Why is Age of Empires 4 never discussed here? It's great

Why is Age of Empires 4 never discussed here? It's great

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  1. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    They ruined it with the woke bullshit

  2. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    What is the point of this game when 2 DE exist?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      4 is superior to AOE2

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      4 is nice change of pace and fresh air. At least I've already played more than enough aoe2 in this life time.
      I don't care for multiplayer stuff and aoe4 campaigns are pretty good. Better than aoe2 campaigns I think.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Playing the same game over and over for thousands of hours gets kinda stale

  3. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    the procedural paths are sovl technology. also the audio is awesome.

  4. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was thinking of getting it but I can't get an answer if the campaigns are good.
    I'm afraid I'll probably be too bad at aoe2 multiplayer when I try it out so might as well keep going through those campaigns

  5. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I fricking hate the UI, I hate the esports graphics and UI
    I hate the souless UI

  6. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is AoE4 any good if you like playing against bots and turtling? I loved doing it in 3, but there were limited defense options. And you needed a mod to build walls over train tracks.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not really. Not many defensive options. The AI is also overly aggressive, but not very adaptable and has infinite resources, like all of Relic's games. So even on easy they'll be at feudal within a couple minutes and spamming a large group of units at you. If you manage to fight off the early attacks, you'll probably win because their attacks tend to slow down drastically after that. I despise their style of AI. It's unfun garbage in the Company of Heroes games too. Super hard to beat at first, but then way too easy once you figure it out. AoE2 DE's AI is significantly more fun.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        That sucks. Exactly the type of AI I hate playing against.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        doesn't this mean a turtle beats them every time?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          He's moronic. Turtling against the AI gets you skullfricked. Early aggro is always the bane against AI and player alike

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'm a beginner, and I've won every match so far by pushing early aggression with english longbows, spearmen, and man-at-arms. (five matches)

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          No, not unless you're very, very fast to prevent the AI's early rushes. There's not much you can do to turtle in this game anyway, it's not a proper RTS with extensive defensive options and base building mechanics. It's moba-lite garbage like Company of Heroes 2 and Dawn of War 3.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            >he's still lying
            lel

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            comparing CoH2 to DoW3 seems hyperbolic.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes

  7. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Have they added more content? I liked the campaigns, but overall it's just less content than AoE2. It isn't just civs, it's things like map types and gameplay rulesets, too. I get it's almost absurd at how much content AoE2 has so it's hard to match, but I played AoE4 on release and it seemed that they just kept updating AoE2 instead of improving AoE4 so I just stopped myself.

  8. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    age1 can't be topped
    age2 is arguably the same level

  9. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's not. It's a shitty attempt at cloning/rehashing AoE2 with a mix of AoE3 and Company of Heroes mechanics. It sucks ass. The AI cheats with infinite resources. The graphics are mobile game tier. It's shit and Relic is a terrible developer.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      how the frick did relic get hands on this ip in the first place, all the games they have made suck mad balls

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        good or bad they are the only rts developer remaining

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >all the games they have made suck mad balls
        Company of Heroes, Homeworld and Dawn of War are god-tier RTS and better than your favorite game.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          lol

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            not lol but facts lol

            Anon, Homeworld came out 40 years ago. Not a single person involved in making it a good game works at Relic any more.

            He said Relic never made a good game

            If he just said nu-Relic never made a good game then yeah I would probably agree.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              the games you listed are either mediocre or outright bad

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                seethe more, CoH1 is the greatest RTS of all time

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, Homeworld came out 40 years ago. Not a single person involved in making it a good game works at Relic any more.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because Microsoft are scum. They killed off Ensemble in 2009 after releasing Halo Wars and have been teabagging the corpse of Age of Empires ever since. Relic is basically the only RTS developer left besides Creative Assembly (if the Total War series even really counts) and Petroglyph who usually work with EA and are probably not a big studio anymore.

        I agree that Relic's form of RTS are pretty fricking garbage though. I liked Homeworld, Impossible Creatures, CoH 1, and Dawn of War 1 and 2 but they were never really on par with AoE, CnC, and Starcraft. And some of their games are just outright awful like DoW 3 and AoE 4. CoH 3 might eventually be good but I doubt it.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Besides the aesthetics and storylines in the Dawn of War games, their games really do not have anything going for them.

        >No base building
        >garbage overly aggressive AI that cheats
        >capture point mode instead of the proper RTS mode
        >low unit caps
        >automated economy
        >aggressive monetization

        They basically just make moba's. Age of Empires 4 has no appeal to RTS or Age of Empires fans. It's basically as bad as Dawn of War 3.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >blatant lie
          >don't care, not a compstomper
          >sacred sites are one of 3 possible victory conditions in a match
          >200 pop cap just like 2
          >outside of not having to reseed farms nothing about the economy is automated
          >the game has one DLC that adds 2 new factions (each one is more complex than any AoE2) faction and 4 variants of existing factions (each one is also more complex than any AoE2 civ)

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Anon...you weren't supposed to point that out.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Any post that praises Age of Empire 4 is an obvious marketer. Any post that disparages Age of Empires 2 in the process is an idiot on top of that who has no business even discussing this genre, or video games in general.

            Post discarded.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >reddit spacing
              Take a bath stinky

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              >in the end, he failed to respond to the post without sounding mad

  10. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It feels too manufactured.

  11. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it looks like souless goyslop

  12. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's shit.

  13. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Woke retread of AoE2.

    We already had Age of Empires 2. We didn't need Age of Empires 2 2: EGS Edition.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      They ruined it with the woke bullshit

      Can you anons explain what makes it woke? Haven't played and I'm curious what they added for this reaction.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Women warriors.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          women vills

          The frick you are on about?
          They are great!
          I can't be the only one who creates them in masses just to kill them in the most creative ways possible, haha.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        women vills

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Women warriors.

          That's it? I was expecting more than that if it's getting called woke.

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            well, the hi/v/emind will always spew its garbage

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Devs added Turks and Malians in a free patch, and Malians have access to a Dahomean infantry regiment made up of huntresses, who serve as their anti-armor unit.
        He got his ass reamed by going for a M@A rush into them, and now he's venting here.

  14. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do walls work? I feel like any army can burn through wood and one battering ram can take down a stone wall. Is turtle not viable?

  15. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    wait... there was an Age of Empires 3 and 4?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes and both of them are better and more fun than II

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        brother are you getting paid or something?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. But only 3 is valid because it was still made by Ensemble. 4 is a dogshit imposter by Microsoft and Relic that poorly emulates the Age of Empires formula with way too many compromising Company of Heroes-esque mechanics like capture points and a lesser focus on base building.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >way too many compromising Company of Heroes-esque mechanics like capture points and a lesser focus on base building
        I love it when anons just lie blatantly and people will believe them because no one plays games on Ganker

        >AOE4
        >do the same rush
        >do the same build

        Painfully boring

        >/vt/ranny defending Age of Crossbowmen 2

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >oh boy i can't wait to play vikings i want to use their berserk that sounds so cool
          >have to play crossbowman or lose
          >never get to use your unique unit

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            >he posted it again
            Man when your mind gets stuck on something it really stays in that track huh?

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's pretty much true though. If you aren't building crossbows or knights you're playing the game wrong.
              Especially if you build melee infantry.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                It’s not true. Idk when you last played but the meta has shifted from that a while ago

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Meanwhile AOE4 massing infantry (particularly as HRE) is extremely viable

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Huh?????? That's more like AOE2 because u have to go crossbow every m atch or lose

          I've never played AOE2, it's a shame it's basically AOE4 but old.

          Broodwar is still the king babeeeeeeeeeeee

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        There are no capture points and base building is expanded over aoe2.

  16. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    The UI is still shit and the cartoony arrows and spears ruin the soldiers

  17. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's not Age of Empires 2.

  18. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody cares about RTS except a few grandpas happy to play AoE2 and SCBW until they die

  19. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because Age of Empires 2 fans will literally never talk about anything other than Age of Empires 2. There might as well not be other video games to them, so of course the fourth one will not get attention.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like other games but as far as AoE goes it’s 2 or nothing so i guess you’re sorta right

  20. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It looks like a mobile knock off of AoE2 which is beautiful and timeless. I didn’t even bother to install it when I had gamepass

  21. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    join

  22. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >AOE4
    >do the same rush
    >do the same build

    Painfully boring

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Huh?????? That's more like AOE2 because u have to go crossbow every m atch or lose

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >He doesn't know how to play other comps
        >Blames the game

        >It's inferior to AOE2 in every way
        Wrong
        >Sheep automatically follow scouts
        >Sheep aren't hilariously slow
        >Scouts regenerate HP
        >Scouts yell to you when they spot an enemy
        >Farms don't deplete
        >Deep fish regenerate
        >No jank-ass boar kiting
        >No jank-ass deer herding
        >No jank-ass quick walling
        >No jank-ass scout battles
        >No more scuffed looking units (sprites and icons)
        >Landmarks
        >Influence mechanic
        >Much greater civ asymmetry, like night and day difference
        >Interesting, better civs
        >Variant civs
        >There's a civ for everyone
        >Civ specific music, progresses with each age
        >Farms fit around mill
        >Farms fit around town center
        >No more tetris mines
        >Berries aren't a meme
        >Resources on mini-map are represented by icons instead of tiny yellow, gray, and green dots
        >Buildings don't block
        >Units can go on walls
        >Can build TCs in Feudal offering more strategy and booming potential
        >Better unit balance, civ balance, and general game balance
        >All units and civs are viable
        >Houses give 10 population
        >Neutral trade posts
        >Trade is viable
        >Cool campaigns and challenges
        >Scouts different from light cavalry
        >Light cavalry isn't a useless 1-purpose unit
        >Isn't a 24 year old game and engine
        >Game flows smoother
        >3D
        >Animations
        >Base auto decorates
        >Score doesn't go down when aging up
        >Buildings not tanky
        >Units use torches instead of a unit stabbing a building 2400 times to destroy it
        >Wololo conversion is a giant circle with a count down instead of single target conversion clusterfrick, having to individually click each monk and target and hope RNG favors you
        >Brand new expansion

        >Even all of the old big players like Viper went back to AOE2
        I don't care about the smeleegays of the RTS community and neither should you

        >List changes
        >"These are all improvements btw"

  23. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    They really should have done something other than "like AoE2 but in 3D".

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      if they actually did aoe 2 but 3d it might have been a playable game instead of the boring dogshit it is, but they weren't even capable of that

  24. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that 2gays are the Meleegays of RTS games.
    Take a bath stinky

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >2 has more players on average
      what did they mean by this

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        More thirdies play it which is why the peaks are lower but a lot longer.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >2 has more players on average
      what did they mean by this

      The old AoE2 has 3000+ players not shown here

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        And those people are the most intelligent ones because they aren't playing the dogshit DE and its borked pathfinding.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Old AoE2 pathfinding is even more borked. Go actually play it instead of talking shit on the internet

  25. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    when i played, there was no "your base is under attack" audio alert, just a random sound effect whenever you were getting hit, regardless of wether it was a little tower off in the woods or your TC. little stuff like that all over relic games that just screams WE DONT PLAY OUR OWN GAME and yeah after coh3 i dont care how good aoe4 might be not a dollar more to relic

  26. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >why is woke shit that adds nothing meaningful not discussed here
    No clue

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      cope

  27. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >post dow 3 Relic games

  28. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I want Spain already. Where's Supremacy?

  29. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because it's complete and total trash. Dumb pajeet shill

  30. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It sucks. It's inferior to AOE2 in every way. Even all of the old big players like Viper went back to AOE2 after their contract with MS ran out on 4

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It's inferior to AOE2 in every way
      Wrong
      >Sheep automatically follow scouts
      >Sheep aren't hilariously slow
      >Scouts regenerate HP
      >Scouts yell to you when they spot an enemy
      >Farms don't deplete
      >Deep fish regenerate
      >No jank-ass boar kiting
      >No jank-ass deer herding
      >No jank-ass quick walling
      >No jank-ass scout battles
      >No more scuffed looking units (sprites and icons)
      >Landmarks
      >Influence mechanic
      >Much greater civ asymmetry, like night and day difference
      >Interesting, better civs
      >Variant civs
      >There's a civ for everyone
      >Civ specific music, progresses with each age
      >Farms fit around mill
      >Farms fit around town center
      >No more tetris mines
      >Berries aren't a meme
      >Resources on mini-map are represented by icons instead of tiny yellow, gray, and green dots
      >Buildings don't block
      >Units can go on walls
      >Can build TCs in Feudal offering more strategy and booming potential
      >Better unit balance, civ balance, and general game balance
      >All units and civs are viable
      >Houses give 10 population
      >Neutral trade posts
      >Trade is viable
      >Cool campaigns and challenges
      >Scouts different from light cavalry
      >Light cavalry isn't a useless 1-purpose unit
      >Isn't a 24 year old game and engine
      >Game flows smoother
      >3D
      >Animations
      >Base auto decorates
      >Score doesn't go down when aging up
      >Buildings not tanky
      >Units use torches instead of a unit stabbing a building 2400 times to destroy it
      >Wololo conversion is a giant circle with a count down instead of single target conversion clusterfrick, having to individually click each monk and target and hope RNG favors you
      >Brand new expansion

      >Even all of the old big players like Viper went back to AOE2
      I don't care about the smeleegays of the RTS community and neither should you

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >thirdie struggling to read

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Obvious shill is obvious. Why is Microsoft trying so hard do to market this dead game all of the sudden? It's an abomination.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >in the end, he failed to respond to the post without sounding mad

  31. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Age of Empires 4 should have been set in the early modern to the near future period. I don't give a shit about this soulless game riding on the coat tail of AoE2, it's just another game made by bloated studios that don't have an ounce of creativity left in them.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >early modern
      Frick yourself with a serrated knife
      I love medieval go play AOE3

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Fight me homosexual.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ok wait *walls and booms*

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Age of Empires 4 should have been set in the early modern to the near future period
      >morons still falling for that meme magazine page

  32. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Age of Empires 2 is a whole feel, a vibe. Age 4 looks like a modern gamey game that no one will be talking about in 5 years let alone 10 or 20

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I haven't played it but from the looks of it I think the aoe4 devs thought "let's take ideas from starcraft 2 and go wild"

  33. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    always has a thread up on /vst/

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lmao no, the one up now is the first I've seen in months.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        works on my machine bro /shrug its basically a general

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Right, which is why the OP opens up by complaining about how there hasn't been a single aoe 4 thread on the board in a long time. It's "because it's a general".

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            >no thread
            >translates to never a thread
            ESL.

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Your complete lack of reading comprehension isn't surprising anymore. You shouldn't call anyone else an ESL.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >NO U!!!!
                show me in the OP of another thread where he says "there is never an aoe4 thread up"

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                No one but you said that there has never been a single thread for the game on the entire board, you ESL Hispanic. Learn how to read. 4 threads are so dead on /vst/ that people try talking about it in threads for 2 DE. But I'll humor you; the one up right now where the OP complains about no one talking about the game on the board so much that he has to go to reddit to talk about the game instead. Look it up.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No one but you said that there has never been a single thread for the game on the entire board, you ESL Hispanic.
                no, not even i said this. nobody did.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's what you said was stated by someone else, moron. Despite the fact hat no one but you typed out those words. Holy shit this is next level idiocy.

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                prove it.

  34. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its just AoE2 remake with less content.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >t. plays against bots on easy

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's actually AoE2 with more interesting civs and unit balance

  35. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    OK so how good is AOE3?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's weird. Certainly not a bad game but the deckbuilding mechanic is really unnecessary and a lot of the asymmetry is false asymmetry (i.e. lots of minor statistical differences in the units between factions but functionally they're all used the same).

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fun. I've always liked it. It's not as good as 2, but it is leagues better than 4. It had some interesting ideas involving deck building with different unit and technology cards. If you like the colonial period style warfare, I think you'd get a kick out of it.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        t.smeleegay

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      The best one so far at least you can use more units and not only crossbows.

  36. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    aoe2gays are insufferable

  37. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I dont really understand the hate this game gets, apparently it had a shit launch/bad first impression but its one of my fave rts the past few years, and yeah I like aoe1/2 as well, haven't played 3. The more unique civs and mechanics of 4 is what I like, and how all the spearmen from the different civs all look different, which is one thing I hated in the other games. Fricking european knights and hussars on non euro civs is moronic. i will agree with the other anon that the ui is indeed souless mobile shit, but I can overlook that for the gameplay. The little bit of woke shit is that some civs have rng women units, like the mongol horse archers can spawn as women. english are all men, french are all men except john dark. campaigns were okay enough but were like documentary style rather than a story, but I did like unlocking the history channel little videos, about culture, military tech, and medieval social life. The hate feels largely undeserved. Am not a Black person shill, just an rts fan.

  38. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Vee doesnt play video games

  39. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    It had a shit launch and took like a year to fix bugs on shit like basic tech not applying properly. That said the game is pretty fun, each civ has more of a focus on different economies and base building requirements.

    But ive been getting into aoeIII lately. that game had some cool ideas. I still dont understand the counter system in the slightest but cards and exploration are neat.
    I wish microshit would get off their ass and release the Age of mythology remake already, thats a great game but theres some serious jank in the unit control on it.

  40. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I WANT TO PLAY RTS GAMES! THEY WERE MY FAVORITE GENRE!

    >But only in single player. I don't want MP of any kind cuz it's stressing.
    >Also I want a good story like the epic Red Alert
    >Also I play in easy mode
    >Also I don't want to really learn the game, I just want to build my dudes for an hour and then stomp the easy AI
    >And turtle
    >And I want to build bases, houses and decorate them
    >And I don't actually want the tactics, build strats or think in the game cuz that's for tryhards. I want a relaxing game that is ACTUALLY strategy like turn based games.
    >I actually want a turn based game
    >I don't want to deal with other players
    >And le epic Warcraft story too!
    >Is Cities Skylines an RTS?
    >If you tell me to git gud I will call you a tryhard and a blowout

    >What you mean RTS are dead then?

    Every RTS thread. Why are so many guys like this? Why not play a tower defense then?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      why arent there more medieval non fantasy themed tower defences?
      Seems like a good way to make bank. god devs are morons

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not this time, friend. This is just AoE4 shills being shills, not cowards.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        I love AoE4 tho

  41. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I am the graetest

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I believe in you anon youre the next big aoe pro keep grindan

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous
  42. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    it looks like shit and the UI is such a let down. It's clearly soulless compared to AoE2.
    Not a bad game per se though.

  43. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    What I hate the most about AoE 4 is the keybinds.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      can you not just rebind them?

  44. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    RTS is dead
    it's a boomer genre that deserves to be buried but these Age of gays keep molesting it's corpse.
    Just let it go man. It will never come back. There are far better genres now.

  45. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    The female Japanese sound so cute

  46. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    i last played aoe online
    been more into company of heroes for my RTS fix these years

  47. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Give it to me straight
    How much is AoE4 like Factorio?
    I can only handle one type of autism.

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