Oh yea, that game happened

biggest sin was the state of the game during release.

Can I get a QRD?

Just pay us again for the same game.

Still better than AoE 4.

>>714798495 (OP)
Funny. I just thought about it, the moment this thread made.
prostagma?

Prostagma

>>714798495 (OP)
I had lots of fun with this game playing the campaign

>Japan pantheon
>Right after China
What the fuck were they thinking

>They rush in red and purple
From the red clouds of the morn
From the temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn…
I will warn you, this once.

> I have warned you - continue to pursue me and I will spare neither you, nor your city, nor your son!

>remake game in the original engine with modern art assets granting you the "performance" of a modern title and the jank of a prehistoric 3D environment

Bravo Microsoft!

>>714799175
Big performance problems for a bit better graphics. Just play the original, no reason to pay $40 for this one.

>>714800693
Game runs flawless for me.

>>714800360
>>714800693
Can someone compare the reqs of the original to retold?

>>714799175
AI generated assets. Weaker voice acting.

>>714799546
funny how literally everyone was asking for and expecting Aztecs, except for the devs

Today I will remind them.

>>714801142
the ai artworks got dumped and changed for different ones when they turned out they were ai
they also redid the VA with original Arkantos VA after people complained about it

>lowest steam numbers across all Age games.
Impressive levels of fuck up

>>714799360
Ee ne jee reh

>>714799393
Etimos

>>714801669
u whey ear

>>714800862
>NOT MY PROBLEM

>>714799467
The Campaign is definitely the highlight.

Arkantos

>popular but not enough to draw in turbo autists and shitposters
Based. AoM still winning.

>Gratuitous changes with no option to revert back to the original.

>>714799087
>Month long connectivity issues on your online multiplayer game.
Not a good first impression, it all went downhill from there

>>714799175
The Ol' Reliable 'Why bother buying nuslop when you can play the superior OG?'

>>714802463
because the original has horrible hotkey options and I've grown so accostumed to playing with hotkeys, clicking on everything feels like going back to the stoneage

>>714802463
Every single remake in this series has been better than the originals.

>>714801449
OG AI portraits got dumped so they could replace 50+ portraits in a single weekend by using a better AI.

>>714802691
they literally hired another studio after it turned out the previous one was using ai
the new artworks show no sign of using ai

>RTS in 2025
It was doomed from the start

>>/vst/
Is that way. /v/ is a gookclick free board

>>714804183
Gookclick is exclusive to Starcraft.

>>714804439
all RTS are gookclick or honorary gookclick

>>714802807
And the other studio used a better AI to remake 50 portraits in one weekedn.

Was china any good?

>>714804738
The Retold version? Yes, it's really good.

>>714804703
>Everything I don't like is AI

lol nobody cares about retrash

>>714802259
I'm gonna mod mommy Gaia back into the game and nobody can stop me

youtube.com/watch?v=27-tJxIepmo

>>714798495 (OP)
Unironically, what went wrong?

>>714804984
There's an in-game mod browser, why would anybody stop you?

Honestly, it's fine, the original wasn't balanced for competitive play, and the chucklefucks at Microsoft don't have any idea how to balance one anyway

>>714805221
Nothing.

>>714805252
>why would anybody stop you?
Wrongthink

>>714805252
You can't add custom models to the official mod page

Isn't heavily accented voice acting racist?

>>714802259
Imagine the paizuris…

>>714801265
what am I supposed to be seeing here

>>714805857
You need to be 18 or older to post here

>>714804820
>>714802807
The new portraits are still dog fucking shit even if you PRETEND they're not AI (which they fucking are mind you). If you use the excuse of "they only had a weekend to do them" then don't fucking make a remake if you can't fucking do it properly in the first place.

>>714798495 (OP)
Niggas play this on console
>b-but!
Nah shut the fuck up cuh lmao

>>714806489
Legacy God portraits being paid DLC instead of part of the base game.

>>714800693
can't you toggle original graphics while maintaining all the new QoL stuff?

>>714806696
No. They stopped doing that after AoE1DE.

>>714806581
Most of them look great, they're not AI, and they weren't done in a weekend. Why can;t you just say you don't like the game instead of lying?

>>714806674
lmao that's fucked up

>>714806804
welp that sucks. good thing I still have the original on my steam library. gonna replay it and save some bucks

So why do you guys hate this game again?
I thought it was pretty good

>>714801265
Also

>>714807138
The OG is great.
The remake not so much

>>714807238
why

>>714806973
extended edition is not the original

>>714807138
You know how every game has one or two highly dedicated autists who are laser focused on one flaw, no matter how mild it might be? It's that. In this case, they focus on the old, AI god portraits that were changed before release but said shitposters will never acknowledge the change because then they'd have nothing to bitch about. Then, they'll just make generic, vague complaints like "it sucks" or "it lacks sovl" and leave it at that.

>>714804183
vst is fucking dead

>>714798495 (OP)
Age of Mythology was never as good as AoE2 and 3. It was always a less fun game. Nothing changed.

>>714807623
>and 3
Please, AoE3 is abysmal.

>>714807238
it's literally the same fucking game

>give Norse a fourth major god
>forever autismblasted because it breaks the trio pattern.
Add a fourth to each pantheon or fuck off.
No idea why they did 3 on china and not 4 right away

>>714807487
the voice acting in the campaign and the portraits are legitimately worse and the mp connection issues sucked (tbf i only tried to queue a couple of times but I imagine the population has gone down by now). overall it's still decent though. I like the visual and balance changes

>>714807487
It doesn't even make sense anymore because you can get the old portraits

>>714807734
Nuh-uh!

>>714807714
No it isn't. But Mythology certainly is.

>>714807765
Likely going to add a 4th Major God to each civ after Japan as DLC. Don't forget: even if the games are good, this is still Microsoft we're dealing with.

>>714807952
I doubt they'll do any more DLC

>>714807765
It's extra weird because the new god power was already represented as a regular myth unit with the battle boar. it's not like everyone was clamoring for an extra Norse major god specifically

>>714807875
>>714807875
Ah, yes, the old god portraits upscaled by a fucking retard that you have to pay extra money for?
Those portraits?

>>714808085
If they're doing a mythology literally nobody asked for, it means they're saving the ones that will sell copies - Mesoamerica, Celts - for later.

>>714798495 (OP)
It's still gud tho

>>714808352
I've wanted mesoamerica ever since titans expansion but I don't think it's happening.

The game overall is in good shape right now and it's still as wildly unbalanced as the original (in a good way). My name is Rajesh and I was paid 1 rupee for this post

>>714808352
I like your optimism.

>>714807714
it's just different (less micro-focused than aoe2) and the setting and units aren't as interesting as aoe2 because dudegunslol

>>714808568
If the devs don't do it, the community will port the original Aztect mod into retold.

>>714808592
I think the fortifications update ruined the really good balance it had to please these >>714808141 types of retard

But haven't played much since so no idea if the meta is good now

To be fair, most of the original art by David Cherry got destroyed in a fucking tornado of all things.

>>714808919
God damnit, Horus.

>>714808890
>>714808890
???
What do portraits have to do with fortifications

People forget that AoM was always intensely campaign-focused.

Which makes me all the more baffled as to why the Chinese campaign is so fucking short.

after playing for a while the new songs did grew on me not as good as the OG but it might be the nostalgia talking

5 populations total, 1 of which is a fucking 20 bucks dlc to choose from is just not that impressive for a remake

>>714808890
Fortifications update is good I think because of how unbalanced God powers and some early myth units can be. Makes it slightly harder to get steamrolled 15 minutes in if you screw up one single thing in your build order.

>>714809845
baffled that the mod to set the old music still doesn't work

The only correct decision the remake made was to make the god powers recastable for favor.

I HATE MODERN UI
I HATE MODERN UI
I HATE MODERN UI

>Mythical Battles
>Arena of the Gods
>Celestial Challenge

All utter garbage.
How is this possible

>>714812557
engagementslop is never good

>>714807145
we need more detail
MORE DETAIL

>>714801142
It's funny, they redubbed the game into several languages, and all of them are complaining that the old voice acting sounds better. Some of the most popular mods are even just re-adding the old voice acting

>>714813939
nostalgia is a powerful feeling

>>714798495 (OP)
It was as fun as I remembered. I played the entire campaign again and loved it, but I never bothered with competitive, it just sounds like a hassle

>>714812557
Mythical Battles is such a letdown
There are so many battles/stories of mythology and ancient history you could just adapt into missions and they wasted their one attempt on Reginleif

>>714799546
asset repeating

>>714808352
they cancelled DLC for AoE3 that has twice the playerbase AoM has. we're getting heavenry spearu and after that they're closing shop

>>714811905
the vanilla game main menu is soul overload

>>714798495 (OP)
>they abandoned Age of Empires 3 for this shit and more useless Age of Empires 2 DLC garbage
FUCK FUCK FUCK I NEED MORE AOE3

>>714811784
the longer you look the worse it gets

>>714815902
i want to go back

>>714798495 (OP)
>>714798495 (OP)
it looks like mobile game shite and it runs like crap too
there's a ultimate realism mode that tries to bring back the more realistic aesthetics from the original but it is still very WIP
I didn't expect anything less from diversity hires the land whale of a woman ran the entire thing btw but hey at least it isn't shitforged levels of bad

>>714807145
>pay extra for a downgrade
Lmao also does anyone have the full res pic on the right? Thinking of printing it out.

>>714805108
>make an entire 3 hour video that lists all problems and gives out solutions to the devs way ahead of release
>they never took notes
What a waste...

i'm looking at steam reviews and a lot of people say the campaign AI is broken, is it true?

>>714799546
Lazy bastards doubt there will be more DLCs with all the lay offs after this.

>>714798495 (OP)
>avengers assemble!

>>714818856
best I can do

>>714802048
nah

>>714807145
>>714811784
>>714811905
Less is more :^)

>>714799393
Vulome

>>714801142
>Uses AIslop for notable icons like god powers and minor gods
At least Isis is still a tummyslut

>>714807487
>pay more
>get less
>"hurr durr autismo"

>>714815902
>AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>714826148
There's objectively more content in the remake than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWSUV-RXanI

>>714815902
>>714826179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WO3YXiOuE

Retold is literally the best remake of all time. It's better in every way to the original with new features, new QoL, new gamemodes, one-click modding with an in-game mod browser, better graphics, better unit AI and pathing. Everything is better.
You're a braindead fucking bitter boomer retard if you disagree.

>inb4 some retard points out some inconsequential meaningless shit like athena's voiceover being worse when fixing it is as simple as 1 click

>>714827884
>>>better pathing

Wasn't one of the factions broken due to their unique resource? Favor or something?
Did they do any rebalancing?

>>714818856
>Thinking of printing it out.
for...?

>>714829045
No one has unique resources and everybody uses Favor.

>>714829180
Or in the way that they generate it? It's been a while.

>>714798495 (OP)
yeah and it was pretty nice.
Waiting for the japan dlc now.

>>714829045
You're probably thinking about extended edition china.

It is no longer in the game

>>714829045
People used to say Atlantis was OP partially because their favour generation was super simple and boring (hold town centers, get paid), but they changed that for Retold (get oracles, space them out, get paid)
I will say I appreciate that relics give a tiny amount of favour now as well, there are plenty of relics I just don't give a shit about otherwise

>>714798495 (OP)
What's the best way to play AOM currently? Took a cursory glance at both Extended Edition and Retold and I'm seeing complaints for both of them having broken AI

>>714829715
Retold. Ignore shitposters.

What new civs do you want to see added? Japanese was my number 1, but also hoping for Aztec. Really hoping they go all out like Smite did and added lesser known gods/cultures or more contemporary alt religions. I'm hoping we do get a VooDoo civ and even Lovecraft.

>>714830263

Abrahamic
Let the world burn

>>714830263
Clearly Wakanda.

why does nobody play online

>>714829715
Original. Ignore retards.

>>714830263
Aztecs
Sumeria
Hindu
Zoroaster
Abrahamic for the memes

Keeping the old engine was a mistake

>>714829715
It's definitely retold

how do I maek mod?

I love my wife

>>714829715
retold has better quality of life so go with that

>>714829715
Retold's AI got broken as in it just stopped functioning for maybe an hour total before it was patched

>>714833874
I wish your wife's hero power wasn't garbage tho

>>714798495 (OP)
It is a good game but it would have been popular if only they put actual effort in the new DLCs. Hell they made the titans expansion look good with the new DLCs.

>>714798495 (OP)
The writing of the campaign was way worse than I remembered. Like bad to the level that I would have preferred just simple "you are in the south, attack people in the north" style mission descriptions.

>>714838303
2 first DLCs came free with the premium package so they won't go crazy with them.

>>714838964
What is your biggest grievance that comes to mind?

>>714838985
They could have just made one DLC which pits 2 new factions against each other. Atleast the DLC campaign would have been non-repetitive that way.

>>714800926
The original came out in like 2004, you do the math

>>714838964
I don't like immersion breaking descriptions like that. I remember one WC3 mission simply had the objective as "destroy the red base".

>>714837007
The forest fire is good for early game. It can instantly nuke lumber camps and destroy wood eco. It is also a good counter against tree civs like Gaia and that other Chinese civ.

>>714829715
Retold. The original and titans expansion are still amazing. Don't hold your breath on the chink and jap campaigns tho.

>>714819517
There are 2 problems with making DLCs for AoM anyway:
1. They need 10x more work than AoE2 DLCs
2. They would sell 10x less than AoE2 DLCs

Now that mythology flopped can they keep updating AoE3?

>>714840563
Nope. AoM still has more players than AoE3 lol.

>>714840641
>AoE3 - 3000 players vs AoM - 1500 players

>>714840865
apparently it was a niche hit on consoles, no idea how many players that is tho

>>714840865
It's because AoE 3 base game is f2p.

>>714820710
I remember the anon that scanned that did he ever do rest of the portraits?

so much soul in a single game

>>714841219
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hR4suNzNXrWpZz_fm_5Fz1li5Fu9vhm_?usp=sharing

very high detail scans of very small printed images
still a better source than most

>>714841186
>AoE3DE is free
When the fuck did that happen? Well, that's just sad.

>>714839063
The big bad cyclops feels like he should be the leader of a local bandit group you defeat in the tutorial, so every time he's on screen I'm already taken out of the story.

>>714842496
>not liking mah boy Gargarensis
filtered

>>714841252
That's sexist. The lard ass art director of retold has a strict no sex appeal policy.

>>714841806
nothing a little photoshop can't fix

>>714843581
His neck is looooong

>>714798495 (OP)
>They retroactively made the steam cover art for the previous HD release all grey
M$ are so fucking petty lmao

>>714842662
The writing did indeed filter me.

>>714841252
She exclusively fucks animals.

>>714847985
I can be her animal

I just don't like playing RTS competitively. It's all about rushes and counters.

>>714841806
thanks anon and the OG anon.

>>714848324
git gud

>>714848350
Anytime

But seriously, what is the point of the arena of the gods?
>Skirmishes with an almost nonexistent sliver of narrative and some mostly irrelevant modifiers

>>714848937
screams intern-powered probationary period B-team bullshit to me

>>714800693
Works on my machine, and I unironically have a 760 on my PC

>>714848937
Filler
I wouldn't have minded more of it, honestly, at least it gives us something to do with the modifiers, which I wish we could use elsewhere (and not just in Celestial Challenge, either)
I want to see more crazy Thoth double god tech bullshit

>>714849796
Should be a VS option.
You could even ban the boring bullshit ones if you want

>>714849796
>Making Mountain Giants bigger than titans.
I admit that was fun, especially with the wonder size bug.

>>714798495 (OP)
Didn't play this, since I already played the original and it didn't have anything I was hoping for.
It's just a mediocre RTS and campaign is boring normie slop.

Not even worth a (you)

>>714829715
Original and Titans

Prostagma?

>>714855370
Etimos