RTS New expansion announced for Age of Mythology. Yes, after 13 years.

[Outlander]

13 years. It’s been 13 years since the release of Age of Mythology on PC. And 12 years since the release of its expansion pack: The Titans. But for great games like Age of Mythology, these years are merely a number. It’s time for a new expansion pack!

http://www.forgottenempires.net/age-of-mythology-tale-of-the-dragon-announcement

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

The re-release must have raked in the sales.
Nice.

 

[Archibald]

The re-release must have raked in the sales.
Nice.

Would be interesting to see if these old games are outselling new RTS games.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Yeah it's going to be like the forgotten empire. An amateurish mod priced at 15, that stands out like a stain among the other assets.

DO NOT buy it. DO NOT fucking buy it.

 

[Hoodoo]

hope you can train dragon-parade people-worms

 

[Havoc]

Would be interesting to see if these old games are outselling new RTS games.

There are any? I only heard about the Goo or something.

 

[Morality Games]

Guess Siege of Dragonspear set a trend.

 

[Angthoron]

Oh hey Microsoft, you know what would've been a good idea?

Not fucking up Ensemble Studios, you twats.

 

[Infinitron]

Guess Siege of Dragonspear set a trend.

It probably has more to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Empires_II:_The_Forgotten

 

[a Goat]

Not fucking up Ensemble Studios, you twats.

Halo and Kinect were more important tho.

Ensemble didn't rhyme with Mountain Dew so well.

 

[Zephyr Arsland]

Got mixed feelings about this. I played the hell out of AoM back in the day. But I was in highschool, for fuck's sake. I don't even know what to think. I didn't get the Extended edition. Will it be worth it?

 

[Zephyr Arsland]

So what was up with China around Trojan war times? Think that was bronze age, right?
They should put Persians/Iranians in the next expansion, because ZOROASTRIANS! (althrough I think that's after the time frame, ins't this the time of Elam?) Olmecs, Celts or Scythians would rock, too.

I want Ereshkigal.
...
Wait, we already have Hel and Hekate. Damn.

 

[GrainWetski]

The re-release must have raked in the sales.
Nice.

http://steamspy.com/app/266840

Pretty fucking good for a re-release, I imagine.

 

[Volrath]

Guess Siege of Dragonspear set a trend.

 

[Morality Games]

Its just a casual observation for humor's sake.

 

[Outlander]

http://steamspy.com/app/266840

Pretty fucking good for a re-release, I imagine.

Yep, AoE/AoM used to be hugely popular in the late 90s, early 00s.

 

[Sinatar]

Would be interesting to see if these old games are outselling new RTS games.

Age of Empires 2 HD: 2,537,304
Age of Mythology EE: 566,630

Grey Goo: 118,984
Act of Aggression: 68,060

 

[JarlFrank]

So what was up with China around Trojan war times? Think that was bronze age, right?
They should put Persians/Iranians in the next expansion, because ZOROASTRIANS! (althrough I think that's after the time frame, ins't this the time of Elam?) Olmecs, Celts or Scythians would rock, too.

Assyrians, fuck yeah. Ultimate rapesquads of doom, only mongols are more rapethirsty

 

[JarlFrank]

Age of Empires 2 HD: 2,537,304
Age of Mythology EE: 566,630

Grey Goo: 118,984
Act of Aggression: 68,060

Well, I bet if someone were to make a quality Age-of-X style of RTS, it would have good sales. There haven't been any new releases in this particular subgenre in years, only thing I'm aware of is that open source clone 0 AD.

 

[treave]

What was up with China in the Bronze Age or so, y'all? treave?

Historically, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang_dynasty

But if we're talking about mythology, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fengshen_Yanyi

 

[Archibald]

Age of Empires 2 HD: 2,537,304
Age of Mythology EE: 566,630

Grey Goo: 118,984
Act of Aggression: 68,060

Well thats worse than I imagined, thanks.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

Age of Empires 2 HD: 2,537,304
Age of Mythology EE: 566,630

Grey Goo: 118,984
Act of Aggression: 68,060

This is good news. Fuckers deserve it for making banal shit disguised as original.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I really liked AoM and The Titans. I really hope the new expansion has a good story, because I liked that part of AoM - one long campaign as opposed to separate scenarios.

 

[pippin]

Yeah it's going to be like the forgotten empire. An amateurish mod priced at 15, that stands out like a stain among the other assets.

DO NOT buy it. DO NOT fucking buy it.

This is kind of my opinion as well. Long before realizing there was a thing called Forgotten Empires, I played some fanmade scenarios and campaigns and those were all of dubious quality, so I'm kind of wary when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Also the RTS genre killed itself by releasing clone after clone after clone after clone, etc. It's not like RPGs, which tried to be mainstream but couldn't.

 

[tyrannosaurus rex]

RTS are gaming's biggest disappointment. Somehow they stopped believing they could attract a wide diverse audience in favor of appealing to the nolives and ADD afflicted teenagers.

Doesn't help that RTSs are generally serious pieces of coding, not something untrained indies can handle. More than a decade and CA has never nailed the code that would allow for fluid soldiers movement and fighting in their games. Has there ever been a good survival RTS outside of warcraft custom maps? That shit would kill, but it's not being made. Good sim hybrids? Once every 10 years. I would rather hit my dick with a steel pipe over and over again than consider something as dull as Starcraft as the pinacle of RTS.