Age of Empires 2

Swimmerdude99 · Post by **Swimmerdude99** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:36 pm

Does anyone still play this game?

tkr4lf · Post by **tkr4lf** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:57 pm

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 · Post by **Swimmerdude99** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:04 am

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 · Post by **greenoaks** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:42 am

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 · Post by **tkr4lf** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:47 am

I never played it online, just campaign and scenarios.

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

aad0906 · Post by **aad0906** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:53 pm

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 · Post by **chapcrap** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:14 pm

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

tkr4lf · Post by **tkr4lf** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 2:57 pm

aad0906 wrote: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.

aad0906 wrote: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 · Post by **fadedpsychosis** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:10 pm

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

maxfaraday · Post by **maxfaraday** » Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:24 pm

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 · Post by **Swimmerdude99** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:31 pm

maxfaraday wrote: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 · Post by **Army of GOD** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:47 pm

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 · Post by **aad0906** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:19 pm

tkr4lf wrote: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 · Post by **KoolBak** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:59 am

My kids play it

AndyDufresne · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:34 am

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 · Post by **Falkomagno** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:47 am

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 · Post by **maxfaraday** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:20 pm

AndyDufresne wrote: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 · Post by **Commander62890** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:07 am

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 · Post by **Swimmerdude99** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:30 pm

AndyDufresne wrote: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 · Post by **JBlombier** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:09 pm

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 · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:29 pm

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

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