Age of Empires II was released in 1999 and became one of the most enduring real time strategy games, with its Definitive Edition keeping multiplayer active decades later. Its numbered taunt system let players type a number in chat and broadcast a short prerecorded voice line to everyone in the match, in the language version they owned. The French set was recorded separately from the English set. Clips like number 41 survive now on soundboards and in edits, separated from matches but still tied to that quick communication culture.