Being an atheist is one thing. This is having concrete evidence of the existence of gods and still choosing to reject them and not worship them cause you don't need them and you can kill whatever beast they thorw at you and beat whatever favor they give your ennemies. That's pretty badass.
Reminds me of the Pratchett Disc world novels where the atheists in Not-Greece(TM) have a big tin roof over their library because the gods keep hitting them with lightning
I'm 3.5 minutes into the video and I fully expect Grant's next challenge video to be "Can I beat all the furniture in my room by kicking it with just my pinky toes?"
with pinky toes would be too easy, the RING toes would be a real challenge considering then you'd also have to avoid the middle toe and the pinky toe from accidentally doing any damage
It's really too bad allied centaurs all suffer from congenital heart failure. You'd think the gods would build 'em more sturdy, but this is why we don't worship them.
@@crazybunny1134 sorta. What they technically have is a genetic major cardiovascular disorder, because they lack the capillarie network in there extremities to slow blood down in the veins. It's one of several major issues for them
"So then I made that guy Arkantos a proposition he could not refuse : Turn him into a demi-god so he can beat that damn statue without breaking a sweat." "Easy deal honestly, bet he jumped right on it." "Nah, he refused to even acknowledge my existence and threw over a thousand men into the meat grinder."
Atheist Arkantos then proceeds to go full Warhammer 40k by sending countless waves of men to knock down a statue instead of making a single, simple prayer that would have let him 1v1 it instead. "It's not about the casualties, it's about upholding our principles." -Commissar Arkantos, probably.
@@joshuakim5240 tbh I completely forgot about prayer and killed statue with kiting archers. Then I saw the ending and was like ..wait, I was supposed to transform Arkantos into half god. But I never got the god power to do so? Oh, I needed to build a wonder *facepalm*
I absolutely love how unreasonable you are with your challenge rules. Any sane person trying a challenge like this would be less strict. "AOM without gods" sounds like you're saying no myth units or god powers, which would be a fairly difficult but manageable. Maybe some people would go a step further and say "no spending favor", which locks you out of a lot of your kit especially without fortress-tech (which includes the Mythic age upgrade itself in Retold), making a lot of missions very difficult. Doing all of that, and also saying *_no advancing in Age ever???_* Thats absurd. Who would do that? Who would _think_ that?? Giant Grant Games. That's who.
apparently me too since i was considering doing this exact challenge if Grant didn't lmao and that was one of the first things i realized would be required in a True Atheist playthrough (since you have to *pick gods* each time you advanced
@@CrazynToughKiwi if you wanna be that technical, most greek heroes have their power directly from the gods, so for example odysseus would've been illegal as well if we're that technical.
"The kill bots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them. You see, kill bots have a preset kill limit, knowing their weakness I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor Ehhh. It stagnates real hard. They upped the wittiness of their visual comedy, but you can tell they've ran out of ideas. also dear god fry's VA is 74 LET HIM GO 😭
"I need to finish this mission in boar form, so I hoof it." "I guess it was a pigment of my imagination." I heard that. I will not stand for this hogwash. Really in porcine taste. 🐖
"I can kite the enemy units to these trees and perform an anboareal ambush" "The process is very slow but collaBOARation of Arkantos and Ajax is very strong"
My favorite part of this is that you still use dwarves, meaning everyone else has mythical monsters while you have a higher than average population of folks with dwarfism.
Winning without myth powers is doable. Winning without myth units and upgrades would be hard. But winning without advancing the ages or being able to build fortresses!?
I only have to go to my local machine shop to see a bunch of bearded short burly men hauling around big mallets working on artifice to safely say dwarves are real.
Gargarensis: what is a man to a god? Ajax: Dunno, what is a god TO A NON-BELIEVER?!?! AJAX... SHIELD SMASHHHHH!!!! Gargarensis: Awww, how cute! He named iOH, SHI--
Soldier: "General, all those huge monsters are killing so many of us, maybe we could get some of them to fight on our side?" Grant: "No. I don't believe in those things. Now get more men and charge again."
Omg, I paused the video to make this comment and just heard the rest of that bit. Goddamn, that was a lot of pig puns, bahahaha. Really hammed it up there!
This is the story of Arkantos, a crazed warlord leading droves of equally delusional raiders against actual, tangible gods in order to disprove their existence.. and winning
"It takes me over five minutes straight of hacking away at the trojan gate to *finally* break it.." Remembering that trojan is also a brand name at the perfect moment.
You can probably call this run, “Can you beat AoM as a Good Puritan Boy?” and keep the same rule set Joking aside, I love how since we all know that it would be mentally impossible to do this deathless, he was able to come up with a new kind of challenge that is 50% less infuriating.
Monotheist challenge: You can use only one god and their myth unit(s), techs, god power and etc. Do I age up or use Minotaurs? Do I research Sacred Cats or Flood of the Nile? Is the Dwarven Forge worth not having access to myth units?
@@andredepadua8799 That would be an interesting Intermediate challenge to do. Another one I was thinking of was Miracle only/Catholic run where you can only use starting powers you are given (no Mythical Creatures of course)
There's a thread buried somewhere in Grant's Discord where me and a couple others (but mostly a couple others my contribution was small) actually planned out the entire run and executed it piece by piece
@@davisdf3064 Sure it does, simply explained as your own kind making you pariahs and let's say "loosening the work ethic laws" make a certain group "gather resources" faster at the expense of life expectancy of another group. They yearn for the mines.
12:47 Speaking as someone who's playing through the campaign right now for the first time, I can confirm that I did notice that underground passage upgrade and felt very clever about using it! Good game design. Also, geez, this is ridiculous. I got through the first five levels on titan before I gave up and went down to hard (with no restrictions). Playing this as an atheist is insane. Well done!
On the one hand, it is always a treat to watch Grants challenges and see how he manages to beat seemingly impossible odds (and at times actually impossible odds until it turns out that between the game and Grants tenacity the game breaks first). On the other hand, it does make me feel bad about my skill or rather lack of skill in comparison.
You know, at first I expected no god powers and no myth units... this is way beyond that. Not using favor, no temples, and no age advancement is not atheism, Grant - it's liking pain so much that you go from intended atheism straight into worshipping the Cenobites. 😅 For real, that was probably one of the most insane challenges I've seen you complete, so kudos to that.
I listened to the first half of this while I took a nap and I gotta say, your narration is really great! I knew exactly what was going on even without seeing the screen.
I can't wait to see more Age of Mythology content! But also since they just dropped the Warcraft 1 and 2 remastered you should do some challenge runs for those too if you are able!
Honestly, Retold Titan really made sure that just because mission is "no build" doesn't mean it's "no difficulty" I had lost no build segments just as often as the proper macro missions, if not more (well, end of greek campaign is pretty easy, but others actually require some proper micro(
It is a shame I can only like a video once, so here, have a comment! Simply amazing work, filled me up with nostalgia and that warm fuzzy feeling of inspiration. Simply Wonder(less)-ful!
I will say, there is a reason he stopped with War of the Trident. The Titans campaign is straight up not possible as an Atheist - there are multiple mission objectives that break these various rules that you _cannot_ get around short of potential buggy mission-skip cheeses that I don't know about.
@@Blazieth You would have to compromise on the stuff that's simply required to finish the mission. A Lost People has no deity stuff already enforced. Atlantis Reborn would be *hard* since you're restriced to Archaic, but could probably be cheesed. Greetings From Greece would be brutal but doesn't technically *require* the plenty vaults. Odin's Tower would be impossibe since you cant use Time Shift or Wonder Deconstruct, but arguably the actual mission itself doesn't require any god stuff untill then. Betrayal at Sikyos would be the usual Priest Spam, but requires you to compromise with Rocs. Cerberus can done without the Guardian. Rampage is doable, even without Folstag, and it's essentially impossible to last long enough to summon Nidhogg anyway. Making Amends requires no god stuff unless we're counting Lush. Atlantis betrayed requires no god stuff period. Don't even need the Sky Passages. War of the Titans depends on whether they patched it to make Kronos unkillable by normal means. If they haven't you don't need Gaia. EDIT: Mount Olympus is probably doable but would be an absolute slog.
Amazing run & a true triple G quality video, deathless is what I expected & knew it couldn't happen when the first video you released featuring the game but with this, I'm more than happy, yet another RTS beaten in true challenge run. I wonder "who" is next!?.
I was thinking that this boar calamburs are cool, but not so funny, byt hogwards killed me, thank you for your sense of humor Grant. It was perfect ammount of calamburs.
You can cheese the final boss with a catapult positioned just out of it's tether range, I used the gate just south east of. Or if you're a micro god, you can cheese with archers on two sides; when he gets to one side retreat until he walks to the other.
You would cripple yourself against the mighty powers of the gods? Nerd: Sounds more like a skill issue to me. But the gods can summon pests, raise civilizations from nothing and shoot lightning from their fingers- Dr Membrane decapitating the ocean across the world: *_NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!_*
Something like the Dwemers in Elders scroll... they KNOW that gods exist, refuse to worship any and even mock them... they literally prank one, Azura if im not mistaken.
"you see, poseidon has a preset kill-limit. knowing his weakness i sent wave after wave of my own men at him, until he reached his limit and shut down. Jason! show them the medal i won." -Arcantos
Not gonna lie, drowning the enemy's myth units, heroes and buildings in just giant armies of regular men and siege weapons is pretty cool (also, something, something indomitable human spirit)
I attempted this exact same playthrough when I got this game more than 20 years ago, and gave up after just a few days. Bravo to you sir, for showing us armatures how a real RTS enthusiast gets $h!t done.
Ah yes. Beating back the gods with the power of 2012 le reddit memes and science youtubers who somehow also end up beefing with each other over US politics. The true challenge run.
Atheists during that time were from all walks of life. It's no surprise that so many of them disagreed. For example, you have your secular humanist types who are all about progressivism, and then you have the people who (generally) hate Islam SPECIFICALLY with a burning fury. I'm just shocked it took so long to collapse!
"I've been transformed into a boar, this must be the work of an enemy science" -Atheist Arkantos
"the enemy science user could be anyone." meanwhile Hubble walks by
They have giants! Must be ancient aliens!
The german science is the best in the world!
*Technology.
Takes someone really pigheaded to still deny the gods and win after that.
No Aging
No Myths
Welcome to Of
Next challenge: can you beat starcraft without prepositions?
Not to be confused with Off which is a totally different game
Not to be confused with a certain website.
Welcome to Oof
Not is Of Retold
Being an atheist is one thing. This is having concrete evidence of the existence of gods and still choosing to reject them and not worship them cause you don't need them and you can kill whatever beast they thorw at you and beat whatever favor they give your ennemies. That's pretty badass.
Anti-Theist took a whole new meaning.
Making atheism real by killing God yourself, sounds badass.
Reminds me of the Pratchett Disc world novels where the atheists in Not-Greece(TM) have a big tin roof over their library because the gods keep hitting them with lightning
@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051Almost Kratos, but he was sort of a half-god turned god and all of that...
That's the average Jrpg
"Zeus was loose and I had no control of the situation."
Yeah, that sounds about right.
"for a change"
The Zoos is loose
Absolutely accurate to the ancient Greek myths. There is no controlling Zeus when he gets lose.
At least the Zeus wasn't a goose.
@@cranapple3367 I mean there was that one time were he was..... And the result was Helena of Troy.....
"After we rescue them from their arrest, they upgrade to cardiac arrest."
Idk why but that line broke me.
😂😂
It’s a great line
Yeah, I got some weird looks when I loudly snorted a laugh watching this at work
I had the exact same reaction. :D
I'm 3.5 minutes into the video and I fully expect Grant's next challenge video to be "Can I beat all the furniture in my room by kicking it with just my pinky toes?"
Honestly? I got my money on 3G after watching this video
But he's a giant... can't use myth units.
I don't think even Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass Crew were masochistic enough to try that challenge
@@TheUberjammerhe is now grant of unusual size games.
with pinky toes would be too easy, the RING toes would be a real challenge considering then you'd also have to avoid the middle toe and the pinky toe from accidentally doing any damage
It's really too bad allied centaurs all suffer from congenital heart failure. You'd think the gods would build 'em more sturdy, but this is why we don't worship them.
Just like regular horses in that respect.
Horses have heart problemas?
@@crazybunny1134 sorta. What they technically have is a genetic major cardiovascular disorder, because they lack the capillarie network in there extremities to slow blood down in the veins. It's one of several major issues for them
"You see the centaur, and you reason that there must be a creator. And you also reason that said creator must be rubbish at their job!"
There's no such thing as faeries.
"So then I made that guy Arkantos a proposition he could not refuse : Turn him into a demi-god so he can beat that damn statue without breaking a sweat."
"Easy deal honestly, bet he jumped right on it."
"Nah, he refused to even acknowledge my existence and threw over a thousand men into the meat grinder."
Honestly, considering Atlantis is basically Greek for this campaign, that kind of hubris checks.
Fabius Bile be like : "There is nothing there".
It's not hubris if you win in the end@@Lughrochben
LOL
This is why Poseidon stopped favoring Arkantos
Atheist Arkantos then proceeds to go full Warhammer 40k by sending countless waves of men to knock down a statue instead of making a single, simple prayer that would have let him 1v1 it instead.
"It's not about the casualties, it's about upholding our principles." -Commissar Arkantos, probably.
Pussyeidon
@@joshuakim5240 Arkantos confirmed to be a missing primarch, Mortarion-like but likeable
@@joshuakim5240 tbh I completely forgot about prayer and killed statue with kiting archers. Then I saw the ending and was like ..wait, I was supposed to transform Arkantos into half god. But I never got the god power to do so? Oh, I needed to build a wonder *facepalm*
That final push is the essence of "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
Turns out Poseidon statues have maximum killcounts, so I sent wave after wave of my own men at it until it reached its limit and shut down.
Send another meat wave!
We may not have the firepower, but we have the mass!
@@BaufenBeast They clocked out after achieving their quotas, I can respect that.
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I absolutely love how unreasonable you are with your challenge rules.
Any sane person trying a challenge like this would be less strict. "AOM without gods" sounds like you're saying no myth units or god powers, which would be a fairly difficult but manageable. Maybe some people would go a step further and say "no spending favor", which locks you out of a lot of your kit especially without fortress-tech (which includes the Mythic age upgrade itself in Retold), making a lot of missions very difficult.
Doing all of that, and also saying *_no advancing in Age ever???_* Thats absurd. Who would do that? Who would _think_ that??
Giant Grant Games. That's who.
apparently me too since i was considering doing this exact challenge if Grant didn't lmao and that was one of the first things i realized would be required in a True Atheist playthrough (since you have to *pick gods* each time you advanced
He could have made it even worse, and disavowed priests, for being priests. Plus they chuck magic balls of light, which also isn't very atheist.
@@CrazynToughKiwi That's fairly true ! Damn
@@CrazynToughKiwi if you wanna be that technical, most greek heroes have their power directly from the gods, so for example odysseus would've been illegal as well if we're that technical.
Not even trying on titan though ? Come on
"The kill bots? A trifle. It was simply a matter of outsmarting them. You see, kill bots have a preset kill limit, knowing their weakness I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their limit and shut down."
Futurama was so good.
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor*is
@@HistoryisBoss IDK I haven't watched the new season but it doesn't seem that good from the few clips I've seen.
@@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
Ehhh. It stagnates real hard. They upped the wittiness of their visual comedy, but you can tell they've ran out of ideas.
also dear god fry's VA is 74 LET HIM GO 😭
@@christopherearth9714 It's like Simpsons; we usually just mean the earlier stuff.
"I need to finish this mission in boar form, so I hoof it."
"I guess it was a pigment of my imagination."
I heard that.
I will not stand for this hogwash.
Really in porcine taste.
🐖
"I can kite the enemy units to these trees and perform an anboareal ambush"
"The process is very slow but collaBOARation of Arkantos and Ajax is very strong"
Grant pun is a pig performance, it is never boaring and very bacon.
"I need to pig up the pace a bit"
"Send Circe back to HOGwarts."
"It is a porcine of things to come"
So... This is the actual "What is a god to a non-believer?"
The ultimate "Checkmate theist!"
"Do you believe now?"
@@LDSG_A_Team huh huh. So cool
I see that TFS zone of influence reaches even this far.
a piece of cheese it seems)
My favorite part of this is that you still use dwarves, meaning everyone else has mythical monsters while you have a higher than average population of folks with dwarfism.
Well, they could be children. Children and small people were great for the mines in medival times.
Ok, I didn't see the "can't tech up" limitation coming. Ouch.
Great job as usual! This is the kind of challenge run I'm here for.
You could have just said that you enjoy seeing people suffer😂
There's one thing Grant didn't account for: The God of Strategy is the one controlling the units. Challenge failed.
and RNGesus pulling the strings
Athena doing all the work in the group project
GiantGodGames
Well the atheist messiah turned his self into a pickle
Winning without myth powers is doable. Winning without myth units and upgrades would be hard.
But winning without advancing the ages or being able to build fortresses!?
I'd say winning without myth units, mythological upgrades and god powers is a pretty good challenge.
Some people are just built different, I guess.
Also, wasn't expecting a Tio glare to show up as a pfp.
This is the same man who in his deathless runs, made sure units didn't even die in CUTSCENES
I like how it's an atheist fighting densely packed hordes of mythical beasts
Bro is so in denial
"I'm sure there's a perfectly logical scientific explanation for all this!"
Atheist doesnt mean a denial of the supernatural.
More like the indomitable human spirit trying to win without the help of fickle gods.
"I'm an atheist because I don't believe that the gods can withstand THIS AXE."
"The world's most determined atheist"
I only have to go to my local machine shop to see a bunch of bearded short burly men hauling around big mallets working on artifice to safely say dwarves are real.
Chiron: *Nobly sacrifices himself to buy time for the others*
Grant: "Oh good he's finally gone."
Gargarensis: what is a man to a god?
Ajax: Dunno, what is a god TO A NON-BELIEVER?!?!
AJAX... SHIELD SMASHHHHH!!!!
Gargarensis: Awww, how cute! He named iOH, SHI--
DBZA reference?
Soldier: "General, all those huge monsters are killing so many of us, maybe we could get some of them to fight on our side?"
Grant: "No. I don't believe in those things. Now get more men and charge again."
"My enmpire has gods watching over it!"
"Mine have reddit atheists!"
"Oh no"
Bich I'm a gurochan atheist
"In this moment, I am Euphoric, not because of any phony Zeus' blessing, but because I am enlightened by me own prostagma."
"Old Friends is next, and it is a poor sign (porsine) of things to come."
Brilliant.
Omg, I paused the video to make this comment and just heard the rest of that bit. Goddamn, that was a lot of pig puns, bahahaha. Really hammed it up there!
@@paleo-bites-podcastexplaining jokes....do you really have to give piggy back rides to everyone on the internet...pffffff
very ham-fisted approach, in my opinion
I love how there's a boar pun counter with 0 explanation.
"You can't make combat units until you reach Age 2"
*laughs in Norse*
*laughs in Archaic age unit nerfs*
No gods? Next he‘s gonna unite Terra with his group of scientific super humans.
And then Erebus will ruin everything
@@gearingisez F EREBUS (no, not the Hellenic Underworld)
But guys, remember, Magnus did nothing wrong.
Grant will avoid the whole issue by doing an "Imperium of Man with no Space Marines" challenge
This is the story of Arkantos, a crazed warlord leading droves of equally delusional raiders against actual, tangible gods in order to disprove their existence.. and winning
Bro looked at a roided up statue personally powered by a god, picked up a stick and said "Nah, i'd win"... great video Grant!
"It takes me over five minutes straight of hacking away at the trojan gate to *finally* break it.."
Remembering that trojan is also a brand name at the perfect moment.
You can probably call this run, “Can you beat AoM as a Good Puritan Boy?” and keep the same rule set
Joking aside, I love how since we all know that it would be mentally impossible to do this deathless, he was able to come up with a new kind of challenge that is 50% less infuriating.
Monotheist challenge: You can use only one god and their myth unit(s), techs, god power and etc. Do I age up or use Minotaurs? Do I research Sacred Cats or Flood of the Nile? Is the Dwarven Forge worth not having access to myth units?
@@andredepadua8799 That would be an interesting Intermediate challenge to do. Another one I was thinking of was Miracle only/Catholic run where you can only use starting powers you are given (no Mythical Creatures of course)
I know of 2-3 dofferent creators who have done it or are doing it deathless
It can be done, its not impossible even with hard difficulty.
There's a thread buried somewhere in Grant's Discord where me and a couple others (but mostly a couple others my contribution was small) actually planned out the entire run and executed it piece by piece
Hey Dwarfism is a real thing that real people have lived experience of so I think its fair to call them non-mythical.
Are they dwarves? Or are they short and hairy black elves?
@@drizzmatec SHORT?
Real life dwarfism doesn't make you mine gold faster tho, only mythical dwarves
@@davisdf3064 unless you're peter dinklege
@@davisdf3064 Sure it does, simply explained as your own kind making you pariahs and let's say "loosening the work ethic laws" make a certain group "gather resources" faster at the expense of life expectancy of another group. They yearn for the mines.
You've allways been a good writer for these videos, but good God man, this one is next level. I was laughing my ass off the entire video.
"Does he always hits his stride so much sir ?"
"Once he starts playing norse, he cant stop hitting his stride"
Great boar puns too
"some of you may die, but its a sacrifice im willing to make" GGG against the avatar of poseidon.
12:47 Speaking as someone who's playing through the campaign right now for the first time, I can confirm that I did notice that underground passage upgrade and felt very clever about using it! Good game design.
Also, geez, this is ridiculous. I got through the first five levels on titan before I gave up and went down to hard (with no restrictions). Playing this as an atheist is insane. Well done!
I saw this pop up in my feed, and all I could think was, "Yes Grant! Yes!"
40:05 Here we go, Grant's hittin' his stride now!
Yet another masterpiece from Grant! I'm so glad I stumbled on this channel a couple years ago
On the one hand, it is always a treat to watch Grants challenges and see how he manages to beat seemingly impossible odds (and at times actually impossible odds until it turns out that between the game and Grants tenacity the game breaks first).
On the other hand, it does make me feel bad about my skill or rather lack of skill in comparison.
"Now that we have these reinforcements, it's time to get a Aga-move on."
God tier pun
"Gods are for the weak. I am not weak."
-GiantGrantGames, probably
Was so excited to see a new challenge run from you, still rewatch all your sc and wc3 runs constantly.
Grant, you are a trully mad man. Love it
GGG be like: "The gimmich of Age of Mythology is god worship and mythical powers, the big difference between it and other RTS. Let's not use that."
Fat Scout from TF2 energy.
@@RoyalFusilier Except Fat Scout is at least viable in most maps and scenarios.
You know, at first I expected no god powers and no myth units... this is way beyond that. Not using favor, no temples, and no age advancement is not atheism, Grant - it's liking pain so much that you go from intended atheism straight into worshipping the Cenobites. 😅 For real, that was probably one of the most insane challenges I've seen you complete, so kudos to that.
My facts don't care about your phoenix.
>be Giant Grant
>play game
>doesnt use giants
>says he doesnt believe they are real
>atheist moment
I listened to the first half of this while I took a nap and I gotta say, your narration is really great! I knew exactly what was going on even without seeing the screen.
Its cool to see genuinely good content for an old rather niche game I grew up playing as a kid. This video was hilarious.
That was impressive. My hat is off to you for this insane feat
5:33 "But the Trojans will never come hard again" I see what you did there 😂😂😂
That's what she said
I can't wait to see more Age of Mythology content! But also since they just dropped the Warcraft 1 and 2 remastered you should do some challenge runs for those too if you are able!
Honestly, Retold Titan really made sure that just because mission is "no build" doesn't mean it's "no difficulty" I had lost no build segments just as often as the proper macro missions, if not more (well, end of greek campaign is pretty easy, but others actually require some proper micro(
It is a shame I can only like a video once, so here, have a comment! Simply amazing work, filled me up with nostalgia and that warm fuzzy feeling of inspiration. Simply Wonder(less)-ful!
Book that room in the insane asylum grant, i wouldve allowed aging up atleast but you had to go the extra mile. Respect 💪
I just finished my Titan playthrough of all the campaigns last week! Awesome to see you still giving love to this gem of a game, Grant.
A new AoM video from Grant ? What a perfect way to start my day !
Only two more campaigns to go... untill Immortal Pillars!
Seriously though, i'm really happy you're branching out from Starcraft!
I will say, there is a reason he stopped with War of the Trident. The Titans campaign is straight up not possible as an Atheist - there are multiple mission objectives that break these various rules that you _cannot_ get around short of potential buggy mission-skip cheeses that I don't know about.
@@Blazieth
You would have to compromise on the stuff that's simply required to finish the mission.
A Lost People has no deity stuff already enforced.
Atlantis Reborn would be *hard* since you're restriced to Archaic, but could probably be cheesed.
Greetings From Greece would be brutal but doesn't technically *require* the plenty vaults.
Odin's Tower would be impossibe since you cant use Time Shift or Wonder Deconstruct, but arguably the actual mission itself doesn't require any god stuff untill then.
Betrayal at Sikyos would be the usual Priest Spam, but requires you to compromise with Rocs.
Cerberus can done without the Guardian.
Rampage is doable, even without Folstag, and it's essentially impossible to last long enough to summon Nidhogg anyway.
Making Amends requires no god stuff unless we're counting Lush.
Atlantis betrayed requires no god stuff period. Don't even need the Sky Passages.
War of the Titans depends on whether they patched it to make Kronos unkillable by normal means. If they haven't you don't need Gaia.
EDIT: Mount Olympus is probably doable but would be an absolute slog.
A "porcine" of things to come? I see what you did there, and I like it.
The level of strategy in this blows my mind!! So great to see AOM get this kind of attention
At first I thought okay this doesn't sound as bad some of the other challenge runs on this channel until he mentioned no aging up LOL
Insane challenge run like always Grant! Great job!
3:11
It's ok, in mission 3, you start in the archaic age on the LEFT
Amazing run & a true triple G quality video, deathless is what I expected & knew it couldn't happen when the first video you released featuring the game but with this, I'm more than happy, yet another RTS beaten in true challenge run. I wonder "who" is next!?.
Grant just absolutely loves to suffer and I like to watch him doing so :D
Realy funny and creative concept. Realy interesting challenge run.
I was thinking that this boar calamburs are cool, but not so funny, byt hogwards killed me, thank you for your sense of humor Grant. It was perfect ammount of calamburs.
Can’t wait to see how you pull off Titans as an atheist. Mount Olympus would be fascinating!
The Trojans really should've researched extended thermal lance
"Can You Beat Age of Mythology when the enemy colossi are supplied by the Protoss?"
War of the Worlds would have been even more impossible with Bronze Age tech, well, I guess it would have been the same amount of impossible.
You are a man of focus, commitment and sheer frigging will !
27:10. Zeus was loose, there was nothing anyone could do.
You just inspired me to play this masterpiece again. Earned yourself a sub, my guy. Great video, thanks! 😁
You can cheese the final boss with a catapult positioned just out of it's tether range, I used the gate just south east of. Or if you're a micro god, you can cheese with archers on two sides; when he gets to one side retreat until he walks to the other.
I never even considered a run like this, would never do it myself and am extatic that you did this 😊 thanks for an epic tale
You would cripple yourself against the mighty powers of the gods?
Nerd: Sounds more like a skill issue to me.
But the gods can summon pests, raise civilizations from nothing and shoot lightning from their fingers-
Dr Membrane decapitating the ocean across the world: *_NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!_*
Very nice. Thank you for the upload.
Imagine being an Atheist when an actual god decimates your armies.
"That proves nothing!"
Something like the Dwemers in Elders scroll... they KNOW that gods exist, refuse to worship any and even mock them... they literally prank one, Azura if im not mistaken.
i imagine in a world where you can see the gods in front of your face being an atheist means that you see gods as problem that must be "fixed"
“Huh, must be really bad weather”
Son of Osiris zaps an entire army :
"must have been the wind"
What a great video ❤ now you have to make one for Atlantis, The Golden Gift and Reginleif’s rally 😂
As an Atheist this is exactly how i describe to people how they should play this game
This is it. This is your masterpiece alright both in writing and concept. What a ride this video was.
"you see, poseidon has a preset kill-limit. knowing his weakness i sent wave after wave of my own men at him, until he reached his limit and shut down. Jason! show them the medal i won." -Arcantos
You know, when being poseidon, he gives you a hippocampus for free, so you're screwed.
You can just delete the hippocampus whenever it spawns
27:14 "But Zeus wal loose (Leus) and I had no control over the situation" Sums up Greek/Roman lore pretty well.
Of course you can. This was how I played it as a kid. For some reason.
Not so mighty gods when they have hit points.
Not gonna lie, drowning the enemy's myth units, heroes and buildings in just giant armies of regular men and siege weapons is pretty cool
(also, something, something indomitable human spirit)
Lmao, thanks for calling out the strat at 36:00, the new physics are so good
I love your channel but don't play Starcraft... I do however, LOVE AOM, so this has made my Saturday!!!!
I loved the pig puns, Grant. Never change!
I attempted this exact same playthrough when I got this game more than 20 years ago, and gave up after just a few days. Bravo to you sir, for showing us armatures how a real RTS enthusiast gets $h!t done.
a new main channel video?
"LOOKS LIKE MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!"!!!
Oh my god you absolute MAD LAD
At the conclusion of his epic quest, Arkantos was rewarded by being made a god in his own right...the god of atheism.
They turned Arkantos into Dawkins. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen
Age of Science.
Watching hour long challenge videos for games I've never seen and don't understand is my favorite pastime.
that title notification made me laugh out loud
This is singlehandedly the most creative and entertaining aom content I've ever watched
I see title of this, and I immediately thought, “Yep, that’s another Grant challenge alright.” 🤣
Great video Grant, always happy to see more AoM content!
Ah yes. Beating back the gods with the power of 2012 le reddit memes and science youtubers who somehow also end up beefing with each other over US politics. The true challenge run.
Atheists during that time were from all walks of life. It's no surprise that so many of them disagreed. For example, you have your secular humanist types who are all about progressivism, and then you have the people who (generally) hate Islam SPECIFICALLY with a burning fury. I'm just shocked it took so long to collapse!