The Best Strategy Game You Never Played: Age of Mythology
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Published 2023-03-16
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0:00 - Intro
1:55 - Mission 1: Omens
5:56 - Mission 2: Consequences
10:09 - Mission 3: Scratching the Surface
14:27 - Mission 4: A Fine Plan
18:53 - Mission 5: Just Enough Rope
23:57 - Mission 6: I Hope This Works
27:55 - Mission 7: More Bandits
32:46 - Mission 8: Bad News
37:51 - Mission 9: Revelation
41:01 - Mission 10: Strangers
47:12 - Mission 11: The Lost Relic
51:47 - Mission 12: Light Sleeper
56:33 - Mission 13: Tug of War
59:16 - Mission 14: I CANT SAY THIS WORD Hear My Plea
1:04:39 - Mission 15: This Video Is Really Long Huh
1:10:38 - Mission 16: Good Advice
1:15:31 - Mission 17: The jackal's Stronghold
1:18:48 - Mission 18: A Long Way From Home
1:24:26 - Mission 19: Watch That First Step
1:30:18 - Mission 20: Where They Belong
1:34:03 - Mission 21: Old Friends
1:37:41 - Intermission time! Get some popcorn or something, but not from the theater, it is so overpriced there. My friend once went into a theater to buy popcorn and then couldn't afford to ride the bus so I had to pay for her so I ended up indirectly paying for popcorn and I don't really enjoy it. She is a doctor now and still hasn't paid me back.
1:39:42 - Mission 22: North
1:44:05 - Mission 23: The Dwarven Forge
1:50:18 - Mission 24: Not From Around Here
1:53:44 - Mission 25: Welcoming Committee
1:55:08 - Mission 26: Union
1:59:00 - Literally me talking about encyclopedias. Can I get any more boring?
1:59:55 - Mission 27: The Well of Urd
2:03:26 - Mission 28: Beneath The Surface
2:07:17 - Mission 29: Unlikely Heroes
2:09:16 - Mission 30: All Is Not Lost
2:15:16 - Mission 31: Welcome Back
2:18:49 - Mission 32: A Place In My Dreams
2:27:24 - Mission 33: A Lost People
2:30:22 - Mission 34: Atlantis Reborn
2:35:44 - Mission 35: Greetings from Greece
2:40:05 - Mission 36: Odin's Tower
2:43:32 - Mission 37: The Ancient Relics
2:47:43 - Mission 38: Mount Olympus
2:50:43 - Mission 39: Betrayal of Sikyos
2:55:49 - Mission 40: Cerebus
3:02:06 - Mission 41: Rampage
3:07:33 - Mission 42: Making Ammends
3:13:34 - Mission 43: Atlantis Betrayed
3:18:23 - Fantastic Floating Friends, Super Spicy Skirmishes and Bad Business Bamboozles
3:22:12 - Mission 44: War of the Titans
3:28:51 - Outroduction
Make sure to study, this video WILL be on the test.
All Comments (21)
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Prostagma?
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Excuse you "Never Played". This game was my childhood
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Came for a retrospective of my favorite childhood RTS, stayed for the Crocodile rants. Justice for Sobek
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Fun fact about Osiris in myth: his wife, your “patron goddess who shall not be named” was able to find every part of his body except one. The one missing part was the one most important for cough husbandly duties. So she made a replacement out of gold, brought him back to life and he lived exactly long enough to cough perform once, before dying again.
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What’s insane is that Arkantos is basically retired by the time Fall of the Trident begins. There’s so much back story behind his character that I would love to see in the form of campaigns in the new aom Retold
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I love that the resolution to the conflict with Kronos is to call his mom
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This was the game that introduced me to both strategy games and ancient mythologies. Thank you for the wonderful memories mom.
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I remember my dad getting this game thinking it was a movie 💀 (to his defense he’s pretty old) and m still revisiting it after so many years, such a good game.
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Okay so, one reason I think you had Set as the patron God in Mission 13 (the tug of war mission) is probably because of the betrayal right at the start of the NEXT mission - most likely it shows that the base you used for mission 13 was actually worshipping Set, and thus turned on you the moment you got the God piece. I thought it was a fairly smart piece of foreshadowing, while also giving you a chance to test Set stuff for a bit in the campaign.
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47:04 Hades also has a massive reason for helping the heroes keep Tartarus closed seeing as he lives next door.
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It was almost a joke in my old friend circle how like 70% of us learned our ancient mythologies through those unit info pages. I remember my bro and I playing this game back in the day, he was partial to the Norse and their more aggro playstyle, whereas I tended towards Egypt cause I liked their myth units more. So many good memories, we might even still have the physical disks back home buried somewhere, if any of our computers can run it.
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"If this bombs I spent 4 months working on a dud" Becomes the most popular video in the channel by far
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Dude, AoM was THE game of my childhood. I remember going to my grandma's house (where my uncle's "good" PC was) and playing all day long throught my school holidays. It's been 20 years, my grandma passed away in 2021 and your video brought back a lot of good memories for me. Thank you so much for your effort and amazing work :) Cheers from Brazil!
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You are so right about sound design. Hearing the voice lines from the units was an instant nostalgia hit. Far bigger than any of the visuals.
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“A place in my dreams” is such a badass mission name considering that’s how all the foes akantos has slain are described.
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The very first frame from mission 21 just unlocked a whole lot of memory. It is indeed way more memorable than I remember
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2:41:00 The reference ''as the raids keep coming and they dont stop coming'' really got me
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Wow I can't believe Grant promised us he would do an AOM deathless run, how kind of him :^) looking forward to it.
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If ever there were a game deserving a 3 and a half hour long video about it, it is undoubtedly this one. Criminally underrated masterpiece, I hope we're living in a timeline where Retold does well enough to justify a level of support comparable to what Age 2 is currently getting.
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This game is honestly the BEST part of my childhood. Sent countless hours on this game. I see this as game as it should be the standard for all RTS!
