Age of Empires II HD

Much like Eyashusa, most of my multiplayer was done with people I knew so it wasn't super competitive. We actually enjoyed the economic/building aspect more than the combat so we tended to build heavily defended cities with walls, towers, castles, etc. and had trade routes going between our respective kingdoms. I guess we always treated the game as a kind of real-time Civilization more than a typical RTS.

Sorry derail, I know this is about AoE2, but.... AoE/RoR back on MSN zone and Case's Ladder in the late 90's are some of my best video game memories. Anyone around here actually played? Was Phalanx2 on the Zone. Ahh the good ol' days. Guilds were called Clans (wtf?) and the best ones were art, Shai'tan, and Praetor. Being able to co-op in and watch other elite 1v1's and 2v2's was fucking money. art_sheriff vs atsq, CLASH OF THE CHAMPIONS. maiman_matty, methos, staffa, sand, jyden, stalin.....sigh getting nostalgic.

Morbid_angel was sick.

I played AOe2 on the zone back in the day. I eventually started playing Rainbow Six and then Asherons Call. (you had to give it to Microsoft back then, they used to have great advertising on the zone, and everytime I left my game of Rainbow 6, I would see ASHERONS CALL everywhere so I tried it.).

Eventually ended up playing AOE3 on Ensamble's net service until the shit went out of business. Like others have mentioned, AOE 3 and really 2 in some instances, were only about late game, and turtling when you played with friends. But when you played competitively, games are usually over in the second age 8 games out of 10. Rushing and fast aging were pretty much king if you were good at micro play.

I was pretty hardcore into AOE1 trying to get my bronze age times as low as possible. I was in a few guilds back in the day, pre-EQ. You're right, most of those games were done in stone or bronze age, with clubmen or chariot archers. The most fun I ever had on AOE2 was when I'd play 8 person FFA games with no rules.... ie you can make alliances and backstab as much as you want, winner takes all. They were always pretty fun, one time I secretly built a bunch of guard towers on the edge of an "ally's town" while he was distracted with a war and then suddenly declared on him. Hilarity.

8 player FFA bloodbath games were always fun, I could get into that again.

Wasn't Sam da Man a famous AOE II player?

The best thing about AOE was the pre-game chat:

START THE GAME ALREADY!

You guys reminiscing about AoE might like this one :http://openra.res0l.net/Basically Red Alert 1 in high res, only skirmish and multiplayer though. Still a great way to waste a day or so and there are plenty of mods on the official forums.

Rogan?

Celebrindal_sl said:

Wasn't Sam da Man a famous AOE II player?

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Actually he was around back in the AoE1 days. Still weird though.

vehn_sl said:

Rogan?

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You played 2 hours to die like this?!

Sweet, I picked up a shift tonight and ended up getting tomorrow off. I foresee me not accomplishing anything I need to do on my day off due to this game but oh well.

It's out? Release date says the 9th...

Might not be the best place to post this, but it seems like Rise of Nations might also be getting the HD re-release treatment on Steam:http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=3093286

Rise of Nations HD would get me way more excited then AoE 2. My favorite RTS of all time.