Recent reviews by iamelele

The consensus with people I qued up against is pretty much the same.
They just sorta remade Starcraft 2, with units lasting a bit longer, everyone being a spellcaster and some units having autocast.

The problem is, SC2 is a much better, more optimised and well balanced game. The rig with a 3080 hits like 15-20 fps in this game, I can get 10x times that in SC2, it looks prettier, more responsive and less clunky, with a UI that's understandable.

The reason why SC2 died, is because it was no longer fun. For some reason they took the same concept and instead of innovating, they doubled down on it.
Last year, everyone was just massing Tier 1 units, this year it's pretty much the same. You never really see opponents going for a 3rd.

But the real problem, is that this game is neither fun nor relaxing.
AOE 4 is both.

I got 99 problems but AOE ain't one.

Waited years for a ranked system, now that it's here, I don't care anymore and the ladder pool has only 80k players.
Me and my friends have long moved on to other games.


Update - Mid august 2024. The game is actually fun, the ranked system works and while friends are no longer playing, it's fun to que up and play team games, it's relaxing, it's an actual RTS, as in if you step away for 10 seconds you don't auto lose the game