Talk:Age of Empires: Definitive Edition/@comment-4635992-20170624004905/@comment-5938787-20170624173251

AoE2 was supposed to released in 1998 but took longer so there was no AoE expansion in mind. It's easier to make an expansion than a whole new game. But I'm just saying, some of these civs didn't come by until a few centuries before the fall of Rome which was already depicted in AoE2. And them being in AoE2 makes more sense this was the start of the Dark Age, which refers to the 'lack of knowledge' of the period that followed. I know some civs are depicted in multiple games, but they were much different at those points than others. And I feel AoE is trying to depict a much earlier period than late Rome.