Please IGN, delete this review, and let someone who doesn't hate the original, do a real review. This one is a joke and it's quite insulting to the developers and fans. Thank you!
Umm because the point should be that the game updates and improves upon the original, it's called the definitive edition for a reason and AOE2DE improved the original a lot.
I don't really like AOE3 myself but this review was horrible. "A game not as smart as it thinks it is" no examples. "Historical inaccuracies" no examples.
All the games in 2020 what IGN reviewed was 10/10 and it's already a meme just go and check cyberpunk most recent trailer comments. So I guess they had to do shitty review for this....
@Tamer Ciftci My comment meant for IGN and not for the people who like the game.I like the game myself and wouldnt mind if they give higher number but seems like u just wanna have a fight.
Imagine taking the time to mention that there were/are "historical inaccuracies" and cultural insensitivities (including "glaring" ones that remain unfixed), and not actually taking the time to discuss any of these. If they matter, talk about them. If they don't, why bring them up?
@Tamer Ciftci people are not mad about the rating, they are mad coz the reviewer is not making valid arguments. For example he says there are too many strategies and has to spend 100s of hrs to learn them. Wtf it's an rts game. And I'm in no way an rts fan, aoe3 may not be the best in the series either, but it's a classic and should be reviewed as a classic. And stop simping ign and trolling "kid" 😉👍
me too. It was one of my favorite game growing up. Sunk alot of time in it, i know its not perfect but this guy really has to slip on a banana, hit his head and we all say our prayers. jk jk
So basically he's saying: "It's pretty but I'm an AOE2 fan so I don't like it." Well then... AOE2 is an awesome game. I like Castles, Rams, Scorpions, Onagers and a lot of the unique units but I would be more disappointed if AOE3 was just another AOE2. Point of a sequel is to try new things which is what AOE3 did back in the day. It's not perfect since AOE2 kind perfected the Age of Empires formula already.... Once you reach your peak, you can't go any higher really. The definitive edition rebalances some things, adds two new factions and fixes some of the grind of the Home City shipments. Also new textures and models since its a Remaster. Kind of all I really wanted from this DE really... If I just wanted AOE2 again....well, I already have it.... Some of us even have all three of them.
Actually its the devs who should be blamed for the failure of this game as they added one unwanted feature that is homecity levels. Just that one feature is most annoying in Aoe3 and have turned off most players. Have they removed it in first installment majority of Aoe2 players have defected to Aoe3 my now eagerly. Now, they have removed it Aoe2 players will be like patriotic towards their game. They will be like I am aoe2 player and I will not play that Aoe3 Game. I have seen this patriotic kind of feeling in Aoe2 players.
@@vivekstorm99 I have a lot of nostalgia for this game. I like the singleplayer as a kid and I love the atmosphere and soundtrack. Competitively I think it's way worse than AOE 2. I don't hate the game, I just disagree with people shitting on the review like why tf does it matter if the reviewer has a different opinion than you? Just enjoy the game if you wanna enjoy it
@@NCozy review affects mentality of people who watch it.. when someone does a bad review it's ok to say it's a bad review he literally hav 0 game knowledge on AOE 3.. That's the only reason people are commenting it's a bad review not just becoz people disagree..
I'm honestly confused if that was the guys awful attempt at a joke; especially considering he then show that the "color choices" are literally every color possible with the hue/saturation/brightness slider.
@@B3nny56 yes, thats when clueless people make cluesless statements and clueless reviews with a pre-constructed opinion: its not "AOE2" so it must be bad.
@@perahoky Yes, if it doesn't look like AOE2, then it's not worth it. The guy who made this review does not have enough criteria to make a review, which ultimately ends up hurting the game's performance for new ones who have not played this gem.
This is a brilliant game - I don't think this review gives it credit at all. Hating on the home city though, did you actually play the game at all? It's the most fundamental feature in the game as it's supposed to be the entire basis of your strategy to win the game. Anybody used to play this back in the OG days on 40 min treaty setting? That was epic.
Ike, this dude is criticizing the game for trying new stuff. And he never gives explanation of the errors or the “historical miss information” not even examples.
Review seems way too narky, and trying to cut the game down for being flawed. Even going so far as to insult the story as a "stolen idea from the da vinci code". Ah yes, because any item of significance related to a secret society, must be stolen from the movie. That and then also saying the bloody card system is too complicated. It isn't complicated. You customize your deck to provide more units in the later ages the more XP you gain. Certain factions have certain specialized units that are better than others, or certain upgrades that other factions don't. Like, come on. I understand wanting to be critical, but not when the game literally has no issues outside of the janky movement.
@Tamer Ciftci have a brain, stop this "appeal to authority" if ign says it's bad it doesn't make it bad, and this review is horrible, just look at the writing it's so poor, this guy looks like an intern
"From the movie"? Yes, they made a movie based on the novel, but I believe the novel is more renowned. The book could have inspired the makers of Age of Empires III, but the movie wasn't out yet when Age of Empires III was released.
“It’s too difficult to figure out the strategy for each civilization so therefore game is bad” In all my time playing the original I’ve denoted that each civilization had multiple ways to play and all sorts of strategical plans may work, but yes it takes time to develop them. I genuinely don’t understand how not immediately understanding all of the strategies is a bad thing, if I could just look at a civilization and know how they play well all actual in-play strategy disappears because there is no unexpected variety.
The game does that well where AoE2’s skill ceiling was all about micromanagement. I honestly prefer macro knowledge to be more prevalent in online play. Seeing who can perform more like an AI is exhausting
"(The cards) It's extremely cool in theory but extremely confusing in practice" Dude, most cards are just crates of resources, stat bonuses or a bunch of the same unit. You don't need a physics degree to build your deck around your civ. I love AoE 2 but most differences between civs were the passive bonuses, the unique unit and which universal tecehnologies you could develop...
In my entire life I only played one RTS game and that is AoE3. Even I can say that the game doesn't deserve this kind of review. What most people don't realise is that 'Remastered' and 'DE' isn't supposed to be new it's supposed to be old with bugs removed with only little new content. It looks like as if this guy just nit-picks just for the sake of it.
The sad thing is , it still have so many bugs and the performance is dogshit. Sorry man , but even the steam review said that , so at the end of the day , it actually deserved the score
Ok, he doesn't like AOE 3, that's fine, but jesus christ does he make the game look bad. He doesn't know how to review games, please IGN, do a proper review of the game, this is just bad.
How is it difficult to manage home city cards? you customise what you want to bring in. Also you mention language being changed? what about the British saying "commandoment"? almost like most nations don't speak their native tongue,
This is my favorite AOE. It's more fast paced, units are builded in groups so the battles are more engaging, and the graphics and physics of the buildings being destroyed amazed me in the past, as much as the music. I really never got into AOE 1 and 2 at the time (I mean, I played them a lot, but never really loved them), I even always preffered to play Stronghold 1 instead of these games, but AOE 3 was just so fun, beautiful, with great sound track, that this game made me appreciate this series a lot more. The review for some reason makes it sounds like it is a bad game just because it is different from AOE 1 and 2, and that's not true at all.
IGN: Gives the original Age of Empires 3 an 8.8 back in 2005. Also IGN: Gives the Definitive version, which reviewer claims is superior in every way, a 6.
"The card system is confusing." The card system is complex, but not confusing. It is a way to personalize your strategies and to emulate the support of the capital nation to your colony in new territory.
IGN has really been going down in quality over the years for their reviews. This guy sounds like hes just reading a boring script and going through the motions
Terrible quality review from IGN. Expected more than the reviewer poorly understanding the gameplay theory, and referring to it as "weird". Try playing it for more than 15 minutes. It's not a "funky, experimental" RTS.
A reviewer should always be nuetral to any game they are reviewing. Not a fawning fanbooy nor a hater. To make this review worse, the guy spends so much time disscussing historical inaccuracies and whatnot. Tell us about the gameplay, online experiences, bugs, feel, first hour and 11 hour experience differences. What the hell is this diatrabe about name changing and whatnot. Nobody cares.
This is my favorite too. It's more fast paced, units are builded in groups so the battles are more engaging, and the graphics and physics of the buildings being destroyed amazed me in the past. I really never got into AOE 1 and 2 at the time, I even always preffered to play Stronghold 1 instead of these games, but AOE 3 was just so fun, beautiful, with great sound track, that this game made me appreciate this series a lot more.
This guy is just salty cause he doesn't have the drive to learn a civilization, which players who really want to play this game do. He's complaining of it being to hard or complicated but that's just causs he's not built for this game. Better find someone to review games like this with the passion needed, and who will understand why the civs are built in such ways and the cards as well.
This review is so poorly written. Really surprising from IGN. When he’s talking about the original release it literally sounds like he’s remembering a completely different game.
Idk; I for one have always loved the “Black family” campaign story trilogy in AOE 3! Big fan of the characters too.. from Morgan Black and pirate Lizzie to Amelia Black on the early American frontier! I don’t mind the fantastical jaunt to the “Fountain of Youth”, and revisiting a much changed Fountain map in Ch.3 from the way it first appeared in Ch.1 was really neat... kind of representative of how old myths evolve and fade away as history progresses...
One of the best game ever. The colonial age was bitter in real life too after the gun powder. So play the game not cry for not knowing how it works. Learn it. The only best thing about aoe 3 was it's brutal campaigns
Does this guy even know what the hell is he talking about? I feel like he needs to listen to his own review to know what he actually said. Seriously, "Da Vinci Code"? What part of the game is comparable to Da Vinci Code?
The part about “jerky” unit movement both in sea and land is true and it’s not addressed in this update but i still love this game and enjoy playing it. Some of negative thing in this review were nitpicking, like how story is unoriginal?! Or why economy and countering enemy army matter so much?! That’s just RTS 101!
Every game review has a bunch of people in the comments trashing it, but some of the frustration about this review really is very justified. The card system is simply not confusing. Really, it’s mostly units and resources, and then what age you can order them. It’s pretty obvious how it works and how to align it with a civilization’s general strengths. I was very very surprised when he said it would take hundreds of hours to understand it. That’s just plain false. If you don’t want it to be confusing, you can just set it to deliver you units and a fort, etc.
why is it when your praising it, it sounds like your mocking it?. realllyyyyyy. give it a break. AoE3 is different vs AoE1 and 2 but it has its perks. now this definitive edition improved it.
I can accept different experiences with this game, it's ok if you don't like it, it's ok if you love it. The problem is, if you already hate something, why even bother? Let somebody who already has experience with the franchise or just an actual RTS expert to analyze this game, is not that hard.
Ok, I have to say that when I usually saw people criticizing IGN reviews because of their poor and often inconsistent opinions I thought it was and exaggeration but this review proved me wrong ... I mean ... horses counter musketeers?? Card system is difficult ?? Story stoled from the Da Vinci Code?? WTF?!!
You know I was very worried about getting this game cause of people like u giving bad reviews of the game from steam to IGN “disliked” I have it and I’m happy to say that it’s a beautiful game takes me back from when I was a kid and I love it! Don’t let reviews keep you from getting what you want try it out first then decide !!
I would prefer a veteran aoe 3 player (not a part of the development team) to post a review. Someone who has some idea on what parameters to rate the DE on. This is a complex RTS game which can't be appreciated by some on the fly review. This is not to say that the game currently isn't riddled with bugs (which will hopefully be fixed as developers work on them).
He says it in the review, but for some native american factions they had the wrong names, models looked wrong and they spoke the wrong language. Not only insensitive, also historically inaccurate.
@@reJECT0 Not only that, but a lot of people complained about English settlers doing Native American dances. I mean, it's just a function of the game, but I can see how that would be rather poorly received.
Bro, that's why reviews shorter than ~20 min shouldn't even exist... He barely mentions the new Incan and Swedish civilisations; complaims about the 'awful colors choices'; and barely mentions the upgrades in multiplayer accessibility and matchmaking. He sounds like the guy who reviewed AOE 2 DE, complaining that you can't rotate the camera, wtf
"A story rewrite to remove some insensitive content". Colonial history and wars to establish governmental civilisations at the expense of hunter gatherer tribes is supposed to be sensitive content, suppressing knowledge of a brutal past can doom people to repeat it.
Even if they give me the old games, AOE2 and AOE3, with updated graphics and sound, I will still take it. That's how much I love this game. Thank you for the creators and developers for their effort to bring this game up to date to match the current display devices and audio devices.
Wow this review barely provided objective insights. Rather than focusing on random historical inaccuracies, why don’t you focus on the gameplay that’s why I am here.
Worst review ever about AOE3. The guy is definitively not an AOE3 player. The cards are awesome, not confusing at all. It is true that you need to study the cards, but you can understand it in a few hours (not hundreds).
Please IGN, delete this review, and let someone who doesn't hate the original, do a real review. This one is a joke and it's quite insulting to the developers and fans. Thank you!
Or you could stop being whiny because it's not a reviewers job to validate your opinion
yea he's reviewing this like reviewing a new game, barely mentioning changes that comes to DE
oh yeah
@@NCozy Nor is it their place, or yours, to rebuke criticisms to a poorly made review. Granted, others in the comments have raised real points.
Agreed, AoE3 is incredible!
I'm so glad so many people are smart enough to not listen to this guy
"Age of Empires 3: I don't even know how to select troops but I reviewed it" ._.'
Step 1: Disliked. ✅
Step 2: Report as misleading. ✅
Done ☑️
@@peposc Great. May the force be with you.
Done too.
Done ☑️
@@Erometal May the heart of the pure one's be with you.
AoE III is awesome, don’t listen to this guy.
This game was/is huge. Maybe this guy is just too young, but the angle he comes at it from is off base
Absolutely true. Especially asian dynasties.
Game is great, however the optimization of this remaster is garbage and isnt even playable.
Ya AOE 3 was a great game. The definitive edition seems to be a buggy mess.
@@benjaminmathew260984 i can play without problems, its not perfect but far from any sort of "buggy mess"
Cavalry definitely don't counter muskets, other way around; you're thinking of rifles
Yeah this was pretty surprising. The main musket units are anti Cav and it says so in a few places in the game.
the cards arent even that confusing.. lol does this guy play rts games...
Like most young gamers, anything that it's slightly difficult, is bad for them.
It sounds like he reviewed it like someone doing a job they hate.
I laughed hard when I heard him say that. I'm guessing he finally got his mom's permission to play something past Roblox? ;-)
@@smartassedone2880 lol yea that seems right
Exactly! Confusing?! I laughed so hard... to me is one of the best features in the game
Horrible review, what's the point of asking someone who hates the original to review the definitive edition lol
Stop saying negative thinhs about him.. he s my cousin.
@@rambotan5867 wait, he is my brother, so you and i are...
Umm because the point should be that the game updates and improves upon the original, it's called the definitive edition for a reason and AOE2DE improved the original a lot.
@@rambotan5867 hahaha!
@@NCozy it does improve on the original
Take a shot every time he describes something as "weird"
Can't take that risk, I'd like to wake up sometime tomorrow.
I think I lost some brain cells listening to this weird reviewer lol
I don't really like AOE3 myself but this review was horrible. "A game not as smart as it thinks it is" no examples. "Historical inaccuracies" no examples.
All the games in 2020 what IGN reviewed was 10/10 and it's already a meme just go and check cyberpunk most recent trailer comments. So I guess they had to do shitty review for this....
@Tamer Ciftci I see you completely ignored the other guys point, probably because you knew they were right and you didn't have any ground to stand on.
@Tamer Ciftci My comment meant for IGN and not for the people who like the game.I like the game myself and wouldnt mind if they give higher number but seems like u just wanna have a fight.
Who plays AOE for historical accuracy? Boringgggg
@Tamer Ciftci they gave specific examples of how the review was flawed. What are you on? Also, this whataboutism is really silly.
Imagine taking the time to mention that there were/are "historical inaccuracies" and cultural insensitivities (including "glaring" ones that remain unfixed), and not actually taking the time to discuss any of these. If they matter, talk about them. If they don't, why bring them up?
It's because he read it from some other guys review and just paraphrased it
Because he's a terrible writer.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about...
why
Indeed
It's his opinion. Let him have it. That being said the steam reviews are trashing the game too for all the bugs.
@Kevin Bjork just watched this part and went to comments to see if anyone noticed that
"Probably blatantly stolen from the Da Vinci code"
Weird claim.
@Tamer Ciftci this reviewer is dumb
@Tamer Ciftci have u even played the game
Nd stop calling people kids. It's a 2000's insult..
@Tamer Ciftci it's a remaster what did u expected boomer 😂😂
@Tamer Ciftci stop trolling and go home "kid" 👍
@Tamer Ciftci people are not mad about the rating, they are mad coz the reviewer is not making valid arguments. For example he says there are too many strategies and has to spend 100s of hrs to learn them. Wtf it's an rts game. And I'm in no way an rts fan, aoe3 may not be the best in the series either, but it's a classic and should be reviewed as a classic.
And stop simping ign and trolling "kid" 😉👍
This must really be one of the worst reviews I have watched in a long time. And that comes from someone that has played all aoe games.
Sooo.... How is alredy played all the game make this review bad ? How is the review is bad exactly ?
@@user-cf9gh3nn5y is clearly this dude was bias. He didn’t like the game because it was different to what he was accustomed.
@@gurentgc3546 ah yes typical . " tHiS rEvIEw iS BiAsEd " lol.tell me WHY this review is biased instead...
@@user-cf9gh3nn5y ......the fact that every point in his video is a negative point?
he doesn't sound like "played aoe games" but as "started them".
Aoe 3 is really fun, graphics was ahead of its time as well. This guy feels very cynical
The game probably feels pretty weak if you only play the campaign, and especially so if you go online and get tossed by even newbies
Man... This review hurt me personally. Stinky cheese?!?!?! 😤
yeah what a fruitcake of a guy..
I know that was crazy
me too. It was one of my favorite game growing up. Sunk alot of time in it, i know its not perfect but this guy really has to slip on a banana, hit his head and we all say our prayers. jk jk
This review is so damn bad. Why would you get someone to review this when they said they hated the original?
So basically he's saying: "It's pretty but I'm an AOE2 fan so I don't like it."
Well then...
AOE2 is an awesome game. I like Castles, Rams, Scorpions, Onagers and a lot of the unique units but I would be more disappointed if AOE3 was just another AOE2.
Point of a sequel is to try new things which is what AOE3 did back in the day. It's not perfect since AOE2 kind perfected the Age of Empires formula already....
Once you reach your peak, you can't go any higher really.
The definitive edition rebalances some things, adds two new factions and fixes some of the grind of the Home City shipments.
Also new textures and models since its a Remaster.
Kind of all I really wanted from this DE really...
If I just wanted AOE2 again....well, I already have it....
Some of us even have all three of them.
Actually its the devs who should be blamed for the failure of this game as they added one unwanted feature that is homecity levels. Just that one feature is most annoying in Aoe3 and have turned off most players. Have they removed it in first installment majority of Aoe2 players have defected to Aoe3 my now eagerly. Now, they have removed it Aoe2 players will be like patriotic towards their game. They will be like I am aoe2 player and I will not play that Aoe3 Game. I have seen this patriotic kind of feeling in Aoe2 players.
Yeah you are right, but AoE2 is not perfect...
I like both AOE 2 AND AOE 3. They different games and the home city mechanics were fun I liked it. I hate that AOE 3 DE is such a buggy mess though.
Right here.
Yeah AOE3 was not well received. I think a lot of the downvoters and commenters are forgetting that. A rerelease doesn't change that.
Such a terrible review, wtf is the Da Vinci code meant to do with AOE3.
It was a joke like lol why TF you complain about that of all things
@@NCozy a terrible joke at that.
@@NCozy why are u everywhere ??? clearly we know u hate aoe 3 fking got stomped in public servers and crying it's bad... pls stop commenting!!
@@vivekstorm99 I have a lot of nostalgia for this game. I like the singleplayer as a kid and I love the atmosphere and soundtrack. Competitively I think it's way worse than AOE 2. I don't hate the game, I just disagree with people shitting on the review like why tf does it matter if the reviewer has a different opinion than you? Just enjoy the game if you wanna enjoy it
@@NCozy review affects mentality of people who watch it.. when someone does a bad review it's ok to say it's a bad review he literally hav 0 game knowledge on AOE 3.. That's the only reason people are commenting it's a bad review not just becoz people disagree..
Okay this review is aggressively negative. "Egregiously awful color choices."
I'm honestly confused if that was the guys awful attempt at a joke; especially considering he then show that the "color choices" are literally every color possible with the hue/saturation/brightness slider.
@@B3nny56 yes, thats when clueless people make cluesless statements and clueless reviews with a pre-constructed opinion: its not "AOE2" so it must be bad.
@@perahoky Yes, if it doesn't look like AOE2, then it's not worth it. The guy who made this review does not have enough criteria to make a review, which ultimately ends up hurting the game's performance for new ones who have not played this gem.
He would be more positive if IGN provided him a faster PC. His gameplay constantly looks like slideshow. :D
Oh is that what happened. No wonder the game looked laggy in the video, that's his part, not the game's.
This is a brilliant game - I don't think this review gives it credit at all. Hating on the home city though, did you actually play the game at all? It's the most fundamental feature in the game as it's supposed to be the entire basis of your strategy to win the game.
Anybody used to play this back in the OG days on 40 min treaty setting? That was epic.
Ike, this dude is criticizing the game for trying new stuff. And he never gives explanation of the errors or the “historical miss information” not even examples.
Yeh man, some epic expert comp stomps too online. Loved this game
Back in the OG days? Hell I was doing that last year. The game never completely died.
IGN guy: I Bigg brain, can not handle deck. Confuse! Extreme confuse! Deck badd
Review seems way too narky, and trying to cut the game down for being flawed. Even going so far as to insult the story as a "stolen idea from the da vinci code".
Ah yes, because any item of significance related to a secret society, must be stolen from the movie.
That and then also saying the bloody card system is too complicated. It isn't complicated. You customize your deck to provide more units in the later ages the more XP you gain. Certain factions have certain specialized units that are better than others, or certain upgrades that other factions don't.
Like, come on. I understand wanting to be critical, but not when the game literally has no issues outside of the janky movement.
@Tamer Ciftci bro this game was and is a masterpiece its like giving GTA V or RDR2 a 6
@Tamer Ciftci then all remastered games should have low rating cause it's the same right ?
@Tamer Ciftci have a brain, stop this "appeal to authority" if ign says it's bad it doesn't make it bad, and this review is horrible, just look at the writing it's so poor, this guy looks like an intern
@Tamer Ciftci You're the only dumbass here mate.
"From the movie"? Yes, they made a movie based on the novel, but I believe the novel is more renowned. The book could have inspired the makers of Age of Empires III, but the movie wasn't out yet when Age of Empires III was released.
“It’s too difficult to figure out the strategy for each civilization so therefore game is bad”
In all my time playing the original I’ve denoted that each civilization had multiple ways to play and all sorts of strategical plans may work, but yes it takes time to develop them. I genuinely don’t understand how not immediately understanding all of the strategies is a bad thing, if I could just look at a civilization and know how they play well all actual in-play strategy disappears because there is no unexpected variety.
The game does that well where AoE2’s skill ceiling was all about micromanagement. I honestly prefer macro knowledge to be more prevalent in online play. Seeing who can perform more like an AI is exhausting
He finds the cards too complicated lol
This review was atrocious, I give it a 3/10.
You are too kind.
"(The cards) It's extremely cool in theory but extremely confusing in practice"
Dude, most cards are just crates of resources, stat bonuses or a bunch of the same unit. You don't need a physics degree to build your deck around your civ. I love AoE 2 but most differences between civs were the passive bonuses, the unique unit and which universal tecehnologies you could develop...
I swear IGN just lets anyone write a review and don’t read it before they post...
In my entire life I only played one RTS game and that is AoE3. Even I can say that the game doesn't deserve this kind of review. What most people don't realise is that 'Remastered' and 'DE' isn't supposed to be new it's supposed to be old with bugs removed with only little new content. It looks like as if this guy just nit-picks just for the sake of it.
The sad thing is , it still have so many bugs and the performance is dogshit. Sorry man , but even the steam review said that , so at the end of the day , it actually deserved the score
This guys should be fired, review is so bad.
Ok, he doesn't like AOE 3, that's fine, but jesus christ does he make the game look bad. He doesn't know how to review games, please IGN, do a proper review of the game, this is just bad.
How is it difficult to manage home city cards? you customise what you want to bring in. Also you mention language being changed? what about the British saying "commandoment"? almost like most nations don't speak their native tongue,
“It’s difficult to strategize” Yes because this is not tic tac toe. It’s a strategy game.
Misleading reviews like this is why I disliked and report your vids for misleading. Get your fact straight IGN.
Well tell them WHAT is misleading about the review , seriously tho , saying something is bad with no argument to back it up is just childish
@@user-cf9gh3nn5y just like this review...
@@user-cf9gh3nn5y tell them to read the comments. This is the biggest roast I’ve ever seen
IGN has been a blatant joke for at least a decade now.
I think my 12 years old cousin can do a better "review" than this dude.
This is my favorite AOE. It's more fast paced, units are builded in groups so the battles are more engaging, and the graphics and physics of the buildings being destroyed amazed me in the past, as much as the music. I really never got into AOE 1 and 2 at the time (I mean, I played them a lot, but never really loved them), I even always preffered to play Stronghold 1 instead of these games, but AOE 3 was just so fun, beautiful, with great sound track, that this game made me appreciate this series a lot more. The review for some reason makes it sounds like it is a bad game just because it is different from AOE 1 and 2, and that's not true at all.
IGN: Gives the original Age of Empires 3 an 8.8 back in 2005.
Also IGN: Gives the Definitive version, which reviewer claims is superior in every way, a 6.
This review is less than Okay, horrible.
"The card system is confusing." The card system is complex, but not confusing. It is a way to personalize your strategies and to emulate the support of the capital nation to your colony in new territory.
IGN has really been going down in quality over the years for their reviews. This guy sounds like hes just reading a boring script and going through the motions
That's literally every IGN review for yeeeeaaaaars. I stopped caring about them at least a decade ago.
Don’t really care for you bagging the original design of the game. Just talk about the remastered stuff
Awful review. At least get someone who has played the original... I mean come on. How much complaining can you do on a 15 year old game...
This is probably the worst review from IGN in a while...
Its up there with there review of alien isolation
AoE3 is my favourite of the whole series, and will stay that way.
Terrible quality review from IGN. Expected more than the reviewer poorly understanding the gameplay theory, and referring to it as "weird". Try playing it for more than 15 minutes. It's not a "funky, experimental" RTS.
This guy hates 2 things: everyone and everything!
A reviewer should always be nuetral to any game they are reviewing. Not a fawning fanbooy nor a hater. To make this review worse, the guy spends so much time disscussing historical inaccuracies and whatnot. Tell us about the gameplay, online experiences, bugs, feel, first hour and 11 hour experience differences. What the hell is this diatrabe about name changing and whatnot. Nobody cares.
Age of Mythology DE next???
YES! maybe with celic/gaelic or indian pantheon
@Stained Glass Window I've not kept up. What's the current problem?
@@anirvankm the Chinese civ feels like a mod than a dlc
Can’t wait for AE4 come out
That will be more important
I am too, and I'm also anxiously awaiting IGN's informative, intelligent review of it.
hopefully this guy gets fired before its released
Why did ign even hire him, he probably lets his personal views above an unbiased neutral look at a new release.
Is this review an out of season april fools joke?
Finally! My favorite AOE game!!
Never got into it like that, have always been more of an aoe2 player
@@bryane727 AOM is the best, srry
@Josh D yes sir. I mean, the extended edition kinda already was a remaster. i'd like a full remake.
This is my favorite too. It's more fast paced, units are builded in groups so the battles are more engaging, and the graphics and physics of the buildings being destroyed amazed me in the past. I really never got into AOE 1 and 2 at the time, I even always preffered to play Stronghold 1 instead of these games, but AOE 3 was just so fun, beautiful, with great sound track, that this game made me appreciate this series a lot more.
The cards are not confusing wtf
This guy is just salty cause he doesn't have the drive to learn a civilization, which players who really want to play this game do. He's complaining of it being to hard or complicated but that's just causs he's not built for this game. Better find someone to review games like this with the passion needed, and who will understand why the civs are built in such ways and the cards as well.
This dude mains master yi in league
"cUltuRal InSeNSItiVItY"
This review is so poorly written. Really surprising from IGN. When he’s talking about the original release it literally sounds like he’s remembering a completely different game.
Favorite aoe. So ill be sinking lots of time into it. Idc
Idk; I for one have always loved the “Black family” campaign story trilogy in AOE 3! Big fan of the characters too.. from Morgan Black and pirate Lizzie to Amelia Black on the early American frontier! I don’t mind the fantastical jaunt to the “Fountain of Youth”, and revisiting a much changed Fountain map in Ch.3 from the way it first appeared in Ch.1 was really neat... kind of representative of how old myths evolve and fade away as history progresses...
One of the best game ever. The colonial age was bitter in real life too after the gun powder. So play the game not cry for not knowing how it works. Learn it. The only best thing about aoe 3 was it's brutal campaigns
Does this guy even know what the hell is he talking about? I feel like he needs to listen to his own review to know what he actually said. Seriously, "Da Vinci Code"? What part of the game is comparable to Da Vinci Code?
Worth 100%, all my childhood in one package
I was expecting an AOE3 DE review
Instead I got an AOE3: 15 years later retrospect review
Noice, GJ IGN!
I loved this original game
The part about “jerky” unit movement both in sea and land is true and it’s not addressed in this update but i still love this game and enjoy playing it. Some of negative thing in this review were nitpicking, like how story is unoriginal?! Or why economy and countering enemy army matter so much?! That’s just RTS 101!
I disagree with about everything this guy said lol
No comments about the online multiplayer?
Dawg played one game and probably rage quit
Every game review has a bunch of people in the comments trashing it, but some of the frustration about this review really is very justified. The card system is simply not confusing. Really, it’s mostly units and resources, and then what age you can order them. It’s pretty obvious how it works and how to align it with a civilization’s general strengths. I was very very surprised when he said it would take hundreds of hours to understand it. That’s just plain false. If you don’t want it to be confusing, you can just set it to deliver you units and a fort, etc.
Ign get this clown reviewer out of here...
This guy can make even Breath of the Wild look like a mediocre game. This is a terrible review.
This review clearly comes with extreme bias. It's clear that the reviewer didn't want to like the game regardless of its actual merits
The motto of the new gamers these days "It's too difficult!".
His voice really annoys me for some reason
Can we get a remaster of IGN? I feel like their stories have been pretty weak lately.
Actually reviewed by someone who know and understand what the game is about
IGN: We don't do that here
why is it when your praising it, it sounds like your mocking it?. realllyyyyyy. give it a break. AoE3 is different vs AoE1 and 2 but it has its perks. now this definitive edition improved it.
I can accept different experiences with this game, it's ok if you don't like it, it's ok if you love it.
The problem is, if you already hate something, why even bother? Let somebody who already has experience with the franchise or just an actual RTS expert to analyze this game, is not that hard.
Looks like a Karen reviewed this
They need to bring back PC game, Empire Earth!
Ok, I have to say that when I usually saw people criticizing IGN reviews because of their poor and often inconsistent opinions I thought it was and exaggeration but this review proved me wrong ... I mean ... horses counter musketeers?? Card system is difficult ?? Story stoled from the Da Vinci Code?? WTF?!!
40 IQ review. Just what we needed!
Age 3 is the weirdest rts of that time? Have you like played any rts game before? Or actually play games?
I dont care this was by far the best game of the series. Hugely underrated by diehard AoE2 players.
You know I was very worried about getting this game cause of people like u giving bad reviews of the game from steam to IGN “disliked” I have it and I’m happy to say that it’s a beautiful game takes me back from when I was a kid and I love it! Don’t let reviews keep you from getting what you want try it out first then decide !!
I would prefer a veteran aoe 3 player (not a part of the development team) to post a review. Someone who has some idea on what parameters to rate the DE on. This is a complex RTS game which can't be appreciated by some on the fly review. This is not to say that the game currently isn't riddled with bugs (which will hopefully be fixed as developers work on them).
Anyone want to tell me what the original "insensitive content" was?
He says it in the review, but for some native american factions they had the wrong names, models looked wrong and they spoke the wrong language. Not only insensitive, also historically inaccurate.
@@reJECT0 Not only that, but a lot of people complained about English settlers doing Native American dances. I mean, it's just a function of the game, but I can see how that would be rather poorly received.
This game pretty competitive lol
I love how fans defending game and giving this video dislikes! I proud of you lads!
The guy that reviews the game doesnt know how to play it. I can tell.
Doesn't know how to properly review it either
Its basically in early access Steam reviews, which are the only ones that matter, has it at mixed due to performance and bugs.
Bro, that's why reviews shorter than ~20 min shouldn't even exist... He barely mentions the new Incan and Swedish civilisations; complaims about the 'awful colors choices'; and barely mentions the upgrades in multiplayer accessibility and matchmaking. He sounds like the guy who reviewed AOE 2 DE, complaining that you can't rotate the camera, wtf
It's my favorite AOE game, with Mythology a close 2nd. But he's absolutely correct about the most interesting and least clear home card elements.
"A story rewrite to remove some insensitive content".
Colonial history and wars to establish governmental civilisations at the expense of hunter gatherer tribes is supposed to be sensitive content, suppressing knowledge of a brutal past can doom people to repeat it.
Just describing things as 'weird'? In a final verdict this might make a little sense. But it's never explained.
worst review ever.. thanks ign
wow he attacked one of my favorite games just like that? this game was amazing and is still amazing specially for fans of strategy games.
What a waste of bandwidth, terrible review.
oof this review is painful to listen to
Even if they give me the old games, AOE2 and AOE3, with updated graphics and sound, I will still take it. That's how much I love this game. Thank you for the creators and developers for their effort to bring this game up to date to match the current display devices and audio devices.
Wow this review barely provided objective insights. Rather than focusing on random historical inaccuracies, why don’t you focus on the gameplay that’s why I am here.
Worst review ever about AOE3. The guy is definitively not an AOE3 player. The cards are awesome, not confusing at all. It is true that you need to study the cards, but you can understand it in a few hours (not hundreds).