User blog comment:DunBanner/Age of Empires II HD/@comment-4041822-20131221072908/@comment-12314774-20140309112241

Personally I don't see the point of making the history go to the modern era, because the resources needed are a lot different and there isn't really a lot of city building anymore (Which is why AoE IV would be hard to make similar to the earlier AoE games). It's also hard to make history go from Stone Age to the Industrial Revolution in a steady pace, because the closer we get to the present day, the faster different eras come and go. AoE covers a few thousand years (if we only count the end of the Stone Age), AoE II covers around 1.5 thousand years and AoE III covers only a few hundred years. A remake of the earlier games is a feasible accomplishment though.