

I asked them to reflect on the series' triumphs, successes, failures, and legacy. I spoke to several of the two dozen or so people who worked on the original Age of Empires about how it was made. And far from fading into obscurity, as history is wont to do, Empires is now squarely back in the (games-playing) public consciousness.

Age of Empires is one of the most influential strategy games of all time. Our reviewer enjoyed Age of Empires IV but called it “too old school for its own good” - check out our review here for why.Over the last 20 years, these epoch-spanning games have starred more than 50 historical civilizations, sales have surpassed more than 20 million units, and a core fanbase of hundreds of thousands has put hours upon hours into playing one series entry or another on a weekly basis. Why is the 4k videos bundled with the game on the xbox app? You can't deselect the videos making the download 220gb… /Sk4hzCtcZE Luckily it can be removed, but it’s certainly not obvious how to do so. Just simply clicking on “install” on Game Pass starts installing the game with the 4K videos as default, raising the disc space to 218.65 GB. Given that the game costs $59.99 it’s not surprising that there are a lot of players checking it out on Game Pass - only to be freaked out by the gigantic space requirement. Click install here and users will see that the disc space requirement is now a far more reasonable 86 GB.Īge of Empires IV is out now on PC and is available on Steam, the Microsoft Store, and for free as part of the Xbox Game Pass for PC. Select the left icon (not the video pack) and that will go to the game on its own, without the 4K videos.

The one on the right says “4K HDR Video Pack.”

Scroll down to “Included in this bundle” and there will be two similar icons for Age of Empires IV.In the Xbox app go to the Age of Empires IV page and select “full details.”.In order to lower Age of Empires IV’s disc space requirement just follow these steps:
