Happy birthday Heavengames and Age of Empires Heaven!
AoE whas not just a game for me; I bought this 5 years ago as my first RTS ever. And thanks to this game I began to play RTS. Since that, I've never really played another type of game.
Then, in about 2002 I bought AoK Gold. By that time it costed me 35 euros, but I could live with that. When I tryed the game, I whas really surprised how good it whas, and the Age of-series remained me playing them for another 5 years.
Lots of new RTS games where released within that time, and I bought most famous RTS games, such as Battle for Middle Earth, Stronghold, Rome Total War, Medieval Total War (1 and 2).
In 2005, I whas searching for screens of AoE3, and this whas the moment where I found HeavenGames. I found screens from this website. Then I saw in the homepage of AoE3 Heaven that there where alot more heavens around. I thought: this might be a website for me, because because all these heavens where all made for RTS-games and Citybuilding.
But for me AoE remains my most special game, because I have great memories to it. Thanks to this game my love for RTS growed very strong within the years, and I even gave up my hobby of playing with Lego's and such
''This is madness!''''Madness? THIS IS HOLLAND!!!''''What's the difference?''The 300 Dutchmen will fight in the shade of an oil fountain..