@@ChillyEmpire The music is so good, they reused it exactly from 24 years ago and not one soul complained it being a little out of place for today's standards. Loved your life story and AoM influence. Feel like listening to a brother somehow.
@@Iam1nsane Actually in they (the developer team) hired Tilman Sillescu to redo the soundtrack of the original for AoM retold. The new soundtrack is very similar on the surface but there are style difference, and in some tracks the composition and mixing difference actually makes them worse compared to the original ones. Other tracks are different in vibe and feel which is fine and personally a few i kinda like. but overall i think the original soundtrack can't be beat. try and listen to both versions and see for yourself the differences.
Yeah its really subtle unless you pay close attention. It seems to be almost entirely the same soundtrack as base with added... depth. Higher quality samples, bit more echo here and there, stuff like that.
@@sanher20 if age of empires two DE is still pumping out new civs, what stopping mythology from tackling other mythologies in history and even with Freyr they can simply add more to the existing mythologies with more gods from their respective mythologies
Two others are confirmed (Chinese and one another) and I honestly imagine that will be it. It's a ton of work to design entire AoM pantheons vs. e.g. AoE2 civs.
Age of Mythology was the game my dad and I played together. It was through the game that he taught me about different civilizations, myths, histories, and eventually sparked my own interest in how the world works. Our relationship had its ups and down when I was growing up, but every so often we’d fire up the game again and things were better. Easy. I remember making dumb insanely hard maps for him in the editor and we’d spend hours playing vs titan level opponents on Team Migration. Now we just bought Retold together. We haven’t gotten to play it together yet because lives are busy, but I know it’ll be exactly what we always needed it to be. My hope is that the love for this game brings it enough success for expansions and sequels. And hopefully I can play those games with my kid too.
Love that. I was in my late 20s at the time, but this game is my second favorite RTS (first is C&C Generals + GenLauncher with the Contra or The Power of the West extensions).
You know, that feeling when you play game in your childhood and remember, how beautiful it was. And then load this game today and it's ugly 2000's graphics that didn't age well. AOM retold looks excatly how all of us boomers remember original AOM. And this is awesome.
This is seems a conscious strategy on devs part. When i looked at AoE 3 remaster i was like "wait, nothing changed" and then looked at original and it turned out ugly in comparison. AoE 2, 3, Retold, they all look like we wrongly remembered originals looked like. I don't know if it was best choice (i would like to experience "woah its so much better" instead of "yea its just like i remember, but the original is looks like shit somewhy") but it was a decent one and they absolutely achieved it
Didn't know the Devs actually listened and changed the VA and terrible portraits. Honestly just for that I might go and get it both for nostalgia sakes and also to support their efforts and for listening.
I mean.. It's Age of mythology, the most beloved series ever for decades.. They aren't like any game developers of nowadays, they care about their games and their fans
@@hombrejose8164 I don't mind Dionysus and Hera, but I always prefer Hephaestus portrait in the original game.. That red fire makes him look so cool, now he looks like a normal Blacksmith
Wow i had a similar story of how my mom bought age of mythology when I was young when I was at Staples and they had small computer game discs for sale. The only colorful one that stood out from all the others was age of mythology with the beautiful cover art of zues, anubis, and thor. 20 years later I'm still playing it at 25 years of age. I hope the game does well and I hope many new pantheons are added after the Chinese and the expansion 2. Long live AOM.
Age of Mythology Retold has been one of the most fun games I have played this year and just overall pure nostalgia back in the old days. With the New DLCS coming in with set god civilizations what the norse has I'm hoping we see more DLC God Civs for the Atlanteans, Greeks, and the Egyptians. Plus new campaigns like mythical battles as well as the chinese civilizations would keep this game going for many years down the line. Heck Celts in Age of Mythology have always been a wish list of mine for mythical ancient civilization.
31 years old and was waiting for so long for a remake in this quality. A lot of people say that RTS are dead but this, sort of, is because they hadn't listen to community about whats good to keep. AoM retold is a great example for other franchises about if you hear the old and new players, place true effort in renew whats needed you can also introduce new mechanics and concepts
AoM has the only ranked multiplayer that I play solely for fun. I don’t look up optimized build orders. I just do whatever and have fun And yes, I used to watch the original AoM intro on loop. So good.
Has a fond memory of how I discovered AoM too. At school, I snuck away to the printer-room where they had a bag of newspapers, which in boredom I flipped through and saw a article about such a cool upcoming game. I cut out and saved that page. On release I eagerly bought the game, for 499 sᴇᴋ, at Åhléns in Skövde, a city with a old name dedicated to godess Skadi btw. Very grateful and happy about Retold, it's all I could've wished for. And minor details like God-portraits are so easy to mod and replace also.
The biggest turn off for me when it comes to RTS games is that the communities tend to get too competitive, to the point where experiencing the game as a journey falls by the way side in favor of min-maxing. In the case of Age of Mythology, the love of the lore and subject material takes priority over simply playing to win. So it feels more suited to casuals. Even if you just get the game for the purpose of playing the campaign, it's still worth it. I enjoy this game not because it's an RTS - but because it provides a way to bring classic mythology to life, and that is what makes it special. Auto-Queue, Auto-Scout, Auto-Village Priority are also very cool, pleasant QoL's. I'd rather play a game with people who love history and therefore enjoy a game that features said history, versus people who play the game as an E-Sport while not caring about the lore or atmosphere and debating about second-by-second build orders. To me, gaming is all about the richness of perspective, and your story about how AoM helped shape your real-life love of history really resonates. I also think that there's value in Mythology versus more realistic history, because mythology is an interpretive experience. It's a subject material which naturally segways into real history, but it also encourages the individual to think about "why" a culture feels special.
@@AHappyCub Hm it depends imo. When a competitive scene grows naturally, it's an entirely different thing imo than the devs actively trying to push esports
So the toxic competitive scene in RTS can be traced back to Blizzard... They fostered it deliberately. Ironically among the most chill scenes in RTS out there are (NOW) The age of games and the CnC community since their community has to focus more on their real enemy...EA and so spend more time modding and delving into the hilarious stuff from the old RA2 and earlier games. The age of games, on the other hand since they're so historic focused and have so many factions it's very easy to root out whose being a try hard only caring about the win and easy enough to find groups that just care about being fun ... Until a certain Vtuber recreates attack on Titan with elephants... Something I dread to think will repeat but this time with actual titans.
My first Age game was AOE4. While it gives me and my friends incredible experiences, it lacked that extra “oomph” and quirkiness that some of the older RTS games I player had (Generals, SC2, WC3). This was probably why I loved AOE3:DE in particular. However, AOE3 still had that older game jank that sort of brought down the experience. When I saw the AOM:Retold trailer, I was hyped since I immediately recognized that the engine seemed to be an upgraded AOE3:DE engine. The open multiplayer beta also sold me because of how fun and unique the mythologies were. Graphics are great, and the pathfinding was smoother. Instantly bought the premium edition because of it.
There is a lot old game junk in AoMR. It is still good remaster but this legacy stuff and pathfinding problems drive me insane especially in comparison with slick and modern AoE4
I’m so happy you had a similar first experience with this game especially how you felt opening it for the first time This was my first rts game and get so nostalgic over this game and its music
Aside from amazing art, this game forces you expand much more than aoe4. And is overall more dynamic. The hunting, scouting, forward building are all more important and prevalent. This game also is more fun in water maps.
My encounter with Age of Mythology was pretty much just as random. I wasn't keeping myself informed about games as a kid. Sure I used to watch the TV Channel GAME ONE, times to times. But that was about it, and UA-cam didn't exist. I was with my parents on a shopping run, and as I wandered into the video game aisle, I spotted the game cover. I had played Age of Empires 2 beforehand, but didn't hear anything about this "Age of Mythology". Asked my parents to buy it, and quickly fell in love with the game. Big part of my childhood, so happy to have it back once more. This game kickstarted my love for History, real factual one AND mythological one alike. So few games have a whole encyclopedia, bestiary, compendium, whatever you call it written into them. But yeah AoM shaped a lot of the person I grew up to become. It's really one of these games that left its mark on my early life. The campaign was an amazing journey, with central main protagonists and an absolutely divine music. The gameplay was and definitely still is unique and the multiplayer is probably still to this day the only RTS multiplayer I have played a lot of. I am not a competitive player in the slightest, I am not fond of PvP and RTS games tends to have a lot of that in multiplayer mode. But Age of Mythology offered one specific gamemode that made me spend soooo many hours of my childhood into it : Scenario. With the editor, some very talented players were able to create PvE and story mission-like scenarios that were just so much fun to play ! Even some PvP ones that were mostly based on fun than pure skill. It was amazing to log on every day and see what new ideas the players cooked in editor mode.
I’m having the exact same experience currently. Been playing since like… ‘06 when I was a kid and my dad introduced me to it? And I’m now getting a history degree as the culmination of interest that started with AoM and those little encyclopedia entries
Nice video, good job. 👍🏼 I’m Gen Xer who played the shit out of this game when it first came out. I was so happy to see it come back better than ever. Can’t wait to see the DLC they have coming.
Agreed bro, honestly I haven't played an RTS seriously since warcraft 3 and even then I'd mostly play custom maps, this really got me into trying out 1v1's so many builds, so much fun !
Dude, such a complete video. Thank you so much. I love AOM, and I was thinking whether to buy it or not. You helped me make up my mind. Will buy it today!!!! Keep up with the amazing videos!
I didn't feel all powerful because I could use each god power only once, or maybe a couple of times for the weaker ones with the expansion. What I felt the game sorely needed is the ability to spend favour to reactivate god powers rather than making them a one-off, so I'm glad someone finally thought of that.
I love to see videos like this because for a long time i had the feeling that i was alone with my love for this game and how it had a impact in my life. Like you, this game intoduced me to mythology in a way that i never thought and i really went after mythology books, movies, documentaries. Aaaand also, this game seeded my mind with the mith about Atlantis that made me kinda crazy with the possibility of a lost civilization, cut to today, and i have a book published about Atlantis (not like the game, but my take on the subject with conspiracy and fantasy etc). Retold is amazing, the campaing back in the 2000's was life changing and playing again 20 years later in 4k is a nostalgical and emotional trip.
@@Christobanistan I know right? My first contact with AOE (2) was just a few years ago, love all the AOE, after AOMR i'm going to play the first AOE (definitive edition) for the first time. For me AOM has a especial place in my heart because it was the first game that i played as a kid with fully translation and voice over in my language (Brazilian Portuguese).
Im a gen z and i remember playing this on the computer we had in the living room and it was the funnest thing ever Im really happy they did a good job this and lived up to its memory. Also, you did a really good job on its very informational thanks.
Sounds like when my mom let me order AOE2: Conquerors Edition in the school book-order. Ahhh the good ole days 😊 Thats what got me hooked on RTS. I read a short description, saw a cool looking box cover, and was already a medieval freak 😂 i just had to have it.
I personally liked the villager priority, used that a bit while I learned other parts of the game. Once I got a better understanding of the economy, I noticed that I started to override the system. Thats when I realized I was ready to move on and disable it.
In the map builder, Indefinitly made a army of titams just to see the chaos, so a legit way to have a group of titans destroying my enemies. Beautiful.
I got this AoM and Total War Rome at my elementary school’s book fair. They were the only video games being sold there so I instantly gravitated to them. These two games started my love for RTS and grand strategy games, as well as my love of history. I’m so glad both games recently got the updates they deserved.
I never played the original Age of Mythology. It was only recently I started playing games like Dominions 5-6, Deity Empires, Age of Wonders, Age of Empires 2, Heroes of Might and Magic III. But I've always been super interested in stories and myths. That was the reason I started studying literature. So when Age of Mythology: Retold was announced - back when I started playing AOE2 with friends - I was elated. I'm sucker for Dominions [mixing ancient history with traditional mythology], so a RTS with the exact same concept was a dream come true. I really hope we get a Chinese Mythology DLC. I know the one from the Extended release wasn't very popular (and I watched the entirety of your video on how you would design it), but we would really benefit from straying from the pop western myths to get into more eastern mythology (India, China, Japan) or even more niche ones like the Celtic, Voodoo, etc. EDIT: AND I'm super happy AoM:R is more accessible to beginner than esports. I have no skills, ever, and cannot be trusted to become better. So making a game just casual fun is great and a treat for new players.
This came out while I was doing my stint in the Corps. So I didn't really pick it up until after my first combat deployment where the games I snagged... After I of course asked a Best Buy employee "is this a good gaming laptop....". It wasn't. Anywho. Bloodlinrs Age of Mythology Jewel Cases of Fallout 1/2 pack (originals were back in my home state) And Disciples 1/2 I grew up watching Harryhausen. Love stop motion, Jason and the Argonauts is still one of my all time favorite movies. So grew up as a nerd of myths and legends through the 80s, 90s and such. This game quickly became one of my all tike favorites. Combined a favored genre of mine, RTS, with a favored...other...genre... Mythology. The way they handled this Retold? Amazing, and I hope it leads the way to bringing back more traditional style RTS. Even with the new additions as they seem to be more or less optional. Which is how things should be. A toggle or option. Would love to see Rise of Legends and the Dune games get a revival of sorts.
I was so happy with how Retold shaped out to be and was really happy the ai art was changed and the voice lines were msotly rolled back, they did a great job, I also played it on release, played the enhanced version and I am super stoked for future dlc, at time of writing the Immortal Pillars Chinese dlc was revealed and its obvious they have put so much effort into it than just reskinning the chinese faction from enhanced.
Dude everything you said resonates with me on a personal level. This game MADE my childhood, literally shaped me as a person in my interests and that’s no joke lol. Nothing will ever come close to those days playing with my dad via lan connection and begging him not to attack me so I can safeguard my pigs 🤣🤣. Great video dude, PROSTAGMA!
I first became aware of graphics cards as like, a thing, when I installed Age of Mythology on the *family* PC for the first time and it immediately crashed after the opening cinematic for not being DirectX whatever compatible. My dad, instead of upgrading the family pc... Bought my brother and I our first gaming PCs instead. Which could just barely handle AOM. And then I tried to play Arma 1... And it overheated during the campaign 3D cinematic scenes. Another upgrade followed... Fond memories of that era.
As someone who never played the original i have been having so much fun with this game, i never had a pc as a kid that could run games like this so to be able to play a remastered version as an adult has been amazing
Aoe4 is a dead game since it was born. It is too ugly as RTS. We all hoped for a great rts when it was online but it was a istant diarrea. I think it will be really fool for a company to invest in age4
I mean it still got massive balance patch a little while ago. Tons of people still love to shit on it (just like comments above) but I think the core players are still fine.
Atlantis was always supposed to be a separate culture from the Greeks, more advanced tech ect. Sharing a close relationship with their Greek allies and neighbors but definitely distinct.
I used to play the game when I was a child and loved it. Without a pc, I was so excited to play it again now on my xbox and the game is an absolute masterpiece Pure nostalgic
Thank goodness for catering to normals and not esports. When Retold was first advertised I saw esports people saying there shouldn't be reusable god powers since it would throw off balance. Most people who buy don't play competative seriously.
The story you described of getting the original game, and it being the first step into a love of all things history, is EXACTLY my experience (except I only minored in history at university haha)
I ain't a history major or anything, but AoM DID get my heavily in Greek mythology. Like I was so excited for anything Greek myth, and I still am. In this household we stan Chiron.
I remember spending hours making worlds in the Map Editor, epic skirmishes on Vinland Saga, the music omg the music… amazing as a kid, playing it on my very own computer.
I'm very excited for the upcoming expansions and new content. AoM was my favorite game of all time, since I was kid, teenager and now, I enjoy playing it a lot. I Hope this game wiil have more love from new and old players
Age of Mythology and Populous the Beginning were the best rts games growing up cant imagine being a kid today and not having any guidance to get those games anymore like going to a video game store lol
Only issue i have found is visual: when you are upgrading weapons, they become the color of the current unit type upgrade (iron weapons are gold color). In original, copper weapons were brown, bronze weapons were yellow-ish, and iron weapons were metallic grey
I still remember my parents buying this game as a Christmas gift and unwrapping it back in 2003. I'm so glad AoM Retold didn't end up like Warcraft 3 Remastered
One thing single players need to try is doing skirmish with 11 AIs in the same team but giving you a resource bonus. It really changes the pace and going against many titan AIs will never be boring xD
My Professor asked me what started my interest into classical ancient history in which I wanted to write my Masters-Degree. My mouth said that I had nice courses in university but my heart knew that Age of Mythology is the core Memory until today
If people are able to remember the first video games, they got their hands on when they were young. AoM would be in my top five, my first ever PC game I've played I always snuck into my sister's room to get on her computer to just play this game and throughout the years this has been the game I've always returned back to and now that I have a passion project of making an extended version of the Titans campaign I am practically glued to this game now. AoM EE I had 804 hours that most on my steam library and Retold it already near 100 hours
I just beat the game today, after playing almost 6 days (it's that good) and I immediately searched UA-cam to see what other people thought. I'm glad I'm not the only one to see how well done this game is. If this wasn't a remake, this is easily a GOTY contender.
Okay you convinced me, I'm buying this game! Back when I was a small kid, i played aoe1&2 a lot and saw this on the shelves and I wanted to play it so badly but my pc literally couldn’t handle it so I put it on my shelf and it collected dust ever since… I forgot about the game since I couldn’t play it but seems like a good time to jump in again!
I remember in 2007 playing this game non stop. I had gotten my own physical copy of the game. I maybe played 5-6k hours on this game. I’d play against my siblings and beat them at it.
I never enjoyed the EE of this game, but recently started playing AoM: The titans expansion again and remembered just how much I loved this game, I was excited and worried about retold, but after days playing I couldn't be more happy with the end result.
13 and I love RTS. AoM Retold is fantastic, for me the only campaigns that can touch its are WarCraft 3's and StarCraft 2's (Though I've heard C&C 3 has a good one as well). Damn, I wish I had friends who were into the genre :D
this game really made my childhood along side old ps2 games like gta san andreas etc, this game really really sooo good, story, music, VA, gameplay, and there's a cheat ?? I'm in more than 15 years i still remember the story playing as demi god arkantos
Retold looks how I saw AOM as a kid. The AOM were too hard for me back then and its so nice too play them in new graphics and experiencing this game again
I got this game during the first week and basically only played multiplayer with friends in a custom lobby. We couldn't finish a single game because it kept desyncing. Well we managed to finish one game, a 2player v 2ai game where we had infinite resources, just so I could actually see the titans as it kept desyncing before we even reached age IV. I have a windows insider prerelease version of Windows 11 that has a fix for AMD CPU drivers for a longstanding issue that meant you didn't actually get the performance you should have so I wasn't rolling it back just for AoM. Within 2 weeks they had fully patched this issue and added various other desync fixes as there were many reasons a game could desync. Right now we no longer get desyncs, the worst that will happen is someone might disconnect and when that happens, they can't just rejoin the match, even if you load a save (in our experience the error save that the game makes already has that player as resigned) I didn't leave a negative review for all of this because I had been keeping an eye on the dev blogs and they seemed to be working really hard to both find the sources of the issues as well as fixing them. I was honestly surprised that they were able to spot the windows insider build being an issue and fix it so quickly. AoM and AoE are one of the only series of games where I basically exclusively play the multiplayer modes with friends against AI. While there are a couple of us that WOULD play PvP, there are more of us that would rather not. We're looking for games that "feel" like AoM/AoE but are focused on PvE, having a progression system might be cool too
i got age of empires when i was 10, and it was several years after the gold edition came out. 22 now, just getting around to beating the old game on titan, then ill see about retold.
Uno de los juegos más relevantes de mi vida, de mi juventud. Que hizo nacer mi fascinación por la mitología. Jugarlo ahora de adulto y sentir esa emoción es un regalo. No puedo esperar por la expansión de los chinos. Espero que arreglen la campaña. Quisiera ver nuevos héroes y una campaña más larga. ¡Saludos!
One more point for you to consider: I only have a Xbox to play and after trying AOE IV i just gave up trying to play with a controller (that was a nightmare). Before Retold came i was ready to put keyboard and mouse on the console, but decided to try first with the controller anyway, and BOI they made It good. It's ridiculously easy to play the game with a controller now, i even look like a pro using shortcuts to my troops. You should try It too and see for yourself.
You forgot how the music is stupidly fucking good, I STILL hum it randomly since I first played it years ago
Haha of course. I didn’t include it because retold doesn’t necessarily do anything new with music. But yes AOM music 10/10
The greek theme has been my ringtone and "Prostagma" My msg tone for 2 years now. So good
@@ChillyEmpire The music is so good, they reused it exactly from 24 years ago and not one soul complained it being a little out of place for today's standards. Loved your life story and AoM influence. Feel like listening to a brother somehow.
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Actually in they (the developer team) hired Tilman Sillescu to redo the soundtrack of the original for AoM retold. The new soundtrack is very similar on the surface but there are style difference, and in some tracks the composition and mixing difference actually makes them worse compared to the original ones. Other tracks are different in vibe and feel which is fine and personally a few i kinda like. but overall i think the original soundtrack can't be beat. try and listen to both versions and see for yourself the differences.
Yeah its really subtle unless you pay close attention. It seems to be almost entirely the same soundtrack as base with added... depth. Higher quality samples, bit more echo here and there, stuff like that.
I do hope retold keeps getting support for a long time. New civs, new gods, new campaigns. Would make it a godly experience
I see no point in new civs, the ones we have now are good enough
I kinda hope for AoM 2: new engine, new campaign, better ranked mechanics. but this will do for a month :P
I see what u did there
@@sanher20 if age of empires two DE is still pumping out new civs, what stopping mythology from tackling other mythologies in history and even with Freyr they can simply add more to the existing mythologies with more gods from their respective mythologies
Two others are confirmed (Chinese and one another) and I honestly imagine that will be it. It's a ton of work to design entire AoM pantheons vs. e.g. AoE2 civs.
Age of Mythology was the game my dad and I played together. It was through the game that he taught me about different civilizations, myths, histories, and eventually sparked my own interest in how the world works.
Our relationship had its ups and down when I was growing up, but every so often we’d fire up the game again and things were better. Easy.
I remember making dumb insanely hard maps for him in the editor and we’d spend hours playing vs titan level opponents on Team Migration.
Now we just bought Retold together. We haven’t gotten to play it together yet because lives are busy, but I know it’ll be exactly what we always needed it to be.
My hope is that the love for this game brings it enough success for expansions and sequels. And hopefully I can play those games with my kid too.
I love that story bro, I hope you get to bond playing with your kid !
Love that. I was in my late 20s at the time, but this game is my second favorite RTS (first is C&C Generals + GenLauncher with the Contra or The Power of the West extensions).
Beautiful, make it happen, play with him again. Time flies
You know, that feeling when you play game in your childhood and remember, how beautiful it was. And then load this game today and it's ugly 2000's graphics that didn't age well.
AOM retold looks excatly how all of us boomers remember original AOM. And this is awesome.
That was my memory with Doom on the Super Nintendo, I did remember a very beautiful shooter and then when booting it up on PC it looked like shit.
This is seems a conscious strategy on devs part. When i looked at AoE 3 remaster i was like "wait, nothing changed" and then looked at original and it turned out ugly in comparison. AoE 2, 3, Retold, they all look like we wrongly remembered originals looked like.
I don't know if it was best choice (i would like to experience "woah its so much better" instead of "yea its just like i remember, but the original is looks like shit somewhy") but it was a decent one and they absolutely achieved it
Didn't know the Devs actually listened and changed the VA and terrible portraits.
Honestly just for that I might go and get it both for nostalgia sakes and also to support their efforts and for listening.
I mean.. It's Age of mythology, the most beloved series ever for decades.. They aren't like any game developers of nowadays, they care about their games and their fans
As someone who grew up with Aom..the Retold version is just amazing. Its both the same nostalgic feel and yet "fresh" at the same time.
Same. With so many terrible cash grabs, now that some industries are finally putting out good products I want to support them
I think some of the Greek god portraits still need work tbh lol like Hera, Hephaestus, and Dionysus
@@hombrejose8164 I don't mind Dionysus and Hera, but I always prefer Hephaestus portrait in the original game.. That red fire makes him look so cool, now he looks like a normal Blacksmith
The fact they listen to the community is actually so unexpected and wholesome. And the modders are gonna have a blast with this engine
I can't seem to figure out how to mod it!
Wow i had a similar story of how my mom bought age of mythology when I was young when I was at Staples and they had small computer game discs for sale. The only colorful one that stood out from all the others was age of mythology with the beautiful cover art of zues, anubis, and thor. 20 years later I'm still playing it at 25 years of age. I hope the game does well and I hope many new pantheons are added after the Chinese and the expansion 2. Long live AOM.
My mom also got me this from staples when I was a kid lmfaooo
Lmao same. Staples had good pc games for no reason
Age of Mythology Retold has been one of the most fun games I have played this year and just overall pure nostalgia back in the old days. With the New DLCS coming in with set god civilizations what the norse has I'm hoping we see more DLC God Civs for the Atlanteans, Greeks, and the Egyptians. Plus new campaigns like mythical battles as well as the chinese civilizations would keep this game going for many years down the line. Heck Celts in Age of Mythology have always been a wish list of mine for mythical ancient civilization.
31 years old and was waiting for so long for a remake in this quality. A lot of people say that RTS are dead but this, sort of, is because they hadn't listen to community about whats good to keep. AoM retold is a great example for other franchises about if you hear the old and new players, place true effort in renew whats needed you can also introduce new mechanics and concepts
AoM has the only ranked multiplayer that I play solely for fun.
I don’t look up optimized build orders. I just do whatever and have fun
And yes, I used to watch the original AoM intro on loop. So good.
Has a fond memory of how I discovered AoM too. At school, I snuck away to the printer-room where they had a bag of newspapers, which in boredom I flipped through and saw a article about such a cool upcoming game. I cut out and saved that page. On release I eagerly bought the game, for 499 sᴇᴋ, at Åhléns in Skövde, a city with a old name dedicated to godess Skadi btw.
Very grateful and happy about Retold, it's all I could've wished for. And minor details like God-portraits are so easy to mod and replace also.
The biggest turn off for me when it comes to RTS games is that the communities tend to get too competitive, to the point where experiencing the game as a journey falls by the way side in favor of min-maxing. In the case of Age of Mythology, the love of the lore and subject material takes priority over simply playing to win. So it feels more suited to casuals. Even if you just get the game for the purpose of playing the campaign, it's still worth it. I enjoy this game not because it's an RTS - but because it provides a way to bring classic mythology to life, and that is what makes it special.
Auto-Queue, Auto-Scout, Auto-Village Priority are also very cool, pleasant QoL's. I'd rather play a game with people who love history and therefore enjoy a game that features said history, versus people who play the game as an E-Sport while not caring about the lore or atmosphere and debating about second-by-second build orders.
To me, gaming is all about the richness of perspective, and your story about how AoM helped shape your real-life love of history really resonates. I also think that there's value in Mythology versus more realistic history, because mythology is an interpretive experience. It's a subject material which naturally segways into real history, but it also encourages the individual to think about "why" a culture feels special.
E-Sports is one of the worst things to ever exist honestly, ruins any sort of fun from a game
@@AHappyCub Hm it depends imo. When a competitive scene grows naturally, it's an entirely different thing imo than the devs actively trying to push esports
So the toxic competitive scene in RTS can be traced back to Blizzard... They fostered it deliberately. Ironically among the most chill scenes in RTS out there are (NOW) The age of games and the CnC community since their community has to focus more on their real enemy...EA and so spend more time modding and delving into the hilarious stuff from the old RA2 and earlier games. The age of games, on the other hand since they're so historic focused and have so many factions it's very easy to root out whose being a try hard only caring about the win and easy enough to find groups that just care about being fun ... Until a certain Vtuber recreates attack on Titan with elephants... Something I dread to think will repeat but this time with actual titans.
My first Age game was AOE4. While it gives me and my friends incredible experiences, it lacked that extra “oomph” and quirkiness that some of the older RTS games I player had (Generals, SC2, WC3). This was probably why I loved AOE3:DE in particular. However, AOE3 still had that older game jank that sort of brought down the experience.
When I saw the AOM:Retold trailer, I was hyped since I immediately recognized that the engine seemed to be an upgraded AOE3:DE engine. The open multiplayer beta also sold me because of how fun and unique the mythologies were. Graphics are great, and the pathfinding was smoother.
Instantly bought the premium edition because of it.
There is a lot old game junk in AoMR. It is still good remaster but this legacy stuff and pathfinding problems drive me insane especially in comparison with slick and modern AoE4
@@skotoferma Every Age game has pathfinding issues. It's an old friend by this point, like death. :p
@@ArawnOfAnnwn yeaaa but i do not remember it was so prevalent in AoE4 even on release. In AoM im fight with it every game.
Hi Mom and Dad, I am in this video!
Also I agree with every reason in this video!
Age of Mythology Retold have a long and bright future!
I’m so happy you had a similar first experience with this game especially how you felt opening it for the first time
This was my first rts game and get so nostalgic over this game and its music
7:28 this was ON POINT. 10/10
Aside from amazing art, this game forces you expand much more than aoe4. And is overall more dynamic. The hunting, scouting, forward building are all more important and prevalent. This game also is more fun in water maps.
My encounter with Age of Mythology was pretty much just as random. I wasn't keeping myself informed about games as a kid. Sure I used to watch the TV Channel GAME ONE, times to times. But that was about it, and UA-cam didn't exist.
I was with my parents on a shopping run, and as I wandered into the video game aisle, I spotted the game cover. I had played Age of Empires 2 beforehand, but didn't hear anything about this "Age of Mythology". Asked my parents to buy it, and quickly fell in love with the game.
Big part of my childhood, so happy to have it back once more.
This game kickstarted my love for History, real factual one AND mythological one alike. So few games have a whole encyclopedia, bestiary, compendium, whatever you call it written into them. But yeah AoM shaped a lot of the person I grew up to become. It's really one of these games that left its mark on my early life.
The campaign was an amazing journey, with central main protagonists and an absolutely divine music. The gameplay was and definitely still is unique and the multiplayer is probably still to this day the only RTS multiplayer I have played a lot of.
I am not a competitive player in the slightest, I am not fond of PvP and RTS games tends to have a lot of that in multiplayer mode. But Age of Mythology offered one specific gamemode that made me spend soooo many hours of my childhood into it : Scenario.
With the editor, some very talented players were able to create PvE and story mission-like scenarios that were just so much fun to play ! Even some PvP ones that were mostly based on fun than pure skill. It was amazing to log on every day and see what new ideas the players cooked in editor mode.
I’m having the exact same experience currently. Been playing since like… ‘06 when I was a kid and my dad introduced me to it? And I’m now getting a history degree as the culmination of interest that started with AoM and those little encyclopedia entries
It happened the same thing to me, discovered AOM at 5 years old, and now I’m on my 2nd history year 🗿🗿
Gosh I love this game
Nice video, good job. 👍🏼
I’m Gen Xer who played the shit out of this game when it first came out. I was so happy to see it come back better than ever. Can’t wait to see the DLC they have coming.
Agreed bro, honestly I haven't played an RTS seriously since warcraft 3 and even then I'd mostly play custom maps, this really got me into trying out 1v1's so many builds, so much fun !
Dude, such a complete video. Thank you so much. I love AOM, and I was thinking whether to buy it or not. You helped me make up my mind. Will buy it today!!!! Keep up with the amazing videos!
I didn't feel all powerful because I could use each god power only once, or maybe a couple of times for the weaker ones with the expansion. What I felt the game sorely needed is the ability to spend favour to reactivate god powers rather than making them a one-off, so I'm glad someone finally thought of that.
I love to see videos like this because for a long time i had the feeling that i was alone with my love for this game and how it had a impact in my life. Like you, this game intoduced me to mythology in a way that i never thought and i really went after mythology books, movies, documentaries. Aaaand also, this game seeded my mind with the mith about Atlantis that made me kinda crazy with the possibility of a lost civilization, cut to today, and i have a book published about Atlantis (not like the game, but my take on the subject with conspiracy and fantasy etc). Retold is amazing, the campaing back in the 2000's was life changing and playing again 20 years later in 4k is a nostalgical and emotional trip.
It was so good, yet weirdly only AoE got any love for such a long time. AoE to me is like AoM with all the cool stuff ripped out.
@@Christobanistan I know right? My first contact with AOE (2) was just a few years ago, love all the AOE, after AOMR i'm going to play the first AOE (definitive edition) for the first time. For me AOM has a especial place in my heart because it was the first game that i played as a kid with fully translation and voice over in my language (Brazilian Portuguese).
The community is good and not toxic!
Im a gen z and i remember playing this on the computer we had in the living room and it was the funnest thing ever Im really happy they did a good job this and lived up to its memory. Also, you did a really good job on its very informational thanks.
Gasp - seeing your comment is like encountering a shiny pokemon. Wait, is that too dated a reference? It's like I rolled a legendary in my loot box. 😂
Sounds like when my mom let me order AOE2: Conquerors Edition in the school book-order. Ahhh the good ole days 😊 Thats what got me hooked on RTS. I read a short description, saw a cool looking box cover, and was already a medieval freak 😂 i just had to have it.
the encyclopedia in this game was so good. Learned so much from it as a kid
I personally liked the villager priority, used that a bit while I learned other parts of the game. Once I got a better understanding of the economy, I noticed that I started to override the system. Thats when I realized I was ready to move on and disable it.
In the map builder, Indefinitly made a army of titams just to see the chaos, so a legit way to have a group of titans destroying my enemies. Beautiful.
I got this AoM and Total War Rome at my elementary school’s book fair. They were the only video games being sold there so I instantly gravitated to them. These two games started my love for RTS and grand strategy games, as well as my love of history. I’m so glad both games recently got the updates they deserved.
I never played the original Age of Mythology. It was only recently I started playing games like Dominions 5-6, Deity Empires, Age of Wonders, Age of Empires 2, Heroes of Might and Magic III. But I've always been super interested in stories and myths. That was the reason I started studying literature. So when Age of Mythology: Retold was announced - back when I started playing AOE2 with friends - I was elated. I'm sucker for Dominions [mixing ancient history with traditional mythology], so a RTS with the exact same concept was a dream come true.
I really hope we get a Chinese Mythology DLC. I know the one from the Extended release wasn't very popular (and I watched the entirety of your video on how you would design it), but we would really benefit from straying from the pop western myths to get into more eastern mythology (India, China, Japan) or even more niche ones like the Celtic, Voodoo, etc.
EDIT: AND I'm super happy AoM:R is more accessible to beginner than esports. I have no skills, ever, and cannot be trusted to become better. So making a game just casual fun is great and a treat for new players.
I really want to see a "what your age of mythology faction says about you" vidoe.
Extremely enjoyable to watch, hit it spot on 👍
This came out while I was doing my stint in the Corps.
So I didn't really pick it up until after my first combat deployment where the games I snagged...
After I of course asked a Best Buy employee "is this a good gaming laptop....".
It wasn't.
Anywho.
Bloodlinrs
Age of Mythology
Jewel Cases of Fallout 1/2 pack (originals were back in my home state)
And
Disciples 1/2
I grew up watching Harryhausen. Love stop motion, Jason and the Argonauts is still one of my all time favorite movies.
So grew up as a nerd of myths and legends through the 80s, 90s and such.
This game quickly became one of my all tike favorites. Combined a favored genre of mine, RTS, with a favored...other...genre...
Mythology.
The way they handled this Retold?
Amazing, and I hope it leads the way to bringing back more traditional style RTS.
Even with the new additions as they seem to be more or less optional.
Which is how things should be. A toggle or option.
Would love to see Rise of Legends and the Dune games get a revival of sorts.
nobody cares you were a solider or whatever
I was so happy with how Retold shaped out to be and was really happy the ai art was changed and the voice lines were msotly rolled back, they did a great job, I also played it on release, played the enhanced version and I am super stoked for future dlc, at time of writing the Immortal Pillars Chinese dlc was revealed and its obvious they have put so much effort into it than just reskinning the chinese faction from enhanced.
Dude everything you said resonates with me on a personal level. This game MADE my childhood, literally shaped me as a person in my interests and that’s no joke lol. Nothing will ever come close to those days playing with my dad via lan connection and begging him not to attack me so I can safeguard my pigs 🤣🤣. Great video dude, PROSTAGMA!
I first became aware of graphics cards as like, a thing, when I installed Age of Mythology on the *family* PC for the first time and it immediately crashed after the opening cinematic for not being DirectX whatever compatible.
My dad, instead of upgrading the family pc... Bought my brother and I our first gaming PCs instead. Which could just barely handle AOM. And then I tried to play Arma 1... And it overheated during the campaign 3D cinematic scenes. Another upgrade followed...
Fond memories of that era.
As someone who never played the original i have been having so much fun with this game, i never had a pc as a kid that could run games like this so to be able to play a remastered version as an adult has been amazing
I wish aoe4 got this much love :(
It got love 3 times.
Aoe4 is a dead game since it was born. It is too ugly as RTS. We all hoped for a great rts when it was online but it was a istant diarrea. I think it will be really fool for a company to invest in age4
I wish aoe4 was actually good lmao
@@francescorag8444 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 aom is even more shit. Wake up from your dream little girl
I mean it still got massive balance patch a little while ago. Tons of people still love to shit on it (just like comments above) but I think the core players are still fine.
I hope they add Hindu or any other South Asian civ as the next. I want to see those Myth units!
10:35 I like to think that the post-destruction of Atlantis Atlanteans had to improvise and scavence thus looking different from the Greek units
Atlantis was always supposed to be a separate culture from the Greeks, more advanced tech ect. Sharing a close relationship with their Greek allies and neighbors but definitely distinct.
I used to play the game when I was a child and loved it. Without a pc, I was so excited to play it again now on my xbox and the game is an absolute masterpiece
Pure nostalgic
Thank goodness for catering to normals and not esports. When Retold was first advertised I saw esports people saying there shouldn't be reusable god powers since it would throw off balance. Most people who buy don't play competative seriously.
The story you described of getting the original game, and it being the first step into a love of all things history, is EXACTLY my experience (except I only minored in history at university haha)
I ain't a history major or anything, but AoM DID get my heavily in Greek mythology. Like I was so excited for anything Greek myth, and I still am. In this household we stan Chiron.
I remember spending hours making worlds in the Map Editor, epic skirmishes on Vinland Saga, the music omg the music… amazing as a kid, playing it on my very own computer.
Never thought I’d see the day this game got remade….
So grateful to the devs I’m having a blast with it
I'm very excited for the upcoming expansions and new content.
AoM was my favorite game of all time, since I was kid, teenager and now, I enjoy playing it a lot.
I Hope this game wiil have more love from new and old players
I use to play this game to chill out while in the university studying on Classica Studies =)
the fact you can play this game on console and even have mouse and keyboard support is awesome. More games should me like this
Godly Video 😀. Thanks for this.
One of my favourite updates is the Titans being able to walk through/across water now. No longer is it stuck on my home base island!
I love it when a plan comes together
The original AOM got me obsessed with history and mythology as well, and this remake perfectly captures every aspect of the original.
04:10 I'm pretty sure both the medusa and armor upgrades already existed in the original version of the game.
05:05 Also, let's not gloss over the fact that they are charging you 6/7 bucks for JPEGs from 2002!
Age of Mythology and Populous the Beginning were the best rts games growing up cant imagine being a kid today and not having any guidance to get those games anymore like going to a video game store lol
Only issue i have found is visual: when you are upgrading weapons, they become the color of the current unit type upgrade (iron weapons are gold color). In original, copper weapons were brown, bronze weapons were yellow-ish, and iron weapons were metallic grey
I still remember my parents buying this game as a Christmas gift and unwrapping it back in 2003.
I'm so glad AoM Retold didn't end up like Warcraft 3 Remastered
More important is the community, it makes you want to play more cuz its cozzy the community
One thing single players need to try is doing skirmish with 11 AIs in the same team but giving you a resource bonus. It really changes the pace and going against many titan AIs will never be boring xD
My Professor asked me what started my interest into classical ancient history in which I wanted to write my Masters-Degree. My mouth said that I had nice courses in university but my heart knew that Age of Mythology is the core Memory until today
If people are able to remember the first video games, they got their hands on when they were young. AoM would be in my top five, my first ever PC game I've played I always snuck into my sister's room to get on her computer to just play this game and throughout the years this has been the game I've always returned back to and now that I have a passion project of making an extended version of the Titans campaign I am practically glued to this game now.
AoM EE I had 804 hours that most on my steam library and Retold it already near 100 hours
I just beat the game today, after playing almost 6 days (it's that good) and I immediately searched UA-cam to see what other people thought. I'm glad I'm not the only one to see how well done this game is. If this wasn't a remake, this is easily a GOTY contender.
Okay you convinced me, I'm buying this game!
Back when I was a small kid, i played aoe1&2 a lot and saw this on the shelves and I wanted to play it so badly but my pc literally couldn’t handle it so I put it on my shelf and it collected dust ever since… I forgot about the game since I couldn’t play it but seems like a good time to jump in again!
My heart skipped a beat when I saw the clip of Populous: The Beginning. I've never seen it used as B-roll before
Wow. Nice channel mate
Hi Chilly, when they announced they would remake this in the AOE3 engine they meant the updated AOE3:DE engine and that one also looks incredible.
i fucking love this game
This game ruled way too much of my childhood and now is doing the same to my adulthood.
A gentleman’s game 🎩
lmao
Great video man!
AoM was the first game I ever played and I was obsessed with it for a long time as a kid. I couldn't be happier to see this game remastered!
So do I, I remember playing it back in 2011 and 2012 as a 10 years old, now I'm freaking 23 years old 💀😂
Finally a remaster for an actual Modern Audience!
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I remember in 2007 playing this game non stop. I had gotten my own physical copy of the game. I maybe played 5-6k hours on this game. I’d play against my siblings and beat them at it.
+1 for using the Ancient Aliens meme guy, haha.
While You were talking about the Trojan war it just struck me.
Jurney to the west campaing to the chinesse!!!
Damn! You made me buy the game! ^_^
Yup thanks to this game I know a lot about Greek Egyptian and Norse mythology ❤
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Same here. It's most likely the reason why I am the way I am now
I found the original Age of Mythology in a bargain bin in a dying Office Depot. That was one of the best buys of my life.
I never enjoyed the EE of this game, but recently started playing AoM: The titans expansion again and remembered just how much I loved this game, I was excited and worried about retold, but after days playing I couldn't be more happy with the end result.
I would pay my soul for a command and conquer remaster
I'd have plenty of things to say but I'm too tired to develop right now ahah
I'll just say that this is an excellent video
13 and I love RTS. AoM Retold is fantastic, for me the only campaigns that can touch its are WarCraft 3's and StarCraft 2's (Though I've heard C&C 3 has a good one as well). Damn, I wish I had friends who were into the genre :D
I love this game, and AoE4, I actually really appreciate the auto que feature.
What we need is scenario editor unit placeable major and minor gods which we can use for campaigns.
Eat your heart out, Blizzard
this game really made my childhood along side old ps2 games like gta san andreas etc,
this game really really sooo good, story, music, VA, gameplay, and there's a cheat ?? I'm in
more than 15 years i still remember the story playing as demi god arkantos
also i learn the mythology of norse greek and egypt from this game, because i read each of the gods "description"
Retold looks how I saw AOM as a kid. The AOM were too hard for me back then and its so nice too play them in new graphics and experiencing this game again
Beste RTS ever made. Now it finally has a chance to be it!
I guess the nostalgia compelled me to click subscribe.
I got this game during the first week and basically only played multiplayer with friends in a custom lobby. We couldn't finish a single game because it kept desyncing. Well we managed to finish one game, a 2player v 2ai game where we had infinite resources, just so I could actually see the titans as it kept desyncing before we even reached age IV.
I have a windows insider prerelease version of Windows 11 that has a fix for AMD CPU drivers for a longstanding issue that meant you didn't actually get the performance you should have so I wasn't rolling it back just for AoM. Within 2 weeks they had fully patched this issue and added various other desync fixes as there were many reasons a game could desync. Right now we no longer get desyncs, the worst that will happen is someone might disconnect and when that happens, they can't just rejoin the match, even if you load a save (in our experience the error save that the game makes already has that player as resigned)
I didn't leave a negative review for all of this because I had been keeping an eye on the dev blogs and they seemed to be working really hard to both find the sources of the issues as well as fixing them. I was honestly surprised that they were able to spot the windows insider build being an issue and fix it so quickly. AoM and AoE are one of the only series of games where I basically exclusively play the multiplayer modes with friends against AI. While there are a couple of us that WOULD play PvP, there are more of us that would rather not. We're looking for games that "feel" like AoM/AoE but are focused on PvE, having a progression system might be cool too
Its crazy how many stories are people getting into history thanks to AoE and AoM.
i got age of empires when i was 10, and it was several years after the gold edition came out. 22 now, just getting around to beating the old game on titan, then ill see about retold.
Wow my god complex satisfied never knew thats why its my fav game in the world
Im so grateful my momma bought me age if mythology 😭😭😭😭😭😭, the best thing in my life
Uno de los juegos más relevantes de mi vida, de mi juventud. Que hizo nacer mi fascinación por la mitología. Jugarlo ahora de adulto y sentir esa emoción es un regalo.
No puedo esperar por la expansión de los chinos. Espero que arreglen la campaña. Quisiera ver nuevos héroes y una campaña más larga.
¡Saludos!
One more point for you to consider: I only have a Xbox to play and after trying AOE IV i just gave up trying to play with a controller (that was a nightmare). Before Retold came i was ready to put keyboard and mouse on the console, but decided to try first with the controller anyway, and BOI they made It good. It's ridiculously easy to play the game with a controller now, i even look like a pro using shortcuts to my troops. You should try It too and see for yourself.