Thread 723229834

AGE OF EMPIRES 2!
You NEED a high IQ to play this.

>>723229834 (OP)
Are there games with the AoE2 aesthetic but focused on the city building aspect instead?

>>723229907
no

>>723229907
stronghold?

>>723229907
Anno 1800

>>723229834 (OP)
best game you can play on potato Windows XP

>>723229834 (OP)
Its a shame all this is wasted on a shitty apm pvp game

georgians win again

>>723230764
Couldn't agree more, I play it to be comfy and can't stand the turbospergs who do shit like this >>723231580 where they have the grid turned on and the trees ass small and shit.

I want to grow and defend my little town listening to the relaxing music and wondering about the lives of each of my villagers as they go about their tasks.

>>723229834 (OP)
>game looks beautiful and comfy as fuck
>you cant appreciate it because you need to be constantly clicking everywhere

>>723231852
You mean it looks beautiful if you purposefully set up a picturesque town in the map editor, it doesn't look anywhere that lovely in actual gameplay

>>723229834 (OP)
aoe2 is one of my most played games, but I will never get over the fact that they never bothered to fix the walls.
also
>placing towers behind walls instead of integrating them into the structure
yeah, I get, towers are ten times weaker than walls so you have to do it, but what about a mechanic that allows you placing them ON a wall, so that the wall has to be destroyed first until the tower can be touched?
and don't get me started on not being able to place archers and siege weapons on walls.

>>723231727
pussywood is OG aoe1 style tho
agree on the grid

>Normal AI is too easy
>Hard AI is too hard

Dogshit game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>723231852
That's what replays are for. Facegrind against multiplayer until you can win, then watch your own victories back. I think the game is actually so well built visually that even competitive-viable bases look nice when you aren't desperately flicking back and forth across them. Can just watch guys farm and cut wood while your army is off doing what it's already done.

I lost track of all the scrimblo civs they added.
How many are there nowadays? I stopped at that dukes of the west expansion.

>>723233809
>play any map that isn't 100% open land
>AI completely dissolves into a non-functioning retard
mangrove jungle galley rush will never get old in 8 player ffa

>>723231727
I used to agree with the small trees thing but losing the game because there was an invisible hole in a wall by a treeline really is the most infuriating fucking thing.

>>723234241
I'm pro pussywood, but all you had to do was drag the wall line into the forest instead of trying to stop right in front of it.

>>723234360
Housewall. In particular on a slope. It really is inevitable if you play with big trees.

>>723234432
that's why I always attempt to squeeze in palisades between houses and trees. they are, like, 3 wood per piece.

>>723229907
ceasar 3 with augustus mod

>>723230472
Maybe I should give it a try

>>723234690
this game barely has any fight

Every time I feel like playing a different RTS it just makes me want to find a new custom campaign on SC2 to play instead.

>>723234767
yes because its a city builder which he asked for

>>723234690
I hope that modern city builders move away from the grid style, it doesn't suit ancient/medieval cities

>>723229907
Banished. Not played it for years but this was what it was trying to go for.

>>723229834 (OP)
ALL HAIL THE KING OF LOSERS

3 kingdoms ruined the game for me, I hate Microsoft so fucking much its unreal

>>723235229
bro, roman cities were famous for being built on a grid to an autistic degree

>>723231852
I remember comming back last year because of nostalgia after seeing how beautiful DE looks and how fun the tournaments are.
Now seeing the game just stress me and it's not comfy anymore

>>723236489
those were roman military camps, not cities. Rome was an absolute clusterfuck with no semblance of urban planning whatsoever

>>723234690
damn that looks good

>>723229834 (OP)
For me, it's Age of Mythology.

Also, I totally forgot the Alexander DLC for AoE2 is launching today. Thank you for the reminder.

>>723236858
yes Rome, the city of Rome itself was a clusterfuck
every other city was autistically gridded

>>723235576
>accept a few more settlers
>entire town becomes hungry and dies en masse

>>723233726
Have you considered AoE4?

>>723237046
I remember my first game ending with a population crisis because I didn't realise your villagers don't fuck if you have them all in a dormitory instead of their own houses, so everyone aged out all at once. I sent all the wrinklies on a death march out into the woods to build a church there before I lost the game.

>>723237238
no, that game is ugly as fuck

>>723234690
Redpill me on the augustus mod.

any cool rts that isnt APM schizo bullshit?

>>723242140
Dawn of War/Company of Heroes. Dunno about the sequels to either, though.