Should I buy AoE II HD?

If you liked the "original", and can get it for cheap during a sale, I'd say yes.

Steam Multiplayer is great, but it's still peer-to-peer which means a lot of games lag, for the rest not much has changed save for a few textures. There's some really cool mods on Steam aswell, sadly lots of mods work with the same file which means you often can't run them together.

Not worth buying for the full price, but very nice for 5$

If you have AoE 2 then no...

If you don't have it: Get it cheap on a sale.

I've got it. They've patched it up since launch, really nice to play now.

Like others have said, the multiplayer can have pretty bad lag, so you might want to take that into consideration.

Buy it during the summer sale cant do much wrong then.

I had both the original AoE 1 and 2 and didn't get into Civ until this year and I enjoy both. AoE 2 is no different to 1 in terms of mechanics so if you enjoyed 1's trial version you'll probably enjoy 2 HD. I plan on picking it up this summer too.

The only thing that really changed from 1 to 2 was graphics, era, units / buildings (to coincide with the era shift) and the cheats.

Most people seem to prefer 2 to 1 but looking back, I seem to remember preferring 1 (well Rise of Rome expansion) more than 2.

TL;DR: Buy it on sale if you enjoyed the trial and still think you'll enjoy it.

no. Pre-purchase achievement!

Only if you are a AOE II fan. Otherwise skip it or wait for a crazy discount.

No, never. It's a very bad port.

Get it only if you dont have AOE 2 because nothing exept graphics is refreshed.

Well it does allow the game to be easily played on modern systems (without having to do that yourself).. the higher res textures are a bonus, the modern matchmaking as well (as the old game was over Zone I believe which does not exist anymore)..

Thanks for all of your answers guys, and oh. I might have dropped something in this thread. Look it up.

Well you missed that preorder achievement now so what's the point?

Buy it...buy it...buy it! I loved playing that game and think you will too!