The beginning says it all: "When we first started the company I wanted a less corporate environment..." :) And that's one of the reasons it was so good.
and look at what it became, the most corporate industry by far. and the most stupid audience which supports almost everything :/ I really hope it turns around again but we have indis, the true hope
AoE2 is still alive with a large audience on Twitch and UA-cam with big tournaments. This game was my childhood favorite and it still inspires me. It throws me back in the good old days, when things were simpler. Nothing like it and I regret that will never be able to come back to this time...
Dude, back in 2001, I discovered that you could listen to the soundtrack by putting the CD-ROM into a CD player. I listened to it during the entire 3 hour drive from Seattle to Vancouver, WA. One of my fondest memories. It's such a good soundtrack.
Peterson has a YT channel. Whenever he talks about the Doom days, he mentions Tim "the snake" Willits, who supposedly fucked over American McGee (who later got his name slapped on Alice) by giving him bad advice that infuriated John Carmack. The good old drama days.
This game was such a hype at the internet cafe, we had Lan games all the time. One of my favourite memories from gaming all around comes from this. So we playing 2vs2vs2 in a map where all the surrounding was a big forest . So the battles were happening in the middle. Back and forth, attacking and losing, going back to defence all the time . And because of the endless wood supply + marketplace, we just kept reinforcing our troops in the middle, all 3 teams . After 2 hours I get the idea of how to do backdoor . I get a catapult with fire and start shooting down trees,making a path towards the enemy base. When I estimate that I might be close enough, my teammate sends all his troops there and I keep fighting on mid to not give any hints. I lose my troops in mid so now the other 2 teams fight themselves. When our army was full and close to the fire catapult in the woods,we shoot down the last part of wood and end up on his villagers. By the time he realises what we doing half of his base is gone and his teammate has all his armies at the middle. And that’s how we defeat the first team. The whole place went crazy. Morale was on our side and from all the laughing and jumping around we defeated the second team aswell. When I meet some of these friends we still sometimes talk about “THAT” map. Crazy… anyway , sry for the long comment . But AoE was one of my first games ever , and the memories is like from a previous lifetime. Can’t relive that for sure. And I don’t think I have to either. It’s perfect as it was. Peace
Thing is, I don't think they cared for the customers and they didn't have to. They enjoyed their own product and made it so good that everybody wanted it, then sold it for money. As the customer, I didn't want to be cared for - I wanted a good game. And I wanted to not be kicked in the balls. The care about the product is what makes all the difference here. Customers will follow suit if the game is good.
@@LootFragg I know what you're saying but I feel like they do care about their customers or did anyway because it's the customers it allows them to keep doing what they're doing they definitely cared about the product and released an amazing game that being said you can't release a product like that without having some thought to your customer base aka the people they're going to be playing the game they had a Beta release from what I understand you can't do that without customers however I do agree that there is way more love and care put into the game than the customers
When Nerds were the creators. Now it's suits, and ESG. Being born in 1970 is bittersweet. I got handed PONG as a kid and that led to the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Aplle IIc and so on. I saw a really cool hobby that got you beaten up for engaging in turn into, whatever the hell this industry is now.
I was born in '88, but played my first game on an Atari ST at just 3 years old. (I loved the Taito games; Parasol Stars in particular. I should go back and play that for the nostalgia...) Needless to say, "saw a really cool hobby that got you beaten up for engaging in, turn into whatever the hell this industry is now" is my experience too lol. I originally wanted to be a game programmer, but I'm currently a software dev for ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. I can't say the passion is still the same as it would have been if I had followed my original plan, but I think maybe living through the changes from the inside out would have done something to me too.
And then in 2009, while halfway through development of Halo Wars, Microsoft announced their studio would be shut down once Halo Wars released. Instead of sulking and sabotaging the game, they put everything they had into making the final project.
The original Age of Kings AI was actually pretty good. If there was no allegiance or teams set, they would sometimes send you a message like, I will join you for 500 of every resource. Or they would bully you like, send me 200 wood or I attack you. And I don't know what happened, but after some patch, years after the expansion, the AI was just bad. Now everyone says oh the AI was always bad. No, not like this. They used to build complex walls on medium and now, medium is just dumb. if you set no teams, they all gang up on you like they are in 1 team which is not right. Something really got messed up down the line. Currently, some new AI has been made which is almost as good as back then.
If anyone isnt aware, there is still an incredibly active multiplayer scene for aoe2. You can find a match anytime in under a minute. Its more active than most modern games. Fair warning, though. Youre going to get absolutely curb stomped for the 10 matches required to give you a rating. Theres a small chance youll be facing another noob, so you might get lucky and have a chance, but most players are either really deep in the metagame, or theyve been playing for 20+ years. Do not let it get you down. Id suggest picking a civ, memorizing the build order for a fast castle age and practicing against the computer until you can beat the extreme ai. Its legitimately one of the best competitive games ever made.
@@hydro3672 online matches go hard and fast, I've been playing since the 90's off and on and I still get my ass handed to me in record time, still fun though
"A less corporate environment." the fucking holy grail of answers. this is the answer, friends. the only way to bring gaming back to how it was is to all unite against the corporations. this means something akin to alliance and horde joining to fight a common ally
Our generation experienced a massive change in culture and technology within a very, very short period of time. Among that, many good things were lost, many bad things became not necessarily more common, but ever present in the knowledge of their existence, and for most of us, change was out of our hands. We went from simple times of outdoor fun and youthful ignorance, to having the weight of the world on our shoulders with information that spreads at the speed of light from it's happening across the globe. Idk, it makes sense to me that we reminisce more than other generations might.
Age of Empires II is an absolutely legendary, timeless gem of a game. It still has a dedicated community and e-sports scene, and it's still receiving developer updates to this day.
@@gwanael34 a lot of people buy over priced clothes just because of the brand. There's kind of a whole market for them, if no one bought it then that wouldn't exist...
I agree. Late 90s and early 2000s were the good old days of LAN parties, I'd say 1999 for games but I definitely get why you say 1998. Gotta admit that destroying people with a well-placed shock combo or flak shell is hard to beat😁
@@gustru2078 Thinking of some favs from 98; Might&Magic 6, Unreal, Half Life etc. but it was almost my first year with broadband internet. I had like a 5-10ms ping with online games and others were at 256, sorry.
Oh man, as an animator in AAA game dev, those models and rigs trigger the heck outta me. haha! God tools have gotten so much better. I just wish the minds pushing the games were as good and passionate as the old days.
@@c_m00 Yeah, saying from a consumer point; graphics and modelling aren't always the "star" of the product, evidently. But given, when combined in a smart way, they could make a masterpiece... Still waiting for a such game tho..
@@c_m00 oh they definitely worked well with what they had. I was using the same ole rig and 3ds max, when I went to my crappy school and it was soul draining.
Game industry is full of green haired loons and professional victims. They infect games with their politics and refuse to work the overtime their contracts state. That's why all new games are late and substandard.
o7 to the good old days. I was born in 1990 and i think it was the perfect time for me. Got to live a real childhood playing outside with stick and stones or whatever we came up with. No social media bs, or smart phones. I think i was in my 5th grade when i got my first mobile phone that was the Nokia 3310
Compaq Presario. That was my comp. LOL. Dial-up 56k net. Very fortunate to have that. It was BIG TIME during that era ha. Now I'm playing WoW classic era for first time, and I feel like I'm right back to being ood. lmao.
Only One-Company i know of that does this still to this day: Frost Giant Studios - a bunch of RTS veterans (ex blizz employees that made wc3 and sc2) making stormgate (a new rts) and still playing in house tournaments and stuff like that :)
I miss the days when The Zone and WON network were used for multiplayer lobbies. Made a ton of friends back then. Haven’t talked to any of them in forever.
When I was around 5 my mum's friends younger brother was about 18 and playing age of empires in the living room. It blew my mind. I watched him play it for hours, and it started my love for strategy gaming and I haven't looked back since. He committed suicide around 2 years later, so I never got to thank him for introducing me to the genre. RIP marky
So I never played actual AoE, but I played the HELL out of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which was literally just the AoE 2 engine with a star wars skin. So many good memories. Still have it and play it on occasion to this day.
idk why, but the long, no interruptions lead up to that absolute CLASSIC of an Asmon line @ 9:14 -- that got me good, havent laughed that hard in awhile lol
12:30 I used to crab-crawl the arrow keys like this dude, it wasn't until WoW.exe that I used wasd From 1993 Doom - 2005 wow, it was always arrow keys, wasd only came when I needed 1-10 spell bars
whats also crazy is going from grabbing an AOE2 cd off the shelves every 6 months (cause it gets scratched) to halo 2 xbox online to games now, it happened really fast. like really really fast.
Warcraft 1 had a warning that it was not compatible with Windows 3.1, I decided to try running it anyways to see it crash (on the off chance that it would work). It corrupted the system files somehow, had to clean install dos to get the system back to working condition.
I think gaming was better back in the day, I am an old man(43) so I experienced the beginning to the golden age to the current day and I can say that games were better back then because they were about cranking out a fun product for people to buy, that's not the case today, not at all, at least in my opinion.
I was 10 when this game came out, I used to go by my friends house to play. It was him and me vs his dad. His dad was merciless, I think he went 57 - 0 against us.
I recently applied to be a play tester if the Age of Empire Legends so they definitely still playtest the testing their games before it comes out unlike most big companies these days.
The golden age of gaming was around when these guys made that amazing game, which was between the time when only engineers could make games and when businessmen started directing how games should be made.
You guys need to have in mind that, release a game back then was a one shot thing, you cant release a game into the stores and after that a patch that fix some glitch or bug, once its done. Its done.
Ensemble Studios being shut down was a shocking decision by Microsoft. All their games were excellent and commercially successful. One thing that was nice to hear is that the employees that lost their jobs with the end of Ensemble got pretty strong redundancy packages.
Remember when gaming was centralized around gamers who made games for other gamers who loved gaming? Duke 3D was a masterpiece. Dialing in to my friends kitchen phone to play deathmatches after school is a memory I wish all kids had these days.
Age of Empires II was the first game I ever played on a PC. My older cousin had it on her old computer and ended up giving it to me cuz of how much I loved the game.
The beginning says it all: "When we first started the company I wanted a less corporate environment..." :)
And that's one of the reasons it was so good.
110%
and look at what it became, the most corporate industry by far. and the most stupid audience which supports almost everything :/
I really hope it turns around again
but we have indis, the true hope
They sold out for $100 million in 2001 and closed in 2008.
@@TheHalo294 yes and one person that made that happen was Bobby Kotick, that guy ruined the industry for real, and he is still doing it
@@TheHalo294not while these guys were in control. They sold.
Look at these guys, true nerds. Titans of the industry fueled by passion.
And they sold out.
Kings
Something no one has left in the industry
The nerd force is with them, always
Nerds GIGACHAD
AoE2 is BACK in 2023 and the community is thriving as well! Crazy how far we have come since these days.
You are great T90! Love your videos!
AoE2 is still alive with a large audience on Twitch and UA-cam with big tournaments. This game was my childhood favorite and it still inspires me. It throws me back in the good old days, when things were simpler. Nothing like it and I regret that will never be able to come back to this time...
Really sad that t90 moved to facebook and thus can't do any more Hidden Cups. Those were the best.
Bro look at all the smiles and all the fun they were having st their meeting. Beautiful to see.
Dude, back in 2001, I discovered that you could listen to the soundtrack by putting the CD-ROM into a CD player. I listened to it during the entire 3 hour drive from Seattle to Vancouver, WA. One of my fondest memories. It's such a good soundtrack.
@@Jonathanloh1992 I felt that when I built a PC about two years ago. It made me feel old 😂
The soundtrack is absolutely stunning, goosebumps to this day.
Bruh! I forgot about that feature! I did that too, except I was driving to Wisconsin :D
I discovered this with a V-Rally 2 CD, with a protable CD player that you coudn't move or the music would cut, ahhh... a simpler better time...
brb, searching AoE 2 soundtrack video to listen to, thx for reminding
Sandy Petersen??? that guy made Doom, Quake and boardgames like Cthulhu wars and planet apocalypse, all of these guys are fucking legends.
Peterson has a YT channel. Whenever he talks about the Doom days, he mentions Tim "the snake" Willits, who supposedly fucked over American McGee (who later got his name slapped on Alice) by giving him bad advice that infuriated John Carmack. The good old drama days.
This game was such a hype at the internet cafe, we had Lan games all the time. One of my favourite memories from gaming all around comes from this. So we playing 2vs2vs2 in a map where all the surrounding was a big forest . So the battles were happening in the middle. Back and forth, attacking and losing, going back to defence all the time . And because of the endless wood supply + marketplace, we just kept reinforcing our troops in the middle, all 3 teams . After 2 hours I get the idea of how to do backdoor . I get a catapult with fire and start shooting down trees,making a path towards the enemy base. When I estimate that I might be close enough, my teammate sends all his troops there and I keep fighting on mid to not give any hints. I lose my troops in mid so now the other 2 teams fight themselves. When our army was full and close to the fire catapult in the woods,we shoot down the last part of wood and end up on his villagers. By the time he realises what we doing half of his base is gone and his teammate has all his armies at the middle. And that’s how we defeat the first team. The whole place went crazy. Morale was on our side and from all the laughing and jumping around we defeated the second team aswell. When I meet some of these friends we still sometimes talk about “THAT” map. Crazy… anyway , sry for the long comment . But AoE was one of my first games ever , and the memories is like from a previous lifetime. Can’t relive that for sure. And I don’t think I have to either. It’s perfect as it was. Peace
Early 2000's was an insane era for gaming, especially for PC gamers.
Ya I skipped ps2 gen console for PC gaming then, was a blast.
Strategy games were king of PC game back then, Age of Empire, Starcraft , Command & Conquer and more.
No gaming is shit now. No one can release a game that's finished plus a million micro transactions makes games frustrating as fuck
@@SuperCratoss games like Roller coaster tycoon too
It's amazing when you actually care about the product you're making and the customers you're making it for how much better it turns out
Thing is, I don't think they cared for the customers and they didn't have to. They enjoyed their own product and made it so good that everybody wanted it, then sold it for money. As the customer, I didn't want to be cared for - I wanted a good game. And I wanted to not be kicked in the balls.
The care about the product is what makes all the difference here. Customers will follow suit if the game is good.
@@LootFragg I know what you're saying but I feel like they do care about their customers or did anyway because it's the customers it allows them to keep doing what they're doing they definitely cared about the product and released an amazing game that being said you can't release a product like that without having some thought to your customer base aka the people they're going to be playing the game they had a Beta release from what I understand you can't do that without customers however I do agree that there is way more love and care put into the game than the customers
When Nerds were the creators. Now it's suits, and ESG. Being born in 1970 is bittersweet. I got handed PONG as a kid and that led to the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Aplle IIc and so on. I saw a really cool hobby that got you beaten up for engaging in turn into, whatever the hell this industry is now.
I was born in '88, but played my first game on an Atari ST at just 3 years old. (I loved the Taito games; Parasol Stars in particular. I should go back and play that for the nostalgia...)
Needless to say, "saw a really cool hobby that got you beaten up for engaging in, turn into whatever the hell this industry is now" is my experience too lol. I originally wanted to be a game programmer, but I'm currently a software dev for ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.
I can't say the passion is still the same as it would have been if I had followed my original plan, but I think maybe living through the changes from the inside out would have done something to me too.
Nerds today are not same…
in what way
Alot of nerds are the same, but they are trapped in a red taped corporate prison. The people running the show aren't these types of people.
@@Nostradevus1 which should be taken as an encouragement for nerds to start running the show again
And then in 2009, while halfway through development of Halo Wars, Microsoft announced their studio would be shut down once Halo Wars released. Instead of sulking and sabotaging the game, they put everything they had into making the final project.
The original Age of Kings AI was actually pretty good. If there was no allegiance or teams set, they would sometimes send you a message like, I will join you for 500 of every resource. Or they would bully you like, send me 200 wood or I attack you. And I don't know what happened, but after some patch, years after the expansion, the AI was just bad. Now everyone says oh the AI was always bad. No, not like this. They used to build complex walls on medium and now, medium is just dumb. if you set no teams, they all gang up on you like they are in 1 team which is not right. Something really got messed up down the line. Currently, some new AI has been made which is almost as good as back then.
If anyone isnt aware, there is still an incredibly active multiplayer scene for aoe2. You can find a match anytime in under a minute. Its more active than most modern games.
Fair warning, though. Youre going to get absolutely curb stomped for the 10 matches required to give you a rating. Theres a small chance youll be facing another noob, so you might get lucky and have a chance, but most players are either really deep in the metagame, or theyve been playing for 20+ years.
Do not let it get you down. Id suggest picking a civ, memorizing the build order for a fast castle age and practicing against the computer until you can beat the extreme ai.
Its legitimately one of the best competitive games ever made.
that's hype I've been wanting to try the age of empires games out
@@hydro3672 online matches go hard and fast, I've been playing since the 90's off and on and I still get my ass handed to me in record time, still fun though
This hit me with wave after wave of powerful nostalgia. It was fun to see Asmongold react how he did to everything
15:35 I see an Evangelion figure with the old style positron rifle.
"A less corporate environment."
the fucking holy grail of answers. this is the answer, friends. the only way to bring gaming back to how it was is to all unite against the corporations. this means something akin to alliance and horde joining to fight a common ally
seeing those sneak peeks at what they were working on for Age of Mythology in this video was a treat ngl
dude that danger room with all the PC's and observation monitors was so badass,
more than 24 years later and it is still on top 50 daily most played games on steam chart with 20k daily players, what an legend
Cause it got remastered and has a thriving e sports scene
@@Gecko.... No one actually plays the remaster lol
@@shabut yeah they do
@@shabut Everyone plays the definitive edition.
@@soklot I prefer remaster lol
I still have both of my Ages of Empires Ii boxes too. AoE2 WAS my childhood.
This video brought a tear to my eyes, it made me so happy to see a old man be able to relieve his child hood even after all this time.
I feel like people our age are constantly overwhelmed with nostalgia. I never hear my parents or older generation reminise as much as our generation.
Our generation experienced a massive change in culture and technology within a very, very short period of time. Among that, many good things were lost, many bad things became not necessarily more common, but ever present in the knowledge of their existence, and for most of us, change was out of our hands. We went from simple times of outdoor fun and youthful ignorance, to having the weight of the world on our shoulders with information that spreads at the speed of light from it's happening across the globe. Idk, it makes sense to me that we reminisce more than other generations might.
Age of Empires II is an absolutely legendary, timeless gem of a game. It still has a dedicated community and e-sports scene, and it's still receiving developer updates to this day.
the guy who invnted the ball for the mouse lived next to me after his retirement.
Bruce Shelley also worked on the original Civilization with SId Meier.
That second designer Sandy Petersen is the guy that designed the Call of Cthulhu RPG epic!
Those were the days... Never again will life be so fckn good...
Back in the days people where not stupid enough to pay 100$ for T-shirt they wear at work. Long gone are the days of common sense.
Lmao as if anyone was doing this.
@@gwanael34 a lot of people buy over priced clothes just because of the brand. There's kind of a whole market for them, if no one bought it then that wouldn't exist...
They also did that back in the days
I liked 90s clothes. Cheap and lasted long time.
@@Jonathanloh1992 Less synthetic and not made in China.
You know..... it's been 25 fucking years and I just realised that the william wallace campaign was a fucking tutorial.
Getting games to work on PC back in the day is how I ended up with my career. Drivers, COM ports, IRQs, .bat files and on and on...
haha
My dad had me read all the backgrounds of every nation in Age of Empire 2.
The late 90's were the best. The gaming/internet world was so fresh and exciting then, especially 1998 for games.
I agree. Late 90s and early 2000s were the good old days of LAN parties, I'd say 1999 for games but I definitely get why you say 1998. Gotta admit that destroying people with a well-placed shock combo or flak shell is hard to beat😁
Never forget Halo.
@@gustru2078 Thinking of some favs from 98; Might&Magic 6, Unreal, Half Life etc. but it was almost my first year with broadband internet. I had like a 5-10ms ping with online games and others were at 256, sorry.
Thanks for giving age of noob some love, he’s been great for the AoE community :)
Oh man, as an animator in AAA game dev, those models and rigs trigger the heck outta me. haha! God tools have gotten so much better. I just wish the minds pushing the games were as good and passionate as the old days.
there's still a charm to some of the old 3d animations though, and some stuff from back then i prefer to some of the really bad animations made today.
@@c_m00 Yeah, saying from a consumer point; graphics and modelling aren't always the "star" of the product, evidently. But given, when combined in a smart way, they could make a masterpiece... Still waiting for a such game tho..
@@c_m00 oh they definitely worked well with what they had. I was using the same ole rig and 3ds max, when I went to my crappy school and it was soul draining.
Game industry is full of green haired loons and professional victims. They infect games with their politics and refuse to work the overtime their contracts state. That's why all new games are late and substandard.
Please take me back to this era
Age of Empires 2 is still alive today! the Remaster of it is outstanding
Would LAN this game so much with my friends back in the day. Memories of all the treaties and backstabbing. Custom game matches were also fire too.
Back when devs played their own games during development, nowadays feels like they have 0 attatchment to what they make.
When games were made by Giga-nerds FOR Giga-nerds
the world we once lived in is gone, men.
It's true and people will say rose tinted glasses and some bullshit like that but times really were simpler
ah yes, the good old days when Genghis Khan literally wiped half of the world during the GLORIOUS CONQUEST!
o7 to the good old days. I was born in 1990 and i think it was the perfect time for me. Got to live a real childhood playing outside with stick and stones or whatever we came up with.
No social media bs, or smart phones. I think i was in my 5th grade when i got my first mobile phone that was the Nokia 3310
@fumanchu168 who
It's ever changing like water is always flowing and every atom in your body changed in a few years.
Compaq Presario. That was my comp. LOL.
Dial-up 56k net. Very fortunate to have that. It was BIG TIME during that era ha.
Now I'm playing WoW classic era for first time, and I feel like I'm right back to being ood. lmao.
the first Age of Empires is still my favorite
I remember when u bought a magazine and would come with bunch of demos free
No ESG, just authentic nerds making legendary games.
Only One-Company i know of that does this still to this day: Frost Giant Studios - a bunch of RTS veterans (ex blizz employees that made wc3 and sc2) making stormgate (a new rts) and still playing in house tournaments and stuff like that :)
This reminds me of a video game design camp I went to as a 90's kid. Thank you for this
Nerds driven by passion, not greed or ideology.
Thank you for countless hours of historized nice fun with campaigns, against frieds in a lan party, and 1000 hours in the editor
I miss the days when The Zone and WON network were used for multiplayer lobbies. Made a ton of friends back then. Haven’t talked to any of them in forever.
Asmon playing the new Age of Empire or Civilization would be a series I could get behind.
When I was around 5 my mum's friends younger brother was about 18 and playing age of empires in the living room. It blew my mind. I watched him play it for hours, and it started my love for strategy gaming and I haven't looked back since. He committed suicide around 2 years later, so I never got to thank him for introducing me to the genre. RIP marky
The cheat code went from "allyourbasearebelongtous" to "allyourbankbalancebelongtocompany"
7:50 I actually had to check and adjust my posture as I watched this guy
6:57
Hold my drink im gonna speed run this. - gaming industry
That music is iconic. Immediately recognizable
Remember when the only PATCH or UPDATE was to add an expansion with new maps/units? haha! These were the days... :)
I forgot how good this OST was... nostalgia hittin hard.
So I never played actual AoE, but I played the HELL out of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, which was literally just the AoE 2 engine with a star wars skin. So many good memories. Still have it and play it on occasion to this day.
These are the true internet wizards.
Been watching some of T90 lately and thinking about buying AoE2 DE and WC3 again as well... glad asmon watching AoE content
if you are a fan of AoE2, you just have to buy AoE2DE. you will fall off your chair how good it is even today. better than ever!
Back when gaming had a soul
and no liberal brain washed out of university SJW purple haired and hentai loving freaks on the board.
back when only white men companies were a thing
idk why, but the long, no interruptions lead up to that absolute CLASSIC of an Asmon line @ 9:14 -- that got me good, havent laughed that hard in awhile lol
12:30 I used to crab-crawl the arrow keys like this dude, it wasn't until WoW.exe that I used wasd From 1993 Doom - 2005 wow, it was always arrow keys, wasd only came when I needed 1-10 spell bars
8:07 my parents still have that kind of a keyboard from Microsoft, still works like a charm
Man I really miss ensemble. More so now seeing how cool they were
*_Sandy Petersen? Call Of Cthulhu, Chaosium Sandy Petersen?_*
I got to give credit to Age of Empires, I passed middle school history with out ever opening my book because of this game.
whats also crazy is going from grabbing an AOE2 cd off the shelves every 6 months (cause it gets scratched) to halo 2 xbox online to games now, it happened really fast. like really really fast.
I got the original AoE CD-ROM in a box of cereal. Best breakfast I've ever had.
Cell phones and high speed internet has destroyed everything
I still have my physical copy of Age of Empires II 🤣🤣
Warcraft 1 had a warning that it was not compatible with Windows 3.1, I decided to try running it anyways to see it crash (on the off chance that it would work). It corrupted the system files somehow, had to clean install dos to get the system back to working condition.
I think gaming was better back in the day, I am an old man(43) so I experienced the beginning to the golden age to the current day and I can say that games were better back then because they were about cranking out a fun product for people to buy, that's not the case today, not at all, at least in my opinion.
In old age that second dude that formed the company flew away with balloons tied to his house.
I was 10 when this game came out, I used to go by my friends house to play. It was him and me vs his dad. His dad was merciless, I think he went 57 - 0 against us.
games come and go but Age of Empires 2 is immortal
3:23 those memories are forever.
1999: “communication, cooperation, and respect”
2023: “communication….. whats that?”
I recently applied to be a play tester if the Age of Empire Legends so they definitely still playtest the testing their games before it comes out unlike most big companies these days.
Age of Empire 2 OST is so good
Man I'd love Asmongold to see the making of Halo 2 as well. That is gold.
These dudes are the forerunners of gaming.
They brought us light in dark times.
They are: THE BROMETHEANS!
Cleaning a ball mouse's rollers = Therapeutic af
"i learned more about history from this than i did from school" dude same! lmao
The golden age of gaming was around when these guys made that amazing game, which was between the time when only engineers could make games and when businessmen started directing how games should be made.
The old days... :(
asmon instantly recognizing ghostcrawler is such a good moment
You guys need to have in mind that, release a game back then was a one shot thing, you cant release a game into the stores and after that a patch that fix some glitch or bug, once its done. Its done.
These people are still around, scattered across the industry. They just traded their passion for money.
There is also one game that is playable even today. Its not real time strategy, its turn based - Heroes of Might and Magic 3. It came also in 1999.
RIP Ensemble Studios, they made Halo Wars before shutting down. Damn you Microsoft.
Ensemble Studios being shut down was a shocking decision by Microsoft. All their games were excellent and commercially successful. One thing that was nice to hear is that the employees that lost their jobs with the end of Ensemble got pretty strong redundancy packages.
3:30 is actually pretty wholesome :)
Imagine being a game company and trying to focus on being the best game company possible instead of being an engine of social change.
Remember when gaming was centralized around gamers who made games for other gamers who loved gaming?
Duke 3D was a masterpiece. Dialing in to my friends kitchen phone to play deathmatches after school is a memory I wish all kids had these days.
Age of Empires II was the first game I ever played on a PC. My older cousin had it on her old computer and ended up giving it to me cuz of how much I loved the game.
I hope to work on something this passionately one day :(
“Are you winning mom?”