Age of Empires 2, 4 Are Headed To Xbox Next Year

Over two decades after its initial release, Age of Empires 2 is finally headed to consoles, alongside the significantly more recent Age of Empires 4. IGN reports: Announced today during the Age of Empires 25th Anniversary Broadcast, we learned that Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition will launch on Xbox consoles on January 31, 2023, while Age of Empires 4 will follow later in the same year. We're also getting Age of Mythology Retold, a definitive edition of the original 2002 Age of Mythology. The game is currently in development with "updated graphics, features and more" but we have no further details on when we might finally see it. Other announcements during the presentation included a teaser for Age of Empires on mobile, and the launch of Age of Empires 4: Anniversary Edition out today alongside an anniversary update with new civilizations, challenges, achievements, and features.

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[fred6666]

Is it going to be payable with mouse and keyboard or it is going to be stuck with crappy console controllers?

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[drinkypoo]

https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]

second link

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/20... [xbox.com]

learn to internet pls kthx

p.s. took me only 10 seconds to find it and 15 seconds to write this comment

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[muh_freeze_peach]

Just play on a computer?

Slow news day?

[UnresolvedExternal]

Hooray! (said nobody, ever)

I don't think RTS is a good fit for consoles

[twocows]

More specifically, controllers don't seem to work well with the RTS genre. Sure, these days you can plug in a keyboard and mouse, but I think most console players don't do that and some probably still don't know you can.

Re: I don't think RTS is a good fit for consoles

[reanjr]

RTS works fine with controller.

If they're designed for it.

Dune: Spice Wars is a good example. That Tom Clancy war game was another.

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[UnknowingFool]

This is Microsoft we are talking about. What could go wrong?

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[tlhIngan]

RTS works fine with controller.

If they're designed for it.

Dune: Spice Wars is a good example. That Tom Clancy war game was another.

There's also the Halo Wars series of RTS games based on well, Halo. They were quite well reviewed and the controller problem was something the developers had to consider when designing the game (it was designed as a console game, it was later ported to PC).

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[UMichEE]

I first played Stellaris on the XBox One and really enjoyed it. It's technically an RTS, but it plays a little bit more like a turn-based game in terms of allowing you to pause and speed-up/slown-down the game clock.

PC controller support?

[reanjr]

I've tried to play Age of Mythology with a controller, but it's a nightmare. Here's hoping they port the controller support to PC.