So it basically a support studio and effectively separates age of empires from global publishing, leaving you guys to focus on other stuff?
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Microsoft announced the formation of an Age of Empires studio, headed by Shannon Loftis
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So it basically a support studio and effectively separates age of empires from global publishing, leaving you guys to focus on other stuff?
I'm not even sure Gears is an interesting IP in 2019, except if it has a complete reboot (like God of War). Gears 5 seems to be a soft-reboot, but I don't know if it will be enough.
I didn't played the first game, but Halo Wars 2 was a great game, probably one of the best exclusive from Microsoft this generation.
I think you must be confusing a few things.
Age of Empires main entries are:
Age of Empires
Age of Empires Rise of Rome
Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors
Age of Empires 3
Age of Empires 3 The Warchiefs
Age of Empires 3 The Asian Dynasties
Age of Mythology
Age of Mythology The Titans
Precisely a single entry from this list had a weird ps2 version, meaning the base Age 2. I dont know why you think Age of Empires was on everything under the sun because it is an exclusively PC series.
Halo Wars is so neutered and simplistic that Red Alert from 1996 is a deeper game than it. Halo Wars works because thats how it was made - for consoles. Everything is simple, automated and requires very little from the player. Thats not a strategy game that any serious strategist would want to play.
Even tactical games, they work on controllers because they're made just simple enough in order to not be a chore. Let me direct your attention to games like Jagged Alliance 2, Silent Storm or 7.62 Calibre and see how PC designed tactics games look. Do they look like something feasible on a gamepad? Dont let striped down games like XCom that were designed for consoles from the drawing board trick you that they work because their not real time and you can take your time.
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Asking why they don't want to port to consoles and adapt to a gamepad is like asking why a fighting game won't adapt to a steering wheel.
I say pull the trigger, there is an RTS audience on console, I used halo wars as an example, I'm not to sure on how it functions (literally the only RTS game I've ever liked was Age of empires) because I never played it but it seems to have a pretty big audience so their clearly doing something right. If has to be keyboard and mouse required I say do it. Especially since pretty soon will all be able to stream our games anywhere. If it had controller and keyboard and mouse support (I still believe they can pull of a controller option, were not in the ps2 era, I think gamers would understand that ok, this is a controller not a keyboard, I can manage but it'd still be better with a keyboard) who's to say I can't just stream to my old ass desktop and play it through that. I thought this whole thing with MS was to give us gamers options. I honestly believe there just taking the easy way out. I'd hope I wouldn't have to pay for xcloud (if xcloud even accounts for pc only Xbox games, I'm not sure) just to be able to play it. That would majorily suck.
Idk about gears though I remember everyone throwing a fit saying it was only on PC. I really hope we do get that. It's just a missed opportunity with age of empires. The king of RTS games. Make a port or something, it's just such wasted potential, if halo can do it they sure as hell can. Edit: also stop making fun of me for the age of empire ds game, that was my first age of empires lol, my uncle had 2 on his PC. Loved that game.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I really liked Halo Wars 2. But it's no Age of Empires-like quality. I'd encourage Microsoft to continue working on Halo Wars as a console friendly RTS.
Another thing to consider: I don't know if they could get AoE1 and AoE2 (don't know about AoE3) to run on Xbox One. Can imagine it requiring some oldskool tech not available to the Xbox One, mostly having to do with older versions of DirectX.
I'd like to observe that I love grand strategy games and 'dumbed down' console strategy. None of this precludes a good game.
No, it doesn't. But it does preclude a good Age of Empires game.
BTW, because nobody has explained it yet. the main reason you cant play AoE with a gamepad is that in battle you are supposed to micromanage unit types to do specific tasks while in combat, like kiting with the cavalry archers while regular cavalry blocks/slow downs the engaging enemies, or using pikemen to defend archers against cavalry. If you can do that with a gamepad please prove me wrong.
More than quality, I think Halo Wars is a more narrative IP. I would love a Halo Wars 3 where you can freely travel into a part of the universe (with ship personalisation and RTS fights). Something like a Total War, but in space.
Yeah, I loved the storytelling in Halo Wars 2. I think 343i did a better job with that then with Halo 5.
I'm not shitting on Halo Wars in any way. But when discussing Age of Empires.. that's an entirely different franchise with different requirements.
Germany has a huuuuuuge RTS Community. So i'm pretty sure it will be there in some way.
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