Which Campaign Was More Fun ?

[DarkAngelBGE]

Which one was more innovating, greater fun and gav you more for your time ?

For me it is really hard to decide, so I voted Undecided. B-)

[Aeros]

I liked AoKs the most because they were very well made gameplay-wise. Also there was more than one, and the campaigns really highlighted the theme of the game - Age of Empires - very well.

While Aom... they simply had a mediocre story with minor special effects and some attempt at plot progression I really could care less what Arkanthos was up to or what Kastor really was doing with the atlanteans. The campaign was very loosely tied together with minor themes of mythology. If ES went for something that really highlighted mythology and culture it would've been very good, but I just didn't like their campaign all that much.

[Rough_Nack]

Heh I sorta agrre, CheeZy, but the AoM special effex were better than the AoK ones ? After all, used another engine...

[ZeZar]

Nice Thread Timbo

Well, AoK! No doubt. It really made me love RTS, but if there were a option for Age of Empires (1) it would have been it. Because AoE was the game that made me start playing RTS!

[Curufinwe]

AoK ... no doubt.

I have both ... and I can tell you that I played AoK a lot more than I play AoM ... AoM is not as inventive as AoK was in its time!

[Tonto_Icy_Tripod]

Neither campaign really made that big an impression on me actually. OTOH I've never been much into campaigns, but rather singleplayer and multiplayer RM games.

The better of the two would probably be aom though

[Ulysses S Griffin]

AoM by far, that storyline had me hanging for more:) although the last mission needed a bit more to it i think, but it doesnt bother me

its my favorite single player campaign

[CodeOptimist]

I haven't played AoM's single-player campaign (not too hot on mythology-type stuff myself, except LOTR of course ), so I voted for good 'ole AoK.

[DarkAngelBGE]

Probably this thread has to be in the Gaming Discussion as iti sn ot related to 0ad. Well, we will leave it here this time.

[King Tutankhamun]

I never really got into the campaigns. I mainly just did multiplayer and RM's.

But in other games, I always do the campaigns first (i.e. Halo, Call of Duty).

The campaigns in the RTS games seem to get me boared. I don't know, maybe it is just me.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Whether you like one game as a whole over the other isn't what this poll is about. As far as the single player CAMPAIGN goes, AOM wins hands down. With actual special FX, a unique storyline, and fleshed out characters, it trounces all of AOK's shipped campaigns. Of course, overall gameplay is another question.

[Acumen]

I concur with Michael.

The AoM campaign is by no means the best of its kind (I'm replaying it at the moment, and was appalled by frequently corny script and occasionally dire voice acting), but the technical capability to deliver the plot through in-game cinematics, the use of dynamic cameras, special particle effects, and a character-focused storyline made it more interesting.

In my view, it is focusing on strong central characters that creates an emotional attachment to a scenario.

I simply couldn't get into the Age of Empires campaigns because the fixed camera gave inadequate opportunities for character development and cinematic techniques.

Slightly OT, but I personally prefer to have access to several unrelated campaigns in preference to one long linear one. It has its disadvantages (particularly that they all have to start at basic difficulty and build up), but:

a] I feel a greater sense of accomplishment when I have shorter milestones ("I've completed the Terran campaign" rather than "I've completed 12 scenarios of the singleplayer campaign; 18 still to go");

b] I can work on several campaigns at once, and have the freedom to switch if one stumps me. ie I can't get past the 5th mission with civ x campaign, so I'll have a crack at civ y's.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Exactly Acumen... I think that's why we're going to be "shipping" more than one campaign... plus, with our time period, there are just so many stories we can tell!

[Matei]

AoM's was better in terms of special effects and different types of gameplay, and also in terms of "easter eggs", but AoK's was certainly pretty creative for its time. The main thing I disliked about AoM's campaign was the lack of a background story - if you look at Detailed Help on the units you see so much more interesting stuff about each one, but in the campaign it's "Hi Ajax, I'm surprised you're still alive" and then end of dialog. AoK did a lot better with the storyline. For example, I liked the Barbarossa campaign, where it turned out that the narrator was one of the main characters, and the Montezuma one, where the narrative started out as "passed down to you by Chuahtemoc, Eagle Warrior of Tenochtitlan" and ended as "passed down to you by Chuahtemoc, Emperor of Tenochtitlan". Both games unfortunately had mostly B&D scenarios, but then again, that's what the game is about and most players aren't people who play hundreds of Random Map games and thus are bored by B&D.

[Argalius]

The AoM campaign was defenitly more fun. I also liked the cinematics, you didn't have that with AoK.

[King Tutankhamun]

Yeah, they had the best fx of all which makes a game neat and exciting.