This is it! I started this series 6 years ago and I finally completed the last mission! Not counting Cleopatra anyway. Hope you enjoy! Also, did you know I started this series with a 'trailer' of sorts? You can watch that here: ruclips.net/video/haV3XVsX000/видео.html Want to buy Pharaoh (or other games) AND support this channel? Use this GOG referral link! af.gog.com/game/pharaoh_cleopatra?as=1715648857
The dynasty you have forged will be remembered by all youtubers through all history! So satisfying to see a 6 year work completed at last. Now that you have come this far you have to beat Cleopatra, man. Go for it!
I think I got beaten by the barrage of troubles and plague and attackers you eventually get further in the game. Some organized strategies keep most common problems of this game at bay. But there is some BS that grinds my gears (like that one farm too far to get employees or that sickness killing the home of your water guy and imploding house dev of your city)
O Great Pharaoh GamerZakh XXIV, you have finally completed the finishing touches on your gleaming let's play of Pharaoh from start to finish with an outer casing of fine commentary, and the playthrough is finally done!
i've been bingeing this playlist all week. really engaging entertainment. i love how you go about your LPs, especially in regard to allowing the cinnematics and storytelling to be presented uninterrupted so we can also appreciate the story. and of course how you narrate your process in decision making is exactly what i like about LPs like this. i'm amazed that you've been such a consistent LPer all these years. only recently found you on accident while you were streaming a recording session on twitch. and i really appreciate that you focus still on making edited youtube videos that can be watched at any time, with none of the lulls or distractions or subscriber gimmicks or inaccessibility that seems to be inherent to livestream-focused gameplay
I never watch three hour gaming videos, but I guess that's the power of nostalgia. Thanks for uploading this, it brings back great memories from when I was little and my Dad, who was an architect and a urban planner, used to teach me how to play city builder games like Pharoah, Caesar, Emperor, etc. He had a great love of urban design and classical culture and he definitely passed it down to me.
I’ve made it to the end! Doing my last level of Pharoah tonight. Only took over 20 years. I remember buying this game after Caesar3. I got a few demo games I loved them so much I bought Caesar3, Lords of Magic, Pharoah, Zeus and Poseidon.
Hey congratulations! I started making these videos because I never beat them as a kid. Even as an adult it took me 7 years to finish Pharaoh though haha.
hahaha, I also have been playing this game over 20 years with larger breaks. Have recently started playing again and picked it up at mission 29, Iken. This game is truly amazing, keeping me fascinated again and again over 20 years! My strategy has improved and I am also ok with the military missions now.
Great you completed the Pharaoh series. This game will always have a place in my heart and although I am no expert builder by any means, I really get back into the game at least once a year. Greetings Mo_Oe :)
Thank you so much for all of your videos, GamerZakh! Huge fan of you from Indonesia here. I played this game when I was a kid, no planning, no strategy whatsoever because I didn't understand the proper and correct way to build a city. Around 3 months ago, I decided to download Pharaoh again because of the pandemic -- and now it's already near the end of 2020 and I finally reached Hetepsenusret (because of your help). So grateful for this! This game keeps me sane at home LOL. Anyway, I love all your videos and I love the way you explain things, it's so easy to understand. Thank you once again, you are very, very impressive!!!!! PS: Because the pandemic is still here and I don't know when will this gonna end, I'm now gonna finish this city and start Cleopatra too. HAHAHA.
I'm really glad you're enjoying it! Thank you so much for the kind words too, I appreciate it. This is a very good game to binge through this year haha. If you finish, you can try Emperor too, that'll keep you busy for a while.
@@GamerZakh Thanks! Although not as big as an achievement that you've done by doing it on very hard, maybe ill try again on an harder difficulty on the next time xD, anyways thanks for everything and teaching that you can turn off bazaar from ordering luxury goods lmao
And on the approximately 400th day of quarantine I've now finished this series... TWICE! 🤣🤣🤣 Fun Fact @GamerZakh ,despite the mission being PAINFULLY SLOW, in essence it's a reimagined Giza Necropolis. The mission took you 867 months to complete or 72 years and 3 months. The real Giza Necropolis, by best estimates, took approximately 70-75 years from beginning to end. So you're actually right on time! 😂😂😂 Hopefully they don't mess with the time scales to much on the remake when you get a chance to play it soon. 😉
Just started playing Pharaoh + Cleopatra a few months ago, and I'm at this level now. Feeling intimidated by the mission, so I'm watching your video as well as Sajuuk for any helpful tips. I like the part where you demarcated the land for monuments, that really help in terms of zone planning. Also, as a fellow Malaysian, I love your diction. It is so clear. :)
Just found your channel Zakh, great content! Fellow Malaysian here. Always a big fan of these city building games. Very interesting build style you have there by the way, I always build residences with a 4x block in a road loop instead of 2x block. Also, I noticed that you had a minor issue with desirability with your Estates. I suggest that you build gardens around the single land plot, when the houses expand it'll actually expand onto the gardens. I learnt this when I noticed that when my Estates degrade from 4x4 to 3x3 or less, it'll leave behind gardens.
I've been trying to beat this mission for over a year now. It's so unfair that they make you start with like 2000 deben, but this video really helped me figure things out. Thank you1!
@@GamerZakh yes that's exactly the struggle haha. I couldn't make it passed 2 years -- now I'm just waiting for the pyramids to finish. You're awesome :)
Love the series, truly relaxing to listen to when doing house chores. Now I feel like playing the series again, I kept giving up when I was playing it 10 years ago 😅😅
I remember playing this level around 20 years ago, it's a great game and yes that big pyramid took an eternity to build. My city was a dump compared to this one though lol. Great video, it's been great to see this game again.
O Great Pharaoh GamerZakh thanks to your help/inspiration I have finally beaten the game. Hetepsenusret alone took me 2 afternoons. Inspired by your vids I´m looking forward to checking out some more Citybuilder Games. Anyways, keep up the great work and thx!
Congratz! It's old news but I just finished watching your playthrough and indeed, it was an epic journey. At times I thought you aimed to do the impossible (especially when you were neglecting the gods, *cough*) but in the end you were victorious. Can't wait to start cathing up on Cleopatra. :) I've beaten the game and the expansion on normal difficulty long time ago and I thought that was insane yet here you are. You've even inspired me on starting my own struggle on Very Hard and I'm thankful to you, oh mighty GamerZakh XXIV. Awesome stuff!
Thanks! It's quite a feat watching through the series too! Good luck on your very hard playthrough! Military can get super unfair, so use every trick you got haha.
Hi there. I really appreciate your videos. You have a relaxing voice and a good way to explain things on this game. Also a good kind of humor. Thanks for the videos.
The map you dream to play, regardless whether you just started pharaoh or doing n'th replay🙏 Finally you got the scale to unleash your ideas to their full extent. And the majestic monuments that will require sizeable portion of your economy and land to even begin building😮 + scaling down after completion as minor task. I like Rowarty too - it brings other issues while also allowing the creation of huge, intricately planned city - but that hetepsunesret map is such a joy to play - it truly feels like endgame compared to earlier missions. We need culture but there is only that much papyrus reeds available😂
Finished this a couple of days ago, but have finally recovered enough to comment that this has been an epic journey from beginning to end. Thank you for the introduction to this game, and for the enjoyment of watching you play. I'm more of a Children of the Nile player, but the complications this game brings make it different and interesting enough to make a fair go of. I just hope it doesn't take me 6 years as well, lol. :D Standout catchphrases from the series: "Oh no! I've forgotten the gods!" "Firehouse. Architect's post." (As I mentioned before.) "Why is this burning? This shouldn't be burning." I watched the first three Cleopatra around the time I began this series, so have a couple to do before I'm all caught up. Looking forward to them soon. Thanks again, Zakh, for the ride. :D
Wow that's awesome that you made it through! It is a very long series. Thank you for the endeavour! And no matter how much I play I always make the same mistakes haha.
@@GamerZakh - It was a pleasure to make it through. Playing so many things at once, and with missions being so far apart at times, it's all too easy to forget things, lol. I just need to ensure I remember not to make the same when I go through it! ;)
Hah, I just completed my first VH playthrough (economical) with this mission yesterday! For some reason I only started with 1125db, and being only able to sell 25 papyrus in the beginning made it a bit tricky, I think my kingdom rating went to the lower 10s once
Lots of players like to play with their own "rules." For me, I like to play on very hard and do not ever let myself go in debt. No use of emergency funds. It's tough to do, but possible in this mission. I start at the other papyrus/marsh area. Build just enough to get one papyrus scroll made, sell it, and build from there. Have to juggle around the employment a bit.
GamerZakh I know, plan, record and edit is so tedious and long. but value the time, I enjoyed your video and watched all. Continue with your awsome work.
1:25:10 I just finished this map in Pharaoh New Era, and thought, it was a bug, but I see in OG game it's also land trade, may I ask how? are they Jususes and walk on water? 1:32:24 oh I see they swim to Men-Nefer and walk to our city...? Man this game was really complex. :O
Done subscribe. Hahahah I am always either at Timna or the one after that. That it 🤣 then I got fed up, I play the custom mission breeding cow 🐮 and catch 🐟 🤣
867 months?!?!?!? That's 72 YEARS man! You really WERE Ramesses the Great, only greatest because he "only" ruled for 67 years! ALL HAIL THE GREAT PHARAOH GAMERZAKH!!
There's a lot of old game sound effects that were shared. The archers from Age of Empires 1 intro are in Lords of the Realm 2. The troop move noise in Caesar 3 is in the original C&C music. I've heard the door opening sound from Morrowind in many games and even TV shows. I think there was like 1 big sound effects pack everyone used before games got foley artists.
@@GamerZakh That's interesting, I thought that only Hollywood and indie devs now do it. In about 30 years of gaming, this is the first time I've recognized a sound effect used in another game. I'm not sure how I've missed the Red Alert one. I must have heard Hell March a couple hundred times by now.
Just came across this game like a 1 1/2 years ago. Since then I`m so into it. Stumbled upon your Videos mid-mission, cause I was so lost. Started to watch your gameplay for each mission I completed, afterwards of course. Learned so much and enjoyed it even more. And for this final mission I watched your video before starting it.....because the last one drove me really crazy. It`s kinda cheating but yeah, don`t care. Looking forward to start with Cleopatra, so I can watch those too :)
Rewatching this, I happened upon this "gem" (how did this escape me the first time?): "Wait, Knossos sells olive oil? Oh, right, it's Greece, of course!" It is good to know we are known for our finer things, the world over, the aeons through!
Sad to see it end, but hopefully this means that you'll play more Emperor and Zeus now. Though I think I remember you saying that you didn't find the latter very interesting. No point in playing games that you don't enjoy in that case!
I have Pharoah from Gog downloaded years ago and my version does not have the rotate map function like yours does in the top bar. So I can’t rotate monuments or anything. Was there a new update? Would installing the game again wreck my file?
This is the GOG version, so if that button is missing then something is wrong. When you try to click where the button is supposed to be what happens? Otherwise, I can't really say without seeing what you're seeing. Drop by our discord and ask in our channels. There you can share screenshots and stuff without RUclips blocking links.
When Pharaoh: A New Era comes out, I hope you won't neglect the gods so much. Festivities are better than shrines. I've had God's wipe out invading armies.
I generally don't like relying on God blessings is why I usually just keep them content and leave them. Only use them when I feel like I really need help.
I'm so surprised to see his workers (like the storage yard workers) travelling over land. I always get warned that I need the kingdom road to connect to everything??
You don't need the kingdom road connected to everything. You just need to not block anything in completely. Immigrants need to be able to reach every house. If you block a house or part of the city in entirely then it gives you the warning.
To those who are about to start this mission, you are supposed to have Family savings as extra money for this mission from the last mission. I started this mission with 40000 Debens from the last mission because of the time it took to build monuments.
Well you don't need savings to do it, I like to tackle each mission individually with only the starting money to show it's possible without any savings. Starting with 40K extra Deben would make it too easy for me haha.
@@GamerZakh well yeah, im mainly trying to beat the game on very hard, having never seen any of the missions. Have done peaceful missions. Time for military ones now ! But yeah, I get your point 😊
Got some questions , 1. Why do you use so few roads when you make those villages? like u had statues and gardens inside and houses on the roadsides. 2. How does the Roadblock exactly work? 3. Do you keep every building that has connection to each other , beside each other? like papyrus building > school >library? 4.How comes fire and architect buildings so few too? everytime i build a village i have got atleast 2 of each on every road. Thanks :)
You don't need to have libraries and schools actually fed with papyrus, as long as they are staffed they count as working for the coverage. Mortuaries do need to be supplied, because the coverage accounts citizens served by the walker
Btw ! 49:40, I just learned that those monuments takes a lot of years to complete :)) I mean, those missions could be painfull for those who wants to complete less than 20 years in-game ( in order to avoid dealing with the aging population ) ! Normally, you have to start the monument once you begin the mission, otherwise, there is no way :)) even on easy
Hello, is still me 😅 I understood that I have the Pharaoh 1.1 that still has some bugs and I can't put it in widescreen because is the cd version in italian, if I buy the gog version there is a way to put it in italian moving some files? And I would like to find the save files but I don't know where they are... Can you help me? Pharaoh 1.1 is basically unplayable because sometimes the things you want to import never arrive and things like that. Thank you in advance.
lol... but it doesnt have too... my strategy, i always put population at the last... when my city has all the requirement met except population, then i save the game (just incase), and put as much houses as possible to meet the population requirement and win the game... it is much more ideal isnt it?
Another thing: You don't need papyrus in your schools and libraries for them to count towards culture, same for juggler/music/dance schools. I always put those extra culture dumps disconnected from the rest of the city for that reason
This game is great ! I'm sorry that I never heard about this game when I was a child ( unlike Caesar 3 ) ! But anyway, is awesome and I just start playing it a week ago !
You should experiment building neighborhoods. If you need the walkers to cover areas, you can experiment building different sizes. A small square neighborhood is easily covered by one firehouse, bazaar. As your experiments grow larger, you’ll notice walkers are no longer capable of making the loop. So that will help you get familiar with how large your neighborhoods can be. You do this for efficiency. Because manpower is required to service a neighborhood, you eventually learn to get the most out of each firehouse/bazaar. And thus learn how to milk each neighborhood for extra workforce. Several items in the game provide positive desirability. Large Statue is one such item, 3x3. If you surround this with gardens, it becomes 5x5. If you include an expansion gap, you end up with 7x7 and that seems to be the ideal loop size for a neighborhood. You can then create a row of four 2x2 homes with a gap between each around it. This is a neighborhood. It will function with one each, fire, food, architect, school, physician, mortuary, dentist (etc). However they like to have 3 gods, 3 foods. So, having a granary and storage yard with 1/4ea Pottery, Beer, Linen, and Luxury Goods will keep each neighborhood adequately supplied eternally. As this matures fully, you’ll get the most excess manpower from it, tax as a benefit. For example one neighborhood should provide 1000 people, or 1500 people depending. The Temple Complex is the most desirable item available and serves as an ideal center for your Palatial neighborhood. It’s too large for one firehouse to maintain. So it’s best to double up everything when supplying something of that size and stage the suppliers to handle 50% of it, perhaps roadblock it if necessary to keep each side adequately supplied. A Festival Square is also high desirability. If you surround this with houses it’s the same as building around a Large Statue, and can be served eternally with one each and provide 1000 people. Having fun is probably most important, so disregard my suggestions and beautify as desired. 👍😊
The isolation problem happened to me too. But it was another map, every time the flood came, part of the land was isolated from the kingdom. It didn’t affect anything, just annoying.
Have you ever tried 1701 AD? It’s another game that works by managing a population with industry and other aspects to achieve victory through progress. I had alot of fun with that game but I think this game is harder.
@@GamerZakh Cool. Just take a look at it. It handles maintaining a growing population with needs and the ability to advance and produces resources you can trade and consume for your settlement(s).
what I really want to know is do they show the consumption rates in this game I remember caesar 1-4 doesn't clearly show the rates of , for example, food how fast it is consumed, how fast it is produeced ... forced me to use excel sheets and formulas .... which is fun but isn't fun anymore
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This is it! I started this series 6 years ago and I finally completed the last mission! Not counting Cleopatra anyway. Hope you enjoy! Also, did you know I started this series with a 'trailer' of sorts? You can watch that here: ruclips.net/video/haV3XVsX000/видео.html Want to buy Pharaoh (or other games) AND support this channel? Use this GOG referral link! af.gog.com/game/pharaoh_cleopatra?as=1715648857
Holy shit, congratulations man! Has it really been this long?
It almost looked like you were about to tear up at the end haha
GG but arent you gonna do Cleopatra bro ?
Are you thinking about playing Cleopatra? I would like it very much!!
Are you going to play and upload episodes of the new remastered version coming soon? I have seen a few commercials for it.
still in 2024 - playing this game and enjoying true classic gaming experience :)
The dynasty you have forged will be remembered by all youtubers through all history! So satisfying to see a 6 year work completed at last. Now that you have come this far you have to beat Cleopatra, man. Go for it!
This my childhood playing this game , soon i will again , i never thought of all those strategies on how you play it , i just wanted a huge city 🤣
A remake is coming soon!!
I think I got beaten by the barrage of troubles and plague and attackers you eventually get further in the game.
Some organized strategies keep most common problems of this game at bay. But there is some BS that grinds my gears (like that one farm too far to get employees or that sickness killing the home of your water guy and imploding house dev of your city)
Ahh memories! I played the hell out of Pharaoh and Cleopatra. Just hearing the music takes me back.
Music is the best nostalgia.
O Great Pharaoh GamerZakh XXIV, you have finally completed the finishing touches on your gleaming let's play of Pharaoh from start to finish with an outer casing of fine commentary, and the playthrough is finally done!
Congrats for the series man, and for doing what many of us can't do in their childhood, finishing Pharaoh, hope to see you playin Cleopatra
i've been bingeing this playlist all week. really engaging entertainment. i love how you go about your LPs, especially in regard to allowing the cinnematics and storytelling to be presented uninterrupted so we can also appreciate the story. and of course how you narrate your process in decision making is exactly what i like about LPs like this.
i'm amazed that you've been such a consistent LPer all these years. only recently found you on accident while you were streaming a recording session on twitch. and i really appreciate that you focus still on making edited youtube videos that can be watched at any time, with none of the lulls or distractions or subscriber gimmicks or inaccessibility that seems to be inherent to livestream-focused gameplay
I never watch three hour gaming videos, but I guess that's the power of nostalgia. Thanks for uploading this, it brings back great memories from when I was little and my Dad, who was an architect and a urban planner, used to teach me how to play city builder games like Pharoah, Caesar, Emperor, etc. He had a great love of urban design and classical culture and he definitely passed it down to me.
A three hour Pharaoh video from GamerZakh? *cancels plans*
STOP!!!!
I’ve made it to the end! Doing my last level of Pharoah tonight. Only took over 20 years. I remember buying this game after Caesar3. I got a few demo games I loved them so much I bought Caesar3, Lords of Magic, Pharoah, Zeus and Poseidon.
Hey congratulations! I started making these videos because I never beat them as a kid. Even as an adult it took me 7 years to finish Pharaoh though haha.
hahaha, I also have been playing this game over 20 years with larger breaks. Have recently started playing again and picked it up at mission 29, Iken. This game is truly amazing, keeping me fascinated again and again over 20 years! My strategy has improved and I am also ok with the military missions now.
It's so cool to see you're finally done with the game! It's been a long road to here from Nubt.
Looking forward to the Cleopatra missions!
Ditto. :-)
I am sooooo happy this came out!!!!!! You made my week! Been following you because of this series!!!
Great you completed the Pharaoh series. This game will always have a place in my heart and although I am no expert builder by any means, I really get back into the game at least once a year. Greetings Mo_Oe :)
Hooray! Pharaoh is finished!! Can’t wait to start it over again and binge watch!
Woohoo! I love your Pharaoh videos so much, that I started re-watching the entire game after the last video. Now it's time for the real thing.
I was waiting soooo long for this... finally!!!!
Damn I just completed this mission in... 1500 months, it was insane! Your strategies are so good, thank you!
Well done, impressive mate! So nice to watch you complete the last mission!
Very cool! Nostalgia level - max.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was 6 when I played this game omg
Thank you so much for all of your videos, GamerZakh! Huge fan of you from Indonesia here.
I played this game when I was a kid, no planning, no strategy whatsoever because I didn't understand the proper and correct way to build a city. Around 3 months ago, I decided to download Pharaoh again because of the pandemic -- and now it's already near the end of 2020 and I finally reached Hetepsenusret (because of your help). So grateful for this! This game keeps me sane at home LOL. Anyway, I love all your videos and I love the way you explain things, it's so easy to understand. Thank you once again, you are very, very impressive!!!!!
PS: Because the pandemic is still here and I don't know when will this gonna end, I'm now gonna finish this city and start Cleopatra too. HAHAHA.
I'm really glad you're enjoying it! Thank you so much for the kind words too, I appreciate it. This is a very good game to binge through this year haha. If you finish, you can try Emperor too, that'll keep you busy for a while.
I will definitely try Emperor too! Hehe. Thanks a lot!
thanks for the Mausoleum rotate trick, I didn't know that cool!!! thanks bud!
It's an odd one, glad I could help!
Hey Zakh! I've finally finished all Pharaoh levels on Normal! thanks for all the tips throughout the years from your vids lmao
Congrats! That's a big achievement
@@GamerZakh Thanks! Although not as big as an achievement that you've done by doing it on very hard, maybe ill try again on an harder difficulty on the next time xD, anyways thanks for everything and teaching that you can turn off bazaar from ordering luxury goods lmao
Thanks GamerZakh.. finally finished all Pharaoh missions and Cleopatra also with your pointers :)
That's awesome! Congratulations, I'm glad I could help.
And on the approximately 400th day of quarantine I've now finished this series... TWICE! 🤣🤣🤣 Fun Fact @GamerZakh ,despite the mission being PAINFULLY SLOW, in essence it's a reimagined Giza Necropolis. The mission took you 867 months to complete or 72 years and 3 months. The real Giza Necropolis, by best estimates, took approximately 70-75 years from beginning to end. So you're actually right on time! 😂😂😂 Hopefully they don't mess with the time scales to much on the remake when you get a chance to play it soon. 😉
3 hours of Zakh? Awesome
Just started playing Pharaoh + Cleopatra a few months ago, and I'm at this level now. Feeling intimidated by the mission, so I'm watching your video as well as Sajuuk for any helpful tips. I like the part where you demarcated the land for monuments, that really help in terms of zone planning. Also, as a fellow Malaysian, I love your diction. It is so clear. :)
Glad the videos are helpful! And thank you so much. I've got a lot of practice with my voice over the years. It wasn't this clear at the start haha.
Eduard Edwin I do the same thing. Him and Sajuuk’s are my inspiration.
Ayyy hello fellow Malaysians! I've loved this game since I was a kid, replaying now in preparation for A New Era.
32:32 Crooked swastika, eh?
2:47:00 One last pyramid.
3:00:03 "Remember me!" [sound of rushing flames]
Wow, amazing finish for Pharoah. I look forward to the Cleopatra section of this series. Congrats
Just found your channel Zakh, great content! Fellow Malaysian here. Always a big fan of these city building games. Very interesting build style you have there by the way, I always build residences with a 4x block in a road loop instead of 2x block. Also, I noticed that you had a minor issue with desirability with your Estates. I suggest that you build gardens around the single land plot, when the houses expand it'll actually expand onto the gardens. I learnt this when I noticed that when my Estates degrade from 4x4 to 3x3 or less, it'll leave behind gardens.
I’ve being playing this amazing game during all these years. I just love It!
Dat sneaky mausoleum rotation!
I've been trying to beat this mission for over a year now. It's so unfair that they make you start with like 2000 deben, but this video really helped me figure things out. Thank you1!
That's great, congratulations! It's a really tough mission, so easy for it all to fall apart especially starting out.
@@GamerZakh yes that's exactly the struggle haha. I couldn't make it passed 2 years -- now I'm just waiting for the pyramids to finish. You're awesome :)
Love the series, truly relaxing to listen to when doing house chores. Now I feel like playing the series again, I kept giving up when I was playing it 10 years ago 😅😅
Glad you're enjoying it! I do tend to put on long videos when I'm working too.
City Building series from Sierra games were my PC chilhood games. They still look fantastic!
I remember playing this level around 20 years ago, it's a great game and yes that big pyramid took an eternity to build. My city was a dump compared to this one though lol. Great video, it's been great to see this game again.
O Great Pharaoh GamerZakh thanks to your help/inspiration I have finally beaten the game. Hetepsenusret alone took me 2 afternoons. Inspired by your vids I´m looking forward to checking out some more Citybuilder Games. Anyways, keep up the great work and thx!
That's awesome! Congratulations!
This has been an amazing journey! :D
Can’t believe I watched the whole thing... this was my first video of yours I saw and just wow haha now I know why I never got this far
I'm glad you enjoyed it! This video is a pretty hefty compilation of everything I learned playing through the game.
Dude I love your commenting style and enthusiasm. You got a subscribed from me for sure!
Hey thanks and welcome! Glad you enjoyed it and hope you like the other stuff too!
Congratz! It's old news but I just finished watching your playthrough and indeed, it was an epic journey. At times I thought you aimed to do the impossible (especially when you were neglecting the gods, *cough*) but in the end you were victorious. Can't wait to start cathing up on Cleopatra. :) I've beaten the game and the expansion on normal difficulty long time ago and I thought that was insane yet here you are. You've even inspired me on starting my own struggle on Very Hard and I'm thankful to you, oh mighty GamerZakh XXIV. Awesome stuff!
Thanks! It's quite a feat watching through the series too! Good luck on your very hard playthrough! Military can get super unfair, so use every trick you got haha.
It took me 2 days to win this mission on Normal difficulty, nd you make it look easy on the highest difficulty. Very well done! Respect for you sir
Thank you! It's years of studying these games, including Caesar 3 and Emperor. It is still pretty hard.
Hi there. I really appreciate your videos. You have a relaxing voice and a good way to explain things on this game. Also a good kind of humor. Thanks for the videos.
Thank you! That's really kind of you to say and I appreciate it. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos too.
The map you dream to play, regardless whether you just started pharaoh or doing n'th replay🙏
Finally you got the scale to unleash your ideas to their full extent. And the majestic monuments that will require sizeable portion of your economy and land to even begin building😮 + scaling down after completion as minor task.
I like Rowarty too - it brings other issues while also allowing the creation of huge, intricately planned city - but that hetepsunesret map is such a joy to play - it truly feels like endgame compared to earlier missions. We need culture but there is only that much papyrus reeds available😂
Finished this a couple of days ago, but have finally recovered enough to comment that this has been an epic journey from beginning to end. Thank you for the introduction to this game, and for the enjoyment of watching you play. I'm more of a Children of the Nile player, but the complications this game brings make it different and interesting enough to make a fair go of. I just hope it doesn't take me 6 years as well, lol. :D
Standout catchphrases from the series:
"Oh no! I've forgotten the gods!"
"Firehouse. Architect's post." (As I mentioned before.)
"Why is this burning? This shouldn't be burning."
I watched the first three Cleopatra around the time I began this series, so have a couple to do before I'm all caught up. Looking forward to them soon. Thanks again, Zakh, for the ride. :D
Wow that's awesome that you made it through! It is a very long series. Thank you for the endeavour! And no matter how much I play I always make the same mistakes haha.
@@GamerZakh - It was a pleasure to make it through. Playing so many things at once, and with missions being so far apart at times, it's all too easy to forget things, lol. I just need to ensure I remember not to make the same when I go through it! ;)
I love this game! Thank you for making these videos Z really awesome 🤩
Glad you're enjoying it!
"People love me so I'm upping the taxes so they stop loving me"zakh,gamer,2018
That fish bone block is the cat's pajamas, too!
Glad you like it!
Omg it is sp nostalgic, I used to play pharaoh in early 2000.. I wish they make this game available in android..
Hah, I just completed my first VH playthrough (economical) with this mission yesterday!
For some reason I only started with 1125db, and being only able to sell 25 papyrus in the beginning made it a bit tricky, I think my kingdom rating went to the lower 10s once
It's 1500 db which is the glitch.
Lots of players like to play with their own "rules." For me, I like to play on very hard and do not ever let myself go in debt. No use of emergency funds. It's tough to do, but possible in this mission. I start at the other papyrus/marsh area. Build just enough to get one papyrus scroll made, sell it, and build from there. Have to juggle around the employment a bit.
Incredible work, congrats :D
Thanks! It was a long journey.
GamerZakh I know, plan, record and edit is so tedious and long. but value the time, I enjoyed your video and watched all. Continue with your awsome work.
I think other two settlement locations needs gods too😂. Gratz on game completion!🎉
1:25:10 I just finished this map in Pharaoh New Era, and thought, it was a bug, but I see in OG game it's also land trade, may I ask how? are they Jususes and walk on water?
1:32:24 oh I see they swim to Men-Nefer and walk to our city...? Man this game was really complex. :O
Interestingly, the city name typo wasn't caught in the German translation - the briefing audio there also says "Hetepsensusret", with the extra s.
Done subscribe. Hahahah I am always either at Timna or the one after that. That it 🤣 then I got fed up, I play the custom mission breeding cow 🐮 and catch 🐟 🤣
6 years! Thats how long it took me to finish this mission back in the day on my 166mhzerrrr
867 months?!?!?!? That's 72 YEARS man! You really WERE Ramesses the Great, only greatest because he "only" ruled for 67 years!
ALL HAIL THE GREAT PHARAOH GAMERZAKH!!
Congratulations, enjoyed your commentary
1:10:52
That cheering sound effect is from Railroad Tycoon. Thieves!
There's a lot of old game sound effects that were shared. The archers from Age of Empires 1 intro are in Lords of the Realm 2. The troop move noise in Caesar 3 is in the original C&C music. I've heard the door opening sound from Morrowind in many games and even TV shows. I think there was like 1 big sound effects pack everyone used before games got foley artists.
@@GamerZakh That's interesting, I thought that only Hollywood and indie devs now do it. In about 30 years of gaming, this is the first time I've recognized a sound effect used in another game.
I'm not sure how I've missed the Red Alert one. I must have heard Hell March a couple hundred times by now.
Just came across this game like a 1 1/2 years ago. Since then I`m so into it. Stumbled upon your Videos mid-mission, cause I was so lost. Started to watch your gameplay for each mission I completed, afterwards of course. Learned so much and enjoyed it even more. And for this final mission I watched your video before starting it.....because the last one drove me really crazy. It`s kinda cheating but yeah, don`t care. Looking forward to start with Cleopatra, so I can watch those too :)
Glad you enjoyed the videos and found them useful! It is a pretty great game, plus the remaster should be coming out this year.
@@GamerZakh this is definitely something worth having an eye on. Didnt't know yet, thanks for the info!
Great game and a great player. Good job, man!
Thank you!
Rewatching this, I happened upon this "gem" (how did this escape me the first time?):
"Wait, Knossos sells olive oil? Oh, right, it's Greece, of course!"
It is good to know we are known for our finer things, the world over, the aeons through!
Sad to see it end, but hopefully this means that you'll play more Emperor and Zeus now. Though I think I remember you saying that you didn't find the latter very interesting. No point in playing games that you don't enjoy in that case!
One of the best games
I have Pharoah from Gog downloaded years ago and my version does not have the rotate map function like yours does in the top bar. So I can’t rotate monuments or anything. Was there a new update? Would installing the game again wreck my file?
This is the GOG version, so if that button is missing then something is wrong. When you try to click where the button is supposed to be what happens? Otherwise, I can't really say without seeing what you're seeing. Drop by our discord and ask in our channels. There you can share screenshots and stuff without RUclips blocking links.
When Pharaoh: A New Era comes out, I hope you won't neglect the gods so much. Festivities are better than shrines. I've had God's wipe out invading armies.
I generally don't like relying on God blessings is why I usually just keep them content and leave them. Only use them when I feel like I really need help.
I'm so surprised to see his workers (like the storage yard workers) travelling over land. I always get warned that I need the kingdom road to connect to everything??
You don't need the kingdom road connected to everything. You just need to not block anything in completely. Immigrants need to be able to reach every house. If you block a house or part of the city in entirely then it gives you the warning.
To those who are about to start this mission, you are supposed to have Family savings as extra money for this mission from the last mission.
I started this mission with 40000 Debens from the last mission because of the time it took to build monuments.
Well you don't need savings to do it, I like to tackle each mission individually with only the starting money to show it's possible without any savings. Starting with 40K extra Deben would make it too easy for me haha.
@@GamerZakh well yeah, im mainly trying to beat the game on very hard, having never seen any of the missions. Have done peaceful missions. Time for military ones now !
But yeah, I get your point 😊
Got some questions ,
1. Why do you use so few roads when you make those villages? like u had statues and gardens inside and houses on the roadsides.
2. How does the Roadblock exactly work?
3. Do you keep every building that has connection to each other , beside each other? like papyrus building > school >library?
4.How comes fire and architect buildings so few too? everytime i build a village i have got atleast 2 of each on every road.
Thanks :)
You don't need to have libraries and schools actually fed with papyrus, as long as they are staffed they count as working for the coverage. Mortuaries do need to be supplied, because the coverage accounts citizens served by the walker
Btw ! 49:40, I just learned that those monuments takes a lot of years to complete :)) I mean, those missions could be painfull for those who wants to complete less than 20 years in-game ( in order to avoid dealing with the aging population ) ! Normally, you have to start the monument once you begin the mission, otherwise, there is no way :)) even on easy
Hello, is still me 😅 I understood that I have the Pharaoh 1.1 that still has some bugs and I can't put it in widescreen because is the cd version in italian, if I buy the gog version there is a way to put it in italian moving some files? And I would like to find the save files but I don't know where they are... Can you help me? Pharaoh 1.1 is basically unplayable because sometimes the things you want to import never arrive and things like that. Thank you in advance.
Pharaoh, the city builder where you have to kick people out of your city to win the game :D:D
lol... but it doesnt have too... my strategy, i always put population at the last... when my city has all the requirement met except population, then i save the game (just incase), and put as much houses as possible to meet the population requirement and win the game... it is much more ideal isnt it?
Pharao done... Does that mean... Emperor is finally coming back?
Yup, soon.
Oh, awesome! :D
Yes please....
Yay
Childhood game
When I played this mission I ran out of room to build any more buildings, literally no availible space left and my citys population was around 26,000.
Do not forget custom missions
Another thing: You don't need papyrus in your schools and libraries for them to count towards culture, same for juggler/music/dance schools. I always put those extra culture dumps disconnected from the rest of the city for that reason
"Its so huge" that's what she said
This game is great ! I'm sorry that I never
heard about this game when I was a child ( unlike Caesar 3 ) ! But anyway, is awesome and I just start playing it a week ago !
Will you do Cleopatra as well? I have enjoyed this series and have restarted playing this game.
Yes I will, just need a break for a while.
6 years in the making and all great videos. you sir deserve a break.
1:52:30 flat cat is my favourite statue
Flat cat, when it's just that hot outside, your cat flattens out... 🤣
I miss this game
i loved this game back in the day. Can it be run on win 10?
It can if you get the GOG.com version. The old CD version should work but might have issues depending.
Just to be sure. Did this work for y’all on Windows 10? Love the game! 👍🏻
You should experiment building neighborhoods. If you need the walkers to cover areas, you can experiment building different sizes. A small square neighborhood is easily covered by one firehouse, bazaar. As your experiments grow larger, you’ll notice walkers are no longer capable of making the loop. So that will help you get familiar with how large your neighborhoods can be. You do this for efficiency. Because manpower is required to service a neighborhood, you eventually learn to get the most out of each firehouse/bazaar. And thus learn how to milk each neighborhood for extra workforce. Several items in the game provide positive desirability. Large Statue is one such item, 3x3. If you surround this with gardens, it becomes 5x5. If you include an expansion gap, you end up with 7x7 and that seems to be the ideal loop size for a neighborhood. You can then create a row of four 2x2 homes with a gap between each around it. This is a neighborhood. It will function with one each, fire, food, architect, school, physician, mortuary, dentist (etc). However they like to have 3 gods, 3 foods. So, having a granary and storage yard with 1/4ea Pottery, Beer, Linen, and Luxury Goods will keep each neighborhood adequately supplied eternally. As this matures fully, you’ll get the most excess manpower from it, tax as a benefit. For example one neighborhood should provide 1000 people, or 1500 people depending.
The Temple Complex is the most desirable item available and serves as an ideal center for your Palatial neighborhood. It’s too large for one firehouse to maintain. So it’s best to double up everything when supplying something of that size and stage the suppliers to handle 50% of it, perhaps roadblock it if necessary to keep each side adequately supplied.
A Festival Square is also high desirability. If you surround this with houses it’s the same as building around a Large Statue, and can be served eternally with one each and provide 1000 people.
Having fun is probably most important, so disregard my suggestions and beautify as desired. 👍😊
that,s amazing man!!!
im in the( Waset)
Will you be playing this again when the remake/remaster releases?
I'll do that for sure, through the whole game again.
Why so many roadblocks? Doesn't one do the job just fine?
Great vid btw! :)
The isolation problem happened to me too. But it was another map, every time the flood came, part of the land was isolated from the kingdom. It didn’t affect anything, just annoying.
"Фараон и Клеопатра" лучшая игра такого формата, даже "Цезарь 3" не такая классная
Damn! I played this back in the day, but the disc stopped working because of windows updates. I totally forgot about this. Great game.
You can buy it on GOG.com if you want it again. The remake is coming out next year too.
@ GamerZakh thanks for your videos! Question. Which do you like best and why.. Pharaoh or Emperor? Or what's their differences? Thanks!
The ending movie, your dynasty will be remembered forever.
Yeah, I don't think so. XD
a few questions: do taxes matter before you build a palace ?
Have you ever tried 1701 AD? It’s another game that works by managing a population with industry and other aspects to achieve victory through progress. I had alot of fun with that game but I think this game is harder.
I haven't played 1701 but I have played through the campaigns of 1404 and 1800 on this channel.
@@GamerZakh Cool. Just take a look at it. It handles maintaining a growing population with needs and the ability to advance and produces resources you can trade and consume for your settlement(s).
what I really want to know is do they show the consumption rates in this game
I remember caesar 1-4 doesn't clearly show the rates of , for example, food
how fast it is consumed, how fast it is produeced ...
forced me to use excel sheets and formulas .... which is fun but isn't fun anymore
Anyone know how to build housing without connecting it to the main road? Asking for a friend
Housing doesn't have to be connected to the main road. There is no main road really, all roads are treated equally.
@@GamerZakh Wow! Thanks for the quick reply! I really enjoy watching your playthroughs; commentary on point! Thanks again!
No problem! Thank you, glad you're enjoying it!
your pharao game is top notch! have learned quite some hacks today, but is there any reason you didnt go for taxes earlier?
Congrats!
Thank you!