Age of Empires II (Retired)

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ 8 / 10 }---

Great strategy game. Makes you think and plan,

A real time strategy classic! Still very playable.

Age of Empires more like age of consent.

This was just a funny little joke, the game is many fun

Does not (currently) work on newer PCs (Win 10, 11). I've tried a great many fixes that have worked for others before, but it seems that recent windows updates have broken this beyond user repair, sadly.

Great old school game, can spend hours playing. Every civilisation has unique characters, so be sure to try different ones until you find your fav. Great for people who enjoy strategic war games, I love that you need to get resources and research to upgrade as you go. Had a few bugs today though, yesterday played for hours with no trouble. ;(

Fantastic strategy game. There's a reason it's such a classic and still remains strong today.

great game. I used to play this back in the day and it is just as fun as it was back then. Highly recommend

It just needs an update where you can create your own scenarios and play them with the public.. That would be a cool feature. Unless that already is a thing and I can't figure out how to use it?

The classic CD-ROM game in all its glory

like the strategy side but find it annoying that the features of the disc based game are not replicated like being able to draw a line around the units that you want control over - has to be one by one.

hard to start out but if you get into a good alliance its not to bad. long term game that can go into years

Oldie but still fun to play.

I've spent so many hours playing this game in the 90s.
So nostalgic to replay it now as an adult.

Fun Very. Old game but still a good one.

FANTASTIC GAME!! I have played Age of Empires since I was a young girl. I've become addicted to it and now it's just gotten worrse the btter the serdious of games werew thr talk of the town.

Age of empires, as old as time itself, still as good

you can sink ships by converting them to christianity 10/10 just like i remember it

Nostalgic. The first game I have played on PC when I was a little kid, and still enjoy playing it years later.

Great classic game. Love passing the time with AOE 2.

This may if fact be the clunkiest and slowest game I have ever played.

A classic. There's nothing else to say to it's quality. If you want an very old school RTS, you can't do better than AoE2.

Obsidian arrows... can't believe they removed them from DE!

When I was a kid, me and others at school would play this together in the library on LAN. We had to keep an eye out for the librarian spotting us and ruining our fun, guess she didn't like us learning history, strategy and art.

Age of Empires II (Retired) ...

I think it's time for Microsoft to 'retire' instead.

This version of the game is still better than definitive (though not better than conquerors)

One of the GOAT games. Remember playing this after high school and it still holds up after all these years. Cant recommend enough if you haven't played it before. One of the true classics!

AOE II. One of the classics of classics. Never gets old. Enjoy it forever.

how many times do i have to buy this game? i bought it 2 times already, and i can't play the latest version..

absolutely love this game. have played it on and off for many years

This game belongs in the Hall of Classics, alongside Sid Meir's Pirates and Diablo. It will be played by our children's children.

Great game. They retired it so you have to buy a new version. MONEY GRAB.

Still one of the best classic RTS-games out there.
If you want to revisit AoE2 and have it as it was back then in 2000, I would recommend picking up this HD version here.
But if your looking to get the DLC and QoL, go with the Definitive Edition instead.

late in the game it consistently starts to have problems and you generally can't finish the game

One of the greatest RTS games - if not one of the greatest video games - ever made, presented in as close to the form it released in as you can get on Steam. I've probably sunk hundreds of hours into this game since I was young and had the original on disk. While the Definitive Edition might feature better graphics and a slew of content, as well as a large multiplayer community, it does have some drawbacks and changes to the overall flow of play in places, as well as unavoidable issues like a larger file size and stricter hardware requirements, and odd choices like inferior music over the OG. The original sprites aren't as pretty to look at but they have their own charm, even after all this time. I would personally recommend the HD Edition, not necessarily over DE, but as a supplement/alternative to it.

building your Village is fun and getting ready for battle is chaotic but very entertaining

I enjoy that the game can be single player and customized to meet time constraints.

A MUST PLAY for RealTimeStrategy & Medieval enthusiasts. It doesn't get more classic than this game. The AI NPCs are fairly good in this game if you want to test you strategy in a game that's kinda like civ but its not turn based and you wont progress into the future all that much just up to the imperial age. Cant recommend this game enough especially for people just getting into strategy games.

Not my type of game personally but it's very good if you love strategy games, this is what every shitty mobile game wished it could be.

Playing this game is incredibly fun. It brings a sense of nostalgia and is not too difficult to pick up how to play. Playing with friends is a great experience

One of the best strategy games ever made. Still playing after almost 20 years off and on. Shout out to the MSN Zone days

Loved this game back in the day! So glad to see a remaster (even if the remaster is a bit old now) It always keeps me coming back for another round. Great game, great nostalgia when playing too!

Gather, build, expand, advance, battle, win or die.
Age of Empires is one of the good old games that will hold a dear place in many people's hearts as one of the most addictive civilization manager game ever. Takes time to learn, and even more time to master.

Building your Village is fun and getting ready for battle is stratagizing and also entertaining

The AoE 2 (2013) game keeps with the original Age of Empires 2 feel and is exactly how i remember it way back in 2001. This is a way better choice if you love Age of Empire 2 the classic! (No offence to the Definitive Edition - but this is a way better version).

Super glad that this was brought back as an HD Edition. I'm also glad to see that they left everything mostly untouched.

Even the new AI is optional. Game itself is a classic, well balanced and fun game to LAN.

Classic game. We do not need any remakes, new fancy 3D graphics, this one is the best.

One of the most polished but most poorly designed RTSes ever made, despite all of its window dressings it ultimately amounts to a glorified and hour(s) long game of rock-paper-scissors, wherein sometimes those options don't even work as claimed. If you want to try a classic from the same era, go play Starcraft instead; if you want something of a similar scale, take a look at Supreme Commander. Both are entirely superior.

Awesome re-playability with many maps, civilizations and a scenario creator. Excellent game.

Played this game a lot when I was young. It's one of the best at It's time. Still fun!

the best game ever. I play this game since 2000 i have all the collections in dvd and cd edition up to age of empires III
Some twice.