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On March 19 2013 06:57 _SpiRaL_ wrote:Show nested quote +On March 11 2013 19:22 Capped wrote:On March 10 2013 23:33 Kaal wrote:On March 10 2013 14:12 Capped wrote:On March 10 2013 01:08 DDie wrote:On March 10 2013 00:36 Zephirdd wrote:On March 10 2013 00:27 DDie wrote:
$20 for fake HD? Wtf.. Way to pay attention. It's true HD, rescalled for any resolution. Just freaking watch the video. Also improved(read: playable) netcode and Steam Workshop support(which is a boost to the community). It's fucking AoE2. I'd pay 20 bucks five times because I got exhausted of it. Yeah, just rescalled resolution, the graphic changes are barely noticeable. You are paying $20 for the multiplayer experience, which you can have for free on gamespy/gameranger, besides i hardly think the community will make the switch. Whaaat...? Ok the game has neglible graphics improvements, the main improvement is the addition of resolution's (which is a huge bonus for anybody looking to replay the game nowadays, and anybody looking to try it out) With the re-release alot of people will either re-buy it, or buy it now to play as its not got shitty resolutions / graphics and looks 100% terrible in the modern-era, this will attract ALOT of people, believe it or not, compared to the original. The community wont make the switch? sure...Better netcode, matchmaking, untold more players, workshop (good mod support) is a real downer right. The community will jump at the chance imo. Although i think the price is a little steep, but it will no doubt drop after a month or two. I think £10 / $15 is a better starting point, people could justify that (even if its a little high for a HD remake) for the HD + Multiplayer but £15 / $20 is just a bit too high, hence all the complaining here, i think all the other prospective buyers will think the same too, which sucks as it coul dhave really resurged the community lol untold more players. The biggest issue is that there won't be matchmaking for Forgotten Empires, which pretty much everyone plays now. Years of work by most of the pros and modders isn't going to go to waste for easier matchmaking (AoFE already has better graphics/resolutions, the only thing that really looks much better in HD is the water), which is the only thing most players care about. People will probably stay on GR/GAR/Voobly. Was going to make a big post on this but i'll just do bullet points - Forgotten empires can be converted over to the HD edition as its on the steam workshop. - The game WILL sell, probably upwards of 20k copies minimum i would say. - The people who buy WILL play the game, it will draw in a much bigger crowd then Aoe2 has now (which is a few hundred players max?) - Any small community like this would jump at the chance of increased numbers, with FE being converted to steams workshop i dont see a big problem here. Obviously your looking at conversion time + Converting players from the standard game but its a hell of alot more promising then what they previously had. It's not a few hundred max, it might be hard to believe but there are regularly 3k+ playing on a daily basis. Now if anyone remembers the glory days of MSN gaming zone at the absolute peak of the games popularity I don't think I saw the number of users go above 10k. I think the most important question I have about this release is the Forgotten Empires expansion. WIll it be able to be ported into AoC HD? Would be awesome if Microsoft and the mod developers teamed up on this for the sake of lighting a huge fire under a small community that just won't go away. Awesome. I preferred AoC to even BW. It has its flaws but overall, its probably my favourite game ever.
Kinda with you. While I love bw aoe2 will always be that game I remember the most aas my child hood game. Seriously the year that came out I played that so much, then aom, then aot, then aoe3, etc only aoe game I did not play a lot was aoeo and that was cause it wasn't very good imo at least the match making sucked as I could never get a 2v2 going :/.
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Nice Age of Empires 2 remake, to be better online match making....
Now if someone where to remake CrashTeamRacing with HD graphics and an online match making system, i will never need new games again!
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Did they add Attack Move to this version?
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In the trailer the graphics and animations look exactly the same as they did in the 90s, on your stream however they seemed to have advanced a bit?
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jsut after the unofficial expansion "forgotten empires" came out
i bet its not compatible with the HD shit on steam...."omg omg the community did an awesome expoansion, because we (microsoft) didnt give a fuck! lets just make a new version and try to get money form it !"
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Must say, the graphical changes are.... minor, to say the least. That's not very impressive unfortunately.
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If just Twitch could stop going Twitch every time there is something big on, like this
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On March 20 2013 04:15 Tobberoth wrote:Must say, the graphical changes are.... minor, to say the least. That's not very impressive unfortunately.
I'm not exactly sure what you were expecting. I just imagined them reworking it a little bit so it looks better on a higher resolution and is doable on present systems.
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All they did really was scale up the resolutions. The graphics are still the same. It's HD because now you can get it to 1080 which honestly isn't really anything to be excited about as the graphics are still the same.
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On March 20 2013 04:25 Infernal_dream wrote:
All they did really was scale up the resolutions. The graphics are still the same. It's HD because now you can get it to 1080 which honestly isn't really anything to be excited about as the graphics are still the same.
Yeh but imo that is superawesome. You can now see like 4 times as much in 1 screen. Which gives a great new dimension to the game.
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i saw the title wooohooo WOLOLO THEY MAKE HD AOE2! Then I watched the scrshot and the video and its not hd at all, its almost the same as before. Make a new engine you morons and ill give you 50$
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I don't really think that people will/bought this game for "better graphics" 
March 28, 11 am (pacific time) Viper vs Daut will be playing.
Off to sleep~
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AOEII's graphics are timeless.
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Pop cap raised to 500!
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On March 20 2013 04:53 LoLAdriankat wrote:
AOEII's graphics are timeless.
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Pop cap raised to 500!
Thats huge oO
Please ppl post whatever they show on stream here? I cant watch it due limited internet and i love aoe 
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I was a tad bit disappointed in what was shown. The game it self seems great though. What are your thoughts on the LiveStream??
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Didn't have time to watch the whole stream but I know that they were doing a lot of Q&A. Did they say anything about AoFE support/implementation?
Also, 3v3s with 500 pop cap prolly going to be just ridiculously silly.
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500 pop? Form 200 to 500? Jesus, maybe 250 or 300, why 250% bigger? Mind boggling. Interested to see how it goes.
There is no attack move but you just patrol tricked instead. Kinda silly not to have it though, pretty damn big oversight.
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