Dota or League of Legends, it’s by far one of the most enjoyable traditional RTS’ games to watch these days, with big tournaments appearing every so often between high-ranking players, with Battle of Africa being one of the more recent ones. As such, the AOE2 e-sports scene is relatively healthy today, and whereas the game is by no means as popular as e.g. I have fond childhood memories of the game, and although I don’t commonly find the time or focus anymore to play it myself, it’s fun to see how the game has found a new community and attention anno 2018, driven by streamers on Twitch such as Nili, T90Official, and MembTv, as well as YouTube personalities such as Spirit of the Law and ZeroEmpires, driving new players to the game. In fact, it is this game which pushed me to write a custom tool to prevent DirectDraw palette issues more than eight years ago, before custom community patches (and the “ HD version” of the game was available). I think that Age of Empires II is probably the game I’ve been playing on or off for the longest amount of time.

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