Quick question about a game (AoE II)

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Author	Topic: Quick question about a game (AoE II)
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, May 13 2005 21:15 Profile Homepage #0 I realize that this is severely off-topic. I'd argue that other topics are worse, but that's not a good justification. Anyway, there's a small question I need answered about the game Age of Empires II, which I'm about to buy. Namely, if anyone has the Gold Edition, can you tell me if the soundtrack is the same as the one on the original Age of Kings version or a new soundtrack? For comparison, the first part of the Age of Kings soundtrack - which is included in the demo version as a rather horrible midi file - is uploaded here. Thanks, and sorry for the spam. -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Hawk King Infiltrator Member # 5566	written Friday, May 13 2005 21:40 Profile #1 heres even worse nOobism where did you get the demo ? i looked but did not find. . . . . unless of course you use PC in that case crap ! EDIT: Well Im in for the night i think if i don't post for around four hours it means i went to bed got up lazed around for forty five minutes and ate breakfast [ Friday, May 13, 2005 21:47: Message edited by: hawk king ] -------------------- Why are you reading this ? Posts: 507 \| Registered: Tuesday, March 1 2005 08:00
VCH Shaper Member # 247	written Friday, May 13 2005 22:07 Profile Homepage #2 There is no AOE 2 Mac demo. -------------------- I stop rubber at 160km/h, five times a week. CANUCKS RESPEK! My Style The Knight Between Posts. Posts: 2395 \| Registered: Friday, November 2 2001 08:00
Spring Shaper Member # 5450	written Friday, May 13 2005 22:13 Profile Homepage #3 quote: Originally written by Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: I realize that this is severely off-topic. I'd argue that other topics are worse, but that's not a good justification. How can a topic in General be off topic? -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. Polaris Posts: 2396 \| Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00
Ash Lael E Equals MC What!!!! Member # 5491	written Friday, May 13 2005 22:22 Profile Homepage #4 General was meant for general discussion of Spiderweb stuff, and Misc for random discussion of just anything. Then Misc was killed, and while the official position has never changed, General has kind of morphed into Misc II. -------------------- Sex is easier than love. Posts: 1861 \| Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
stranger Agent Member # 1558	written Friday, May 13 2005 22:39 Profile #5 quote: Originally written by Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair: There's a small question I need answered about the game Age of Empires II, which I'm about to buy. Namely, if anyone has the Gold Edition, can you tell me if the soundtrack is the same as the one on the original Age of Kings version or a new soundtrack? Why do you want to buy it? If you can't wait for Age of Empires III, get Age of Mythology or Rise of Nations. Age of Empires Gold is the original plus the expansion. It includes both games, so there is no reason for the original music to be left out. -------------------- I'm tired of the strain and the pain ___ ___ ___ I feel the same, I feel nothing Nothing is important to me ___ ___ ___ ___ __ And nobody nowhere understands anything About me and all my dreams lost at sea ___ __ But we’re not the same, we’re different tonight We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight _ The indescribable moments of your life tonight The impossible is possible tonight ___ ____ ___ Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight Go All Blacks xtraMSN Rugby _ MuggleNet Posts: 1112 \| Registered: Friday, July 19 2002 07:00
Custer Bob's Big Date Member # 3151	written Friday, May 13 2005 23:09 Profile Homepage #6 Neither AoM nor RoN are the same experience as AoE2. They're all relatively fun. But AoM is pretty much a straight pitch to the console crowd - it's pretty heavily dumbed down, IMO, and also IMO comparatively ugly - and it offers a far more reflex-based, hotkey-pounding experience than you'd expect from an AoE game. I was disappointed by it, to be sure. RoN is worth playing, but not worth buying. Uh, bum it from a friend, wink wink nudge nudge - it's got an interesting resource and technology dynamic, and it's certainly very handsome; for the most part, units look like what AoE1 and AoE2 would have done with 16-bit color instead of the 'original game makes love to a pile of polygons' look that seems to be in vogue nowadays, and the music is pretty, well-composed, evocative, and absolutely nothing like AoE's (less electronic, more orchestral). But handsome and novel don't make a game good, and the gameplay is very cloyingly rock-paper-scissorsish. By contrast, AoE2 is rather like AoE, only more sophisticated. There's a soft spot in my heart for it that I doubt any sequel to come is going to harden. If AoE3 uses that same goddamn infantry-rangers-cavalry unit dynamic that the AoE people have been drifting ineluctably into since Rise of Rome, I'm going to encourage people to pirate it out of a sense of civic duty. [ Friday, May 13, 2005 23:10: Message edited by: Custer XVI ] -------------------- The biggest, the baddest, and the fattest. Posts: 2367 \| Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00
cfgauss Warrior Member # 4590	written Friday, May 13 2005 23:58 Profile #7 RoN could have been really good, but it kinda sucked. I think I played it like twice after I bought it. This goes along with my feeling that for every game I buy, I should get like 15 others for free, because so many games end up sucking. If you want a real game, play Chrono Trigger / Chrono Cross (the latter is for SNES, you can get it off the internet and play on an emulator). These have to be my favorite games ever. If you want ones actually made for computers, play the Monkey Island games, my gods they are awesome! Though niether of those are RTSes. AoE actually wasn't that bad. I liked it, though I never got all that great at it. I played it with my high school calculus teacher and he kicked my ass at it every time! AoM was pretty fun, too, but IIRC the computer cheats like a son of a bastard outside of the campaign. Sadly, this is something most computer games to now-a-days. How I long for the days of the first Command and Conquer, and Red Alert! Giant ants and dinosaurs! It was crazy, I tell you! -------------------- I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw Posts: 103 \| Registered: Sunday, June 20 2004 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, May 14 2005 00:14 Profile Homepage #8 hawk king: Given that Age of Empires is published by Microsoft, it makes sense that they limit it to their own OS. Spring: While indeed General has - as Creator (Ash Lael = Creator, did I get that right?) said - evolved into Misc II, it is occasionally considered good form to apologize for severely off-topic threads. Unless the poster is an oldbie, which I'm not, relatively speaking. :P AoM doesn't much appeal to me from what I've seen (the supernatural and RTS don't go well together imo), and I've hardly heard of Rise of Nations. AoE II is the one I want, if only for reasons of nostalgia. I suppose if I get anything after that, it would be Empire Earth... ;) (Once I somehow get my hands on some supercomputer that can run it without freezing up every few seconds even at the lowest graphic setting) [ Saturday, May 14, 2005 00:18: Message edited by: Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair ] -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Ash Lael E Equals MC What!!!! Member # 5491	written Saturday, May 14 2005 00:37 Profile Homepage #9 Ash Lael sort of = Creator, but not exactly. Can't be bothered explaining it again. -------------------- Sex is easier than love. Posts: 1861 \| Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, May 14 2005 01:01 Profile Homepage #10 Ah yes, I remember. "The Creator" is an identity you share with your brother or something, right? -------------------- The Encyclopaedia Ermariana <-- Now a Wiki! "Polaris leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey." --- HP Lovecraft. "I single Aran out due to his nasty temperament, and his superior intellect." --- SupaNik Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Dallerdin with a custom moniker. Shock Trooper Member # 3898	written Saturday, May 14 2005 01:51 Profile #11 I actually suggest you not to get Empire Earth. Sure, the campaigns are good and all that, but the... what, twenty-or-so different ages kind of makes it lose that "Imperial Age is the best" feeling. You know, how you get all the really good advancements like Polytheism and Ballistics at a University or another, high-age building? That's gone, because with 20 ages, you can't have one "high-level" age because 99% of campaigns won't get to it. Instead, you just get the regulation advancements (increase damage, upgrade walls, faster resource gathering, new heroes, building LOS, hospital healing rate, ect.) That's my rant for today. -------------------- ~Note : The professional newbie's advice should not be taken seriously, or at all.~ L I N K A G E Posts: 364 \| Registered: Saturday, January 17 2004 08:00
Dolphin Shaper Member # 5437	written Saturday, May 14 2005 07:06 Profile #12 AoE II Gold Edition is pretty fun. I like seeing the people hunt, fish and pick berries. I would rather the time line start from the stone age (like in the original) and evolve all the way into modern times. I used to send a group of cave men out on patrol, and when the enemy tribes chased them I had my priests convert them :P -------------------- Nena Posts: 2032 \| Registered: Wednesday, January 26 2005 08:00
Sturg Master Member # 4614	written Saturday, May 14 2005 14:16 Profile Homepage #13 AoE 2 is a good game partly because it actually works on this computer and partly because it's just fun. I think the sound tracks for AoK and AoC are different, but the Gold Edition comes with a AoK CD, just like you would get if you bought it separate. The same goes for AoC. Therefore, if you want the AoK sound track, use the AoK disc. Otherwise, use the AoC disc. However, I like the expansion better because of the extra units, building, queued farms (a big improvement), and just overall better gameplay. -------------------- -ben4808 For those who love to spam: CSM Forums RIFQ Posts: 3360 \| Registered: Friday, June 25 2004 07:00
Kingy Lifecrafter Member # 3171	written Sunday, May 15 2005 23:52 Profile Homepage #14 Well, I got really into AoE a few years back and ended up buying it. I never really played much of AoE II but tryed playing AoM which I really didnt like. But I am borrowing Empire Earth II of a friend today to see if it's worth buying so that should be good. Posts: 776 \| Registered: Friday, July 4 2003 07:00
JadeWolf Infiltrator Member # 5567	written Monday, May 16 2005 01:27 Profile Homepage #15 Hey, we're in the Spiderweb forums here. Why not put this in the Microsoft forum? If there is one. -------------------- How many shapers are there? Why is Drypeak controlled by Zakary? Why is Barzahl a Guardian? How does the Geneforge work? What's as small as nothing? Why am I asking stupid questions? -------------------------------- Shaper teacher : "DON'T TOUCH THAT!" BOOM!! apprentice :little voice "Sorry..." --------------------------- Visit CSM !!! And this site is just great! Wow! Did you know what the answer to the gretest question ever is ? Posts: 576 \| Registered: Wednesday, March 2 2005 08:00
Thuryl ...b10010b... Member # 869	written Monday, May 16 2005 02:36 Profile Homepage #16 This is the General forum. Age of Empires, being a military strategy game, has generals in it. Therefore, it's on topic here. [ Monday, May 16, 2005 02:36: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- My BoE Page Bandwagons are fun! Roots Hunted! Posts: 9973 \| Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00
Drew By Committee Member # 4233	written Monday, May 16 2005 05:34 Profile #17 quote: Originally written by cfgauss: If you want a real game, play Chrono Trigger / Chrono Cross (the latter is for SNES, you can get it off the internet and play on an emulator). These have to be my favorite games ever. If you want ones actually made for computers, play the Monkey Island games, my gods they are awesome! Though niether of those are RTSes. The former is an SNES game; the latter is for PSX. Neither of these are close to being an RTS - you may as well be promoting Minesweeper. It's all about the Greek centurions, baby. Posts: 2242 \| Registered: Saturday, April 10 2004 07:00