Got all my friends hooked on it back in my college days. We attended class at night, but for some reason beyond my comprehension we did have classes at Saturday morning. Being a bunch of nocturnal beings, we usually bought some pizzas and stayed up all night from Friday to Saturday playing on lan and having pizza. Good times.
played AOE 2 when it was just released, more than 20 years ago. And then 10 years later in 2011, online with real people which was a lot of fun and competitive touch.
Then again, I played the AOE 2 DE 10 years later in 2021, at 4k which was a great refreshment. I would say I got even better at it and had so many incredible achievements and games during that time.
I now see that more DLCs and patches were released after they did Poles and Bohemians, which were the last ones I played. The Poles as a civ were incredibly powerful btw. I felt really thankful for the team to keep supporting and developing the game in these recent years.
They recently released Return of Rome, where they added Romans to AoE2 and also implemented AoE1 inside of AoE2, using the same engine and QoL improvements from AoE2. You can now play the full AoE1 game (except ranked multiplayer) within AoE2.
