boreas real It’s really one of the few games I can always come back to. If it gets boring temporarily, it’s always exciting and engaging again a few months later. I’ve been playing since 2000 as well. Gonna build a nice pc just for DE.
This game will become a family tradition. My father passed his ways to me (he prefers Britons) and I will pass my and his ways to my child/children (I prefer Goths). I am so glad there are still people that know and love this game...
just picked this game up again. I used to alternate largely between the Spanish and the Teutons but I think I'm all about the slavs now. I love hearing the language spoken as a student of Polish myself.
@@ellmatic Of course lol it's helped him get through lockdown :-) my brother challenged him to a match on multiplayer the other day and got his ass handed to him!
_Crazy_ to me that AOE2 still sees development. Conqueror's was one of the earliest games I worked on, so the series has seen development longer than my entire ~20 year industry career! At Microsoft I was part of the "RECON" team that was basically a centralized playtesting team providing feedback on many games that went through MS Games at the time. As an AOE2 fan at the time, I was always hyped when we got a chance to play Conqueror's. We mostly tracked down multiplayer bugs (out of syncs), and also did a lot of campaign tuning (played that damn El Cid campaign on Hard so many times...) It surprised me that a friend from that team actually ended up working on AOE2: HD Edition in ~2013 (he was at Hidden Path Entertainment at the time).
God, I remember playing the original AoE 2 with friends back when I was at University in 2004. Fun times when a 3-player FFA turned inevitably into a 2v1 hehe. Also: Definitve Edition certainly looked and felt very good when I had the opportunity to play a demo at Gamescom this year (has it's advantages working on a stand there with plenty of gaming PCs ^^)
BlackMethos is this game in Mac? I really want this game because I played this 5 years ago before I moved and I really want it, but I can’t find it on Mac 😭
Age of Empires 2 DE should have more violence and blood. I hope small updates in that direction will come. I also want to see skeletons on the ground, they are important to create an atmosphere. In addition what I do not like in Age Of Empires 2 DE: 1) They removed sounds of agony when a unit dies. 2) They removed corpse decomposition! Instead, the corpse is slowly falling deep underground, which is bad. 3) If a bowman or a spearman misses, the projectiles are no longer visible on the ground. 4) There is not enough blood!!! I hope that the game will be updated.
@@arkadiuszjandylewski152 They have to keep the game in the T rating sweet spot. These things might make the game rated M, which hurts it in more ways than you think. The real damage doesn't come from needing a fake birthday on Steam or parents being deterred, but from publicity, specifically social media algorithms, making the game way less exposed than it should be.
Miss playing this with my dad, we had our own strategies defined we played so much. Some of our games we talked about years later we could remember everything :)
Command ques have always been in the game, they are just really un-intuitive. You had to shift click all the places you wanted to go AND then click, not shift click just regular click, your final destination.
I should implement that knowledge. I forgot the thing existed. No wonder I always fail. Thou art victorious because I had the lack of that information due to an iron boar in my way early on.
i had no idea AOE II was still a thing. i played the snot out of it years ago and thought i was crazy for liking it so much. kinda feel vindicated now :)
Why play on unrealistic maps when you can be in my realms? My channel has videos showcasing my maps including: - EVROPA - THE FAR EAST - EURASIA - THE SPANISH LAKE (THE PACIFIC OCEAN) - THE WORLD
@@LaDeXi No, the original CnC gets remastered, not Red Alert. If it sells well, then maybe Red Alert also gets a remaster, but as of now, it is not in development.
@@Gileadean There's even an official EA web page that shows Red Alert alongside of Tiberian Dawn. www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-remastered
Excellent review! I started with the series after my dad showed me HD edition over 6 years ago. Ive recently gotten back into the game, and am considering buying the definitive edition. Thanks for the helpful review!
My dad showed me the original Age of Kings when I was 8 years old, which was almost 14 years ago now. I have played the original and HD so far. Time to give DE a spin.
There are five main problems with Rise of Nations that keep it from being as good as Age of Empires 2. 1. Inferior music. 2. No walls and therefore little creativity. 3. Endless resources make it too unrealistic. 4. My biggest problem with the game is that they use crayon lines for borders, sometimes expiring in less than a minute or in a few seconds. 5. When units cross the sea, they automatically and immediately go by transport ships that suddenly appear. Though convenient for the player (except when enemies do it), its speed is unrealistic and makes seas not obstacles at all which makes the map dull. And the sixth point is one I'm not sure of, since I don't even remember the map scenario but I think it's not on par with the one in AoE2.
PS I hate playing a map in ANY game which is antithetical to history such as Beijing beginning in the Dark Age next to Berlin and Johannesburg. That's absurd.
What is amazing about this is that in australia its $23 (without HD discount) which is around $15 USD, we actually get a game cheaper for the first time in history!
Omg SO many lost hours lol I think my original copy of the game disk is STILL melted into my old computer's CDrom drive! And, I'm STILL trying to catch up on the chores I missed. 😂
It warms my heart to see this game lives on. This is the true "support for decades" promised by lying "live service" developers. This is what it looks like when a game has an incredibly long lifespan, a long tail, because it's good. Because twenty years later, it's still well up there with the best strategy titles ever made.
No microtransactions, battlepasses, or pay to win (not sure how much counter strategies there are against dlc civs, but balance patches are a thing). Just DLCs and updates that add worthwhile content. A shining example of what a game should be.
Damn I play this amazing game since I was 2, now I am 25 and have all the AOE games and dlcs. My father taught me how to play it and I am going to pass that tradition to my children and grandchildren. This game surely is a must have classic (treasure)!
I played the original AoE 1 AoE 2 The HD edition as well. I WANT this! This game has given me enjoyment for many years. And i love how they made the game sooo much better
5 лет назад
I bought the game without any second thought... Worth it? WORTH IT!
Age of Empires 2 DE should have more violence and blood. I hope small updates in that direction will come. I also want to see skeletons on the ground, they are important to create an atmosphere. In addition what I do not like in Age Of Empires 2 DE: 1) They removed sounds of agony when a unit dies. 2) They removed corpse decomposition! Instead, the corpse is slowly falling deep underground, which is bad. 3) If a bowman or a spearman misses, the projectiles are no longer visible on the ground. 4) There is not enough blood!!! 5) The AI?? It could still be improved but it is acceptable. I am a programmer myself so I know how difficult it is to create a great AI. As for the rest of the game, it is easily 10/10 remaster. I hope that the game will be updated.
ok ok! as someone who LOVED AoE1 as a kid! but skipped the AoE2 for reasons i don't remember! but REALLY enjoyed and beat the campaign of AoE3 with the two major expansions 3 times and countless times the campaign of AoM and Extended edition, i think it's time to try the final version of AoE2, it's not THAT expensive atm at steam, but i will wait for a little more discount.
Problem is not the game is just the way its played now. Back in my days I was the best RTS player within my small community, and matches of Broodwar/Frozen Throne/Age of Empires sometimes lasted like an hour or so maybe a bit less sometimes more. Then I met this AoE community and I stopped liking the game that much, this players knew how to wreck you in less than 10 minutes, I adapted over the time but I felt that the game used to be better when I played it at my own pace. Just give the game a try and play it to your liking, for example I'm not afraid to say that I still play CoD black ops 2 but only against bots, don't enjoy online multiplayer that much cause I'm just not that good.
Some questions: 1) does workers still get stuck when building buildings close to each other such as houses? 2) can you rotate the camera? 3) does the cheat codes work for single player? 4) is the lag you experienced CPU or GPU bound? 5) does the AI take use of all the resources such as farming more and trading after cutting down all the trees and mining all the resources? 6) can we choose between aggressive and defensive opponents? And are they actually defensive if we chose that? Thanks for the great review 👍🏻
I am not the videomakerguy, but i like to respond. 1. mostly not ;) 2. No, this would be a major departure from the setting. And the one view is more tactical in my humble opinion. 3) yes. 4) Depends on the settings, i personally did get rid off the fog of war animations (2 sliders) and i was good. Especially with the day one patch. The enhanced graphic dlc is quite demanding, more than is advertised. (not saying they are lying, i just cannot run the enhanced graphics very well. 5) Trading is still an issue, but i do notice they use the market. The new AI learns of how you play, it knows what to do when it has seen your weakness. It depends on the level of ai behaviour how well this is executed. 6) No we cannot, it depends on the playstyle of the Civ that is chosen. For instance Byzantians are known to be more defensive for the player. I found that to be true for the ai as well.
@@AgentSmith911 One new thing you could do with Allied AI is that you now could send commands to your allies to do very specific things. Even things like "Build defensive walls from here to there" and "please try to focus your military in x units"
I haven't played since the Conquerors expansion and wasn't even aware of the HD Edition the game had having different nations. So I will 100% be picking the Definitive edition up when I'm able to sort my finances out. Thanks, Pravus!
Pravus, The Shift+Right-Click to set up movement for units is something that I have used in the standard HD edition, and I thought that they were there from the beginning.
In the old version you Queued up the movement with Shift-Right click and then you had to right-click one last time without Shift to activate the Queue. You also had a max of around 10 Queue points. :)
I haven't touched this game in 20 years, but a company showing this much love to their game and customers deserves mad credit. I'm gonna re-buy this just to support em. (And give it another go.)
This getting a re-re-master makes me cross my fingers for one of it's best clones, Galactic Batrlegrounds! I couldn't say how many hours u spent playing that
Jan 2021 and this makes me so happy to know this remastered version came out. Thanks for the review it’s been about 15 years since I played going to download it now!
I'll consider purchasing it when it's on sale down the road. I am one of those players who only plays story and super casual single matches or random with the ai on easy.
Thank you so much for making this video. I grew up playing it through my college years in early 2000. Have lots of memories of playing with friends. Definitely going to try the new release. Thanks again.
This is my intro into the game, and my god I've been missing out these past 21 years. The day I started I played 5 hours straight without moving from my seat. If you're still on the fence about the game; trust me, you need to get it. You will not regret it.
The original did have the feature of how many villagers worked on what resource using the buttons in the right bottom corner area. But it’s nice to see it right under the actual resource this time simple quality of life upgrades!
You could already queue units to walk a path with flags, you just had to right click to start it. It wasn't necessary to move scout one click at a time. I am really enjoying definitive edition. I played original discs for around 1000 hours and 600 with HD: Edition. I bought the whole series for three irl friends.
Oh boy. Better AI. I already regularely got murdered by the old moderate/normal AI. I am just too damm slowwww! But still a very big achievement to improve the AI so much
Some of these points seem to reflect the CD version of the game and not the HD edition on Steam, as the HD edition AI no longer cheat to improve difficulty and instead reflect the competitive community's play style, but not as much as mentioned for the Remastered version. The ability to tell a unit such as a scout to go on a set path was also present in HD edition by simply holding shift.
Yeah, the shift queuing was always in the game. If I'm not mistaken though, DE only added a quicker, simplified method that doesn't require you to release shift before issuing that final command, like in Blizzard's RTS games.
I remember logging onto MSN Gaming Zone to play Castle Blood online for hours as a 10 year old. I still periodically play, but I had no idea there were 30+ civilizations now. It's crazy that they kept releasing expansions.
I just got both of the definitive editions on steam sale for $23!!! I have owned the 2013 hd edition since 2014, and I grew up playing AoE 2 and 3, though I have always came back to 2 for some reason, though in my personal opinion, the reason is both the nostalgia and the fact that 2 was simply just made better.
Really wish the community would ask for graphic of "operators" for the trabuchet, battering ram & such, instead of them walking on its own like a modern tank.
The battering ram makes sense actually if you look at the type of ram its based on, Those hooded rams were enclosed and the people operating them were actually inside them to protect from arrow fire, this is why you can garrison units inside of them to make them go faster.
Between the new and old music, i still play the old one while playing the DE version of the game. I do wish they add a large map option like they did in Age of Mythology where you can go from small to large and be able to see where the relics are if you've uncovered parts of the map. The other thing i'd like included is the info in regards to the units and buildins, something AOM had. It was a nice little read, specially with myth units or heros.
My PC has a top-end GPU and an 8-core 5Ghz CPU and whilst I don't get as low as 15fps, I do also experience occasional performance issues - it's definitely not just you. That said, I'm *loving* Age 2: DE. It's just amazeballs. Hopefully the devs can sort the performance issues out, because I think everything else is pretty close to perfect (the only other thing I would like is map vetos in ranked ladder). Am amazed the devs managed to strike the (IMO) perfect balance between keeping what's great about the game whilst introducing exactly the quality-of-life improvements (shift-click is the biggest one for me) the game needed to be the perfect 2019 RTS. I bought it three times (my daughters like to play also :)). EDIT: Should also say that I had the HD version on Steam already, but mostly played on Voobly with the user-patch. Am now 100% all-in on DE.
This was great Pravus! I think this would make a good video every month or two. Reviewing a game that fits with the channels theme or on an old game you played that gets a new release (Remaster, definitive, etc.)! I loved AoE 2 as a kid, was the first PC game I played at 6 years old. Maybe even play one of the new campaigns sometime, that could be great. Keep up the great work!
This game is so much worth its price that I really feel bad for people that decided to pirate this game. Just buy it, we need to show support for this particular franchise if we want to see more of this.
Hehehehe I remember being told that I wasn't going to be able to understand what the game was about... one weekend I decided to play the age of kings and I was hooked 👍
The first PC game I ever owned, played it so damn much. The DE is fantastic, I do miss some of the old voice work for nostalgia reasons but the new audio is still great. I haven't ran into any performance issues but the UHD graphics could be a tad demanding.
Nice review and exactly what I was looking for, wish your video was on the steam page for it. I will make one note, the shift click moving can be done in the hd version of the game It's just a little trickier to use than most rts. Shift click to place the flags and then let go of shift for the last click to get them to follow the command, I use it in every game for my scouts. What I would love to know is if they made this more intuitive in the definitive edition. :)
I just bought this on my Xbox series s and I haven't played it yet.. but I remember buying the original age of empires and I just bought myself a computer and it was basically random when I went to the store and to buy this I just wanted to see if you actually does play and fortunately I picked the age of empires and I was so addicted to the game... My cousin when used to come over with sit for hours silently and watch me play the game.. so based on the review and these comments I made a good decision on buying it.. I've been a gamer all my life so I played a lot of classics and it's nice to see like they remake certain games like Dead space and resident evil 4.. I know this is a sequel but it shows you that back in my day we had a lot of good games and classic ones...
I remember my best friends dad playing this game non stop when I was growing up. Didn't get it at the time. 20 years later thinking about giving it a try.
![Beginner guide to the first 15 villagers [AoE2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O7zaXjaJVWM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Beginner guide to the first 15 villagers [AoE2]](/img/tr.png)
I've been playing this game for 20 years. God time sure flies
boreas real It’s really one of the few games I can always come back to. If it gets boring temporarily, it’s always exciting and engaging again a few months later. I’ve been playing since 2000 as well. Gonna build a nice pc just for DE.
@@iforgot87872 i just installed it, runed benchmark, it went to 15GB ram...... prepare for 16gb. maybe even more, i didnt even entered big battles...
10 years including age of mythology
@@petargvozdic4210 Damn, yeah I've been hearing it's demanding. It's truly the game that will force me to build a gaming PC.
10+ years
This game will become a family tradition. My father passed his ways to me (he prefers Britons) and I will pass my and his ways to my child/children (I prefer Goths).
I am so glad there are still people that know and love this game...
I played it since 2002 or so. Love the game
Teutons all way
@@mikemapes2435 Ya! Teutonic Knights all the way.
just picked this game up again. I used to alternate largely between the Spanish and the Teutons but I think I'm all about the slavs now. I love hearing the language spoken as a student of Polish myself.
@@Sellipsis as a fellow slav I liek dis comment
A game that is relevant for 20 years. Now THAT is a success.
Thank you for this review, Pravus. Definitely getting the Definitive Edition.
Relevant?...
@@DsgSleazy Yeah, it's a word.
My Dad has been playing this game since he was 40. Hes 60, and he still plays it often. I have to get him this for Christmas!
My god that is cute :)
I remember learning how to play this game as a 7-year-old in 1999 while sitting on my grandfather's lap. It was easily his favourite game :)
Well, did you get it for him!?
@@ellmatic Of course lol it's helped him get through lockdown :-) my brother challenged him to a match on multiplayer the other day and got his ass handed to him!
@KiWi Dragon PLEASE POST AN UPDATE HOW YOUR DAD REACTED HERE! That is the coolest thing ever
_Crazy_ to me that AOE2 still sees development. Conqueror's was one of the earliest games I worked on, so the series has seen development longer than my entire ~20 year industry career! At Microsoft I was part of the "RECON" team that was basically a centralized playtesting team providing feedback on many games that went through MS Games at the time. As an AOE2 fan at the time, I was always hyped when we got a chance to play Conqueror's. We mostly tracked down multiplayer bugs (out of syncs), and also did a lot of campaign tuning (played that damn El Cid campaign on Hard so many times...) It surprised me that a friend from that team actually ended up working on AOE2: HD Edition in ~2013 (he was at Hidden Path Entertainment at the time).
new dlc just dropped, let's goooo
"It knows how to use the High Ground."
Obi Wan Kenobi likes this.
Now that is funny
Anakin Skywalker has left the chat.
"Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Definitive Edition" when?!?!?!?!?!
@@WreckingWood never
i was looking forward to this
"You can finally zoom in!"
Now i can learn the ancient techniques of setting a castle on fire with a single punch from my Villagers!
Made my day! :D
lol
First sleepless nights gaming were with AOE. Love, forever.
I can relate👍🏿
The AEO2 Demo was the first game I played for 12 hours straight.
This game is just the perfect example of timeless. It’s like Mario, you can introduce it to a new generation and it never gets old or outdated
God, I remember playing the original AoE 2 with friends back when I was at University in 2004.
Fun times when a 3-player FFA turned inevitably into a 2v1 hehe.
Also: Definitve Edition certainly looked and felt very good when I had the opportunity to play a demo at Gamescom this year (has it's advantages working on a stand there with plenty of gaming PCs ^^)
I played in Zone with 56kbps Modem and still fun.
BlackMethos is this game in Mac?
I really want this game because I played this 5 years ago before I moved and I really want it, but I can’t find it on Mac 😭
Great times, this game should be in everyone's collection.
This was a good review my man. I would be interested if you intend to make more reviews on games that interest you.
I second this.
I third this.
A Box is this game in Mac?
I really want this game because I played this 5 years ago before I moved and I really want it, but I can’t find it on Mac 😭
I quad this
@@Tzarclips Why would you be trying to game on a Mac? (face palm)
These aren't changes that are needed, but sorely craved
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@@RichardClark-hw6ic like, we could survive without these changes, but I have been wanting these for a while
I couldn't get into AOE2 because of shift click not being in the game, now i can
Age of Empires 2 DE should have more violence and blood. I hope small updates in that direction will come. I also want to see skeletons on the ground, they are important to create an atmosphere.
In addition what I do not like in Age Of Empires 2 DE:
1) They removed sounds of agony when a unit dies.
2) They removed corpse decomposition! Instead, the corpse is slowly falling deep underground, which is bad.
3) If a bowman or a spearman misses, the projectiles are no longer visible on the ground.
4) There is not enough blood!!!
I hope that the game will be updated.
@@arkadiuszjandylewski152 They have to keep the game in the T rating sweet spot. These things might make the game rated M, which hurts it in more ways than you think. The real damage doesn't come from needing a fake birthday on Steam or parents being deterred, but from publicity, specifically social media algorithms, making the game way less exposed than it should be.
Miss playing this with my dad, we had our own strategies defined we played so much. Some of our games we talked about years later we could remember everything :)
Command ques have always been in the game, they are just really un-intuitive. You had to shift click all the places you wanted to go AND then click, not shift click just regular click, your final destination.
And it only worked for movement, not for say returning a villager to harvesting gold, after constructing a house.
@@henryab43 I'm guessing the difference is it now reseeds automatically, you don't need to queue them up in the mill
I should implement that knowledge. I forgot the thing existed. No wonder I always fail. Thou art victorious because I had the lack of that information due to an iron boar in my way early on.
The ai unexpectedly tower rushed me: i feel shame for that...
i had no idea AOE II was still a thing. i played the snot out of it years ago and thought i was crazy for liking it so much. kinda feel vindicated now :)
I have been playing competitive online on and off for 20 years. It would be good to have you back on the servers with us. Long live the king!!
Why play on unrealistic maps when you can be in my realms?
My channel has videos showcasing my maps including:
- EVROPA
- THE FAR EAST
- EURASIA
- THE SPANISH LAKE (THE PACIFIC OCEAN)
- THE WORLD
Im so gutted this didnt happen to the Red Alert series. It still has a huge player base and i would definitly buy a 4k remake :D
There is a remaster coming for original Red Alert. It was announced last year.
@@LaDeXi No, the original CnC gets remastered, not Red Alert. If it sells well, then maybe Red Alert also gets a remaster, but as of now, it is not in development.
@@Gileadean Both of them get a remaster. Petroglyph has released snippets from both of them in Reddit.
@@Gileadean There's even an official EA web page that shows Red Alert alongside of Tiberian Dawn. www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-remastered
It is out now!
Excellent review! I started with the series after my dad showed me HD edition over 6 years ago. Ive recently gotten back into the game, and am considering buying the definitive edition. Thanks for the helpful review!
My dad showed me the original Age of Kings when I was 8 years old, which was almost 14 years ago now. I have played the original and HD so far. Time to give DE a spin.
Coukd we take a moment to appreciate the fan service by the devolopers? This is exactly what I've wished for but never thought would come😛
They should make a definitive edition of the Rise of Nations as well
When i look at game play first it look like they put it to rise of nations engine lolz XD
There's already Rise of Nations: Extended Edition.
Yes! I'd pay serious money for that. Or Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds..
There are five main problems with Rise of Nations that keep it from being as good as Age of Empires 2.
1. Inferior music.
2. No walls and therefore little creativity.
3. Endless resources make it too unrealistic.
4. My biggest problem with the game is that they use crayon lines for borders, sometimes expiring in less than a minute or in a few seconds.
5. When units cross the sea, they automatically and immediately go by transport ships that suddenly appear. Though convenient for the player (except when enemies do it), its speed is unrealistic and makes seas not obstacles at all which makes the map dull.
And the sixth point is one I'm not sure of, since I don't even remember the map scenario but I think it's not on par with the one in AoE2.
PS I hate playing a map in ANY game which is antithetical to history such as Beijing beginning in the Dark Age next to Berlin and Johannesburg. That's absurd.
Wow I literally was talking to a friend of mine about this game a few minutes ago
Thank you for the upload.
AI be like: This is what i like to call a pro gamer move.
This was literally my favorite game if all time.
This video review is a better review than the one from PC World. Great job!
What is amazing about this is that in australia its $23 (without HD discount) which is around $15 USD, we actually get a game cheaper for the first time in history!
Europe still same nuber but in Euros so €20. It's same with gadgets as well. Srew them
Omg SO many lost hours lol I think my original copy of the game disk is STILL melted into my old computer's CDrom drive!
And, I'm STILL trying to catch up on the chores I missed. 😂
🤣🤣
It warms my heart to see this game lives on. This is the true "support for decades" promised by lying "live service" developers. This is what it looks like when a game has an incredibly long lifespan, a long tail, because it's good. Because twenty years later, it's still well up there with the best strategy titles ever made.
No microtransactions, battlepasses, or pay to win (not sure how much counter strategies there are against dlc civs, but balance patches are a thing). Just DLCs and updates that add worthwhile content. A shining example of what a game should be.
I love the game, was part of the beta and it was must buy. It just need little bit more optimization so folks with lower end systems can run it too.
Damn I play this amazing game since I was 2, now I am 25 and have all the AOE games and dlcs. My father taught me how to play it and I am going to pass that tradition to my children and grandchildren. This game surely is a must have classic (treasure)!
Best AoE:2 DE review, I have seen so far. Great job!
Aegis
Cheese steak jimmy’s still remember those cheat codes this game was love
PabloSheth _ robin hood
Howdoyouturnthison
Those codes ruined the game for me lol
PabloSheth _ We can go way back to: pepperoni pizza
Lumberjack, rock on, black death
I played the original AoE 1
AoE 2
The HD edition as well.
I WANT this!
This game has given me enjoyment for many years. And i love how they made the game sooo much better
I bought the game without any second thought... Worth it? WORTH IT!
Age of Empires 2 DE should have more violence and blood. I hope small updates in that direction will come. I also want to see skeletons on the ground, they are important to create an atmosphere.
In addition what I do not like in Age Of Empires 2 DE:
1) They removed sounds of agony when a unit dies.
2) They removed corpse decomposition! Instead, the corpse is slowly falling deep underground, which is bad.
3) If a bowman or a spearman misses, the projectiles are no longer visible on the ground.
4) There is not enough blood!!!
5) The AI?? It could still be improved but it is acceptable. I am a programmer myself so I know how difficult it is to create a great AI.
As for the rest of the game, it is easily 10/10 remaster.
I hope that the game will be updated.
Agreed with points above,people will make mods soon so dont worry you will eventually get more brutal,bloody and more realistic graphics
@@SonoftheKing787 "Agreed with points above"
Thanks!
Your requests probably will be heard and probably be added either by a patch or by mods
ok ok! as someone who LOVED AoE1 as a kid! but skipped the AoE2 for reasons i don't remember! but REALLY enjoyed and beat the campaign of AoE3 with the two major expansions 3 times and countless times the campaign of AoM and Extended edition, i think it's time to try the final version of AoE2, it's not THAT expensive atm at steam, but i will wait for a little more discount.
Uff man!!!! the feels!!!! I still remember how my no.1 priority was building walls after the town centre....
Used to love this game, prefer a slower pace now though, God I'm getting old.
Funny. I think AoE is one of the Slower Base Building RTS's :P
I guess to each their taste ^^
Must be different now than back in the day then if you weren't on the ball, your game could be over in five minutes...
But just realised we're talking about different things your talking about solo and I meant about multiplayer lol
Especially for you they have a slow speed option :)
Problem is not the game is just the way its played now.
Back in my days I was the best RTS player within my small community, and matches of Broodwar/Frozen Throne/Age of Empires sometimes lasted like an hour or so maybe a bit less sometimes more.
Then I met this AoE community and I stopped liking the game that much, this players knew how to wreck you in less than 10 minutes, I adapted over the time but I felt that the game used to be better when I played it at my own pace.
Just give the game a try and play it to your liking, for example I'm not afraid to say that I still play CoD black ops 2 but only against bots, don't enjoy online multiplayer that much cause I'm just not that good.
I would love a definitive edition of Galactic Battlegrounds, I had so much fun playing AoE2 in the Star Wars galaxy back in the day!
Some questions:
1) does workers still get stuck when building buildings close to each other such as houses?
2) can you rotate the camera?
3) does the cheat codes work for single player?
4) is the lag you experienced CPU or GPU bound?
5) does the AI take use of all the resources such as farming more and trading after cutting down all the trees and mining all the resources?
6) can we choose between aggressive and defensive opponents? And are they actually defensive if we chose that?
Thanks for the great review 👍🏻
I am not the videomakerguy, but i like to respond. 1. mostly not ;) 2. No, this would be a major departure from the setting. And the one view is more tactical in my humble opinion. 3) yes. 4) Depends on the settings, i personally did get rid off the fog of war animations (2 sliders) and i was good. Especially with the day one patch. The enhanced graphic dlc is quite demanding, more than is advertised. (not saying they are lying, i just cannot run the enhanced graphics very well. 5) Trading is still an issue, but i do notice they use the market. The new AI learns of how you play, it knows what to do when it has seen your weakness. It depends on the level of ai behaviour how well this is executed. 6) No we cannot, it depends on the playstyle of the Civ that is chosen. For instance Byzantians are known to be more defensive for the player. I found that to be true for the ai as well.
Thanks! I will buy the game.
@@AgentSmith911 One new thing you could do with Allied AI is that you now could send commands to your allies to do very specific things. Even things like "Build defensive walls from here to there" and "please try to focus your military in x units"
I haven't played since the Conquerors expansion and wasn't even aware of the HD Edition the game had having different nations. So I will 100% be picking the Definitive edition up when I'm able to sort my finances out. Thanks, Pravus!
Praise Pravus! This review has made me glad I pre-ordered this edition of a game I've enjoyed since the 90's.
The first game I have pre-ordered in years :P
I remember the campaigns of "El Cid Campeador" Awesome story line! Very educational!!!
Pravus, The Shift+Right-Click to set up movement for units is something that I have used in the standard HD edition, and I thought that they were there from the beginning.
In the old version you Queued up the movement with Shift-Right click and then you had to right-click one last time without Shift to activate the Queue.
You also had a max of around 10 Queue points. :)
Came here to comment this myself. Ive always used ques in hd and i got irked he missed it.
I got it the other day, the game is amazing, best remaster I've seen in a while if not ever :-)
I played this game so much as a kid. I had no clue it had been supported all this time!
This game was my childhood, im soooo gonna play this!!! Can't wait to get back into it
I had so many great memories with the original AOE2 back in the day. My brother and I would play LAN games all the time.
i was 13 turning 14 when AOE II was released, this update has been a long time coming.
Bruh I was 6 watching my older bro play on his pc can't wait to play!!!
I almost bought the HD Edition recently, gladly I didn't so I can get the Definitve Edition. Thanks for the review!
I haven't touched this game in 20 years, but a company showing this much love to their game and customers deserves mad credit. I'm gonna re-buy this just to support em. (And give it another go.)
This getting a re-re-master makes me cross my fingers for one of it's best clones, Galactic Batrlegrounds! I couldn't say how many hours u spent playing that
Depenss highly on the playerbase.
AoE2 has a pretty big community for a 20+ year old game
It aged very well so to speak
Holy fuck I remember playing that game in MSN game zone
YESSSSS. I would KILL (Or pay money) For a Galactic Battleground Remaster like this.
Sadly it will never happen.... You know... Disney...
Pravus plays Age of Empires II?
HALLELUJAH!!! HALLELUJAH!!!
More like WOLOLO WOLOLO
I swear the home screen for the game IS Attack on Titan
Playing it for 15 yrs never thought I'd see the day when aoe4 would be released.
Jan 2021 and this makes me so happy to know this remastered version came out. Thanks for the review it’s been about 15 years since I played going to download it now!
And you get in after they have fixed most bugs, good for you ;)
Gooo
How was it?
I'll consider purchasing it when it's on sale down the road. I am one of those players who only plays story and super casual single matches or random with the ai on easy.
Hehe, he says 0:11 The Age of Kings, and shows Gameplay from The Conquerors
I felt giddy starting the remake. It feels nice, and some nice new balance changes. New civs feel a little OP but balance will fix those.
I remember watching my brother play this and Age of mythology all the time when I was 5, I'm now 13 and hold way too much nostalgia for this game
Age of Mythology : sad noisez
Clock Gaem they need to remake that
@@andrieslouw8256 They are
@@andrieslouw8256 yes!!!
There is an Enhanced edition of Age of Mythology available on steam with a new expansion pack.
@@johannbezuidenhout2976 is it a fanmade game or a licensed one?
Bought AoE: DE after watching this video. YEET
How do you remake this game and not fix the horrible path finding? That was literally the thing I wanted fixed the most.
He played the beta, now after the release it is a little better than in hd, but still appears sometimes.
trade pathfinding is MASSIVELY better and vill pathfinding is pretty good to. the Guard command being weird is honestly more a Guard command issue.
Literally?
only thing i found sorta derpy still is the rams
They didn't even replace the Byzantines' mosque with a church
I'm a PvE junkie, love those skirmishes 12 years ago. About to play this beauty.
Thank you so much for making this video. I grew up playing it through my college years in early 2000. Have lots of memories of playing with friends. Definitely going to try the new release. Thanks again.
Pravus and AoE II
A match made in heaven
This is my intro into the game, and my god I've been missing out these past 21 years. The day I started I played 5 hours straight without moving from my seat.
If you're still on the fence about the game; trust me, you need to get it. You will not regret it.
Man I loved this game. Takes me back. Must get a pc again.
3.5ish years later, this is one of the most “love letter to fans” games out there, bar none….and it’s still getting updates. So good lol.
The original did have the feature of how many villagers worked on what resource using the buttons in the right bottom corner area. But it’s nice to see it right under the actual resource this time simple quality of life upgrades!
You could already queue units to walk a path with flags, you just had to right click to start it. It wasn't necessary to move scout one click at a time. I am really enjoying definitive edition. I played original discs for around 1000 hours and 600 with HD: Edition. I bought the whole series for three irl friends.
Oh boy. Better AI. I already regularely got murdered by the old moderate/normal AI. I am just too damm slowwww!
But still a very big achievement to improve the AI so much
Some of these points seem to reflect the CD version of the game and not the HD edition on Steam, as the HD edition AI no longer cheat to improve difficulty and instead reflect the competitive community's play style, but not as much as mentioned for the Remastered version. The ability to tell a unit such as a scout to go on a set path was also present in HD edition by simply holding shift.
Shift queue move order was already in the base game. I think they implemented shift queuing on a lot of other game mechanics.
Yeah, the shift queuing was always in the game. If I'm not mistaken though, DE only added a quicker, simplified method that doesn't require you to release shift before issuing that final command, like in Blizzard's RTS games.
I remember logging onto MSN Gaming Zone to play Castle Blood online for hours as a 10 year old. I still periodically play, but I had no idea there were 30+ civilizations now. It's crazy that they kept releasing expansions.
I remember getting it the day it came out. The menu screen was something new and amazing. Still blows me away.
I just got both of the definitive editions on steam sale for $23!!! I have owned the 2013 hd edition since 2014, and I grew up playing AoE 2 and 3, though I have always came back to 2 for some reason, though in my personal opinion, the reason is both the nostalgia and the fact that 2 was simply just made better.
Really wish the community would ask for graphic of "operators" for the trabuchet, battering ram & such, instead of them walking on its own like a modern tank.
The battering ram makes sense actually if you look at the type of ram its based on, Those hooded rams were enclosed and the people operating them were actually inside them to protect from arrow fire, this is why you can garrison units inside of them to make them go faster.
Between the new and old music, i still play the old one while playing the DE version of the game. I do wish they add a large map option like they did in Age of Mythology where you can go from small to large and be able to see where the relics are if you've uncovered parts of the map. The other thing i'd like included is the info in regards to the units and buildins, something AOM had. It was a nice little read, specially with myth units or heros.
My PC has a top-end GPU and an 8-core 5Ghz CPU and whilst I don't get as low as 15fps, I do also experience occasional performance issues - it's definitely not just you.
That said, I'm *loving* Age 2: DE. It's just amazeballs. Hopefully the devs can sort the performance issues out, because I think everything else is pretty close to perfect (the only other thing I would like is map vetos in ranked ladder).
Am amazed the devs managed to strike the (IMO) perfect balance between keeping what's great about the game whilst introducing exactly the quality-of-life improvements (shift-click is the biggest one for me) the game needed to be the perfect 2019 RTS.
I bought it three times (my daughters like to play also :)).
EDIT: Should also say that I had the HD version on Steam already, but mostly played on Voobly with the user-patch. Am now 100% all-in on DE.
Great review. I have the game already too and boy - what an improvement!
This was great Pravus! I think this would make a good video every month or two. Reviewing a game that fits with the channels theme or on an old game you played that gets a new release (Remaster, definitive, etc.)! I loved AoE 2 as a kid, was the first PC game I played at 6 years old. Maybe even play one of the new campaigns sometime, that could be great. Keep up the great work!
I'd like to see a Rise of Legends Definitive Edition.
Me and my buddy would play 2v2 and he would do resource gathering while I would just focus on defense and army. Very fun memories.
This game is so much worth its price that I really feel bad for people that decided to pirate this game.
Just buy it, we need to show support for this particular franchise if we want to see more of this.
Amazing!
Now Rise of Nations needs the same treatment haha.
Yes
Rise of Nations
Rise of Legends
Empire Earth
Galactic Battleground.
Give them to us
So thrilled to know I worked on the AoE: AoK back in the day at MS.
Hehehehe I remember being told that I wasn't going to be able to understand what the game was about... one weekend I decided to play the age of kings and I was hooked 👍
The first PC game I ever owned, played it so damn much. The DE is fantastic, I do miss some of the old voice work for nostalgia reasons but the new audio is still great. I haven't ran into any performance issues but the UHD graphics could be a tad demanding.
Grew up playing AOE. Some of my favorite memories came from playing it
Nice review and exactly what I was looking for, wish your video was on the steam page for it. I will make one note, the shift click moving can be done in the hd version of the game It's just a little trickier to use than most rts. Shift click to place the flags and then let go of shift for the last click to get them to follow the command, I use it in every game for my scouts. What I would love to know is if they made this more intuitive in the definitive edition. :)
Played the Original AoE 1 & 2, AoM, AoE 2 HD, AOE 1 DE and now AOE 2 DE. All this Apart from the various Mods. Damn! Time flies.
3:17 *sweats nervously while clicking add to cart on steam*
Amazing overview and review, man! I applaud your efforts. liked & subbed!
Fantastic review. Great voice and it shows that you truly like games with your research and context.
3:15 - Yo so anyone else stop the video to buy the game for first time?
Its been 15 years since I played, but it looks damb tempting
Just a warm up for Age of Empires 4.
I just bought this on my Xbox series s and I haven't played it yet.. but I remember buying the original age of empires and I just bought myself a computer and it was basically random when I went to the store and to buy this I just wanted to see if you actually does play and fortunately I picked the age of empires and I was so addicted to the game... My cousin when used to come over with sit for hours silently and watch me play the game.. so based on the review and these comments I made a good decision on buying it.. I've been a gamer all my life so I played a lot of classics and it's nice to see like they remake certain games like Dead space and resident evil 4.. I know this is a sequel but it shows you that back in my day we had a lot of good games and classic ones...
Famous Cheats of Good Old days :P
Aegis: For Instant build
Pepparonipizza: For Max food
Lumberjack: For Max wood
Rockon: For Max stone
I am Human
how to turn this on: for vroom vroom
Robin Hood: for gold
Just started playing again a few weeks ago. Such a nostalgic game.
More than that
I remember my best friends dad playing this game non stop when I was growing up. Didn't get it at the time. 20 years later thinking about giving it a try.