What is Age of Empires IV going to be about?

Jesús Pineda
Aug 23, 2017 · 3 min read

Age of Empires is my favorite game of all times, so when I saw the trailer of AoE 4 I was very excited to know more about it, but the trailer was like a recap of the previous games of the saga. Because of that I was wondering about some things:

The trailer that gave me emotions but not a clue about what is going to be about.

Between which ages would it be?

According to Wikipedia AoE 3 was between 1492 and 1876 A.D. so the next game would probably have some historical events like WW1, WW2, the Cold War and maybe some actuak events, but I’m not so sure, I know very little about history but, how many empires are in that period of time?

Resources

Getting resources is one of the main things of AoE. Since the first game we have to get them to make units, develop, advance an age and to build things. What I’m worried about this is the way it is going to be. I like that in AoE 2 we build some camps to get resources because you need to be more careful about your economy, you couldn’t get some resources without an invesment, or that’s what I think. I wouldn’t like not to do camps, but mostly, I wouldn’t like to get unlimited resources with some buildings like in AoE 3, where your villagers can get money and food forever with just one initial investment, I mean, it’s part of the strategy, if you don’t control any other resources you have to change the strategy. I would like to see Oil as a resource, instead of Gold, it could have the same intention but más actual. And the trade, is it going to be with trucks? planes? trains? I honestly want to be surprised.

Units

I just want to see airplanes, and the evolution of them, I mean, you can have a pretty old airplane in the second age and have an F/A-18 in the last age, would be fun. And war tanks, I don’t know how the evolve but the way they move is fun, so it’s bonito to have them. Maybe some unic infantery units for each civilization depending on their researches through history. I honestly don’t know anything about units, I just want to see some planes, maybe some drones, unic units for every civilization, and balance civilizations, of course.

Campaign

I like that in AoE 3 the campaing was more fiction, it was one of my favorites, and the Age of Mythology campaigns too. I don’t like the main character can revive in AoE 3, maybe in AoM has more sense, because you know, your hero has a god on his side, but in AoE 3… no, that was a big part of the campaigns of AoE 2, if your hero died you lose, so you had to be careful, not in AoE 3, your hero had unlimited lives (now that I think, unlimited was a big part of AoE 3), so please, make un héroe mortal.

Well, that was all, just some random thoughts about the trailer of AoE4 that I wanted to share, and if someone has one, please tell me, so I can know more about the game and get more emocionado about AoE 4.

You can follow me on Twitter @JesusPinarte where I usually write my non personal feelings. Also if you see something that I wrote bad, or very bad that makes you think “this guy doesn’t know how to wirte in English” please tell me, please, I’m begging you for that.

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