Todai-ji - the Japanese Wonder
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- All fotos and videos are private recordings taken in May 2023 by myself in Japan. The 4 fotos in the outro were shot on the premises of the Todai-ji temple complex.
The map of all wonders in the beginning was created by GL.Grabwespe for this video.
This video is the beginning of a series, in which my brother and I try to visit the real life locations of all AoE2 wonders.
What a noble goal to visit all the real AoE2 wonders 😊 more videos like this! I really enjoyed this.
THANK GOD you provided the reanactment of the destructions...
I feel like I was there back then!!
This is definitely one of your best videos!! From my Japanese perspective I’m really impressed by all of the details. I also love the music and SHIKAchen🦌🦌Du hast sehr gut gemacht 👏
I always like videos that include at least two impressive gates. Great work, keep it up!
very fitting wonder for a game labelled "Age of Gates"
Finally catching up on my Watch Later list -- what a fantastic concept for a series. You continue to have some of the most high-quality and underrated AoE2 content on YT.
glad you came back to this:)
10/10 deer bowing
I'm so glad to have found your channel. Really great content. 😊
fantastic that you also like this different kind of video
Very cool idea to try visit all the AoE2 wonders! I have a similar goal for all the Civ 6 wonders - more variety across time - but i might add these to my list as well. Thanks for sharing.
just looked it up: the civ 6 wonders seem super interesting as well. Very varied
@@armchairsaurus for bonus points, I was also thinking of visiting the natural wonders in the game. Not as cool historically, but probably still worth a visit
casually dropping the best wonder map out there
Annotation 1: The destruction in 1181 occured in January. So actually a snowy landscape would have been historically accurate but I thought about that too late.
Annotation 2: As an experiment I ran the script of this video through an AI auto-video generator . The result really resembles the style of much what you see nowadays on TikTok, shorts etc. Crazy how with literally 30 seconds effort a "modern viral" video can be made. Outcome: ruclips.net/video/C1eIcgkVc-c/видео.html
I literally just got around watching your last video on unique units like an hour ago and then you published this. Nice!
you were lucky. this happens rarely
you're gonna be a successful youtuber. i believe in you
Thank You!!!
To be fair, the rebuilt one looks the best from above when forced onto a square footprint
Junge! Machst Du phantastische Videos! Seit dem ich AoE2DE online Matches zocke, habe ich die Spielmechaniken und Abweichungen von der realen Historie, zugunsten von Ausgeglichenheit und eben jener Spielmechaniken, lieben gelernt. Aber die Liebe zum rein historischen Bezug, zur Gestaltung und darin die Liebe zum Detail in der Optik, ist seit dem ersten Mal, als ich noch vor über einem Jahrzehnt das Original spielte, nur nochmehr gewachsen. Daher finde ich gerade Deine Videos sehr faszinierend.
danke, sehr schönes Kommentar. Als jemand der das spiel auch einigermassen kompetitiv spielt, ist mir Ausgeglichenheit und interessante Spielmechaniken natürlich auch wichtig. Dennoch finde ich kann man mit einem Schmunzeln sich etwas über die historischen Mankos witzig machen
Great video. Been to Todai-Ji myself and would also like to eventually hit every AOE2 wonder (currently I have just six, sadly; being stuck in the USA makes it tough!). Looking forward to more UU vs. history videos, if you're working on them!
Six is actually quite a lot, especially when located in the US. Greetings from India where i visited the Dravidian wonder last week
I was surprised when both fires turned out to be acts of war. Usually when you go to a historic site there is always a "great fire of 12something". Here they must have paid a lot of attention to the temple. It's rare to have such an old structure, even with taking the reconstructions into account.
Great video 🙏
...i was also suprised. Wikipedia makes it sound like an accident. Only when I dug deeper I read it was warfare
Wow wow wow! To thnik that I was in Nara five years ago, and the Todai-ji was THAT close to me 😳😭
Since a while ago, when I go somewhere, I always check if there is a wonder nearby
It's a shame they could not have rebuilt it to the "original" size after the second destruction. Cool idea for a series.
Awesome video!
Awesome comment!
I was there in July!
That 'unsuccessful youtuber' looks like a handsome fellow! You should consider featuring him in your videos, even if only to narrate them. 😅
in some older ones he is actually featured. Wasnt successful:)
This reminds me of the Slavs wonder the Transfiguration Church at Kizhi Pogost. It's a great building to look at but totally anachronistic considering it was finished in 1714.
The Dormition Cathedral makes so much more sense and even has a model in the scenario editor. I don't get why they don't change it.
...it would also be easier to visit than Kizhi Pogost;)
AoE2 wonder countdowns should continue if rebuilt in the same spot.
Would be a cool nieche mechanic. this reminds me of another video idea I had: Which civilizations have "won". I.e. their wonder stood for 200 or more years.
spoiler: many
@@armchairsaurus I think the wonder countdown is longer on larger maps, so maybe it would have to be like 550 or 700 years or whichever is the maximum
0:54
this BGM is familiar but I can't remember what it is.
1:47
self burn 11
2:10
Fun fact:
The GITS music you used here is actually based on the style of Bulgarian folk music.
0:54 Princess Mononoke
2:10 yep its a wedding chant afaik
@@armchairsaurus Now that you mention it, that first tune is familiar to me too! My brother played part of the soundtrack for me years ago. I haven't relistened to it, but it left a huge impression on me.
It's absolutely beautiful! As an American, I'm always jealous of people who get to explore buildings with so much history. Unfortunately, Europeans were... not great stewards of the ancient history present here in North America
I think the devs used the modern variant, despite being too late for the game, because it is the most recognizable. The Burmese Wonder should not have a gold roof, and yet, it does in-game, because that's the most recognizable version. I think the devs often just use the most recognizable form of a building, rather than an accurate one.
that is a beautiful and benevolent interpretation. Much more beautiful than the alternative explanation, which is they simply didn't bother to research
@@armchairsaurus It's possible they didn't do research, but given the game was made before the internet, I'll give them a pass. The modern devs have no excuse for such shoddy historicity.
I'm not very pleased with the portrayal of the Armenians or Georgians in-game.
@@SvanTowerMan for someone called SvanToerMan this must have been really a letdown:)
@@armchairsaurus It absolutely was. There isn't even a new architecture set!
At least Svan towers are in the game, they just aren't buildable...or even interactable...
I've been there 15 years ago! Pretty huge building.
I think the only wonders I've seen in real life are this one and the Chinese Temple of Heaven.
Maybe Brussels Town Hall and Torre del Oro too, but I'm not sure I noticed their significance at the time.
same issue here. some wonders I have visited in the past, without knowing or fully acknowledging that it is an Age 2 wonder (Bohemians, Franks, Italians, Khmer, Huns, Romans)
Me who's never been outside America:
*sad noises*
I've only been to the Aachen Cathedral. Other than that I only saw a Portuguese tower, a little smaller and more insignificant, in Porto (still pretty cool though).
Why not make this a series as well, visiting every aoe2 wonder irl
it is meant to be exactly that
you are content entertainment level over 9
significantly over 9 or slightly over?
@@armchairsaurus over 9
💐 *Promosm*