Age of Empires

[Miriel]

How many people can join a single game, anyone know?

Del Murder and I will probably be playing in like... 8 hours. If you're around, go into Gameranger and look for us!

[demondude]

Eight people a game.

[Namelessfengir]

i played aoe aom and starcraft through most of highschool. but ive moved to fps's (halo cod splinter cell rainbow six gta) id get aoe 3 but the three game kit runs 50$ and most of the time i devoted to games i devote to internet. if i can get good internet id jump into mmo's not smurfing wow though too damn huge. tor maybe aion something out of the way and not

[Madame Adequate]

My username is Tmoney

there are things paul has not told us...

Anyway yeah AoE is a goddamn genius game and Miriel is right about which is the best. I probably only like Red Alert 2 more. AoE3 sucks imho.

[Meat Puppet]

AoE 2 is awesome. I used to play it with my friends for days straight. I went out and bought like, the full pack with AoE and AoE 2 and all their expansions a long time ago, however... it won’t run on my computer. Some ridiculous crap about DirectDraw that I can’t fix. I’ve asked a lot of people and they just get this worried look on their faces and try to get as far away from me as possible.

[McLovin']

I adored the original because I dislike it once they start bringing guns into the mix, personally. But having said that, AoEII was still neat enough. I just wish they'd release an improved version of the original game, though. Fun times. Same with Warcraft II - they need to release a new RTS version of Warcraft. It was the best RTS out there and they abandoned it after III! I don't even understand why.

"Within the freshest Starcraft 2 panel from BlizzCon 2008 Blizzard proclaims, that Starcraft 2 will be expanded into a trilogy. Furthermore Blizzard verifies, that Warcraft 4 will be released with the same trilogy-type principle."
~Blizzcon

[Sir Lancealot]

I'm glad I was able to find my copy of AoE2 last week.

[~*~Celes~*~]

I LOVE AoE II but I'm not that great at it yet.

Maybe after some practice! Or I'll just play anyway

[Sir Lancealot]

Come play with us anyway. It'll be fun.

[~*~Celes~*~]

Well, I've been trying to install it for the past hour but it keeps getting stuck on 89% because it's having trouble installing a specific file.

Guess I'll have to go out and buy the $10 box set at Wal-Mart before I can play

[Del Murder]

You guys should post your gameranger names so I can look you up. We're going to play in about an hour.

[Tavrobel]

I haven't played AoE, AoK, AoM, or AoE III in a long time.

I think it would frighten everyone if I did.

[Sir Lancealot]

My user name is Sir Lancealot.

[Miriel]

We're playing right now! If you're around and you have the game, come join us.

[darkchrono]

Age of Empires was a great game for its time. Gamers now would probably look at it and think it to be a bit shallow. But back around '96 or '97 (whenever it was released) the idea of being able to build your own kingdom and go to war against other kingdoms who were attempting to do the same thing you were was just awesome. And the fact that you could play it online against other real life people made it all that much better.

Today most of the things that AOE had is pretty standard in most games across the board. But back then AOE was one of the first of its kind.

Was it the first RTS game where you could build an empire and conquer the world (or the map) and do it all online as well?