This is seriously impressive. I do not know Skyrim too well, but I did not know about the Mods option at all in Age of Empires Definitive Edition. Are there any other specific ones worth playing?
Todd Howard has done it again. Also as a tidbit, around Meeko's Shack is where you'll run into a stray dog, and he'll lead you to the shack. Meeko is dead inside, so you basically adopt the dog in his absense.
Just got done playing this masterpiece! What a fantastic map! It is so authentic and original. A true tour-de-force in aoe2 mapmaking. Upvote from me haha!
I have never played Skyrim. even so, I have been playing AOE2 for years and am especially interested in the custom scenarios. So I can tell this is SUPER impressive
You aren’t missing much. Skyrim is, for all intents and purposes, quite shallow. The modding community is what’s kept it alive and relevant for the last decade. This looks super cool though
I used to make basic RPG settings in AOE II scenario mode. Was a lot of fun. There was a main story that you could get involved in and if you beat hero characters you'd level up your hero unit.
This is amazing! Here's hoping the devs ad support for more RPG elements - travel between maps, with persistent stats/resources, functioning economy, levelling etc. Could be a pretty powerful game engine ...
Outstanding mod! Wish they let us choose the skin/weapon of the Dragonborn. William Wallace = 2H swords, Huskarl = shields, Beserker = axes, Longbowman = bows, Monk = mage, etc.
This is soo old school, make me remember when I was teenager everybody used CS and AOE custom thing to make school map, and this stuff, then no more of that everybody would only do stuff for money, skins in cs 1.6 were made by community for free, today a even worse skin cost a lot.
Wtf... in 12 years of playing skyrim THIS here now brought me to search up "Calixto Corrium" cause of the chat message in "Blood on the Ice" here. I allways blamed the court mage necromant and thought that was it! XD
Yeah it's just Warcraft 3 maps are way too small to cover the whole of Skyrim. It'd have to be a campaign with each map being 1 location, but that sort of ruins the 'open world' aspect.
@@GamerZakh Well, in Frozen Throne - Rexxar Campaign, they sort of dealt with small map problem by "location gateways" - Still the same mission, but multiple maps with waypoint transits. But yes, to get something like this AoE2 map, it would need massive downscaling of everything to fit on the largest W3 map available.
Pretty insane... Who thought it would be a good idea to make skyrim in AOE 2? I mean in a game like diablo maybe but in AOE 2? There were a lot of motivation there.
@@TovKafur What I said was about porting skyrim in Diablo, not Diablo in AOE. Warcraft made so many RPG maps already, wouldn't be so weird to see one in AOE.
Sure it's good for SEO, but that's what it is isn't it? Besides, search is pretty much dead on TH-cam now. Only 1.4% of views on this video are from search. 90% is from TH-cam recommending it based on how people watch and enjoy the video.
Conversion of such magnitude should've been done on Warcraft 3 engine, and you can even replicate the magic and abilities via custom coding. But I doubt one warcraft map could replicate the sheer size of Skyrim. Btw the way they faked terrain elevation with Solitude is just lovely. It reminds me as a kid how I used to fiddling around attempting to create Minas Tirith in Red Alert 2 engine, which use 2d terrain system like this.
Yeah the problem with Warcraft 3 is the maps are way too small and the scale of everything is much bigger. You could do one location on a Warcraft 3 map, so it can't be 'open world' like this. Also there aren't as many graphical assets, with all the different civ designs in AoE 2 you can make all kinds of architecture.
There has been in 2001 a strategy game made by ensemble studio in the universe of star wars, " star wars galactic battleground" if I recall correctly, wouldn't it be great if we had an actual a strategy game set in the elder scrolls universe ?
Why isn't there a fantasy-based AoE graphic stylized game? i remember there was a Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds one, but nothing with Dragons; only Age of Mythology or Stronghold Legends... but still not comparable.
It is Riverwood, not Riverun. I have been wishing for fantasy dlc for AoE2 DE. Like adding myth units, like Undead, vampires, werewolfs, witches and so on.
"Eh, it can't be that accurate" "So now an NPC's pathfinding has bugged out and we can't complete the quest so we'll have to use a console command to fix it" "...Holy shit"
Notice all the tiny details on this map! Really you can just spend a lot of time just looking at it if nothing else.
This is seriously impressive. I do not know Skyrim too well, but I did not know about the Mods option at all in Age of Empires Definitive Edition. Are there any other specific ones worth playing?
Super awesome video. I am definitely interested in AoE now. Please more Caesar 3 custom maps! I just found Caesar 3 Heaven ❤
Even includes the bugs, truly an authentic Skyrim experience
Haha I know! NPCs bugging out is a part of Skyrim
The spirit of Todd Howard permeates everything
Todd Howard has done it again.
Also as a tidbit, around Meeko's Shack is where you'll run into a stray dog, and he'll lead you to the shack. Meeko is dead inside, so you basically adopt the dog in his absense.
Meeko IS the dog, his dead owner is just a unnamed nord.
Otherwise... "dead inside"... why steal a depresed mans dog? XD
That looks like an interesting concept, maybe this scenario should be made into a full 3D rpg
Hmm, i am not sure if People would like such a Game, seems like you are wandereing a lot around.
dunno, but the game might buggy as hell
@@bristleback3614 nah, under the right circumstances it counts as features, not bugs
I heard they had some great ideas on LoversLab
Found Howard's burner
The sheer amount of details in the map makes me very happy. Kudos to the map maker, truly a fantastic work! Beautiful!
Alternate universe where:
- Interplay bought the Elder Scrolls IP and are now the makers of Fallout and ES games
- Todd becomes a Chess Grandmaster
Who's laughing now?
Hmmm ... a Fallout RTS?
@@Appletank8 we need a actual fallout and elder scrolls rts, seriously we need a new warcraft 3 to fill the void
@@highbahamut6188 considering Fallout started off isometric, it's a wonder why no one else made a fallout mod.
@@Appletank8ever heard of Fallout Tatics?
As a fan of both AoE 2 & Skyrim, this is just pure bliss.
Ikr!!!
one does wonder how badass an actual 2D version of Skyrim would be
the 'dragon' is a komodo dragon XD
Haha best choice I think
Maybe someone should make a 3d first person version of this. That seems like it would be really cool.
🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
And finally Skyrim was released on AoE2. That's Todds final frontier
The "court wizard", there is one in each castle in the game, you are just remembering the one from Whiterun.
Just got done playing this masterpiece! What a fantastic map! It is so authentic and original. A true tour-de-force in aoe2 mapmaking. Upvote from me haha!
Awesome job Zakh! Thank you for finding such a great content!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
In the first minute I could pretty much tell what all of the locations were. Very impressive design.
I have never played Skyrim. even so, I have been playing AOE2 for years and am especially interested in the custom scenarios. So I can tell this is SUPER impressive
You aren’t missing much. Skyrim is, for all intents and purposes, quite shallow. The modding community is what’s kept it alive and relevant for the last decade. This looks super cool though
I used to make basic RPG settings in AOE II scenario mode. Was a lot of fun. There was a main story that you could get involved in and if you beat hero characters you'd level up your hero unit.
that small house on bleak barrow with the witch inside is insane detail
Beautiful! Sometimes I think of creating an RPG campaign map using AoE 2.
Two of my favourite games in one map : amazing work !
This is wild! What a great map!
It's definitely scaled down but I didn't even think some of these graphics could mix like that.
such excellent attention to detail
Probably my two favorite games of all time. Very impressive with all the little details included!
This is amazing! Here's hoping the devs ad support for more RPG elements - travel between maps, with persistent stats/resources, functioning economy, levelling etc. Could be a pretty powerful game engine ...
Imagine remaking this map in Age of Mythology retold it would be crazy
My two favorite games of all time. Now i want to see AGE2 remade in skyrim.
If you like this kind of map you should try Children of Memories in Age of Mythology, Titans expansion. It's available on Steam workshop ;)
Todd conquering the world of video games with Skyrim.
wow... theres so many recognizable landscapes such meticulous detail
Outstanding mod! Wish they let us choose the skin/weapon of the Dragonborn. William Wallace = 2H swords, Huskarl = shields, Beserker = axes, Longbowman = bows, Monk = mage, etc.
This is soo old school, make me remember when I was teenager everybody used CS and AOE custom thing to make school map, and this stuff, then no more of that everybody would only do stuff for money, skins in cs 1.6 were made by community for free, today a even worse skin cost a lot.
Niiiice, I love playing Diplo. This will be great
41:08 - Imperial Trader: "nothing to see here, I'll continue with my trade"
You already had the court wizard (Wuunferth) appraise the item, it was a part of the Blood on the Ice quest in Windhelm. 😄
Ah that makes sense haha, thanks.
This is very fascinating. You could have the empire and storm cloaks not produce eco and rely on the city states for eco
Is Wololo equivalent to the Bend Will (Gol Hah Dov) shout 😂
Wtf... in 12 years of playing skyrim THIS here now brought me to search up "Calixto Corrium" cause of the chat message in "Blood on the Ice" here. I allways blamed the court mage necromant and thought that was it! XD
Can't help but imagine how crazy this would be with all the map maker tools you get in Warcraft 3. Cinematics and triggers, actual shops, etc.
Yeah it's just Warcraft 3 maps are way too small to cover the whole of Skyrim. It'd have to be a campaign with each map being 1 location, but that sort of ruins the 'open world' aspect.
@@GamerZakh Well, in Frozen Throne - Rexxar Campaign, they sort of dealt with small map problem by "location gateways" - Still the same mission, but multiple maps with waypoint transits. But yes, to get something like this AoE2 map, it would need massive downscaling of everything to fit on the largest W3 map available.
I would just play a crpg with these graphics any day.
Meeko's shack was where you found Meeko the dog in the game who you could have as a follower.
I wanna see Morrowind too...
21:12 it's the infamous "Blood on the Ice" quest. Known for being one of the buggiest quests in the game
Pretty insane... Who thought it would be a good idea to make skyrim in AOE 2? I mean in a game like diablo maybe but in AOE 2? There were a lot of motivation there.
Yeah the map maker said they spent 2 years making this. Could have even more added but it's playable now.
Jokes on you, there were two DIablo maps for HD. Maybe were ported to DE, i don't know.
@@TovKafur What I said was about porting skyrim in Diablo, not Diablo in AOE.
Warcraft made so many RPG maps already, wouldn't be so weird to see one in AOE.
@@GamerZakh It's crazy, thanks for the playthrough !
One thing I always thought would be cool to have would be Shadowmere, the horse that can tank most things because of his high HP regen.
Jeanne D'Arc's character picture on AoE2 does look like Lydia to me. 😮
love how I recognized the major cities
Bro, i really love this work.. Maybe if the map has fog and lock camera to dragonborn will be more fun..
THIS. IS. AMAZING! 🔥
Skyrim fandom is so nuts in all the best ways haha
The best start is that it’s essentially version 1.0 which it can only get better as the creator or the community make additions and improvements to it
loved it
This is EPIC!
Skyrim x AOE2 video? Milk that SEO, king.
Sure it's good for SEO, but that's what it is isn't it? Besides, search is pretty much dead on TH-cam now. Only 1.4% of views on this video are from search. 90% is from TH-cam recommending it based on how people watch and enjoy the video.
I once made a map where you could buy items for your individual character, they should add that.
This just works.
it just works!
Conversion of such magnitude should've been done on Warcraft 3 engine, and you can even replicate the magic and abilities via custom coding. But I doubt one warcraft map could replicate the sheer size of Skyrim.
Btw the way they faked terrain elevation with Solitude is just lovely. It reminds me as a kid how I used to fiddling around attempting to create Minas Tirith in Red Alert 2 engine, which use 2d terrain system like this.
Yeah the problem with Warcraft 3 is the maps are way too small and the scale of everything is much bigger. You could do one location on a Warcraft 3 map, so it can't be 'open world' like this. Also there aren't as many graphical assets, with all the different civ designs in AoE 2 you can make all kinds of architecture.
such a shame. Back in the Forgotten Empires mod there was an actual dragon unit in the scenario editor, but they removed it for the official release
AMAZING!
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Everyone is trying to turn Skyrim into another game then someone made a game into Skyrim
HOW HAS NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE?!?!
I think a lot of people thought of it, but it took this map maker 2 years to make it. That's the tricky part haha
It looks awsome, but for some reason I think Age of Mithology would've been a better choice. But still, amazin work!
There has been in 2001 a strategy game made by ensemble studio in the universe of star wars, " star wars galactic battleground" if I recall correctly, wouldn't it be great if we had an actual a strategy game set in the elder scrolls universe ?
I pointed at the screen... the boat... the boat!
what a nice work
playing as all 8 players at same time
Was I the only one screaming at the computer through the whole Windham part? My 1000 hours of Skyrim are showing I'm sure. Also 22:17 Facepalm
Lol I'm sure you're not the only one, I find it eventually. I just haven't played Skyrim properly for a bit when I made this video.
Now make AOE2 in Skyrim!
Skyrim from Alduin's perspective.
As a map maker who love make complex triggers systems I am interested in seeing all the triggers this map has
There's quite a lot that I didn't do in this video. Special dragons, tons of side quests.
neato!
Ah yes the bugs. It wouldn't be a faithful adaptation without them. This is legit Skyrim right here 8:20
21:58 a boat with your color spawned, you can probably use this one then :)
Yeah I find it in a bit
We need more RPGRTS games.
Riverwood bridge is bigger than the entire village.
Amazing
This shows how the quests in the game are all around the map, forcing the player to fast travel everywhere.
Yeah that's probably why the map maker made the dragonborn walk so fast.
Better than Starfield
05:20 Well i allways do, the Voicelines are way better then
Reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic
ok but just reminder now they belong to the same house the two games
Haha that's true! There could be an official crossover if Microsoft wanted.
How about Morrowind? Imagine if the units shouted "Die, fetcher!" and "You N'wah!" as they attacked yours.😁
I wonder if you're intended to - or if you even could - convert Odahviing with Esbern?
bruh tailor-made for me
skyrim in a mixt of a RTS/old fallout 2d isometric( trimetric to be precise) game
cool i have to try it are they making it for age of empires 4 to
Why isn't there a fantasy-based AoE graphic stylized game? i remember there was a Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds one, but nothing with Dragons; only Age of Mythology or Stronghold Legends... but still not comparable.
there was one of LOTR in the HD edition idk if ones been made for DE.
This is insane, are there more RPG type scenarios??
There are, some very complex and detailed maps out there.
This is adorable lol
Breton dragonborn? Archery build it is.
この作品に祝福あれだ。
I cannot believe that Todd Howard blatantly stole this idea 1:1 12 years ago..
But what about playing AoEII in Skyrim? 😏
It is Riverwood, not Riverun.
I have been wishing for fantasy dlc for AoE2 DE. Like adding myth units, like Undead, vampires, werewolfs, witches and so on.
Yeah checking the subtitles, I say Riverwood 6 times but I say Riverun accidentally once.
I'm not buying any AoE dlc, not even for Skyrim. A good map would be compatible for most players
"Eh, it can't be that accurate"
"So now an NPC's pathfinding has bugged out and we can't complete the quest so we'll have to use a console command to fix it"
"...Holy shit"
Haha the accuracy is crazy.
The most expensive free workshop map
Haha yeah needing all the DLC is a bit restrictive.
Dragons the size of alligators. I guess they're medieval english dragons?
I can' seem to change the player, getting stuck with windhelm (blue)
Oh make sure cheats are enabled when you're creating the map.