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I recently found my old Age of Empires II CDs and thought about installing them at some point, but then remembered the remastered Steam edition exists and thoug
by sleavey 9y ago
I recently found my old Age of Empires II CDs and thought about installing them at some point, but then remembered the remastered Steam edition exists and thought about downloading it. I've not done anything yet. Is it worth getting the Steam one now - have the bugs been ironed out? (Running Linux, if that helps)
- danbolt 9y agoThere are a community of people that run it on WINE pretty well, but there isn't an official Linux port or anything. Looking at the various updates to the game, the source code seems quite old and has a lot of technical debt. It seems like expansions are conservative in the stuff they add.
- aaavl2821 9y agoI got the steam version in 2014 and it was the best $5 I've ever spent, although the performance was laggier compared to the voobly platform (the platform you use to play the cd version). I haven't played the steam one in over a year but it had improved to almost on a par with voobly, and the new expansions were actually pretty cool (although not many ppl played them at the time, but that may have changed) Can probably get it dirt cheap for the holiday sale There is a pretty active casual and competitive scene, and it's actually a pretty deep game that has aged well
- sleavey 9y agoIt is indeed on sale. I also just saw Age of Empires IV was announced, and a remake of Age of Empires I. Looks like I've found something to do over the winter holidays!