@@ikeartfilms7783 Thanks to games like this, we remember the soldiers that fought for their empires in ancient times. Even if the thought never came to their mind, "Another battle for my king, but hey, it's not a huge loss: men just might immortalize my memory somehow."
Amazing how a instrumental and fairly repetitious song from an old PC game with a simple structure can evoke so much feeling. This song is melancholy, calm and pensive all in one. It sounds like the aftermath of a defeat and the calm before a heroic storm, both at the same time.
It's called nostalgia :) We tend to "live" in the past in those moments. Because they were "the happy days". It's a psychological thing. Btw, you are right my mate, aeo 1 and 2 & 3 were my favorites!
Chalking it all up to nostalgia is a mistake a lot of people make. By assuming nostalgia drives everything you take away some merit from this excellent, timeless OST. @@varallaigabor6683
I have developed the theory over all those years, that certsin music track play when you should have reached a creatin point in your civ. Like the first song ends exactly when you should be able to progress to the neolithic age. Your comment fits.
Do you remember it? Back in the day when you were just a kid and life was simple? I still feel it... when I returned home from school and played the Age of Empire I + II campaigns. This soundtrack is like a nostalgia drug to me. Thank you for the good old times Age of Empires!
Felix Bogard Ever set a Centurion against a lion? It's funny as hell, the lion doesn't even touch him. On a more practical note, bowmen are the best to herd gazelles. Each arrow of theirs only deals them 3 damage, so you can soften them up for the villagers while leading them to the proximities of a Storage Pit.
no one will believe that i played this game when i was 4 years old..in 1999. i always remember playing this game with my uncle. the epic mission holy man wololo.. i couldn't win with hardest. aoe is not my first game but this game makes me feels like i was born with games. i've been played games for 21 years now i am 25. i dont need anything but games.. and i am proud that aoe is keep going.. 4ever
This wasn't MIDI sounds though. In addition to the MIDI music, the game had full CD audio tracks on the game disc, and if you had the disc inserted it would play them instead of the MIDI music.
Or while I was finishing off an enemy town. After all the military units were dead and I was just knocking down buildings and killing straggler villagers.
This has always been one of my most favorite tunes from the game. From the times I remembered watching my dad play AOE, this song usually seemed to play when he was about to complete a scenario, or during a period of calm. MIDI version or no, I really like this song.
For some reason this track fills me the most with nostalgia. I haven't even played the first game as much as the second (that's like one playthrough vs forty) but each time I hear that music I remember me watching my father playing it.
it'was very amazing when i played it first time... excellent gameplay (aoe2 the top) but the soundtrack is a masterpiece, listened on HI FI the subwoofer make a little hearthquake with this track :)
Just after the epicness introduction of video game history... With the skeleton of the soldier and the sword and this other music that make you want to cry... i remember too...
This track would be right at the end…when there was no more gold, computer sort of gave up, I’m hiding in a corner protected by walls, trying to rebuild with a few villagers, and what I didn’t spend of gold. Awesome times!!!
It reminds me of Phoenicians coming with their boats from rain swept lands to visit the dry lands of Egypt in their purple hued clothes, with trading skill in their brains and riding in their massive boats.....
It's actually raining outside as I'm listening to this, heh... but it doesn't really remind me of rain. It reminds me more of when this track was used at the end of the opening cinematic, with the ancient remnants of the battle in the dust.
This song always seemed to come on at the end of the game, when your empire is huge and positively pulsing, and your army is setting fire to the enemies wonders, routing the last of their troops. I would slowly scan back over the map, revisiting key battlefields, the beginning of the game feeling like the actual thousands of years ago the game is intended to portray. (in reality it was probably a 2 hour game, but its 11:45 at night, friday night, and I am the only one still awake in the house, feeling lucky that my mom seemingly forgot to tell my six year old ass to go to bed; this kind of thing would never happen at my dads house. Odd, some awesome nostalgic memories, blended with some memories that remind me that life wasnt always good back then....)
This was a dope song, in the future we will look back at this and be like.. woah, first games really had some dope tracks. I wonder what AGI will think about this track.
I used to have the game... until my brother broke it, but I'm planning on buying it again... soon. Love the music, I wish every game had music a lot like the Age of Empires series. Thumbs up if you agree. =)
I agree with you Turdfergasen1107, I loved the map sizes, the options, the campaigns, and especially the fact of how easy and simple it was to create maps. =)
I would be the pirate chasing you silly sailors around, wearing your clothes and drinking away your trade goods at some village somewhere. Much less work that way...
@eplemannen I agree. Robot Entertainment is the successor to ES, and it's a private company. They're website is robotentertainment, google it. You should go on and tell them what you want. They might be working on it right now, we know they have two projects in the works. One (or two) might be announced at E3 this year, or Leipzig.
That would be soo cool if they made a 3d one. I just hope they make no differences exept 4 different looking houses and the ability 2 make a scenario instructions map.
Now that I listen to it so many years after hearing it as a kid...damn those are some catchy and original tunes. Are those real instruments? Or is it partly PC music?
@cataphract333 sweet, id like the same mechanics/engine, more units and something to solve the gold problem "when it runs out" I was thinking a trade system like in AOK or AOE3, but i think thats a bit cookie cutter. They should make a way to "mine" random areas for indefinite gold.
@eplemannen no they'll ruin it, like AOE3 where they updated the game system and graphinc engine and it just didnt feel the same as the first 2, its fine how it is.
@rtzurtzufghjfghj I agree with you completely. I mean sure, the time period in III was a natural progression from II + exp (and let's not forget you can get guns at the end of II too) but the whole setting with colonialism hasn't ever interested me a damned bit, and yeah guns are boring at least in RTS I think. Another thing is that warfare approaching modern times has become increasingly UN-conventional, which doesn't work that good for the conventional style of AoE. It's all tactics nowadays
Bunka Fas Download original music, go to game files, find music, rename new tracks that you want so thex have the same name as the ones in the files, delete the old ones, put your “new” music in the file... hoala
@jbecker8082 I can't believe this. This has to be the easiest melody i have ever heard a tab request on -.-' Just take up your guitar, listen and try to play. You can't learn the guitar if you can't hear the difference between two tones.
@Avatar230594 I know far too complicated. the engine worked well for AOM but that was a new series and subsequently nothing was changed. however the maps on AOM WERENT FUCKING CIRCLE, WHY IS IT CIRCLE??!?!??!?!? That did annoy me quite alot :P
A dead swordsman at the gate. Hundreds of years later, a skeleton with a sword resting in it.
I always loved that part of the cinematic, just gave me this certain feeling I can't explain.
@@ikeartfilms7783 Thanks to games like this, we remember the soldiers that fought for their empires in ancient times. Even if the thought never came to their mind, "Another battle for my king, but hey, it's not a huge loss: men just might immortalize my memory somehow."
@@ikeartfilms7783 I think I know exactly what you mean.
Legend Moment
Gives me nostalgic memories 😭
the intro
Amazing how a instrumental and fairly repetitious song from an old PC game with a simple structure can evoke so much feeling. This song is melancholy, calm and pensive all in one. It sounds like the aftermath of a defeat and the calm before a heroic storm, both at the same time.
It makes me think of philosophers penning down their reflections.
It's called nostalgia :) We tend to "live" in the past in those moments. Because they were "the happy days". It's a psychological thing. Btw, you are right my mate, aeo 1 and 2 & 3 were my favorites!
Chalking it all up to nostalgia is a mistake a lot of people make. By assuming nostalgia drives everything you take away some merit from this excellent, timeless OST. @@varallaigabor6683
Play this with rainymood
It makes you... Holy shit. It takes you back thousands of years. How can music be this good
+Gabe Deftoner danade? Rogan.
epicparade1 Prostagma?
Blasphemous heathen! Return ye to the realm of fantasy whence thou cometh! ;)
Shastimban
@@MetaLeir93wololo!
I remember this used to play every time I started exploring with boats :D
I have developed the theory over all those years, that certsin music track play when you should have reached a creatin point in your civ. Like the first song ends exactly when you should be able to progress to the neolithic age. Your comment fits.
@@MrGollum1996 it just loops the tracks, you just happen to play the game at the same speed as the soundtrack's progression
Do you remember it?
Back in the day when you were just a kid and life was simple?
I still feel it... when I returned home from school and played the Age of Empire I + II campaigns.
This soundtrack is like a nostalgia drug to me.
Thank you for the good old times Age of Empires!
I always liked this song's as my worker's were gathering the resources, its so perfect!
***** Archers and axemen GO! I had a lot of fun killing them with catapults too >:-3
Gunner193 noo never kill animals unless u need their food :x
Niclas Samuelsson Well I don't kill them for fun, I only kill them for food, when I'm bored I kill them for fun lel.
Felix Bogard Ever set a Centurion against a lion? It's funny as hell, the lion doesn't even touch him.
On a more practical note, bowmen are the best to herd gazelles. Each arrow of theirs only deals them 3 damage, so you can soften them up for the villagers while leading them to the proximities of a Storage Pit.
no one will believe that i played this game when i was 4 years old..in 1999. i always remember playing this game with my uncle. the epic mission holy man wololo.. i couldn't win with hardest. aoe is not my first game but this game makes me feels like i was born with games. i've been played games for 21 years now i am 25. i dont need anything but games.. and i am proud that aoe is keep going.. 4ever
so much atmosphere achieved with only midi sounds and the technology available to them.
This wasn't MIDI sounds though. In addition to the MIDI music, the game had full CD audio tracks on the game disc, and if you had the disc inserted it would play them instead of the MIDI music.
AOE use ORCHESTRA record and it was a big thing at the time because most game at the are using low budget EDM.
This one would always show up after I was rebuilding from an enemy raid.
+spacemanandy2 Oh yes, that's the perfect scenario for this music
Or while I was finishing off an enemy town. After all the military units were dead and I was just knocking down buildings and killing straggler villagers.
A Demo of Age of Empire where my first Computer Game with an Windows 98.
Good Soundtrack !
This has always been one of my most favorite tunes from the game. From the times I remembered watching my dad play AOE, this song usually seemed to play when he was about to complete a scenario, or during a period of calm. MIDI version or no, I really like this song.
nice that you got to watch your dad play this game and that you like it also
It makes you wanna go living like they did 5000 years ago. Hunting, gathering wood, and be one with nature.
and get sniped by a ballista from 10 km away
@@josef2765 that's one hell of a ballista... enemy probably activated ICBM cheat code
For some reason this track fills me the most with nostalgia. I haven't even played the first game as much as the second (that's like one playthrough vs forty) but each time I hear that music I remember me watching my father playing it.
this was simpler times, when group projects was runnings by passion and desire to create, and it was better times
This music from this masterpiece would be incredible on vinyl
I would pay 100 euros for that.
by far my favorite soundtrack song
The music artists of the whole Age of Empire serial are gods
This track invokes peace, the vibe just makes it feel... peaceful
it'was very amazing when i played it first time... excellent gameplay (aoe2 the top) but the soundtrack is a masterpiece, listened on HI FI the subwoofer make a little hearthquake with this track :)
Just after the epicness introduction of video game history... With the skeleton of the soldier and the sword and this other music that make you want to cry... i remember too...
This track would be right at the end…when there was no more gold, computer sort of gave up, I’m hiding in a corner protected by walls, trying to rebuild with a few villagers, and what I didn’t spend of gold. Awesome times!!!
I used to love it when this song plays when my fishing boats/ships are out there doing what needs to be done.
Good song, very relaxing.
This is one of my favorites
So epic!!
Thank you for putting this on!!!
It's been forever since i have heard this music... which i loved!
I agree
I love this soundtrack :)
Best soundtrack :D
I love this game
Will always be a tune i get in the back of my head from my childhood 😊💚
It reminds me of Phoenicians coming with their boats from rain swept lands to visit the dry lands of Egypt in their purple hued clothes, with trading skill in their brains and riding in their massive boats.....
It's actually raining outside as I'm listening to this, heh... but it doesn't really remind me of rain. It reminds me more of when this track was used at the end of the opening cinematic, with the ancient remnants of the battle in the dust.
im getting boat sounds in my head shshsvvvvshhs
This song always seemed to come on at the end of the game, when your empire is huge and positively pulsing, and your army is setting fire to the enemies wonders, routing the last of their troops. I would slowly scan back over the map, revisiting key battlefields, the beginning of the game feeling like the actual thousands of years ago the game is intended to portray. (in reality it was probably a 2 hour game, but its 11:45 at night, friday night, and I am the only one still awake in the house, feeling lucky that my mom seemingly forgot to tell my six year old ass to go to bed; this kind of thing would never happen at my dads house. Odd, some awesome nostalgic memories, blended with some memories that remind me that life wasnt always good back then....)
ROGEN? ABEDEGHES!, Iurri? Danahi?, SUBATAH!
ERECTUS
*sneeze*
Habadacus
shhh ho
Homas!
Zukantah
Hei Teh!
Ubhuama?
1- Opens Rainy Mood
2- Plays this
3- ???
4- Profit
This one is fantstic even in MIDI form.
This was a dope song, in the future we will look back at this and be like.. woah, first games really had some dope tracks. I wonder what AGI will think about this track.
I used to have the game... until my brother broke it, but I'm planning on buying it again... soon. Love the music, I wish every game had music a lot like the Age of Empires series. Thumbs up if you agree. =)
Thank you for the upload, I’ve just covered this song and used this video to transcribe by ear, good memories 😄
Fits the image perfectly
I agree with you Turdfergasen1107, I loved the map sizes, the options, the campaigns, and especially the fact of how easy and simple it was to create maps. =)
Sounds like all real instruments, converted to MIDI format I think.
I remembeeeeer
I'm 15yo but this game..
I played this game when i was 6 yo
When this music start I destroyed my opponent
i was playing this game whene im 6 or 7 years
i love this music
At that time almost all tribes had their own religions...
In the pictures represent Sumerian, Greek, Egiptyans
There was no law and no writing until the copper age (early bronze age). :)
The memories...
Conversion problem?
...
Heresy is the answer! :-)
calm before war
Salam dari pantai beserah, kuantan, pahang, Malaysia, Bumi, Solar sistem, bima sakti ^_^
Greetings from Poland😊
@@arthurmorgan9108 nice
Play this at my Funeral
thank you very much for this awesome soundtrack
The best!
este soundtrack es el hermano mayor de tazer del aoe 2
I'd be a sea faring Phoenician, sailing from port to port to vanquish foes and drink the fine drops of the fertile crescent
IAAAAOOUUU!!!!
Oh I think we need a Dubstep remix from this song !
great Rain !
Excellent!!
At the end everyone and everything is dust washed away...
Great Sountrack !!
beautiful
Great!
i have this in midi version, but sound a little bit awful compare to this original
⭐️
@PharaohNick that would be amazing!
I would be the pirate chasing you silly sailors around, wearing your clothes and drinking away your trade goods at some village somewhere.
Much less work that way...
@eplemannen I agree.
Robot Entertainment is the successor to ES, and it's a private company. They're website is robotentertainment, google it. You should go on and tell them what you want. They might be working on it right now, we know they have two projects in the works.
One (or two) might be announced at E3 this year, or Leipzig.
That would be soo cool if they made a 3d one. I just hope they make no differences exept 4 different looking houses and the ability 2 make a scenario instructions map.
The perks of being a conqueror nation.
Wow
Uclema? Ipotonik!
Now that I listen to it so many years after hearing it as a kid...damn those are some catchy and original tunes. Are those real instruments? Or is it partly PC music?
god king 1 god prins 1
Is this Teardrop
i love this song... " Let it raing over meeehh"" nahhh joke.......
Really, this is the best Soundtrack of AoE :D
@Avatar230594 They did. they really shouldnt, i mean other developers have and it sometimes works but something so classic shouldnt be changed.
@cataphract333 sweet, id like the same mechanics/engine, more units and something to solve the gold problem "when it runs out" I was thinking a trade system like in AOK or AOE3, but i think thats a bit cookie cutter. They should make a way to "mine" random areas for indefinite gold.
Remember to get lots of wood for your triremes. :P
@mehdan2
yep it should run fine. on windows7 or vista even i tested it.
Ohmos
This sounds incredibly similar to Alice (soundtrack) - Taking Tea In Dreamland... Idk
@DnylF1 F it. I think I'm gonna re-install it just to play again!
@eplemannen As long as we get the "same" music.
@eplemannen no they'll ruin it, like AOE3 where they updated the game system and graphinc engine and it just didnt feel the same as the first 2, its fine how it is.
@eplemannen aye, and they shouldn't make it like AoC 3...
@DnylF1
I don't think it will run on windows 7 or vista...
but microsoft has closed this studio after they finsihed halo wars...
such a shame...
But Aoe1 is now available online for 20 €
@rtzurtzufghjfghj I agree with you completely. I mean sure, the time period in III was a natural progression from II + exp (and let's not forget you can get guns at the end of II too) but the whole setting with colonialism hasn't ever interested me a damned bit, and yeah guns are boring at least in RTS I think.
Another thing is that warfare approaching modern times has become increasingly UN-conventional, which doesn't work that good for the conventional style of AoE. It's all tactics nowadays
@eplemannen *One year later* Age of Empires Online is reaching release, and is a disgrace to the series. But, hey, you got what you wanted - sort of.
Have a deck
@Condom007of007Solace
in some games is diferents
Anyone know how to get the CD audio working from downloaded (purchased) version of AoE?
Bunka Fas Download original music, go to game files, find music, rename new tracks that you want so thex have the same name as the ones in the files, delete the old ones, put your “new” music in the file... hoala
@mehdan2 Nah it does I've done it
@jbecker8082 I can't believe this. This has to be the easiest melody i have ever heard a tab request on -.-'
Just take up your guitar, listen and try to play. You can't learn the guitar if you can't hear the difference between two tones.
Don't be such a jerk, past me
@Avatar230594 I know far too complicated. the engine worked well for AOM but that was a new series and subsequently nothing was changed. however the maps on AOM WERENT FUCKING CIRCLE, WHY IS IT CIRCLE??!?!??!?!? That did annoy me quite alot :P
@eplemannen AoE exp, with some things made better (AI for example) and i would pay 50€ ^^
aoe 1 rulkez, other are not that good, aoe 3 is worst
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demon seated in garden
(google it)