Age of Empires IV Announced

[BSim500]

Really Ubisodt did that? Aren't they they ones with the crazy online protection these days? I was going to buy the last Settler's game last week, but after reading up on it made it not sound worth it due to DRM.

All Ubisoft's online stuff has DRM. For some reason though their AoE Collector's Edition is DRM-free. (Probably because it requires patch 1.0e that adds widescreen, etc, and the related no-CD patch couldn't be separated). Didn't even know they made discs until I bought it, but here's the DVD cover. With "upatch", even AoE1 looks pretty good at 1080p for a 20 year old game. With all those fixes, I'm not even sure why it "needs" an official remaster.

 

[Ranulf]

Retail copies used to require the CD in the drive all the time. I'd rather go back one more step and have to look up on page 22, paragraph 6, line 9, the word after submarine

Reminds me of Wolfpack, Gato and Red Storm Rising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfpack_(video_game)

 

[Red Storm]

All Ubisoft's online stuff has DRM. For some reason though their AoE Collector's Edition is DRM-free. (Probably because it requires patch 1.0e that adds widescreen, etc, and the related no-CD patch couldn't be separated). Didn't even know they made discs until I bought it, but here's the DVD cover. With "upatch", even AoE1 looks pretty good at 1080p for a 20 year old game. With all those fixes, I'm not even sure why it "needs" an official remaster.

The remaster greatly improves the graphics, plus there are some gameplay changes such as unit formations which AoE1 did not have.

I personally only played AoE1 once in my life, way back when at a friend's house and I thought it was cool, but I really got into the series with AoE2. For this reason I am really looking forward to the remaster.

 

[Andro Boy]

With the Win 10 restriction, I actually don't even care about this game. I could put up with the store if they still bothered to support 7 (still 50% worldwide market share), but MS doesn't want my money, apparently.