A lot of them were inspired by the Fediverse directly, as is my Linux usage lol, but to be less of an echo from the threads we both saw, I had a great time with the latest Age of Empires II remaster. Haven’t picked the original in a while, like a decade or more, or any other strategy for more than twenty hours, and getting back into that memory lane was a blast. There is some neat balance in how managing your workforces, troops and progression works there, and after watching some modern AoE youtubers I tried some of their tricks I’ve not discovered myself.
The gameplay, especially online one, is the downer there since I wasn’t good back than and ain’t getting any better, but the sounds, the gfx of growing buildings and walking armies, the ease of access are what made me both nostalgic and enthusiastic to nosedive into it for more hours than I thought possible.
A lot of them were inspired by the Fediverse directly, as is my Linux usage lol, but to be less of an echo from the threads we both saw, I had a great time with the latest Age of Empires II remaster. Haven’t picked the original in a while, like a decade or more, or any other strategy for more than twenty hours, and getting back into that memory lane was a blast. There is some neat balance in how managing your workforces, troops and progression works there, and after watching some modern AoE youtubers I tried some of their tricks I’ve not discovered myself.
The gameplay, especially online one, is the downer there since I wasn’t good back than and ain’t getting any better, but the sounds, the gfx of growing buildings and walking armies, the ease of access are what made me both nostalgic and enthusiastic to nosedive into it for more hours than I thought possible.