Prostagma? Etimos!
Age of mythology bros... we're going home. Game is on steam now with screenshots
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1934680/Age_of_Mythology_Retold/
It looks like this is a new mode and there's no chinese expansion anymore
>Arena of the Gods
>Challenge the Labyrinth in the all-new Trials of the Gods for single-player and co-op. Collect powerful Blessings, join your friends, and take on new challenges to overcome the Arena where the gods themselves do battle.
Atlantis
Why stop there?
Where is China?
most likely still being reworked
never liked AOM the ai was way too aggressive and a cheating bastard
filtered
you must be trolling
Even in the hardest difficulties, the original game was pretty beateable (at least when you are a teenager, if you're a kid of course you might struggle)
sadly, true dat, it looks over-graphiqued
Norse
I'm groot, not a sexy woman
is that supposed to be Gaia?
its israelites worshipping a transwoman
ITS SO FRICKING OVER!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Greek
kino
zoomed out version also thank fricking god this is not made by relic
Eisvoli
still no mac release
god fricking damnit will I really buy a PC to play AoM after a decade
frick
Vouforvos
I think it's coming to console as well
I dont want to play RTS on a console anon
I do have a M+K and a monitor for WFH setup, can I just plug in my xbox series x to that dock and play games?
prob no, right?
Why have a Mac if you're a gamer?
Windows and Linux are the only two options...
looks like shit
Why the frick would they leave out the Chinese faction? Why remove content?
The expansion and faction was so poorly made the entire AoM community would rather pretend it doesn't exist. If they do add them back, they'd need a complete rework from the ground up.
wish they would have done that for all the garbage dlc civs they added to aoe3
but retold is a remake
but they are doing a complete rework of the game, so I don't understand why they don't take the time to include them as well. The faction is broken, not completely finished and the campaign is ass but it's all fixable. The groundwork was good, it would have needed more time.
no one liked the chink shit, literally no one. I'm glad it's not there but I bet they improve it and then sell it as DLC alongside other factions
I'm sure you can plug a mouse and keyboard into your xbox
Please for the love of frick don't do DLC for a remaster game.. just fricking put everything in it.
They could add many more factions done the line, would be great
I want to play Aztecs
Aztecs, Rome, Hindu, Japanese or Celts would be cool
Yeah wtf no hindu mythology?
How would you even make Rome different? Even their gods are just stolen from the greeks.
The gods were similar but different and the powers and units would reflect that eg Ares was the personification of carnage and destructive war but Mars was more honourable war to secure peace.
I'd like persians but they would probably overlap with egypt too much.
it was broken beyond repair I think
thanks anon I'll try it out
last time I tried plugging a M+K to a console was to play Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3, I presume clientele of an Age of Mythology thread will also remember this game lel
I checked the Wiki and it says
>It will feature and improve all the playable content from the current game up to and including the Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon expansion.
So unless they outright said they're not adding/re-doing Tale of the Dragon/China, it's safe to assume they are adding it and aren't ready to show them yet.
Sometimes you have to acknowledge that something was a failure and just scrap it. Not only was the actual Chinese civilisation terrible, but the expansion added a bunch of units to other civs which ruined their uniqueness. It really was a mess of an expansion. No one will miss it.
They're going to sell it to you later, that's why
looks somewhat decent, granted they need to turn down the saturation, that and make building bigger because they look really tiny now
Is there any defined reason as to why all of these developers can only put out remakes of their old games? 2020s gaming is like let’s see what we lawyers we can hire to resurrect old IPs instead of just making a new game. The best part is the “reforged” version sucks just as bad as anything new they could shit out KEK
There are no real creatives/visionaries left at the studios. Just activists with no passion for vidya checking off their list of shoe horned in political statements.
>their old games
Ensemble Studios has been kill for quite a while now, this is technically a new studio. And the AoE IP did release AoE4 in 2021, as lacklustre as it was.
Any chance they'll balance the Atlantians so they don't slaughter everybody else?
no, tiktok greekoids
100% re-doing the balance if they're reworking the game anyway.
never played AoM competitively, always played Greeks on hard and had fun
what was the state of balance? was there a clear outlier?
Nobody played it competitively because it was very unbalanced
they already mentioned that all god powers will no have cool downs instead of being one and done so thats already a rebalance
Sounds busted as frick but then god powers are what helps set the game apart from others and only getting one or two uses out of each was a little gay.
So they're going the Atlantis route and giving everyone multiple uses?
pretty much, granted I haven't looked to deeply to confirm if its really every god power or a select few, but in either case every civ is now getting multi use god power
I just don't want my Egyptian chariots to be annihilated by immortal and unstoppable atlantians.
It’ll require some rebalancing for sure. Some god powers such as forest fire just are not very strong basically ever. Some others such as shifting sands or underworld would require a much longer cool-down considering how strong they are.
When did they say that?
>https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-mythology-retold-interview-preview/
Make it cost extra favor to cast again
20-30 for archaic GP
30-40 for classic GP
40-50 for heroic GP
50-75 for mythic GP and a huge cooldown otherwise you would get plenty vault spam
> Another big gameplay tweak comes in how much control you have over your myth units. Back in 2002 they just used their powers whenever they were off cooldown—but no more.
Good luck to the balance team, some units had insanely powerful powers that were balanced out by you not controlling it
I think it's a great decision, to make god powers reusable on other civs; but I wonder how it will work in-game with some of the powers (like Ragnarok, or Son of Osiris).
Nidhogg bros, we riding again!
I'd like to see minor god art
They revealed Loki and Poseidon earlier
and more here from the cover art
Lmao. Age of Mythology in the Marvel era. They all look like superheroes not gods.
But Greek gods were just humans with superpowers though. That’s how they’ve always been.
Not really no. Superheroes are all regular people who spend their time rescuing normal humans. The Greek Pantheon were very much deities who found the concept of mortality curious and enjoyed fricking with humans and intervening in their wars purely for their own enjoyment.
But yeah they both have “powers” though so it’s practically the same thing.
Yeah but Greek gods had all the desires and imperfections of humans, they were lustful, angry and everything else. They weren’t all knowing or even particularly wise, they just behaved like humans with superpowers.
during the time you were alive, yes, they were essentially super heroes
but they did and will perform miracles - you just wont see em yourself though, so better get believing chud 🙂
Euhemerus, nobody believed your slop back then and nobody will today.
Damn. I'm not usually one to say so but this is unironically soulless.
ai-tier
looks like ai slop
yeah but it at least it doesn't look too different
Who is gonna be a Black person or troony?
I wonder if they'll keep these in. 20 years later and I still remember every cheat for this game
they kept the cheat codes in every other aoe game they remastered
>It looks like this is a new mode and there's no chinese expansion anymore
The world is healing
I hope they change Kronos’s look to be the white haired old man carrying a scythe that he was actually depicted as historically, rather than the monster he was in AoM.
Also strangely enough there’s a mission where the titan Prometheus is wrecking a Greek city but he’s also depicted as a green monster (though his god portrait has him as a muscular man, weirdly).
Is this the game where they go DORITOS on the main menu
Not in the vanilla game
DORITOS is the expansion remix
Guess I must have played the expansion long ago without realizing it
I hope they keep the voice commands in the chat. We'd always spam the long laugh one at lan parties
>Rebalanced Atlanteans
>Fixed the one problem the original game had (god powers)
>No sjw shit
>improved art/graphics
The only thins I'm a bit weary about is how everything seems to blend together but considering how game devs are obsessed with turning up every single post processing effect and we haven't seen the units in motions it might not be as bad it looks
I'm actually pretty optimistic about this one
Will the Norse actually be anything other than cannon fodder in this version?
we don't know yet since they haven't revealed much, that being said since they have confirmed a 2024 release date we will probably be seeing gameplay and get dev blogs about any changes they made
I was always sad that whoever played norse (even the guy who only ever played them) were basically just in the game to be slaughtered with no real chance of winning and battles. As much as I love the game, I just hope to see much better balancing.
the problem with norse is you need to be extremely aggressive to get anywhere which is difficult when the other civs can just get passive favor more easily, in other words they will have to find a way to fix that without negating their core identity
Looks like the forgotten empires guys are involved in this one and they've done a great job with the balance in AoE2 so I think they would be able to do the same here.
They were also involved with TotD thoughever.
While I do hope and expect some rebalancing I also hope they will not mess up the asymmetry that made AoM what it was. When they gave the Norse archers and the Atlanteans catapults in TotD it felt like they rebalanced the game by reducing the distinctiveness of the civs.
hopefully the morons responsible for recoding aoe2 pathfinding are kept away from this project
They will at least have titans
>play demo
>skirmish
>every other ai rushes a hole in the my base that their whole army pours out of
I didn't bother with the full game
Are we getting that god-awful chinese faction?
Why can't we just get Age of Mythology 2 already? frick this!
Frick them and frick anyone who buys remakes
don't reply and suck my balls
soul is back
I'm hopeful. actually glad we havent seen any chinese. frick that expansion, put em in later.
Looks a lil cartoony but going back to AoM the units actually looked pretty shitty so ill just be happy if it plays less stiff.
Hope theres some good updated audio/ost to go along with the classics
changes they've mentioned in interviews and some I've observed so far:
1. God powers are now cool down based.
2. Pop cap has been increased.
3. Nothing can stop titans now, they can cross rivers, oceans and are more powerful.
4. From the screenshots we can see that some new units and buildings are being added to existing civs
5. The special ability of myth units can now be manually microed instead of it being automatically used the second it charges up.
6. There were 48 campaign missions in the original (incl. Golden gift) now they have mentioned 50, so they have added 2 missions probably.
good changes 2bh, especially the titan one. It was annoying on ocean maps where you'd have one and it would just be stuck there
the 2 new missions must be for the atlantean campaign.hope we get a good faction dlc as well.
>literally just HD Edition: more HD
>none of the screenshots show Chinese, which means they got (rightfully) dropped instead of redone
>no other new civs either
Why the frick would anyone but a reslopped consoomer buy this? even AoE2:HD2 aka Definitive Edition got more content at release than the latest version of DE. This is a scam.
>titans are even more gamebreaking now
Holy shit it just keeps getting worse. Stop pandering to shitters and their turtling FFS
I wonder if someone will mod in waifu portraits, because the nu-portraits suck ass
>micro'd myth unit specials
nice expensive units homosexual, be a shame if someone could mass produce mummies to instantly one-shot them from range
units like medusas would be actually useful now but frost giants would be OP.
>medusa
>mummy
>argos
rip if you're norse i guess
that's why they are getting javelin hersirs possibly outranging those myth units and outgunning them in a group.
Hall of thanes
Greek vs Greek will just be throwing centaurs at each other until someone loses
forgot to mention that they apparently censored Gaia and presumably others goddesses. they also want to make aom more competitive, wonder what that means.
>they also want to make aom more competitive, wonder what that means.
it means you should get ready for obsessive rebalancing and homogeneity because they want to rake in the e-sports cash even though most people don't give a shit about e-sportshomosexualry that aren't high-action shooters
multiple sun of Osiris? multiple nidhoggs? what about ragnorok? there are plenty of god powers which can't be made multiple use. also some of these changes mean the entire multiplayer scene will have to start from scratch as the fundamental framework of the game is being reworked.
they could just adjust the special ability cooldown rate based on how strong the ability is.
>3. Nothing can stop titans now, they can cross rivers, oceans and are more powerful.
I hope they'll make them at least as resistant as the ones in the campaign then, because they weren't really that strong offensively.
Norse with hersir spam and arty can just brush aside titans like nothing. can't see how they'll mitigate that.
>6. There were 48 campaign missions in the original (incl. Golden gift)
Does that also include Reginleif's 'Close to Home' scenario? If not, then Retold may only add 1 new mission.
perhaps but wasn't it part of the tales of the dragon expansion. I doubt they would selectively take its pre-order bonus and port it.
> wasn't it part of the tales of the dragon expansion.
I don't believe so. The mission is included with the Extended Edition, you don't need to get Tales.
>I doubt they would selectively take its pre-order bonus and port it.
Maybe, but you never know.
>God powers are now cool down based.
>Infinite Plenty Vaults
>Infinite Tatarian Gates
>Infinite Fimbulwinter
>There were 48 campaign missions in the original (incl. Golden gift)
You're forgetting to count 'Learn to Play' (the tutorial campaign) which had three missions, so even without the 'Close to Home' scenario there's already 51 missions in the original.
wait what happened to the chinese expansion? I read it received negative reviews but I thought the reason was shit port or something
What always bothered me is why Elves aren’t a myth unit for Norse.
They are. Norse elves are Nottalrf aka Dwarves. Tolkien elves are rooted in Slavic myth.
They're seriously releasing this on the XBONE? Why?! That thing's like, 13 years old
>instead of patching our broken mess of a game we'll sell you the same game for the third time, without one of the expansions (maybe we'll resell it to you later too!)
>but hey you get shinier graphics! this time phoenixes may actually have transparent wings! maybe!
>listen we gotta pay our diversity hires and overweight presenter she has to eat for 5 people
TOTAL MICRO$HIT DEATH
>without one of the expansions
Nobody wants that expansion.
You'd think they give an actual date instead of "coming 2024" when it's already 2024. At least the game looks nice.
Skeepan.
>AoM
>great game
>Titan expan
>build 50 peasant, dig up titan first, win everytime
>turn off titans in options
>enjoy the game as usual
Anyway.
They better not mess with hersir names. I WILL pirate this game and I WILL spam Hersirs and refuse to buy it until Bjorn Womanbasher shows up.
choose your hersir name
mine is
>An valkyrie tamer
>Dar woman fearer.
>Floki ice licker
For me, it's
>pharaoh called steve
>you now remember one of the worst versions of a game in history
I mean its a handheld game, what did you expect
its was actualy surprisingly solid for what it was
I hope they add the Chinese to the remake.
...said no one ever.
I didn't play it. What was so awful about it?
It played like a shitty mod and was (un)balanced like one, too.
Damn. Well clearly it wasn't the same guy behind OG AoM. All the remake is getting is updated graphics, right? Surely they won't frick that up as long as they leave everything else untouched.
it was a lot of shitty reused assets, boring, buggy, campaign was stupid, bad units just a general mess really
literally no one liked that, you must be a ccp shill
only after they remake them from the ground up maybe
Ye gods, please let it be good. I was always more a AoM fan than AoE. Please do not frick this up.
Real shill hours
>first tomb raider 1-3 remastered
>now this
god i love that the only games i've been interested in for the past few years are the same fricking games i've been replaying for the past decade except with MORE GRAFIX and sold at full fricking price despite not having a single tangible difference other than GRAFIX
burn this entire fricking industry to the ground
don't buy them then
you vil büy the remake and you vil give üs your money.
what was the best god power? I remember the lightning storm fricked everything up including buildings
earthquake just insta kills your opponents base and ragnarok is press to win button.
>ragnarok is press to win button.
is that the one that turns all your units into heroes?
>earthquake just insta kills your opponents base
be a real shame if i worshipped isis and built some statues to humble your gods haha
I remember playing a 3v3 with bots and used this ability on two large clumped enemy armies and watched as they were all sucked in and killed in seconds.
However because it was late game and everyone had all their techs researched the bots rebuilt their armies in minutes lol
I hated how futuristic that one looked. Felt so out of place
atlanteans are clearly a half space half fantasy civilization.
IS THAT A UAP????
setup time is too big. a competent player can move his army out of the way with no casualties.
>send phoenix to opponent town center
>click meteor
Pssh, nothing personel
meteor is an awful god power though because it depends entirely on RNG and most probably it wont hit what you want it to hit.
yes.
Fimblwinter
>Before reveal
>People bring up the ideas of refreshing god powers via favor or having Atlanteans mechanic on everyone
>Hurr cringe OP shit
>After reveal
>Yasss muh hecking cooldowns!
Funny
Looks good. What's the catch?
omg I can't wait to buy a more censored version of a game I already own LET'S FRICKING GOOOOOO I love Microsoft™!!!!!1!
>censorship
are you just making shit up and screaming about nothing?
Someone post the Medusa picture
Thread Theme
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We will never be able to attain this level of SOVL ever again in our lifetime.
I mean they found a guy who was one of the few people in the country probably the world who was knowledgeable in how ancient cultures produced and played music.
The entire OST is something fricking amazing. They better not frick it up
I bet they will completely remove the ingame encyclopedia or make it an unreadable mess like the one in DE.
They will frick it up. They did it twice already.
What is there to frick up? Just keep old OST
You dumbass, they didn't do that for AoE1 or 2 and refuse up to this day to reimplement it. Why would they do that now?
I've not heard this in years or played the game in the same amount of time but I can hear everything. The sound of the villagers killing the pigs for meat, the gold being mined, the grapes being picked, the sound of the temple prayers... its comfy bros
we are so back
Why does the game look so, soft? The Fidelity is higher but it feels like they got rid of all harsh tones and the shadows look weak as frick.
First time, whiteboy?
>https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-mythology-retold-interview-preview/
>For Yuen and the team those tweaks are all about making the game more fun, and most importantly, more competitive 22 years later.
>most importantly, more competitive
>most importantly
They literally juxtaposed fun and competitiveness with the latter being more important.
Oh, and as far as abilities go, these are the devs who made the Chinese expansion. And they are doing cooldowns on godpowers now.
Meanwhile, this is what Ensemble (original devs) had to say about the godpowers:
>https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/classic-postmortem-ensemble-studio-s-classic-rts-i-age-of-mythology-i-
>God Powers were moved to the main interface, and we made them single-use only, which made them feel large and important and kept them from landing atop Heroes at every use.
In another interview they even said how the game had them on cooldown or resource, but both were shut down during playtests as not fun, since they weren't cool and powerful enough.
BUT WHO THE FRICK CARES ABOUT FUN, WE WANT THE COMPETITIVE CASTER KEK BLARING OOOOOOOO WHEN AN ABILITY COMES OFF A COOLDOWN. FRICK FUN, FRICK COOL, WE'VE GOT TWITCH.TV STOCKS TO PROP UP!
im willing to bet my left nut that they are going to try to "modernize" the game by catering to esports. Cant wait til every single faction and god plays practically the same because hurr durr balance.
no chinese?
This is what the steam page says
>Call Upon the Gods
Choose your gods from the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Atlantean pantheons. Devastate your enemies by summoning powerful lightning storms, earth-shattering quakes, and even the famed Nidhogg dragon. Or call upon nourishing rains and protective Dryads to help your people grow & prosper.
So its safe to say there will be no Chinese
Probably. The Steam page says no Chinese.
The game journos are saying otherwise:
>RPS
>Retold will bundle together elements from the original base game and its various expansions up to 2016’s Tale of the Dragon, including the likes of the Atlantean and Chinese factions, titan units, additional maps and extra campaigns.
The devs already said they were going to add the Chinese, the devs just said they were going to have to completely redo them, and they will probably sell them back later because why not lol. They should have removed Atlantis too, all the dlc factions were shit. Just add new gods, myth units, buildings, and military to the original three and call it a day.
The Atlanteas and Atlantis were on the base game and they play an important role on the campaign they were never DLC idiot
>The Atlanteas were on the base game
The playable faction? No they weren't, they were added in the titans expansion. How fricking dumb are you?
in the base game "atlantis" is the greek civ, in the expansion its the 4th civ, moron
As
pointed out there was no Atlantis civ, the campaign Atlantis was just Greece and an actual faction wasn't added until 1 year later in an expansion pack
. The original game did not have a fourth faction. Imagine calling other people moronic when you don't know this, lmao.
>nugaia statue
huh
Frickable monster girl. I like
my guy.
medusa turned that poor woman into 10 stone
This is censorship because they replaced her tummy with booba.
that would have been a valid concern if her model was pretty in the original but it actually isn't.
I never played the Chinese expansion, didn't even know it existed until a few years back. Any good?
No. The devs didn't do good research into the mythology so basically everything was wrong. The devs also didn't make a good, playable, faction, because everything was terribly designed and almost all of their units were just reskinned and overpowered copies of other faction's available units.
Not really.
>chinese units are mostly egregious reskins of existing units
>the few original models are wonky, like the titular dragons
>reuses audio from AoE3: The Asian Dynasties
>bland, unbalanced civ without significant new ideas, visually feeling like modded greeks
>lacklustre original artworks (save for perhaps the major gods)
>god powers are underwhelming
>campaign is laughably bad, with scenarios ranging from bland and boring to unplayable and a nonsensical, incoherent and boring plot
>exclusive to EE, so the online isn't great and single player skirmish has bugged AI
The only reason to like it is that it's still AoM at its core and it was fun to have something new to play around with back when it came out, but nothing of value is lost in axing them for the remake (for now).
have we spotted any new units?
One of the people on reddit thinks they saw a new Greek unit
I hope we get a new civ as well
>xbox game studios
Yeah no thanks, not in a million years after that awful aoe2 release
What did they botch porting AOE2 to Xbox or something? Or are we pretending that the remaster was bad now?
I remember there being a game crashing bug when using the sucky-ball thing in an area where there was lots of objects, especially trees.