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On March 08 2013 06:02 FromShouri wrote:
Im with some people, I could tell when it was "remastered" but it was just less zoomed in and the lines a little clearer....
That said....if its for ~$5-10 bucks I could see myself buying it as I still have a no-cd crack for my current AOE II and no one plays with me anymore ='(
Edit: ya it's like $20...no way in hell. The only thing that they are really fixing is the resolution crap and the match making, otherwise it's the same damn game that still looks 15 years old.
totally agreed. Would buy it for 5$ and think about it for 10$. 20? No way.
The last time i played it was cracked on a lan-party (although i had the original version, just not installed at that time), there is no way i can do that with the new version.
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I would even pay $59.99 for this game. Is a masterpiece, one of the best true RTS game.
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On March 12 2013 12:18 [TyRanT]TheViper wrote:Yeah, this will be great! Hopefully tons of new players, maybe new tournaments etc? Age of Empires hasn't been dead at all, there are thousands playing it every day, and many, like myself, still at a competetive level ^^ Will without doubt buy this! If anyone wishes to see how the game is played on a high level today, I do live streams quite often at my twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/tyrant_theviper. I have also started a Youtube channel where I will be moving some twitch videos as well as creating tutorials, guides, with hints and tips in the upcoming time with the AOE2HD coming out. If anyone is looking to learn or refresh some Age of Empires before the release, feel free to join in there: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheViperAOCOther good channels on Youtube for Age of Empires II are ZeroEmpires and BBQTurkman. And if anyone wishes to join the current community, check out www.Aoczone.net and www.Voobly.com!
Watched a couple of your VODs. You make the game look awesome!
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Oh, Microsoft... As others have said, not worth $20. Not even for a game I reinstall on a yearly basis. For that money it needs to be a full on new expansion.
On a related note, I begrudgingly handed over $20 for another remake of an old game: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, but that at least had changes to many aspects of the game, as well as new content.
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They confirmed that the 4-pack will also be released on April 5th! HERE
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Livestream on the 19th!
3/14/2013 Kittychix Anyone interested in seeing some Age of Empires II: HD multiplayer in action? Of course you are! And next Tuesday March 19, 2013 at Noon (Pacific Time), you can get your fill livestreamed on twitch.tv/ageofempires OR you can watch RIGHT ON THIS PAGE!! (See that video box at the top of the page? Yeah, that's where the video will stream!) So what civilizations would you like each of them to play? Let us know in the forums HERE!
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Hmm...someone should message whitera and tell him to play AOE2 HD, special tactics only....that would be awesome :D.
edit: Btw, if anyone wants some practice in the forgotten empires mod, hit me up on steam: Thomas Vanhoutte
I only played it casually when i was young, but used to be master league level in sc2, so once i know the hotkeys decently it should be fine :D. Or maybe even make a TL aoe2 steamgroup? :D
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On March 15 2013 06:18 fifasnipe2224 wrote:Livestream on the 19th! Show nested quote +3/14/2013 Kittychix Anyone interested in seeing some Age of Empires II: HD multiplayer in action? Of course you are! And next Tuesday March 19, 2013 at Noon (Pacific Time), you can get your fill livestreamed on twitch.tv/ageofempires OR you can watch RIGHT ON THIS PAGE!! (See that video box at the top of the page? Yeah, that's where the video will stream!) So what civilizations would you like each of them to play? Let us know in the forums HERE!
Can't wait for it, will definitely watch a bit of it :D.
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20 is definetly a tad too much for what I'm seeing.
But I guess its Micro$oft after all.
I'll probably wait for a steam special or if the matchmaking is REALLY good.
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Man 20 dollars seems like nothing to me to get an HD version of it along with the permanence, convenience and multiplayer that comes with it on Steam.
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yeah 20$ is way too expensive, lets rather buy hots for 40$..or the next call of duty for 60$ (or a fucking sim city DLC for 15$)
Im pretty sure more effort went into this than hots or cod.
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$20 is cheap for this remastered classic.
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On March 19 2013 05:14 Thor.Rush wrote:
$20 is cheap for this remastered classic.
True, it would be worth a full-price game.
AoE II. Remastered for HD. On Steam. Enough said.
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It was 10% off yesterday, so I went ahead and preordered. Suuuper stoked for this game. I played it religiously in high school. Can't wait to get in touch with the old crew and get some free for all going.
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On March 19 2013 05:30 MrBitter wrote:
It was 10% off yesterday, so I went ahead and preordered. Suuuper stoked for this game. I played it religiously in high school. Can't wait to get in touch with the old crew and get some free for all going.
I'm gonna pre-order as soon as I get my student aid! Cannot wait!
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Some people were asking about MBS. Yes, you can select multiple buildings but it would fill up the que for the first building before going to any other buildings when you would try to build units. Thus, no one ever selects multiple buildings - people do it BW style, clicking on them one-by-one. However, there was a community-driven expansion (The Forgotten Kingdoms) that introduced some tweaks to mechanics. In this expansion, you still have MBS but every time you que up a unit, it ques it up in every single building. (ie when you have 5 rax selected and you press "train footman", five footmen are being trained, one in each rax) There are a few other mechanical changes I believe but I can' quite remember them right now. They were received warmly in the community, despite some BW purists cringing at the thought. It is not anywhere as big of an impact as people may think at first. In the early to mid game, when you only have a couple of produciton facilities, it makes virtually no difference. It is mainly seen to be a convenience in the lategame, so that you can focus on other tasks rather than "button babysitting." (There are more than enough tasks that will eat into your spare APM.) It may be a bit tough to understand coming from BW but it just works out differently in AoE2.
But, to me, the very fact that a community-created expansion could reach "official" status and is being played at the competitive level is just amazing.
And I just recently discovered that, even though it was released in 2000, AoE2 still has healthy professional scene. Like, it's arguably bigger than the foreign Brood War scene. There is an active competitive ladder and a large number of people playing every day on GameRanger. (On either one of these, it's easier to find games than on iccup.) There are still casted tournaments and showmatches. (The stream views are not what TLS has right now but still very respectable)
It's truly a masterpiece of a game. It really depends on what kind of cup of tea you like, but I would definitely put it in the same category as Brood War. The mechanical ceiling is vast and the game has a lot of depth, despite non-mirror matchups being imbalanced sometimes. The fact that gameplay is so drastically different based on the "map type" (arabia, water maps, black forest) is another factor that adds a lot of value to it.
Truly a gem of a game. I urge everyone to check it out.
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On March 12 2013 12:18 [TyRanT]TheViper wrote:Yeah, this will be great! Hopefully tons of new players, maybe new tournaments etc? Age of Empires hasn't been dead at all, there are thousands playing it every day, and many, like myself, still at a competetive level ^^ Will without doubt buy this! If anyone wishes to see how the game is played on a high level today, I do live streams quite often at my twitch channel: http://www.twitch.tv/tyrant_theviper. I have also started a Youtube channel where I will be moving some twitch videos as well as creating tutorials, guides, with hints and tips in the upcoming time with the AOE2HD coming out. If anyone is looking to learn or refresh some Age of Empires before the release, feel free to join in there: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheViperAOCOther good channels on Youtube for Age of Empires II are ZeroEmpires and BBQTurkman. And if anyone wishes to join the current community, check out www.Aoczone.net and www.Voobly.com!
Hey Viper!! Had no idea you are TL member aswell.
I love your stream, I watch it all the time. I spend most of my twitch hours on your stream, watch the vods when ur offline aswell. Thx for the stream man, keep it up!
(Also sometime in the past I watched one epic game of yours that involved TONS of micro and units spread out all over the map and constantly streaming into the battle. That game made me want to make a thread here on TL and show people what true micro is and what SC2 should have looked like in my opinion. But I gave up realising it was a bad idea, it would probably come off as trashing SC2 which was not my intention so I never made the thread. But I have this secret desire of AoE becoming a true e-sport, taking sc2's place which I feel it deserves.  )
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Was very excited to see this, preordered it right away Don't know if I'll ever try to get into the multiplayer but it'll be fun to play the campaign again for sure or just mess around with friends.
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On March 11 2013 19:22 Capped wrote:Show nested quote +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.
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