Age of Empires 2

ludichris

This is a brilliant game, especialy for one that is so old. me and a few friends have it and i just wanted to see what everyone else thinks:D

docmol

Excellent game! I usually play an islands map and get a wall built early on, that encloses most of my island, with towers overlooking the bits that aren't walled. It's fun to watch your opponents land and get creamed!:D

mkeano

Sometimes I prefer the older games, Age of Empires 2 is a classic and I still play it on my old laptop along with Champtionship Manager 2!!

RoyalMarine

amazing game. i remember back when zone hosted the games, it was amazing.

now, its impossible to find online players

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

always preferred aoe: rise of rome to age of kings, but i would imagine kings has aged better.

docmol

I tried paying aoe2 online a few times back in the day but could only find servers populated with a$$holes. Does anyone remember alpha centuri? I'm still playing it on my win7 gaming rig, having carefully moved the install from every machine i've owned since the win95 days!

RoyalMarine

docmol wrote: »

I tried paying aoe2 online a few times back in the day but could only find servers populated with a$$holes. Does anyone remember alpha centuri? I'm still playing it on my win7 gaming rig, having carefully moved the install from every machine i've owned since the win95 days!

still have my original disks plus the expansion pack. love the game probably #1 of any strategy game ive played.

If only they would make a re-make.

mkeano

docmol wrote: »

I tried paying aoe2 online a few times back in the day but could only find servers populated with a$$holes. Does anyone remember alpha centuri? I'm still playing it on my win7 gaming rig, having carefully moved the install from every machine i've owned since the win95 days!

I loved alpha centuri- it was one of the first strategy games I ever played. Sid Meier games are great and as I said I loved the game and wish I still had it. The diplomacy and interactions with the other leaders was quite good.

ludichris

Wow this is a pretty good response. ive never played aoe 2 online but i have the expansion. my fave race is probably aztecs or byzantines

ludichris

mkeano wrote: »

Sometimes I prefer the older games, Age of Empires 2 is a classic and I still play it on my old laptop along with Champtionship Manager 2!!

Ye championship manager 01/02 was a great game which kept me entertained for hours!

cherryghost

RoyalMarineComm wrote: »

amazing game. i remember back when zone hosted the games, it was amazing.

now, its impossible to find online players

Even if it's a legit copy you got, log in to Hamachi. There's literally hundreds of players still there.

Morlar

Used to play AOE 2 on a laptop years ago - must get another copy of that. Does anyone know if it works ok with vista /windows 7?

cherryghost

sometimes there can be discolouring effects if you alt tab a few times. Other than that I haven't had any issues

Raiser

Age of Empires II The Age of Kings was and is fantastic.

- After I finished the Campaigns my favourite way to play was to set up a random map of just the right size and with just the right amount of multiple enemy opposition (About 3 diff Enemies) that you had to literally manage everything perfectly from the first villager collecting wood up to decent walls, castles etc.

- The last bit a number of hours later was when you survived somehow, became Top Dog and then went around the Map with your Trebuchets and Paladins hacking burning and slaying.

Good times

the_syco

Main base & mini base was my favouite thing on large maps. You'd spend a while doing my big base, and somewhere deep in some forest, my mini base would ambush any scout that wandered by

cherryghost

screw that. FORTRESS FTW! I loved getting my trebuchet, knocking down the trees to form a back passage into my enemies bases >:D

Morlar

cherryghost wrote: »

screw that. FORTRESS FTW! I loved getting my trebuchet, knocking down the trees to form a back passage into my enemies bases >:D

That is exactly what I did too - can't remember the level name but there was one level where to do this took absolutely ages and ages but was totally worth it.

TouchingVirus

AOE was the first full price game I ever bought, I was 10 years old and saved for weeks after getting a trial with PC Live! or some other PC mag. It was pretty expensive at £30 or £40 for the full game. It is one of the only strategy games I've ever completed, I played on the Zone with 56k right up until they shut down their servers.

My favourite multiplayer maps were the Heroes only maps, it was like Regicide in that you had your King garrisoned in the castle and you started off with two villagers only and no town centre (so that's all you had). There was trigger that produced 50 or 60 of a particular hero and when you got X kills your hero was upgraded, from Woad Raider to something else and then something better etc etc right up to Ghengis Khan who pwned everybody

Those were the days man, I miss them

_MadRa_

http://www.voobly.com/ and www.gameranger.com

aoe/ror/aoc
500+ people playing aoc

Ror ftw
The Zone brings back so many memories...

Jeboa Safari

Love age of empires, don't know how many hours I spent playing it, in my top 3 games of all time. Went back to play it recently though and it won't work properly when I reinstalled it, the text is messed up in game for the conquerors, anyone know any solution to this or come across it before? AOK works fine

TechnoPool

man even the campaigns were epic i remember playing the Gengis khan one on hardest and almost throwing my monitor out the window years ago

Blue Badger

the first two are easily the best games i've ever played, espeacially aoe2. i loved the joan of arc missions
never thought much of aoe3 though, i don't know why but it just never compared to the other two for me

Raiser

Blue Badger wrote: »

the first two are easily the best games i've ever played, espeacially aoe2. i loved the joan of arc missions
never thought much of aoe3 though, i don't know why but it just never compared to the other two for me

+1

Shuggana

It should also be said that Gameranger, a hosting/lobby client (only 3mb or so, methinks) recently got their **** together and made it so you can play AoE 2 with almost anybody, with very little connection issues. It's brilliant. I play all the time.

Kevo

Empire Earth is very good too.

Grimebox

I've played this with 2 friends over hamachi literally only yesterday. Send me a PM or add me on steam under grimE if your interested in tagging along one of these days

Shaneod21

Been trying to play aoe on gameranger but it never works. I keep getting a message saying something about the symmetric nat router. When I go in to a room they tell me I am italic, I have tried loads of things just can't manage to get it working.

Anyone have an idea what I need to do? I did everything they tell you to do in support.

dunworth1

i loved all the age of empires rise of Rome was my favorite

i must dig them out and play them again.

old_aussie

AOE 2 is one of the best games.

Good for all ages.

Dcully

Agreed AOE 2 was a cracking game.

pepfcb

damn right it is, still playing it every now and then,

just get a gameranger account, there are loads of ppl still playing it !

2vs2 blackforest no rush till imperial age

*good times*

RoryMurphyJnr

AOE 2 is the best

Chinese Archers lethal
Siege Onagers cutting through the trees, makes for quite the surprise attack

Combo Knights and pikemen

R

DOC09UNAM

i have searched over and over and i can't find it anywhere.

craggles

Thread should be stickied and left there for the next decade imo

wobbles

Excellent game. We used to play over the network in my old secondary school with around 8 players. Was brilliant. Still play if at home over the home network against my house mates. Some epic battles, huge frustration and one night even some tears

alois

possibly the best game i ever played..
on a side note: check out the 'age of chivalry' mod, makes it a lot more realistic with actual medieval civs, burgundy, saxony, helvetia etc

OwaynOTT

Yes its a class game. One of my fave. Use to love playing the rise of rome trial pack online. Wasted hours but godd wasted houtrs.

Lenmeister

Hey is there anyone that still plays aoc? The conquerors expansion for Aoe2. I play all the time on Voobly, if anyones interested give us a shout next time you're online! CSA_S_Wood is the username!

Mongol siege + Mangudai or Turk Jannisery + bombard cannons/towers the best!

gooch2k9

Sorry to dig up an old thread but does anyone know if the age of kings can be downloaded, legally of course, willing to pay for quality. Kind of want to play it here and can only find the expansion disc. also anyone running this on Win 7? Cheers.

alois

gooch2k9 wrote: »

Sorry to dig up an old thread but does anyone know if the age of kings can be downloaded, legally of course, willing to pay for quality. Kind of want to play it here and can only find the expansion disc. also anyone running this on Win 7? Cheers.

doubt the publishers even care at this stage if you download it illegally. works fine on w7. haven't found legal versions anywhere though

Lenmeister

The license and rights expired so it's now free to download it.

DOC09UNAM

Anyone have a link to download it?

Lenmeister

http://www.aoczone.net/
http://www.lclan.com/

If you can't seem to find it there then just google download age of empires 2 or age of empires gold edition. You can't not find it!

DOC09UNAM

Lenmeister wrote: »

http://www.aoczone.net/
http://www.lclan.com/

If you can't seem to find it there then just google download age of empires 2 or age of empires gold edition. You can't not find it!

Thank you for making my christmas you brilliant man you.

Lenmeister

http://voobly.com/

This is the website most use to play online. There's a few around but this is the best of them. Hope to see ye on there ^^

IvySlayer

Love this game

I love to play random maps, regicide, have 2 allies and 4 enemies. Then I build walls, and contruct towers/castles. Design brilliant cities.

I design a main city, then my King gets his own space. Armies of villages needed to mine stone/cut wood/mine gold. Fleets of fishing boats needed too.

I also love building zoos of sheep/boar/wolves. I use a villager as bait, make the wolf chase me and then run into a fort I built with a gate and walls. Also use monks to get as many unique units as I can!

I'm so sad :P

gooch2k9

Can't find anything that mentions licenses or rights expiring...not doubting ya but don't want be downloading any dodgy stuff so I'd rather be certain.

EDIT: Also can't find any full game downloads just demos...

Lenmeister

I've been playing it for roughly 10 years man and heavily involved in the community online. Don't worry it expired last year or the year before. Well if you're still not sure you can always go out and buy it

Lenmeister

IvySlayer wrote: »

Love this game

I love to play random maps, regicide, have 2 allies and 4 enemies. Then I build walls, and contruct towers/castles. Design brilliant cities.

I design a main city, then my King gets his own space. Armies of villages needed to mine stone/cut wood/mine gold. Fleets of fishing boats needed too.

I also love building zoos of sheep/boar/wolves. I use a villager as bait, make the wolf chase me and then run into a fort I built with a gate and walls. Also use monks to get as many unique units as I can!

I'm so sad :P

Good memories eh? But ye can't beat the online play lads

IvySlayer

Lenmeister wrote: »

Good memories eh? But ye can't beat the online play lads

How do I play online?

Lenmeister

There's a place called Voobly that everyone uses to play on nowdays. Just install the client and then join whatever room you want to play in.