New beta keys/players discussion thread

Feel free to use this thread to discuss the game.

Here are my thougths:

• Horrible lag, everywhere from the menu, the lobbies, the game, everything.
  
• The game looks and feels like a graphically enhanced version of AOE
• New graphics are well made, perhaps they have a little less personality than that most games have these days, but it's all right.

Why did anyone think that a 20 year old game only needed a graphical update? This game was great 20 years ago but only because it was competing with similarly clunky, slow, odd-paced slightly disorganized games.

RPG's that rely on story and cool characters and interesting gameplay or shooters which rely on fast paced action aged well or better but strategy games from 20 years ago were terrible and unremarkable compared to the generation that followed. They were played because there was nothing else, not because they were good. It was until AOE2 that the game became good enough to be a timeless masterpiece.

I know this was said before, i know i'm not the only one, I know it would have been silly to upgrade AOE1 to be like AOE2 or something like that but i still feel like something could have been done to enhance the experience. Anything.

And the lag... oh god? WHY IS THE MENU LAGGY?!??! THE MENU!!.

I will try this again when a few updates have rolled out just to give it the benefit of the doubt but in the meantime i'm waiting for aoe4.

Wasted opportunity here.