I was wondering if any one plays Age of empires two online. I do all the time, you don't even need full version. Just goto www.zone.com . Download the Demo and play me. . My Zone name is _Toxic_Toxic0 . thats all !!!! i wanted to say .
I don't like aoe2 that much...mostly because it doesn't have the formation stuff in it, so your units go astray and get all scattered and that's really frustrating...i like aom much more ...that's awesome
Ugh... AoE 2 and WC3... two of the games I hate playing online the most. AoE 2 has this problem where everyone hides behind walls and gates if you don't rush early. WC3 has the the whole advantage thing when you kill creeps and the whole magic abuse thing...
Personally, I find Empire Earth or Rise of Nations a lot more fun online. At least with both of em, you can make bombers if your enemy keeps himself hidden behind walls for too long.
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WC3: Frozen Throne has that level limit on killing creeps, and a new hero for each of the races. The missions are pretty cool too.
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I play AOE, AOE ROR, AOE2 and AOE2 expansion, and Age Of Mythology and the Empires: Dawn of the modern world demo, Star Trek Armadas 1 and 2, Impossible Creatures, Red Alert 2, and Yuris Revenge for my strategy games. And I'm good at all of them .
@Eviscerator- aoe2 DOES have formations. Get the expansion if Kings doesnt- i wouldnt know.
@KanoBlade- Can we have a game? I consider my self an intermediate-xpert at conquerors, could you test that theory? we can play TCP/IP. I'll DC mail you.
@Muz- if people hide behind their walls and castles, keep them in their base, mine all the gold on the map, and Trebuchet them out.
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AOE2 is great, WC3 is great, DOD is great. Only WC3 stopped working, and so did DOD.
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
yeah.. i remember TA.. making all those supernatural units just to stretch the limits (which in 1 out of 2 cases ended up with a crash )
still good tho, the only problem is the AI, they build their bases way to compact even if there's alot of space (which ends up with tanks getting stuck all over the place), but still, when they start firing nukes, it gets quite exciting
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
another good tactic for killing someoen that hides behind walls and castles is to build castles on one side of the enemie's castle ....that is pretty fun
Beware of life ...so far noone have survived it.......
Yeah, keeping them in their base works... but that takes AGES. Probably about 3-4 hours.
BTW, forgot to mention C&C: Generals. It's a great multiplayer game, especially if you put aside the truck bombs and weapons of mass destruction. Dunno how it slipped my mind.
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I used to be a big strategy fanatic. I've played every C&C game except for Generals (I don't know why I haven't played that) and beat all sides on at least easy on all the Red Alert games. I used to play the first AoE (and AoE2 when it first came out) religiously every weekend via LAN at one of my friends' houses. And I've played Warcraft I, II, and III, plus all the II expansions, though I think they get a bit boring after about the fourth mission.
But then, I realized that most strategy games don't really involve that much strategy. Pretty much, like in AoE2, it's just collect enough resources to build some starting units, rush while collecting resources to build defenses and make a more permanent army, advance a few ages, build siege weapons to destroy enemy defenses, then wander around aimlessly for a few hours with some massive force until you hunt down every last peasant. I don't call that fun, and where's the strategy? Sure, you can build a specific unit to defeat some other type of unit, but let's face it, by the time you've selected an adequate force to defeat a group of enemies, you're dead. It's easier to just build a varied force and sick them all on your enemy at once. And even if you do make use of individual unit abilities, it's not much more than a very complicated rock-paper-scissors match.
Among all standard strategy games, however, Rise of Nations is really my preference. Unit advantages are so extreme that the game actually forces at least some kind of strategy in the form of that rock-paper-scissors match. Wonders add a massive element to your strategy and compliment your styles nicely. Nuclear missiles are awesome, and while massively destructive, their use is at least limited.
Battle Realms had some of the most interesting strategic elements I've seen in a while. The use of the trees to avoid detection is great for troop transporting. The idea of different training combinations allows for lots of flexibility of your army, and actually being able to use higher ground for increased archer ability are all great features. Too bad none of the maps really make use of any of these. The later campaign missions just fall back to the old formula of building troops as fast as you can, with trees nonexistant and ground almost totally flat. It had so much potential!
Actually, my favorite strategy game is Baldur's Gate. I know it's not technically strategy, but all of the things that I mentioned for Battle Realms are present and used gratiously, plus your units actually have some kind of value, since they can't be very easily replaced. That's my bag of chips. So I'm kinda experimenting with tactical strategy games, mainly Rainbow Six-esque shooters and such.
Anybody else into that kind of stuff? Anyone else notice the total lack of strategy in most strategy games?
"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us."
-Henry David Thoreau
yep.. try the Ground Control or Original War demos, that's real strategy.
especially Ground Control, which is a very good game (very good looking 3d with ALOT of cool special effects runs perfectly on a P733, 128 MB RAM, 32MB nVidia TNT 2 Ultra)
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
-- Linus Torvalds, December 5th 2003.
(Darl McBride is CEO of The SCO Group)
this place sucks but don't tell anyone, it's our little secret, ok?
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