It brings quality of life improvements, modern graphics, extra content.
On the other side, the newer campaigns keep getting more and more boring, there is no interesting story to keep you excited. The missions are somewhat okay.
The original AoE as well as the HD version have never crashed on my PCs in fifteen years. This one crashes every now and then.
Older campaigns are getting edited, artwork removed and replaced with dumbed down versions.
I can't help but feel that the publisher here tries to milk all the money they can by throwing new, lower quality, content at you.
Looks like it's time to go back to the old and better games then.

It brings quality of life improvements, modern graphics, extra content. On the other side, the newer campaigns keep getting more and more boring, there is no interesting story to keep you excited. The missions are somewhat okay. The original AoE as well as the HD version have never crashed on my PCs in fifteen years. This one crashes every now and then. Older campaigns are getting edited, artwork removed and replaced with dumbed down versions. I can't help but feel that the publisher here tries to milk all the money they can by throwing new, lower quality, content at you. Looks like it's time to go back to the old and better games then.