Topic: Age of Empires II HD - Coming to Steam 4-9-13

[Ultimatum]

There's ANOTHER expansion pack coming out from the same guys

Just give us Age of Empires 4 already.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/488060/

[Yokto]

Yeah I said that before. South East Asia is a interesting area. I have a mount and blade mod about that region.

[Legodragonxp]

There's ANOTHER expansion pack coming out from the same guys

Just give us Age of Empires 4 already.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/488060/

I don't know, the vampires thing is overplayed, Asian Vampires doubly-so.

-Lego

[PatMan33]

I like that they support this game still.

I can't help but feel a bit cynical about it though. Because someone was right, where is the new game?? You're just bilking money out of people that have fond memories of a 20 year old game. Where's the new game? Do you actually care about this genre, Microsoft?

[Yokto]

I am pretty sure that there where outsiders that badgered MS over at least letting them have a change to re-release the game in a HD version and add expansions to the game. I do not think MS has much of a plan for Age of Empires really. After all Ensemble Studios was closed down by Microsoft. And that is why there is no Age of Empires 4 in the works (That we know off).

[Krakow Sam]

Yeah, it's not really a re-release so much as an official continuation of community-led updates to the game.

[Yokto]

Precisely. Though it does show that Age of Empires has a pretty dedicated fan base.

[PatMan33]

I do not think MS has much of a plan for Age of Empires

This makes much more sense. Of course Microsoft had almost nothing to do with it.

[Yokto]

Aye. But they still own the IP. So nothing will be done with the IP if they do not want something to be done with it.

[Hydromancerx]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwZ6GZXWhA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYwZ6GZXWhA</a>

[Krakow Sam]

Guess no gameplay details yet.

Are they just going to smoosh together AoE I, II and III into one game where a multiplayer skirmish takes six hours?

[Ultimatum]

Relic is involved,I highly doubt the guys behind Dawn of war and company of heros would make the game that slow

[Yokto]

I would not mind that however as I am a big fan of Total Annihilation. And 6 hours of excitement was not unheard of in that game. But my guess is that is going to be a quicker game. I hope it is not going to resemble a Relic game more than an Age of Empires game. Not that there is something wrong with Relic. But I do not need a new company of heroes or dawn of war. If they want to do that then just make sequels to those games.

Oh and there doing apparently a Definitive edition of Age of Empires 2 and 3 too. Well, not Relic but Microsoft then the studios they have tasked with that.

[Krakow Sam]

Oh, relic are behind it? Mite b cool.