I played through the campaigns.
I would say they were enjoyable, but I wish instead of devoting so much money to all those videos and narration, instead they gave us more campaigns.
For the game itself, I’m not a competitive player so I will leave those opinions for someone else, but for me AoE4 has no character.
Upgrades are just Level 1, Level 2, etc.
with no nice names or artwork.
Feels like you’re playing a soulless MMO.
Projectiles look so ridiculous and jarring that it breaks my immersion to such a degree that it takes away from enjoying the game.
No separate formation and unit stances.
I don’t know if they ever added patrol or follow, but didn’t have those when I played either.
No ability to pause and look around and issue orders in singleplayer.
Graphics/animations are painfully bad in some areas, for example siege units being destroyed, instead of the unit collapsing like in AoE2 instead it has an explosion of what literally looks like birthday confetti.
I do like that there’s no walling with buildings, and stone walls are a lot more satisfying in AoE4 than in AoE2.