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I've never really been a fan of the Age of Empires titles - while they are good games (from a technical and gameplay aspect) I've never been able to "click" with them.

Well AoEO and SCII seem to be the only things left of RTS's.
As much as I hate to say it, SCII is pretty much the only thing keeping RTS's alive. AoEO simply doesn't have the popularity and publicity (as much as it can be abused, yes, MW2.) to keep up, it will hopefully come out great, and I will be buying it.

Unless it's Pay To Play, nevermind that.

But I am after getting both games, I find RTS's better because the fanbase is usually more mature than say - FPS (for obvious reasons), I'm not trying to sound grownup or anything (because I am 13) but it's sick that you need to widdle through all the trash and idiots to get to some good people.

I hope to go into competitive RTS gameplay, it takes more skill (in my opinion) and it's 1v1, so you don't need a team

In any case. This is a great step that I hope will be appreciated! Nice one Microsoft!

By the way, people are idiots. Me included. FPS players want an MMOFPS and they say that MMORTS's won't work because it isn't really a "world" you explore, just going on missions.

May I ask - how would you do an FPS in a "world" to explore? Mass Effect 2 didn't grasp it (though they greatly done the cinematics, very movie-like ), FPS Multiplayer doesn't grasp it, hell. FPS Multiplayer is the closest you could get!

In all: You cannot have an MMO exploration game as fast paced as an FPS. Imagine killing some NPC terrorists, only to be shot in the back by an enemy, and die in less than a second?
RTS's are possibly the best MMO types out there, I suppose.
RPG? Maybe in league with it, but the best of the 2 is probably an MMORPRTSG. £10 to whomever figures those letters btw.

TL;DR Don't worry, you didn't miss anything xD

- H

MMORPRTSG. ã10 to whomever figures those letters btw.

Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Real-Time Strategy Game. And Battle for Neswoth had a shot at fusing fantasy turn-based strategy with RPG.

Basically, every unit possesses a level which then increases with experience points. Experience points are gained when a unit kills an enemy. With the level up comes extra damage and defence points etc. Every new unit starts off at level 1 and older, "veteran" units follow you throughout every mission until they themselves are defeated.

It's an extremely good fusion and it starts making you think about whether or not it's worth making new units, should you put your high level guy there?, how should you divide the experience?

Furthermore, it's free and it's open source. I'm not too sure if the developers (or the community!) ever made a stable multiplayer add-on, but there's bound to be something of the likes since the game is practically based around a markup language and Lua, easy programming languages for an experienced programmer to get to grips with.

I want my tenner.

Age of Empires Online

HighFire got a thread out before you. Anyway, this was announced about two weeks back, I read it on /..

I'm pretty excited it about it. Cell-shaded graphics are a nice touch (Elementals, I recent strategy by Stardock (awesome company) also included very nice cell-shaded graphics). The gameplay should be extremely good, if you're willing to trust the developer's talent based on the experience offered by previous Age of Empires games.

I think it's going to develop a cult fanbase. I remember playing C&C generals as an RTS newbie and constantly being ripped on and kicked from servers for not being good enough. I believe that because of that attitude, and the decrease in PC gaming's popularity and finally the diverse gameplay in turning a previous single-player orientated franchise to exclusively multiplayer will see the creation of a tiny community.

Like I say, excited and anticipating the game with high expectations. How much of a hit is it going to be? Not sure, but I don't think you're going to have hundreds of people sitting on their seats watching their countdown to release clock tick downwards. There's one thing that will stop me buying it: P2P.

If it asks for monthly subscriptions then it's a no-no from me. There are plenty of other strategies, of similar calibre that don't ask me to chuck more money at the developer.