Three Moves Ahead 543: Age of Empires 4

Three Moves Ahead

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Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Len and Ian Boudreau discuss Age of Empires 4, the long-awaited return of one of the RTS genre's defining franchises. What's new and what's been kept the same? And where would we like to see it go in the future? Okay, okay, I'll say the thing: wololo. Get it? It's funny because I said a thing you remember. Humor is when someone says a thing you remember.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm your host for this week, Len Hafer, and I am joined by PC Games and senior newswriter Ian Boudreau. Hello and good evening. I don't know that everybody's going to be listening to this in the evening, so I don't know why I said hello and good evening. It's just always been what Rob has said, is he always starts with good evening,
0:21.0	so I'm just kind of following.
0:23.1	Troy probably started it, but yeah, it's not really evening for me either.
0:27.7	So, yeah, we're going to be talking about a very long-awaited sequel today.
0:33.1	Age of Empires 4 from Relic.
0:36.6	It is the first mainline Age of Empires 4 from Relic. It is the first mainline Age of Empires game since like 2005.
0:43.9	I guess if you count Age of Empires Online, which was 2011, which I actually thought
0:49.2	was pretty good.
0:50.5	It was kind of underrated because it had a lot of like mobile game type mechanics
0:55.3	in it that I think kind of dragged down people's opinion of it. But that's some cool
1:00.6	I missed that one completely. Yeah. It's been so for me, yeah, it's been since I think I touched
1:06.3	my toe in age of Empires 3, but really it's been the definitive nations that like I've gotten back into after really loving
1:13.9	the original ones in college. Age of Empires and Age of Empires
1:17.6	too heavy in rotation. Yeah, I played a ton of the first two
1:23.7	back in the day. And they've actually been like releasing new expansions for Age of Empires 2 and 3,
1:31.1	like recently, which is pretty interesting.
1:35.5	Yeah, factions coming up through this year, I think.
1:38.8	Yeah.
1:40.1	So, amazing.
1:41.8	But, yeah, Age of Empires 4.
1:45.1	Ian, what is it?
1:47.9	So actually, this is kind of an easy one, right?
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