Age of Empires is impossible to play in 2020 because it doesn't stimulate the dopamine receptors enough

Age of Empires is impossible to play in 2020 because it doesn't stimulate the dopamine receptors enough

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The camera is overly simplistic; the controls are contrived; and the pacing is mediocre. The gameplay simply isn't that accessible / fun.

>The camera is overly simplistic
What did he mean by this?
You don't like the angle and height? It's a mid unit count RTS. Anything with a wider field of view would be useless and detrimental to the micro of ~50 unit armies.
I guess it could be slightly zoomed out now that we see it in 4k but that was a natural limitation of the low screen resolution of the day and a minor complaint.

it's very difficult and you basically need to rebind your entire keyboard to be effective (after watching a 20 minute video on what key binds are good)

that said, the Definitive Ed is still worth it even if only for the campaigns.

>>it's very difficult
It's only difficult in multiplayer because the people still playing it have two decades of meta behind them. The late 2010s DLC are a boon for new players or returning nostalgiafags that don't want to learn the meta, because it gives lots of content without the autism.
The only difficulty in singleplayer is that the number of resources to gather is higher than usual. Even then I'd say it's easier than many titles like Supreme Commander, Command and Conquer series or Cossacks.

by difficulty i meant memorizing your keybinds and being able to manage eco/ fight without thinking. it has a steeper learning curve than other RTS

I guess RTS with base management are harder than most games. AoE2 didn't strike me as standing out on this front. Warcraft 3 is the only big title I remember being easier but I haven't played most RTS in a while.

Maneuverability of it requires panning, or clicking the minimap. You're already aware of the alternative being SupCom zooming, which is so superior because it's quick, has hotkey-able locations, multiple sorts of rotation, and even dual-screenspace viewing options.

>it's easier than many titles like Supreme Commander
I can't say it is, and it isn't more varied, deep, or fun.

I suck ass at this game, the ai kicks my shit even in moderate difficulty

learn to fast castle

I can barely get a bronze medal in those tutorials the definitive editions has

learn your macros for farms, houses,and toggling the tc. that's all you need for fast castle micro.

wall off and build a castle or two. that will stop the AI unit spam. then beat them with economy

just learn2 git gud, bro, like just stop being bad lmao

I'll try doing that then to see how it goes
you're right, now I have an elo of 3000. thanks bro

Just make infinite range trbuchets.e

Oh it is the "game is bad because I suck at it" thread again. You either improve or stop playing. Shortcuts in DE are as easy as it cam get, learned them under a week.

just figure out the most important hotkeys or set them yourself
>toggle idle villager
>toggle tcs
>build farm
>build house
>Patrol military
>holding shift while making a building will allow you to spam them
>Holding shift while training a unit will make five of said unit
You can try and learn more micro as you go, butthis should be enough

My deepest apologies, I will begin porting it to Android and IOS at once

Honestly for me its just that it has a high skill ceiling and I dont have the patience anymore to learn a difficult game. I already has my "I'm decent at" difficult games, I cant learn them all.

it's fun you say that because in the last days me and my friends are having a blast playing it

>itt: videogame journalists hating on the only good skilful RTS in 2020

Never reply to tripfrags.

You now realize that your favorite games never were great because tjey were polished or deep or even full of *soul*.

AoE was fun because you played it with friends or siblings as a kid, dicking around with the tech tree and and building a huge army and a wall of towers before arbitrarily rushing into one pseudo-tense and more importantly hilarious final showdown, the outcome of which was either random or pre-determined, depending on who was marginally better at the game. You didn't care either way.

It's not about the dopamine or even game design. It's that you are no longer a teenager having fun without a care in the world and your whole life ahead of you.

You are a bitter and unhealthy 30-something man with no real prospects in life. Your peak is well behind you at this point and all you do day in day out is numbing that pain of regret and longing for better times by clinging to long-gone childhood memories. Echoes of echoes of a happier time that become fainter and more distant and more abstract each time you try to revisit them until you start having trouble remembering what was so fun about those things in the first place.

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cope

Yikes you need help

i literally never touched the series before 2013 and think that AoE 2 is great

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>go on twitch and see zoomers play it 8h a day

yea i think game is doing fine

Stop projecting, my man.

Maybe you got used to the pace of faster RTS games a bit much. AOE in general is a more methodical game. It is better for the wargaming/city builder crowd than the 1000 APM club.

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AoE3 is much better in terms of pacing. Average game lasts 20 minutes instead of 40. Same with AoE Online. That game is even faster than 3

Why is AOE3 so forgotten?

That sounds like your problem, I'm still having fun.

It's not. They're releasing a definitive edition (which will be announced at gamescom this week) and the pro scene is still exists. It's not as well-known as AoE2 but it's still got a decent crowd.
The game does have a lot of shortcomings though. The fact that you need XP and levels to use half of the home city cards is really stupid.

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That's some good news. Now all I hope is that the original AoE gets revisited. I like ancient civs a lot.

Why is that dude standing on Homer's dick

>Now all I hope is that the original AoE gets revisited
They remastered it and it was shit, unfortunately.
If you like ancient civs check out "Project Celeste" for age of empires online. It's a free fan project and they're adding new missions and a new civ (Romans) for free. You can currently play as Celts, Norse, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Persians, with a substantial amount of faction variety.

Sounds nice. Also it's good that they let people do stuff like that.