php/49332-Is-there-a-history-of-the-development-of-Age-anywhere, and about the actual Aoc community (Including the last WCL that finished a month before with Kkab, Grunt and Halen playing), you can find all the info in www.aoczone.net.

Flondra

Canada56 Posts

November 26 2011 09:56 GMT

#242

Never played competetively, but I always had huge lan battles in AoE2. We'd all go for long macro games and just send maxed armies at each other's 3-4x walled off bases. Some epic games.

MockHamill

Sweden1798 Posts

November 26 2011 10:19 GMT

#243

I stopped playing Brood War when Age of Empires II came out.

The first Age of Empires was good but a bit flawed.
The second Age of Empires (AOK/AOC) was a masterpiece, it some ways superior to Starcraft, it other ways not.
The third Age of Empires was good but nowhere near as good as AOK/AOC.

Basically AOK/AOC is superior to Starcraft when it comes to economy, macro and strategic depth. Starcraft II is superior when it comes to tactics, micro and race balance. It also has a better multiplayer platform.

I love Starcraft but I feel like speed matter too much; I think AOK/AOC had a better balance between rewarding strategic skill and speed.

chestnutcc

India429 Posts

November 26 2011 10:34 GMT

#244

On November 24 2011 09:41 kemsley wrote:
Lot of memories here: I was farmer_brit in AoC and Vagabond Merv in AoM - Hey Flank!

I remember all you guys and have watched many of your rec games.

Wish someone would just take AoC and redo it! Sheep Scouting and Boar-luring ftw! Captain Kidds guide on MFO :-) Monk Rushhhinnn

I played the AOE series for 8 years, Gave up playing SC2 after 7/8 months...

@Daut - I remember you and Randy from that WCG - amazing KmKm won and Randy was the only player to play non-huns, going Mayans and he beat KmKm in the group stage by stealing his boar with his Mayan scout all the way across the map! So fucking funny to see kmkm "like whoa - where the fuck is my boar!!!" at wcg. I remember a warm up game where Randy stole both his opps boars!

Anyone remember Fox_EliteX from AoM, he was the most stylish player from AoM - some of his comebacks were amazing.

I played AoE3 but it was complete homo from the start.

Great thread!

I played and loved all the Age games, though I played online and was competitive mainly in AoM. I didn't really like the titans or AoE3. which didnt feel as smooth as the other games, and it lagged more online. Been playing SC2 since a few months, Plat toss now.

Imo balance was always an issue in the age series, but it is unparalleled in macro mechanics and harassment based games. SC2 is more like poker, and has a lot of information based losses, coinflip matchups and so forth. The standard macro game in SC2 is brilliant and equals the age series except for the inability to replenish armies once a 200vs200 supply battle takes place, but the prevalence of cheese and all ins makes the game a lot more variable.

PS:Fox EliteX was a genius, sort of like the mvp of aom. I remember the Ra fast heroic he invented, which, to date, I think ranks amongst the most refined and classiest timing attacks I've ever had the pleasure of executing. Shiautz was a korean player and had some of the sickest micro, I think he played in the wcg finals vs PG fire at one point of time.

CondoM

Australia13 Posts

November 29 2011 07:13 GMT

#245

Wow, it's great to see some of you guys are still kicking around. I remember Dante, Haws and Iron all from MFO. You guys should drop by aoczone and say hi, not too many guys from those days are still around. Karl, aka StorM_Country is probably the main one that you'd remember, along with Anycall.

Besides that, we still have big tournaments. As mentioned, WCL just finished (Kkab, Grunt, Halen & Daut won), and there's a $15k tourney coming up. Not to mention the Daut vs. Chris best of 21 grudge match (both guys put in $500 each to settle their rivalry).

As far as I know, BlinG and Capoch are the two guys who've represented aoc the best. Daut was also doing quite well before he came back to aoc for WCL. I guess you older guys wouldn't know Daut or BlinG. Daut started off as a decent bf player, then began playing ara and FR competitively and pretty much became the best player in the world within six months. BlinG was around for years as well before he became really good. He stagnated around the 2100 range for a little while before getting a new mouse and monitor and becoming a 2400 beast.

At the moment, the game is probably more alive than it's been in years. It'd be awesome if some of you guys dropped by and said hi, maybe even played a few games.

http://aoczone.net/viewtopic.php?f=199&t=70160

There's the thread for the VOD's of Daut vs. Chris if anybody wants to see how aoc looks at its highest level nowadays.

Meapak_Ziphh

United States6786 Posts

November 29 2011 07:43 GMT

#246

The reason I use an underscore in my name is because of Arch_Koven :D

Would love to see some of his games in sc2, he was my favorite aoc player.

Manex

Australia156 Posts

November 29 2011 08:03 GMT

#247

high diamond random, i used to play AoK / AoC LANS a bit, but ive never really got into multiplayer games before broodwar (in 2009 lol) and SC2 because ive never really met enough people interested in RTS games until recently. Also, the comments said earlier about AoE online were very true, i tried it out for a few days but all of the battle mechanics were far too easy, and im pretty sure i won every pvp i played from the speed i gained from starcraft.

Chainfire99

Canada474 Posts

November 29 2011 08:49 GMT

#248

My mom bought me AOE 2: Age of Kings years ago because a guy at the pc store said it was educational and fun! I loved that game although I never really played competitively online. I loved my Teutonic Knights...those guys upgraded were friggin tanks but competitively were prolly too slow to use effectively.

mamelouk

France135 Posts

November 29 2011 12:38 GMT

#249

me obviously, my nickname is from that game

betaman

United Kingdom355 Posts

November 29 2011 12:50 GMT

#250

I used to love these games competively online but gave up after i came across a guy cheating, magicing units out of thin air and openly mocking me about it. He was awful at the game but what can you do when they have infinite units?

Anyway, I figured if it was so easy to cheat what is stop people doing it more subtly? So quit

Rachnar

France1526 Posts

November 29 2011 12:57 GMT

#251

you played aoe2 in 2a version?

Monasou

United States218 Posts

November 29 2011 13:05 GMT

#252

Not sure if anyone has played AOE that is a high level player. I know SeLECT played Dawn of War and poker and stuff? I don't know. I don't think that game has the micro that SC2 has.