I have two half-finished posts in the works, but my computer is crapping out (I'm on the old brokenish one upstairs; also, the crap count in this post is up to 3.) Oh Kamina, it just started playing Age of Empires. I don't want to play Age of Empires, dammit. The one day I don't want to conquer surrounding nations would be the day my computer decides to just sort of randomly start playing the game.
You know, I think I'll talk about it. I actually really, seriously did not intend to do a legit post here, but I guess I will since I have half an hour to kill. No pics, though. Freewheelin' it!
(I'm not sure what that means.)
Age of Empires is a game o' the naughts (the 2000's; it was copyrighted in 2002). It's pixelated, awkward, and lovely, and it has bird sound effects as background music. My mom always used to become mildly angered when I would go to bed in the middle of a paused game because the bird effects would keep going and make her think there were weird things afoot.
(By the way, I'm talking about Age of Empires II, with the Conquerors expansion. Cause that's what I have. You know.)
Basically, it's a strategic conquest game. You are a civilization. You exist to crush other civilizations with your civilized might.
I like to be the Huns because they have a really great special unit, the Tarkan. It's a mounted unit that uses some kind of weird slingshot/bag of rocks type weapon, from the looks of it. I love me my cavalry. I used to only use cavalry for my conquests, but recently I've been seeing the importance of a solid infantry and archer units as well. Siege weapons go without saying. It's extremely difficult to raze a castle without siege weapons.
The castle is the most bad-aardvark building in this game. It takes 650 stone to build and shoots arrows at any enemy who has the misfortune of passing by. Since the enemy AI tends to be pretty dumb and send one enemy at a time into the line of fire, the castle can do a lot of killing.
Speaking of AI, when I say it's dumb, I'm talking about Standard mode. There are three harder modes (and one easier), which I find difficult to beat. To be honest, I'm not the greatest strategy person. I just like to raze all the enemy's buildings, even the walls, and leave nothing but scorch marks upon the earth. And then take over their farms. Cause that's how I roll.
The most fun part of this game, in my opinion, is not the games whose variables (like enemy civilization, number of units, etc.) you can control, but the campaigns. Campaigns put you into the shoes of a great historical war leader and allow you to fight ancient battles and decide the fate of nations. You usually have very specific goals and enemies, and there's an actual plot, with even a bit of dialogue thrown in! Ooh, the intrigue!
This is interesting. I'm looking at the back of the case, and apparently the original actually came out in the late 90's. The critical reviews are from '99 and 2000. It was originally built for Windows 95, 98, ME, or NT. I have XP on this machine. It's pretty cool that it works. The game was actually built by Microsoft. Fancy that.
There's a really big picture of Johnny Depp staring at me from my printer. I feel awkward. I'm going to go finish putting this spirit box (er, bag) together.
Great ending, huh?
~Pigeonmeister
Btw, I forgot a picture of the day last time! Le gasp! This time, I have one. Credits are on the pic itself.
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