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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. You're listening to Watch Out for Firewalls at his Games Club podcast. And this week we're talking about Age of Empires,

and this week we're talking about Age of Empires 2,

which is a real-time strategy game, developed by Ensemble Studios

and published by Microsoft for the PC in 1999.

Yeah, and this is our premium episode for this month,

which means that everybody's getting the generalities

and then some of the nitty and the gritty is in the back half and this

episode was executive produced by Abe, thank you Abe.

Abe, whenever we're doing a weird old BC game a lot of times it's Abe yeah and I I love it this is you know they're not all my favorites like we did

like Lords of Magic which I like okay you know I like this game a lot.

Yeah, this is this is a I'm bad at it.

Oh yeah, it's gonna be kind of a weird episode a little bit for us but this is I like this a girl is like kind of like a you know this is a really good video game like I can retire into this game.

I mean even just like from a value standpoint there's so much here.

Oh good Lord. Yeah that's even before you get like the new expansions that they made 20 years

after the original release. It's so generous. Yeah, it is a very generous classic RTS. Yeah.

That kind of thing and yeah. Cool shit. So, thank you, Abe. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I think I like this a little bit less than you. That's probably just because I in understanding my strategy o type I am more of a like economy and like city builder kind of person you know you know more into like

ano something like that right but I admire the hell out of this and I fell into a hole with this not just because I wanted I was anxious about having it on my plate and I wanted to you know

Get it in early yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah early. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no, but be like so like I was I was anxious to do you know to get this to get it taken care of right because I was worried about not playing enough of it. So I played a long time ago but like I lost like a whole week to it basically because of just how just how well tuned everything is like this is a this is an incredibly good

art so it's a great machine yeah and it wasn't one it wasn't one that I played like

of this series I was more of an age of mythologies person just because of the spectacle of that like oh I can train up a little army of Gorgons right that's cool. Yeah. I was not but immediately bought Age of mythology steam after the speed like because that's more

themeing that's for me. We're talking about so this is going to be we are

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