Age of Empires 2

[Swimmerdude99]

Does anyone still play this game?

[tkr4lf]

I haven't played in a long time, but it used to be one of my favorites. I still remember the codes for 1,000 extra resources. cheesesteakjimmys lol

The scenario editor was fun too. Even better once you had the add on, then you could do snow and stuff. Fun times.

[Swimmerdude99]

Heck yes, rockon, robinhood, and... lumberjack? my favorite was "how do you turn this on" and you'd get the corvette that shot bullets out of the doors XD

I'm looking for peoople to play it online with as I just rediscovered it a couple weeks ago and realized quite a few people play it on gameranger, but they play these really weird scenario types, not just random map games.

[greenoaks]

a few of the guys at work play AoE 1 between calls, i take my CC turns and laugh at the guy next to me because even with the cheats and easy level he keeps losing.

[tkr4lf]

I never played it online, just campaign and scenarios.

I remember marco and polo were both good cheats, too.

[aad0906]

yup.

"bigdaddy" gives a rocket launcing camaro. Other cheats I can remember: "jack be nimble" "peperoni pizza".

But the games is still played best withouth the cheats. I love Yamato heavy horse archers.

Does anyone still play Red Alert?

[chapcrap]

Great game. Loved it. I have the disc for it still, but last time I tried, my computer wouldn't play it.

[tkr4lf]

But the games is still played best withouth the cheats. I love Yamato heavy horse archers.

Agreed. While it's fun to screw around and cheat your way to victory, it's a shallow feeling to know that you won thanks to a judicious use of cheesesteakjimmys and aegis.

On a separate note, I loved the Joan of Arc campaign, and if you had the Conqueror's Expansion, the Aztec campaign was pretty boss too.

Does anyone still play Red Alert?

Oh man, I loved that game. I found a torrent a while back and got it to work on my Win 7 laptop. I don't have it anymore, but I enjoyed the heck out of it for about 2-3 months.

Have you ever played the ant missions? If you go to the main menu, next to the big screen where it shows the tank and the helicopter, there is what looks like a speaker. If you hold down the control button and click on it, hidden ant missions start up. They're pretty cool.

Also, the add-on missions were fun too. Counterstrike and Aftermath.

Red Alert was the last C&C game that I really, really liked. I mean, Red Alert 2 was fun, but it was at that point where it all became way too over-the-top and ridiculous.

[fadedpsychosis]

I've got AoE 3 and the expansions on my laptop, but I haven't played AoE 2 in a very long time

[maxfaraday]

I have aoe2 and the conquerors expansion somewhere, if I can get it to work with wine (I only use linux now) I 'll let you know, gonna try it tomorrow or next week.

[Swimmerdude99]

I have aoe2 and the conquerors expansion somewhere, if I can get it to work with wine (I only use linux now) I 'll let you know, gonna try it tomorrow or next week.

Awesome, please do, I use Gameranger and would love to play some people from here

[Army of GOD]

cheese steak jimmy's


I used to love AoE2. Haven't played it in years though.

Also keep in mind I was really young when I played it so when I played it I needed to cheat to win.

[aad0906]

Oh man, I loved that game. I found a torrent a while back and got it to work on my Win 7 laptop. I don't have it anymore, but I enjoyed the heck out of it for about 2-3 months.

Have you ever played the ant missions? If you go to the main menu, next to the big screen where it shows the tank and the helicopter, there is what looks like a speaker. If you hold down the control button and click on it, hidden ant missions start up. They're pretty cool.

Also, the add-on missions were fun too. Counterstrike and Aftermath.

Red Alert was the last C&C game that I really, really liked. I mean, Red Alert 2 was fun, but it was at that point where it all became way too over-the-top and ridiculous.

I have a CD that works on Win 7 I'll try those hidden ant missions.

[KoolBak]

My kids play it

[AndyDufresne]

I use to play this back in the day. I always enjoyed being the Britons, and having armies composed of massive amounts of their unique longbowman plus a couple of monk/priests for healing (and a couple cavalry units for cleanup and siege defense), as with the maximum range such armies were fun and devastating with little resource use after you buffed up your army because of the healing.


--Andy

[Falkomagno]

Actually I play it, and i used to have some decent level playing it online, which is way beyond than put "how do you turn this on".

The best way if you want to play it online is through this website: http://www.voobly.com/

There you can play both, scenario and normal maps. Is quite competitive though.

[maxfaraday]

I use to play this back in the day. I always enjoyed being the Britons, and having armies composed of massive amounts of their unique longbowman plus a couple of monk/priests for healing (and a couple cavalry units for cleanup and siege defense), as with the maximum range such armies were fun and devastating with little resource use after you buffed up your army because of the healing.


--Andy

yeah i remember the longbows being probably the most deadly units

[Commander62890]

Britons were my civ, too. Max range of 12 was just too good to pass up, especially against the computer.
Against human players, I usually went with someone fast in the early stages, or maybe cheap skirmishers/spearmen.

Favorite campaigns were William Wallace/Barbarossa and Aztecs/Huns.
Conquerors had some good one-mission campaigns, like Agincourt

[Swimmerdude99]

I use to play this back in the day. I always enjoyed being the Britons, and having armies composed of massive amounts of their unique longbowman plus a couple of monk/priests for healing (and a couple cavalry units for cleanup and siege defense), as with the maximum range such armies were fun and devastating with little resource use after you buffed up your army because of the healing.


--Andy

I've always found that Tuetons to be a very good army for me, they can really clean up well if you know how to use them, I've never used the Britons online, they might be fun to use though, I'll have to give that one a try.

[JBlombier]

I imagine I'm not the only who has a huge "damn-I'm-not-the-only-one" sense when they saw this thread. That game was awesome! I haven't played it in two years, I think. I used to play it on GameZone for three years and have played it on GameArcade three or four times with some mates (from my clan here). I feel very tempted to start installing it again now. This is a bad idea, because I might be hooked within a few hours. Awesome game!

[AndyDufresne]

I really liked the Black Forest map type. There is something fun about being in a giant forest, with all of its choke points for barriers and towers and castles...and massive amounts of wood to keep people busy with in the end game, and sometimes the fun part of chopping behind someone's defenses (either on purpose or accident).


--Andy