Maurice and Fabiano draw a detailed conclusion on the Age of Empires 4 campaign and explain what their dream campaigns would have looked like.
Age of Empires 4 has become an excellent strategy game. For Fabiano and Maurice there is no question about that. But it can’t convince across the board: The single-player campaigns, of all things, don’t make the big leap forward that our two testers would have hoped for the series.
Fabiano was really looking forward to it! As a studied historian, he finds the documentation approach for the cutscenes really interesting and appreciates that Age 4 wants to convey a less glorified view of history than Age 2. He appreciates that the game dares to break new ground here and that also consistently pulls through. But the bottom line was that this distant narrative made him colder than he’d hoped.
And Maurice is just a superficial spectacle vulture anyway, who would have simply wished for fat battles and nasty court intrigues. More Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings, less documentation! For him, the basic approach to the game was completely wrong – at least as far as the story goes. In the podcast you can hear how the two still find each other:
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But of course we don’t just want to quibble, we also come up with suggested solutions. Could Age of Empires 4 perhaps still marry its documentary claim with a little more exciting dramaturgy, without any historical accuracy going down? Maybe for upcoming DLC campaigns?
And what exactly do we expect from the DLC for Age 4? What are the chances for more DLC campaigns? You can hear it on the podcast!
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