Let me begin with one of the worst
That actually looks pretty cool. Going to dl that shit today.
that's a bullshot? the game actually looked like that
>>319770549
>>319771074
Fuck. Now you made me want to replay it.
It had a pretty damn nice campaign from what I remember.
>>319770549
Vs
>>319771074
Wait. No. You're dumb.
Is the AoM HD version any good?
I heard that the multiplayer was pretty bad, and that would be the only reason for me to buy it on steam. I already have 2 cd copies that I play from time to time.
>Acquire large cannons
>The enemy send some redcoats our way
>the enemies ragdoll in a semi-realistic manner when killed by a cannon
>the cannon could kill multiple people if the cannonball catches one person and keeps going before it eventually hits the ground
After an age of just playing AOE 2, that game was some sorta technological marvel to me
AOE 3 was alright
>>319771423
As someone who grew up playing a fuckload of AoE2 I thought AoE3 was pretty damn fun.Granted I don't give a fuck about multiplayer so that might be why.
>>319770549
pretty much everything Witcher 3 related
>>319771580
It's what got me to swap from 98 to XP, and after that the computer ended up frying from sea battles.
Fuck it, gonna play it now
>>319771349
honestly the only thing you'd be missing by not buying it is complete widescreen support & distant zoom. Those are the only things the HD version brings to the table.
>>319771580
I actually really enjoyed AoE3. The factions felt like they had more variety than AoE2. I especially loved playing a German Mercenary deck.
>>319771826
Play it with all the expansions installed. The asian dynasties improves the graphics to a visible state on modern machines & adds more complexity to all the units.
>>319772149
Don't think I ever got the asian dynasties expansion, only got the native american one.
Well, least I know what to get myself for christmas then
>>319770549
>>319772504
The Ao3 collection goes on sale on Steam all the time, it will probably will be 4 dollars again this christmas.
>>319772667
Did you even play the game?
>>319772780
I've got them on disk though, not digitally, would getting the asian dynasties one through steam count in that case?
>>319772891
Yes, the whole package
>ottomans are the coolest civ
>read up about real life ottomans
>cant bring myself to play them anymore
Being the bad guy can be fun but that is just too much.
>>319772876
Yes and it didn't look nowhere that good..
>>319772876
I did. Really, that screen shot just has a lot more foliage and a better lighting and water look than the real game. Model quality for everything else is the same though.
>>319773017
You can always slay them as Based Serenissima Republic of Venice
you want some real bullshots? look no further than aoe1
>>319773124
That looks pretty ok to me
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>>319773228
but that's exactly how it looks
>>319773230
My only real complaint with AoE3 is the massive amount of bloom drowns everything out.
>>319773228
jesus christ
Literally NOTHING will ever beat this. Remember, they actually said this was ingame footage for like an entire 2 months before they were outed.
>>319773374
would never happen under normal gameplay. you can even see it's a posed shot if you look at the minimap
How were the campaigns in AoE3? I only ever played the first one, and was so disappointed with it that I never really gave the game a second chance. Coming from AoE2 with its historical campaigns to a shitty fictional fantasy, during a time period that is much less interesting to me kinda killed all my interest in the game.
So, any of the other campaigns any good?
>>319770549
Every AAA console game. Or fuck, every AAA game.
>>319773638
the warchiefs was boring as fuck. asian dynasties was the redeemer
>>319773602
Yeah but there wouldn't be anything stopping you reproducing that exact screenshot in the unaltered game. It's perhaps misleading about what the combat is like in the game, not a bullshot.
>>319773756
You could play as POO IN THE LOO in the Asian Dynasties one.
>>319773486
Can't remember the trailer but at the time it looked better than anything else on consoles. It was totally amazing.
Every console launch title
>>319773806
except that amount of units exceeds the pop cap without doubt
cant find a higher res of this photo, but iirc this was part of the cover art on the rise of rome box.
I still remember AoE3 looking amazing. I had a Radeon 9200 or something when I first played it, and it was pretty awful. Then I got a Geforce 9600 and it was some of the prettiest shit I've ever seen, I couldn't even believe the game could look like that.
>>319774009
Was there even a pop cap in aoe1? I haven't played it in like 15 years.
>>319774038
this has to be one of the absolute worst offenders
>>319774172
Not sure if i'm confusing this with aoe2 but didnt aoe1 have a map editor that allowed pretty ludicrous amount of units?
>>319773409
i don't even remember that much bloom
that screenshot looks way better than i remember it, even in spite of thati haven't played the game in over five years though so that might be why
>>319774038
>RA1 mammoths
que?
>>319774172
Yeah, sure.
It was based on Warcraft, not C&C.
>>319774009
Can't be bothered to count, but the pop cap in AoE 1 was 50, right? It looks about there to my eyes. Either way, this is easily reproduced in custom scenarios or maps with the map editor. I don't think it really counts as a bullshot. I just don't see that screenshot having anything particularly impressive or deceptive.
>>319774009
This too, is it not just from a campaign? Even if it's not, it's easily reproduced by the player so I don't think it counts as a bullshot.
>>319773017
>You will never take the head of a cavalry charge with 20,000 other cavalrymen to drive off the dirty Turks
https://youtu.be/ChdGe2YxVmA?t=1h36m43s
>>319774319
Both games allowed infinite units in the editor. They obviously used the editor for that screenshot.
>>319774078
I thought it looked worse than AoE2 even when it was new. Still do.
>>319774405
Mate, Tiberian Sun is one of the most well known bullshots in history.
Heck, it's basically the only real bullshot taker that is still relevant besides that game which shamed original Starcraft (which you only know of if you've ever researched its history).
>>319774269
>>319774551
>overworld models instead of combat models
Yeah this was pretty low
>>319774551
Oh jesus I totally forgot this one. You cant top this no way.
>>319774038
>>319774549
Nigga what?
As much as I love it AoE2 is pretty damn ugly apart from a few select buildings and units.
>>319773017
>real world
>bad guys
???
>>319770549
>>319772667
These are not bullshots. Most likely not even altered in post production. Sure, your average skirmish does not look like this, because these screens were craftily made on the World Editor to boast Emsemble's engine.
Seriously, back when It released I spent more time doing sceneries just like these ones. It's more than doable.
>>319770549
You should be showing the bullshot and the screenshot
>>319774746
>What are nazis
>>319774551
>redrawing 3D renders
I mean, hell, AoE2 HD is nothing but a massive cash in but at least they give enough of a damn to create new assets through the same method as in the original game (3D render sprites in 16-bit color).
>>319774730
Still better than ugly 3d models.
>>319774865
Not even that, it's redrawing 3D renders and lying about it.
>>319770549
but op that's how it actually looks.
>>319774429
You should work for EA or something.
>>319774809
Nice falseflag, pollack
>all these under8 b8s posting "bullshots" without knowing what bullshot means
unplug your computer and go play ball in the motorway
>>319774429
just booted it up, it's definitely 50. the reason why the second image is a bullshot is because roads have to be placed using the scenario editor.
offtopic, this game has not aged well at all. can only queue one thing at a time, no rally points on buildings, terrible pathfinding, etc.
>>319774880
I don't see much of a difference. Only in one of them the ugly models are pre-rendered.
>>319774605
This is interesting if only to see what units and buildings changed before release.
>>319773409
just get a reshade you idiot
>>319774986
It still amazes me how little the graphics changed from 1-2.Hell, some things in 1 looks better than 2.
>>319775178
>amazed game released 2 years later has similar graphics
Dam... How I miss RTS games. Really wish they would make a comeback. A new empire earth would be a fantastic start!
why hello there
>>319774746
Check out their wiki page. Turk are one of history's most genocide creatures. They are filth which makes me not want to play them.
>>319774405
It's the same Mammoth tank that you can find abandoned in the campaign, just colored red because they were going to give it to Nod for whatever reason.
>>319775342
cossacks is next on line
>>319774986
>because roads have to be placed using the scenario editor.
Yeah, but is the picture not from a campaign or a scenario made with the editor anyway? Why would someone expect it to be from a random map?
>>319771297
holy shit kill yourself you absolute pleb
>>319775568
What was so wrong with it?
>>319775634
Boring.
Difficult in a boring way.
Lame.
Boring.
>>319775397
>>319775634
It was fantasy crap.
>>319775634
The gameplay is debatable but the story was absolute horseshit.
Wasn't Watch Dogs all about bullshots?
And I think killzone 2 might have had a really misleading trailer made to look like actual gameplay when it was all a video.
>>319775749
>>319775717
>winter vacation already
>>319774936
holy shit did those absolute retards actually paint over the overworld sprites
>>319775883
Seriously though if you want a good single player RTS campaign go play the first StarCraft.
>>319774986
>can only queue one thing at a time
The Rise of Rome expansion did fix that. Also added the logistics technology that allows barrack units to take half population slot. Don't remember if it added rally points though.
>>319775717
>difficult
Nigga what?
>>319775749
It's not like AoE2 was the height of historical accuracy either.
Guess for some of us the gameplay is more important than the story.
>>319773834
Well obviously, since the trailer was pre-rendered. At first they said it was ingame, then they said it ran on a computer "using the same specs as the ps3", then they outed that it was all pre-rendered.
>>319774986
Remastered AOE1 when
>>319770549
AOE3 was a massive piece of shit.
>>319774682
>>319774038
What are you guys talking about, thats how the game looks, or are you talking about the camera distance?
>>319776302
aoe3: tad was preddy gud
Someone post Rome 2 TW
>>319776349
how the game looks
especially the explosions are 100% fake
>>319776473
I wish Rome II had bullshots. The campaign map that feels like your face is always one centimeter from the screen is unforgivable.
>>319776302
Let me guess. AoE2 was your favorite
>>319776587
I wish I had that image showing Carthage Alpha, Beta and in-game.
It goes from amazing looking city, to great looking city, to Rome 1.
i just wanna say that those guys in ops image have fucking lightsabers
>>319775883
How was it not fantasy crap? Previous AoE games had campaigns based on real world events. They should have kept their fantasy experiments outside of the AoE series, like they did with the AoM game.
Square is up there in bullshot audacity.
>>319776746
I've only ever seen it in game, and my jaw literally dropped at how beautiful it was.
About the only thing that wasn't terrible about the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzVlpUf7e5w
I preordered the game because of this video.
>>319776942
Is that picture up top even meant to be gameplay? It looks like a cutscene to me, in which case this is not a bullshot.
>>319776942
Resolution aside that looks pretty accurate to me.
I mean. Pretty much every single semi modern non-pc game in existence fake the resolution in the screenshots.
>>319775416
>muh genocide
what do you expect.
>Empire takes over land
>instead of enslaving the people they conquered and taking everything away from them, they let them have a good deal of freedom
>people start acting like sjw scum when given that much freedom and begin to revolt
>have to be put down because they were acting like 21st century niggers
Behold the king of bullshots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMRkyoHKeA
Runner up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWJD8DMasCU
>>319777850
t. urk
>>319777850
>intead of enlaving people they tranform christian children into soldiers and rape women in front of their families
Fixed for you mehmet
>>319778416
>its bad when it's done to christians
>>319778523
>strawman
kek
>todd and his lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAI_2QNQ-Ck
>>319777850
mods, remove kebab please
is there a more disgusting nation than Turkey? Literally savages who did nothing but pillage, rape and steal everything (including the culture) of their victims.
go back to the steppe
>>319778416
>living the liberal fantasy
>>319773409
You know you can disable that, right? Just don't put shaders on very high.
>>319778979
>Literally savages who did nothing but pillage, rape and steal everything (including the culture) of their victims
This sounds like every country in history.
>>319770549
>>319774605
>>319774682
>>319774038
>>319774009
>>319773228
>>319773124
>>319774605
As a Man who played these games more then life itself.
I still have the PC magazines with these shots and others.
Basically the Tiberian sun ones are from an Alpha version with tons of cut content and actually look worse then the original game. The promotional shots not only had worse pictures for building, they outright stole RA 1 things like that Nuke Truck you can see. Also generally the Tiberian Sun was one of the rare games that looked better then the screenshots in the magazines.
The only real disappointment was NOD was supposed to have a heavy tank to compete with GDI. It never got it.
Now Age of Empires is by far the worst offender. I used tons of the Scenario Editor to build cities for simply architectures. This was before Pharaoh came out in 1999 and blew away AoE 1 graphics but in 1997 I had nothing to compare with AoE 1 graphics, AoE 1 graphics to this day look better then AoE 2 or 3 graphics to me. The spries are simply fantastic. The problem with AoE 1 was 3 things.
The pop limit without going into multiplayer skirmish was 50.
You couldn't build road because roads were just textures on the ground.
Hills and trees also were not buildable so this was impossible. >>319774009
So by far AoE 1 was the worst offender.
>>319774605
RA 2 is also a funny case. It does look this good. It actually looks better. The Mamoth tanks were replaced with much better looking apocalypse tanks. The Alpha Guardian tank model was also scraped for the allies.
They added a different looking tech battle lab for the soviets
for skimish. It used to be ops lab a sort of lomonosof style university and a modern tech like lab.
>>319778979
> pillage, rape and steal everything
so like the a good deal of nations in the past? Now that I think about it niggers still do this shit today.
>more disgusting nation than Turkey
have you seen aboriginal australians yet?
Dark Souls 2
Rome 2
Any AAA title from Sony at E3.
>>319779493
t. Alberto Barbosa
Is AOE3 good? The way you guys are talking about it make it seem like it's seen as a black sheep. I can say for a fact none of my friends have played it, despite us playing AOE2 a lot recently.
The only thing AoE3 did wrong was the UI.
Holy shit that looked like garbage, and 90% of it was wasted space.
If it wasn't for that I'd totally have played it some more.
>>319776419
Agreed, at very least base-building was fun, and the AI wouldn't bulldoze you if you wanted to play a more relaxed game on easy/med. It was definitely comfy, as much as /v/ hates that word.
>>319779923
Yes it's good. Only nostalgia fags are throwing shit at it.
>>319779923
a lot of people were disappointed because they were expecting AoE2: 2
that disappointment is still bleeding through today. don't let that cloud your judgement, definitely give it a shot with the expansions installed & form your own opinion.
>>319780006
there are custom UIs
>>319770549
https://youtu.be/oEXvnoY-KoU
>>319779493
Fuck off Turk
>>319773124
>214 wood needed to educate a mill
I swear, it's what that reads in German.
Tenchu for Wii U
God damn it made me hyped as fuck but it ended up being shit.
>>319773486
I remember the butthurt. Glorious, it was
>>319780243
Are those custom UIs any better than the default one? I might seriously go pick it up on Steam if that's an option as far as it was the only real complaint I had.
>>319780340
that's obviously not from the game though
no uncharted pics yet?
>>319774506
BOG HONOR OJCZYZNA
>>319780418
>Not educating your Mill
You are Drecksack.
>>319780569
That's the point
i've never forgotten this one.
it's a 3DS game. all their screenshots were originally released in 800x480 (instead of the real resolution of 400x240 for the 3DS) and with very high anti aliasing.
>>319773124
>coureur "de" bois
kek
>>319780512
almost all of them are. they dont wholly unfuck the ui, but they make all the information & buttons much more accessible from what i've seen. dont forget to turn on advanced tooltips in the options, doing so reveals all the numbers and %'s behind everything.
you're probably better off pirating it considering ensemble is dead & the drm is defeated by installing a no cd crack.
>>319780418
How the fuck else is a mill suppose to go to college, huh? That bachelor's in administration isn't going tocutit, by itself you know.
>>319774038
>>319774682
thats what the game looks like. The explosion is the only issue
>>319774730
AoE 2 looks sharp as fuck, ensembles 3d graphics always looked too polygonal and blurry to me
>>319779402
>So by far AoE 1 was the worst offender.
Worst offender of what? Do you even have any idea what bullshot means? All of the AoE 1 screens posted so far could be easily replicated in the shipped game, so they are not bullshots.
>>319779402
The C&C ones are more alpha/beta screenshots
The AoE ones are just abusing the scenary editor
They are probably the less offensive cases of bullshots
>>319778915
The funny thing is the prison does actually look that good, it's just the rest of the game that looks shit.
>>319780749
It's not a bullshot then you idiot.
>>319781141
>implying the prison has dynamic shadows
>>319781234
Fuck, good point.
>>319774746
they're muslims
>>319781339
and a reminder: they can STILL only do 3 dynamic shadow sources in gamebryo.
in 2015.
and it's buggy with more than 1.
>>319780831
shitty german translation
>>319778915
>over 9000 objects
He actually did it the absolute mememan
>>319780243
>tfw no AoE 2: 2
i have literally an excel document with my ideas for another medieval AoE
watch dogs and uncharted games are the kings of bullshots hands down
>>319781224
lol, I have to be called an idiot by children.
for M2TW to come out that was the promo material shown on magazines, it's the whole reason I remembered that pic in the first place, because the journalist had a whole page talking about the amazing graphics he witnessed at a presentation and used that CA promo pic
>>319780831
doesnt that just mean lumberjack?
>>319780047
I dislike not calling things by name
comfy = casual
>>319780418
>He probably doesn't get his marketplace a PhD either
Uncharted 4
People still deny it to this day and will still deny it on release
>>319779923
>Is AOE3 good?
Yes, as good as AoE2 or mythology? no.
I wish the maps were bigger and had bigger pop limit
>>319781652
It's obviously promotional artwork, so it is in no way a bullshot. If you mistook that for ingame graphics then yes, you are an idiot. The alternative is that you have no idea what a bullshot is, which also makes you an idiot.
>tfw I can't get AOE3 to work on my PC
Why?! ;_;
>>319781224
then watch dogs trailers aren't bullshot because they're obviously not from the game
>>319781624
Become gamedev and make it yourself
>>319782062
Aren't RTS games incredibly hard to develop?
>>319781986
It's not artwork though, so the rest of your post is just you blabbering your mouth needlessly.
It's a touched picture of an ingame shot.
>>319781986
>promotional artwork
Is that what shills call it now?
>>319782003
They were technically not bullshots because they were video and not screenshots. But yes they would be bullshots if you took screenshots from that and passed them of as real gameplay screens.
The difference is the Watch Dogs videos were presented as something you could actually play, while that total war picture is just artwork.
>>319774682
Why did they remove those realistic icons?
>>319781861
play a civ that isn't germoney and a map with the words LARGE next to it
>tfw shitting out 120 strelets, muskets & cossacks in a blink of an eye as russia
perfection.
>>319782176
Whether its an ingame shot that's been painted on or a completely painted picture makes no difference. Unless the publisher or devs tried to pass that obvious artwork off as real game footage, that is in no way a bullshot.
>>319770549
>bullshot thread
>posts a screen shot that doesn't look that far off from the final product instead of posting a screenshot from some shitty AAA game OP is probably playing
Kill yourself, my man.
>>319775883
Boy that sure is a convincing argument.
>>319782503
>Unless the publisher or devs tried to pass that obvious artwork off as real game footage
You mean, like they did when they gave it to game magazines as a game screenshot?
>>319775397
I'm so glad they dropped the nauseating sharpness filter
>>319782678
like the original contention was anymore convincing
>>319782867
>like they did when they gave it to game magazines as a game screenshot?
They didn't, if you saw that and thought it was a screenshot then you are an idiot. If whoever writes in that magazine you read about thought it was a screenshot he was an idiot too. Neither of those makes that a bullshot.
Same way this isn't a bullshot for Skyrim.
>>319783181
So basically, nothing is a bullshot?
>>319782943
The original claim that it is fantasy unlike the previous aoe games was factual.
>>319781575
Are those icons from the Cossacks game? Because Cossacks had the same exact icons of buildings.
>>319783556
Fuck off already retard, you don't know what I'm talking about.
>>319783556
If it's a screenshot that is trying to pass off as something you could actually play or see yourself in the game that isn't actually possible, it's a bullshot.
See Dark Souls 2, Watch Dogs, The Witcher 3 and Bloodborne for recent examples.
>>319777850
lmao
You all don't understand what a bullshot it. Setting units up set piece for a screenshot is not a bullshot.
A bullshot is misleading the consumer by making them think technology or graphics is higher than it is.
>>319774730
AoE2 looked like shit compared to AoE3. Like, vomit mixed with shit. One thing AoE3 did right was visuals, especially the physics when destroying shit.
>>319783727
similar but not the same
>>319784158
I'm not a mn9 fan, but to be fair the game looks waaaay better in motion than in screenshots. This is still a bullshot, but it's not as bad looking as /v/ says.
>>319783562
that is true for all but the last three campaigns
>>319784158
while I hate M9 with all my might, it's a concept art, not bullshot.
>>319784351
Was that actually passed off as real footage though? Or was it just some artwork to show something they were aiming for in the original Kickstarter?
To my eyes that is so obviously just artwork and not something shat from a game engine, so I would bet that it isn't a bullshot.
![087b85898c88a072dcbdb01657742c66[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RPZxWOv.jpg "087b85898c88a072dcbdb01657742c66[1].jpg")
>>319784529
>ctrl+f: far cry
>0 results
seriously?
>faggots turn it into an RTS thread
Every time
>>319770549
I would say either Unreal 2 or Command and Conquer 3, the later even has bullshots on the game box
>>319783727
Don't worry, cossacks 3 is around the corner.
>>319784789
>>319775397
These games may have been downgraded, but the final product still looks incredible either way.
>>319784231
Yeah, and now AoE 3 looks like shit compared to 2.
>>319780340
Thats a wallpaper though
>>319777850
Turkish ISIS pig go kill yourself in a fire! Turkish IP's should be banned.
>>319777850
>>319778523
>>319779096
>>319779493
Go back to /his/ if you want to be a history revisionist.
>>319784967
>he actually thinks its going to be released
>>319784789
Fra Cry 1 still looks incredible
>>319781792
but that is not what comfy means you fucking edgelord
>>319785325
well in the context of RTS games he's basically right
>>319775397
>>319775742
Which one is the bullshot? The monster and lighting looks better in the second but everything else looks worse.
>>319785402
hardly, comfy in relation to rts typically means expansive base building
>>319785607
Yeah, and RTS games are shit for pure base building, they're all built around military strategy
not saying it's a bad thing but lets be honest here
>>319785402
not at all. I find playing Starcraft:BW on ice and desert maps with lots of ruined terran doodads about to be incredibly cozy.
>>319785013
far cry 3 looks like ass
>>319780340
>siege weapons that close to the towers
that's a bullshot alright, jeez
also, implying there are actual cities in any total war game
>>319776216
Americans only learn about America history so they play AOE2 thinking it's 100% true fact then get mad when AOE3 comes out.
The term "In Engine Footage" should not be allowed.
>>319774506
dog shit movie, husaria used long ass lances
>>319786060
AoE2 isn't 100% true fact, but it was based on real scenarios, real people or real folktales. AoE 3 is pure fiction written by the developers.
I remember this, the game still looked great though.
>>319774078
i tried playing on a geforce mx200. anyone remember those? not even a single frame per second
>>319775178
interface improved a ton though
>>319785753
>used to spend an entire hour in BW on rp maps just slowly building hatcheries and expanding the creep with creep colonies
>>319774986
The Rise of Rome is still #1 in my heart
>>319785734
Ceasar, The Settlers, Anno and Stronghold would like to have a word with you
>>319773486
A Guerilla employee actually talked about that. He said the developers said they were going to tell people it was not actual gameplay. Sony told them to do the opposite
>>319773486
Final game looks better.
>>319781806
naughty dog died with crash and jak
>>319782169
and even harder to sell in today market
>>319787371
stop lying
just because they actually thought that adding some kind of color to their game doesn't change the fact that all of these effects in the trailer wure bullshit even the ps4 can't do this cind of volumetrics as in the trailer
>>319786639
you shitting me? with community patch and an opened .ini gothic 3 easily looks like that
E3 2007 trailer looked like this.
Game comes out and it looks like this: http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/822/822415/halo-3-20070923023734879.jpg
I remember some Bungie employee attacking people who pointed out the difference on the forums.
>>319788419
>2007
>>319787050
Literally Ceasar, The settlers and anno aren't RTS games(yes, they're real-time strategy, but they're not part of the RTS genre so to speak, they're citybuilders) and stronghold is an exception.
>>319789059
Its in real time and strategy is an incredibly central component.
>>319789059
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_2205
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_(video_game)
Wikipedia disagrees with you except for ceasars. Deal with it nerd
