About Age of empires and XBOX’s efforts on Real time strategy Games.
i don’t know a great deal but i will say this " i think it’s being developed on Unreal Engine because one of the big issues they had with Age Of Empires 4, from what i heard, was Relic’s Engine and this engine and development pipeline was very difficult for them to work with and to adapt to the Age of empires, what people expect from Age of Empires. So they (World’s Edge) are moving to something more proprietary built on Unreal Engine though. Something more custom and things like that. i don’t know who’s building it but at least the bones are being made by World’s Edge Studios. I would presume they’re going to partner with another developer on it".
And another thing i’ll say by the ways, is that they are interested in also bringing StarCraft back as an RTS .
Age of Empires is still a big deal for Microsoft and it’s going to back in a big way".
I guess the issue is as it has been, that people don’t really have the training for an in house engine making dev time take longer, so they use UE5 because it’s widely available.
It’s one of the reasons I think companies need to start putting their engines out there, creating in depth documentations for people to use and offer training courses for anyone interested. Because letting EU become the only one that is used widely this widely is just not ideal.
Glad to hear it. Age of Mythology retold has me so excited and I think the games can really thrive with the RTS communities as a multi-platform title. Its great that Microsoft is continuing to invest in one of their oldest titles (is AOE older than Xbox? I know its primarily PC and only JUST got an Xbox port this generation).
I don’t know. Relic is working on Age of empires 4 , Forgotten Empires on AOE2 and Tantalus + Forgotten Empires on Age of Mythology.
I suppose AOE5 is being developed by World’s Edge and Forgotten or some developer we don’t know at this time.
Xbox reaches back to Microsoft Gamings RTS roots for the smash crossover that ties everything together. It’d be cool if they had the resources to do it properly in tandem with everything else. They could get really social with it and make it really community centric. Or they could go heavy with the story and bring all the franchises together in the most fanservice way possible.
Worlds Edge has been killing it ( to be fair idk how much of it is them or other studios) they have been pumping out expansions for 2, 4 and mythology. Age 2 especially has so much content it’s ridiculous