I worked on Age of Empires Online as a Technical Animator. It's free people! There are some vanity items you can buy, but most items can be earned by completing quests.
I love the art style too, and thank god I'm on a forum where people will appreciate it. Every other AoE forum is full of people bagging out the cartoony graphics.
The art looks absolutely amazing. But I wonder if it plays anything like AoE1 or 2. I hated the 3rd one which felt extremely similar to Warcraft/Starcraft kind of RTS; not that I dislike them, but I've never been a fan of quick, 5-10 minutes long online matches. There was a single player mode of course, but it played too much like the multiplayer component.
I would love to play an AoE that let's you sink hours upon hours into a single scenario again. I doubt this one will give me that kind of experience (seeing how it's an online game after all) but with that kind of art style, how could I say no to it :poly136: Great work guys :thumbup: I will try it
Tried playing at lunch, spent a while installing all the crap Windows Xbox Live Games (TM) requires or whatever, then it said it was having problems with my Live sign-in and I gave up
Oh the glory days of AoE 2. You know a game is good when you're willing to put 3 hours into building up your civ before even engaging in a single battle.
The first time I played a real life friendover the net at any game was AoE and he got it a few weeks after me. I facerolled his civ so bad he called me and all I heard was a whiney string of cusses and he hung up.. pure comedy gold.. we played tons together was awesome. Ive just emailed him the link.. hahah hes gonna have kittens when he sees it
I'm really glad you guys are enjoying the game. Many people have commented on the art style. Most of our art team worked on Age of Empires 1, 2, or 3. Here is an article by our Art Director about why we took this direction.
This may initially seem a bit off of the trajectory of where Age 3 was going in terms of the look, but when compared to the original Age of Empires, you can see where this look got some of its foundation.
Robot Entertainment started the game and developed it for 2 years, then Gas Powered Games took over development for the last year. There really was no drama involved. GPG just had a game canceled and welcomed the project, and at Robot we had to choose between supporting Age for several more years with DLC OR work on exciting new projects like Orcs Must Die!
lol, anyone else thought that the romans attack was more like a gang of highschool kids running into a kindergarten and beat the crap out of them? Poor kids.
Looks really nice, but MS really make it hard to play their games...
I downloaded and installed it, then Games for Windows asks me for a product key. I didn't receive one, so I went to the FAQ. No answers there, so I go to the forum. Apparently it's located in the download tab of the Games for Windows program. I launch that up, and it tells me I need to resolve some issue with games for windows. This launches IE, wanting me to log in to xbox.com.
I have to update my billing info, which doesn't let me change my country, so I now have an address that's half in Canada, half in Sweden.
Then I have to launch the Games for Windows program again, "purchase" AOE, and then find it in my download tab. Gahhh, 5 minutes to download and install, half an hour to get it to actually work.
I've played the first three quests, I wish it advanced a bit faster, but it seems ok so far.
Also, I really like that you can rotate buildings when placing them
Quite a lot of input lag on the camera controls, I'll need to try it at work to make sure it's not just because of my laptop.
Looks really nice, but MS really make it hard to play their games...
I downloaded and installed it, then Games for Windows asks me for a product key. I didn't receive one, so I went to the FAQ. No answers there, so I go to the forum. Apparently it's located in the download tab of the Games for Windows program. I launch that up, and it tells me I need to resolve some issue with games for windows. This launches IE, wanting me to log in to xbox.com.
I have to update my billing info, which doesn't let me change my country, so I now have an address that's half in Canada, half in Sweden.
Then I have to launch the Games for Windows program again, "purchase" AOE, and then find it in my download tab. Gahhh, 5 minutes to download and install, half an hour to get it to actually work.
Wow that sucks, mine just downloaded and installed, no key or anything.
Yeah the Games for Windows stuff just really sucks. I spent $20 on the premium pack and it's not even downloading it, just sits there at 0%. ARGHHH
Edit: I had to uninstall AoEO, then uninstall Games for Windows Marketplace client, and then redownload and reinstall everything to get my premium stuff to work. What a pain in the arse.
Before I posted this thread I didn't try the game.
And now I did, and I absolutely hate it.
-Too much premium content, and the rub it in my face a tiny bit to often
-Too many quests that tend to be boring and easy, I just wanted pvp and leveling, not the whole wow thing
-Too cartoony for me, its pretty, but not what I want in a medieval RTS
I expected this to be basically aoe2 with a multiplayer network, not mainstream Disney looking crap.
Before I posted this thread I didn't try the game.
And now I did, and I absolutely hate it.
-Too much premium content, and the rub it in my face a tiny bit to often
-Too many quests that tend to be boring and easy, I just wanted pvp and leveling, not the whole wow thing
-Too cartoony for me, its pretty, but not what I want in a medieval RTS
I expected this to be basically aoe2 with a multiplayer network, not mainstream Disney looking crap.
so back to aoe2 for me.
You're kinda right with those but are you sure you weren't doing the novice missions? They do say you can skip them, though those are the only ones I did.
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Also... absolutely LOVE the art style of this.
I worked on Age of Empires Online as a Technical Animator. It's free people! There are some vanity items you can buy, but most items can be earned by completing quests.
Have fun!
I love the art style too, and thank god I'm on a forum where people will appreciate it. Every other AoE forum is full of people bagging out the cartoony graphics.
ah, good times.
I would love to play an AoE that let's you sink hours upon hours into a single scenario again. I doubt this one will give me that kind of experience (seeing how it's an online game after all) but with that kind of art style, how could I say no to it :poly136: Great work guys :thumbup: I will try it
JFletch: I fucking loved that code.
loloolol i rmber this haharhahr
Yeah it's like Chris Metzen suddenly fell on it or something, it even has the blue ambient night lighting going on
Is it like a match-based rts game?
The Vision behind Age of Empires Online
Cheers for the link monster, really great read.
Yup, Gaspowered / robot entertainment and MS studios are all on the credits.
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I downloaded and installed it, then Games for Windows asks me for a product key. I didn't receive one, so I went to the FAQ. No answers there, so I go to the forum. Apparently it's located in the download tab of the Games for Windows program. I launch that up, and it tells me I need to resolve some issue with games for windows. This launches IE, wanting me to log in to xbox.com.
I have to update my billing info, which doesn't let me change my country, so I now have an address that's half in Canada, half in Sweden.
Then I have to launch the Games for Windows program again, "purchase" AOE, and then find it in my download tab. Gahhh, 5 minutes to download and install, half an hour to get it to actually work.
I've played the first three quests, I wish it advanced a bit faster, but it seems ok so far.
Also, I really like that you can rotate buildings when placing them
Quite a lot of input lag on the camera controls, I'll need to try it at work to make sure it's not just because of my laptop.
Wow that sucks, mine just downloaded and installed, no key or anything.
Edit: I had to uninstall AoEO, then uninstall Games for Windows Marketplace client, and then redownload and reinstall everything to get my premium stuff to work. What a pain in the arse.
"yo yo yooo" "dun dum dun"
I bet someone out there has to have made a remix of all those old sounds
And the GFWL is not bad, I'm used to it on xbox.
And now I did, and I absolutely hate it.
-Too much premium content, and the rub it in my face a tiny bit to often
-Too many quests that tend to be boring and easy, I just wanted pvp and leveling, not the whole wow thing
-Too cartoony for me, its pretty, but not what I want in a medieval RTS
I expected this to be basically aoe2 with a multiplayer network, not mainstream Disney looking crap.
so back to aoe2 for me.
You're kinda right with those but are you sure you weren't doing the novice missions? They do say you can skip them, though those are the only ones I did.