Can we talk about this god-tier game for once?
>>284948342
No, because it's too good to be discussed.
Seriously.
It's one of those rare games that has such a positive consensus that you can't have much more of a conversation other than
"remember X?"
"yeah, it was great"
"yep"
AoM 2 with asian civilisations, when?
>>284948342
Has one of the comfiest OST I've ever heard.
>>284948675
Fuck, a HD remake would be good enough for me.
>>284948779
They did already.
Age of Myth extended.
>>284948779
uh...anon...
>>284948675
that would be so fucking insanely GOAT I can't even
>>284948342
Oranos fag reporting in
all you scrubs who think age of titan's ruined the balance don't know schit
>>284948779
There was one.
It sucked.
>>284948541
it really was great
How did people feel about the expansion pack tho? I liked it
Nope gotta be my AoEII Wololo meme nostalgia.
AoM was better in every respect.
>>284948779
There is an "HD" release though.
How's the AoM Extended community doing? How many people are actually playing?Is AoE2 community still bigger?
>>284948960
How can it suck if it is the game itself with better graphics?
Fuck yeah, this is what got me into RTS'. Little did I know that they didn't get much better than this.
>>284948959
Only Titans did, the atlanteans were fine even with their bullshit "lol all our units are heros" thing.
Gea was useless, though.
>>284948675
>Asian faction, made by someone with more of a clue than I do about their revered figures
>Christian faction, with saints in the place of lesser gods, and Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer as the subsections
>Muslim faction with the various prophets as advancement worshipment
>>284948969
Atlantean god powers were unfair sometimes due to multiple uses.
Truma/Promethean became the BR standard and ruins online play.
Prometheus being the defacto classical age god, which made Gaia bad is a huge issue as well.
Other than that it was cool.
>Minotaur picks a target and bucks him across the battle-field.
>Doesn't switch targets.
>Walks around trying to reach the target he just bucked away.
I don't remember the AI being this terrible.
>>284949121
I think people were disappointed about the quality of the HD, and the price point. They could have added a campaign at that price but they cheaped out.
Can we walk about this god-tier game for once?
>>284949134
>Gaia was useless
>not creating an impenetrable wall of trees
>>284949236
>age of mythology
>christians and muslims
>>284949264
Myth units with special abilities needed heavy micro. Seriously its harder than starcraft in that respect.
Especially instant kill abilities.
>>284949383
>forest fire
>>284949383
>tornado
>earthquake
>forest fire
>vortex
>shifting sands
>>284949001
why is AoE2 associated with the Wololo thing so much? I get that they are in both it and AoE1 but the actual Wololo sound clip is only in AoE1, plus they're way more powerful in AoE1
>>284949116
not being able to make accounts on the old online service has effectively stopped me playing my old copy. and extended edition is very dead ~90% of the time
>>284949134
not only were titans a togglable feature, they were very easy to kill with a reasonable amount of hero units (see Egyptian priests)
>>284949569
Oath, the monks in AoE2 just made gay chime sounds.
goat menu music
>TOSTITOS
>>284949348
1 > 2
>>284949451
>create Medusa
>have to be careful to use its special ability
I don't want her to waste her ability on some infantry when I could just instantly kill a Fire Giant/Colossi/etc
>>284949569
AoE2 had Wololo too, if you write 30 in text message iirc
>tfw will never play AoM with /v/ again
>join an AoM lobby
>999
>999
>999
>999
>>284949569
>not only were titans a togglable feature
wait, they were?
>>284948969
I didn't mind most of the additions, But I hated the Atlanteans. Instead of an expansion centered around Asia or Africa we got a fucking fictional civilisation that's just Greek but different.
>>284949693
Which did people prefer? the classic AoM title theme or the titan's one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwZ6AOUvHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kObu03C9-s0
>>284949836
Not in the original release, they changed that in the re-release.
>>284949913
Classic is the best
>>284949450
yes, and?
Are you implying there aren't areas of Christianity and Islam that are surrounded by myth and legend?
Saints Patrick, James and George spring instantly to mind as examples of mythology based on surrounding aspects of the religion, but not in the core part.
Granted, some crybaby faggot will always bitch about it, but treated with respect it won't be an issue.
>>284949836
yup, under advanced options
>>284949891
implying gaia hadoukening kronos into a pit of lava wasn't hype as shit
>>284949569
So the strongest faction with the most cost effective heroes could beat Titans easily.
Hersirs are bad late game and then you are forced to tech to Jarls, Greeks are fucked with 4 "tanky" heroes that get focused fired, and Atlanteans need to blow all of their money to make a good hero force.
>you will never play AoM Sims again
>>284949450
>[fedora joke]
>>284950097
way I see it, titan's were like wonders, but you only got 1 shot at them. they still took a really long time to build and all players were alerted to them so I don't see what the big deal was
>>284948342
>no sequel will ever be made
>you will never play as a mesoamerican civ that has to sacrifice villagers periodically to gain favor
>you will never play as a hindu civ and send all sorts of fucked up monsters/demons at your opponents
>>284949731
Its too bad they didn't have hot key abilities.
>>284950156
That shit was so cash. I played those sim games and FFTA maps
>>284949817
Too few people own the game or have nostalgia for it.
>>284949913
classic
also PROSTAGMA?
VULOME VULOME
>>284950486
ECTOMOS
>no AoM2 with mayan and chinese mythos
>>284950085
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3HspLE7lzI
idk, Arkantos becoming a demigod and staying the poseidon statue was pretty good too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgGRdPq2jaM
![fa20130509a2a[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rXsjdP3.jpg "fa20130509a2a[1].jpg")
>>284948675
>japanese myth units
Did I ever tell you about the giant invisible japanese skeletons?
>>284950573
SHKEEPAHN
Titans sucked.
Vanilla is good.
The soundtrack was so fucking good.
Too bad that it's pretty much impossible to arrange games for this, as the hd release just complicated matters.
>>284950063
I'm implying that AoM took place during the time of events like the Trojan Wars, which is before even Judaism existed.
You can still use the Middle Eastern religions of the time that Christianity and Islam are based on.
>>284951087
Going by that logic norse mythology is just as out of place
>>284951087
>AoM took place during the time of events like the Trojan Wars
That's why there are iron-age norsemen running around right?
>>284949817
Like I want to get stomped by people who had 2k scores back in the day
>>284951319
You're right, scandinavia should've been in the stone age during that era, iron was way too advanced.
>>284951087
They didn't go for historical accuracy in the game, they just wanted to get the feel of each army right. Hence why Late era Greeks fought alongside middle dynasty Egyptians and Dark age Norse.
It's full of anachronisms, and the information page of each unit acknowledges it.
>>284951647
Vikings had converted to christianity by the time the 'dark ages' took place, assuming you mean the period that refers to early middle ages.
>>284951810
The early middle ages are during the dark ages.
>>284951960
Yes, that is what I wrote.
So, a full list of AoM 2 factions
Greeks, Norse, Egyptian, Hindu, China/Japan ( or both ), Slavsand don't say that you wouldn't main Chernobog, anything else?
>>284952141
Aztec
>>284952141
Britons and Gaels
MYTH BLOOD
10000 mummies
10000 medusas
>>284952141
Babylonia
I fucking sucked at RTS games. Still do. I'd get absolutely destroyed in any multiplayer match, and my team would hate me.
But holy fuck did I still play the shit out of Age of Mythology.
>>284952493
I beat the AI on hard once.
ONCE.
I suck at RTS.
>>284952614
Nice!
Sometimes I feel stupid with how bad I am at RTS games. There's just something I'm really not getting, I guess.
Best strategy:
>pick Loki
>send over 30 dwarves to mine gold
>make an army made exclusively of Fire Giants, Jarls and Balistas
>win
The only thing I disliked about this game was that god powers were single use. No matter how many temples were built or heathens I killed the gods never granted favour more than once.
>>284952614
>>284952729
same. But then the AI in RTS has to cheat to counter the player
>>284948342
I used to play this game all the time when I was younger
Picked it up a month ago, got bored quickly
>>284948342
Hades is my mythfu!
>>284952791
that's one thing i always wanted to mod, make the god powers have cooldowns like 10 minutes (longer for stronger god powers) that way you could also balance the god powers a little
>>284952791
Yeah. You should be able to re-buy them for shitloads of favor or something
>>284952729
My problem is that I don't make enough workers and don't find the room to send any units to harass the opponent's workers
When I lose it's because I'm losing in economy, while my army is ahead in upgrades. And this is against the AI, I'd get demolished by a human player who'd be more aggressive and smarter about hard counters.
>>284950254
they were very boring to play against.
Terrible.
Did anyone else make up dumb strategies like I did?
I'd always play Kronos, stockpile gold and favor and then build fucktons of Automatons for a self repairing defense force and when I had like 60 I would go on the offensiveIt doesn't work too well on moderate+ bots
>play Nile
>against highest level AI
>spam villagers, race to the river
>build docks and spam arrow ships
>the river is mine, they can't build a dock
>enemy is quarantined
>take the time to make a perfect army
>attack with everything I've got, god powers and all
>long and bloody battle, reinforcements
>finally take all his town centres
>refuse his surrender and cleanse him from the sand
Good feeling.
>>284952992
Even two casts of earthquake/meteor/tornado/lightning is too much
It was fun having a 12 other factions (some allied, or not), wait until most of them get their titans up, then build a wonder in the middle of the map and watch them all duke it out.
>>284953289
while racing to stop the wonder timer is so engaging...
I remember going 1 vs 8 against AI on the hardest mode only to O CANADA and WUV WOO a dozen laser bears and flying gay hippos and watch armies of thousand enemies clash with against them.
Shit was funny as fuck.
It was pretty fun to team up with a handful of players and fight about half the player amount of titan difficulty AIs.
>Be bad
>play online for first time
>GET ULFSARK SPAMMED
>Die before 7 min
>gg ez
>Play custom maps for the rest of eternity
>>284953689
wonders were shit too, thankfully they could actually be turned off unlike titans
>>284952614
Only way I ever beat the AI on moderate was using the Norse. Which makes me kinda sad cuase my favorite units were the Egyptians.
>>284953439
well if they're 20-40 minutes apart...
People always talk about Greek and Norse gods, but I always wanted to see an Indian faction, they have some cool as fuck gods and mythical creatures that would fit the game perfectly.
Too bad we'll never see a sequel.
>>284948342
>there are people who didn't main hades
Did anyone else try to kill those invincible units in the campaign?
Without the unit they provide you to kill them with?
I loved fucking with the campaign in general.
That mission where you're supposed to build the Trojan Horse, I just raised an army and destroyed Troy.
Shit was cash.
>>284953887
I can relate to this
>Try and rush early
>End up wasting money on early attacks that get repelled and cripple my infrastructure which then slows everything down to a crawl
>Try and do a more moderate build/turtle
>Get rushed early on before I'm big enough to defend myself
I still managed to have some fun games where players teamed up against the computer or we were pvp teams so people could carry each other.
I'm sure they could easily do an expansion that introduced Indians, Japanese and Gaelics
>>284953887
>Way back in the days of WC3 customs.
>Some guy hosting 1v1's saying everybody who plays customs is trash.
>Never played melee (skirmish) except a few times against AI.
>Step up to the plate anyway with maximum spectators watching.
>Try to tower rush him with militia.
>He calmly fends off my attack with burrowed peons, gets his hero and then slaps my shit.
>Tells me to get the fuck out of his lobby for trying to cheese him.
All those years and it still hurts.
>>284954267
I'd round out Europe, North Africa and the Middle East before heading to Asia.
I'm thinking Slavs, Celts and Persians.
>>284954186
>That mission where Kemsyt is destroying villages and you need to deliver a sword to a statue.
>Shifting Sands some workers over to where the villages are.
>Build a wall, some towers, a bunch of spearmen and priests.
>Kill his army instead.
Can we talk about this god-tier game for once?
>>284953997
I play egyptian (Isis) and beat moderate AI every time, because moderate AI is dumb as hell. I turbomine gold to make defensive buildings and make nothing but axemen as my first army. Then the AI suicide attacks into my defender's advantage and I'm permanently ahead. Once I upgrade to heroic age I send a bunch of camelry to kill the AI's workers, it's the best egyptian unit for worker harass as far as I can tell.
I'm going to marry Athena!
>>284954648
Fuck you moot. Where did you take my pic?
>>284954751
Anon, I have some bad news for you...
>>284954271
>Red alert 2
>One of my first online matches
>Get rushed by a flak track of engineers
>Wall my buildings in since then
>One day playing 3 player ffa
>Do an engineer rush as a gag
>Actually get one guy with that
>Feel sad for cheesing someone who I thought was much better than me
>>284954267
>>284954476
Do they really have enough of their own mythic creatures, that are unique enough from the already-existing ones, to have their own culture?
I think Japanese and Indian are no-brainers, both huge resevoirs of monsters and gods and heroes that haven't been tapped. Celts/Scots/Gaelic/Welsh could probably all get balled up into one and do well, too.
But what makes Slavs different from sweaty Norse, in the context of AoM? or Persians any different from Egyptians?
>>284954764
My computers cant even play that shit any more. Polygon tearing, even the fucking ground is torn.
>>284955153
Persians aren't similar to Egyptians at all.
Although I don't really like the idea of including monotheistic faiths.
>>284954764
This and AoM made my RTS childhood. I will always remember them.
>>284955654
what myth units would the Persians have? Aside from their winged man-headed bull thing.
>>284955654
most monotheistic faiths have so many denominations that you could easily fill 3 subfactions factions with them
>>284954642
but wrecking that whole army with that statue feels so good
>>284955779
>look at me my god gives four powers for sucking his dick, you have to suck four dicks for your powers.
>>284955907
or eat pussy
American factions could be included considering they did come into contact with Norsemen.
>>284954751
>marrying the sorest of losers
Nigga you wat?
>>284956303
Skraeling are present in some maps.
>>284956683
Yeah, but they're just renamed ulfsarks.
>>284952791
I think a more interesting way of balancing it would be a risk/reward factor, for instance you can buy power usage after the first time but the more you reuse them the more likely it would backfire, like the gods were getting pissed or fucking with you
like if you used tornado too much there would be an increasing chance when you cast it would appear near your city or if you or used the rain power it could backfire and actually induce drought instead
>>284957283
>Introducing RNG into the game.
stop talking
>>284957630
>the more you use it the greater chance to get fucked
>the less you use it the less chance to get fucked
yeah that's really random, moron
>>284957630
>RNG is inherently bad
why not just admit you suck at video games and can't weigh risks instead.
>>284958824
tornado randomly spawning on your town is not a good risk mechanic
>>284958824
The only reason you aren't getting verbally >BTFO right now is because the small handful of people desperately clinging to this thread don't want to see it killed by a shit-flinging contest.
Your suggestion for god powers to randomly disobey the user is very stupid. You are very stupid. Stop. Verily.
For real though Japan would be a great faction
>major gods are Amaterasu, Susano'o, Tsukuyomi
>minor gods are various kami like sarutahiko and ame-no-uzume-no-mikoto, ryuujin, raijin, some tanuki and kitsune motherfuckers, etc
>myth units like tengu, kappa, oni, yuki-onna, gashadokuro, umibozu, tsuchigumo, rokuro-kubi, etc
>heroes like momotaro, kintoki, issun boshi, urashima taro, etc
>god powers like summoning a hyakki yakou, the three royal treasures, size-changing mallet, kami-kaze (divine wind), tsunami, etc
>>284959992
>weebs
>>284960174
Weebs would want an anime Japan faction with magical samurai.
>>284960174
I was thinking how weeaboo that looks right after I hit submit. But like, those are the actual names, if that's weeaboo then AoM is already greekaboo, norsaboo, egyptaboo, etc
>>284959992
>titan is copypasta madara uchiha
>>284959992
>Cheat code that give you a mechaor Godzilla
How did you feel when you got god Kratos?
I felt pretty hyped when I was a kid.
>>284960421
seeing as how the original titans are just a fuckhuge birdman, fuckhuge cerebus-headed man, and fuckhuge ice giant, I don't think we need to worry about using something that's from actual mythology.
So yeah, a fuckhuge Tengu or something would work perfectly.
>>284954751
Even if she's was real Anon, you'd have the same chances as trying to romance Artemis. And by that I mean no sex ever.
I remember I bought this game a GameStop
>A thread about actual video games on /v/
>page 10
yep, seems about right.
I regret cheating my way through the story
>>284964052
there are always 2 story playthroughs.
Serious run, and spam lazer bears at the supposedly unkillable units run.
Provided you do a serious one eventually, youbearno shame
>>284964216
I just spammed meteor showers and waltzed through the map with the starting units
>>284964983
were they at least chicken meteor showers?
>>284960902
>titan Godzilla
>>284965337nooh god I feel horrible
>>284949913
Not posting the track names:
A Cat Called Mittens
and
A Mat Called Kittens
>>284960983
>implying she isn't real
>>284966307
so you should.
Egyptian Titan>Greek Titan>Norse Titan>Atlantean Titan
>>284953848
Fuck yes. A few months ago I spent hours looking for jotunheim one hole so I could play that with my friends.
>>284967637
The Norse titan is the best, because it was the only one which actually could have actually existed in Norse mythology
It's a shame the RTS genre got killed by starcraft and MOBAS
Anyone with the Steam version who is up for a game?
>>284971554
sure man, when and how?
Thanks /v/ now I'm remembering this game again.
I remember trying a hardest difficulty playthrough on one level and Gargarensis summoned a dragon...then I stopped. Maybe I should go back and do it now that I'm older.
>>284950842
YAIRMILL
>>284949116
Extended edition's average population in the evenings of weekdays (CST) is like 20. Compared to AoE2HD's 1000+ at any time.
It fucking sucks man, I love AoM.
>Hades archer spam with all upgrades + tower map control spam with 3 villies
>mfw
HAIRJOES?
>>284971857
I'm home in about 30 minutes, I'll play a game then.
>>284974472
SUMFING?
PROSTEGMA
I remember the vikings being op
Alright /v/, I created a Jotunheim 1 hole game.
Let's do some co-op against cheating AI.
Password is rage of course.
>>284979124
Ah what the fuck, apparently you can't password protect games.
How are we going to do this?
>>284979378
add us fags on steam and make it invite only?
>tfw no plays AoM Extended
>tfw just want to play Cat and Mouse
>>284979750
Too much work, I'll just make a game and kick anyone who doesn't say they're from /v/.
>>284955069
>be in a clique in high school that plays rts
>very probably the worst of the group
>slow day, 1 on 1 with someone who was in the top three
>aoe2
>I pick Franks, he picks saracens
>turtle in while he strips the earth clean of resources
>he even kills my second TC before I can back it up with military
>build up a fuck huge army of calivers, gonna upgrade them to paladins as soon as imperial comes around
>he systematically destroys my perimeter defeses, slowly making his way into my inner sanctum
>doesn't matter, paladins
>he knows I'm going for paladins, which will beat his army of mamelukes and siege
>sees a castle, and rushes towards it
>OH SHIT OH SHIT
>send my incomplete army of cavaliers to aid the castle
>in red already
>castle crumbles
>as the castle falls, my cavaliers turn into paladins, eyes wide open with a mixture of shock and fury
>lead a glorious charge that completely routs the opposing force
He surrendered and even congratulated me, even though he had the production to just create another army and squish me. What a sport.
>>284980086
Alright, it's up.
Say you're from /v/ after entering so I know.
>my favorite RTS game AoM got a remake
>it was a total piece of shit and a rip off
>some RTS iv never heard of until today got a remake
>it was really well done and greatly improved the game
God fucking dammit.
>>284979124
extended? Do the old online matchmakers still function?
>>284980479
Join you fagets.
>>284981258
Yeah, extended.
I don't think it's compatible with the original.
Did extended change anything except from the graphics?
>>284982867
It allows you to turn off titans.
>>284982867
workshop support
>>284952790
Better strategy
>pick Loki
>make 20 barracks
>keep spamming Hersirs
>hope RNG is on your side and get sick myth units
>win
works every time
