Good review. Think too it's weird MS didn't just make a major update for AoE I DE (with AoE II DE Engine in the background for unified maintenance). Crucial points for me: 1.) Integration: The final integration feels odd. AoE I is a whole own game and should not only be a game mode for AoE II. Disappointing for AoE I community. 2.) Coexisting: Now AoE I DE and AoE II DE with RoR are strangely co-existing with two communites. I'm active AoE I DE player and me and other lobby room players feel the lack of proper maintenance very frustrating, lobby games in AoE I DE crashing very often. 3.) Graphics: Another sad point for me is that - in my opinion - the very beautiful crafted graphics of AoE I DE looks actually better than RoR. Second looks too much like AoE II and lacks the feeling of AoE I. I do not understand why MS didn't just use the already lovely remastered 4K-graphics as skin over the AoE II DE engine. Hope in the future MS listens to the community and provide a standalone AoE I game again as separate title next to AoE II, III and IV.
I feel like if they just went further with changes like you said at the end of the video, it would just be age of empires 2 with an age of empires 1 skin which i am strongly against. I love age of empires 1, and the gameplay changes they made here were good and enough to make age of empires 1 much more playable but kept things faithful to keep the gameplay from being completely unrecognizable from the original. I think the problem with the dlc was how buggy it was and the lack of original campaigns. But luckily they are adding those in too. I still think they should have had a discount for age of empires 1 DE owners though.
Good review. Think too it's weird MS didn't just make a major update for AoE I DE (with AoE II DE Engine in the background for unified maintenance). Crucial points for me:
1.) Integration: The final integration feels odd. AoE I is a whole own game and should not only be a game mode for AoE II. Disappointing for AoE I community.
2.) Coexisting: Now AoE I DE and AoE II DE with RoR are strangely co-existing with two communites. I'm active AoE I DE player and me and other lobby room players feel the lack of proper maintenance very frustrating, lobby games in AoE I DE crashing very often.
3.) Graphics: Another sad point for me is that - in my opinion - the very beautiful crafted graphics of AoE I DE looks actually better than RoR. Second looks too much like AoE II and lacks the feeling of AoE I. I do not understand why MS didn't just use the already lovely remastered 4K-graphics as skin over the AoE II DE engine.
Hope in the future MS listens to the community and provide a standalone AoE I game again as separate title next to AoE II, III and IV.
I feel like if they just went further with changes like you said at the end of the video, it would just be age of empires 2 with an age of empires 1 skin which i am strongly against. I love age of empires 1, and the gameplay changes they made here were good and enough to make age of empires 1 much more playable but kept things faithful to keep the gameplay from being completely unrecognizable from the original. I think the problem with the dlc was how buggy it was and the lack of original campaigns. But luckily they are adding those in too.
I still think they should have had a discount for age of empires 1 DE owners though.
Agree with you. This should have been update for AOE1DE. Why add a new gamemode to AoE2DE..