[diamondgeezer]

There's another strategy? Ah yes, just Ion Canon and Orca bomber the **** out of them... If only AoE had aircraft... sigh

[Stealth]

Originally posted by TopAce


Microsoft. That's all my problem.

that's a little ignorant, wouldn't you say?  i mean it's not like the division that made AOE is the same one that programmed Windows (which i assume is why you hate Microsoft)

it's like saying you hate the Ferrari Enzo, because you hate the Fiat Palio... they're completely different divisions, but owned by the same company.

or even worse *gasps* it's like saying you hate Freepsace, because you hated Red Faction OK i'm going a little off-topic here, but you get my point  anyway, i think you should try it.  you're a SC fan, and so am i, and i loved it, so it's worth a try

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
There's another strategy? Ah yes, just Ion Canon and Orca bomber the **** out of them... If only AoE had aircraft... sigh

I play it like I play Red Alert / Starcraft, sending in hordes of swordsmen, archers and calvary, to watch them get sodomized by their respective weaknesses in Rock-Paper-Scissors fashion.

What made me mad was when they applied that to Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Tried to pull some **** having the Trade Federation tanks not being able to kill anything but vehicles.

[Ace Pace]

Originally posted by Flipside
That's not a screenshot, if anything it's a cover.

Thats real, that kind of 'bloom' effect (I think thats the name) has been done before, on Guild Wars, FEAR, and another upcoming RTS.

[Carl]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
What made me mad was when they applied that to Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Tried to pull some **** having the Trade Federation tanks not being able to kill anything but vehicles.

yeah, it doesn't work in other situations. in Empire Earth, frigates took out galleys which took out battleships which took out frigates. there is no reason that that would happen, but they like to apply the rock-paper-scissors thing to everything.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


I play it like I play Red Alert / Starcraft, sending in hordes of swordsmen, archers and calvary, to watch them get sodomized by their respective weaknesses in Rock-Paper-Scissors fashion.

but you played Starcraft like a n00b...


EDIT2:  ehh nevermind, i just watched a few replays, and you weren't that bad

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Stealth
that's a little ignorant, wouldn't you say?  i mean it's not like the division that made AOE is the same one that programmed Windows (which i assume is why you hate Microsoft)

it's like saying you hate the Ferrari Enzo, because you hate the Fiat Palio... they're completely different divisions, but owned by the same company.

or even worse *gasps* it's like saying you hate Freepsace, because you hated Red Faction OK i'm going a little off-topic here, but you get my point  anyway, i think you should try it.  you're a SC fan, and so am i, and i loved it, so it's worth a try

My only problem with Microsoft is that they are limitlessly greed. Age of E 2 had the same prize of 15,000 Hungarian forints(=HUF, currency in Hungary) for years. A newly published game cost 10,000  those times and in two months in decreased to 8,000 HUF. That is my problem is that their game is not advanced with a blip than the others.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Ace Pace


Thats real, that kind of 'bloom' effect (I think thats the name) has been done before, on Guild Wars, FEAR, and another upcoming RTS.

I would think that having bloom in an RTS would be intensely annoying.  Especially when used so over-excessively as in that apparent screenshot.

[Ace Pace]

Originally posted by aldo_14


I would think that having bloom in an RTS would be intensely annoying.  Especially when used so over-excessively as in that apparent screenshot.

I agree, its overdone, but thats something easy to change, just a number.
Its not like they need to rebuild the entire engine

[aldo_14]

I think it's turned up for obsfuscation purposes.... i.e. to make the graphics look more detailed than they really are by stopping you getting a clear look at them.

[Ulala]

red x?

[TopAce]

Strange:

http://www.shinyidol.com/crap/aoe3.jpg

[aldo_14]

Probably removed for legal reasons.

[Falcon]

Some ingame shots of Age of Empires III as well as an interview with Ensemble Studios from IGN:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/576/576023p1.html


http://media.pc.ign.com/media/721/721644/img_2525504.html

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/721/721644/img_2525505.html

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/721/721644/img_2525506.html  

All I have to say is that the visual quality is amazing.........

[Jetmech Jr.]

Holy...

I have to say, that looks great. Nice pics, man.

[Knight Templar]

at the scale of people to buildings still.

[Rictor]

Its way better than in most RTS games. Yeah its not perfect, but the fact that almost no strategy games has the correct scale probably means that its not workable or detracts from gameplay. I'm not really too picky, I mean look at Starcraft.

[Zeronet]

It certainly looks good.

[Knight Templar]

Jesus Christ you're alive...

[Gloriano]

AOE 3 uses Havoc btw