I’d say… Age of Empires 2?
CraigM
3412
Nope! Keep the guesses coming folks, because I’m going to hold the next one a little while, lest I make things easy ;)
JoshL
3413
Age of Empires 2? Edit: D’oh!
CraigM
3414
Scott gets the series correct, but rhamorim nails the game. I had planned on accepting either Age 1 or 2, since they are so visually close, but the 1 minute difference I’m inclined to give to rhamorim.
Full shot:
CraigM
3415
Yeah those came as I was typing my reply. They got it.
Koreans are my favorite faction, since I love their special unit. Turtle ships were amazing, but due to being sea based meant that they were only of marginal value in normal play.
Still the rule of cool definitely applied to my 15 year old self playing this, and they had it.
Look at that! Well, since I posted a game so recently, I think BleedTheFreak should post the next one.
But he’s no longer among us, so I think Scott Lufkin is a good second choice (or maybe JoshL? he got the game right too). ;)
I was hedging my bets with my guess, as I had no idea it would have been the first or second, so rhamorim definitely got that one. Nicely done everyone!
EDIT - I can post something, sure.
CraigM
3418
I played those games a lot, and I don’t know that I could tell the difference at a glance from a partial screen.
Age 3, however, I most definitely would not have accepted.
robc04
3419
I played a ton of Age of Empires 1 and 2 at work during lunch. Those were some good times. Out of our 3 man group I’d win around 75% of our matches. Then a 4th guy started playing with us and totally schooled us. I realized I wasn’t nearly as good as I thought I was.
Okay, here we go. I’ll have some comments on this game later, but for now, frame one!

CraigM
3421
Ha, I doubt I’d have fared much better, as I always pursued a strong naval game. I would not attack cities on a map with water, I had to bombard them with ships. One of those ‘these are expensive, so they must be good --> I bought these expensive things, so I have to use them’ deals.
JonRowe
3422
ON the AoE2 frame. I instantly recognized that from the second shot.
So many hours playing that game in high school.
Gah I recognize that key but I can’t for the life of me pull out what game its from.
So familiar. Maybe a Zelda game?
No guess from me for now.
That key looks very familiar.
If someone gets it from just the key I’m going to be VERY impressed (but not very surprised, I’ve seen crazy things in this thread).
The 11th Hour.
No, I’m not just going through the GOG catalog alphabetically.
CraigM
3428
Yeah, someone got Hexcells from nothing more than an off white square with grey diagonal lines.