age of empires-does anyone has them?

i've got the 3rd, tho i seriously regret buying it now. AOE doesn't have nearly as many diversity. I mean, it's really just one race just with different skins and textures and sounds and whatever. Not to mention the units, it's mostly just a few numbers tweaked here and there and a couple of "special" units for each side.

 

yeah, my grandma got me age of empires 2 for christmas (i had asked for homeworld but she couldn't find it) so I figured hey this might be fun so I played it. Then I lost it a couple years ago and didn't really care at all. Thats the only CD i've lost.

 

yeah like paragon said. the factions are too similar.

 

You have to think about the ancient times though, they didn't have that many weapons to use. And the ones they had, everyone else had them too.

 

Look at the total war series, much better than age of empires part of which is because the units are not from a cookie cutter

 

Total War=Amazing.

Shogun total war was meh.
Medieval total war was the best.
Rome was a cpu eater.

 

medieval 2 is my favorite. GO VENICE!

 

i liked pwning the pope after he said i couldn't crusade

 

Anyone played Total Annihilation? It's kinda similar to AoE in that the teams are pretty similar...only they're robots. But it was cool that there was user designed units you could download and play with. It did make things very hard to balance, but I found it fun nonetheless.

 

lol, I had 1 and 2 bu I sold them to my friends

 

I controlled the pope in Medieval 2. I had like all but 2 of the cardinal seats.

 

I played Kingdoms, was really slow and repetative.

 

Moon Project had user designed units in that you could place any weapons you researched onto any of your base units. I hated that game because it was so slow. 8 hours for a mission? What the hell.

 

i v e played all 3
When i was little and new to the gaming world, i loved them.
I its true starcraft does have much more versatility between races, however,
with the expansion there are 8 similar european groups and 3 totally different natives.
Plus they are realeasing another expansion with 3 new asian groups
So with the main game and the expansions, there ought to be much more versatility.
Plus the graphics are pretty good.

But in the end, Starcraft has always been a a great game and fun to play years after it became considered "old"

It is a classic and i expect SC2 to be just the same. It is going to Blow all AOE gamers away.