@@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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 RUclips 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 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
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
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 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 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.
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 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!
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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
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
Auto que and villager priority is amazing personally. Not only does it help new players in, I'm not as young as I used to be and don't click and push buttons as fast as I used to but still love RTS. That the ai for it is a little bit inept means it's still something I need to keep an eye on but doesn't chew my slowly reducing reaction time. I completely agree with it being optional though. If you want that high level micro in your games I see no reason you shouldn't have it with a few buttons in the lobby.
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
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.
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.
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 respectfully disagree with Extended Edition being dissapointing. Its the same graphics, music, and game you grew up playing as a kid, but now in HD and widescreen. That is the best kind of nostalgia.
it was fine for the time, albeit the launch was really rough from what I heard, and the new additions (including the expansion) were really lackluster.
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.
It feels kinda weird being like the only person in the Gen Z age bracket that grew up playing Age of Mythology and StarCraft but I am honestly glad I did
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.
I just beat the game today, after playing almost 6 days (it's that good) and I immediately searched RUclips 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.
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.
The one thing that's keeping this from immediately buying it it's the fact that they had the AUDACITY of adding a PAID DLC for having 20 year old god portraits in the game. That shit should be there included in the base game, period. If that's how they release, I fear what other stuff they'll consider worthy of payment in the future... Also that my PC is crap and I run Linux so until I upgrade it there's no chance this works.
Although the unit models in AoMR are a massive improvement over the old game, I can't get over how everything looks so much neater in AoE4. There's also major gameplay issues with villagers getting stuck on trees, walling, and multiplayer stability. Important balance issues in forts feeling like decorations, Norse not being able to build titan/wonder while in combat, and all units costing gold instead of food which is not farmable and can be denied easily. But I hope the devs will fix these issues like they fixed the portraits and voice acting to make AoMR a long lasting enjoyable game.
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
The only gripe is there's no army battlecry/war cry, I can't hear it when they attack fortress or towm center and there's no blood/skeleton after unit die.
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
My big issue with the beta's voice acting is it sounded like they spent a lot of time trying to get the accents sorta right and very little on the actual acting. I'm glad that seems to have been polished for the release.
The thing I especially loved about age of mythology was how the pathing was about 5 times worse than age of empires 2, an older game. 3d required a lot more calculations for... some reason.
The units did have visual updates of classes (medium, heavy, champion) updates and arsenal updates, this is not a new thing in Retold, just a correction.
My biggest issue was when (before game even released) I look into changelog on AoE Wiki and saw nerfs to towers and defenses in general. As causal with strong focus on turtling, this was shocking for me. But now, after playing the game, I have to say, it's not that bad. Surely, on paper, defenses are supposed to be weaker, but I had no problem fighthing AI this way, and it was fun.
Age of mythology was always my favourite "age of" game. They really need to fix the ai's handling of water in retold though. Vinlandsaga map works seemingly less often than it did back in the original and maps where there's water/islands the ai really seems to struggle.
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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.
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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.
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.
MAN! That encyclopedia made me crazy about mythology and history too!
Easy on top 5 games of my life;
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 RUclips 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 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
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
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.
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 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.
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
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!
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.
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 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!
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.
I really want to see a "what your age of mythology faction says about you" vidoe.
The community is good and not toxic!
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).
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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!
the encyclopedia in this game was so good. Learned so much from it as a kid
I hope they add Hindu or any other South Asian civ as the next. I want to see those Myth units!
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
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. 😂
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.
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.
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
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
I use to play this game to chill out while in the university studying on Classica Studies =)
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
This game ruled way too much of my childhood and now is doing the same to my adulthood.
Extremely enjoyable to watch, hit it spot on 👍
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.
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 fucking love this game
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
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
Eat your heart out, Blizzard
Auto que and villager priority is amazing personally. Not only does it help new players in, I'm not as young as I used to be and don't click and push buttons as fast as I used to but still love RTS. That the ai for it is a little bit inept means it's still something I need to keep an eye on but doesn't chew my slowly reducing reaction time. I completely agree with it being optional though. If you want that high level micro in your games I see no reason you shouldn't have it with a few buttons in the lobby.
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
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.
Never thought I’d see the day this game got remade….
So grateful to the devs I’m having a blast with it
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 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.
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
the fact you can play this game on console and even have mouse and keyboard support is awesome. More games should me like this
More important is the community, it makes you want to play more cuz its cozzy the community
I respectfully disagree with Extended Edition being dissapointing. Its the same graphics, music, and game you grew up playing as a kid, but now in HD and widescreen. That is the best kind of nostalgia.
it was fine for the time, albeit the launch was really rough from what I heard, and the new additions (including the expansion) were really lackluster.
I agree, it was good for what it really was: a minor update mainly to sell AoM to new people. The old game had stopped working on many PCs.
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.
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
The original AOM got me obsessed with history and mythology as well, and this remake perfectly captures every aspect of the original.
A gentleman’s game 🎩
lmao
> "A few years back we had the extended edition"
Also this Extended Edition: released literally 10 years ago.
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.
It feels kinda weird being like the only person in the Gen Z age bracket that grew up playing Age of Mythology and StarCraft but I am honestly glad I did
Godly Video 😀. Thanks for this.
I would pay my soul for a command and conquer remaster
What we need is scenario editor unit placeable major and minor gods which we can use for campaigns.
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.
I just beat the game today, after playing almost 6 days (it's that good) and I immediately searched RUclips 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.
Great video man!
Great video ! I also notice that more than 97% of my viewers are above 25 years old. Do you have the same age distribution on your AoE4 content ?
Yea more or less lol. Shorts appeal more to younger folks I notice.
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.
The one thing that's keeping this from immediately buying it it's the fact that they had the AUDACITY of adding a PAID DLC for having 20 year old god portraits in the game. That shit should be there included in the base game, period. If that's how they release, I fear what other stuff they'll consider worthy of payment in the future...
Also that my PC is crap and I run Linux so until I upgrade it there's no chance this works.
Although the unit models in AoMR are a massive improvement over the old game, I can't get over how everything looks so much neater in AoE4. There's also major gameplay issues with villagers getting stuck on trees, walling, and multiplayer stability. Important balance issues in forts feeling like decorations, Norse not being able to build titan/wonder while in combat, and all units costing gold instead of food which is not farmable and can be denied easily. But I hope the devs will fix these issues like they fixed the portraits and voice acting to make AoMR a long lasting enjoyable game.
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"
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 💀😂
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
The only gripe is there's no army battlecry/war cry, I can't hear it when they attack fortress or towm center and there's no blood/skeleton after unit die.
Its crazy how many stories are people getting into history thanks to AoE and AoM.
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
My big issue with the beta's voice acting is it sounded like they spent a lot of time trying to get the accents sorta right and very little on the actual acting. I'm glad that seems to have been polished for the release.
Yk why this game is so good? Because the devs care, they want ppl to enjoy the game. It's about more than making money, which feels so good
Finished all of its campaign in a week, Freyr's tactical nuke kinda pog ngl
The thing I especially loved about age of mythology was how the pathing was about 5 times worse than age of empires 2, an older game. 3d required a lot more calculations for... some reason.
"Cry with Nostalgia goggles on" ❤
Finally a remaster for an actual Modern Audience!
Thanks for the shoutout to SimAnt: my OG RTS
The units did have visual updates of classes (medium, heavy, champion) updates and arsenal updates, this is not a new thing in Retold, just a correction.
My biggest issue was when (before game even released) I look into changelog on AoE Wiki and saw nerfs to towers and defenses in general. As causal with strong focus on turtling, this was shocking for me. But now, after playing the game, I have to say, it's not that bad. Surely, on paper, defenses are supposed to be weaker, but I had no problem fighthing AI this way, and it was fun.
Age of mythology was always my favourite "age of" game. They really need to fix the ai's handling of water in retold though. Vinlandsaga map works seemingly less often than it did back in the original and maps where there's water/islands the ai really seems to struggle.