The Best Strategy Game You Never Played: Age of Mythology

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Excuse you "Never Played". This game was my childhood

47:04 Hades also has a massive reason for helping the heroes keep Tartarus closed seeing as he lives next door.

What’s insane is that Arkantos is basically retired by the time Fall of the Trident begins. There’s so much back story behind his character that I would love to see in the form of campaigns in the new aom Retold

GGG: "Atlanteans, the 4th and final faction in AOM" China: "Am I a joke to you" Everyone else: " Yes, yes you are"

Came for a retrospective of my favorite childhood RTS, stayed for the Crocodile rants. Justice for Sobek

I love that the resolution to the conflict with Kronos is to call his mom

Okay so, one reason I think you had Set as the patron God in Mission 13 (the tug of war mission) is probably because of the betrayal right at the start of the NEXT mission - most likely it shows that the base you used for mission 13 was actually worshipping Set, and thus turned on you the moment you got the God piece. I thought it was a fairly smart piece of foreshadowing, while also giving you a chance to test Set stuff for a bit in the campaign.

This is my second listen through - and I just wanted to say that your enthusiasm and passion is absolutely infectious and brightened up my day! This game was also a massive part of my childhood so it is nice to be able to re-experience it with a guide.

It was almost a joke in my old friend circle how like 70% of us learned our ancient mythologies through those unit info pages. I remember my bro and I playing this game back in the day, he was partial to the Norse and their more aggro playstyle, whereas I tended towards Egypt cause I liked their myth units more. So many good memories, we might even still have the physical disks back home buried somewhere, if any of our computers can run it.

This was the game that introduced me to both strategy games and ancient mythologies. Thank you for the wonderful memories mom.

Every time I leave youtube on autoplay, it ends up playing this video at some point 😂😅

1:27:22 I've always been surprised they didn't remove the Roc from this mission for the sole reason that it can be used to completely ignore Kamos' main base and attack him directly and quickly beat the mission in under 10 minutes. It's fairly simple: get to the town center, rush ages, worship Hathor, build a Roc, put as many powerful units into it as you can, fly south to the starting island, east to the eastern corner of the map and then follow the map border up to the rear of Kamos' base, disembark your units from the Roc and attack Kamos himself. Once he reaches a certain health threshold, you win.

You are so right about sound design. Hearing the voice lines from the units was an instant nostalgia hit. Far bigger than any of the visuals.

Small fact regarding the market introduction at Troy mission 2. The market at the center of Troy is connected to the smaller city on the right side of the map and the settlement near your base is just for unit expansion/supply. If you explored the map a bit more you’d see the trading units going between the main market and smaller city, and there are also relics in the smaller city. Also, there is gold on the smaller ocean islands, incentivizing new players to explore.

I think I spent as much time playing as I did reading everything about the units, buildings, weapons, missions, etc. It was literally an encyclopedia and even had passages from a lot of works from their civilizations. I kid you not, this inspired me to read the classics when I was younger.

2:41:00 The reference ''as the raids keep coming and they dont stop coming'' really got me

Age of Mythology was one of the first PC games i played as a kid. It came out when i was 7 or 8 years old and saw my father playing it and wanted to play it too, so i did. I loved it so much, that i even did drawings of the heros and monsters.

Fun fact about Osiris in myth: his wife, your “patron goddess who shall not be named” was able to find every part of his body except one. The one missing part was the one most important for cough husbandly duties. So she made a replacement out of gold, brought him back to life and he lived exactly long enough to cough perform once, before dying again.

I grew up with this classic, glad its getting some recognition.