Age of Empires series
 

I have played this series since the original AoE. Rise of Rome, Age of Kings and Age of Conquerors were some of my favorite games ever. The latter two were, in my opinion, the best RTS games ever made. What I can't understand is, how has there not been a truly worthy RTS game since (or has there, and I am just missing it?). 3-D RTS's to this point have not really done anything for me, and I can't understand why Age of Mythology and Age of Empires 3 sucked so bad.

Did anyone else play this series (offline or online)? Do you agree that there hasn't been a sequel that captures the fun, strategy, community, and innovation since?

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During my first year of university, a bunch of buddies and I got pretty into AoE3 lan games, playing it quite a lot. I thought it was alright, but in a lot of ways very unbalanced. It wasn't necessarily the things you mentioned that made me dislike it.

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I loved AOE2, and think it was near the top, but not quite there. I'd count Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, and possibly Supreme Commander as very worthwhile new(ish) entries.

I don't think the AOE2 community was notably better than that of some other games. It was lively, yeah, but maybe too much so for there to be that much of a feel of community about it. That people posted replays and analyses of them and of strats was very cool though. I just don't think that's enough to make it have a real community feel. More like interaction, but at a distance.

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I played AoE and RoR to death; used to play them online almost daily. AoE2 I thought wasn't as good but was still playable, but it just got progressively worse until I totally went off the series. AoM I completed in less than a day and I can't remember what it was about because it was that crap.

Have you tried Warcraft 3? I've not played the prequels but there are loads of different and fun maps you can download and play on battle.net. You get maps with mini games, RPG maps, tower defence etc.

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I've been pretty bored with Blizzard RTS's since Warcraft 2, though I've played all of them. I'd like another Warcraft 2 game, same style and setting. I don't like the the concentration on small squads in WC3 nearly as much. I didn't even get all the way through that game.

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I thought Age of Mythology was amazing.

This is coming from someone who never played AoE1 though, and only AoE2 for a little bit.

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Try out company of heroes, great ww2 game. look it up on google, its truly an amazing rts game, expansion is coming soon too.

AoE series is my favorite, I liked starcraft, but company of heroes is coming damn close to 1st

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I thought Age of Mythology was amazing.

This is coming from someone who never played AoE1 though, and only AoE2 for a little bit.

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AoM had some pretty good multiplayer but omfg AoE III was horrible. I have high hopes for ensembles next game Halo Wars.

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AoC FTW. I still pop on and play a game on occasion at igzones.com.

Deathmatch is the [censored] btw, and random map is for little girls...

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AoC FTW. I still pop on and play a game on occasion at igzones.com.

Deathmatch is the [censored] btw, and random map is for little girls...

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Hahahaha. no.