Why did Microsoft fumble AoM so hard?

>>2114440 (OP)
what do you mean?

>>2114462
retold was a huge mess

>>2114440 (OP)
That game really did not need a remaster. Ran perfectly fine and aged well. Only thing it "needed" was more people playing mp again but i dont touch these games for mp.

>>2114440 (OP)
star wars galactic battlegrounds:DE when?

>>2114624
>Only thing it "needed" was more people playing mp again
chinese needed a rework for sure. idk if i like the one they got, though.

>>2114638
Oh right forgot about chinaslop. Never liked it and never touched the dlcs

>>2114560
Was fine when I played it

>>2114624
>That game really did not need a remaster
Ok bro

>>2114655
it looked fine to me

>>2114656
Bro's nose is one pixel

>>2114560
Retold is doing fine

>>2114631
Never. At this point it would be easier for them to make AoE5 with a futuristic theme.

>>2114655
>left
soul
>right
soulless
Just proving the point, assistance on using these uber-detailed and realistic graphics is what sucks all the fun from modern games

>>2114712
You are a nostalgic afraid of change
Fun isn’t inversely proportional to polygon count

>>2114560
Retold is fine, way better than EE anyway. EE ran like shit, china was shit and nu-units for OG factions were shit.

>>2114440 (OP)
>>2114560
the remaster did literally everything right, short of sucking your dick
you're being ridiculous, this isnt /v/

>>2114716
I am nostalgic, and I welcome change.
But the obsession with realistic, detailed graphics is making everything worse, because every game looks like a shitty CW series. The best games in recent years are the ones with actually unique aesthetics, it is literally why Elden Ring is so popular or Hades.

There wasn't much to fumble, the original game was poor because it only had 4 factions. It should've been like AOE2 and added many more functions.
No I don't give a fuck about asymmetry or balance, multiplayerniggers can tongue my balls.

>>2114842
However, those four each had three major gods to choose from so that's a total of twelve civs, and with all the combinations of minor god choices it comes to an even bigger number.

>Elden ring
>unique aesthetics
brother it's just Demon's Souls

Retold is just AoE2, made redundant by the existence of AoE2.

>>2115067
god powers and free units on age up make aom revolve completely around timing attacks, unlike aoe2

>>2114560
For all its flaws it's doing fine.
Sure I miss the lack of blood and corpses staying for much longer, but many things the original game and Extended had were reworked or polished by Retold.

Waiting for the Japanese.

>>2115136
the mediocre, completely pointless, deprecated aoe2hd from 2013 has more players than retold

>>2115073
sounds like it's inferior with weird imbalanced abilities and crutches.

>>2115153
that's what I said

how hard is it to mod retold?
been thinking about making a small project and might as well

>>2114689
>Bro's
Zoom zoom
>>2114716
And you're a retard who doesn't understand basic artistic concepts. Expressionism would probably give you an aneurysm.

>>2114874
God pick doesn’t change what the faction is. The entire appeal is the theming and aesthetic, same as with aoe2.

>>2114440 (OP)
I’m mixed on the new graphics, don’t like the reusable god powers, and hate the new voice acting.

>>2115460
>10% faster wood gathering

such strong theming

>>2114728
Voice acting and artwork are worse in the remaster but the rest isn’t too bad

>>2114842
AoM has four factions, AoE has one faction with a couple minor tweaks here and there to dress up as multiple factions

>>2114655
but they also decided to give everyone annoying accents instead of using the original voice acting which was perfect.

>>2115460
If major (or minor) gods don't count than AoE2 has 1 faction.

>>2114440 (OP)
They fuck the age series every time
2 gets worse every fucking update

>>2114440 (OP)
>managed to sell the same game 3 times

>>2114656
Arkantos has a separate model for cinematics.

>daily challenge for a garbage reward in a dead-on-arrival game mode.
Who comes up with this shit?

>>2115999
I mean, if the alternative is for it to not be available anywhere for sale, I can live with the endless rerelease cycle

I complained about no AQ in ranked last time but it works fine in quick match. I take the complaint back.

>>2116661
They've made weird choices regarding the autoqueue. It has some advantages that were never there before like queueing up research (or even age up) as soon as you have resources, but the way it worked in original game was a repeat queue meaning you could get a mixed comp out of one building. Now you can only do it in even amounts (or whatever gets resources first), admittedly a minor thing but weird they felt the need to change that.
And that's assuming military autoqueue is on, which it is by default for the "casual" game modes, but not in ranked. For some reason, despite the fact repeat queue has been the way AoM was played the whole time they decided to try to appeal to compfags coming from AoE2 or other games and both players have to agree for it to be on. There's a checkbox for it I think, but it's off by default.

>>2114938
Elden Ring gothic high fantasy overly ornamented look isn't anything like Demon's Souls' simpler and more medieval look

>>2114689
So is yours

>>2115481
>>2115619
>>2115624
Fun fact: There is a mod that allows you to change the voice acting. It's all separate files too, for example, I changed only the cyclops's voice back to the original, because his new VA was the most grating.