Re:Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
by marginalia_nu on Monday May 22, 2023 @05:59AM
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I feel Westwood's games were always more about the single player experience. The maps were pretty well designed as sort of puzzle boxes you needed to figure out. The amazing soundtracks and cheesy FMVs were also very good at building atmosphere. Multiplayer felt unbalanced in a not very fun way.
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Re:Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
by bombcar on Monday May 22, 2023 @09:47AM
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Agreed, StarCraft and friends got a big multiplayer scene that I was never into; I'm not a good enough player.
But C&C were fun to play through, and felt accessible to scrubs like me. (To be fair to Blizzard, StarCraft 2 is the ONLY Blizzard RTS I ever completed - or at least the episodes I bought ; they did exceptionally well on the difficulty scaling for that game.)
Competitive multiplayer was always meh for us, we loved comp stomps, and I somewhat am sad that the AI was so "bad" that you never really could get a good balance between "destroyed you instantly" and "easily overwhelmed".
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/08/04/the-armageddon...