I get that. I still like to play AoE1 as is, though, so I’m interested.
There’s just something about that game’s atmosphere. The quiet caveman stuff at the start. Hauling the fishes back and forth. Random lion attacks. Triremes sailing by. Priests going Wo Lo Lo!
It was really the first RTS I seriously got into, although I think AoK is superior in almost every way (except maybe setting – I have a soft spot for the ancient world).