Age of Empires 3 IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - EXCLUDING Cavalry Only Challenge
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Age of Empires 3 is often regarded as the unecessary followup to the lengdary powerhouse that is Age of Empires 2. Many regard it as the weakest entry into the age of empires series and yet it still has a decent following and a rather unique charm to it. Admittedly the janky rts strategy combat leaves a lot to be desired but when paired with exploits like the cavalry only challenge, you can create some rather unique situations. So today ladies and gentleman we dive into Age of empires 3 and see if it is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits. Or if this is only the case when excluding the cavalry only challenge.
Prepare yourself to watch french cavalry dominate as they manage to warp in with a non existent recruit time and almost no counter.
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: Age of Empires 3 IS A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME WITH NO EXPLOITS - EXCLUDING Cavalry Only Challenge
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Why is everyone hating on aoe3?, I genuinely loved the game to bits when I was younger
Aoe3 is absolute garbage
@@AbdAllah-lp7wn no
You played single player not mp
Me too!
I never got into it, I'm a AoE2 fanboy. But my brother and his best friend practiced the crap out of AoE3. Apparently people hated playing them so much that they had to start making new accounts to get games. Otherwise no one would play them.
Age of Empires 3 has such a good soundtrack. I had a friend whose piano skills were limited to the AoE3 theme. And I was satisfied with that.
i've always held the belief that it had the weakest soundtrack in the series as music, but the fact that it was dynamic made it one of the best for gameplay
Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard.
"the only counter to the french is the germans"
*Laughs in historical accuracy*
Phillipe Petain laughs at first, but then twenty years passed...
Hardly Japan and Portugal handle France very well; one of the few regular higher level players of aoe3 left haha
Levi Dawson you did get the joke right?
@@calmgoodfire4662 the little man with the moustache? But if you look in history battle of Waterloo it took the British and 3 or 4 country's to take out Napoleon
Levi Dawson I’ll take that as a no then
As a regular AoE 3 player - God this was painful to watch
I know what you mean
I agree, tho it was hilarious how he kept hyping up his "superbroken strat" just to get shat on by the ai in the first game.
@@scroogietw6878 and the alied AI was to blame... personaly I would have liked a more obgective analise of the game
He has no idea how to play
He was right about french Cavalry being broken. He just needed to warm up a bit. I agree, it was quite painful. I'm not even a regular, I just liked the game 10 years ago.
"French coureurs-des-bois in a frigid and desolate climate"
That's called Québec, fam
I am sorry, but I have to be your 70th like, and I have the great honor to say, one last time... *nice*
We forget Québec exists sometimes because it's so over there.
Québécois here
its true
well, with climate change, its not as true anymore
we want our cold back
Im slightly offended by you trashtalking AOE3 like that. It's honestly an amazing game.
Yep, AoE2 Is a classic but AoE3 is still great
It was more my favorite, but game play wise, it was a bit unbalanced and clunky.
Get to Age 4, @@depressedonion5610, and get your two Factories up and running. Have one produce nothing but Wood and the other Heavy Artillery. After five or so minutes you'll be so OP with five or more Heavy Artillery cannons. Have fun wrecking everyone's towns with remarkable ease.
@@adamgray1753 This man is blessed with glorious knowledge🙏
It is an obligation for Brits to trashtalk everything that is known to mankind including themselves.
Phil Mianus has to be the best name ever, thank you spiff.
My name is Marnus.😂😂
For some odd reason it has made me odly excited.🤷♂️
Phil mianus
That's totally like Ashens right?
I think Justin Yermouth has something to say about that.
I just loved playing as the Dutch, and practically only as the Dutch. *BANKS INtENSIFY.*
Turtle up
I destroyed my little brother with the otomans
I used to have an absolutely killer British musket rush strat. No one ever expected you to actually rush with the brits, so having 16 musketeers suddenly swarm the enemy base was a shocker to many. Added benefit of being Britain was of course that if the initial rush failed I could just turn to manor booming and gain an economic upper hand that way.
@@rofln00b I tried the multiplayer for a bit and got rushed down by the brits in pretty much half of my games. 't was a pretty good strat.
Turtle up as Aztecs and just pump out Skull Knights and your enemies melt away
Rushing Russians always worked for me
As someone who played this game I'm mentally screaming at the state of your economy.
I am screaming at how he made his villagers gather wood and gold instead of focusing on food at the first age
@@walterhartwellwhite6482 Yeah I thought that to. I mean even in 1 and 2 you started by gathering food, he clearly didn't know what he was doing.
A Spiffing Jack of all trades is a master of none. Well, maybe a few like British accents.
Always liked AOE3 more than 2 but I also didn’t care about multiplayer at all so that probably had a big part in why
I definitely liked AoE 3, it was the first RTS I played online. I understand why AoE 2 was more popular but I feel like the 3rd is underrated
Same! First and only rts I played online, actually. I learned the importance of building walls early on!
@@TFrills Same same same. I've been playing the collector's edition since 2012, and I still love it. Granted, I go through phases of playing more and playing less, but not a year has passed where I haven't played at least one game. Recently, I've been playing it every day, and one of my friends told me they wished they wanted to play a game as much as I play AOE3 lolll
It really isn't. That game is horrible.
@@Kalenz1234 How so? I also liked the game quite a lot
@@Kalenz1234 your pfp is horrible. And gay too
SO: What do you wanna do for date night?
Me: DEEP colonization.
It's all fun and games until Phil Mianus steals her away and colonizes her till she forgets you
Colon ization
Deep colonization sounds alot like sex
@@Mystickrage Yeah, nonconsensual sex...
Why is no one talking about the MOUTHFEEL?
First Age of Mythology and now this? you're destroying my childhood Spiff
eh
ı still like both *sip*
That's what he's here for.
And that's why I once drank coffee. To spite him.
Now he needs to exploit Total Annihilation... Because honestly I love that game still.
Poseidon's Lure is being fixed.
@@tyler89557 Even to spite a disloyal servant of Her Highness who drinks iced tea, drinking coffee is unacceptable.
I didn't play AoE 2 or 3 growing up. After playing them both I don't get the love for AoE 2. There is very little unit variety and I find it very boring. I personally think the AoE 3 deck building aspect is fantastic and adds a unique spin to the game. Each faction feels unique and has distinctive playstyles unlike AoE 2. Maybe I'm missing something somewhere, but AoE 3 is much more enjoyable to me.
Nostalgia glasses, friend.
I agree. I did play AOE3 growing up so I am guilty of the aforementioned nostalgia glasses. However I do believe AOE3 is a significantly better game.
Spiff is so British that he forgets when he's playing as the French, and calls anyone attacking him the French.
Spiff: we're at war? who is it? probably the french
Spiff again: we're at war again? frenchies
Spiff during a civil war: those darn french people
The one thing AOE3 did perfectly was the campaigns. Those were absolutely amazing!
The campaigns are amazingly fun to play, I think it's because the game was made at a time when multiplayer was unreachable for the average Joe
it's good, but Age of Mythology campaign is miles ahead from any AoE title... AoM campaign was a pure perfection back then
I actually enjoyed the multiplayer a lot more. And the story in the campaign was a bit too politically correct for me, even back in the day.
Are you kidding? This game was my childhood! I grew up on the campaigns, loved blowing through random skirmish matches. The second campaign was always difficult, I don't think I've ever finished it.
The John Black one? Or the Asian or war chiefs expansion ones?
I had the warchief expansion, so, Morgan, his kid, his daughter, I think they were. Whichever one you help Washington in.
I remember spawning in washington heads to win the campaign ahah
the game was your childhood and you never finished it??? are you lying or are you just awful at playing the game?
I was just terrible XD
five minutes in, the french get raided by the german
me : hey I've seen this one !
Heyyy.. you kinda ruined that opportunity :rolling_eyes:
It only took the French 5mins to get raided by the Germans or sth along those lines
It actually fell in around 40 hours. By the way, they have the best win/loss ratio in terms of wars in Western Europe
still one of my favorite youtubers by far though
Guys why do you always talk about ww2 when we're talking about French military ;-; it hurts my French soul
- Edit the Gamefiles, wich can be considered as intentionaly breaking the game
- "The game is broken."
Perfection. :D
Next time we will see usage of cheats, I guess
yeah, he can instantly edit the cuirassier damage if he wanted to.
That was an edit to avoid repetitive gameplay. I can, sort of accept it.
@@arjunsatheesh7609 I am not complaining. Just pointing out something I found to be incredibly funny.
@@psymcdad8151 Yeah, it is a cheesy thing to do, to edit the game files, I mean.
"An army marches on its tea."
-Napoléon Spiffingaparte.
Little did he know, he can build a trading post at the Comanches and they will allow you to spawn the horses instantly and build even more op ranged Comanche Horse Archers
I was going to comment this but decided to watch the video instead.
Cheyenne or Comanche that have cav train time?
@@hnaf9936 Not quite sure
What is actually OP in this game is the Howitzer ship and its' special ability: Crush any building from halfway across the map
Always loved doing that XD
Even better as the brits as they have the best ships imo
Or the Howitzer's with the Portugal upgrade. Impossible to get close enough with anything to kill them (especially with their extra range skrims and dragoons)
Naval Superiority is a must in this game, Pax Britannica indeed
It's not op. Those ships worth a fortune and doesnt work for anything else.
hahahha more op when you have admiral card😆
Spiff the germans receive free cavalry units with each of their shipments
yeah, but they're Ulans, and they're worth almost sh!t. well, I'm not doing harassing right, hence this is my fault.
@@the_rover1 in age2 yeah but in late game with upgrade i dont think so
@@the_rover1 The Uhlans don't have the AoE effect, so your right, the Cuirassiers are better but MUCH more expensive.
However, Uhlans are still very effective against Infantry and Artillery. Considering how cheap they are and how many of them the Germans get for free, it makes the Germans a super annoying nation to play against. This nation is basically made for annoying early game raids.
(Just so you know: Traiding 6 free Uhlans for maybe only 2 or 3 villagers in the early game is already super worth it. The Germans are often used to counter lategame setups with for example the brits :D)
@@Xbox360SlimFan Germany late game always mix wagon and needle
They have one of the highest dps in game you foll
"Phil Mianus can do some deep colonization"
OMG! LOL!! I can't stop laughing!! XD
You like like a teenage and Native American version of Johnny Depp.
AOE3 was the best! I played the game so many times with friends at LAN parties... That was so much fun
"Something ridiculous like 30° outside"
Yeah, more like 40° here on the mainland
Felixkeeg what’s so bad about 40
@@Swagg0t
You'll understand when you can make hot tea straight from the cold water tap.
Michael Braun *SCI Units INTENSIES*
*Russian anthem starts playing*
True Brits can chug their hot tea in humid tropical jungles or in high-noon desert.
I have already 33~ in my room. My braincells are dieing
Clunky unit pathfinding? do you even remember vanilla aoe 2 siege weapons?
Ahh good times.
Clunky pathing is kind of one of the things I liked about old RTSes now its all about blobbing a giant group of tanks or whatever to the most dense point possible which to me is boring as shit.
OK but this doesn't justify the bad pathfinding. I remember playing this game with my friends and I tried to send reinforcements to my friends. But My army stuck between narrow spaces between houses and was moving like turtles. I'm talking about the complete edition which was the latest version.
The only thing that's truly balanced is the Spiffing Brit's patience with dealing with this game
Lol u r gay. Writing comments all day like wtf get a life.
@@realred5736 dude he has nearly 500k subscribers just from his comments.
Let me just remind you that AoM is more expensive
“Despite the fact that we’re playing as the French we’re level 10” 😂😂😂
This strategy dosen't even work against Hard and Expert AI and completely fails against good human players.
I suggest you watch SamuraiRevolution's video where he used this spam against 7 extreme AI
I play casual vs hard all the time and this strat works 100% of the time, still works vs expert also but you have to turtle a bit harder
Dominik Bejma you know he’s ranked #1 strategist in RTS games right
@@thelimon4338Brit? severely doubt it. Hes just a entertaining personality
Line Error is
"whats your favourite card game ?"
"Age of Empires 3"
Of course Age of Empires 3 is perfectly balanced, how else would a great general be able to massacre an army of foot soldiers by himself?
THERE HE IS AGAIN
how?
The god has risen again
i dont think that spiff knows what a general is because he has neither asian dynasties or warchiefs
how many channels you follow
I actually played age of empires 3 i just spamed artillery was broken af
If you boomed your way to a fast castle age, that would be a fine strat. of course in proper online you'd be rushed before you had the resources to age up unless you were in a 3v3 where your allies could protect you.
reminds me of a certain artillery only
Horses though do anti artillery but you are correct artillery is wack in age of empire 3
Osmans
@@tonybren7079 in before someone starts spamming hand cav, and if you're either alone or your allies don't protect you enough, you'll get wrecked
Every time I watch your videos I usually have my audio turned up because other youtubers are quieter for some reason, but then here we are every single time my bass speaker says "HELLO THERE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN" shaking my cats awake and usually knocking a painting off the walls. love it :)
There's a build where as the Spanish you can get the pikemen's and the crossbows' training time so low that they instantly appear when you click on the train button.
Playing vanilla with maximized UI and all necessary UI features disabled in 2019...
yes, Spiff is clearly a 100% noob at this game and still manages to shit talk it... classic british lol
@@deadedea Nah, there are also other countries than the Great Britain and the USA
@@deadedea It seems nobody likes the British lol 😂
Most of the games spiff shittalks he has no idea about
The first city I see in the spiffing brit's video is not London
I am disapointed spiff I was expecting better
Joking love your videos
ACCB 1998 no it was londom
@@yvesisnotaname2813 I believe this is r/whooosh
@@JaylemagnifiqueGame I guess you are right
Especially as brits are more broken
Buuuut, no ones play Classic, you need to open The Asian Dynasties to get around 500-1200 online players....
The real reason Cuirassiers are so good against AI is because the AI seems to hate making Dragoon type (light cavalry) units (Dragoon, Horse Archer, Ruijter, German War Wagon, Yabusame etc), let alone in sufficient numbers, they also don't do the latter with Heavy Infantry (Musketeer type unit), they always build them in such limited numbers that any cavalry can beat them, even light and medium (the strength of the Musketeer type is that they do more far more ranged damage than light cavalry and enough to consistently kill heavy cavalry at range, but also have a huge melee bonus against cavalry (because bayonet)). Cuirassiers counter infantry, so with superior speed they usually have an advantage over a similar number of Halberdiers, Musketeers and especially Pikemen, this is because pathfinding in this game is still la catastrophe. The AI only seem to build Hussar type medium cavalry (Uhlans, Hussars, Cossacks) in higher numbers, which get shredded by heavy cavalry like the Cuirassier and the Ottoman Spahi. This is also the real reason why just building a large mass of light cavalry has the same effect on the AI, because light cavalry have ranged attack and they counter cavalry and siege, the AI builds pikes/halberdiers and you can just kill them with hit and run attacks. All in all, both light and heavy cavalry just completely break the basic strategy of the AI of massing either med cavalry with infantry or massing artillery with anti-cavalry infantry, it's like the developers purposefully made the AI fun to play against for us from the "massing one unit in a RTS"-community.
The video buffered as soon as he said "Internet Explo-" so perfectly I waited for at least 30 seconds before realizing XD
Age of empire 3 is my favorite by far, it is, in high elo, way more balanced
"high Elo"? Is there a competitive scene for this game?
@@LukaCola there was a lan tournament at one point so maybe
@@LukaCola kinda, there's a ladder that u can climb and there's a few players that often do small tournament
Lsfirefox there was a LAN tournament 2 weeks ago. -EscapeAOE on RUclips
The tourneys are amazing i didnt think people could get this good its really fun to watch
Not putting in 40 out of 25 cards into your deck is a missed exploit
44*
As somebody who plays AOE 3 online every day almost
This won t work online
just saying
the deck is actually quite terrible for online play
also everyone plays in Asian dynasties expansion pack not the vanilla game the vanilla is only played by a few hundred at maximum Asian dynasties have a few thousand during euro peak times
apparently his channel only boasts about beating AIs and calling it "broken". What a kid.
"look at the working flag physics" the flag goes crazy in the wind and the smoke is goes straigt up the pipes
I immediately realized what he did when he made the name "Phil Mianus" Lmao Not gonna lie though the cannon physics and ragdoll was pretty fantastic in the game.
I always had way more fun with AOE 3... I like that time period more and it was fun to do stuff like this in the game
Coincidentally, my own favorite time period is the middle-ages, so that means AOE 2 for me. I am not the biggest fan of the colonial era, that said, I do still enjoy some colonial era games, like EU4.
Spiff would probably have found more games if he played with the expansions...
i can handle you shit talking AOE3, as much as it pains me, but telling us to drink ICED tea is simply unacceptable
France OP....
Laughs in Dutch (Halbs), Russian (Zerg spam), and German. (Warwagons)
Giggles in India and Japan.
Hell even Brit’s super musket are a hard counter to France Cav spam.
If you spam a single unit then ur doing it wrong. 😁
Well, if the enemy has the ressources to do a cuir spam something already went wrong. But if they are stupid enough to JUST send a ton of them without any skirmishers or artillery Halbs, Samurai or War Wagons will be your friend.
what about the Spannish pike and crossbowman spam?
I played AOE 3 vanilla and asian dynasties and yes French cav is op . French cav plus french eco beat German double plus german eco. It breat Spain and even Portuguese ranged dragoons. French cav at 40 min treaty eat their counters in battle field and eco
@Luis Vargas
Even in the late game, Samurai and massed Dutch Halberds are still good counters supported by strong ecos.
Samurai, Naginata Riders, Flaming Arrows, a fuck ton of Ashigaru, and the Shogun. Works everytime.
26:46 "well timed cannon bolts could probably shred through" .... oh poor sweet innocent Spiff
Age of Empires 3: Ivan the Terrible can exist in the same time frame as Napoleon, because *why not?!*
age of empires isn't exactly for historical accuracy...
aoe2 also had quite some inconsistencies
And Suleyman The Magnificent.
And meanwhile a secret society is bullying 3 generations of the same family for some water of the fountain of youth
So... He is going to colonize my home, my church? Clerics! Get the maces ready, we got a guest!
Also, start making me my evening Tea, please.
Playing as the French? May the queen have merci on your soul.
Merci ^^
All nations loved Phil Mianus. The queen was quite fond of Phil Mianus too.
Me: sits on a walled hill with 45 cannons. HAHAH
Then get sappers under and detonate under them if you camp long enough.
A broken civ explained by someone who can't play AOE3? xd
RELFIR yea, the guy has no knowledge about the game whatsoever
French is broken for noobs
@@imoptimus3448 I always found the Ottomans broken. I've rarely been beat because of the number of jans and bombards with a hand full of cav.
@@Odwolf2 ,,, dude great bombards come in age 4..u can also take out bombards with culverins....by the way, if u early rush on ottomas, there would no bambatds...any skirmisher unit can take out Janissary...if I play as Ottoman, I would use abus gun in rush..... U just have to know the right combo....there are a lot of videos on RUclips... Watch videos of samurai revolution...
@@imoptimus3448 He is fun to watch. I typically turtle boom to get to 4th while keeping a strong force to hold rushes at bay (jans, abus, hus, grens when I get them). As soon as I get to 4th, phasing in bombards is pretty smooth at that point. But as I said, I keep a handful of cav. I typically use them when my forward spies see attempts of flanking skirms or culverins which I then deploy the cav to take care of. I guess I should give spies their fair due. Line of sight is amazing, and only certain units can detect them. But as long as they give me the heads up, I can turn my main army towards the issue then steam roll it.
Spiff uses Notepad++?
Huzzah! A man of quality!
"Phil Mianus can do some deep *colon*ization" Spliffing Brit 2k19
I miss this game, I played the storyline till the end.
Oh and I can’t forget the skirmish matches
Thanks for uploading this.
I Love your British English, especially the word „fantastic“.
Great channel, greetings from Germany. New subscriber
Spiff: it's 40 degrees
Me: that's not that hot
Me: **realizes he was talking celsuis**
I used to play age of empires 3 and my skill level when i stoped was 25 so i was really good, the tactic you showed isnt broken this what every french player is doing and is very easy tou counter
Solomonta how do you counter it?
You can counter them easy with dragoons
Solomonta that can be applied to most of Spiffing Brit’s videos to be fair
The German Doppelsoldner are the best overall counter. The French Curassier have a 3 tile splash damage, but the Doppelsolder have a 2 tile one, much higher attack, are cheaper, and have an attack multiplier against cavalry. Equal numbers, the Doppelsoldners win hands down. They also have the 2nd or 3rd highest anti-building attack of anything short of artillery, turning everything to ash.
Honourable mention to Ronin; they're exactly like more powerful Doppelsoldner, but the drawback is that you can only get 20 of them at most as Portugeuse or 10(Even stronger) Spanish Ronin.
Less honourable mention to the Spanish Imperial Tercio Pikeman. Strong multipliers, moderate stats. One on one they don't mean much, but they cost about 1/6 what a Curassier costs, and the Spanish have upgrades to mass produce like wildfire.
16:31 "Every moment I live... is agony."
You forgot the 'retreating baguette' exploit, it's when the French retreat and there is no known counter
Spiff, playing as France: ''We are getting decimated by the germans (...)''.
Ooh, the good old days, they always find the way to make you feel nostalgic.
French cavalry is the most op
Laughs in Ottoman Janissaries;
And then the winged hussars arrived
laughs in russian halberd spam
laugh in dutch halberd spam
**laughs in samurai and the bullshit amount of shrines**
Laughs in german doppelsoldner and aztec eagle runner knight
Difficulty easy...
Cmon man I was so excited to see this video...
Still enjoyed very much the video!
actualy he didn't explaoi tthe game he just plaid it semi correct,
@@patriciusvunkempen102 ikr , everyone know that french cavalry is the most broken unity of the game , but in a game against other peoples or expert IA its a game of rush , and they're just too expensive to set up.
Modding the british rocket artillery to launch intercontinental nuclear missiles is perfectly balanced.
I actually really enjoyed AOE III. The card based bonus system and meta progression just seemed so neat. Though I never got a city far past level 10. It's tedious.
I used the Nova&Orion code+surrend to lvl up city faster after the first ones, it take too long and the fun begin at lvl 25
One of the expansions makes cities start at lvl 10. Or maybe it was a bug in my game, idk
@@steelcladCompliant it does
Phil Manus is a friend of Ben Dover, Ive heard.
Phil Mianus*
Anyway. I know what you did there sir...
Ben Dover and Phil Mianus, the two closest friends in the world.
exclusivly french names, everybo(d)y knows them :()
this was painful to watch :(
Gendarmes are super expensive and take a lot of population, even a harder computer will beat you with these "op" tactics. And most humans as well.
Benedek Farkas and God forbid anyone builds anti cav vs french enemy
Japanese are far more stronger than french as well
@@flyingdutchman9053 literally all u need is pikemen if your enemy spams cav
@@ed8212 Now re-read what I wrote...
@@flyingdutchman9053 I wasn't disagreeing, I was merely adding to your argument for others to see
I wish younger me knew about that file editing. I honestly really liked it.
( I still haven't seen the video)
Me: looks at title
Also me: let me guess, op french cav spam?
I will buy a Spiffco Tea mug and drink coffee out of it.
*Evilness intensifies*
How dastardly you scoundrel
Phil mianus ... Hol up, I see what you did there. 😂
"Phil Mianus" Wait that's illegal..
YES! This game was my childhood, I was a bit too young to experience AOEII and I LOVED it!
I actually liked aoe3 more. Maybe because I liked the graphics but I also loved the town mechanic.
MCsciencesmith i was also Never really a fan of the dumb obligatory pig kiting and Stuff in AOE II
I loved my Max level towns especially the Russian and Japanese ones
I hate having resource camps in AEO2 for almost everything, the Best for me is AOEO
I love this game. More than i love AoE2. I will admit that 2 is a better game, both in AI and in Graphics, but i always had more enjoyment playing this game. Might have something to do with 2 being before my time, so i never got good at it.
Some of my friend and i still regulary played some multiplayer of AOE3 untill like a year ago, when they got bored of it. Still sad about that, i loved those crazy unit spamm fights!
the gravity engine with the cannon balls, the graphics and the gameplay are all superior in aoe3. aoe2 has just a huge nostalgia boost
@@dervakommtvonhinten517 don't talk nonsense. It's fine if you like 3 more, but gameplay is not improved in a single way.
@@voidgods ok, lets have a look at it objectively:
1. what can you do age 1 in aoe2? scouting, and maybe walling off for a black forest boom strategy if you are called fatslob. what can you do in aoe3? scouting, collecting treasures, build trading post and build a forward base as well as ship stuff from the home city. id say in that regard aoe3 clearly wins.
2. lets look at fighting. aoe2 has the hill bonus which is neat, but other than that... path finding often is weird, and the bonuses are hidden. aoe3 on the other hand clearly shows all the bonuses and maluses a unit has.
3. what about other game desings? fields in aoe2 suck to a point that its rumored aoe2 hd remake will have some significant changes. building each unit seperately also is annoying, especially in drawn out games. map bugs have a much more severe consequence in that you get royally screwed without an equal amount of gold. you basically are unable to win lategame if your opponent can afford some gold units like teutonic knights and you can only fling trash units at him. aoe3 on the other hand has a way to keep up proper gameplay until the end, introduces more strategy with the decks where you can focus what you wanna specialize on, you can build up to 13 units at once and the civilisations arent all similar.
so tell me, have i missed anything?
@@dervakommtvonhinten517 well to be fair, age 3 only has a few unit formations you can use, and most people don't even know it exists because they are optional and you need to click a button in the options to ve able to use them. This is way more easy in AoE2. But i think the resource management ganeplay is better in AoE3, at least in multiplayer, becausr you can have endless food and gold through mills and plantations, and endless wood through factories and trade routes. This makes long multiplayer matches with endless unit spamm battles a lot more possible in AoE2, where only gold is endless through trade. Wood isn't endless because trade routes don't exist, food isn't endless because farms need wood to make, and if there isn't any stone anymore good luck making proper defences....
@@keizervanenerc5180 ahm, formations are the same in aoe2 and aoe3. both have the option to click them in the menu and to use hotkeys. i cant really see anything that aoe2 did better than aoe3 other than having more civilisations. but since they are pretty similar....
Phil Mianus, that's a good one lol. Phil McKraken is a good one too
Tries to make a drinking game where every time "ladies and gentlemen" is said, gets blackout drunk within five minutes
When can reanu keeves give me my bloody tea
It was injected straight into your veins while you were sleeping, pay attention when your Lord and Savior pays a visit. Geez.
Talonis Wolf, Wolf Acolyte I’m pretty sure it wasn’t gold, I think it was COFFEE, I need the real YORKSHIRE GOLD
why do you think it's so hot over here?
@@Lucipher07 oh, that makes sense
You mentioned both tea and a previous character - you will get pats on the head from Spiff.
Ahe of empires 3 is one of my all time favorite games. Its a old but gold.
Who says that no one play AOE 3? I play it all the time.
Spiff: We're playing Age of Empires Free
Me: Free!?
Me: Oh. THREE.
French: *have the strongest Cavalery*
Germany: *laughs in warcars*
No one:
Literally no one:
The Spiffing Brit: YoRkShIrE tEa
You literally just hacked by editing game files.
Do it more
John Frederick you can edit other special files to make units free or really cheap. You literally just type in how much you want them to cost and thats it. Muskets for 1 food instead of 75 food and 50 gold? No problem. Musketeers with 10 speed? There it is. With tripple the range, you make it happen. Fifty times the ammount of damage, just tell the file to do it for you.
What he did was just saving time and going up levels.
@@MrGollum1996 Invincible anything,and musketeers that can hit anything in sight
It doesn't work online though
He didn't hack anything meaningful. Just saved himself from having to play a bunch of games to get access to the cards he wants. Asian Dynasties makes it much more manageable.
It's almost like when you play on easy, you can build an economy strong enough to support an army of the most expensive cavlry unit in the game. And funny thing really, when you buy improvements, it's almost like the cavlry gets powerful. Whoda thunk it...
While this game isn't perfect, I'd say this is an unfair review. The French are a powerful late game civilization, but they take a while to get going. Playing on easy doesn't really give a good sense of it. The AI just isn't aggressive at all. A competent human player, playing the Germans or the ottomans, counters the French really nicely.
yes, this guy has no clue
@Line Error absolutely he's really good at other games, but it's obvious that he hasn't played age of empires 3 much, he said it himself. Losing the first game to moderate bots shows this quite well. I mean, I'm good at total war, doesn't mean i can pick up aoe3 in seconds. Even 2 which almost everyone has played a lot, is very different from 3. I'm not complaining, the video was fun to watch and good content, but there are several ways to counter that french cav strat.
@@sympunny8636 Losing to moderate bots? When he started the first game settings said easy.
@@raifthemad when he was setting up the game at about 7:34, his settings were on moderate. Then he goes off to check the online playerbase and comes back to game setup at (approx) 9:57. There it does indeed say easy, but also the ai have also reset, along with the teams, so everything has gone back to default. The video then cuts to the start of the game, but it's likely that he just set it up again just as before, but didn't want to show the same setup twice (not the most interesting content if he did). Another reason that it's unlikely to be easy ai, is that easy ai generally attack later in the game and with less units, easy ai is truly pathetically easy.
@@sympunny8636 Ah, that explains it, I was a bit surprised that easy ai attacked as much as in this video, guess they were on moderate then.
LMFAO Phil Mianus... that's a good one Spiff, very good indeed
I love it. An entire minute spent on you feeling the need to explain WHY you have to play as the French. But not your normal explanation; a more somber, painful one.
"The most british of them all"
The Queen would like to know your location.
Captions thinks it’s called Aged Vampires, not Age of Empires.
I’m dead rn
If you think French Cav are OP NOW, you should have played the base game at release. They were even stronger and had the same pop cap as other civ's heavy cav. Total GG once they arrived.
Instant deploying troups are also doable with the Russin, without the bonus of the natives. Even tho that the Russin troups aren't as good as the french cavalry, they're able to spam them just like you did in this video. And you can do that in the early/mid game.
Phil Mianus makes me miss Seymore Clevarge. 😂
Bad name chosen... Should've went for Spiffoleon Britonaparte
Feel Me-anus.
I freakin hope you're kidding. AoE III is fantastic and leveling/building decks is one of the nicest part. I can't stop playing that game. It gives an extra interest to the game. Really. :)
P.S. : I freaking leveled up all the civilisations to LVL 40 to the least... xD
ooo ooo I like heroin that doesn’t mean is good
Not gonna lie I still play this game 😂
Yup me too... mostly with the French :D
"Something ridiculous like 30°." Meanwhile in South Africa that's a mild summers day.