Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Re: AoE3

[quote name="Ray of Light"][quote name="jeep"]AoE, after Excel, is my favorite MS program. I don't want "inspired," I want "doesn't email my address book to Nigeria."[/quote] Right, I think that attracted a lot of people to the franchise -- me included -- because an RTS that ran well, had good controls and looked nice was the exception <font color=black>(not the <i>sole</i> exception, just an exception to the rule, mind)</font>. Your Excel analogy is perfect: When Office apps had competition, in the early 90s, they were polished and functional. Their success begat complacency and feature creep. AoE3 can't be near so bad as the bloated, baffling corpse named Office 2003, but it feels like a first iteration of the same downward-spiralling process. [/quote]