It’s been out for awhile and I am enjoying it. The game’s core gameplay loop is easy to follow and execute, but I found myself annoyed at the animations, which I suppose is the intent of the game - you take a conscious decision to make yourself vulnerable when issuing new orders to units.
Although the combat is enjoyable, something about the small civilization list made me actually miss the large number of civilizations from past Age of Empires games, and there is very little teamplay going on in 2v2.
Other than the combat and gameplay, AoE4 seems fairly generic to me. Graphics looks better than other AoE games, but it doesn’t run well. Unit variety seems unabundant. Missions are standard. The lore is interesting, but still seems generic overall.
What are your thoughts? Do you think Age of Empires IV is here to stay and help bring life back to the RTS genre, or it will flop and be a failed successor? Or somewhere in between, where it will have a low count of very …
I was playing Halo CE matchmaking the other day when i realised how cool it was that people still want to play this game even now. It got me wondering how far back i can go today and still find playable lobbies full of people