Age of empires III

[Scooter]

A demo can be found here: http://www.ageofempires3.com/

im gonna give it a bash it looks great.

[Gazaridis]

Civilisation IV is out soon as well, they've got rid of bad things from Civ III like corruption, civil disorder etc so looks like its goona be a good autumn!

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

oooo i like these sort of games

and the vid looks good too

[Mordeth]

downloading the demo now, only takes me 20 hours :(


Damn my download speed....

[Afrodo]

Currently downloading at 839kb/sec :). I love bulldog.

EDIT: Bulldog broadband, not our fellow loony, tho he's cool i'm just not of that persuasion. :)

[Scooter]

mines at 111kbps, i hope pipex improve download speed to keep up with ntl.

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

i got it at 250+kbs which was great but now i cant run it ffs
it tells me a loads of crap like my geforce4 isnt able to run it !!!!??? WDF!?

[HaYl0]

downloading now, looks well awesome. cant wait.

[Zeph]

']i got it at 250+kbs which was great but now i cant run it ffs
it tells me a loads of crap like my geforce4 isnt able to run it !!!!??? WDF!?
Not surprising, GeForce 4s dont have any shader capability, etc.

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

well i just downloaded DX9 and the nvidia thingy and its worked
looks great tho and i might buy this when its out

[HaYl0]

yeh looks a good game! whens it out?

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

did anyone else get the prests(SP?) cause they are not standing up the lazy fat gits :)

played the level and the skermish too will defo be getting this sometime

[Afrodo]

Played this tonite, very good. Like the previous AoE and this one is a definite improvement.

[Scooter]

its fully addictive, and due to the lack of a save option o may have to buy it :/

[Scooter]

ahh just checked out amazon and it says that AOEIII is out november the 5th.

[JanthraX]

is this 1 of the games where you build tech trees from like inventing the wheel up to a tank etc, so in battles you can have medival catapluts working side by side with tanks?

[MIsc^|^decoy]

i did something like that exept i made it so that i had all the ancient stuff and the AI with WWII stuff....guess what i beat them

10 tanks 50infantry vs sticks and stones

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

i havnt got it up to a ank lvl yet and i dont think it will go like that cause its based around the settlement of the USA

[HaYl0]

it dont go that far, trains and stuff i think its around the american civil war age so muskets and stuff like that.

[Scooter]

i completed the demo, you get a random skirmish but the campiagn mode is the man game and you get 2 scenarios, it looks pretty good and ill be buying it when it comes out.

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

yea i keep playing the skermish mode over and over
its on my to-buy list

[HaYl0]

me and scoot were in vent till about 1am last night playing it.

[Scooter]

yer and after mayo went to bed i stayed up till 2 :/

[Gazaridis]

Is anyone else unable to get any native units? I can pay for them but they just wont appear

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

have you made a trade post in the native area?
and make the rally point some where not to far but still away from the trade post

sometimes if i 'rescue' a native they dont appear

[[x]wyre]

I'm not a huge fan of AOE games, but I gave this one a try. I like the 'Home City' feature as it gives a bit of an interesting twist to the game, but being set in North America seems to limit its scope. They seemed to neatly sidestep the awkward issues of the era (murder of Native Americans, slavery etc), but I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing - from a gameplay perspective it relieves the player of any burden of having to worry about that kind of thing, but from a moral point of view it further romanticises the people of the era and the acts they carried out. But then it never claims to be historically accurate.

With the Native American troops, you can make the siege units but those other ones appear to be scaled down so much in the world that you can't select them (they cast tiny, tiny shadows). Either that, or they're underneath the world and the visible bit is the top of a spear/axe.

Anyway, I hear that the demo is actually based on out-of-date code, so things could be quite different in the final game (gameplay-wise. The bugs like the sideways priest will be gone. I hope).

[Gazaridis]

Just beat a texas skirmish on expert :D

[TheTrout]

Hmm well you've persuaded me to download the Demo now. For future reference, THIS (http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/3/d7348fe3-d498-4e13-96c6-3da92e8f0c62/aoe3trial.exe) place is a much faster Download than the original link (I'm getting 225k compared to 8k for the original)

[Mordeth]

wooooooot thx Trout:D

[Lid]

Got totally addicted to this :) i wasnt sure if it was worth buying before but now ive played the demo its definatly on my buy list.

I like the home city idea where u get experienece and being able to ship out supplies and troops from your city thats a very good idea, especially with being able to buy extra cards and create your own deck of cards for the shipments.

But if the new CIV comes out soon i might have to pick between the two :S

[Jo3_Pinneapples[CYM]]

never got into the CIV games as they are/where turn based and those sorts of games always left me wishing htey wher RTS instead