I think I only played the first one. I was way more into starcraft and warcraft 2 before that. 

DesertDave

I played AoE 2 vanilla. But I didn't play too much AoE2 as I was really into StarCraft.

Back then, the Battle.net network was really quite ground breaking and I found other RTS games unable to compete for too much of my time without a similar network. Playing against computer is fun and all, but playing against other humans is where the real fun is at.

gnilma

Did you try AoE2 Definitive Edition or AoE4? I didn't play them much but I think they are pretty decent.

_wololo_

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StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

The 90s and early 2000s were the golden age of RTS. Warcraft series, Age of Empires series, Command and Conquer series, StarCraft. They don't make them like that anymore... Stormgate looks pretty promising, hopefully it does not disappoint.