EPTAge of Empires Online - Page 2
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generic88
United States118 Posts
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OoFuzer
Chile436 Posts
http://www.robotentertainment.com/forum/topic/Clearing-some-confusion-and-misconceptions-while-respecting-NDA it isn't a travian-like game, isn't a 24/7 game. Anyone played AoE III? you got experience via playing 1v1 and with that you could improve you Home city. Now you dont get experience with 1v1, instead, you get exp by playing some "quest" (campaign if you want to) to improve your Home City (called Capital in AoEO) but it doesnt affect the 1v1 gameplay. With "quests" you can decorate your Capital, improve some stuff on it and other members can visit your Capital. That's social part of the game. But that Capitol stuff does not have anything related to the 1v1 mode. | ||
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bubO
United States367 Posts
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Gingerninja
United Kingdom1339 Posts
Shame, Loved the whole AoE series, even AoM which was a bit of a sidestep. Can't count the hours logged into AoE and AoE2.. didn't play AoE3 as much as I should have really. | ||
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stickayboii
United States4 Posts
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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UniversalSnip
9871 Posts
- Take a classic game (lol: dota) - Add social features - Give it clear graphics with low system reqs, bright colors, general appeal and no gore so as to make a T rating - Add matchmaking - Add 'persistent' elements (experience levels). Otherwise people who haven't spent any money don't feel invested. If you've reached a double digit level you pretty much have to convince yourself you want to keep playing, otherwise why did you spend all that time getting to where you are? - Spam the player with unlockable customization options all of which are incredibly tedious to grind (in lol, runes). | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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JonnyLaw
United States3482 Posts
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Captain Mayhem
Sweden774 Posts
But calling it Age of Empires is an insult to 1 and 2. Not because it's not good (hell, it might be the next WoW for all I know), but because it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the series. It reminded me more of Civilization. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
love this kind of games and this one seems like its gonna trumph all others | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On August 18 2010 02:53 OoFuzer wrote: Check this post http://www.robotentertainment.com/forum/topic/Clearing-some-confusion-and-misconceptions-while-respecting-NDA it isn't a travian-like game, isn't a 24/7 game. Anyone played AoE III? you got experience via playing 1v1 and with that you could improve you Home city. Now you dont get experience with 1v1, instead, you get exp by playing some "quest" (campaign if you want to) to improve your Home City (called Capital in AoEO) but it doesnt affect the 1v1 gameplay. With "quests" you can decorate your Capital, improve some stuff on it and other members can visit your Capital. That's social part of the game. But that Capitol stuff does not have anything related to the 1v1 mode. Umm leveling your city directly affected the cards/shipments access. So while there were some non-gameplay stuff, there was some gameplay stuff too with AoE3's level your home city system. | ||
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Delvin
Finland141 Posts
Oh, and couldn't care less about Windows Live. edit: Hmm, looking at it a bit more, this seems a bit too casual friendly. Not setting my expectations high. | ||
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Hidden_MotiveS
Canada2562 Posts
I was hoping robot would go back to the hardcore crowd but I think they've realized that's still dominated by starcraft. Are they canceling spartans? | ||
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UniversalSnip
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Hidden_MotiveS
Canada2562 Posts
Oh motherfucker! This is Spartans! D'''''': They renamed it! Still, they'd have to dumb the game down a lot, even from Age 1, in order for it to attract a large portion of the farmville crowd. It'd have to be playable for short periods of time, so games could be saved, so people could play it at work, and then it'd probably be better if there were an option to let people play it when their friends weren't online. Is it MMO style? edit: Robot entertainment, for those who don't know, is the portion of microsoft's ensemble that banded together as a private game organization after microsoft canceled them. Microsoft entertainment no longer exists. Maybe Halo Wars just sucked too much? Anyways Robot knows that it doesn't have the money or manpower to make new games, so they seem to just be tweaking some old ones. For instance, they're making Fable 3 and a new flight simulator as well as this. The game AOE online is very simple. It's able to be played on the new microsoft 7 phones, and will in fact be bundled with them. It doesn't seem to be an mmo, but the capitol does stay active and grow when you are offline, so I could be wrong. double edit: It seems a lot like travian or evony, except with significantly better graphics. You get a city and you build it up, so the stronger player will be the one who's played longer, not the more skilled one. There is some free to play to entice people to get to the pay to play stuff. I can see this going kind of far. | ||
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Golden Ghost
Netherlands1041 Posts
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BrownBear
United States6894 Posts
It has come to this? I need a stiff drink. | ||
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