Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition shown at Gamescom

I played AoE III a ton back when it was new, more than I ever played AoE II. Probably my all-time favorite RTS. From a technical standpoint, perhaps what's most impressive about it to me is that it played well and looked good (as far as I could tell at the time) on my Pentium IV with a GeForce 4 MX card, and it still looks good and runs well on my Windows 8.1 desktop with an RX 480 (and much higher graphics settings). Every year or two I fire it up for a game, and it never disappoints.

So I'm actually a bit sad that they're coming out with a Definitive Edition. The original one still works pretty well, and while I'm sure financially the new edition makes sense for them, it will be a bit sad if it's no longer possible to hop on and join a game in the original version if most players wind up moving on to DE.