Alright so one of the first video games I ever played (and loved) Age Of Empires has a new title : Online. It will be free to play but the more you get into it, the more you'll be forced (or want) to buy content, or put up with being at a disadvantage, with less customization, and fewer options. I'm sure a lot of people were completely aware of the beta/launch (16th) and others are completely foreign to AOE entirely but work with me here.
If I understand it, it will basically play out like this:
-You start out by naming your capitol. That capitol is like your "character" in an rpg, in that you do quests (with/without friends) in pvp, solo training/achievement style, and by doing this you get points or items or resources to spend improving your capitol city making it more and more vast. Some examples of this are you apparently have an "inventory" which you can store items on to improve the equipment of your troops, as well as just cosmetic things you can buy/unlock to make you city look cooler and whatnot. You connect to the web and can chat/trade items with people through windows - live. I'm not familiar with the system myself but being bombarded by trade spam (necessary or not) is one of those things we all loved to hate from back in diablo 2. Moving on
-There are different things you do in the game, from kind of a "survival" booster pack (I *believe) to the classic RTS style, to base building missions, or wow quest-like missions. If you are free to play you don't get to choose a lot of the parameters of pvp and are kinda forced into the que and find your opponent -only- style. If you buy certain content you can pvp with specific people and set more parameters.
I downloaded and tried to log in late last night... seems there's an issue with my "games for windows live", however. Sometimes it asked me for a cd-key (wtf?) then for a payment method.
I downloaded and tried to log in late last night... seems there's an issue with my "games for windows live", however. Sometimes it asked me for a cd-key (wtf?) then for a payment method.
Not trying to be a total d1ck or anything but I just downloaded it, made my windows live account, changed the name to K0dachi and jumped right into the game and am playing right now, but I gotta head out soon. Bugs may or may not have been fixed might wanna try it again.
edit: Sorry about not putting this in the right place. With all the branching off in forums and whatnot I didn't see the "other games, diablo etcyadayada"
And it looks pretty cool hah. Just looking around the ui and the options you can control everything from how the camera responds (in scroll speed and min-to-max scroll speed), hotkeys... you can change the way your town looks by repositioning/turning buildings and ultimately buy building blueprints. It's like age of empires but it has a little mmo style grind to it (ugh ;X) and some RPG specialization (economy/military/utility trees) aside from which items you can hold or whatever, and in the end is played like normal RTS style age of empires if you want, and more.
Can't wait to dig more into this later this evening. May be the perfect time sink until d3.
I saw this back in April or May, though I thought it was due to be released in October or November.
Regardless, Age of Empires was my first foray into RTS and the reason I started playing video games on the computer. I just started downloading it. Won't be able to play it until after work as I leave soon, but it'll still be fun.
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i saw the economics tab, which really isnt in many Aoe titles. im wondering if the game 'runs in background.' like its real time, all the time (cheeeeeeesy). as in, you log off, but your workers still work and generate resources why you sleep type deals. (sorry cant really read the website)
i really do want to try it >.>
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i saw the economics tab, which really isnt in many Aoe titles. im wondering if the game 'runs in background.' like its real time, all the time (cheeeeeeesy). as in, you log off, but your workers still work and generate resources why you sleep type deals.
Not really. You can get a small amount of resources that way for upgrade your main city, but the missions are standard RTS matches.
I tried it, and while it's pretty fun it's borderline crazy how much you're locked out of unless you pay. Which would be fine if they didn't rub it in your face all the damn time.
PlugY for Diablo II allows you to reset skills and stats, transfer items between characters in singleplayer, obtain all ladder runewords and do all Uberquests while offline. It is the only way to do all of the above. Please use it.
Supporting big shoulderpads and flashy armor since 2004.
Yeah, well I think the mentality behind that is they just assume the player will measure the amount of time it actually takes to unlock entire games grinding e-currency in other f2p's compared to the amount of time it takes mowing someone's lawn or working a few hours of even minimum wage and came to the conclusion: The core game is free to play. People can test the waters for what they are, and then decide whether or not they want to buy it.
Also I found the bottom of your sig rather humorous/true, PhD. Orc shoulderpads ftw.
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If I understand it, it will basically play out like this:
-You start out by naming your capitol. That capitol is like your "character" in an rpg, in that you do quests (with/without friends) in pvp, solo training/achievement style, and by doing this you get points or items or resources to spend improving your capitol city making it more and more vast. Some examples of this are you apparently have an "inventory" which you can store items on to improve the equipment of your troops, as well as just cosmetic things you can buy/unlock to make you city look cooler and whatnot. You connect to the web and can chat/trade items with people through windows - live. I'm not familiar with the system myself but being bombarded by trade spam (necessary or not) is one of those things we all loved to hate from back in diablo 2. Moving on
-There are different things you do in the game, from kind of a "survival" booster pack (I *believe) to the classic RTS style, to base building missions, or wow quest-like missions. If you are free to play you don't get to choose a lot of the parameters of pvp and are kinda forced into the que and find your opponent -only- style. If you buy certain content you can pvp with specific people and set more parameters.
Instead of continually flooding you with details I'm not positive about, feel free to look at Total Biscuits First Impressions on AOEo , or just check out the official page http://ageofempiresonline.com/ and branch off from there.
Hope this type of post is allowed, what are your thoughts?
Not trying to be a total d1ck or anything but I just downloaded it, made my windows live account, changed the name to K0dachi and jumped right into the game and am playing right now, but I gotta head out soon. Bugs may or may not have been fixed might wanna try it again.
edit: Sorry about not putting this in the right place. With all the branching off in forums and whatnot I didn't see the "other games, diablo etcyadayada"
And it looks pretty cool hah. Just looking around the ui and the options you can control everything from how the camera responds (in scroll speed and min-to-max scroll speed), hotkeys... you can change the way your town looks by repositioning/turning buildings and ultimately buy building blueprints. It's like age of empires but it has a little mmo style grind to it (ugh ;X) and some RPG specialization (economy/military/utility trees) aside from which items you can hold or whatever, and in the end is played like normal RTS style age of empires if you want, and more.
Can't wait to dig more into this later this evening. May be the perfect time sink until d3.
Regardless, Age of Empires was my first foray into RTS and the reason I started playing video games on the computer. I just started downloading it. Won't be able to play it until after work as I leave soon, but it'll still be fun.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
lol zhu ge
they need to make AoE - romance of the kingdoms expansion just for us
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
i wonder if this is closer city management, a la civ, or more like the classic AoE rts's...
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
i really do want to try it >.>
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
I tried it, and while it's pretty fun it's borderline crazy how much you're locked out of unless you pay. Which would be fine if they didn't rub it in your face all the damn time.
Also I found the bottom of your sig rather humorous/true, PhD. Orc shoulderpads ftw.