Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

Hello everyone. This is my review for AOE 2 DE. CIVILIZATION'S, ARMY'S, BASE BUILDING AND ECT. I like many things about the game, like the building structures, and building different armys to fight against enemy/s, and do strategys against them. The game has many civilizations, tech trees for each one, and almost different unit/s for each civilization/s. Maps are great too, from small to large, some. For 2 players to 8 playes maps huge and small, and the game supports modding which i really like. RTS, MP, AND AI ENEMIES. Multiplayer is really fun. Tho sometimes the enemy player decides to hide villagers on each corner of the map if you are wining the game, which is just sad and wastes time. I will be honest, the AOE 2 DE AI is BAD and not that aggresive in the beggining like the OG one. The early enemy armies goes straitgh to a tower if its sees one, as an actual player/s don't EVER do as it will kill the unit/s (Tho expert players don't build towers in the early stages of the match). And i found out that the OG one REPAIRS the battling ram/s or catapult/s if damaged, and the new AI don't do that. But if you give the new Ai time to prepare, like 20 to 30 min, it will run you down ( hard to extrime difficulties ). HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE GAME. Nostalgia is a key factor here for me as its faithfull to the original AOE 2, and HD eddition from many years ago, i played it like there was no other day and i have many memories of the game. RECOMMENDED. If you like RTS, base building, strategy games, you should try this one for sure.

I remember playing Age Of Empires 2 on a old computer the original version. This is the Definitive Edition which means it brings enhancements and its been upgraded for modern hardware and software operating systems. This the beloved Ages Of Empires 2 but better with additional DLC and DLC never before seen. I recommend this edition of the very beloved video game.

One of the most best strategic games ever, playing from 27 or more years ago ... thx for the nice and realistic strategic historical games ....

this game breaks every other update and you wont be able to play for months at a time. consistently

木こり1人の差で人生が変わるゲーム。 このゲームはRTSだ。 だから一見すると、 「操作が速い奴が勝つゲーム」 に見える。 実際、昔の俺もそう思っていた。 村人を止めずに生産して、斥候を回して、内政しながら軍を動かして―― そんなの無理だろ、と。 でも長く遊んでいると気付く。 このゲームの面白さは、実は操作そのものじゃない。 もちろん操作は大事だ。 だが本当に差が付くのは、 「今、何に資源を使うか」 という判断の方だ。 誰かがAoE2をリアルタイム版スレスパみたいなものだと言っていて、 妙に納得したことがある。 例えば同じフランクを使っていても、 毎回同じ試合にはならない。 羊の位置も違う。 金山の位置も違う。 相手の文明も違う。 攻めてくる時間も違う。 つまり毎回、 配られた手札が違う。 このゲームで一番面白いのは、 城主入りでも騎士でもなく、 「経済と時間の交換」 なんじゃないかと思う。 木材を畑に使うのか。 弓兵育成所に使うのか。 TC追加に使うのか。 今攻めるのか。 もう少し伸ばすのか。 どれも正解になり得るし、 どれも間違いになり得る。 特に長く遊ぶほど、 村人1人の価値が見えてくる。 初心者の頃は 「騎士が強い」 「弓兵が強い」 しか見えない。 でもある日、 相手と同じ軍なのに勝てなくなる。 録画を見返す。 すると原因は、 10分前に止まっていた村人生産だったりする。 なんだそれは。 騎士同士の激戦の勝敗が、 数分前の木こり3人で決まっていたりする。 もちろんランダム要素もある。 マップ運もある。 文明相性もある。 猪を引っ掛けることもある。 羊を見失うこともある。 味方が突然城を敵陣に建て始めることもある。 人生は理不尽だ。 だが、その理不尽さの中で、 何とか勝率を積み上げられるようになっていく。 知識が増える。 判断が変わる。 気付けば、 以前は見えなかったものが見えるようになる。 このゲームは騎士を出すゲームでも、 城を建てるゲームでもない。 木こりを1人増やすかどうかで悩み、 敵のTCの位置で頭を抱え、 気付けば深夜3時になっているゲームだ。 そして不思議なことに、 負けた試合ですら 「次はもっと上手くやれる気がする」 と思わせてくれる。 20年以上遊ばれている理由は、 たぶんそこなんだと思う。

This game has stood against the test of time and dominated. Absolute masterpiece for an RTS game.

The best strategy game I know. Last 4-5 years they ruined the game a bit in my opinion. For low to mid elo players like me around 1000 elo, the constant addition of new civilizations makes the game too complicated to keep track off. Yes I don't mind losing against a player who uses the game strategy and mechanics better than me. Yes I do mind losing against a civilisation I have no time to learn, never had to play, never want to play and that uses weird magical civ specs that are atypical for age of empires. Most of all, there is no option to exclude the latest 3 or 4 DLC packages/latest 12 civs from your gameplay, as in, block those civs for ranked play or easily block those for everyone for a game in the lobby. We have now 40/50+ civs and around 1000 elo that's just too many. Please make money another way devs, this is not it. For the world's top players maybe thats fun, but that's like 5% of your player base. Might go back to HD edition for this.

Yes, I enjoy the city building, and RT battles.

Great nostalgic RTS, it still contains some memes like pathing - you can send troops to point A and they just are confused, taking a longer route or unintended route or just get stuck in an odd position + it lacks the modern UI and QoL features. The variety of civils are mostly by name, yes the list is huge but it is always the same thing all the time, basically quantity over quality. Even with the faults above it is a fun game and the price is not bad.

A great game that until recently ran on a laptop with windows 11. Because of a windows security update, this game will only use the onboard gpu, rather than your fancy dedicated gpu. Enabling windows to only use the dedicated gpu only for this program does not help. This leads to CTD. Thus this is now unplayable on laptops running windows 11