ahhh, the nostalgia of AoM's music. I remember when I managed to build a titan... on my own island, not realizing they're unable to move between islands xD
Personaly I really liked the campaign story-wise. Think it hit that ancient greek hero vibe - normal life and suddenly getting dragged into gods business - really well. Felt like a great adventure.
Same here I loved the campaign and played it way more than aoe2 (also cause it was somewhat easier). Growing up I liked more and more aoe2 and now I'm pretty confident to call aoe2 the best game in the franchise and probably one of the best games ever created. But AoM has a special place in my childhood even though it's somewhat chunky and poorly balanced
Is it poorly balanced? I see people play all the factions in the tournaments. I loved the campaign too. It obviously focuses on building a base and destroying the enemy, it's an rts after all, but apart from a few missions, most of them are pretty unique. I liked the maps design (greek, egyptian, norse, underworld, the one with shadows and darkness was so cool). And every one of them has this little mythology touch to it. Troy, Arkantos' dream, monsters in the undeground, giants in the north etc. Pretty surprised the author didn't appreciate it that much hete.
@@TylkoBajceps you are not wrong poorly balanced was a bad choice of word, it doesn't do justice to the game. But when compared to aoe2 it has some balance flaws: mainly the population system based on map control makes games very snowbally. Unit micro is in that aoe3 style where they feel very chunky and bizzarre cause of the whole repositioning stuff, and some of the god powers are just broken (ragnarok being the prime example).
My favourite AoE game ever. I have spent so many hours only Left 4 Dead beats that. I learned so much about history and mythology and the love they put into this game (look at the behind the scenes!!) is simply mesmerizing. Still play it today, still need more content for it!
Unpopular opinion but Age of Empires 3 was my favorite, with Age of Mythology close behind. I know AOE 2 is probably the most beloved in the series but it just didn’t hit the spot for me like the other ones did
One thing to add. The Brazilian dub is hilarious. They must have payed a group of random people to do the dubbing. It's so funny. Great stuff. It was one of the first games to get this treatment there and yeah, they chose the cheapest studio ever (hard to think it was even a studio, actually - Brazilian dubbing tends to be great and in most cases better than the American one, but onhis cqse, oh well...).
I rarely see people talk about the "wiki", of sorts, this game have, which tell a bunch of myths and references historical sources. As a kid playing this, I actually learned some mythology.
Yes! One of my foundest memories as a kid is reading the in game wiki, with the beautiful music on the background, it just seemed so mysterious and intriguing , I learned a lot from it!
@@Bjjbhcoa86 Yeah I also learn english from games and this one gave a major contribution in my childhood. Still have the game installed even now actually!
I know this is downright heretical to say, but I always loved Age of Mythology more than Age of Empires II. I really wish it would get a definitive edition like AoE II did, with a full engine rework instead of just graphical tweaks.
It's not heretical - It just means you latched onto it more when you where younger There's a difference between loving something more and pretending something is objectively better based on subjective opinion
Im very surprised you didnt like the campaign, i really love the story it takes a bite out of classical mytholigy and spins it in an intersting way. The bad highlights in voice acting are compensated for me by the dialogue i really think the story is good but maybe is my nostalgia taliking XD.
Interestingly, the german voice acting (which was also the first version I ever played) is much, much better than the english voice acting. I was really unpleasantly surprised when a bunch of nuance was lost under american accents and rushed deliveries, as well as a narrower range of voices when compared to the broader and deeper german voice selection.
@@Diogolindir Can vouch for that, the spanish version really feels of higher quality and one of the few cases I would say to go for a dub over the original language if you can.
random fact: my father still uses the egyptian theme as his ringtone since 2004 after he listened to the song and requested it from me. It still nostalgic to me hearing the music from my father's cellphone, and he still keeps the song after going through many phones.
Replaying the game yet again. It's very fun and deserves a sequel as well as a definitive edition. With the Chinese being fixed (both their campaign and for multi, not to mention getting actually interesting stuff). Edit: Almost forgot one thing....PROSTAGMA.
AoM was one of my very first video games, and my introduction to the RTS genre. I still play it to this day. I love the story and world building, how every mythology is linked, like it's same underworld for everyone.
Oh, I had fun with this one. I loved the unit-variety. I was able to convince my history teacher back then, to allow me to hand in a essay about the creatures and mythology in this game for extra credit.
I actually had an assignment to find and copy one legend, one myth and something else for an English class. Naturally, I went to age of mythology and copied the legend of Arkantos
I think that was my favorite thing, the unit diversity. The other AOE games had "unique" units but they don't act or look all that unique compared to AOM
I love this game. This game changed my life, I learned how to build websites to create one for my AOM clan.l back in 2003. Many years years later and now I am data scientist focused on e-commerce, all started with this game. I still play it. I'd pay $500 USD for AOM2. Yes, idc, I would pay whatever for a new release.
Age of Empires is great. But I freaken HATE those Rise of Empire mobile game commercials. Seriously Microsoft needs to sue the ever living daylights out of that game for infringement.
@@Failzz8 probably the chineese would have to pay "reparations" and thats it. happened to riot games. after that the company was free to copy them in any way.
It was a great campeign, in a way it demonstrated HOW to make a good RTS campeignneven if it was at times rather bland. The music, everything, just firts perfectly into this tellable, yet cheesy, story.
I can't understand why he dislikes characters, from my older brother Arkantos to my gf Reinleif and the boi Eitri and Chiron the CHAD and Gargarensis the terrifying psychopath 👌 They meant a lot to me as a kid !
The thing about AOM is that it's basically completely unique. The ony other game that has a somewhat similar stting is Total War Warhammer (2), but that's also not mythology.
@@RustingPeace No, not really. If I wanted to just play a strategy game set in the classical period, I could play RTW, or heck, even Praetorians. For medieval, there are a lot of options. For mythology however...
I wouldn't say that it is the only similar game. The battle for middle earth games and rise of legends touched on similar gameplay and themes. total war warhammer is only thematically similar and based on thematic similarities you could also include warcraft 3, spellforce and some others.
Thanks for the review! Great to see some love for Age of Mythology. Some personal options on the campaigns. I personally think that the Fall of Trident campaign (Arkantos' story) is actually great and it is one of my favourite RTS campaigns ever. It truly feels like a Greek epic but intertwined with other mythologies. All the mythological/historical characters are done justice (I just love how you get to see and play with or against heroes from various myths), the original heroes have their unique personality and the missions have a great sense of scale (sieges actually feel like sieges and not 10 units capturing an entire town). Also, I feel the scenarios were pretty varied and, if nothing else, did not feel like simple skirmishes. Besides some wonky voice acting (and only at times), I really can't think of another substantial criticism. Honestly, I would probably purchase a remaster/definite edition even if just to replay it again even without doing much else.
I definitely agree with that. Even after having played multiple amazing games, both RTS and not, I still look very fondly upon the AoM campaign and still enjoy it whenever I replay it. I absolutely adored both main campaigns and I wish there was more of it, that isn't Tales of the Dragon. As a bonus, I also loved the little descriptions they had for EVERYTHING if you looked in the info page, from just regular old normal pig info to descriptions of myth units with scientific names and a whole bunch of lore.
Also it is so funny at times! From the sarcastic remarks between the characters to entire group being turned to pigs (thanks Circe), I laugh quite a few times during the story. I especially love the moment where Arkantos and Odysseus coming up with the idea of the Trojan horse and Ajax being like "Will it fight?", and in unison Arkantos and Odysseus turn their heads to look at him lol (that and Agamemnon's pink helmet feathers!)
I still remember that I dreamt of having a massive army with colossus vanguard against the enemies on battlefield... Well, I am hearing that AoM probably has much promising future than a simple Definitive Edition, and after watching AoE4 trailer, I'm hoping that my childhood fantasy may come true.
@@MrREAPERsz the TC mecanic in Aom makes the game far more complex that the aoe TC mecanic, cause they are always on strategic places and fight for them I really fun. And the gold mecanic makes the game long as far as you want, I had competitive games that last like 1 and a half hour and never stop being so fun and hard to play. Watch a Matreuss game or a Boit video and youll see what im taking about
Because of CPU/RAM limitation for that times.....Try to create 6 vs 6 with middle battle and play deathmach,and wait for fight ....fps will drop to 15 or less.You can not play normaly 6 v6 on old desktop pc from 2000s
I played this game when I was 12 years old, and it made me really happy, the setting, the characters, the aesthetics, the music, the campaign is very good and it also had a lot of information about the history and mythology. beautiful game. I hope they release a definitive edition, and a sequel :)
You can play extended edition. I got back into it after picking up the game at 12 and playing for a couple years. I just returned this summer thanks to a tournament video I came across. It has been fun.
It still saddens me that this game got virtually left behind while everyone slobbers all over AOE2. I'm glad it gets some recognition, even if it isn't by much. Maybe it was the less than stellar remaster and the disastrous final expansion, but I dont know, I just wish it were bigger - and had more of a scene. Its just more fun when every faction isn't exactly the same with a few bits swapped in and out. I would've focused more on the asymmetrical aspect of the factions - how different the resource gathering, pop management, structure building and research all are between the faction. To some players like myself, this is what keeps the game interesting, while AOE2 feels like a samey snoozefest. You missed out on that DLC though. Totally worth it on sale. Most of the campaign is unbelievably bad to the point of comedy. The voice acting, awful scripting, attempts at matching the original game's ambitions, it's great. The chinese faction could've been worse too... slightly...
It was announced that thre ill be an AoM DE after AoE 4 is released. So there is a lot of time left to wait, but maybe end of this year or next year i still believe there will be an AoM DE
Even though UA-cam is somewhat over saturated with gaming content, I still think your style, content and approach will have an impact. I can definitely see this channel growing a lot coming months. (I, for one, already subscribed.)
@Talion Ranger The OP didn't say there's anything wrong with it, but too much of the same thing (that's what oversaturated means). Too many guys doing the same type of content.
The Chinese DLC is ok. It feels more like a mod than a studio made add-on though, which if you look back through all the developer posts before it came out... it basically is a mod because of how hard the engine is to work with.
Personally I was pretty disappointed, it felt too cheap, too generic, too much like a player made mod. I think the DLC actually makes the game worse. And that's coming from someone who regularly buys DLC's
@@reistje If i know how terrible that DLC is i wouldn't waste my money on it. The extended edition is good enough. The extra units added in the DLC is bs. I know AOM has some relation with AOE but that DLC is clearly just AOE theme put into AOM. It messed up the flavor of AOM in a bad way.
@@Zade_95 I think it's worth getting it only on sale. It spices up the game just enough. However, the campaign is pure garbage and many of the units are reskinned versions of existing units or of each other. The Titan also looks like shit.
@@kaldrdoombringer7246 story worse than twilight, i mean it. balancing out the window. most of the sounds are legit copied from other units that were already in the game. if you play cs the ai on one of the new maps, they dont know how to attack (that might have been fixed). its even annoying that in the main menu they implemented their own shitty main menu song. i could go on. but you know... shhhhhh ;)
I wanted to Major in Classical Civilization because of this game. Took it for A-Levels around it's release, but the University I ended up going to in the US didn't offer it, so now I have a History Degree, probably thanks to Age of Empires II. I ended up moving towards contemporary multilateralism career wise, so thank the gods for AOE.
Custom scenarios is the best part: one could say that AoE2 have a ton of custom maps, but are just a tiny tiny tiny bit compared to AoM. The new mechanics allow for many fun scenarios, I specially loved Olympics and Tiny maps. Also, the campaign is the MOST ICONIC of all, at the same level of the ones of Age of Kings!
The story is great. The best campaign in the franchise in my opinion. The probem is its scenarios: after the troy part, it becomes monotonous "build a base and destroy the enemy". Unlike in aoe2 and aoe3 where you have to do other things like recruiting other factions, defending, succeeding in setting up a trade route, converting units or buildings, taking over spots, etc.
I owe all my knowledge of history, mythology, geography and philosophy to this game, I was 7 when it showed me how intriguing and amazing these things are. Ironically, I really suck at it when playing online, I was more interested in the campaign and in building little cities and armies as a kid.
The problem with the Chinese release was that they introduced bugs that affected the entire game. Want to click on the red exclamation mark on the unit box? Crash to desktop. Random stuff popping up in your production box in the lower left? Yeah you have to deal with it. Random unit animations breaking? Lighting changes from the eclipse god power causing the world to end? Yeah. I understand that they have patched many of these issues out, but for the love of God it was almost unplayable, and many glitches can still be identified that weren't present in the disk set. It feels like the QA for a freaking microsoft team was non-existent
I don't know how prominent it was at the time. However one thing I always apreciated was how the music felt dynamic. Every time you attacked a fortress or a city center, the music would become epic and unique. My other experiences with it are in BFME and Total War, so I can't tell whether other franchises have done the same.
I still remember my first aoe1 game when I was little It goes like this I know nothing about the game After 15-30 minutes finally figured out you chop trees And the next thing I see an automatic moving catapult that distroyed everything and m trying to escape with the last villager only to end up in enemy land and get destroyed 😂👌 Still remember it crystal clear 💗💗💗
I remember playing this game and Rome total war way back in the days when they came out. They both taught me history and ancient mythology, esp AoM. I disagree with the campaign being a 12year old kid playing this it was so awesome esp for it's time AoM had its spot at one of the best RTS for it's time, they were competing with huge titles such as Cossacks, Starcraft and Warcraft.. I've played Cossacks back to war, AoE2, Starcraft 1, Warcraft 1-3, CaC Red alert 1-2 back in the days and none of theese games can be compared to the campaign and story in AoM exept Wc3 wich really brought the RTS genre to the next level.
My biggest problem with these early 3D RTS titles is that the unit-to-map/building/tree scale is stupid. The unites are massive, while the geography/buildings/trees are tiny in comparison. Warcraft 3 is the worst offender, but AoM is also quite bad. AoE2 is so much less offensive in this regard and thus aged way better.
I could agree about the houses (even though it's not THAT bad/I've seen way worse... *cough* Cossacks *cough* ) But the trees !?! Just look at the game... AoM is the least offensive of any Age of game in that regard (yes, including AoE2, even without the mod that reduces trees sizes that all the high level players use)
I really liked the campaign, maybe because i played it as a child but it gave me the same feeling I had when I read about the greek heroes and gods for the first times. I mean, everyone knows about athena, zeus, achilles or heracles, but we all have that day when we decide to look a little deeper in their stories and read for the first time his many stories and be amazed. AOM campaign gave me that feeling. I knew about the story of atlantis and most of the characters present, but its original twist gave me the need to know more and complete it
Tale of the dragon is not worth it for the campaign if that's your jam but it's fun to add if you play a lot of multiplayer because it adds some diversity if you've been playing the game for 18 years now
They fixed a lot of the game on the last few patchs, it had serious problems before, like workers and bullcarts getting stuck inside gold mines Can`t fix tale of the dragon thou
Sure you can. Pull a AOE2 and rewrite the campaign. They did that for several of their campaigns and honestly they got better, even if I enjoyed the originals.
That Chinese "dlc" is a buggy, unbalanced, fan mod with a tag price. It shouldn't really be considered cannon. It's also probably why the game is going to be dying in the future, as it breaks a lot of things in the core mechanics and introduces tons of glitches.
I’ve played AoM Chinese. The campaign audio is broken and the voice acting is all over the place. It’s slightly more buggy than the original and the Chinese need more balancing to be a right fit. It adds something to enhance the experience and is fun but I totally understand why it’s not interesting to buy
The campaigns blew my mind. I think they were super interesting and fun. Especially for the time. I was younger as well, sure. But I have super fond memories.
Yeah, tales of the dragon is boring af. I literally couldn't finish the campaign without cheats due to how artificially difficult or just boring some missions were
How do the Chinese play in Skirmish/Multiplayer, though? I know they can be a bitch to fight against (so much cavalry and those damn Chu-ko-nu), but that's it.
The Scout is only 1 pop, which can lead to an enormus cav army. Call at arms gives early map control. The god power in 3. Age is uproot and destroys buildings very fast...
AoM is one of my favorite games from childhood. It is still very special to me today and I always prefered it over AoE 2 (which I still love very much) even though I played AoE 2 before AoM. Always loved the campaign and its characters, and spent some amazing time online back then, with all the amazing scenarios created by talented people. Cannibal survival, Build your Titan, Sumo-minotaur, Mutation, Cats and mouse, Gods are watching, RPG... There was even a Sim simulator for 6 hours long games ! So much amazing creators.
This game was perfect, it taught and laid the foundation of mythology for me and after that I've never stopped reading, watching and learning mythology of different cultures and now I love to pass the knowledge.
That brought back memories. I enjoyed Age of Mythology given I love history and the different cultures. The music was nice to listen to and the creatures you could get were fun.
Okay, I'm extremely late to the party, but I didn't know this could be played on Steam. On the bright side at least, I know what I'm doing with my week now. ^_^
Bro I'm so sad watching this. Nostalgia games hold such a place in my heart. Every weekend I used to go down to my grandad's house. He used to have an old computer that could run Age of empires, populas, alien nations, DK2. So we used to play them together. He's been gone now for about 6 years but man this sort of stuff brings back way more than just nostalgia for games.
My impressions from revisiting this game recently: - Campaign: Great! Very good, especially the OG one. - Gameplay: Pretty good, but worse than AOE 2 and 3. - Unit pathing: Trash - Controlls: Pretty bad - Music: Great - PvP: Good, but still worse than the AOE games Overall it's still a solid game, but I believe the campaign was the best part of it. I still think AOE 2 and 3 are better games overall, but if I revisit Age of Mythology, it's because of the campaign!
My buddies and I still play AoM to this day. It's a staple of the games we play. To me, it'll always be a timeless game that I can go back to no matter how aged it may be to others. It's this game the made me grow to love ancient mythologies and history.
15:52 The story isn't very gripping? Why do I get the feeling you're some weeb who thought Neon Genesis Evangelion was really deep? That's like saying the story for Marvel Ultimate Alliance wasn't good, which I've heard other reviewers say too.
@@Zade_95 Don't accuse one of the more gripping and very interesting stories in the strategy genre of not being just that. Yeah, I get it, it's not The Last of Us before Naughty Dog behaved like naughty dogs and ruined it, but in the context of the strategy game genre how can you not think it's up there? Makes Latter Day Blizzard's nonsense since Heart of the Swarm look like the straight garbage it is. Seriously: at least the final battle against Gargarenthesis was epic, foreshadowed, and built up and had a couple really big twists beforehand. The whole thing with Kerrigan and Mengsk could be summed up with the words, 'Chitinous Mary Sue goes on a whirlwind rampage of revenge and gets her revenge with no significant conflicting obstacles or twists whatsoever. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.' Mengsk didn't even have the cliche, 'Kill me and a device that will nuke this entire planet again will go off and you'll go down with me!' dead-man switch failsafe or really anything once Kerrigan predictably tore down the way to his castle despite having ample time beforehand, knowing full well what Kerrigan with a unified zerg swarm at her back could do, and having a history with really powerful nukes blowing up Korhal and being just the kind of guy willing to burn it all down in a great blaze of irony. When Christopher Lloyd's character from episode six of season three of the Mandalorian does a better job at prepping for a possibly eventuality than Arcturus Mengsk, a slimey weasel who somehow clawed his way to power and remained there despite the events of Starcraft 1 and 2, you know your company's doing it wrong and probably should have sold out to Daddy Microsoft Bucks and King William Gates I a LOOOOONNNNG time ago.
Yes, you made the correct choice. Tale of the Dragon is trash. The only redeeming quality is the new giant map size. Other than that, the campaign, the new gods, the new powers, it's all lackluster. I even said this in my review on Steam, the campaign seems like it was made by a fan on a lazy weekend but I've played fan campaigns that were 100 times better. I will say however, if you ever see it on sale for like $5 or less, I'd get it just for the new map size and to give the other civs and the campaign a look. But it's not worth full price. But yeah, if I had to describe a game as the game of my childhood, it'd be Age of Mythology. I fully admit and appreciate that AoE2 is the better game, but AoM will always hold that special place in my heart. Hours upon hours playing, trying to beat missions on the hardest difficulty (btw, the Titan difficulty in AoM is probably the hardest difficulty level I've ever faced in any game ever), my mom yelling at me that it's time for school and I need to get ready but I can't because I'm breaking into Troy. And even today, almost 20 years later, it really hasn't aged that bad. Still play it every now and again. And lastly, to answer your question at the end: yes, there were plans for an AoM 2. During an AoE 2 tournament on Twitch a few years back, a former dev mentioned it. It was never in full production, but the groundwork was being built in 2007 but sometime in 2008 when it was all but confirmed the studio was shutting down, it was all scrapped. However, for a few years now there have been rumors swirling that a definitive edition of Age of Mythology will be coming, likely after Age of Empires 4. What's more, there have been leaks of surveys and focus groups gauging the interest in an AoM sequel. Is that 100% concrete proof? No, of course not. However, with the old adage "where there's smoke, there's fire", I'd say the smoke is quietly building.
This is a game that has united AOE2 and AOE2 players, I mean my first game was AOE2, then I discover AOE3 I used to like both of them and I don't understand why people fighting which game is better and then come AOM ahhh I spend most of hours playing AOM it's really great game, and it deserve serious sequel, I mean not like from 2014 it's shame what they did and that Chines exspansion is so bad...
Age of mythology was the first game I ever played. I loved it so much, I would wake up at 5 am just so I could play for a couple hours before school. I miss it ngl.
Freesync G-sync Compatible 100hz monitor would be nice, even though the game has no such control over that stuff, the Nvidia Control Panel certainly will. My childhood experience would be as powerful as never before.
You definitely made the right choice re the shitty Chinese expansion. I bought it when I got the extended edition steam version, caught up in the heady anticipation of plunging afresh into a childhood favourite. Imagine my reaction when I fired up the new Chinese campaign, and found the fist cutscene (or maybe it was the faction intro video), rather than ending like you expect a cinematic too literally just kept going for minutes, without voiceover, until some units had destroyed a building or something, like they'd forgotten to end the cinematic. Or just couldn't be bothered. It was then I knew I had made a mistake. IIRC it was basically something they outsourced to some unknown Chinese studio for a quick buck, and said Chinese studio put so little effort into to hence the above.
ahhh, the nostalgia of AoM's music. I remember when I managed to build a titan... on my own island, not realizing they're unable to move between islands xD
A classic
At least you had a big Karen to defend your island :D
I used to walk around repeating the villagers.
@@JokeofAllButts so they call 911 and ask the attackers to go back to their own country when attacked?
Yeah I made that mistake to figure it out 😑
Personaly I really liked the campaign story-wise. Think it hit that ancient greek hero vibe - normal life and suddenly getting dragged into gods business - really well. Felt like a great adventure.
me too, I mean it was not an award winning story or anything, but I enjoyed it. A lot.
Same here I loved the campaign and played it way more than aoe2 (also cause it was somewhat easier). Growing up I liked more and more aoe2 and now I'm pretty confident to call aoe2 the best game in the franchise and probably one of the best games ever created. But AoM has a special place in my childhood even though it's somewhat chunky and poorly balanced
Is it poorly balanced? I see people play all the factions in the tournaments.
I loved the campaign too. It obviously focuses on building a base and destroying the enemy, it's an rts after all, but apart from a few missions, most of them are pretty unique. I liked the maps design (greek, egyptian, norse, underworld, the one with shadows and darkness was so cool). And every one of them has this little mythology touch to it. Troy, Arkantos' dream, monsters in the undeground, giants in the north etc. Pretty surprised the author didn't appreciate it that much hete.
Truly, the one chapter I remember the most wss the one of stealing the caravan just to be stolen again again and again
@@TylkoBajceps you are not wrong poorly balanced was a bad choice of word, it doesn't do justice to the game. But when compared to aoe2 it has some balance flaws: mainly the population system based on map control makes games very snowbally. Unit micro is in that aoe3 style where they feel very chunky and bizzarre cause of the whole repositioning stuff, and some of the god powers are just broken (ragnarok being the prime example).
Stronghold, Age of Empires, and Age of Mythology were my childhood.
My favourite AoE game ever. I have spent so many hours only Left 4 Dead beats that.
I learned so much about history and mythology and the love they put into this game (look at the behind the scenes!!) is simply mesmerizing. Still play it today, still need more content for it!
cool vid! looking forward to see more of yours
Thanks mate! Good stuff cooking.... 🔥
Its a good game. DOW learnt a lot from this such as global skills, sync kills
Unpopular opinion but Age of Empires 3 was my favorite, with Age of Mythology close behind. I know AOE 2 is probably the most beloved in the series but it just didn’t hit the spot for me like the other ones did
One thing to add. The Brazilian dub is hilarious. They must have payed a group of random people to do the dubbing. It's so funny. Great stuff. It was one of the first games to get this treatment there and yeah, they chose the cheapest studio ever (hard to think it was even a studio, actually - Brazilian dubbing tends to be great and in most cases better than the American one, but onhis cqse, oh well...).
yes, i loved this game as a kid and i keep playing it every one or two years, never got into age of empires.
Seeing Age of Mythology.. i feel old now :D
You may like AoM, you may not, but there is one undeniable truth: these are the bloody best pictures of ancient Gods you may find even today!
Everything was excellent in this game.. the Gods’ pictures, the unit’s descriptions, the music.. 🥲
Hades does a pretty good job too but I agree that it holds up amazingly well
True. I can't see them otherwise
I can't even count how many times I've seen that picture of Zeus plastered on shops and restaurants in touristy areas in Greece and the Balkans
Agreed, I've even seen people use the AOM Zeus pic as their pfps.
I rarely see people talk about the "wiki", of sorts, this game have, which tell a bunch of myths and references historical sources. As a kid playing this, I actually learned some mythology.
Yes! One of my foundest memories as a kid is reading the in game wiki, with the beautiful music on the background, it just seemed so mysterious and intriguing , I learned a lot from it!
I owe my English education to this game and the Sims. I learned so much from reading the database entries of this game it is ridiculous lol
@@Bjjbhcoa86 Yeah I also learn english from games and this one gave a major contribution in my childhood. Still have the game installed even now actually!
This game literally increased my interest in mythology! I learned so much because of this game, it's crazy!
Some main characters really have more depth than what is shown in the cutscenes, which is only accessible in the wiki..
I know this is downright heretical to say, but I always loved Age of Mythology more than Age of Empires II. I really wish it would get a definitive edition like AoE II did, with a full engine rework instead of just graphical tweaks.
It's not heretical - It just means you latched onto it more when you where younger
There's a difference between loving something more and pretending something is objectively better based on subjective opinion
sadly we probably wont get it because of the super bad china dlc
@@fischyfischy7532 We might, pretty sure aom had more players then age of empires 3.
I'm with you on this one, I played at least a 1000 hours of AOM, but never could get into AOEII, or any other 'Age of...' game really.
Didnt they announce a Definitive edition already? They said they want to do it after AoE 4, at least thats what i heard.
Im very surprised you didnt like the campaign, i really love the story it takes a bite out of classical mytholigy and spins it in an intersting way.
The bad highlights in voice acting are compensated for me by the dialogue i really think the story is good but maybe is my nostalgia taliking XD.
That's fair - I know a lot of people who loved it. Maybe it's because I never played it before hand and I've been spoilt lol
Interestingly, the german voice acting (which was also the first version I ever played) is much, much better than the english voice acting. I was really unpleasantly surprised when a bunch of nuance was lost under american accents and rushed deliveries, as well as a narrower range of voices when compared to the broader and deeper german voice selection.
@@JRexRegis the spanish version is good as well! I really loved it
@@Diogolindir Can vouch for that, the spanish version really feels of higher quality and one of the few cases I would say to go for a dub over the original language if you can.
@@JRexRegis cringe
The algorithm has blessed me with this video the moment it was uploaded it seems.
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Zade posts lots of amazing nostalgic games a d does good videos, finally the UA-cam algorithm doing somthing right.
Reddit is about to do it favors also.
All Hail the Algorythm! And long live the Zade!
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random fact: my father still uses the egyptian theme as his ringtone since 2004 after he listened to the song and requested it from me. It still nostalgic to me hearing the music from my father's cellphone, and he still keeps the song after going through many phones.
My brother did the same thing for a LONG time with the JENOVA theme from Final Fantasy 7, and he wonders why that theme is so nostalgic to me.
I don’t blame your dad. Egyptian theme is a BANGER
wow that is so heart warming
Cherish him greatly and dearly!
@@EugeneJOooOo It really is!
the moment i heard the music at the begining...i melted in nostalgia
I got you
Replaying the game yet again. It's very fun and deserves a sequel as well as a definitive edition. With the Chinese being fixed (both their campaign and for multi, not to mention getting actually interesting stuff).
Edit: Almost forgot one thing....PROSTAGMA.
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AoM was one of my very first video games, and my introduction to the RTS genre. I still play it to this day.
I love the story and world building, how every mythology is linked, like it's same underworld for everyone.
Oh man, same here. I was blown by the games quality and it's such a hypnotic game to play
*Stares lovingly at my copy of age of mythology collectors edition box that i save weeks to buy as a wee lad in the early 2000s*
*Stares lovingly at my official strategy guide that's worn out from all that reading*
When i first saw the minotaurs i lost my shit.
That's a relic at this point
Put them in the temple
I still have the Gold Edition box :3
@@louwhyman5995 they're cute but the cyclopses are cuter and thiccer :)
best game ❤️
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Oh, I had fun with this one. I loved the unit-variety. I was able to convince my history teacher back then, to allow me to hand in a essay about the creatures and mythology in this game for extra credit.
That's galaxy brain, I hope they gave you an A+ for it :D
I got an A for knowing the legend of Osiris. In campaign, you had to collect all of his parts of the body which are spread across the whole Egypt.
I actually had an assignment to find and copy one legend, one myth and something else for an English class. Naturally, I went to age of mythology and copied the legend of Arkantos
I did a “presentation” about the greek hero’s back in elementary school, I just got the information from the AoM wiki
I think that was my favorite thing, the unit diversity. The other AOE games had "unique" units but they don't act or look all that unique compared to AOM
I love this game. This game changed my life, I learned how to build websites to create one for my AOM clan.l back in 2003. Many years years later and now I am data scientist focused on e-commerce, all started with this game. I still play it. I'd pay $500 USD for AOM2. Yes, idc, I would pay whatever for a new release.
That's awesome - love to hear it!
Same, I would at least take a remaster of it.
I too would pay atleast a months salary for a new aom
Same here the price is never too high
@@paterson90 have a remastered already. It's pretty nice actually.
Age of Empires is great.
But I freaken HATE those Rise of Empire mobile game commercials. Seriously Microsoft needs to sue the ever living daylights out of that game for infringement.
*sad music starts playing* it's been years since the game was released
I don't know that that would do anything, it's a chinese company
@@Failzz8 probably the chineese would have to pay "reparations" and thats it. happened to riot games. after that the company was free to copy them in any way.
I would very much disagree about the quality of the campaign
I think the cheesyness adds to it’s charm
the campain was one of the best parts
Its better than the campaign of AoE3.
It was a great campeign, in a way it demonstrated HOW to make a good RTS campeignneven if it was at times rather bland. The music, everything, just firts perfectly into this tellable, yet cheesy, story.
I can't understand why he dislikes characters, from my older brother Arkantos to my gf Reinleif and the boi Eitri and Chiron the CHAD and Gargarensis the terrifying psychopath 👌 They meant a lot to me as a kid !
Everyone gangsta using L33T SUPA H4X0R until the enemies start building faster too
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Folks, we have a man of culture here, this time literally.
@@lukamitic8472 ATM OF EREBUS
The thing about AOM is that it's basically completely unique. The ony other game that has a somewhat similar stting is Total War Warhammer (2), but that's also not mythology.
are aoe1, 2 and 3 not unique? especially 3?
@@RustingPeace No, not really. If I wanted to just play a strategy game set in the classical period, I could play RTW, or heck, even Praetorians. For medieval, there are a lot of options. For mythology however...
I wouldn't say that it is the only similar game. The battle for middle earth games and rise of legends touched on similar gameplay and themes. total war warhammer is only thematically similar and based on thematic similarities you could also include warcraft 3, spellforce and some others.
To some extent, I see Titan Quest as the CRPG counterpart to AOM.
@@kimarous Gotta love me some titan quest! :D
Thanks for the review! Great to see some love for Age of Mythology.
Some personal options on the campaigns. I personally think that the Fall of Trident campaign (Arkantos' story) is actually great and it is one of my favourite RTS campaigns ever. It truly feels like a Greek epic but intertwined with other mythologies. All the mythological/historical characters are done justice (I just love how you get to see and play with or against heroes from various myths), the original heroes have their unique personality and the missions have a great sense of scale (sieges actually feel like sieges and not 10 units capturing an entire town). Also, I feel the scenarios were pretty varied and, if nothing else, did not feel like simple skirmishes. Besides some wonky voice acting (and only at times), I really can't think of another substantial criticism. Honestly, I would probably purchase a remaster/definite edition even if just to replay it again even without doing much else.
I definitely agree with that. Even after having played multiple amazing games, both RTS and not, I still look very fondly upon the AoM campaign and still enjoy it whenever I replay it. I absolutely adored both main campaigns and I wish there was more of it, that isn't Tales of the Dragon. As a bonus, I also loved the little descriptions they had for EVERYTHING if you looked in the info page, from just regular old normal pig info to descriptions of myth units with scientific names and a whole bunch of lore.
Also it is so funny at times! From the sarcastic remarks between the characters to entire group being turned to pigs (thanks Circe), I laugh quite a few times during the story. I especially love the moment where Arkantos and Odysseus coming up with the idea of the Trojan horse and Ajax being like "Will it fight?", and in unison Arkantos and Odysseus turn their heads to look at him lol (that and Agamemnon's pink helmet feathers!)
The campaign was incredible, I loved it
The only thing that annoyed me was the population limit having less than 200 while having military units costing 2 to 5 pop space.
That's why it didn't grow as much as AOE. Having to fight over settlements and infinite gold trade killed the game for me. Story mode is fun though.
There was a mod to break that limit to infinite but THE ENEMY KEPT MAKING HUNDREDS OF UNITS. My game crashed when I gave the enemy a visit lmfao
I still remember that I dreamt of having a massive army with colossus vanguard against the enemies on battlefield...
Well, I am hearing that AoM probably has much promising future than a simple Definitive Edition, and after watching AoE4 trailer, I'm hoping that my childhood fantasy may come true.
@@MrREAPERsz the TC mecanic in Aom makes the game far more complex that the aoe TC mecanic, cause they are always on strategic places and fight for them I really fun.
And the gold mecanic makes the game long as far as you want, I had competitive games that last like 1 and a half hour and never stop being so fun and hard to play.
Watch a Matreuss game or a Boit video and youll see what im taking about
Because of CPU/RAM limitation for that times.....Try to create 6 vs 6 with middle battle and play deathmach,and wait for fight ....fps will drop to 15 or less.You can not play normaly 6 v6 on old desktop pc from 2000s
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For the algorithm
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I played this game when I was 12 years old, and it made me really happy, the setting, the characters, the aesthetics, the music, the campaign is very good and it also had a lot of information about the history and mythology. beautiful game. I hope they release a definitive edition, and a sequel :)
You can play extended edition. I got back into it after picking up the game at 12 and playing for a couple years. I just returned this summer thanks to a tournament video I came across. It has been fun.
We need more mythology rts
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We need AoM Definitive Edition!!
we deserve one after years of dealing with ee bullshit
I still play everyday, and I'm serious. it's my zen treat of the day
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The soundtrack tho... its just amazing
It still saddens me that this game got virtually left behind while everyone slobbers all over AOE2. I'm glad it gets some recognition, even if it isn't by much. Maybe it was the less than stellar remaster and the disastrous final expansion, but I dont know, I just wish it were bigger - and had more of a scene. Its just more fun when every faction isn't exactly the same with a few bits swapped in and out.
I would've focused more on the asymmetrical aspect of the factions - how different the resource gathering, pop management, structure building and research all are between the faction. To some players like myself, this is what keeps the game interesting, while AOE2 feels like a samey snoozefest.
You missed out on that DLC though. Totally worth it on sale. Most of the campaign is unbelievably bad to the point of comedy. The voice acting, awful scripting, attempts at matching the original game's ambitions, it's great. The chinese faction could've been worse too... slightly...
Hopefully AoM get's it's own definitve edition, now that all AoE games are done :)
You haven't seen the "Rise of Empires" commercial?
It was one of the ads I got on this video.
It was announced that thre ill be an AoM DE after AoE 4 is released. So there is a lot of time left to wait, but maybe end of this year or next year i still believe there will be an AoM DE
@@Marinealver Rise of Empires has absolutely nothing to do with Age of Empires or Ensemble Studios.
@@dudurex8009 yeah but wtf is AOE 4 coming out lol
Even though UA-cam is somewhat over saturated with gaming content, I still think your style, content and approach will have an impact. I can definitely see this channel growing a lot coming months. (I, for one, already subscribed.)
Ironically I came across a video from 5 years ago wherein the guy said "reviewing games in UA-cam is dead."
Thanks mate - appreciate it!
@@Zade_95 we appreciate you! you're my goto guy for in-depth, entertaining, funny and smart RTS talk. Amazing content!
@Talion Ranger The OP didn't say there's anything wrong with it, but too much of the same thing (that's what oversaturated means). Too many guys doing the same type of content.
@Talion Ranger Still doesn't mean what you think it means.
The Chinese DLC is ok. It feels more like a mod than a studio made add-on though, which if you look back through all the developer posts before it came out... it basically is a mod because of how hard the engine is to work with.
The campaing doesn't work in chinese gameplay. I was playing a level and the AI was spawning hundreds of units. It made impossible...
The enemy mainland was fully occupied with units. This is real...
Personally I was pretty disappointed, it felt too cheap, too generic, too much like a player made mod. I think the DLC actually makes the game worse. And that's coming from someone who regularly buys DLC's
@@reistje If i know how terrible that DLC is i wouldn't waste my money on it. The extended edition is good enough.
The extra units added in the DLC is bs.
I know AOM has some relation with AOE but that DLC is clearly just AOE theme put into AOM. It messed up the flavor of AOM in a bad way.
Wasn't it made by some random Chinese developer?
Tales of the Dragon is messed up. It's like somebody just collected poorly made maps from Steam Workshop and published them as a 20 Euro DLC.
monkas
Seems to be standard business practices with mobile games.
@@Zade_95 I think it's worth getting it only on sale. It spices up the game just enough. However, the campaign is pure garbage and many of the units are reskinned versions of existing units or of each other. The Titan also looks like shit.
@@augustodaro2208 the titan is Pangu, an actual character from Chinese mythology. Better than the Greek titan and his goofy run imo
@@JaylukKhan I’m aware of who he’s meant to be. Doesn’t change the fact that he’s poorly textured and his model looks terrible.
in terms of the chinese dlc, we dont talk about the chinese dlc!
Golden Rule of playing AOM: Never EVER talk about Chinese DLC!
Did it release a virus on the AOM world.
@@graememarr2637 shhhh
@@WhiteVampire888 is it that bad
@@kaldrdoombringer7246 story worse than twilight, i mean it. balancing out the window. most of the sounds are legit copied from other units that were already in the game. if you play cs the ai on one of the new maps, they dont know how to attack (that might have been fixed). its even annoying that in the main menu they implemented their own shitty main menu song. i could go on. but you know... shhhhhh ;)
Just saw this after they have announced AoM retold... better late then never aye mate.
I wanted to Major in Classical Civilization because of this game. Took it for A-Levels around it's release, but the University I ended up going to in the US didn't offer it, so now I have a History Degree, probably thanks to Age of Empires II. I ended up moving towards contemporary multilateralism career wise, so thank the gods for AOE.
Custom scenarios is the best part: one could say that AoE2 have a ton of custom maps, but are just a tiny tiny tiny bit compared to AoM. The new mechanics allow for many fun scenarios, I specially loved Olympics and Tiny maps. Also, the campaign is the MOST ICONIC of all, at the same level of the ones of Age of Kings!
Grave dug
The AOM custom map making community back in the day was second to none. Something AoE2 has always been missing
The good old Majestic AoM❤:')
And dude, you are so wrong about the campaing!!!! I still enjoy going through it once a year!
Strangely enough, the story of the campaign was one of the biggest selling points for me. I really enjoyed it.
AoM campaign and WC3 campaign is my entire childhood. Heroes of might and magic 3 aswell
The story is great. The best campaign in the franchise in my opinion. The probem is its scenarios: after the troy part, it becomes monotonous "build a base and destroy the enemy". Unlike in aoe2 and aoe3 where you have to do other things like recruiting other factions, defending, succeeding in setting up a trade route, converting units or buildings, taking over spots, etc.
Well, it can't be "as good as you remember" if you never stopped playin'!
Some of the campaign missions were so much fun that I would replay those rather than multiplayer because they were so satisfying
I owe all my knowledge of history, mythology, geography and philosophy to this game, I was 7 when it showed me how intriguing and amazing these things are. Ironically, I really suck at it when playing online, I was more interested in the campaign and in building little cities and armies as a kid.
You just described me in your comment as well!
Anyone remember the flying purple hippos cheat codes? Best part of the game
Thank you algorithm.
This Game has such a great OST, "Eat your potatoes" is my favorite. Great video man.
I greatly enjoy the title theme "A cat named Mittens".
thank you! praise the algo
Absolutely loved both the original and Atlantan campaign. I found Arkantos’ journey to be epic and entertaining
PROSTAGMA?
Panee
The problem with the Chinese release was that they introduced bugs that affected the entire game. Want to click on the red exclamation mark on the unit box? Crash to desktop. Random stuff popping up in your production box in the lower left? Yeah you have to deal with it. Random unit animations breaking? Lighting changes from the eclipse god power causing the world to end? Yeah.
I understand that they have patched many of these issues out, but for the love of God it was almost unplayable, and many glitches can still be identified that weren't present in the disk set. It feels like the QA for a freaking microsoft team was non-existent
I dream of Age of Mythology II, that would be amazing.
I don't know how prominent it was at the time. However one thing I always apreciated was how the music felt dynamic.
Every time you attacked a fortress or a city center, the music would become epic and unique.
My other experiences with it are in BFME and Total War, so I can't tell whether other franchises have done the same.
Stronghold does a similar thing - makes it feel very alive
Just seeing the Buzz Lightyear TV cartoon made me feel old as hell XD
Throwback city
I still remember my first aoe1 game when I was little
It goes like this
I know nothing about the game
After 15-30 minutes finally figured out you chop trees
And the next thing I see an automatic moving catapult that distroyed everything and m trying to escape with the last villager only to end up in enemy land and get destroyed 😂👌
Still remember it crystal clear 💗💗💗
I remember making trebuchets the first time and taking people out at distance. Felt so damn cool
I remember playing this game and Rome total war way back in the days when they came out. They both taught me history and ancient mythology, esp AoM. I disagree with the campaign being a 12year old kid playing this it was so awesome esp for it's time AoM had its spot at one of the best RTS for it's time, they were competing with huge titles such as Cossacks, Starcraft and Warcraft.. I've played Cossacks back to war, AoE2, Starcraft 1, Warcraft 1-3, CaC Red alert 1-2 back in the days and none of theese games can be compared to the campaign and story in AoM exept Wc3 wich really brought the RTS genre to the next level.
I'd take AOEM over RA3
My biggest problem with these early 3D RTS titles is that the unit-to-map/building/tree scale is stupid. The unites are massive, while the geography/buildings/trees are tiny in comparison. Warcraft 3 is the worst offender, but AoM is also quite bad. AoE2 is so much less offensive in this regard and thus aged way better.
Yeah scale in 3d rts's used to annoy me so much lol. Empire Earth 2 was particularly bad
I could agree about the houses (even though it's not THAT bad/I've seen way worse... *cough* Cossacks *cough* )
But the trees !?! Just look at the game... AoM is the least offensive of any Age of game in that regard (yes, including AoE2, even without the mod that reduces trees sizes that all the high level players use)
AoM Retold is coming, anyone here because of that?
The people who didn't play this game, never had experienced real fun.
So cool the community is still alive :P
I really liked the campaign, maybe because i played it as a child but it gave me the same feeling I had when I read about the greek heroes and gods for the first times.
I mean, everyone knows about athena, zeus, achilles or heracles, but we all have that day when we decide to look a little deeper in their stories and read for the first time his many stories and be amazed. AOM campaign gave me that feeling. I knew about the story of atlantis and most of the characters present, but its original twist gave me the need to know more and complete it
Tale of the dragon is not worth it for the campaign if that's your jam but it's fun to add if you play a lot of multiplayer because it adds some diversity if you've been playing the game for 18 years now
They fixed a lot of the game on the last few patchs, it had serious problems before, like workers and bullcarts getting stuck inside gold mines
Can`t fix tale of the dragon thou
Sure you can. Pull a AOE2 and rewrite the campaign. They did that for several of their campaigns and honestly they got better, even if I enjoyed the originals.
That Chinese "dlc" is a buggy, unbalanced, fan mod with a tag price. It shouldn't really be considered cannon. It's also probably why the game is going to be dying in the future, as it breaks a lot of things in the core mechanics and introduces tons of glitches.
I’ve played AoM Chinese. The campaign audio is broken and the voice acting is all over the place. It’s slightly more buggy than the original and the Chinese need more balancing to be a right fit. It adds something to enhance the experience and is fun but I totally understand why it’s not interesting to buy
I just brought it to have another faction for multiplayer.
I remember beating the second mission of the main campaign only with villagers , because i hadn't understood that we could advance to a new era
Well, it's getting a definitive edition lol.
Let's gooooo
The campaigns blew my mind. I think they were super interesting and fun. Especially for the time. I was younger as well, sure. But I have super fond memories.
Can we get a damn sequel like this century???
Yeah, tales of the dragon is boring af. I literally couldn't finish the campaign without cheats due to how artificially difficult or just boring some missions were
How do the Chinese play in Skirmish/Multiplayer, though? I know they can be a bitch to fight against (so much cavalry and those damn Chu-ko-nu), but that's it.
The Scout is only 1 pop, which can lead to an enormus cav army. Call at arms gives early map control. The god power in 3. Age is uproot and destroys buildings very fast...
@@HoltzWorks I think they're a ton of fun, Nu Wa is an unstoppable steamroller
who tf even plays the campaign? It's just fun to play Chinese vs the other four civs.
I absolutely loved the campaign in AoM.
AoM is one of my favorite games from childhood. It is still very special to me today and I always prefered it over AoE 2 (which I still love very much) even though I played AoE 2 before AoM. Always loved the campaign and its characters, and spent some amazing time online back then, with all the amazing scenarios created by talented people. Cannibal survival, Build your Titan, Sumo-minotaur, Mutation, Cats and mouse, Gods are watching, RPG... There was even a Sim simulator for 6 hours long games ! So much amazing creators.
This game was perfect, it taught and laid the foundation of mythology for me and after that I've never stopped reading, watching and learning mythology of different cultures and now I love to pass the knowledge.
This is the only game that let's you summon a flying Canadian laser bear.
we need more of these games
Prostagma
That brought back memories. I enjoyed Age of Mythology given I love history and the different cultures. The music was nice to listen to and the creatures you could get were fun.
Okay, I'm extremely late to the party, but I didn't know this could be played on Steam. On the bright side at least, I know what I'm doing with my week now. ^_^
have a good week brother
Bro I'm so sad watching this. Nostalgia games hold such a place in my heart.
Every weekend I used to go down to my grandad's house. He used to have an old computer that could run Age of empires, populas, alien nations, DK2. So we used to play them together.
He's been gone now for about 6 years but man this sort of stuff brings back way more than just nostalgia for games.
the time has come)))))))
When I was A kid use to spend all of my Summer Vacation just to play AoM and Red Alert. Miss being a Kid being an adult sucks.
My impressions from revisiting this game recently:
- Campaign: Great! Very good, especially the OG one.
- Gameplay: Pretty good, but worse than AOE 2 and 3.
- Unit pathing: Trash
- Controlls: Pretty bad
- Music: Great
- PvP: Good, but still worse than the AOE games
Overall it's still a solid game, but I believe the campaign was the best part of it. I still think AOE 2 and 3 are better games overall, but if I revisit Age of Mythology, it's because of the campaign!
My buddies and I still play AoM to this day. It's a staple of the games we play. To me, it'll always be a timeless game that I can go back to no matter how aged it may be to others. It's this game the made me grow to love ancient mythologies and history.
I'd love to see a Definitive Edition of this and a sequal!
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The story isn't very gripping? Why do I get the feeling you're some weeb who thought Neon Genesis Evangelion was really deep? That's like saying the story for Marvel Ultimate Alliance wasn't good, which I've heard other reviewers say too.
don't accuse me of playing anime games mr man 💀
@@Zade_95
Don't accuse one of the more gripping and very interesting stories in the strategy genre of not being just that. Yeah, I get it, it's not The Last of Us before Naughty Dog behaved like naughty dogs and ruined it, but in the context of the strategy game genre how can you not think it's up there? Makes Latter Day Blizzard's nonsense since Heart of the Swarm look like the straight garbage it is. Seriously: at least the final battle against Gargarenthesis was epic, foreshadowed, and built up and had a couple really big twists beforehand. The whole thing with Kerrigan and Mengsk could be summed up with the words, 'Chitinous Mary Sue goes on a whirlwind rampage of revenge and gets her revenge with no significant conflicting obstacles or twists whatsoever. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.' Mengsk didn't even have the cliche, 'Kill me and a device that will nuke this entire planet again will go off and you'll go down with me!' dead-man switch failsafe or really anything once Kerrigan predictably tore down the way to his castle despite having ample time beforehand, knowing full well what Kerrigan with a unified zerg swarm at her back could do, and having a history with really powerful nukes blowing up Korhal and being just the kind of guy willing to burn it all down in a great blaze of irony. When Christopher Lloyd's character from episode six of season three of the Mandalorian does a better job at prepping for a possibly eventuality than Arcturus Mengsk, a slimey weasel who somehow clawed his way to power and remained there despite the events of Starcraft 1 and 2, you know your company's doing it wrong and probably should have sold out to Daddy Microsoft Bucks and King William Gates I a LOOOOONNNNG time ago.
You're growing, I remember subscribing after your Anno 1800 video; keep it up!
Slow and steady, you know how it goes! Appreciate you sticking around mate
AGE OF MYTHOLOGY RETOLD officially coming…soon
I really love this game and i hope to see an another version with a new campaing.
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Yes, you made the correct choice. Tale of the Dragon is trash. The only redeeming quality is the new giant map size. Other than that, the campaign, the new gods, the new powers, it's all lackluster. I even said this in my review on Steam, the campaign seems like it was made by a fan on a lazy weekend but I've played fan campaigns that were 100 times better. I will say however, if you ever see it on sale for like $5 or less, I'd get it just for the new map size and to give the other civs and the campaign a look. But it's not worth full price.
But yeah, if I had to describe a game as the game of my childhood, it'd be Age of Mythology. I fully admit and appreciate that AoE2 is the better game, but AoM will always hold that special place in my heart. Hours upon hours playing, trying to beat missions on the hardest difficulty (btw, the Titan difficulty in AoM is probably the hardest difficulty level I've ever faced in any game ever), my mom yelling at me that it's time for school and I need to get ready but I can't because I'm breaking into Troy. And even today, almost 20 years later, it really hasn't aged that bad. Still play it every now and again.
And lastly, to answer your question at the end: yes, there were plans for an AoM 2. During an AoE 2 tournament on Twitch a few years back, a former dev mentioned it. It was never in full production, but the groundwork was being built in 2007 but sometime in 2008 when it was all but confirmed the studio was shutting down, it was all scrapped. However, for a few years now there have been rumors swirling that a definitive edition of Age of Mythology will be coming, likely after Age of Empires 4. What's more, there have been leaks of surveys and focus groups gauging the interest in an AoM sequel. Is that 100% concrete proof? No, of course not. However, with the old adage "where there's smoke, there's fire", I'd say the smoke is quietly building.
“You ee air” ‘You I are”
This is a game that has united AOE2 and AOE2 players, I mean my first game was AOE2, then I discover AOE3 I used to like both of them and I don't understand why people fighting which game is better and then come AOM ahhh I spend most of hours playing AOM it's really great game, and it deserve serious sequel, I mean not like from 2014 it's shame what they did and that Chines exspansion is so bad...
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lmaooo, wrong again it seems
Age of mythology was the first game I ever played. I loved it so much, I would wake up at 5 am just so I could play for a couple hours before school. I miss it ngl.
Loved this game, being the only one in my elementary school who could beat the campgain was my childhoods crowning achievement lol
my man!
Freesync G-sync Compatible 100hz monitor would be nice, even though the game has no such control over that stuff, the Nvidia Control Panel certainly will. My childhood experience would be as powerful as never before.
You were right to skip it. It was my second most regretted game purchase (2nd to The Order 1886)
I wish the order was good 😭 such a good art style
You definitely made the right choice re the shitty Chinese expansion. I bought it when I got the extended edition steam version, caught up in the heady anticipation of plunging afresh into a childhood favourite. Imagine my reaction when I fired up the new Chinese campaign, and found the fist cutscene (or maybe it was the faction intro video), rather than ending like you expect a cinematic too literally just kept going for minutes, without voiceover, until some units had destroyed a building or something, like they'd forgotten to end the cinematic. Or just couldn't be bothered. It was then I knew I had made a mistake.
IIRC it was basically something they outsourced to some unknown Chinese studio for a quick buck, and said Chinese studio put so little effort into to hence the above.