Not to pry but ‘streamlining gathering’ is rather ambiguous. I read that while they cut the number to 3 thats still 1 more than a game like WCIII.
That is pretty ambiguous, isn’t it? I guess what I meant, Jason, is that recource gathering is built smoothly into the gameplay as one of the distinctive characteristics of each culture. I have a hard time playing the Norse, for instance, because of how they gather their resources, but I can kick ass as the Egytpians.
Granted, the economic game isn’t as easy as Battlecry II, which took the Total Annihilation model and improved on it. But it’s also not as sprawling as Age of Empires with its 4 resources and depleting farms. It’s a very player-friendly model. Particularly if you’re Egyptian.
Hopefully that’s less ambiguous…?
Well here comes more WCIII. Outside of the heroe’s abilities the “magic” units of each side and be set to auto cast too.
No, you don’t understand. You never control the special abilities of units in Age of Mythology. It’s like Kohan. You group your armies together and the AI does it’s thing: formations, target selection, special abilities, the whole kit and kaboodle. There’s almost zero tactical management in Age of Mythology when a battle starts.
There’s none of the infuriating unit hand-holding you get in WCIII.
I guess I’ll bring back something I remember you said about the WCIII beta. “What does WCIII do that Battlecry II doesn’t already do?”
I’m not arguing that Age of Mythology is anything other than a traditional RTS with loads of personality, some excellent design choices, and some very entertaining artwork and animation.
The big difference from WCIII is that it doesn’t treat the player’s attention as a resource by necessitating a lot of micromanagement. I hated that about WCIII, where if you’re not pushing your units around and firing off their abilities, you’re losing the game.
In WCIII, it’s as if the interface was hobbled to make the game more challenging. Fuckers. Don’t do that to me. I’m your customer. Make the game as easy to play as you can and let me get down to business.
-Tom