Why no more Age of Empires?

[Mazisky]

If the series sold well and was well recepted, why the franchise is dead?

 

[hoverdog]

AoE 3 was shit. Plus, it's Microsoft, so anything is possible.

 

[LESS T_T]

Rumor is that MS will reveal a new AoE game at E3 conference 2 hours later.

 

[rezaf]

I thought because RTS games have fallen out of favor?

 

[catfood]

Rumor is that MS will reveal a new AoE game at E3 conference 2 hours later.

AOE MOBA you mean.

 

[LESS T_T]

MOBA is so last gen. I mean AoE card game.

 

[Mazisky]

I thought because RTS games have fallen out of favor?

How many sales had the last, old, 2012 engine, crap Starcraft 2 expansion last year?

 

[Hoodoo]

The old AoE team has long moved away since Age of Mythology. They were the guys that made it work just right. Microsoft's two latest acts of depravity show that they have no desire to make anything good out of their beloved franchise. If you still want to see how much they can rape a corpse and get away with it, pirate AoM and AoE hd remakes and have fun.

 

[Don Peste]

0 A.D. is your only hope.

 

[Endemic]

They closed Ensemble down a while ago.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Never ever again. RTS is a dead genre and you might only get stupid gookbrain shit like SC2. Can't play RTS anymore anyway, get bored 10 min into the game.

 

[Endemic]

FAF is still pretty active. Sure it's not Starcraft 2, but you don't need 20,000 players online for a good game of Supreme Commander.

 

[deuxhero]

The World Wars killed off so many British they couldn't maintain most of their holdings and disolved, politics from the war forced America to either make its holdings actual states or release them, Japan was forced to become a (supposedly) pacifist nation, and all the other empires died in one of the World Wars directly.

The game series? It wouldn't work on consoles. Duh.

 

[Lightsinthesky]

Microsoft killed off Ensemble and now has some horrible bastards they hired on the cheap raping the corpse of Age of Empires and Mythology

 

[Beastro]

The World Wars killed off so many British they couldn't maintain most of their holdings and disolved, politics from the war forced America to either make its holdings actual states or release them, Japan was forced to become a (supposedly) pacifist nation, and all the other empires died in one of the World Wars directly.

The game series? It wouldn't work on consoles. Duh.

Britain was always in decline before WWI, the recalling of the navy to form the Grand Fleet and the Anglo-Japanese Treaty were admissions that they could no long maintain control over the worlds oceans.

 

[Viata]

Dunno if I would like this, though.

 

[thesheeep]

If you could see past the comic graphics, AoE Online was fun to play.
Too bad they ruined it with a stupidly bad designed "mmo experience" - the core gameplay was rather close to AoE3, which is my favourite among them anyway (and the only one still being played quite a lot, afaik).

 

[Hoodoo]

and the only one still being played quite a lot, afaik

You're confusing AoE3 with AoE2. At least I hope you do.

 

[thesheeep]

Nope, sorry. I vastly prefer AoE3 over 2 and always will.
Only thing bothering me about it is the relative uselessness of walls.

I like walls.

 

[Mr. Pink]

why are you lads calling AoE a dead franchise when AoE2 got two full expansion packs in the last three years?

edit: age of empires 2 cinematic appended to post because it's awesome.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Because Microsoft.

 

[pippin]

The RTS market killed itself. When Age of Mythology was released people were thinking it was going to be the last big game for the genre for a long while.
AoE2hd is ok, actually. The hd treatment is a bit questionable but they didn't moved things around. It's the same game.

 

[Cadmus]

AoE 3 was shit. Plus, it's Microsoft, so anything is possible.

your mother was shit

 

[thesheeep]

Found the Heretic.
Kill him.

May 11, 2007

That took you quite a while.

 

[Kahr]

AoE 3 would have been quite good, but that hometown exp stuff just killed it for me.
Armies just popping out from the "hometown".
And ohh ... i remember... And of course the infinite ressources.
I also don't understand why everyone always talks about AoE II. The first AoE is basically the same and in no way worse.