When I think of Age of Empires, I fondly recall countless, hundreds of hours spent as a child in front of a hazy CRT monitor, clicking frantically as I attempted to stave off the hordes of enemies who wanted to wipe my city and my people off the map.
My love and respect for the Age of Empires franchise has only grown over the years, so you can imagine how elated I was when the series — AoE, AoE II, and AoE III — received remasters. Heck, Age of Mythology also received a great remaster that has been…