Age of Empires advice please!

[Thunderbird8]

I have only ever played AOE I and the Rise of Rome expansion and I loved it. Been a few years now and I have a nice new powerful Mac Pro.

Want to get back into this type of game - what would people recommend? I used to enjoy the scraping around to gather resources as you beat off attackers, to slowly gain supremacy and land/resources!

Happy to play on Mac OS or Windows platforms. Recommendations please..

[arkitect]

Age of Empires I remains the best. :D
II & III just never hit the spot for me.

Maybe it was the period AOE I was set in… Early and Classical.
I just didn't get to grips with the Medieval and Colonial periods.

I Also tend to stick to Civilization… III for preference since I have never had satisfactory end-stage games with Civ IV. Slow as treacle on a winter's morning… :o

Not so much a recommendation as my own preference. ;)

[MacBoobsPro]

AOE 3 is great and Rise of Nations is ok.

[Wicker]

Age of Empires II! I haven't played the original much, but Age of Kings just rocks my world! lol

But seriously, give AoE II a try, it can't disappoint.

[j26]

AOE II was great. I spent far too much time playing it.

[Thunderbird8]

Which strategy 'god' game would you guys say was the most like AOE I in terms of gameplay and general vibe?

[togermano]

command and conquer 3 tiberium

[galstaph]

I like empire earth 2 (if one were to *ahem* "look around" one can find a cider port out in cyberspace ;) )
As far as between aoe and rise of nations, rise is better graphics wise (aoe3 isn't too bad, just a little different)