Age of Empires III Demo Out

[Gangerolf]

I liked it. Some bugs, but I'm sure they'll take care of that.

The idle villager button is in the top left corner.

What's the deal with the different buildings (cathedral(?) and so on) in the "home city"? They don't do anything.

[pg]

great thread on it at QT3. I haven't played it myself but it seems as if it's mostly multiplayer focused so of course micro is probably going to be nuts.

[The Rusty Gamer]

It says that minimum requirements includes Windows XP. I'm on Windows 98 so I take it it's not worth me downloading it?

[Addled Platypus]

graphics were not to bad, despite the warning about playing anyway

if it is no where but up from there.....drool...

[FrostyBoy]

I love the cannons blowing the buildings apart. I play the game just to watch that.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Sn00py
I love the cannons blowing the buildings apart. I play the game just to watch that.

Yeah, the physics engine is very good. Other than that, I am not at all impressed with this game.

[Gangerolf]

hehehe I beat it on expert. the trick is to move to the little island (the stupid ai won't invade it), build mills and plantations, get the spies thing so you can see all the enemy units, then send suicide missions to destroy the enemy's towncentres (with mortars), then kill all their peasants (cavalry), destroy their barracks etc (mortars again), and then defeat their remaining army in an epic battle.

[Grandpa Troll]

I am an avid fan of AOEII:The Conqueroirs and this demo has potential

The problem is I need to simply override my initial knee jerk reastion button whic cause the hairs to stand up on the back of my neck and say somethings a miss here

I think it was summarized above the interface screenie map thingey

plus ya cant save a demo game

I will probaly still buy it in Oct when it comes out

Gramps

[Kataphraktoi]

and i thought i was all alone in liking aoktc on poly. do you play on the zone? zone=worst MP service ever



but the interface is and ES as usual are being control-freak idiots and not letting changes be made,like fixing the interface

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Cataphract887
and i thought i was all alone in liking aoktc on poly. do you play on the zone? zone=worst MP service ever



but the interface is and ES as usual are being control-freak idiots and not letting changes be made,like fixing the interface

actually
years ago before "passport" frigged things up

I would go and play the rogue spear series as well as AOEII Conquerors

I spen so much time there

this was of course dial up/isdn (twin) trailer trash hookup

before Cable

I havenet been back in over a year

triued to configure my firewall and still could never get in

[Grandpa Troll]

I got a ton of maps and help with scenario designs and absolute killer ai's from (Maps) ensemble studioes

(Maps & ai & help) from The Blacksmith at Ages of Heaven Awesome site for this type of game

[Kataphraktoi]

yes,i used to be a personality there
you can see my 7v1 hardest ai game in the blacksmith too [/shameless self plug]

[Grandpa Troll]

I do a lot of scenarios

I use three ai which are very decent

Maximus 2_0_a,Duke v1.6 and Zycat

I found those to some of the best

congrats of the 7 vs 1
awesome

[conmcb25]

I am a big fan of the series and I actually liked this better than AOE II, there is actually I think a LOT less micromanagement of workers, you dont have to worry about building lumber Mills and mines any longer, which makes a big difference in my opinion.

[Adagio]

I just tried the full version of the game, and so far I'm not impressed

I've only played campaign, but one huge bug I've noticed is the speech, it's just too "slow to start". I mean first you see the subtitles, then you see the people stand around for 4-5 seconds, then you see and hear the characters speak... this is damn annoying... it's actually more annoying than if it was out of sync since there's lots of wasted time