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yea no ww1 or 2 for me stik to aoe or aoe2 better  make a new game typ bass of roman empiers but wat i really like was in aoe at the start that u start as a sort of cave man realy like the ide u realy have to start as a cave siv and have to ege up by finding or reasurch fire and wepon tools budt no drakens or strange enimals budt sabeltood tiger and realy big elphandts budt ceep it realistik and if u start as a cave man u take oter viligges and finding out the can make fire them selfs and have good wepons and u take that over and then u bildt up to roman emphires budt not futer no fire armes and no cannons ceep it onli to http://www.soldiers-russia.com/new_soldiers/roman_empire/roman_officer.htmand

http://www.soldiers-russia.com/new_soldiers/roman_empire/roman_flame.htm

 dit u see the movie quwest of fire u peepol sal see this movie realy good 1 especialy that in the whole movie no ones talks... see here http://imdb.com/title/tt0082484/

also i like to see wy bigger maps and more heros and up greads of heros and soldiers and of corse dynamic game ply not that u onlie ply 1 map budt a serie

The game idea you are describing sounds kind of like Age of Empires 1. Instead of "remaking" Age of Empires 1 and 2, Ensemble should make new games focusing on these time periods, but with all new historical campaigns, new units, new playing styles, and civs that play more differently from each other. Civs may have all unique units. Obviously, a game covering these time periods would be cool, but it would need much more than just an update in graphics, as many people on the forums have suggested. And who knows, maybe ES could make a 20th century warfare game, but just not under the Age of Empires series name. It could be a separate spinoff game much in the sense of Age of Mythology. ES easily has the skill to make a 20th century RTS that could compete with Company of Heroes and all the others, but it would need to introduce new economy and military playing styles that may not be consistent with the Age of Empires series. Forumers, would you be happy if ES released a 20th century warfare game, as long as it wasn't an Age of Empires game? And, would you like an ancient/medieval game that is brand new, or would you rather it be AoE1/AoE2 EXACTLY, with only graphical changes?

This would be awesome I don't care what anyone says. As for settlers gathering resources, it would have to be all agricultural and you would have to convert gold to cash. Brain wave: all the axis civs train units in the conventional way, since they dominated everything, wheras the Allies must convert settlers into troops (for free) but then outfit them with weaponry and technologies, which would be just as expensive. So the resources would be food, duh, gold/cash, and stone. The planes, though, this is what really physces me up!!! Wit one hit, a whole base could be done for unless there is some anti aircraft guarding it. And the campaign! Jesus I am so happy just thinking about it. If this happens it will be the best ever.

Definitely looking forward to that. What does everyone think of what I said in my last entry in the thread? I'd like to hear your opinions, comments, or suggestions.

As for civilizations, I would say Britian, Spain, U.K., Turkey, Republic of China, Soviet Union, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (maybe with cards to muster U.K. units or something), France early and becomes Vicchy France with age ups (weak late game), Nazi Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, and Poland. This game would be very hard to do, however, without extensive dimplomacy modes of the game.

Well I think they would have to go from roughly ~1850 to ~1980

The Ages could be ~1850 to ~1900 [Civil War, Spanish American War], ~1900 to ~1925 [Great War, Depression], ~1925 to ~1950 [World War 2, start of Cold War], ~1950 to ~1980 [Cold War, Arms Race, Space Race]. I think this could be a great segway [if the picture from Age of Empries 3 is to be believed] into Age of Empires V [future].

The 'empires' could be

Germany -> Nazi's

Austrian/Hungarian

Russian -> USSR

United States

British Empire

French

Italian -> Fascist Party

China

 
Obviously the game mechanics are going to have to change because this isn't going to be a brawl, but I think that is a challenge that Ensemble can overcome.
 

As long as they don't make "Age of Empires 4 - Modern Warfare" we're fine.

 On a more serious note, I think it should be set at around WWI time, or just before. It could start around the time that Germany became Germany (up until the 1870s, it was a group of small states called Prussia, and wasn't a country). It might go up to modern times, or further (brilliant, Age V Home city shipment: H-bomb).

Hopefully it'll be pretty good.

 

I agree with you those of you who are saying that a 20th century AOE seems a little out of place. But at the same time, in order for AOE: IV to be a great seller it needs to stand out from all the rest of the games. So if it does go back to an ancient time or do a sequal to AOM, its going to have to bring a lot to the table, considering we've already  played those types of games.

 

That is to say that Ensemble Studio's is even going make another one.... I hope so! 

Natives - French Resistance, although they wouldn't call them natives more like "small allies"

Maybe the English resistance although they never were used but still a viaible  ally. they can construct small bunkers inside town buildings and concrete cubes to stop tanks from coming in, i think that would be the modern walls as walls like in aoe3 wouldn't be much help in WW1 - 2 or even ditchs and trenchs. 

I would really like to see a WWI-WWII Age of Empires, as long as it doesn´t copy the ideas of CoH, (a great game, perhaps the bes RTS so far).ES is capable of coming up with a lot of new concepts to make it an original game. What I wouldn´t like is the idea of WW being only a certain age in the game(for example, WWII is like Industrial Age, and the Imperial something like Cold War or present time)

 Wood would be replaced by some kind of mineral to create concrete, there should also be steel (for tanks, guns and so on).

 I disagree with the idea of a Nazi Germany or Vichy France. I don´t think that ES would introduce political elements on the game.

Yes, resource gathering and gameplay format would have to be greatly changed for a 20th century game. And all ES games released so far have been very original. They won't copy Company of Heroes. They definitely need to introduce new gameplay elements to breathe new life into the AoE series. What those changes should be, I don't know, but ES should be able to figure it out. And, it would be impossible not to include Nazi Germany and Vichy France in a game that is about WWII. The game wouldn't get too politically heavy, RTS games rarely, if ever, go into politics. The Holocaust is the only thing that should be left out, to avoid controversy, just as slavery was left out of AoE III. Besides AoE games focus solely on military history, ignoring political history for the most part.