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Red Alert: Command and Conquer????

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(04-02-2014 11:33 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Anyone played the old Centurion: Defender of Rome? That was my first turn-based strategy game... still remember those battles with the Scythians and chariot racing...

I remember this game! Damn, that was a long time ago.

Age of Empires was money, it was the last video game I ever played. Civilization was tight too...I don't think I ever finished pimping out my castle though.

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AoE: TC is the best game, AoE3 was good too. SC2 is too fast paced for me.

Spent way too much time playing aoe in my teens haha, great times.

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I remember playing AoE blood castle matches on multiplayer. Those were a lot of fun back in the day.

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My favorite RTS is the original Starcraft. WC3 will always have a place in my heart because it brought a game that I still play to this day: DotA. I have played every Civ since the first. Civ II is probably my favorite followed by 4. I have the newest one, but I've only played about 7 hours total.

Speaking of strategy games. Anyone here play Football Manager?

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Throwback from my Childhood. AOE 2 was my favorite game bar none. I haven't played a game in a while but if I would start playing again, it would be AOE 2 or Rome Total War. I remember being 5 and waking up one morning with this game installed on the home computer by one of my dad's friends. I didn't even know what it was back then.

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Lots of gems here; AOE, Starcraft, FF VII, ... so many hours I've put into these. My all time favourite game still remains Baldur's Gate though, such depth in that one.

I haven't played games now in about 10 years I think, before it was all I did, but as many of you sure know, nothing can kill social life as bad as games. When I'm 85 years old I'm gonna catch up on the games though, I have a good excuse then, my grandchildren can watch me destroy things online while I give speeches on my bad ass life.

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It was all about the Persians baby! I think I played the Persians most of the time in 1 and 2.Those elephants were ungodly powerful. I loved slowly getting my empire until it was so strong it was bursting at the seams then unleashing like 150 elephants, most people quit when they saw me finally coming. Good times. I think my favorite game is still age of empires 1 when me and my friends where trying to figure out how to build those little huts and hunting only to be attacked by an advanced axe wielding civilization burning our huts to the ground.

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I had no idea we had so many closet nerds on this board.

Makes my inner twelve year old happy.

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I've never been into Age of Empires but I remember played the shit out of Stronghold



And Rune lan party with friends was the most fun I ever had in a video game , bashing another guy to death with another guys decapitated head or limbs never get old

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Used to play this all the time when I was younger, I don't really play games at all but since I found about the recently released forgotten expansion for aoe2 with hd graphics and new civs and heaps of other stuff a couple months I got back into playing this, with a vengeance

Turks have been my favourite recently

At this stage though I can easily smash the ai on any difficulty with any number of them against me, however I'm still a bit off being competitive online, although my friends say that after I play a few online games my steam rating will be adjusted based on how I do, so that I will end up being matched up against players who are closer to my skill level

Such an awesome, addictive game

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Favorite civs?

Mine were Celts, Mongols, Mayans, or Chinese.

I have to say, the celts in death match - if you know how to stack heavy scorps, woad raiders, and halberdiers right - were unbeatable.

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Ah, MS-DOS Diplomacy (this screen shot is the 'new' version; we only had a one color monitor - rave green on black)...where a young boy's thoughts turn to early 20th century European geography.
No way I am the only one here who ever pulled a EDI>PIC convoy??


Risk II - yes they made a sequel - got so addictive for me that I finally threw the disk into a parking lot from the car. Watch out here, Russia is coming for the Crimea.

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I was always either Mongols, Spanish, Saracens or Britons.

I loved hoards of these bad boys:



As for as AoE, I was always partial to the Carthaginians. Been so long I had to look up some of the civs, as I forgot about Sumerians, Choson and Yamato.

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The only game I don't mind playing. Never finished the campaign on AoE 3. But the only thing that bugged me was the fact that there was a limit to buildings and population.

Also it was epic on the age of mythology series when your titans rose and fought each other.

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^ the recent expansion lets you choose a population cap of up to 500. Above that I think is just silly, maps don't have enough resources to sustain an army that big nor could you really effectively manage such an army

Those mangudai are awesome fun to use, they are also probably the most overpowered unit in the game too. It sucks going back to using normal cavalry archers when you are using a different civ and used to mangudai

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Okay, AOE 3 was shit.

But is there any new game out that is just like AOE 2 or Red alert 2?

I have many hours to kill these days.

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Possibly relevant - http://krauserpua.com/2013/03/27/what-yo...-smp-rank/

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http://www.forgottenempires.net/install

New expansion for AoK -- just released in November of last year.

Been playing it for a few hours. They have added new civs and units. A ton of new features, plus new campaigns.

What is most striking is how good the AI is. Just had an intense game -- I was playing as the new civ Magyars. My Indian ally was the most aggressive little shit I've seen -- and it was just on Standard difficulty. Since he was so aggressive, I just sat back and boomed. Eventually assembled a mangy army of cavalry and cavalry archers. Took over the world.

Good shit, recommended.

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I learned English from playing Age of Empires 2 and some version of Civilization in childhood.

Also to a child they were more educating about human history then school.

Games can be useful in moderation.

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Anyone recognize this excellent game? I played that through three times, with Amazon, Barbarian and Knight. Great game with excellent fighting, though dulled by its long and confusing levels brimming with nearly impossible traps/puzzles.

Mage Wrote:I learned English from playing Age of Empires 2 and some version of Civilization in childhood.

Also to a child they were more educating about human history then school.

Games can be useful in moderation.

I also credit most of my English knowledge (either directly or from early start) from playing early games like this, followed by Diablo, Baldur's Gate, and Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri was incredibly educational about philosophy, diplomacy, biology and tech too:

Provost Zakharov Wrote:The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components. Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons, quarks. Each layer unraveled reveals new secrets, but also new mysteries.
— Academician Prokhor Zakharov