ok guys lets hear it i wana know what all of you out there prefer AoE2 or AoE3??

was it completly off key making the third the style it is, did it just make the game more complex then needed as oposoed to the second? do people prefer the style used in the second? or think that the third brings the 'Gameplay of Today' into practice ?

dont just vote leave your opinions

Here in America, we have the right of Secret Ballot  .  So I can't tell you but I
can tell you that I like the features of Age of Empires III better since it is basically the
same thing but more without just a few features like switching teams (which wasn't so
good since you could always switch teams to the winning team) and another like all
units only take up one population. (which I did like since you could have like 150
catapults.  

But in Age of Empires III, you have more features like Home Cities, Shipments, Units
taking up more than one population, (which makes sense but people don't like it
obviously because it takes up their population room faster) and more Gunpowder
based units so not all your battles will be hand-to-hand combat.  I think that last
feature I mentioned makes the game a lot more strategic along with more population consuming units.

AOE2 all the time.

AOE III!!!

i like this one more cause of the time ( i like it more ) and also the graphics and i know thats a shallow argument but it is. i just like muskets and the smoke etc. more then the swords if the details would be better it would be a hard choice i really hope they will make a remake from AOE 1+2 that would be awesome!!!

AoE2
I think the Conquerors is a good choice

Cheers

I don't know which should i really vote since i like the age of empires 2 since you
could use more ancient soildiers and also you could play it on some slow computer.
The thing i like about age empires 3 is that is very Realistic and the game has a way better editor   but the thing i hate is that is you can't play it on slow cpu.
So I voted for Aoe3



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this game rox

I haven't played the AOE 2 but i don't think it would be better than the awsome AOE 3. It is like the ultimate game that you can play for hours.

AOE 2 hands down no contest.

It will be hard to ever surpass the awesumness of AOE2.

(Is awesumness a word?)

I've got to say it

It Was a Bludy Hard Dicission for me lol

I've Spent Hours and Hours on Both.

But I've Got to Say AOE3 and the only reason i said so was

(The Settlers don't have to come back and Forth to the Town when they gather Gold,Food,Wood/Graphics)

AOE3 Wins for me

AOE3 for graphics, AOE2 for charm and round about fun, online is better on AOE3 tho, AOE2 will never be beaten for roundabout awesome tho!

Defiantly AoE3. I haven't played 2 in a while but the answer to this is simple. AoE 3 is an
improvement just like AoE2 was to the first. In the first there were no sheep, this was a new
feature in the second, in the third they mastered this with the livestock pens. In the second you
had no trade centres, you had in the third. You couldn't ally with locals and you couldn't call
help from your home city. That added a new dimension to the game entirely.
I also like in the third that the civ you choose really effects your strategy, unlike in the second
and first. Yes, you get different units and benefits and disadvantages but it's nothing like in
AoE3.
My one criticism of AoE3 is it's way too easy, I play on hard or medium and I can succeed
every time by just following a routine, it's tedious. Also correct me if I'm wrong but as I recall there's no "supremacy" type matches in the second. Only Death match and Campaign (like the first) and regicide I kinda wish it was in the 3rd but I really like building your resources up
from scratch and fending off invasions until your army is strong enough to attack and large
enough to keep some in reserve. And also as someone earlier said about the lag if you play
AoE3 on a slow computer. Also the graphics in the third are really breath taking, I remember playing
it the first time and seeing the cut scene thinking "..and this is a RTS game?!?"

AoE2, it's the best one because it shows the connections and arts of war between all the different civilizations and shows the common Eras we know today.

          If you think AoE 2 is the best please vote for it!

AoE2!!

Really tricky question because in my mind they're just different games. It's like saying do you prefer star wars or indiana jones lol if you actually like those films as much as me anyway. I know the games do have many similarities but they're just too different to draw a direct comparison.

In the end though, I had to go for AOE3. This is for pretty much the same reasons as someone else said here about it being an improvement on the last just as AOE2 was on the first (content, graphics etc.)