Old school RTS rereleased in HD (Age of empires 2)

I never even hoped to dream about this.... But its coming.
No more fan made patch/mod needed to play on high resolution.


http://www.rtsguru.com/game/8/article/5 ... Month.html

http://store.steampowered.com/app/221380/

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_MEFt7KrxQ

Total Annihilation + expansion and Age of Empires 2 + conquerors expansion remains my 2 favorite RTS games of all time.

cool

Unfortunately the price is a complete rip-off

19 euro (On USA steam its... 19 dollar?) is a ripoff?
You get modern steam matchmaking instead of some fan made matchmaking site that everybody now plays aoe2 on (yeah still going strong with 3000+ users total?)

The website everybody is on is:
http://www.voobly.com/
Currently 1657 guys playing Age of empires 2.
That is more then supcom1 and 2 put together.

HD remakes usually cost about 40 bucks. Seems like a decent deal to me.

I paid 10 bucks for the HD remix (note: remix, not remake) of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and I already thought that was a bit of a high price.

(I ain't a cheap hoe doe, I pay for my software)

Considering you believe it to be legit to pirate software, I'm surprised you'd think that's a decent deal.

I've only recently owned a computer, I have bought games before.

yea, but let's just say you have a video game budget. If I didn't always pay for games I played, I would be more inclined to think it was a good deal too. just sayin what I edited, meant to get it in before you responded X(

grimbar judges price with some weird money spent/likely number of hours spend in game ratio. If it's higher than 1 he considers something a rip-off IIRC.

I think the opposite would be more true, if everything you had was free, you'd think anything being charged would be a ripoff.

But my pirating days have been on hold. This current internet has 10 gb download limit allowance. Never in all of my days have I heard of such absurdity, this isn't a phone company. >_>

Sorry for the derail, blame it on J.

Pill has it right, this also immediately tells you how long this game could likely entertain me. If I wanted to play some RTS in multiplayer I'd play brood war

Yes, do. Sorry.

I love and have played all AoE and AoM games except for the third. haven't played the third for no particular reason

I haven't played any of them. Unfortunately, I gave the game a bad bias because the first I'd ever seen of it was an app for Facebook or something like that, it was one of those "this base will take 4 hours to build" games, so I thought it was crap.

I didn't know until recently it was a real game, I've always been a Civilization man myself.

well there's also AoE online on steam which is close enough to the original to get the idea

The price is completely fair. In fact, I predicted the price. Even putting aside it likely being the best RTS ever, the gold edition of the game still sells for $15 in brick-and-mortar stores. It makes perfect sense that the HD edition would be no less than $5 more. $20 is more than fair for a game of this quality.

No. It's an abomination. It's nothing like real AOE games.

it's close enough to get the idea is what I said, and it is. I no longer play either, but I tried out AoE:Online and I was sad there weren't monks...at least in the traditional sense.

Empire Earth is closer to AoEII than AoE Online is. So is Warcraft III.

WOLOHOLOLOLO

I used to play various version of AoE all the time when I was kid. Loved dem monks.

Monks didn't go "Wololo;" Priests went "Wololo."