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Ferarri619 posted...

I guess I just figured since they were all on sale on Steam that I'd pick the 1st one and play them in order too. I own all of them except 4. If I like the series maybe I'll get 4 in the future.
Also I always heard that 3 was the worst AoE game and fans hated it?? That's going by what I've heard anyway. 2 is supposedly teh best one and not sure what people think of 4 yet.

If you play 2 and aren't good at it, RTS may just not be your thing.

And AoE III was/is kinda considered divisive, and I compare people whining about it akin to Smash Melee into Smash Brawl fans. Basically, it was *SO* different from Age 2 and moved into a new era (Colonial, so guns are prominent in combat), but the mechanics and tactics are way superior (especially since each Civ plays much different from each other), and the Home City component always for a huge range of strategic niches and specificity to be carried out. It's a bit more unbalanced though, and early game rushes became a huge focus point of the game, since units can be produced in batches of 5.

So basically, different, but I ended up liking it better. Even Age 2: DE just feels so dated now. I kinda wish Age 4 just re-did the Age 1 civs, with updated gameplay and mechanics, instead of being a kinda re-imagined Age 2. I'm getting into it more, despite it being an unbalanced mess and feels like a step back from Age 3 in some ways.

Oh,. and the Age 3 scenario is vastly inferior to the historical Age 2 scenarios.