I Played Age of Empires IV - It Was Awesome

00:00:00.000so last week i got to play some age of

00:00:02.240empires 4 during the game's stress test

00:00:05.120and it reminded me just how much i love

00:00:08.240and have missed this genre despite the

00:00:10.639fact that it's been quite some time

00:00:12.480since i played an rts it still holds a

00:00:14.799special place in my heart my first

00:00:16.720exposure was through the original

00:00:18.320warcraft games orcs and humans and

00:00:20.640warcraft 2. it was around 9 or 10 when

00:00:23.039these came out and still clearly

00:00:24.880remember going over my friend's house to

00:00:26.720play them for the first time the process

00:00:28.640of starting from scratch with one

00:00:30.240building and some workers and then

00:00:31.840harvesting resources constructing new

00:00:34.160buildings amassing a huge army to send

00:00:36.719out and demolish the enemy that whole

00:00:38.559thing is so satisfying after that very

00:00:41.360first game i just wanted to do it again

00:00:43.440and that loop really set the groundwork

00:00:45.680for the genre in the following years i

00:00:47.680spent some time with some other rts

00:00:49.840games i played command and conquer which

00:00:51.840brought the genre from fantasy into a

00:00:53.920more modern military setting after that

00:00:56.239it was starcraft which took it out into

00:00:58.320space and then age of empires which of

00:01:00.480course brought it back in time each one

00:01:02.800of these games with their own unique

00:01:04.320twists and features but having the same

00:01:06.240basic foundation that i really enjoyed

00:01:09.040there's been plenty of other rts games

00:01:10.799that came out over time but those four

00:01:12.960were the pillars of my experience with

00:01:15.040the genre and the games that i associate

00:01:17.040with it the most after some years away i

00:01:19.759returned to rts with the release of

00:01:21.920starcraft 2. some of you might remember

00:01:23.840about 10 years ago now this channel

00:01:26.080began with me covering that game i did

00:01:28.400commentary guides and in general just

00:01:30.960really loved playing and talking

00:01:32.640starcraft but that was 10 years ago my

00:01:35.119rts skills are a bit rusty at this point

00:01:38.320and the genre has also been on kind of a

00:01:40.560hiatus you don't really hear much about

00:01:42.240rts games in the past five or ten years

00:01:45.119regardless though i was keen to brush

00:01:47.280off the dust and jump back in when i

00:01:49.280heard that age of empires 4 was coming

00:01:51.439along well like i said the stress test

00:01:53.920happened last week i played for a bit

00:01:56.159and thoroughly enjoyed it i'm not sure

00:01:59.040if this is going to be a leap forward

00:02:01.280for the genre necessarily as much as it

00:02:03.680just kind of felt like a modernized

00:02:05.280update to what i remember age of empires

00:02:07.600being but the bottom line is yeah i

00:02:09.440played it and had a ton of fun and what

00:02:12.080i want to do here in this video is take

00:02:13.680you through my experience with age of

00:02:15.120empires 4 show you a little bit about

00:02:16.720the game what i saw but before we jump

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00:03:30.879take you through my experience with the

00:03:33.280most recent age of empires 4 stress test

00:03:36.159upon booting up the game i got the

00:03:38.239typical stress test disclaimer things

00:03:40.959may be broken of course we expect that

00:03:43.280we also get this wonderful bouncing

00:03:45.120watermark on our screen thank you very

00:03:46.959much i know why this is here but also

00:03:48.879it's kind of annoying anyways i click

00:03:50.400through the disclaimer and start poking

00:03:52.080around the menus and immediately notice

00:03:54.480there's no single player rip

00:03:56.799i am not ready for competition at this

00:03:58.480point i barely remember how to play

00:04:00.319these games so i figured the best thing

00:04:01.840to do is just play it safe and do a

00:04:03.280large team game so i queue up for a four

00:04:05.360verse four i figure hey that takes the

00:04:07.120pressure off of me to perform let

00:04:09.120someone else carry the load you know

00:04:10.400what i mean so iq and sit there for um i

00:04:13.760don't know like several minutes not a

00:04:16.000single player joined the lobby clearly i

00:04:18.160was the only one who was too scared to

00:04:20.079do a one verse one so i back out of that

00:04:22.560i poke around the menus a bit more and

00:04:24.320realize hey there's an option to play

00:04:26.479co-op versus ai awesome let's do that i

00:04:29.280end up finding a partner fairly quickly

00:04:31.360for this and while the match is loading

00:04:33.199there's some useful information and tips

00:04:35.120on the screen and this reminds me that

00:04:36.560age of empires was the rts series with

00:04:38.720multiple win conditions you can either

00:04:40.720destroy all of the enemy landmarks or

00:04:43.040control all sacred sites or build and

00:04:45.759defend a wonder i had totally forgot

00:04:48.320that this was a thing i'm just so used

00:04:50.320to starcraft's rules of destroy every

00:04:52.560last enemy building i think it's pretty

00:04:55.040awesome that this series has multiple

00:04:57.280win conditions i mean i know like at the

00:04:59.680top end there's clearly going to be a

00:05:01.440meta like what strategies are best and

00:05:03.280how you accomplish them for the most

00:05:04.800skilled players but everyone in the

00:05:06.560middle and lower brackets i think it's

00:05:08.560pretty exciting that there's like

00:05:09.680multiple potential ways that a match

00:05:11.520could end um i'll probably find out

00:05:13.759myself since i'm clearly going to be in

00:05:15.680the middle to lower bracket so we're

00:05:17.360still loading after a while because i'm

00:05:18.880pretty sure my teammate's power supply

00:05:20.479is plugged into an electric generating

00:05:22.720potato and after about an eternity the

00:05:24.880match begins um also in case you forgot

00:05:27.120this watermark here reminds us it's a

00:05:28.800stress test um the map loads in i am

00:05:31.280super excited to play for the very first

00:05:33.199time until i immediately realize i can't

00:05:36.639scroll down so so a few months ago i

00:05:39.120upgraded to an ultrawide monitor and for

00:05:40.960the most part it's been amazing the only

00:05:43.360real downside is when i'm trying to

00:05:44.800record 16x9 resolution footage here for

00:05:47.759youtube but the game that i'm playing

00:05:49.520doesn't support 16x9 while also being

00:05:52.880full screen so for that reason i was

00:05:54.560playing age of empires windowed and

00:05:56.800because of this when i tried to pan the

00:05:58.639camera down by bumping my mouse to the

00:06:00.960bottom of the screen it was not working

00:06:02.960and for me this is awful i tried to play

00:06:05.759for a few minutes using the arrow keys

00:06:08.160to pan the camera or double-clicking my

00:06:10.720keybinds or even clicking directly on

00:06:12.720the mini-map none of this was cutting it

00:06:14.720it just felt so awkward not being able

00:06:17.039to bump pan my screen down so apologies

00:06:20.960to my teammate but i had to leave uh i

00:06:24.080quit the match physically move my

00:06:26.000monitors around so that i can play on

00:06:27.759the old 24 inch 16x9 i had and then boot

00:06:31.280the game back up and while i fussed

00:06:33.759around with the menus now on my new

00:06:35.520monitor i realized at this point that i

00:06:37.360can do a custom verse ai so fantastic

00:06:39.840there's no pressure of playing another

00:06:41.039human and i won't disappoint a teammate

00:06:42.880if i end up having to quit again so now

00:06:44.880let me take you through the ai match

00:06:47.280that i had uh the map load in i

00:06:49.680immediately test to make sure screen

00:06:51.360panning works with the mouse it does

00:06:52.960relief sweeps over me until i realize i

00:06:55.599i still don't remember how to play these

00:06:57.199games um so let's take a look at what we

00:06:58.800got here we got a town hall and some

00:07:00.400villagers now i remember this much at

00:07:02.400least like most rts's you split the

00:07:04.560workers up in a few groups to harvest

00:07:06.479the different resources that are

00:07:07.680available here in age of empires there's

00:07:09.599four there's lumber food stone and gold

00:07:12.720this is like basic rts stuff now i'm

00:07:15.039sure there's a meta to this like maybe

00:07:16.800you start with everyone on food or

00:07:18.400lumber or something depending on what

00:07:20.160your build order is but all of that is

00:07:22.160way too far beyond where i'm at with the

00:07:24.319game at the moment so i just kind of

00:07:26.160split them up evenly um also i swear i

00:07:28.400picked english but this language they're

00:07:30.240speaking doesn't sound like english i

00:07:32.080thought to myself hey maybe it's like a

00:07:33.840dated version language but no i looked

00:07:35.680it up it's basically just gibberish kind

00:07:37.840of like sims do anyways the

00:07:39.919gibberish-speaking workers are

00:07:41.280harvesting away my scout is out scouting

00:07:44.240check this out by the way your scout

00:07:46.000picks up sheep as it passes by them the

00:07:48.479sheep will like run along at full speed

00:07:50.960with him i think this is so cool and

00:07:53.039then you can also command the sheep to

00:07:54.400go back to your town so they can be

00:07:55.919harvested i'm so sorry sheep here too

00:07:58.800before we really dive in i just want to

00:08:00.560reiterate i remember playing age of

00:08:02.720empires as a child but i don't remember

00:08:05.360any of the specifics so like some of the

00:08:07.440stuff i'll be talking about might be

00:08:08.960like duh you idiot this has been in all

00:08:10.960of the age of empires games

00:08:13.039i i'm okay if you think i'm an idiot i

00:08:15.280just it's all fresh to me and i'm just

00:08:18.080gonna explain what i experienced the way

00:08:20.479i experienced it so yeah the scout picks

00:08:23.120up sheep

00:08:24.240that i think that's pretty cool i like

00:08:25.919it anyways now it's time to start the

00:08:27.599standard rts cycle building workers

00:08:30.319harvesting resources constructing supply

00:08:32.880along with other buildings creating an

00:08:34.640army getting upgrades and trying to win

00:08:37.120okay so i start churning out villagers

00:08:38.880from the town center i order one of them

00:08:41.039to build a house this costs a little bit

00:08:42.880of lumber and raises my max population

00:08:44.800which of course means i can make more

00:08:46.320workers and more workers equal more

00:08:48.080resources to afford other stuff i start

00:08:50.720constructing some of the

00:08:52.360resource-specific buildings beginning

00:08:54.399with this lumber camp which i place at a

00:08:56.399nearby forest these are really neat

00:08:58.320because they let your workers drop off

00:09:00.880resources uh specific resources at them

00:09:03.680instead of having to walk all the way to

00:09:05.120town center so my villagers harvesting

00:09:07.120wood in this area can now just go

00:09:09.040straight to the lumber camp instead of

00:09:10.640heading to town and of course a shorter

00:09:12.399walking distance means i get my

00:09:14.000resources faster after the lumber camp i

00:09:16.320put up a mining camp next to this gold

00:09:18.480source a second mining camp next to the

00:09:20.800stone and here i also tell a second

00:09:23.519villager to help with the building

00:09:25.360because i remembered that this is a

00:09:27.040thing basically you can have more than

00:09:28.399one villager helping to construct

00:09:30.240buildings faster i think this is another

00:09:32.480really cool feature about age of empires

00:09:34.560while doing this i noticed that the

00:09:36.000worker distribution interface is there

00:09:37.760at the bottom left this is really cool

00:09:39.440as it tells you exactly how many workers

00:09:41.600you have harvesting each of the game's

00:09:43.600resources i don't think i have to

00:09:45.040explain why this is super helpful now

00:09:47.360not that i know what i should be doing

00:09:49.040here i'm sure there's some ideal number

00:09:50.800of workers per resource depending on

00:09:53.040your build or your strategy since i

00:09:54.640haven't a clue i just keep making more

00:09:56.480villagers and kind of spread them out

00:09:58.240evenly although almost immediately i do

00:10:00.240realize i should definitely have a

00:10:01.839priority for food as i started to run

00:10:04.000pretty low as i kept making more

00:10:05.760villagers who cost food so i build

00:10:07.760myself a nice little farm here and start

00:10:09.839routing some more workers to the nearby

00:10:11.760berry bushes i check up on my scout

00:10:13.760who's made its way about halfway around

00:10:15.680the map's perimeter at this point also

00:10:17.600the dudes got like an entire flock of

00:10:20.000sheep following him what a badass and

00:10:22.480feeling the pinch for food i also

00:10:24.399constructed this mill like a lot of the

00:10:26.560other resource specific buildings

00:10:28.240villagers can drop off food at these

00:10:30.800mills also later i realized that the

00:10:32.880mill increases the harvest rate of

00:10:34.959surrounding farms which makes my

00:10:37.120placement of the mill right in the

00:10:38.720middle of these berry bushes very awful

00:10:41.680i should have put it somewhere where i

00:10:42.959could just build farms all around it oh

00:10:44.480well this is all just part of the

00:10:45.839learning experience it's okay uh my meal

00:10:47.839finishes and i spot some available

00:10:49.680upgrades in it there's this wheelbarrow

00:10:51.680which increases carry capacity and

00:10:53.519movement speed for villagers very nice

00:10:55.519that's an easy decision i also check on

00:10:57.440the lumber camp and it's got a forestry

00:10:59.519upgrade that will double my tree

00:11:01.120harvesting speed this is another

00:11:03.120no-brainer start researching that uh i

00:11:05.519check back up on my scout he has passed

00:11:07.680this sacred site as well as a relic i

00:11:10.720then also get a pop-up that immediately

00:11:13.200sends me into panic mode apparently my

00:11:15.040opponent has reached the feudal age oh

00:11:17.680i don't know exactly what this even

00:11:19.600means but i'm sure it's bad news for me

00:11:22.079while i'm here screwing around with

00:11:23.440workers and getting harvesting upgrades

00:11:25.680and following my scout around the map my

00:11:27.680opponent

00:11:28.480who at this point i still haven't found

00:11:30.320by the way is now in the second age so i

00:11:32.959assume i'm screwed my next move figure

00:11:35.760out as fast as possible how to get

00:11:37.920myself into the feudal age so i start

00:11:40.240clicking around in a panic uh checking

00:11:42.640out every building looking at the

00:11:44.160different upgrades mousing over all the

00:11:45.920tool tips you know maybe i need more

00:11:47.440houses so i build another house i knew

00:11:49.920at this point i should have definitely

00:11:51.040played through the tutorial and then all

00:11:52.800of a sudden my scout lets out a whistle

00:11:55.200which is really cool i go and check to

00:11:57.680see what's up and it's my opponent's

00:11:59.920scout they have found me things just

00:12:02.079keep getting worse then as if the game

00:12:04.320realized that i had no clue what i was

00:12:06.480doing a massive pop-up in the center of

00:12:08.720the screen said you are ready to advance

00:12:11.360click here thank you so much game i

00:12:13.120appreciate it i get a barracks going

00:12:14.880since i realized i don't have an army

00:12:16.320yet and then i select a villager to get

00:12:18.560us into the next age and at this point i

00:12:20.800have a choice i can build basically one

00:12:23.279of two landmarks there's the council

00:12:25.440hall which can produce longbow men very

00:12:27.600quickly and has upgrades for them and

00:12:29.839then the abbey of kings which will heal

00:12:32.160nearby combat units i decide since i'm

00:12:34.560clearly behind and the enemy might

00:12:36.160attack at any point to go with the

00:12:38.000council hall so i can start cranking out

00:12:40.079some longbow men uh i have tasked a pair

00:12:42.800of villagers with constructing this

00:12:44.399massive building very impressed with

00:12:45.760these two by the way two people building

00:12:47.279this massive hall my next order of

00:12:49.519business was to start getting an army so

00:12:51.519i begin training at the barracks a few

00:12:53.519minute arms i ramp up my food production

00:12:56.000by placing down some farms around my

00:12:57.760newly created mill and i also get some

00:12:59.519more homes going so that i can make sure

00:13:01.440i have enough supply uh the council hall

00:13:03.519then finished construction which moved

00:13:05.200me into the next age and what i love

00:13:07.120about this here is that there is a

00:13:08.639literal visual upgrade to your buildings

00:13:10.880like the town hall your homes and other

00:13:12.959buildings will look differently as you

00:13:14.959move from the first to the second age i

00:13:16.959think that's a really cool nice little

00:13:18.240touch in age of empires um this upgrade

00:13:20.639also unlocks access to a bunch of new

00:13:22.560research i could get faster food

00:13:24.240gathering mining lumbering so i of

00:13:26.399course decide to get all of that stuff

00:13:28.320going i also researched an upgrade from

00:13:30.560my meta arms and i used the council hall

00:13:32.880feature to start training some longbow

00:13:34.800men which will uh research or train

00:13:37.040twice as fast my scout lets out another

00:13:39.600hearty whistle and then i see this small

00:13:42.399platoon of enemies headed in my

00:13:44.160direction so i move my units to

00:13:46.720intercept theirs and the very first

00:13:48.480conflict commences to start things off

00:13:50.560there's a nice clear trumpet alarm when

00:13:53.040your enemies engage combat for the very

00:13:55.279first time the two of our forces collide

00:13:57.600and i just absolutely crushed them for

00:13:59.920one they were outnumbered also i had way

00:14:02.240more archers so it was all over pretty

00:14:04.240quickly i did a little bit of

00:14:05.519micromanaging pulling back some of my

00:14:07.199injured units i don't know how much of a

00:14:08.720thing this is in age of empires but it's

00:14:10.320just a habit from when i played

00:14:11.839starcraft i also want to point out at

00:14:13.600this point how great the combat sounds

00:14:15.760are hearing the clang of the swords

00:14:18.079against armor and shields and the sounds

00:14:20.320of the arrows being shot there's also

00:14:22.240this really cool combat yell when they

00:14:24.560first engage or when my army was chasing

00:14:27.120down the last few stragglers this

00:14:28.959dynamic mix of sounds um between the

00:14:31.600soldiers making noises and the weaponry

00:14:34.079it's all pretty impressive stuff i

00:14:35.600really really liked it so after winning

00:14:37.440this first little battle the enemy got

00:14:39.680some payback they killed my dear sweet

00:14:42.160scout and stole his flock of sheep they

00:14:44.959will pay i promise you the next few

00:14:47.279minutes of the match was a continuation

00:14:49.040of everything i'd been doing i was doing

00:14:50.880some more harvesting building some more

00:14:52.560army units homes to supply them and

00:14:55.199getting some more upgrades i noticed

00:14:56.880here at this point too that the game has

00:14:58.480an idle worker feature which will tell

00:15:00.320you if any villagers are just standing

00:15:02.079around i had a few of them at this

00:15:03.920depleted stone vein so i moved them over

00:15:06.399to get to work on another stone location

00:15:08.959another group of enemies show up at our

00:15:10.480base this was minorly disruptive but i

00:15:12.639was able to take them out also i noticed

00:15:14.720at this point that your troops will

00:15:16.320cheer immediately after winning a fight

00:15:18.560the combat sounds in this game are so

00:15:20.160neat that's really really cool so i make

00:15:22.000and send out another scout to get a good

00:15:23.760look at the enemy base i don't know

00:15:25.680exactly what i'm looking at at this

00:15:27.519point this is my first match but at

00:15:29.360least now i know where they are and with

00:15:31.519my villagers harvesting away i now had

00:15:34.320enough resources to upgrade to the third

00:15:37.040age so once more here when going into

00:15:39.519the next age you have two options i had

00:15:41.519to choose between the white tower which

00:15:43.440acts as a keep or the king's palace

00:15:45.680which acts as a town center i decide to

00:15:47.920go with the tower and while that's

00:15:49.759building there is another attack from

00:15:51.680the enemy which i repel i then start

00:15:54.160construction on a stable so that i can

00:15:56.160make some mounted units and then also

00:15:58.079sick of losing my villagers with all of

00:16:00.000these little skirmishes i decide to

00:16:01.600build a few outposts these basically

00:16:03.600give this huge line of sight bonus and

00:16:05.600they can also be upgraded with some

00:16:07.040weaponry like arrow slits to help defend

00:16:09.360themselves so i keep cranking out more

00:16:11.519units getting upgrades for them and then

00:16:13.600the enemy attacks again this time though

00:16:16.240they had a battering ram which allowed

00:16:18.399them to take down one of my towers they

00:16:20.320also came in with a second attack from

00:16:22.320the other direction and obliterated my

00:16:24.880poor farmers sufficiently annoyed at

00:16:27.680this point i decide okay it's time for a

00:16:30.800counter-attack i grab every offensive

00:16:33.519unit that i've built so far and start

00:16:35.360making my way across the map now halfway

00:16:37.759across i had this really cool moment my

00:16:40.480army with the mountain knights in the

00:16:42.160front followed by some melee units and

00:16:44.320the archers they were making their way

00:16:46.240down this hill when they then ran into a

00:16:48.959group of enemy forces at that point my

00:16:51.120mounted units started shouting and

00:16:53.279charging forward they surrounded the

00:16:55.199enemy followed immediately by my footmen

00:16:57.360who moved their way around with my

00:16:59.199archers and the crossbowmen staying up

00:17:01.360on the high ground picking away raining

00:17:03.360down their arrows all of this with the

00:17:05.199combat sounds mixed in from the various

00:17:07.280different types of weapons and the units

00:17:08.959themselves shouting and screaming this

00:17:10.959was just kind of this really cool epic

00:17:12.640moment just in this simple like attack

00:17:14.559move battle i wasn't doing any crazy

00:17:16.480micro it just felt cool like from a

00:17:19.280presentation standpoint it was really

00:17:20.880really neat so we just demolished them

00:17:23.439and then my forces continued their march

00:17:25.679towards the enemy base and started

00:17:27.600picking apart their town the enemy had

00:17:29.760some defenses back home but not much

00:17:32.000much i started uh taking out some

00:17:33.919buildings along the edge and then moved

00:17:35.760my way towards the center where their

00:17:37.760town hall was now i then decided oh i

00:17:39.840gotta do some reinforcements so i

00:17:41.440quickly went back to my base made sure i

00:17:43.200was training reinforcements getting a

00:17:45.039few of each type of unit on every

00:17:46.640building i also grabbed some of my

00:17:48.320inactive workers and made sure they were

00:17:50.080harvesting resources i constructed a few

00:17:52.160more buildings all the while like a bad

00:17:54.640rts player completely ignoring my army

00:17:57.200who is in the middle of the enemy base

00:17:58.799as a result when i checked back on them

00:18:00.799i had lost every single unit because the

00:18:03.039town hall was just lighting them up with

00:18:05.520arrows from the inside okay lesson

00:18:07.840learned i got it so i took my new much

00:18:10.960larger army a couple minutes later and

00:18:13.039then pushed out for a second attack all

00:18:15.120the while building some more

00:18:16.320reinforcements but this time paying

00:18:18.000attention to my army more conscious of

00:18:20.160their town hall i decided to stay on the

00:18:22.080edge at first picking things off from a

00:18:23.919distance i had some more ranged at this

00:18:25.760point too and then i fully committed to

00:18:28.080the attack i went straight for their

00:18:29.679main building surrounded and took down

00:18:31.600the town hall i sent in a second wave of

00:18:34.160forces to join the engagement the enemy

00:18:36.320at this point had really had no defense

00:18:38.400left so they didn't put up any fights

00:18:40.320and i quickly finished off the last of

00:18:42.640their two landmarks and won the game as

00:18:45.679a recap i think it's crucial here for

00:18:48.240you to understand this was a very simple

00:18:51.039match versus intermediate ai i have at

00:18:54.559this point no idea what i'm doing and i

00:18:57.039am absolutely certain that i was playing

00:18:58.799terribly i was certainly inefficient i

00:19:01.200was doing things incorrectly almost

00:19:03.520everything i was doing was probably

00:19:05.200wrong

00:19:06.080but still to me the whole thing was epic

00:19:09.679feeling very proud of myself i then

00:19:11.440immediately jump into a pvp match and

00:19:14.000this time having a better grasp of the

00:19:16.000flow of things and what i should be

00:19:17.600doing i think i played a tad better in

00:19:19.600terms of my execution i built up uh the

00:19:22.799various harvesting stations got my

00:19:24.640upgrades and and unit building buildings

00:19:27.520going and i made myself a little army

00:19:30.000fairly quickly of footman some cavalry

00:19:32.400and archers and i just marched straight

00:19:34.720towards the enemy's base uh the other

00:19:36.960player had a way smaller army so i took

00:19:39.520them out quickly i then destroyed one of

00:19:42.160their two landmarks and they immediately

00:19:45.440quit so that's a recap of my early

00:19:48.000experience with age of empires 4 playing

00:19:50.000through the stress test and i have to

00:19:51.600say

00:19:52.400all in all i had a fantastic time with

00:19:55.039this game i've heard some rumblings

00:19:56.559about age of empires 4 i don't know

00:19:58.480ultimately how good of a game it's going

00:20:00.160to be there have been some complaints

00:20:02.159from the stress test but coming in with

00:20:04.559what might as well be a fresh set of

00:20:06.400eyes having stepped away from this ip

00:20:09.200for so long it having been so long since

00:20:11.280i played any age of empires it was just

00:20:13.440really really fun the battles felt epic

00:20:15.520even in my small junky matches versus

00:20:18.720someone who didn't know what they were

00:20:19.679doing and versus an intermediate uh ai

00:20:22.720it just felt really cool even with how

00:20:24.960haphazard everything was executed and

00:20:27.840you know what's funny too is that if you

00:20:29.760just told me that age of empires four if

00:20:32.159this game that i just played was

00:20:33.840actually just like age of empires one or

00:20:35.840two remastered i would probably believe

00:20:38.320you because what i played feels like how

00:20:40.640i remember the game playing when i was a

00:20:42.880kid you know what i mean everything's

00:20:44.240vague and hazy enough that i would

00:20:46.400believe that just this was those games

00:20:48.559basically that's how out of the loop i

00:20:50.799am with it but so so i don't really know

00:20:52.640how much like new um kind of genre

00:20:55.440pushing forward is going to be in age of

00:20:57.840empires 4 or how much is there but from

00:21:00.799a pretty much fresh set of eyes it was

00:21:03.520fun it was cool it was cool to build up

00:21:05.280an army it was cool to move that army

00:21:07.600across the map and it was cool to crush

00:21:09.919both of my bad opponents what else could

00:21:12.000i say uh there you go that is a look at

00:21:14.640my time with age of empires 4. i had a

00:21:16.400good time and after playing the stress

00:21:18.559test i can confidently say i will give

00:21:20.720the game a look when it launches i'm

00:21:22.240excited i'm if nothing else i'm excited

00:21:24.480to be into rts again and i'm excited

00:21:26.960that there's a new uh big budget rts

00:21:29.520game coming out because it's been a long

00:21:31.360time since we've really had any of those

00:21:33.919so it's pretty cool stuff thank you guys

00:21:36.240for watching appreciate you as always

00:21:38.080thanks for the support and i will see

00:21:39.679you in the next one