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Age of Empires

Posted on March 17, 2014 By Liquid Egg Product 4 Comments on Age of Empires
Gaming, Grilled Cheese

Over the course of 2014, I have been playing the original Age of Empires (plus Rise of Rome expansion!).

This is an official announcement that I have, as of tonight, defeated all the campaigns on Hardest difficulty.

A handful of the maps were quite memorable because they were so tough, but some were surprisingly easy. (“Easy” meaning I had to restart at most once.) The penultimate scenario in “Enemies of Rome” was a worthy challenge, although it was short and only took a couple restarts. The final map was, sadly, a relative laugher. Maybe I deserved a cakewalk for the final night.

Kudos to the campaign designers for thinking up enough unique challenges to keep the campaigns interesting.

Clearly, there’s no way my mid-30’s self could do decently in multiplayer, though. Muttering “macro, macro, macro, upgrade, upgrade, upgrade” after a fight indicates my poor ability to multi-task.

Does this mean moving on to Age of Empires 2? You bet!

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4 thoughts on “Age of Empires”

  1. Q says:
    March 20, 2014 at 1:33 am

    I always thought AOE 1 campaigns were quite hard. AOE 2 was not that much easier either.

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  2. Donnie says:
    March 22, 2014 at 2:03 am

    Just based on the first few maps, the AOE 2 campaigns are less difficult.

    In AOE 1, the computer would try to beat you with strong attacks. Often strong enough to require a restart.

    The defenses in AOE 2 are much stronger, but the AI attacks have been so weak, I haven’t felt threatened at all.

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  3. annie says:
    March 22, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    i haven’t been this happy for you since you announced that you and katrushka were boyfriend/girlfriend. congrats! that’s big news!

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  4. Donnie says:
    March 23, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    Uh, yes, thank you! It’s YUGE!

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