"So our challenge has been taking all of that nostalgia and making it real. We weren't going to mess with that," Isgreen tells me, explaining that the goal was clear for the team. The core of it was untouchable for the community – the time to kill, the flow of it, the pace of it, it's all so important to the game. "The feel and flow of Age of Empires 2 was absolutely the centrepiece, so we decided to build up everything else around it. Please don't change it!' So we were like, 'Okay, message received," Isgreen tells me. "Everyone was like, 'Don't touch the combat. When we broached the subject with the community of doing Age of Empires 2 as a Definitive Edition we were like: 'We're going to crack open, what do you want us to do with it?'"Īs you might expect, "nothing" was the answer. Community is a really important aspect to us for all of the Age of Empires games. "The second is how passionate the community is we always want to do right by the players. It's been a lot of 'What the heck were they thinking… why would they do it this way?' and I guess that's because of the tools of the time." The first is that it's almost like speaking a different language people didn't think about coding in the same way that we do today. "There are two things that you learn from opening up 20-year-old code. He's seen Forgotten Empires get elbow deep in 20-year-old source code for months now, all in an effort to get Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition out of the door. Isgreen knows what it takes to make an authentic Age of Empires game.
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios)
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