That sad moment when he said he'd do another AoM video if and when this one hits 10K likes, (20:55) and this one has passed 70K and you're still waiting for the second AoM video.
The problem is not Spiff, but the game itself. AoM Extended Edition had a patch for this exploit. And the game do not have an interesting exploit for now to just cheese the game. So yeah, it's not only him, but more "what I'm gonna say/do".
@@jeremierenaud128 not having a cheese exploit ain't really an excuse when just tweaking the team distribution can give you some wacky matches like a 3v3v3v3 on a big map
Or Amanra saying "be quiet back there!" right before something happens. My headcanon is it's one of the gods warning her of something right before it happens.
The main reason why I love this game more than age of empires 2 besides nostalgia will have to be that this game made me a huge fan of mythology. I used to spend hours just reading the descriptions of buildings and units trying to learn the mythology. I find it fun to play the game once in a while and now actually know the mythology behind most of the units, gods and buildings in this game. Also Canadian superhero bears are goddam hilarious
For me it was the variety of the different religions and gods in them, also Best cheats of rts games, though it was hard to beat “hoyohoyo” cheat to make priests move at ridiculous speeds
I spent so many hours reading the descriptions of things in this game. It's why I turned into a mythology buff. (Did you know that the random old man who says "Run! More Bandits!" is a berry picker? That's how deep into the detailed help I got.) WUV WOO is great too.
He won against 11 Titan ai: th-cam.com/video/SjjtrypJliQ/w-d-xo.html I think you owe Boit 1000 yorkshire teabags. Or you can't count because there are only 11 slots for the ai. Lure is a good god power for having some save hunt ;) Titan difficulty gives the ai +100% on gatherrate and building rate but nothing else like popcap or so. There are not that many players online but you dont have to wait too long for game, the artwork of the game is awesome but the "new addon" made by skybox labs with chinese suck and this version have many issues. Play the original on voobly!
Age of Mythology was just more visually interesting to me than Age of Empires 2, and the encyclopedia even pointed out where the myths and the playable units diverged. Also, the factions were more distinct, which I appreciated.
I loved reading about the mythology and history behind different units. Even the flags in the campaign had descriptions about how they were used in ancient forms of communication, status, and symbolism. From fact to fiction, I learned a lot more from AoM than any other RTS I've ever played. There weren't as many civs as AoE, but each one was completely different in appearance and gameplay, instead of having something like +5% militia hp or +1 siege range. AoE was great, too, though (although as a kid I loved 3 more than 2 because it was easier to turtle)
I never played AoE2 or AoM seriously. I was pretty much a kid at the time. So anything like strategy or balance has no impact on my memory of the games. However, I definitely did like AoM better, mostly for the fantasy elements and magic. God powers and mythical creatures were the things I liked to play with, and I always enjoyed mythology in general. By comparison most of my memory of playing AoE2 is trebuchets and wololo
I loved Age of Mythology more than Age of empires II precisely because each civ had unique units, and even between those civs, some factions had unique units within those civs. It made AoM much more interesting to me, whereas AOE II was so bland and boring... many civs, but same units... and just one unique unit in some. I was also frustrated with the AI system in aoe 2 ... It made me feel like I'm fighting Jim Carrey trolling the fuck outta me.
This was my reason too. I really love mythology and fantasy, so the "fantasy spin-offs" in genres (AoM vs AoE2, Age of Wonders vs Civ, etc.) are almost always my preference because of the theme being more appealing to me.
Starting to think that a lot of people don't actually value any post-launch support. Like it all should be free because...? Appreciate that some devs give free stuff but don't bitch and moan that others don't, they've got no obligation to give you free shit just because you did a capitalist transaction with them for their product. It's especially the case with Paradox stuff, and they both give shit away for free and have other things be DLC. If it's work they did after the game was released and not stuff that they cut from the game, then you've got no leg to stand on to call it "paywalling".
@@Oujouj426 I understand what your talking about but I agree with the other side. If you pay 60 dollars for a game and 2 months later you have to pay another 10 for something that was probably going to be in the game before but was cut from the base to make more money then it's just unfair for the consumer. I think that there can be a happy medium with payed dlc, but we haven't reached it yet
Age of Mythology was released 2002 the first xpac "The titans" was released 2003 the second xpac "tales of the dragon" was released 2016. Extendend edition simply basic version + the first xpac and some minor changes, it was released 2014.
I love AoM, more than any other RTS I’ve ever played tbh. I love the mythology and the ancient setting and all the units ab heroes and gods that come with it. Will always be one of my favs.
AOM over AOE any day - I love the mythology aspect, the campaign is great and I also prefer the less cluttered graphics style of AOM. That said I still adore AOE2, but AOM holds a real special place in my heart.
The enemy AI in aoe2 is an absolute masterpiece. Instead of cheating to get an unfair advantage, the AI is actually handicapped unless you play on harder difficulties. Compared to that the AI of aom and is rather mediocre and aoe3 is even worse. Other than that I like nearly everything about aom. Wish we had a definitive version of aom too.
I love the Atheism Expansion where you can wait for eternity to see slime struck by lightning to become Frankenslime, and wehre sandcastles erode into existence because intelligent design is for religitards. Plot twist. In the atheist parallel univese, this comment was typed accidentallyby a cat walking on a keyboard since intelligent design is for religitards. Atheism wins again. North Koreans give me thumbs up.
@@satibel The AOE 2 HD hardest AI doesn't cheat (the standard edition ones did cheat) and is honestly pretty fucking good. Welp, it kinda "cheats" in the way it has naturally a much better reaction time and better micro than what an human could have, but it doesn't cheat for ressources or things like that. If you're interested : th-cam.com/video/-S1CkfzEHSU/w-d-xo.html
Spiff: "I'm going to defeat four AI opponents by cheating and maxing out all my numbers unfairly" Also Spiff: "These four AI opponents are defeating me by cheating and maxing out all their numbers, that's so unfair"
It's also tremendously difficult even with cheat codes active such as spamming God powers... UNLESS the God power you're spamming with infinite uses is "Tartarian Gate". This is the only thing strong enough to defeat 12 Titan AI... Is just spamming that power over and over again on their stuff. And that's only if the opponent isn't Isis or anyone with a Hesperides tree, which makes this strategy tremendously more difficult.
Actually the ai doesnt cheat in any of the aoe games. It’s one of the design principles for the series. In Age of Mythology, the Titan AI gets double resources, but that’s all.
@@samuelmcl.9474 Sorry, but that's just not true. Titan AI not only has doubled resources, they have extremely fast building times, and can build a Town Center on an empty settlement with a single builder/laborer in about 3 seconds -- and faster than that with more laborers. I've witnessed this myself... And it's especially bad on Deathmatch settings or full visibility.
This game was my childhood, gotta say I'm sad to hear nobody likes it :( While I do now prefer playing AOE2, I still think AOM is in many ways a more fun game.
This game was my childhood as well,i must have played the campaign at least 3-4 times. Also i played countless games against my brother using lan. I never played aoe
Well, I think I like age of mythology purely based on nostalgy factor. When I was like 9, I was extremely into greek mythology, and my dad bought me this game for my birthday so it has a special place in my heart
Age of empires may be “objectively” a better game by design buuuuut the reason I am a bigger fan of AOM is because the mythology. There is to this day no game that allows a player to pick a civ/god or goddess, choose sub upgrades and allows the player to make freaking myth units in this way. While the mechanics may be... questionable at times the sheer balls this game has. It was the first game I ever played and I think one of the early night ones to say “next age! Now... what bonuses do you want? What units do you want?” That strategic choice gives it such replay-ability. And of course some games allow some myth units or god powers but the sheer number is impressive for a... 19 year old game. Wow 19. Now my rant is over I think I’ll go have a mid life crisis.
Age of Empires has mythology too, like the myth that Huns had atheism. I love the Atheism Expansion where you can wait for eternity to see slime struck by lightning to become Frankenslime, and wehre sandcastles erode into existence because intelligent design is for religitards. Plot twist. In the atheist parallel univese, this comment was typed accidentallyby a cat walking on a keyboard since intelligent design is for religitards. Atheism wins again. North Koreans give me thumbs up.
Age of Mythology was my favorite strat game when it came out back in the day. That “dlc” was an expansion pack released a year or so after the original and was actually a separate physical disk. 00’s nostalgia in full effect
Chinese dlc released with the steam version. releasing a dlc 10+ years after the fact on *the* childhood game for many people is like restoring an antique but painting it a different color. make it a free mod or a standalone with a different launcher but don't muddy the original product. i don't like how the extended edition makes some of the mid-day, sunny bright maps look overcast or evening time either, they added shadows and different day times but i loved the original sunny landscapes with overhead sun as a kid and i want the same experience now. the steam version is also plagued with constant stuttering. i wish we could just play the original through steam.
@@hschan5976 thats what we want lol (worse for the protection racket) That is why parliment and EU won't allow No Deal, as that is worse for the EU. And we must remember, remoaners and tree hugging "compromise" leavers are literally making this happen. The ERG has been firm all the way through. I am hoping that we won't go passed 22 May as that would mean we would have to pay more to the failed organisation called the EU to their corrupt (won't ever work) central bank system. And we certainly DON't want that. It is already ridiculous, you have this much BS to get out of a supposedly "free loving, free trade, free movement" organisation and PAY to exit. It's a farce, a joke and laughable. In 2016, we should have not triggered article 50 and veto'd everything they wanted to do. Got our shit in order, a deal that made us better (whilst stirring up some issues for the EUP by speaking to some outward member (countries) "states") and then delivered it to Juncker and say deal or no deal. If its no, we just go to WTO rules with a giant middle finger up at the Protection Racket EU. Then again, it will all come to past eventually. As EU have so many problems, we can easily see its going the way of the 3rd HRE.
@@METALFREAK03 Really the blame is with UK politicians. Especially the leavers that seem to have no plan at all for how they wish to leave. Except maybe if you are a Hard Brexiter and do not care of there is a agreement or not. But then you should know that those that are more soft would want actually want some form of deal. So it would be in you interested to actually get the parliament to agree on a no deal exit before the exit happens or parliament may out of desperation revoke article 50. In the end is a mess becomes your politician in UK messed things up. You do not really have anyone else to blame really. If you plan is on the level of the underpants gnomes then you know you have a bad plan (Trigger article 50 -> ??? -> Profit!)
+Frank Spencer Yeah, _"the EU [and] their corrupt (won't ever work) central bank system"_ is a problem, but the Bank of England was running a corrupt private central bank system long before the EU was. Brexit or Bremain, deal or no deal: The imperial oligarchs win. Time to think outside the box.
I love AoM, the fact that you don't know what your opponents tech tree is going to be, due to multiple tiers of mutually exclusive choices, means you have less ability to predict opposing player build orders. Plus god powers could be used for all sorts of shenanigans, but the game was still surprisingly well balanced. Both story campaigns were cracking as well, and it still looks ok visually nowadays as well.
I went back to playing AOM because of this video back when the lockdown began. But this time actually playing with pro build orders, tactics and strategies learning it off the internet. And it's been great. Thanks to Boit too for his regular uploads which has helped me learn a lot. Thank you for this video.
The Sun never sets on the British Empire, hmm? I'd say the sun never sets on the British Empire because even the devil didn't trust the English in the dark.
Age of Mythology is fantastic and you can't change my mind... only because of its campaign and because mythology is great. Would I consider multiplayer? No. No I wouldn't
Age of mythology ''Titans'' was my very first tactical game, enjoyed it ever so much and really introduced me to the world of gaming. Don't know the difference between the two games, but I just really like the Progressive system in Titans and all the units. the campaign was also epic.
@@tomatoheadfd Titans added Atlantean civilization and added to the campaign additionally Titans were introduced. And yes the multiplayer back then was really fun!
Oh god, please......PLEASE.....do C&C Tiberian Sun. There are so many broken Units in this game pre addon (Nod Artillery *cough*), and with the Firestorm addon came even more broken Units (Reapers *cough, cough*).
Love the video, love the game. Also titans are bound to fraction, and not to a specific god. (all Greek Gods get Cerberus, all Egyptian Gods get Ra, etc. )
If Age of Mythology had the same level of mechanical/technical polish as AoE II, I think a number of people would have preferred it. The whole hero/myth unit/regular unit weakness triangle, heroes and myth units in general, god powers, faith as a resource, etc. was a pretty cool system, really. There has been some vague rumbling about additional attention to the game, either via an update or via a sequel; will be interesting to see what happens if that pans out.
This was the first game I have a strong memory of playing when I was a kid. I must've put hundreds of hours into it. I played it again and still enjoy it and reminds me of when I was a kiddo Honestly this game is what got me into RTS' and history
I love the Atheism Expansion where you can wait for eternity to see slime struck by lightning to become Frankenslime, and wehre sandcastles erode into existence because intelligent design is for religitards. Plot twist. In the atheist parallel univese, this comment was typed accidentallyby a cat walking on a keyboard since intelligent design is for religitards. Atheism wins again. North Koreans give me thumbs up.
There's no need to fight the laser crocodiles, just get Thor to flex his epic pecs and send us forward in time to the '40s so we can defeat Hitler before he learns Kung Fu. Remember not to Hassle the Hoff and we'll be fine.
Found another stacking glich where you have to be lucky to find 2 of the same relic, you can then put them in your temple and remove them by clicking on their respective icons, after that put them back again. Just repeat until the desired effect is high enough for you. Works with every relic, you just need duplicates. This includes reducing prices, movement and gathering speed and attack of certain units. And my favourite, cool-down of mythical units special. Just get some Cyclops units and watch the enemy’s fly ;)
I actually preferred age of mythology more than aoe2. Ive always had a soft spot for all the different mythology units and all the different and weird strats you could use with them and the unique god powers. China is still trash though. Seriously dont know why they went with chinese mythos. Easily the most boring out of all of the weird and neat mythologys out there. At the same time, chinese also probably play the closest to aoe2... they even get priests that can wololo xD But still :T The campaigns also loads of fun. I mean its not top tier riveting story telling but the way they weave you through all the different areas right up til the end where you start getting units from every faction in a gloriously over the top final battle. Absolutely cheesy but mmmmmm... good cheese. And thats not even getting into the Titan expansion and how utterly ridiculous it gets towards the end.
Too keep things short, I only played the OG. But AoE II felt boring and stale compared to AoM. AoMs OG campa had about 50 missions with atlantean tutorial (5?) then greek, egypt, norse and 3 atlantean finishing missions..... wait, those might have been considered prologue and epilogue.... it's been too long... I have no idea how multiplayer games feel as I only played about 10 games in a LAN network united with friends, so no one complained about balance issues. Though for factions it was easily sorted into norse > egypt > greek back in the day for many reasons such as LOKI being -easy- fun to play. SMITE would be proud.
@@magnusalexandersson9587 The might and magic series is pretty good from what i remember. i never played any of them, but i watched my dad when i was a wee lass P:
No they shouldn't have had antoher God DLC... They should have just worked on expanding the current groups with more units and better pathing. But most importantly, they needed to make the damn campaigns better. Like they went quantity over quality so they all sucked. Because let's be real, who actually played that stupid dwarf campaign they made?
I loved this game as a kid because it actually taught me a ton of mythology, turned into a life long interest of mine. Also the campaign was more compelling than AoE2. When I was a little kid, I didn't even consider multiplayer so balance wasn't a concern.
I loved this game cause I'm a massive mythology nerd! Also, the chinese DLC was created for the steam rerelease of the game in like 2016 so it can't even use the "early 2000s" excuse. The Titans dlc, which is actually from like 04 is genuinely quite good tho
He must be using egyptian roc, petsuchos, priest, and catapult in the team migration map. They start invading the enemy home base and abandoning our base. After they migrated to the main island, we destroy their base and buld a wall around the island and since the enemy base are long, we can train some caravan to get infinity gold. Then we start to turn their settlement become our town center the you got 300 population since your enemy has 12 settlement int heir base. And for the invading the mainland, just use petsuchos and priest since their training just cost gold and favour, using roc and claim some land and after that build some temple to create unlimited priest, because myth unit and titan's weakness are hero, and priests are hero unit. There you have it, 1vs12 in titan difficulity
Anyone remember that mission called like "unfinished business" or something where you go back and kill the Minotaur guy named Kamos and they say you have to move your base over to this other island, but you just never do it and these settlers keep making colossus' for you so you just leave and come back in 20m minutes and have like 40 colossuses and just dominate
I just let the game run while i ate dinner and came back to 30 collossuses then bird taxied them over and cleaned up. broken mission either way@@JoshSweetvale
Age of Mythology was one of the best games I've played in childhood, and it has an amazing mod community at AOM Heaven, they also have a decent map editor with different triggers that made even me as a child have a blast! It wasn't hard at all to create great and silly maps all in the name of having fun. If you haven't already seen the AoM heaven mod community, I highly recommend you do so, they have really fun maps to play with!
I have aot of nostalgia for Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, but BOY is that game totally broken. Buildings are ridiculously tough because most everything is ranged and it still uses AOE2 logic. Troopers are pretty worthless because mechs one-shot them, and the Mangonel equivalent is so slow and has such a small aoe attack that it is nowhere near as good as the mangonel. And this is only scratching the surface.
Clunk 42 I’m pretty sure it is the thing that shoots blue projectiles from the Heavy Weapons Factory. I think it’s called “Artillery.” That building is the “Siege Workshop” equivalent. You also get AA vehicles and Pummels (aka battering rams) from there. The description says it is good against units, but it’s projectiles are slow as hell and have a pretty small blast radius, unlike the Mango, which has a decent spread and projectile speed.
Watching this in 2022 and feeling both horrified that this game came out *so so long ago* and feeling called out with spiffing brit talking about still playing in 2019, when I replayed the campaign for the 5th time earlier this year. As a huge RTS and mythology fan this is one of my all time favourite games!
AOM has a fantastic campaign (let me finish) for casual players. AOE isn’t nearly as fun to play non competitively which gets very repetitive . But because of the complexity it sucks to program for it and there’s so much to try and balance when you have a billion different units a god powers going on. You might say that oh but AOE has a lot of empires but they’re much much more subtle in there differences. Most have the same units etc.
as someone with over 1000 hours on aoe2, and have maybe played 2 of those hours against other humans, i'd have to disagree with ya on the not nearly as fun. the amount of glitches and stuff with this game makes it actually not fun for me to play, but its fun to play through a game once in awhile.
@@NyxYuski I'm with you man. I had a lot of fun on AoE 1/2 campaigns, scenario editor, and simple comp stomps as a kid. AoE2 HD with mods makes it even more fun with custom maps, campaigns, aesthetic stuff, and music. I dig the new expansions they made too.
There was actually a pretty huge modding/custom map making scene for AoM back in the day (dunno if it's still going). Check out Age of Mythology Heaven.
Amazing game, it's one of the games that got me into Greek mythology and now I'm studying history in college. So this game has a Speical place in my heart
Agreed. I had the same experience with Age of Mythology. It not only got me hooked with Greek and Egyptian mythology, but also worked as an introduction to my love for the love of wisdom. I'm happy to know I'm not the only one.
AoM beats AoE because of the mythic units, god powers and most of all, faster gameplay. In AoM a game is called late game if it exceeds 20 minutes. In AoE it only begins after 20min. still like AoE though ^^ edit: I don't like coffee.
Same, I pretty much never used human units unless I had to. Hydras that become more powerful the more they kill? Yes please! Laser crocodiles? I'll take 20! Summoning Nidhogg himself to devour your enemies? Shut up and take my money!
What I used to do. - Pick Loki. - Train a shit load of Hersirs. - Loki's passive god power spawns free myth units when fighting. - Laugh in a million myth units.
O m f g !!!! Your strategy Is fucking amazing AND unique!!! I imagine only a superior mínd like yours could have build such a remarkable strategy... With the exception of the whole entire world of course...
My strat: -Go Kronos -Get hero villagers (makes resources a breeze later on) -Get decent response to opponent first wave (Such as anti-myth with hero units to counter Loki.) -Rush to Heroic Age -Begin palace spam (and mirror towers if I take Helios) -Slowly warp towers, palaces, etc. into enemy base while attacking with army -All else fails, heroic villager spam build titan gate
@@thespiffingbrit I agree completely. I will now pronounce Hephaestus only the way you do, and tell everyone else that they are, in fact, pronouncing it wrong.
To my fellow brit. Thankyou for taking me back to a good 8years worth of age of empires age of mythology, empire earth and total war games too. But the first two on this list are truly legendary. I've got my old discs and alot of those games on my old desktop pc, still works too, my 8 year old son loves playing these games and learns alot more from these games than he does in school sometimes. Enjoy your tea sir. You deserve many boxes of Yorkshire tea as a reward for this video alone
Age of Mythology is easily one of my favorite games of all time. It was my first rts and my friends and I played it for hours upon hours together. I've actually bought it about 4 times, the last time being on steam since I kept losing my copies
I prefer Age of Mythology to Age of Empires II for a number of reasons: 1. The "mythology" part. That splash of the fantastical makes the setting feel more unique and otherworldly. Plus the god powers and myth units are a lot of fun; you can't crush ships with krackens or strike enemies with lightning in Age of Empires II! 2. The graphics are better, because it's 3D instead of the 2D that Age of Empires II gave us. This makes the maps, buildings, and units look prettier. 3. Simple Nostalgia. Age of Mythology was the first "Age of [blank]" game I encountered, and made up a lot of my childhood.
I have many of the same reasons but the game, truth be told, has an amazing editor and an amazing capacity for just atmosphere, amazing capacity for character. IT was just a game with amazing character and everything felt unique and you had a reason to make it, jus tfor the sake of experiencing it.
@@TARDISES Now this would get me back into editing! I was planning on making a semi conversion of AOE adding a faction or two, and adding an interesting mechanic. (Villager -> needed to train human units). If any of this is possible, and please tell me there is a website that does this. You saying this got me beyond excited for AOM all over again, as well as the new and "improved" re-release (Chinese should be free damn it for the lack of effort the devs put in)
@@jackperry8011 the best was definetly the lazer bear with the canadian flag on its back or good old chicken meteor they had some amazing random cheats which were quite fun to throw in also i heard we might get a second age of mythology
Unfortunately I'm not always able to have a nice cup of tea because I'm sometimes of the house, but I'm glad to say that today I have a lovely cup of Twinings of London Earl Grey tea. Ah, Earl Grey, the beverage of choice of who may arguably be the best Starfleet captain of all time.
Welcome, friend, remember not to drink with measure, tea overexposure gives you British powers, such as: free monocles, game exploiting, and free third-world sweatshops for every thousandth cup of tea. Cheerio!
AoM was the first rts game I ever played, i believe. Loved that game growing up! We eventually learned all the silly cheats and broke the game contstantly. Personal fave: O canada Im also fairly certain that this game is the reason I absolutely love resource managment games and the like. Whenever im looking for a new game, AoM pops up in my head as a baseline for what im looking for
The campaign is one of the best, the addition of mythology taught me a lot as a kid about it and sparked an interest to learn more about it. Also the steam rating currently is super high what are you on about
Star Wars promotes relativism which is so stupid it defeats itself. If there is no absolute truth, is that absolutely true? "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
Spiff I just have to say, awhile ago, I got sick and started watching your videos. Besides making me wish I was british, I learned to drink tea when I watched your videos (Lipton black, mixed with raspberry and a tea spoon of sugar). I not only got better, but now I'm addicted to tea. Thank you Spiff for showing me the way to the communitea. Hats off to you fine sir 🎩
The Age of Mythology campaign was legendary
Yeah it ruined my exam-week :(
Oh heck ya. I haven't played in years, but i do remember loving the crap outta the campaign as a kid
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@@leremythe4083 etimos
"i am an expert in this game"
"what are these laser crocodiles?"
Agreed.
I know right.
Ikr.
Ocanada bear lol
Petsuchos, they're some of the best myth units in the game. You get them if you worship Hathor.
I prefer AOM entirely on the basis it's the first RTS I ever played and also I really like mythology
It was literally the 2nd game I've played in my life
My first rts game was Zeus Master of Olympus.
This was my second rts brood wars was my first. Love this game still play it.
Same for me I was 6 years old when I started playing this game.
Took the words out of my mouth. I think it’s still an amazing game actually, I get a game going around Christmas every year.
That sad moment when he said he'd do another AoM video if and when this one hits 10K likes, (20:55) and this one has passed 70K and you're still waiting for the second AoM video.
@Spiffing Brit
The problem is not Spiff, but the game itself. AoM Extended Edition had a patch for this exploit. And the game do not have an interesting exploit for now to just cheese the game. So yeah, it's not only him, but more "what I'm gonna say/do".
That's why we should now aim to give him 70,000 dislikes :P
@@jeremierenaud128 When? the last year it was working
@@jeremierenaud128 not having a cheese exploit ain't really an excuse when just tweaking the team distribution can give you some wacky matches like a 3v3v3v3 on a big map
As an AOM stan who plays it over and over again, I got two words to explain why it's absolutely fantastic: Odysseus' voice
I'm afraid I need to correct you on that. Ajax threatening to pull off people's heads.
for me its the ridiculous beyond words Norse villager speech of "Babymother" when sent to gather food or whatever
Or Amanra saying "be quiet back there!" right before something happens.
My headcanon is it's one of the gods warning her of something right before it happens.
The main reason why I love this game more than age of empires 2 besides nostalgia will have to be that this game made me a huge fan of mythology. I used to spend hours just reading the descriptions of buildings and units trying to learn the mythology. I find it fun to play the game once in a while and now actually know the mythology behind most of the units, gods and buildings in this game.
Also Canadian superhero bears are goddam hilarious
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For me it was the variety of the different religions and gods in them, also Best cheats of rts games, though it was hard to beat “hoyohoyo” cheat to make priests move at ridiculous speeds
I spent so many hours reading the descriptions of things in this game. It's why I turned into a mythology buff. (Did you know that the random old man who says "Run! More Bandits!" is a berry picker? That's how deep into the detailed help I got.)
WUV WOO is great too.
The bear returned in AoE 3 along with monstertrucks pig armed bombards giant and George washington bust
jan van riel i also read all the info ingame it was a blast! honestly its my favourite game.
You complained about the AI using unfair tactics. I’m just going to appreciate the irony here.
Darth Sirk tbh
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He won against 11 Titan ai: th-cam.com/video/SjjtrypJliQ/w-d-xo.html I think you owe Boit 1000 yorkshire teabags. Or you can't count because there are only 11 slots for the ai.
Lure is a good god power for having some save hunt ;) Titan difficulty gives the ai +100% on gatherrate and building rate but nothing else like popcap or so.
There are not that many players online but you dont have to wait too long for game, the artwork of the game is awesome but the "new addon" made by skybox labs with chinese suck and this version have many issues. Play the original on voobly!
what are you fucking 12? Enjoy Infinty war kiddo, maybe some MLG Guides that get really loud !@
Age of Mythology was just more visually interesting to me than Age of Empires 2, and the encyclopedia even pointed out where the myths and the playable units diverged. Also, the factions were more distinct, which I appreciated.
I loved reading about the mythology and history behind different units. Even the flags in the campaign had descriptions about how they were used in ancient forms of communication, status, and symbolism. From fact to fiction, I learned a lot more from AoM than any other RTS I've ever played. There weren't as many civs as AoE, but each one was completely different in appearance and gameplay, instead of having something like +5% militia hp or +1 siege range. AoE was great, too, though (although as a kid I loved 3 more than 2 because it was easier to turtle)
this!!!!!
AoM might be worse, but it has 💫 flavor 💫
I never played AoE2 or AoM seriously. I was pretty much a kid at the time. So anything like strategy or balance has no impact on my memory of the games. However, I definitely did like AoM better, mostly for the fantasy elements and magic. God powers and mythical creatures were the things I liked to play with, and I always enjoyed mythology in general. By comparison most of my memory of playing AoE2 is trebuchets and wololo
I loved Age of Mythology more than Age of empires II precisely because each civ had unique units, and even between those civs, some factions had unique units within those civs. It made AoM much more interesting to me, whereas AOE II was so bland and boring... many civs, but same units... and just one unique unit in some.
I was also frustrated with the AI system in aoe 2 ...
It made me feel like I'm fighting Jim Carrey trolling the fuck outta me.
my dad religiously plays this game. Every weekend since launch. Literally the only game he plays on his desktop
Heh, same for me and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 :D
"Religiously", huh? 😁
Respect
So has your dad beaten the gamr 1v12 on titan mode? Because 1000 free teabags are 1000 free teabags y'know
no joke my dad has been playing this game for as along as i can remember and can ONLY play this game
I loved Age of Mythology a lot more because I am a huge lover of Egyptian mythology, so using mythological units was a massive selling point for me
DozenthTurmoil Same here!! Isis was my favorite, who was yours?
Acciprovus Ra was mine
jep it was funny thx to the mythologie especially the egyptian only food anubites
This was my reason too. I really love mythology and fantasy, so the "fantasy spin-offs" in genres (AoM vs AoE2, Age of Wonders vs Civ, etc.) are almost always my preference because of the theme being more appealing to me.
the myth setting sold it to me as well put I always played Atlanteans
'I hate early 2000s DLC policy'
Spiff...that expansion was released in 2016
Holgast dude confused with the titans expansion and extended edition
Starting to think that a lot of people don't actually value any post-launch support. Like it all should be free because...? Appreciate that some devs give free stuff but don't bitch and moan that others don't, they've got no obligation to give you free shit just because you did a capitalist transaction with them for their product. It's especially the case with Paradox stuff, and they both give shit away for free and have other things be DLC. If it's work they did after the game was released and not stuff that they cut from the game, then you've got no leg to stand on to call it "paywalling".
@@Oujouj426 I understand what your talking about but I agree with the other side. If you pay 60 dollars for a game and 2 months later you have to pay another 10 for something that was probably going to be in the game before but was cut from the base to make more money then it's just unfair for the consumer. I think that there can be a happy medium with payed dlc, but we haven't reached it yet
Age of Mythology was released 2002 the first xpac "The titans" was released 2003 the second xpac "tales of the dragon" was released 2016. Extendend edition simply basic version + the first xpac and some minor changes, it was released 2014.
Yes, and Spiff is complaining about having to pay extra for the 2016 expansion.
I love AoM, more than any other RTS I’ve ever played tbh. I love the mythology and the ancient setting and all the units ab heroes and gods that come with it. Will always be one of my favs.
Prostagma from 2022 to you, kind sir
@@kosheiundead9659 vulome my kind sir
@@willbessey6401 Fulitomos
I was absolutely an AoM player, above any other RTSs. I loved all the heroes and was delighted with the campaign, the graphics, and the music.
AOM over AOE any day - I love the mythology aspect, the campaign is great and I also prefer the less cluttered graphics style of AOM. That said I still adore AOE2, but AOM holds a real special place in my heart.
I agree, i really wish they would give it a proper remaster like the newest remaster of AoE2.
Same!
The enemy AI in aoe2 is an absolute masterpiece. Instead of cheating to get an unfair advantage, the AI is actually handicapped unless you play on harder difficulties. Compared to that the AI of aom and is rather mediocre and aoe3 is even worse. Other than that I like nearly everything about aom. Wish we had a definitive version of aom too.
Totally agree AOM all the way
I love the Atheism Expansion where you can wait for eternity to see slime struck by lightning to become Frankenslime, and wehre sandcastles erode into existence because intelligent design is for religitards. Plot twist. In the atheist parallel univese, this comment was typed accidentallyby a cat walking on a keyboard since intelligent design is for religitards. Atheism wins again. North Koreans give me thumbs up.
I preferred this game over AOE... the setting was way more fun and the campaign felt much more like an epic
But the neameon lion had an inpenatrable pelt so the only way to kill it was to stab it in the mouth so how do multiple not kill everyone
Also better music
Same
I been playing this game since 2008 now its 2020.. but hey dont care its sooo much fun
Me too, playing Civ or AOE normal is like drinking tea with no cream or sugar. It's healthy but no one actually does it.
>Fails at abusing a blatant exploit in a 1v4
>Somehow finds a random exploit and just gets a free win
What blatant exploit,
He did not fail to abuse a blatant exploit. The AI simply cheats too....
Because a fair AI is hard to make. Like really hard to make.
@@genijable I think we will soon see ml-based AIs that are fair without cheating.
@@satibel The AOE 2 HD hardest AI doesn't cheat (the standard edition ones did cheat) and is honestly pretty fucking good.
Welp, it kinda "cheats" in the way it has naturally a much better reaction time and better micro than what an human could have, but it doesn't cheat for ressources or things like that.
If you're interested :
th-cam.com/video/-S1CkfzEHSU/w-d-xo.html
Gas Lar yeah age 2 expert ai gets more ress..
Spiff: "I'm going to defeat four AI opponents by cheating and maxing out all my numbers unfairly"
Also Spiff: "These four AI opponents are defeating me by cheating and maxing out all their numbers, that's so unfair"
It is bloody hard to outcheat the cheater, especially if he cheats harder and faster.
your describing every game like this including age of empires
It's also tremendously difficult even with cheat codes active such as spamming God powers... UNLESS the God power you're spamming with infinite uses is "Tartarian Gate". This is the only thing strong enough to defeat 12 Titan AI... Is just spamming that power over and over again on their stuff. And that's only if the opponent isn't Isis or anyone with a Hesperides tree, which makes this strategy tremendously more difficult.
Actually the ai doesnt cheat in any of the aoe games.
It’s one of the design principles for the series.
In Age of Mythology, the Titan AI gets double resources, but that’s all.
@@samuelmcl.9474 Sorry, but that's just not true. Titan AI not only has doubled resources, they have extremely fast building times, and can build a Town Center on an empty settlement with a single builder/laborer in about 3 seconds -- and faster than that with more laborers. I've witnessed this myself... And it's especially bad on Deathmatch settings or full visibility.
"God I hate early 2000 DLC policy"
The chinese god dlc was made like 2 years ago.
he doesnt know that, he just read this exploit in some forum and now hes pretending to know how to play.
Also the titans are shared between civilizations. lol
Yeah DLC didn't even exist as a popular concept until Oblivion and its Horse Armor. Much fun was made of which. But now literally every game has it.
@@sergios1110 I mean it was pretty obvius when he said "I'm an expert at this game, having only bought it today." and "who need to Learn to Play?"
@@wrmusic8736 yeah instead games just got re-released with expansion packs for full price
Computer: Builds fort on border
Spiff: That's not balanced
Also Spiff: And that's how you get infinite resources
Not to mention that is literally a strat that actual players use in PvP for Age of Empires lol
At least humans don't have all knowing micro, decision making, and cheats helping them.
@@nextgen101 so it’s not normal to have a little voice in your head telling you all those little details and exactly how to win
@@camdaman9857 you either have an AI or equisite strategy
@@limey3272 nah I got Raphael from that time I got reincarnated as a slime (she a bitch)
Best campaign ever. Has such a good and I engaging story + it's all built around ancient myths.
Try "Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War"
Arkantos is one of the coolest characters in gaming
Try Titan Quest Rpg
Balkanac hahaha.
Yeah totally and accurately built around the mythology =))) summoning Hades' dog instead of Poseidon's kraken =)))
I played at least 3000 hours on AOM, I really loved it.
Why?
@@RichardLeslieWhereat Because it's so good. It's not that hard to understand the truth
I played it for like 750h
i got 2000 hours xD
"There's no time for day or night, there is only time for tea." Really loved that sentence
That is the exact moment he earned my like
TEA SHIRTS MUST BE MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The gods Demand it!
Age of Mythology has a bunch of sweet custom game modes. Not to mention the single player story.
Oh my god. The campaign was awesome.
The story alone was worth buying it again on steam
+ it was my childhood so that is another thing making this a great game :D
gay
@@InternetHandle123 Yeah, greek culture is well known to incorporate gay or bisexual practices, oftentimes as a means of bonding among soldiers.
the (main) campaign is far superior to the AoE2 campaigns though. the only multiplayer game I've played back then was the original counter strike.
I don't think so, but to each their own. :)
I'm replaying the campaign right now for nostalgia, it's still great.
The campaign is really good. Like I expected a mediocore series of skirmish maps, but no it's awesome!
Jamaly are... are you me? Couldn’t agree more on both accounts
Yeah, this, Starcraft, and Warcraft 3 have some of the best story driven campaigns in RTSs
I played it as a kid my interest is purely based on nostalgia and I be biased as hell age of mythology slaps
This game was my childhood, gotta say I'm sad to hear nobody likes it :(
While I do now prefer playing AOE2, I still think AOM is in many ways a more fun game.
I'm not an RTS-guy, but my dad had AOM way back and it completely blew my mind as a child. The intro and the soundtrack are so nostalgic!
I'm with the whole series really. I just played the earlier two games a lot more than the latter ones.
People did like it, just not as much as AOE 2
This game was my childhood as well,i must have played the campaign at least 3-4 times. Also i played countless games against my brother using lan. I never played aoe
I still get hard when i play it.
Excuse me! It's not early 2000s DLC policy. The DLC didn't exist till the remaster
Wilhelm Kaiser DLC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!![]![_!~[]{^]_^6]…[[^]{7[!7_6!^7~{…^>^_>_[^]~^[^~[>_67![_
14 years after the original game released. I don't think a 14-years late DLC is anyone's policy. Well maybe Valve, it could be their policy.
Thank you, I almost threw my screen out the window when he started trash talking the game for that trash money grab.
@@altromonte15 Check Paradox games
@@pacman1682 i hate you for saying this cuz im a sucker for paradox games and this is true and it hurts man hahahahahahaha
The campaign of Age of Mythology was miles above the Age of Empires 2 ones. Probably the best RTS campaign I've ever played.
Have you played Warcraft?
Age of mitology was my childhood, a rly good history and campaign, the other one was Warcraft 3, same thing
Oh I'm sorry it sounds like you did not BEWARE THE KARA KHITAI. THEY ARE WITHOUT HONOUR.
I love AOM but seriously the campaign is complete trash
Not that AOE2 campaigns are any better tho
You should check starcraft 1
Well, I think I like age of mythology purely based on nostalgy factor. When I was like 9, I was extremely into greek mythology, and my dad bought me this game for my birthday so it has a special place in my heart
"Who's still playing Age of Mythology in the year 2019?"
ha... definitely not me... nope, not at all!
I am!
Yeah, it's a really fun game.
That's my childhood game and I still love it man
Convincing 😌
I still play it and love it. It was the first game I played
That Shennong guy, the Chinese god, was literally the first guy to drink tea according to legend. So... You missed out.
Proably first guy who tried weed too.
@@tonysuthechineseguy What about Snickers?
@@cloudstrife5174 proably not
Age of empires may be “objectively” a better game by design buuuuut the reason I am a bigger fan of AOM is because the mythology. There is to this day no game that allows a player to pick a civ/god or goddess, choose sub upgrades and allows the player to make freaking myth units in this way. While the mechanics may be... questionable at times the sheer balls this game has. It was the first game I ever played and I think one of the early night ones to say “next age! Now... what bonuses do you want? What units do you want?” That strategic choice gives it such replay-ability. And of course some games allow some myth units or god powers but the sheer number is impressive for a... 19 year old game. Wow 19. Now my rant is over I think I’ll go have a mid life crisis.
Imagine a Age of Mythology 2, that keeps the quality storytelling/mythology and improves on all the mechanical and graphical issues. The dream!
Age of Empires has mythology too, like the myth that Huns had atheism.
I love the Atheism Expansion where you can wait for eternity to see slime struck by lightning to become Frankenslime, and wehre sandcastles erode into existence because intelligent design is for religitards. Plot twist. In the atheist parallel univese, this comment was typed accidentallyby a cat walking on a keyboard since intelligent design is for religitards. Atheism wins again. North Koreans give me thumbs up.
@@18booma I still keep praying for that day to come!🙏
I fully agree, age of empires is the better game but AoM is plain fun
Thanks for the 19 year old part 😂😢
Age of Mythology was my favorite strat game when it came out back in the day. That “dlc” was an expansion pack released a year or so after the original and was actually a separate physical disk. 00’s nostalgia in full effect
Chinese dlc released with the steam version. releasing a dlc 10+ years after the fact on *the* childhood game for many people is like restoring an antique but painting it a different color. make it a free mod or a standalone with a different launcher but don't muddy the original product. i don't like how the extended edition makes some of the mid-day, sunny bright maps look overcast or evening time either, they added shadows and different day times but i loved the original sunny landscapes with overhead sun as a kid and i want the same experience now.
the steam version is also plagued with constant stuttering. i wish we could just play the original through steam.
Brexit: *gets passed*
Spiff: *looks exploitable*
EU: sorry no deal
@@hschan5976 Also EU: article 13
@@hschan5976 thats what we want lol
(worse for the protection racket)
That is why parliment and EU won't allow No Deal, as that is worse for the EU. And we must remember, remoaners and tree hugging "compromise" leavers are literally making this happen. The ERG has been firm all the way through.
I am hoping that we won't go passed 22 May as that would mean we would have to pay more to the failed organisation called the EU to their corrupt (won't ever work) central bank system. And we certainly DON't want that. It is already ridiculous, you have this much BS to get out of a supposedly "free loving, free trade, free movement" organisation and PAY to exit. It's a farce, a joke and laughable.
In 2016, we should have not triggered article 50 and veto'd everything they wanted to do. Got our shit in order, a deal that made us better (whilst stirring up some issues for the EUP by speaking to some outward member (countries) "states") and then delivered it to Juncker and say deal or no deal. If its no, we just go to WTO rules with a giant middle finger up at the Protection Racket EU.
Then again, it will all come to past eventually. As EU have so many problems, we can easily see its going the way of the 3rd HRE.
@@METALFREAK03 Really the blame is with UK politicians. Especially the leavers that seem to have no plan at all for how they wish to leave. Except maybe if you are a Hard Brexiter and do not care of there is a agreement or not. But then you should know that those that are more soft would want actually want some form of deal. So it would be in you interested to actually get the parliament to agree on a no deal exit before the exit happens or parliament may out of desperation revoke article 50.
In the end is a mess becomes your politician in UK messed things up. You do not really have anyone else to blame really.
If you plan is on the level of the underpants gnomes then you know you have a bad plan (Trigger article 50 -> ??? -> Profit!)
+Frank Spencer Yeah, _"the EU [and] their corrupt (won't ever work) central bank system"_ is a problem, but the Bank of England was running a corrupt private central bank system long before the EU was. Brexit or Bremain, deal or no deal: The imperial oligarchs win. Time to think outside the box.
Age of Mythology is great because it gives you epic units and powers, and really makes your choices fairly unique.
I was a huge mythology, greek mythology fan. And it was like a dream come true for my 8 year old self. So yeah I liked it better than 2
侶冴え天 (Ryosaeten) AGREED
Mythology is best part of this game
Exactly the same here but with Norse Mythology
This game made me and my friend mythology fans. We ate this game up after playing AOE2 for years.
Same
The cool thing of AOM was that it brought the ‘fantasy’ element to the RTS genre where there barely was anything like it before.
Youre saying believes and gods is fantasy? Pffffff
@@janmeier8018 I mean the ‘fantasy’ genre
except for the warcraft series
Warcraft 1, 2 and 3 all came out prior (though 3 only by a few months). There was also Total Annihilation: Kingdoms and Tzar.
majesty is a good one if you like aom!
I LOVE Age of Mythology! It's so fun and unique, and I prefer its more diverse, unique factions over the samey empires of AoE2.
Same
The different playable civs in AoM actually offer different play-styles, while in AoE2 you get a unique unit and some often meaningless bonuses
Same, it is probably the best game I can think of where the different... Races... Really play quite differently, on a fundamental level.
I love AoM, the fact that you don't know what your opponents tech tree is going to be, due to multiple tiers of mutually exclusive choices, means you have less ability to predict opposing player build orders.
Plus god powers could be used for all sorts of shenanigans, but the game was still surprisingly well balanced.
Both story campaigns were cracking as well, and it still looks ok visually nowadays as well.
@@vantorremaxim8181
We're talking base game.
The Chinese expansion could have been good but the devs were lazy af is all.
>sees sir Spiff playing AoM
>PROSTAGMA INTENSIFIES
kebnetikos ready, hypolite ( 100ds of hours vs triple hard, did discover titan edition lately didn't like it much)
maccro intensifies ^^
KETIMOSH
BORÓS
Tilbuin
MALISSA
I went back to playing AOM because of this video back when the lockdown began. But this time actually playing with pro build orders, tactics and strategies learning it off the internet. And it's been great. Thanks to Boit too for his regular uploads which has helped me learn a lot. Thank you for this video.
Boit's videos are great. His speedruns are awesome.
The Sun never sets on the British Empire, hmm?
I'd say the sun never sets on the British Empire because even the devil didn't trust the English in the dark.
Even gods dont trust us when we're within shadows.
True so true
They let it happen once and...... colonization happened.... never again.
Shashi Tharoor said this, lol
Age of Mythology is fantastic and you can't change my mind... only because of its campaign and because mythology is great. Would I consider multiplayer? No. No I wouldn't
Back in 2004 I would have suggested the multiplayer without a doubt.
This pretty much. Played the campaign a lot, never ever touched the multiplayer because I don't like multiplayer all that much.
The campaign was great
Age of mythology ''Titans'' was my very first tactical game, enjoyed it ever so much and really introduced me to the world of gaming. Don't know the difference between the two games, but I just really like the Progressive system in Titans and all the units. the campaign was also epic.
@@tomatoheadfd Titans added Atlantean civilization and added to the campaign additionally Titans were introduced. And yes the multiplayer back then was really fun!
AI builds Forts in front of his base - Spiffing: "That's so unfair"
AoE 3 Players: "First Time?"
But AOE3 forts are trash
AoE III doesn't let you build near your opponent's TC though...
@@nathangamble125 Near your base doesn't mean near your TC... Depending on how large your base ist
Oh you wanted to build a house in your villiage?
Too bad the enemie's TC is too close.
#Smallmapproblems.
This is my all time favorite game from my childhood. I put hundreds of hours into it.
Was it good? Did you ever do this thing ?
@@1hunglow582 the campaign is very very good if you like rts army/settlement builders
Oh god, please......PLEASE.....do C&C Tiberian Sun. There are so many broken Units in this game pre addon (Nod Artillery *cough*), and with the Firestorm addon came even more broken Units (Reapers *cough, cough*).
That would be glorious! KANE WILLS IT!
thunderturd yeah the most games just work but tiberian sun doesnt make any sense
God yes pre firestorm arty were broken af
Just make it happen, Papa
I also remember the insanely broken Red Alert 2 Games.... Those Flying Discs that Yuri had...I loved them...and i hated them..
Ah yes, the mythical god, Hepatitis.
"My name is Hephaestus, dad!"
Hepatitis wait... What type? A,B... 😂
The connoiseur of liver inflamation
No wonder he looks pissed in this game.
Just call him Vulcan his Romam Counterpart....
Love the video, love the game. Also titans are bound to fraction, and not to a specific god. (all Greek Gods get Cerberus, all Egyptian Gods get Ra, etc. )
If Age of Mythology had the same level of mechanical/technical polish as AoE II, I think a number of people would have preferred it. The whole hero/myth unit/regular unit weakness triangle, heroes and myth units in general, god powers, faith as a resource, etc. was a pretty cool system, really.
There has been some vague rumbling about additional attention to the game, either via an update or via a sequel; will be interesting to see what happens if that pans out.
This was the first game I have a strong memory of playing when I was a kid. I must've put hundreds of hours into it. I played it again and still enjoy it and reminds me of when I was a kiddo
Honestly this game is what got me into RTS' and history
haha, Same here Bro.
I use to play the Moment i woke up , and Played till 4 5 in the Morning lol
I love the Atheism Expansion where you can wait for eternity to see slime struck by lightning to become Frankenslime, and wehre sandcastles erode into existence because intelligent design is for religitards. Plot twist. In the atheist parallel univese, this comment was typed accidentallyby a cat walking on a keyboard since intelligent design is for religitards. Atheism wins again. North Koreans give me thumbs up.
2:34 The Atlantean gods are actually real too. They're just Greek Titans.
they are the fucking nordic-germanic gods
>>>> The Joke
>>>>Your Head
@@HenriqueRJchiki Nah. Just a mythology nerd that's too familiar with the myths to be the target audience for the joke.
@@Zanta100 That's Thor/Odin/Loki. I'm talking about the Atlantean ones; Kronos/Uranos/Gaia.
Nils Vos well technically Gaia isn’t a titan but I get your point
What age is this?
“The titan age”
Ah of course, that explains the laser crocodiles.
Or Sekhmet
I prefer the Canadian laser bear 🇨🇦
I prefer the flying purple hippos
There's no need to fight the laser crocodiles, just get Thor to flex his epic pecs and send us forward in time to the '40s so we can defeat Hitler before he learns Kung Fu. Remember not to Hassle the Hoff and we'll be fine.
It's magic not lasers, considering it' a context of gods and titans.
It's not so difficult to understand.
Found another stacking glich where you have to be lucky to find 2 of the same relic, you can then put them in your temple and remove them by clicking on their respective icons, after that put them back again. Just repeat until the desired effect is high enough for you. Works with every relic, you just need duplicates. This includes reducing prices, movement and gathering speed and attack of certain units. And my favourite, cool-down of mythical units special. Just get some Cyclops units and watch the enemy’s fly ;)
I LOVED Age of Mythology. I was hugely obsessed with the Mythos of Egypt, Greece, and Norway at the time, so it fit my niche very well.
Age of mythology is literally my childhood.
I actually preferred age of mythology more than aoe2. Ive always had a soft spot for all the different mythology units and all the different and weird strats you could use with them and the unique god powers.
China is still trash though. Seriously dont know why they went with chinese mythos. Easily the most boring out of all of the weird and neat mythologys out there.
At the same time, chinese also probably play the closest to aoe2... they even get priests that can wololo xD
But still :T
The campaigns also loads of fun. I mean its not top tier riveting story telling but the way they weave you through all the different areas right up til the end where you start getting units from every faction in a gloriously over the top final battle. Absolutely cheesy but mmmmmm... good cheese.
And thats not even getting into the Titan expansion and how utterly ridiculous it gets towards the end.
Too keep things short, I only played the OG. But AoE II felt boring and stale compared to AoM. AoMs OG campa had about 50 missions with atlantean tutorial (5?) then greek, egypt, norse and 3 atlantean finishing missions..... wait, those might have been considered prologue and epilogue.... it's been too long...
I have no idea how multiplayer games feel as I only played about 10 games in a LAN network united with friends, so no one complained about balance issues. Though for factions it was easily sorted into norse > egypt > greek back in the day for many reasons such as LOKI being -easy- fun to play.
SMITE would be proud.
Play hereos of might and magic 3 hd edition
@@magnusalexandersson9587 The might and magic series is pretty good from what i remember. i never played any of them, but i watched my dad when i was a wee lass P:
Mmmmm good cheese hahahaha
No they shouldn't have had antoher God DLC... They should have just worked on expanding the current groups with more units and better pathing. But most importantly, they needed to make the damn campaigns better. Like they went quantity over quality so they all sucked. Because let's be real, who actually played that stupid dwarf campaign they made?
I loved this game as a kid because it actually taught me a ton of mythology, turned into a life long interest of mine. Also the campaign was more compelling than AoE2. When I was a little kid, I didn't even consider multiplayer so balance wasn't a concern.
I loved this game cause I'm a massive mythology nerd! Also, the chinese DLC was created for the steam rerelease of the game in like 2016 so it can't even use the "early 2000s" excuse. The Titans dlc, which is actually from like 04 is genuinely quite good tho
"God I hate early 00's DLC policy"
I thought the Chinese gods were only added when it came on Steam in 2014.
It's due to communism man.
When I was young, my dad did exactly that, 1v12 on titan
It took literally all night but he did it
Your dad should feature as a major god in any possible sequel to the game! Astounding!
He must be using egyptian roc, petsuchos, priest, and catapult in the team migration map. They start invading the enemy home base and abandoning our base. After they migrated to the main island, we destroy their base and buld a wall around the island and since the enemy base are long, we can train some caravan to get infinity gold. Then we start to turn their settlement become our town center the you got 300 population since your enemy has 12 settlement int heir base. And for the invading the mainland, just use petsuchos and priest since their training just cost gold and favour, using roc and claim some land and after that build some temple to create unlimited priest, because myth unit and titan's weakness are hero, and priests are hero unit. There you have it, 1vs12 in titan difficulity
When I was a young boy my father took me to the city to see a marching band and I HATED it.
Sounds impossible i cant even defeat a single enemy at that difficult
@@alzaphon He must;ve played for years, to master this.
Anyone remember that mission called like "unfinished business" or something where you go back and kill the Minotaur guy named Kamos and they say you have to move your base over to this other island, but you just never do it and these settlers keep making colossus' for you so you just leave and come back in 20m minutes and have like 40 colossuses and just dominate
Or you just set up a bird taxi or underworld passage to the Colossus dispenser.
You're still gonna want archers. Maybe some hoplites.
I just let the game run while i ate dinner and came back to 30 collossuses then bird taxied them over and cleaned up. broken mission either way@@JoshSweetvale
Age of Mythology was one of the best games I've played in childhood, and it has an amazing mod community at AOM Heaven, they also have a decent map editor with different triggers that made even me as a child have a blast! It wasn't hard at all to create great and silly maps all in the name of having fun. If you haven't already seen the AoM heaven mod community, I highly recommend you do so, they have really fun maps to play with!
Play star wars galactic battlegrounds, its age of empires 2 but with star wars and you are british so naturally you love star wars.
He definitely should. Age of Empires II is still better than that, though. Even compared to Age of Mythology, SWGB is not very good.
I have aot of nostalgia for Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, but BOY is that game totally broken. Buildings are ridiculously tough because most everything is ranged and it still uses AOE2 logic. Troopers are pretty worthless because mechs one-shot them, and the Mangonel equivalent is so slow and has such a small aoe attack that it is nowhere near as good as the mangonel.
And this is only scratching the surface.
Or you can type "simonsays" in the text box and let that do its thing. O glorious game i loved playing as the droids.
@@samiamrg7 I can't even tell what the mangonel equivalent is.
Clunk 42 I’m pretty sure it is the thing that shoots blue projectiles from the Heavy Weapons Factory. I think it’s called “Artillery.” That building is the “Siege Workshop” equivalent. You also get AA vehicles and Pummels (aka battering rams) from there. The description says it is good against units, but it’s projectiles are slow as hell and have a pretty small blast radius, unlike the Mango, which has a decent spread and projectile speed.
When ever I am this early, Malaysia was still a British Colony... huh, cheers
bro pergi tido la, esok kerja. Kirim salam fey.
@@copacetic90 mati plis.... haha
Watching this in 2022 and feeling both horrified that this game came out *so so long ago* and feeling called out with spiffing brit talking about still playing in 2019, when I replayed the campaign for the 5th time earlier this year. As a huge RTS and mythology fan this is one of my all time favourite games!
AOM has a fantastic campaign (let me finish) for casual players. AOE isn’t nearly as fun to play non competitively which gets very repetitive . But because of the complexity it sucks to program for it and there’s so much to try and balance when you have a billion different units a god powers going on. You might say that oh but AOE has a lot of empires but they’re much much more subtle in there differences. Most have the same units etc.
as someone with over 1000 hours on aoe2, and have maybe played 2 of those hours against other humans, i'd have to disagree with ya on the not nearly as fun. the amount of glitches and stuff with this game makes it actually not fun for me to play, but its fun to play through a game once in awhile.
@@NyxYuski I'm with you man. I had a lot of fun on AoE 1/2 campaigns, scenario editor, and simple comp stomps as a kid.
AoE2 HD with mods makes it even more fun with custom maps, campaigns, aesthetic stuff, and music. I dig the new expansions they made too.
And yeah I did like the Mythology/3 Campaigns, but the rest of the game just didn't feel quite right. Still decent entries in the genre though.
There was actually a pretty huge modding/custom map making scene for AoM back in the day (dunno if it's still going). Check out Age of Mythology Heaven.
DAVE, TEA, NOW!
Amazing game, it's one of the games that got me into Greek mythology and now I'm studying history in college. So this game has a Speical place in my heart
whats your opinion on assassins creed odyssey, mr history student
I got into history by it aswell!
I agree, I dont care for history at all as a school subject but this game really got me interested in mythology
Agreed. I had the same experience with Age of Mythology. It not only got me hooked with Greek and Egyptian mythology, but also worked as an introduction to my love for the love of wisdom. I'm happy to know I'm not the only one.
I freaking love this game, it’s nice to see someone playing it. I’m a mythology buff so I love it despite how mechanically screwed it is.
AoM beats AoE because of the mythic units, god powers and most of all, faster gameplay.
In AoM a game is called late game if it exceeds 20 minutes.
In AoE it only begins after 20min.
still like AoE though ^^
edit: I don't like coffee.
Above all of that, it's just a easier game lmfao
So do you like coffee?
@@TurboDiego37 strong black only
Then allow me to drink it for you.
@@spencerdecoteau8038 that's hot
The Atlantean gods aren't made up! They're the titans from Greek mythology.
Aren't all gods kindda made up?
I was under the impression all of these god's are made up.
But hey, if you're still worshiping Odin more power too you and your Pagan friends.
The gods shouldn't be the most real thing a civilization has to offer.
Gods are real not in a explicit way, but they are all over our culture and still living on.
@@BubuFilth Well in that case so are leprechauns. That'll be a cool addition to the next AoE
The one reason i like this game more than Age of Empires 2, MYTHOLOGICAL UNIT ARMYS
Same, I pretty much never used human units unless I had to. Hydras that become more powerful the more they kill? Yes please! Laser crocodiles? I'll take 20! Summoning Nidhogg himself to devour your enemies? Shut up and take my money!
Now, I respect you, and I'm a let you finish, but Canada Bears
I get the appeal, but they jump the shark a bit much for me. Still fun to have, but I like the simpler stuff in 1/2.
Try "Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War"
@OrangeManBad You play with all techs?
I never knew that Poseidon's Lure can glitch the game.
What I used to do.
- Pick Loki.
- Train a shit load of Hersirs.
- Loki's passive god power spawns free myth units when fighting.
- Laugh in a million myth units.
O m f g !!!! Your strategy Is fucking amazing AND unique!!! I imagine only a superior mínd like yours could have build such a remarkable strategy... With the exception of the whole entire world of course...
Take any atlantean civ, upgrade any human soldier to hero and execute any mythological unit you send to me :p
My strat:
-Go Kronos
-Get hero villagers (makes resources a breeze later on)
-Get decent response to opponent first wave (Such as anti-myth with hero units to counter Loki.)
-Rush to Heroic Age
-Begin palace spam (and mirror towers if I take Helios)
-Slowly warp towers, palaces, etc. into enemy base while attacking with army
-All else fails, heroic villager spam build titan gate
I usually used to go with Son Of Osiris or the Nidhogg god power....
@@nayyarrashid4661 Problem with Son of Osiris and Nidhogg is... well, Bolt.
"Hermes has a ability called ceasefire, which basically activates the French mode" - Spiffing Brit 2019
The way he pronounces Hephaestus. I actually almost died.
@@thespiffingbrit I agree completely. I will now pronounce Hephaestus only the way you do, and tell everyone else that they are, in fact, pronouncing it wrong.
Hepatitis
To my fellow brit.
Thankyou for taking me back to a good 8years worth of age of empires age of mythology, empire earth and total war games too. But the first two on this list are truly legendary. I've got my old discs and alot of those games on my old desktop pc, still works too, my 8 year old son loves playing these games and learns alot more from these games than he does in school sometimes.
Enjoy your tea sir. You deserve many boxes of Yorkshire tea as a reward for this video alone
Age of Mythology is easily one of my favorite games of all time. It was my first rts and my friends and I played it for hours upon hours together. I've actually bought it about 4 times, the last time being on steam since I kept losing my copies
I prefer Age of Mythology to Age of Empires II for a number of reasons:
1. The "mythology" part. That splash of the fantastical makes the setting feel more unique and otherworldly. Plus the god powers and myth units are a lot of fun; you can't crush ships with krackens or strike enemies with lightning in Age of Empires II!
2. The graphics are better, because it's 3D instead of the 2D that Age of Empires II gave us. This makes the maps, buildings, and units look prettier.
3. Simple Nostalgia. Age of Mythology was the first "Age of [blank]" game I encountered, and made up a lot of my childhood.
I have many of the same reasons but the game, truth be told, has an amazing editor and an amazing capacity for just atmosphere, amazing capacity for character. IT was just a game with amazing character and everything felt unique and you had a reason to make it, jus tfor the sake of experiencing it.
And you have a giant Doggo
@@TARDISES Now this would get me back into editing! I was planning on making a semi conversion of AOE adding a faction or two, and adding an interesting mechanic. (Villager -> needed to train human units).
If any of this is possible, and please tell me there is a website that does this. You saying this got me beyond excited for AOM all over again, as well as the new and "improved" re-release (Chinese should be free damn it for the lack of effort the devs put in)
Love this game, was my first rts growing up. The campaign makes it amazing
DLC policy? Early 2000? You know, that the DLC was added after the extended edition existed?
Sarcasm dude, sarcasm
@@VvazMHNY I don't think so, he played it for the first time so he probably didn't knew that.
...I'm playing Age of Mythology in 2020... XD
Same
would be playing my physical copy of but dump drm broke it from playing.
Sameeee
Recon Chris me too 🤓
Same. The best in the series solely by the fact you can blast the enemy with meteors, and no one can convince me otherwise.
Same! Best RTS game ever!
good old age of mythologie always enjoyed playing that great game 10/10
100% agree
Enjoyed the cheats, the flying pigs were pretty good
@@jackperry8011 the best was definetly the lazer bear with the canadian flag on its back or good old chicken meteor they had some amazing random cheats which were quite fun to throw in also i heard we might get a second age of mythology
Unfortunately I'm not always able to have a nice cup of tea because I'm sometimes of the house, but I'm glad to say that today I have a lovely cup of Twinings of London Earl Grey tea. Ah, Earl Grey, the beverage of choice of who may arguably be the best Starfleet captain of all time.
The AOM soundtrack is also the best out of the entire age of franchise
First time watching that I actually went and made a cup of tea. I feel like a genuine part of this community now.
*Communitea
Welcome, friend, remember not to drink with measure, tea overexposure gives you British powers, such as: free monocles, game exploiting, and free third-world sweatshops for every thousandth cup of tea.
Cheerio!
I loved this game when I was a kid. Got me into Greek Mythology. Also Arkantos is dope so I love this game a bit more than AoE2
Love how much more you've embraced the Spiffing Brit in your more recent videos! Really enjoying catching up on what I've missed
My uncle taught me how to play AOM when I was 8 and have been playing ever since. I love it!
This was the first RTS I've ever played as a kid I was probably around 7 when I started playing this. It remains as one of my favorite games ever.
It's a lot better because of the mythology factor. Empires ain't got shit on minotaurs and hydras.
AoM was the first rts game I ever played, i believe. Loved that game growing up! We eventually learned all the silly cheats and broke the game contstantly. Personal fave: O canada
Im also fairly certain that this game is the reason I absolutely love resource managment games and the like. Whenever im looking for a new game, AoM pops up in my head as a baseline for what im looking for
The campaign is one of the best, the addition of mythology taught me a lot as a kid about it and sparked an interest to learn more about it.
Also the steam rating currently is super high what are you on about
He made this video a year ago
the campaign of this game kept me entertained for years as a kid
He meant the dlc pack had low score which is deserved, its utter trash
@@tuoljg All the chinese units are a reskin of the greek ones lmao
Unit reuse is an odd complaint when you look at every single other game in the series.
Nothing is balanced as nothing should be
Poseidon: i have a titan!
Everyone: *RELEASE THE KRAKEN!*
Poseidon's Titan... *Cerberus*
Benjamin Persons Each pantheon gets its own titan, not each God. The Norse get a Jotunn and the Egyptians get.. Horus, I believe
yeah but the kraken is a norse myth, so why do a greek pantheon shall have it ?
Aaaaand... I don't think the kraken would be really useful on the ground... right ? :p
Cerberus is Poseidon's brother titan
@Frizzurd I never liked that cerberus walked on 2 legs, i just wanted a true three headed dogo
Age of mythology was my jam! Many many memories of broken strategies and mechanics. Good times
“Good Lord!”
*shows picture of Obi Wan
A man of culture I see.
Star Wars promotes relativism which is so stupid it defeats itself. If there is no absolute truth, is that absolutely true? "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
😌🙏😌🙏💕💕💕💕✨✨✨✨✨
Spiff I just have to say, awhile ago, I got sick and started watching your videos. Besides making me wish I was british, I learned to drink tea when I watched your videos (Lipton black, mixed with raspberry and a tea spoon of sugar). I not only got better, but now I'm addicted to tea. Thank you Spiff for showing me the way to the communitea. Hats off to you fine sir 🎩
I enjoyed Age of Mythology more than AOE II. Mainly because I never played AOE II.
Exact same for me.
Same
Missing out
You are missing a lot then. AOE 2 is a masterpiece. You should wait for DE though. The old-looking graphics may not please new players.
I have played both games and i still prefer AOM. Propably because i used to play the shit out of that game when i was a kid
Age of Mythology has the best single player campaign, in my opinion. It's a lot of fun and power boosts are very interesting.
1000 teabag challenge is only if you win a 1v12, when the maximum number of AI is 11, so it's technically impossible.
reach268 This is actually super depressing. I was hanging out for that tea.
@@jazzster1234 I know, I was legitimately going to attempt it too.
1 versus 12 is what you actually do every time you do 1 versus 11, because you are your own worst enemy.
@@Rock-my2ko I'll ask... What is the coocoo clan?
It’s the name of my extremely small fan add that I came up with the instant I saw this post