I'm certain this man is responsible for 90% of GoG's yearly revenue

Sseth really is the kind of person who will convince companies that the mention of a crack pipe in a sponsorship is absolutely necessary.

tells us to skip spoilers, has a little chat and then starts the spoilers on the time you skip to absolutely brilliant.

"Harry Potter and the Yugoslavic war tribunal" SSeth always asks the questions that I didn't know I wanted the answers.

Glad to see Sseth is back to his appropriate era of gaming

My man straight up just dedicated his entire sponsorship segment to explaining why the argument "it's not a constitutional rights violation if a private company does it" is a fallacy. Mad props.

The fact that Sseth managed to turn ships into nearly-invincible flying battle-cruisers proves that he is a brilliant strategist.

Now that is a sponsor plug - Sseth is an absolute artist

Honestly the balls on ExpressVPN to let Sseth be this brutally truthful on an ad is commendable. Remember when VPNs used to only advertise that you can watch unblocked Netflix in any country or shit like that without daring to mention anything remotely dubious?

I love how he tells you to go to 18:23 to avoid spoilers which is also coincidentally the precise time he begins to spoil the story.

Dwarf Fortress steam version released with huge changes. Petition for Sseth to make a new video with more stories.

"The same guys who made Overlord" The fact that other people remember my favourite chdhood game and even Sseth knows about it just fills me with joy

Congrats Sseth you've now become one of the few youtubers whose sponsored segments I don't skip.

Props to Sseth for making sponsored segments genuinely entertaining and enlightening

what a blast of nostalgia. i remember trying to play this game at like 6 years old and just getting bodied over and over. but cool sprite art and booba kept me coming back

"I forgot the point I was trying to make. Let's procede." Those two sentences sum up this entire wonderful channel.

I like all your vids but this really felt like those classic Sseth vids from years ago. It’s always great when you cover those 20+ year old games from your childhood

The best part of getting a new Sseth video isn't the video itself, it's the reassurance that he's still alive.

The Low Tier God alignment chart was, ironically, a top tier joke.

Update after 8 days of playing the game since the Windows 10 patch. I've chosen perhaps sligthly too high difficulty for our skill, so me and my brothers are having time of our live trying to survive endless waves of enemies and level 20 heroes. Its amazing.

SsethTzeentach: The only person besides Internet Historian who can make his sponsorships just as entertaining as the rest of the video.

Seeth is a mad man, he got them to make a special AoW bundle just for him AND he also made available a fix for a game glitch. Truly an ascended being.

SSeth's VPN sponsorship ad he did is hands-down the best VPN ad I've ever gotten. Legit I'm thinking about buying a VPN for once and knowing that expressVPN set up their system so you CAN'T keep records even if you want to is honestly making me think I might get their VPN.

I got the official strategy guide for age of wonders from a random bookstore while on vacation when I was like 8, it went through every unit from every race and talked about their unique strengths, I think it also had a campaign walkthrough. I read it cover to cover twice on that trip then bought age of wonders on my mom's computer when I got home. I think I still have it around here somewhere

Playing AoW 2 as a kid and then returning over a decade later to AoW 3 was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had Absolute banger of a franchise

That express VPN add was too real and relatable. I'm referring to the part of the IRS ruining your life (even momentarily), realizing they screwed up and targeted you wrongfully then just saying oops while telling you how YOU can fix THEIR mistake while actively making it next to impossible to do so.

I think Raze option is supposed to be used when attacking enemy territory, so you can destroy their buildings you might not be able to keep while leaving neutral raiders to wreck havoc on enemy lands. It's best used with Undead along with Animate Ruins. Still, I prefer to either Migrate or Loot with other races instead. As amazing as Wraiths are, they're *not* subceptible only to priests and "exorcism". A simple Enchant Weapon spell is all you need to kill them, as they're vulnerable to magic attacks. They're still quite abusable, tho. Wind Walking spell isn't the only way to get Galleons that can move on land. You can also use Free Movement earth spell for it (which you can research earlier and iirc its upkeep is far lower). Lightning Strike and Cold Strike were overpowered in original release version and got nerfed with patches. They're still powerful, tho, but I'd suggest taking Cold Strike over Lightning Strike in patched version, as LS only stuns for 1 turn, while CS freezes for 2. "Dominator" is my personal favorite build in AOW1. I used it in one of my campaign playthroughs and maxed out my Defense on 1st map, using Stone Skin and Bless spells. I'd also recommend trying out ranged builds, like Poison Darts with Marksmanship IV (Archery's your worst ranged option, imo). There are actually 3 different endings to both campaigns, not just the 4 endings you mentioned. "Shadow Magic" is actually a 'standalone expansion', meaning it's a separate game and doesn't require you to own "Wizard's Throne". I'm not really a fan of AoW2, tbh. It removed leader leveling, so the best thing to do with your leader is to just have it sit in a Wizard Tower while your heroes and units do all the work. :( Thankfully, AoW3 brought leader leveling back and is *much* better for it.

Yooo I can't believe somebody finally covered this. I have so many memories of making chains of air galleys to transport units across XL maps in one turn, my friend's lv. 50 leader making a visible path through my minimap as he razed everything, and editing the unencrypted sound effects into stupid nonsense (when they weren't already funnier than anything I'd make anyway like the punch of charm). The game's a masterpiece, thank you so much.

Dominating a Sea Serpent, loading it into an air galley then bricking my entire savegame by going into tactical combat with them is one of my favorite memories. Also in the same vein, going into tactical combat on water with all my units loaded into a boat just to see everything but the boats instantly drown, 10/10.

Before Age of Wonders was released, some music tracks were shared on the developer's website. The music of this game is so great, it made me shiver with anticipation. It was one of my most anticipated games of all time, and it did not disappoint when it was released!

Revisiting this in celebration of Age of Wonders 4

I have very fond memories of this game. I remember playing a toad man spellcaster with the cult of storms. On the mission where you fight the whole ass Azrac empire at once, I got overwhelmed very early on. I went on the run with my leader and another spellcaster, fighting a guerilla campaign across the map without owning any cities, until I found the Azrac leader and ended him in a glorious battle of my two guys against his army. Chain lightning is what you might call "perfectly balanced"

A video this soon? Who the hell are you and what did you do to our Benevolent Warlord?!

Sseth is truly the Diogenes of the game reviewer community

Dude "i knew that being gay would be an uphill battle" has to be the most underrated line of this video

You can fix the inverted pixels you get from alt tabbing if you change the resolution, then change it back. It will reset the graphics.

You forgot to mention the incarnate is the most OP unit in the game because it can take control of other peoples heroes, which then lets the AI get a new hero, then you can take that until you have squads of heroes which can obliterate everything.

You used to be able to make your ships fly in Age of Wonders 3 as well. I found this out when i was playing a human warlord and my ally, an orc druid, cast Wild Hunt. They then flew an entire god damn naval fleet through my territory and blew up one independent city and cleared some end game tier dungeons with them. The devs eventually made Wild Hunt not affect your units with the mechanical or sea creature tag but it was a hilarious time while it lasted.

This is one of my favorite games of all time. There are so many way to break the game and you showed me a few more I didn't know. 100% agree the best unit is the Giant but you skipped over the best tier 1 unit: The Elephant. More HP and damage than pretty much any other t1 unit and can also break walls. So good.

I would really like to see Sseth playing ,,songs of syx "in my opinion the game doesn't get the attention it should and it's a very ambitious project that is still in development

The expansion to the sequel to this game, Age of Wonders II: Shadow Magic, is a absolute masterpiece and i really hope Sseth would do a video of it one day.

Another game I’ll never play summarized so beautifully I feel like I have.

Holy moly - thank you! I remember getting a demo of this as a kid, and never understanding what was going on, but found the images to be unreal, and burned into my memory. Have been trying to remember the name of it for literally decades - thank you so much!

Hey hey people Age of wonders 4 trailer out now

For the graphic glitch, try opening the resolution setting screen on windows. You don't have to do anything there, just open the window. It worked for the old version of Age of Empires II

God, there are few things I want in gaming more than the return of 4X fantasy in the spirit of AoW. It is so rarely this good.

dude, AoW 1 gave me so many good memories. Playing alone for hours without even noticing the sunrise, its amazing. I feel that modern 4x arent just like that, I'm not saying that those games are bad, but AoW 1 had so many things in a very simple gameplay without a lot of geopolytical-eco-geography bullshit. Game it's simple, if you pick Lizards, rush flood, pick Orcs, enchant weapon and mass orc soldiers, and the builds are just as simple as that. Definetly, one of the best RTS games I've ever played. (Shadow Magic is pretty cool too)

The single best ad for a VPN. Hands down

This is a game I used to play with my childhood friends back in the day. It's such a classic. I encourage everyone to play it as well as its sequels.

Easily the best VPN ad I've seen yet. Not only did you provide a meaningful example of the consequences of data harvesting, you did it without spewing the complete bs VPN ads usually do. All VPNs should be taking notes.

Big fan of AoW3, was always curious about the older entries and this is a great introduction. AoW3 is the best, most involved strategy game I've witnessed. Of the one ancient thread I found that compared 4x games, those who played it, agreed. It's kind of a hidden gem that's hiding in plain sight. I love HoMM and Xcom and Civ in their own right, but it's a whole different beast. I've long been interested in watching people play this game at the highest level, and made a few jumps each time blowing my mind how this person is so much better at the game than the previous. I love Black Arrow Gaming's channel, which wasn't my final stop in the power hierarchy, but he's quite incredible, and every video has tons of wall of text comments discussing how to improve his play even more. I am truly passionate about AoW and thank you for reading.

This review unlocked a core memory for me. I had one of those demo discs as a kid, and this was one of the games on it. I could never remember what the game was, however, and could only remember the general idea. I even own age of wonders 3 didn't even realize it was the first. Thanks Sseth.

Ah, Sseth and older turn based games go together perfectly. Also it’s crazy that this man has gotten me into games I’ve would’ve never thought I’d try.

Chris Chan fetish jail is the callback we didn't need, but never knew we wanted. Bravo Sir.

19:12 man the music really hits here. such an amazing ost

I love that Chris Chan is one of your inmates in the prison example.

When I was maybe around 10, I was primarily playing game demos from CDs that came with my dad's subscriptions for PC magazines, and Age of Wonders was one of my absolute favorites; I probably played at least 500 hours of that one demo scenario, the orcs being my favorite race due to the not at all broken orc warlord... I miss those times.

I truly hope ExpressVPN understands the absolute gem of an advertisement they have here. I actually watched the whole plug for ExpressVPN and enjoyed every second of it.

Sseth, the man, the legend, who can turn VPN shilling into some kind of manifesto

God its my actual childhood come back to haunt me. My family desktop back then was so old that, while the game worked, the music always skipped endlessly. To hear the actual music is like waking up from a nightmare. Bless you Seth and bless you CD section of the office supply store that had these games.

One of my all-time favourites. Bought at Walmart out of the cheapo PC games bins they used to have, double-packaged with the first Stronghold. Still have both to this day.

I love this game so much, one of my top 10s of all time. Thank you for making this review.

Well paradox just announced Age of Wonders 4.

This video really aged well in light of current events...

Man... after knowing the twist from the spoilers I wish I could have played the game and see it for myself. What an amazing game, really.

13:20 Sseth breaking down when he says "busting it down sexual style" atomized me

honestly your descriptions of each factions is my favourite part of every one of these reviews

15:24 "The manifestation of Death is outside our door. And uh, he's fuckin' up our corn."

I'm about 70-80% sure that thanks to sseth I have now finally learned what one man one jar is despite years of trying to prevent myself from ever discovering it's nature. Neat.

1:57 Glad to see my boy Pyro getting the recognition he deserves, even if he’s gonna deny this is something he does on the daily

The Age of Wonders series is a true gem, unjustly underrated. Thanks for the great review!

At 4:06 As an Indian man fond of punjabi music, seeing Daler Mehndi as elements in a Sseth Tzeentach video is my definition of bliss :')

This man is one of the few actually showcasing good games from every era.

This is one of my favourite games from when I was a kid, and it's wonderful to see it get some love from Sseth. I wish the sequels had kept the ridiculously in-depth unit descriptions, though. It's hard to quantify how much flavour text like that can add to the experience.

I love how consistently good your content is, always looking forward to next vid

23 year old games are actually good being functional and in terms of content , i do understand the graphical glitches on these games if you alt tab as they used to run on direct x 6 and early version of dx9 and with 256k colour coding which is not compatible with current gpu cards. I remember facing the same issue for my OG age of empires copy, Glad they made a remastered version

"Woman are counted as creatures" that made my day

This is unironically better than a lot modern games we have today.

Age of Wonders was an amazing game! One of my favorite things about it was it let me and my friends play multiplayer on 1 PC as it was turn based. I also think 800x600 resolution looks best for this game even though it supports 1080p these days. Thanks for the great video Sseth!

This man is, unique for sure, he speaks in a way that just, don’t get tired of. Keep up the great work my man :D

I feel like as time has gone on, you're able to be more personal with how you express yourself and sprinkle in a bit of humanity in how you present the games with anecdotes I can actually relate to. I'm scared and excited.

3:16 The best part about little dark age edits is when the apparent ''good old days'' are depicted through military imagery with men dying in some senseless war to enrich some nobleman or oligarch

It's well outside Sseth's era of gaming, but I think he'd really like Planetary Annihilation: Titans. Teleporting 300 tuk tuks carrying nuclear bombs directly into the enemy base or throwing an entire planet at them seems right up his alley.

When I was growing up I never had a computer capable of playing any games, but that didn't stop me from buying the AoW big box edition so I could just drool over the artwork and fantasize about playing it one day. Little did I know it would be decades later that I'd finally sit down and play it and wow, such a fun game. And like you, I listen to the soundtrack posted by Jiseng So a ton. Awesome video, keep up the good work.

13:28 that complete failure to keep a straight face

Holy smokes, I did not expect to get a review of my top game ever :D Thank you Seth :3

I've played a lot of AoW 3, so I feel right at home with this review. I love the game, and your humour. That sponsorship ad was so funny/good that I didn't skip it. All the best to you.

These videos have been awesome for a long time, but somehow I feel like they're recently getting even a little bit better than before. Pretty cool

this is the actual best and most effective ad I've ever seen. even more than the sears air conditioner commercial, which lives in my brain and will be the last thing I remember as alzheimer's robs me of all of my memories of friends and family.

13:40 Keep fighting the good fight, Sseth. No woman will be able to stop you

age of wonders 4 is coming

I have really fond memories of doing hotseat comp stomps with my best friend in this game. The later games are great too but I definitely have soft spot for the insanity of this one. Making a first striking, lightning attack lifestealing hero and soloing the entire map was always a great time.

This game has a mindblowingly good soundtrack, and its in a weird tracker -type format!

I love Age of Wonders 1 because the best races are the cave races of either good or evil. Dwarves (or more specifically, giants), led by moles to rewrite the map's terrain (or gobbos if you go evil) are the best way to play the game. I've never played a game (even the sequels) with three layers and hidden cave troves to explore like this one. Bonus if you "quick battle" because, due to giants being "siege units", they get to throw two boulders without melee enemies getting to act before they go to melee. Four veteran giants beat any other stack. My favorite moment, though, was when playing as highmen in campaign at the last stage - the humans defeated the undead (who are supposed to be the biggest threat on the map) on turn 2 (surprising me, who had no way of seeing it coming) by sending their airship at the undead lich-king and killing him single-handedly because the undead hadn't produced ranged units yet, you can't flee from battles, and the lich-king only had stockpiled enough mana for about 2 magic missiles. The airship survived the two magic missiles and then parked overhead, ballistaing the lich in the face until the unstoppable forces that conquered death itself fell to a single air unit.

I thought i had forgotten about that glass jar incident, thank you for bringing the time traumatic memory back

I like this so much, i don't even play the genre. This guy is awesome.

Haven't played AoW 1, but AoW 2 is source of great memories. I really liked how terrain and location of units on strategic map was reflected in combat map.

I remember playing age of wonders: shadow magic and having to stop because the AI can essentially 'detect lethal' on your faction leader during battles and not matter how esoteric the methods would manage to snipe my leader causing a game over. I got too salty, but this video makes me want to try it again. Another great video Sseth!

This guy is awesome, the videos are dynamic and incredible. And that sponsorhip segment o god it was perfect

this IS the game of my childhood, mostly played Age Of Wonders 2 SM. been playing this games for 20 years now.