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Age of Empires III: (2007) - Multiplayer services ending October 30 (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AOE 3 is still a superior game to 4, which is largely a regression for the genre.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Which is pretty funny because I distinctly remember AOE 3 being seen as a regression from 2.

I do remember liking the home city mechanics. Almost a roguelike in that you could improve your games over time out of band

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

I honestly prefer AoE 1, though I like both 1 & 2. Everything past 2 feels wrong.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Metaprogression

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I think the home city shipments, training on blocks of 5, and no resource drop-off were vast improvements.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

o7

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good reminder I wanted to try out AoE3 Definitive on my Steam Deck, so I finally did. Plays great. I borrowed a community layout but tweaked the controls a bunch.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huh, it seems like that kind of game would be terrible on a controller. How does the game feel to play?

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

It was fine. I even played the new Age of Mythology on Steam Deck as well before a patch broke it. I've played a few other RTS's as well.

I only play single player and I'm more of an economic slow player, and I was doing it for simple skirmishes or campaign missions. Of course with harder difficulties, more enemies, a larger map, or even multi-player I doubt it'd be practival.

But with some control tweaks on the Steam side, I can play a decent single player RTS game effectively.

If things get hectic, I save and go to my desktop. That didn't happen in AoE3 yet though.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it -1 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised it stayed up this long. This game was bad.