2:04 - Definitive edition - with voice acting 2:08 - AoE1 - no voice acting Thank you for the demonstration.
@Klosterhasi6 жыл бұрын
probably more like proving to his AoE2-only viewers than demonstrating but you're right that was kinda random
@IMBATMANANDIMCOOL5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for solving that, I was gonna type in - hey you forgot to do voice acting clip for AoE1 .. bhaha
@CsubAzUrmedve6 жыл бұрын
7:36 I thought that huge ship was the part of the game for a moment...
@TheSpaceBrosShow6 жыл бұрын
SuperCsubi - A Dühöngő Űrmedve SAME lol that trireme is HUGE
@BurnRoddy6 жыл бұрын
Me too, that would be cool HAHA!
@Domobomb6 жыл бұрын
Yeah... he was talking about juggernauts so I thought that huge ship was a juggernaut, and the smaller ones triremes.
@xarin426 жыл бұрын
same
@asdffasd35826 жыл бұрын
I tought that was the joggernaut he was talking about!
@heckinmemes64304 жыл бұрын
"But father, why are we.." "Shut up boy, hammer the ground, the corn isn't going to hammer itself!"
@Snowfireblues4 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment. I never thought of that until today... They could use the the farming animations to when building a farm instead of the classic, "hammer ground", but I think it'd look weird having a villager sow a construction site
@michaelmccarty13274 жыл бұрын
Lol, stupid prehistoric farmers. Everyone knows nowadays that you only hammer your farm if it's on fire.
@DannyECDUB6 жыл бұрын
Lol, i remember checking the tech trees on the little handout you got with the game.
@zeroawn38056 жыл бұрын
i had the collectors edition that came with AoE1 & 2 with Rise of Rome and AoC :D came with a CD of music sound tracks and a poster with all the tech trees :D and a book with more detail lol
@kaitthenoscoper2 жыл бұрын
@@zeroawn3805 yeah i got that too lol
@lopez.jacinto.67266 жыл бұрын
We miss you Ensamble Studio... we miss you...
@scintillam_dei3 жыл бұрын
@@thatguy8959 His name is in Spanish so he's not used to English. Have a heart, but not the Aztec way. (I'm Spanish)
@andy.w3 жыл бұрын
@@scintillam_dei that went dark quickly
@phoenixzappa73662 жыл бұрын
Microsoft disbanded it.
@mahatmaniggandhi28982 жыл бұрын
@@scintillam_dei i prefer the aztec way 😋
@scintillam_dei2 жыл бұрын
@@phoenixzappa7366 You know why Bill Gates funded a game about empires? Because he loves the idea of depopulation.
@maxipet050 Жыл бұрын
4:16 You can actually enable automatic reseeding with a button in the granary! Which will allow farmers to, well, automatically reseed farms once they're used up.
@pip55285 жыл бұрын
1:41 The game didn't just have MIDI. CD Audio was also an option, which did have live instruments, though the stock game and Rise of Rome had separate soundtracks. Also, MIDI can sound a lot better than that if you use something other than the default sample set from Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. You can use either an external sound module, some type of sound card, or just use soundfonts. I especially really like how it sounds on an SC-55.
@filthydelphiacreations16196 жыл бұрын
Spirit, the campaigns were significantly changed in the Definitive Edition as well. Some scenarios like Pyrrhus or Holy Man were unchanged while others like The Great Hunt and Assassins were entirely re-imagined. Our goal was to really modernize and improve the campaigns, as well as give them more historical basis, while retaining the same sense of wonder that players felt in the 90s when we were first transported to this ancient and exotic world.
@Ackalan2 жыл бұрын
It's a shame you made all the infantry models walk like they have solid spines.
@_antares0316 жыл бұрын
All I want for this game is Steam release. Nothing more.
@Skult16 жыл бұрын
antares031 there's no way Microsoft will do that. Just pirate the game, they won't even care
@josegarza35326 жыл бұрын
antares031 Then I guess no AoE:DE or AoEIV for you. Shame since the game is great.
@shadowbandit39756 жыл бұрын
and then people will rag, that MS has no exclusives. So when MS tries to build their exclusives they get ragged on.
@robinhood72936 жыл бұрын
You do NOT exclude software on PC. PCs are made so they can access all types of software as long as they can handle it, limiting that access is not "building exclusives", you already have consoles for that. PC is not a console, try to treat it as one, watch your sales plummet to the bottom of the ocean
@shadowbandit39756 жыл бұрын
No, wrong Guts, that perception is way off. The game isn't excluded on a particular platform of PC, all PC's can run it. Steam is digital distribution on a pc, so is the Win 10 store. Nothing is stopping a user on PC to play this game besides bias (and the win 10 store needs some work, but more use might spring that). This isn't an exclusive idea in the concept of consoles where you have to buy a new console just to play the game. This exclusive is all about reputation and garner market share. Which can't fault a company for trying to do, Steam does the same thing, so does EA and ect. And overall, I doubt MS gives a crap about sales about a remaster version of an old game.
@Ellimist0004 жыл бұрын
It is amazing how good the games looked at the time. I honestly had trouble seeing what the difference of the new one was until the old one was put beside it. Perception is a funny thing
@paulpablo83416 жыл бұрын
That Instrumental from the original AOE is so nostalgic ❤
@pip55285 жыл бұрын
Update: It's not a Windows Store exclusive anymore. It is available on Steam.
@thedeveloper25136 жыл бұрын
I actually watched an ad for 30sec so this guy gets paid for his hard work. Keep it up!
@AroundtheWorld-cf2eu6 жыл бұрын
3:35 "shh, just blend into the forest so we dont have to work" :D
@JJBeauregard16 жыл бұрын
the units may have more rotations but they are stuck with a single attack animation :( in the old game every melee unit except those lancer dudes had an animation for each angle they attacked from
@talkysassis Жыл бұрын
I'ts because they're 3d now
@ollyclass6 жыл бұрын
I'm not trying to hate but some of the things like no scout makes it more 'realistic' like it's a new civilization when aoe2 is set when there are proper nations for many years
@Bear_Feces6 жыл бұрын
Ollyclass Ollyclass I think the same way, and it was one of the cool atmospheric things that I liked about AOE1 when I played it as a kid.
@rambard55996 жыл бұрын
Stating your thoughts and opinions isn't the same as hating, some people really should learn that. And yeah, you make a fair point, although I do believe that AoE2 doesn't try to be realistic, but player-friendly and competitive.
@mitch_tmv5 жыл бұрын
well to me that's kind of the point. AoE 1 is stone age through to around 1000 BC, while AoE 2 starts around 400-500 AD. Historically, several civs should theoretically be more advanced than AoE 1 endgame at the very beginning of AoE 2, but that would make the mediterranean and middle eastern civs kinda OP. China too probably.
@GraveUypo5 жыл бұрын
it doesn't make anything more realistic. people aren't born out of nowhere in a place surrounded by black fog. If you want realism, most of the map should come pre-explored and line of sights should be infinite and only blocked by terrain or objects like trees.
@ODDnanref3 жыл бұрын
@@GraveUypo Unless you see units a abstract representations of groups. Like the old school pieces on a map strategists used to represent groups or units they used in war. Like, Calvary represented by a horse figurine.
@hbarudi6 жыл бұрын
There is one thing wrong in the definitive edition, trireme and catapult trireme juggernaught used to be identifiable by the eyes on the front of the ship, but now they give regular trireme the eyes and they all look the same. Why?
@MeanDark26 жыл бұрын
well the regular triremes have round shields, and the catapult triremes have diamond shaped shields
@hbarudi6 жыл бұрын
yes I see there is something extra in the front of the ship with player color on the catapult trireme and the regular trireme doesn't and yes the regular trireme has only circular player color things on it but the catapult trireme has diamond shaped ones, good to notice especially in that very difficult antony mission where you have to defeat cleopatra's barge and fight 3 strong enemies.
@dragovern6 жыл бұрын
That csmpaign with a single priest though...
@firstcooommment36756 жыл бұрын
My main problem with the original AoE 1, was the visuals. Specifically, being able to identify your units. In AoE 2, there's a small outline of your units when behind trees and obstacles. This isn't in the 1st, also AoE 2 unit designs were made to make the units easily distinguishable, focusing on colors. But with this upgrade, I might soon give this a try.
@tomascostanzo36732 жыл бұрын
In order to learn about each tech tree, I used to select a mission from random maps which was called, "the intruder", I think, and in that mission, one of the players began playing in the post-iron age. It was good as regards learning about the units available, but not about technologies for each civilization. Still, it was useful.
@jeroen926 жыл бұрын
I actually love the lack of a rank system, makes the game more relaxed and enjoyable :)
@flyercow6 жыл бұрын
They just need to focus on the PathFinding issues, it's super bad :c
@elrincondejack6 жыл бұрын
Yes, there are times they get stuck between almost anything or times that they just ignore range units and choose the closest building.
@scintillam_dei3 жыл бұрын
The reason for that flaw is that AI is actually not intelligence at all per se, but rather just puppetry by the programmers who can never plan for every possible scenario ergo can never have rules for the utterly mindless computer to follow to make the enemies act intelligently consistently. My series on the history of atheism covers how the brain is not the mind, and how AI is actually impossible taken literally.
@NXeta6 жыл бұрын
9:38 "you want some of this, lion?" *d-d-d-d-d-dabbb*
@a_piece_of_ham87526 жыл бұрын
I would buy it if it came out on steam.
@ODDnanref3 жыл бұрын
It's out on steam!
@scintillam_dei3 жыл бұрын
Speaking of steam coming out, I farted today.
@Joker-yw9hl6 жыл бұрын
Wahay been waiting for more AOE1 content from you. Love a bit of spirit
@MasterOfPizza6 жыл бұрын
I still prefer original songs
@scintillam_dei3 жыл бұрын
MIDI sounds better for Age of Empires. By the way, I plan to make a dumb joke changing the name to "Era of Hegemonic Polities."
@Christmas-Jacket3 жыл бұрын
Diehard fan alert
@Slimurgical5 жыл бұрын
Attack Move point - In AoE1, people typically just moved an army close to the enemy, and gave them a stop order, which would make them attack the closest enemy unit naturally, whether it's a building, or another unit. Still a bit less micromanagement, but more a tiny factoid.
@TheLukeFalcon6 жыл бұрын
There's no reason for the game to be a Win10 exclusive. Seems like a misguided attempt at coercing AoE1 fans into upgrading their OS. Also, the MS Store exclusivity only means a consistently high price. It feels like MS wants to change gaming on Windows10 into a console-like experience with exclusive titles.
@ThunderflySc26 жыл бұрын
There aren't a super huge AOE fans to say that i is a attempt for OS upgrade.
@tastycookiechip6 жыл бұрын
G2a
@rixille5 жыл бұрын
Yeah it is really annoying. I won't buy this game at all. I was hyped for it but Microsoft blew it.
@scintillam_dei3 жыл бұрын
I recall Windows 7 was better than 10 in a bunch of ways.
@AOETips6 жыл бұрын
Nice vid! I actually had a direct influence on the game's balance changes and was in direct contact with FE when it came to balance. We should play a game together or maybe do a collab vid. I can actually tell you quite a lot about why certain balance changes were made.
@ArthaxtaDaVince7776 жыл бұрын
AOE Tips Will you be working on AOE2 Definitive?
@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka6 жыл бұрын
AOE Tips I'd watch a Collab between you two :)
@max94116 жыл бұрын
ArthaxtaDaVince777 is that confirmed? Insane if true
@ArthaxtaDaVince7776 жыл бұрын
Max August They said they would do a definitive for all AOEs.
@AG.Floats6 жыл бұрын
Definitive for all AoEs? Definitive would be pointless for AoE3 and they already have AoE2 HD on steam and they already did do AoE1....
@hirano48376 жыл бұрын
Are you going to do civ overviews for this game?
@MastersPipe6 жыл бұрын
Otavio Lopes i bet he's doing a Yamato overview
@bloodraven25376 жыл бұрын
Go yams!
@ROASTEDREGIS5 жыл бұрын
4:14 you can actually make non stop building on farms by pressing mid button in food only storage pit. Where you usually upgrade your tower
@pennyfish89 Жыл бұрын
did u mean granary?
@wolfgangbenfattoum81374 жыл бұрын
I bought both Definite Editions I & II for less than 3 dollars on Steam. My play to pay ratio is now the highest within a few hours of play. What a great game. Not to overcomplicated and very relaxing war gaming. Love it.
@veangeful36 жыл бұрын
You deserve a big fuckin' smooch for this one, Spirit, no wolohomolo tho.
@tortron6 жыл бұрын
The Lone Vaquero erectus?
@AyoubusMagnus6 жыл бұрын
I played the AOE Rise of Rome when it was released in a demo version with a Microsoft 98 CD-ROM back in 2000 and i played the legendray hardcore carthagian mission which was impossible to complete when u needed to fight the red one who had no boats and the yellow one who had boats.
@cornelladyas11345 жыл бұрын
me too it was Chartagian vs Rome
@3pak2236 жыл бұрын
your videos are really well thought out and edited, good job
@bbbrenden5 жыл бұрын
I was obsessed with the original, 2, and age of mythology. I’ve definitely been missing the first for a while now. My original copies were lost long ago.
@AdoringFan6 жыл бұрын
"Mountain Temple" is actually Polyester Jammy. You showed the MIDI version, but it actually sounded like this as long as you had the game CD in the drive: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abZoltahsqevY5s.html
@yusukeelric6 жыл бұрын
Yes it bugged me he showed the MIDI version instead of the CD one wich was AMAZING. speciall in Rise of Rome where they got the identity of the series (much of the AOE 1 vanilla music is kinda off with the rest of the series while rise feels on par with AOE 2 music) The quality is lower. But i really prefer the selection of instruments of the original
@icarian5536 жыл бұрын
Yes. And you could listen to the songs if you put the cd in any cd music player. I used to do that, when I was reading or studying. I just put AOE cd in my player.
@Sagerronan6 жыл бұрын
For some versions of the game, you didn't even need to have the cd in. For the original versions, you did, but for the much newer multi-pack of the game that came packaged with the original Aoe1 and expansion, and aoe2 and expansion, you didn't actually need to have the cd in. I have that version installed on a laptop with no cd drive and it plays the full songs, not the midis.
@smithareghunathannair41844 жыл бұрын
All hail adoring fan
@Self-replicating_whatnot6 жыл бұрын
Asking to buy AoE:DE on Windows Store is like asking a person to buy a nice looking shirt that will give them cancer. Get back to me when this game is available on Steam.
@GraveUypo6 жыл бұрын
Whilr i agree, steam is just a different type of cancer. I dunno why people worship it so
@Self-replicating_whatnot6 жыл бұрын
Steam adds value(steam workshop, cloud saving, multiplayer support), while Windows Store only exists to take your money in exchange for castrated versions of games.
@GraveUypo6 жыл бұрын
pretty sure windows store also has "multiplayer support" (whatever that has to do with steam) and cloud saving. doesn't save it from being garbage, why is it any different from steam? both are DRM. shitty DRM from people that just don't care about their costumers at that.
@Army-ef3ti6 жыл бұрын
yes but steam isnt a shit DRM lmao
@DaddyMouse6 жыл бұрын
GraveUypo I use Windows 7 because it runs smoother on my PC, I get better FPS and Win 7 is actually compatible with more apps and hardware than Win 10 (especially if we are talking about stuff that is related to music production and so on). Steam is good because it have managed to become a sort of social media for gamers. You can add people to your friend list, you can see who is playing what, you can invite people or spectate their games in real time. You can post your artwork, guides and videos and browse through stuff people post. Steam have managed to make it easier for us, gamers, to have a unified community. I grew up in the era when we had like 20 forums on 20 different websites for each popular game and that sucked, to be honest. I have never had so many people I could play game with until Steam became popular. Now, limiting AOE:DE to Microsoft Store is lame, at least for anyone who does not want to use Windows 10. Like, AOE2 :HD is available on steam and I love it, why not making AOE:DE compatible with both Steam and Win 7 too?
@ultrondm32995 жыл бұрын
Thanks alot for playing the song, nearly made me cry, all those golden days of gaming...
@NTSCuser4 жыл бұрын
In case it hasn't already been mentioned, I should point out that the original AOE2 didn't have farm reseeding either. It was added later in the The Conquerors expansion along with some other refinements we now take for granted.
@oom-32626 жыл бұрын
I see raids are far more dangerous ... I hate raids D:
@spiguy6 жыл бұрын
OOM- 32 Guerrilas are definetly painful.
@Robotech0106 жыл бұрын
Don't worry he said there were no raidings in DE ^^
@matthieuchristian5006 жыл бұрын
I don't remember, in AoE, what is raiding ?
6 жыл бұрын
in ur base, killin ur duds
@GraveUypo5 жыл бұрын
@ if you kill one villager for every 3 clubman its still worth it. well, maybe not in this game since if you fall behind one age you're completely doomed because your units will be doing 1 damage to your enemies with their broken upgrades. i think a single hoplite can kill like 8 axemen all at once. if they come one by one it's more like 40 of them.
@miscellaneous.71274 жыл бұрын
The best thing is the increased population cap
@MayurKulkarni6 жыл бұрын
Spirit, You are just amazing! Just one of the best youtubers doing great work. I will keep waiting for more videos.
@DannyHeywood3 жыл бұрын
The problem a few of us are having on Steam Forums is that on Single Player the difficulty is set to 'Hardest' no matter what you select. I want to just chill out and build an empire...
@Luredreier6 жыл бұрын
1:43 Honestly I kind of prefer the MIDI version of the two...
@joedemelfie55094 жыл бұрын
Luredreier I do as well. it's different but better. it might be sub par quality but it's not always better to update stuff people enjoy and it works.
@kedarjoshi86614 жыл бұрын
Same
@ScribbleKith6 жыл бұрын
It looks really good to me. I'd want the idle village number in AoE2 HD to be honest. I would get the definitive edition if it was on steam, basically the windows store is stopping me.
@Klosterhasi6 жыл бұрын
all i want for christmas is queue commands in AoE2 like in Sc2 :/
@Mecrom6 жыл бұрын
tru, would love that 2
@KBraid6 жыл бұрын
one of the few things that really peeved my pet is the villager building animation and sound. They've slowed it way down and replaced that satisfying "thump-thump-thump" with a wimpy "Ting ... Ting ... Ting" I can no longer get to experience the joy of hearing the thunderous rumble of 100 villagers building a wonder...
@Igor_0546 жыл бұрын
12:12 Scouting with the artifacts is a very efficient alternative, if you can find them that early.
@hwinter33475 жыл бұрын
original aoe-200MB definite edition-18 gb what the hell?
@FloosWorld_AoE5 жыл бұрын
4K Textures.
@joedemelfie55094 жыл бұрын
silly
@tvremote93946 жыл бұрын
Seriously would've loved to buy it, even bearing the windows store exclusivity, but the no farm queue and horrible path finding is a turn off.
@Nexsyana6 жыл бұрын
If it is only that...buy it...those are really minor...You get used to it...With time you learn to play the game and not let the game play you
@WiscoDrinks6 жыл бұрын
Well it is the AOE1 definitive edition. Not an aoe2 reskin. Just wait for aoe2de
@nguyenhuyduc91516 жыл бұрын
In my country, back to aoe 1 not de, things you said is a very big part, very important part in every match! No im not joking, its truth!. If the path finding work well like aoe 2, there is no way melee unit can kill mobile archer like chariot. And back to aoe 1, we can place a building without vil come to it. That make we can use "that" to block enemy unit from escape because they have to click to destroy " fake building" first..
@sweetnerevar35096 жыл бұрын
Vietnam? :) you guys are very competitive with it last time i played in a net cafe there. You can disable the new pathfinding there is also a classic mode but for some reason the classic mode also contains all the old graphics as well as the gameplay. In the new version you can no longer do a "fake building" as they've made them passable now until you start building. They've made some changes which are like Age of Empires 2, which i enjoy a lot, but you think they would have kept the choice in gameplay changes as an option separate from the new graphics. Also the new pathfinding isn't really any better at running away and it often gets stuck in new ways the previous didn't. Some of the balance changes are quite nice, the slinger unit is more powerful vs chariots making them a good counter and useful late game. Chariot Archer spam is much easier to counter with it.
@TheSpicyLeg6 жыл бұрын
The no farm queue is annoying, but it isn't earth shattering. I strongly suggest learning to put all farm downs at the same time, then you're only having to refresh them all at the same time. It isn't that different from 2, except you have to refresh more often as opposed to 'refreshing' the queue at the mill. The pathfinding isn't all that bad, except in the case Spirit showed - going through narrow passages. I try to avoid these (even better, inflicting them upon the enemy). Using gaps in the wall with a tower right beside is an excellent way to use a catapult or helepolis on defense, since the units behind the one blocking the hole are stuck in a kill zone. Overall, if the game was designed to strike a balance between nostalgia and QoL, it did this well. I've had a lot of fun playing through the campaigns, though they (rightly) fixed my old trick of two priests and a catapult being all the army needed to win (units under conversion from multiple priests would simply stand still and target one or the other priest without attacking). The campaigns were changed a lot, and the historical information is interesting. Multiplayer is fun, though as an above average player I feel like I am either devastating a new player or getting stomped into the ground by the pro players. You have to spend some time meeting people to find players near your skill level.
@garuda29035 жыл бұрын
+Spirit Of The Law Thanks!
@failatlife16 жыл бұрын
That's really great that they added in the tech tree in game. I remember when I was a kid and played this, I don't remember noticing that different civs even had bonuses. I definitely knew about tech tree differences, and mass Hittite Heavy Catapults was a favorite strategy of mine, since I'm pretty sure they get them fully upgraded.
@martijn95686 жыл бұрын
9:40 dapp
@fristi616 жыл бұрын
Well, since you asked at the end of the video to post any reasons for not wanting it. Yes, it is mostly W10/Wstore exclusivity. I do not use my pc exclusively for gaming, and I do still play many"old" games (~2000s RTS and city builders) that (aside from recently updated games such as the AoE titles) are known to not function well or at all on W10 even with compatibility settings. I also have hobbies like modding games/programming/etc, things which I know are made frustrating by W10 doing things like not allowing you in the program files folder, constantly breathing down your neck with alerts etc. I understand it may be better for people who don't know what they're doing, but I DO know what I'm doing and I need an OS that lets ME control my computer and not the other way around. I don't mean to complain about W10, I'm sure people have good reasons for liking it. For me specifically though it's the exact opposite of the system I need. Regarding AoE:DE, I don't necessarily mind the lack of formations, reseed queues and gates, if those are deemed necessary to preserve the feel and gameplay of the original game. But I would have hoped for more pathfinding improvement at a minimum, and I see no reason for not having triggers to bring much needed creativity to scenarios, other than the obvious reason that it'd take a lot of work. The real kicker is the lack of mod/workshop support that comes with being integrated into Windows Store. Games like this NEED it for longevity, IMHO. I might do a dual boot one day in the distant future, part W10 part W7, but I need more reason than a mostly graphical remake of a game I already have for it to be worth the trouble and money, no matter how good that remake is.
@fristi616 жыл бұрын
Still, I'd have probably gotten it if it wasn't on W10. The thing is, if there's a bigger hurdle to take (such as switching OS, changing the way you use your computer, etc) you also need a bigger incentive to take that hurdle, to match. This looks good, but not enough to take the hurdle.
@nazimelon66533 жыл бұрын
okay but the midi songs genuinly had a charm They always did, in any game
@glenndiddy4 жыл бұрын
About the music, there's 2 different versions of it depending on what version you played. There is 1 with a pure midi like what was played here and 1 high quality one. Search for the aoe 1 soundtrack and you can tell the difference. The original songs were higher quality than what you showed in the video
@unclevladimir37306 жыл бұрын
No steam no buy
@Lolypop1235 жыл бұрын
Uncle Vladimir I brought it it’s way more better than aoe 2
@davidsnoek86865 жыл бұрын
it will be on steam soon
@Lolypop1235 жыл бұрын
David Snoek I know it’s gonna be sick
@dmndd34325 жыл бұрын
Its now on Steam, yay!!
@davidsnoek86865 жыл бұрын
@@dmndd3432 indeed!! just bought it!
@-Zakhiel-6 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who prefer the old clunky Age of Empires ?
@rabbgod52195 жыл бұрын
Zakhiel its something to have fun with but your eyes truly start to hurt after some time
@mondeli75936 жыл бұрын
I'm a bit late to the party here, but for those of you that don't know: While you're setting up a custom game, you can choose the game mode to be classic, which lets you play with the graphics and sound from the original for those of you who prefer those. It also takes away the tech tree from the in-game hud, so you'll need to get out those papers, if you want to do it that way.
@roelsch3 жыл бұрын
1:42 The original games had CD audio on them which is used whenever you play with the CD. If you play without the CD it falls back to MIDI files. This is possibly why you remember that music as better quality.
@SeltsamerAttraktor6 жыл бұрын
Windows 10 and Windows Store exclusive? NOT GETTING.
@Vatzbalerg6 жыл бұрын
I think this is an excellent remaster. It feels like the old age of empires with nostalgia googles on, and some much needed QoL features. Would buy again.
@GepardenK6 жыл бұрын
Agreed, it's good. There's a few quirks and some odd decisions regarding the art that make the game struggle with visual feedback in some areas (something aoe1 classic never had an issue with; in fact it's a prime example on how to do this right), but all in all it's a solid release (if a bit premature due to some buggyness)
@Undefined146 жыл бұрын
The multiplayer scene would really benefit from rankings. I played 2v2s and 3v3s where I walked over the enemy team effortlessly without help, and I've played where a single player rolled over my entire team without help. That's partly because early aggression is so strong, if you're not really ready ahead of time it's a quick game over. Lack of free scout exacerbates this. But ratings would help enormously.
@DanmakuNyanNyan6 жыл бұрын
Wow,. just finished a game of aoe3 not 10 minutes ago as the Iroquois and decided to KZfaq some aoe stuff. Glad you uploaded!
@zellorz6 жыл бұрын
I'm okay with Windows 10 exclusivity, but that Microsoft Store stuff is unacceptable. I guess for old school hardcore AoE fans ist's alright, but most PC gamers won't even bother about investing in a new platform. I know Steam is not the end of the world, but we need good alternatives, not the horrendous Microsoft Store. Hope it does not end up hurting AoE 4 on the long run.
@David-yb9ee6 жыл бұрын
Gerard Torres I dream about age of Empires series on GOG galaxy
@Staloborlp976 жыл бұрын
Whats so bad about the store though? I opened it one time to download the game and never had to open it again? I'm serious. I don't get it.
@PsychCaptain6 жыл бұрын
Boris the Blade maybe, but it will still require windows 10, since it uses X Box live for multiplayer, and I think requires Direct X12
@Self-replicating_whatnot6 жыл бұрын
If it ever comes to buying games only on Steam or only on MS Store, i for one would welcome our new Valve overlords.
@NihonNiv6 жыл бұрын
+Self-replicating whatnot I'm liking your comment for the Simpsons reference. Made me smile.
@kataphraktoi32236 жыл бұрын
I will never understand why people think the graphics look better. AoE1 is one of the most beautiful games ever made. The music even on midi just sounds way better to me, and I listen to them routinely.
@ThunderflySc26 жыл бұрын
That is just for nostalgia.
@John-jc3ty6 жыл бұрын
wow, the toggle reseed farm is a great idea! i hope they implement it in aoe2 de
@gregoryberrycone6 жыл бұрын
the lack of queuing farms and unit formations/decent pathfinding are the main things keeping from me being a big AOE 1 fan. i played it a bit as a kid but even then i had the second game first and it was always tough going back from age of kings. still its an important milestone in RTS history
@stefan11326 жыл бұрын
Looks so fun. Will it ever be on steam or windows 7?
@Tempires6 жыл бұрын
on steam maybe as microsoft is willing to bring their games to platforms that support their games(steam doesn't support win10 fully (UWP, xbox live e.g.) currently and Sony doesn't support xbox live on playstation so not all microsoft games are published on those platfroms). Microsoft doesn't want to make multiple versions or divided multiplayer. on windwos 7 no.
@stefan11326 жыл бұрын
damn, alright. thanks!
@Tempires6 жыл бұрын
thats atleast what i know.
@Tempires6 жыл бұрын
in some form probably but win 7 doesn't have xbox live and other win10 features so it need workarounds which makes multiplayer impossible. i can be wrong ofc
@maxmustermann14556 жыл бұрын
Win10 does have Xbox live. Old Games For Windows Live was basically that anyway (you already got XBL achievements etc), with Win10 that got replaced with full blown windows live. Also, Xbox One runs Windows 10 under the hood. Xbox and Win10 are basically the same platform nowadays.
@vincentvanbart61105 жыл бұрын
Age of Empires Definitive Edition actually has a auto-reseeding toggle! You should know that Mister Spirit...
@FloosWorld_AoE5 жыл бұрын
When this video was made there was no auto-reseeding.
@WhatsHisName6663 жыл бұрын
man the midi music was so nostalgic
@TheSpicyLeg6 жыл бұрын
There's a couple of techs in AoE1 that are begging for Spirit to look at. Both are from the Temple. Zealotry and Sacrifice are really interesting. Zealotry makes it so that your villagers are faster and capable in combat, but carry way less resources. Sacrifice comes with a huge gold investment (600g - AoE1 gold comes in piles of 400 and there is no market mechanism or trade) and allows you to kill a priest to convert a unit. Both seem extremely situational. In the campaigns I have used Zealotry when I had enough resources but needed more military, but rather than just kill the vills I used to attack. They are great for knocking down walls. I could also see it in use when making a major push into an enemy base and you want to send vills in to build towers or forward military buildings. Sacrifice, on the other hand, I just can't see a real use. Perhaps if your priest is about to die anyway, taking an enemy unit?
@herrmajestat6 жыл бұрын
Do they have to hammer the farms to make new ones?
@Graymenn5 жыл бұрын
doesn't everyone?
@Ayush_286 жыл бұрын
Aoe 1 game with Aoe 3 graphic engine.
@Tempires6 жыл бұрын
this is same genie engine used for original aoe
@gauravkumawat79626 жыл бұрын
that explains horrible pathfinding
@RimaNari6 жыл бұрын
It's amazing that it's not. It really does look like 3D graphics, but it isn't, otherwise Spirit wouldn't have mentioned that there are 32 rotations for the units (you don't need specific rotations in a 3D engine).
@cadunkus6 жыл бұрын
It's similar to the 1st and 2nd where they animated the models but, instead of using 3d models, they made sprites with the models to save space.
@Mar1k_o6 жыл бұрын
Ayush Sharma well Aoe 1 with better graphics and aoe 2 improvements ^^ most of the “what is different” improvements are copied from AoE 2
@kathipaw6 жыл бұрын
Btw, your music comparison was incomplete and not very fair, there was also recorded, non-midi audio in the original games. It was only played in game though if the CD was inserted. It was waaay better though!
@lexwayfarer57716 жыл бұрын
very nice job getting those comparisons with the original and also keeping it professional without memes or judging for windows store gimmicks, great vid
@bimsen0913 жыл бұрын
You can find the damn auto-reseed toggle on the Granary
@FloosWorld_AoE3 жыл бұрын
But not in the version Spirit was playing. That was patched in later
@GhostDr3amer6 жыл бұрын
Win10 exclusive is a deal breaker to me. That thing is malware.
@herculeholmes5046 жыл бұрын
Same here. I might consider dual-booting; I can buy an OEM Windows 10 Pro for US$23. I'd rather not have it on my computer at all, but the way things are going, some games aren't going to work at all without Windows 10.
@rixille5 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I am not dishing out money to a game that is hiding behind Microsoft's desire to force people into their newer OS.
@abalcerzak19316 жыл бұрын
The water effect looks like Richard Dean Anderson is gonna come out of my screen
@slighter3 жыл бұрын
I wonder why noone catched this one. I think you're right and I don't even watch much SG.
@kingschmidty68066 жыл бұрын
Seeing all of the old gameplay brought me back to my childhood, what a masterpiece. No definitive edition can replace such a game. I do miss my brown colour in AOE II HD though :(
@Clee-os6pv6 жыл бұрын
No gates? Plus I can't play it yet. Since it requires windows 10 which I don't have. Which sucks for me!
@chrisc38256 жыл бұрын
Seems like a ton of work for an old game. Hope it helps with Ages 4. Probably won’t get it. I appreciate the videos and watching game play, but I like to pretend there is hope to be part of a competitive community for a game, and being old, having AOE4 on the horizon, plus no Steam etc., just doesn’t bode well for that.
@Fraggr926 жыл бұрын
Like Spirit said, it's mostly for nostalgic reasons. The game is mainly marketed towards people who enjoyed the original game, or who never played it and want to see what they missed out on, only they find it a bit too dated to play and enjoy. And hey, if there's a demand and a market for an AoE1 remaster then why not make one? It may or may not be hugely popular but it's a nice gesture for the fans either way. I doubt that Microsoft have any hopes of rekindling the old AoE1 community, especially not with AoE4 on the horizon.
@ArthaxtaDaVince7776 жыл бұрын
Karl The Fragr If aoe 4 is going to be modern, highly doubt it what be successful. I mean C&C Zero Hour exists, no need for another.
@Fraggr926 жыл бұрын
Is there any indication that it'll have a modern setting though? I can't find much information on it aside from the launch trailer.
@dmitriliu57776 жыл бұрын
I couldn't find anything about it besides "there is this game called AOE4 that is being made."
@ArthaxtaDaVince7776 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the AOE announcement trailer shows all the AOE games in order, from ancient to renaissance or Napoleonic era. This suggest the next one is going to be after the renaissance period, perhaps encompass WW1 and WW2.
@theman59826 жыл бұрын
Dude, when I heard the new soundtrack it brought a tear to my eye
@nickporter42793 жыл бұрын
Probably a bad decision not to include some of the quality-of-life features that made AoE2 an objectively better game (active pause, garrisoning town centres/towers, queuing farms, gates for walls, ability to infinitely generate some resources). I'm not attached to the older version of those gameplay systems at all. The reason I'm playing AoE1 is because I prefer the ancient->classical setting to medieval->renaissance, prefer the visual style, and prefer the music (in Rise of Rome, at least). Would be nice to see some of these AoE2 features included, even just as options if there really is anyone out there who wants to go without the upgrades.
@MetalSpiderPig6 жыл бұрын
Regarding graphics, yes, it looks modern. But that's the thing - it looks like every other generic modern RTS, so the uniqueness of the original is lost in this regard. That being said, most of the quality of life improvements like farms, tech tree or multi-que are pretty cool...
@johannah62846 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@Staloborlp976 жыл бұрын
It's still a 2D game. There is also a classic mode, but only for AI games and not for campaigns or online, which sucks.
@GepardenK6 жыл бұрын
The problem is lack of vibrant colors like the classic version and some of the unit models feeling a bit "cheap", and lack of contrast between terrain and units making busy scenes feel cluttered. But credit where credit is due: ships and buildings in particular look, with a few exceptions, really good and true to the original style. It's a mixed bag but it's definitely not all bad
@MasterOfPizza6 жыл бұрын
I think we don't care about definitive edition changes because we already know aoe2, so we don't see the new features
@maxmustermann14556 жыл бұрын
yeah, I only really cared about the AoE2 features left out, like automatic reseed queues....
@kallmannkallmann5 жыл бұрын
Aoe 1 ftw
@UnfamiliarPlace6 жыл бұрын
3:30 "A vigorous test of my working memory skills" → psychology degree in action
@nickkohler8326 жыл бұрын
Hey Spirit I was just wondering, what software do you use to record and edit your videos? Great vids and keep going strong 👍
@herculeholmes5046 жыл бұрын
Damn it. Doesn't run on Windows 7.
@lukamagicc6 жыл бұрын
So basically. Just buy Aoe2 HD
@nothingforgrantedPS236 жыл бұрын
True, but if your a fan of AoE1 you gotta cop it!!
@Mar1k_o6 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I thought, just bought definitive Edition Watched this video My thought process-> Aoe 1 with Aoe 3 graphics and Aoe 2 improvements ^^
@jens.einzelgaenger.mp45 жыл бұрын
For me, it's mostly nostalgia that makes me wanna play it. It's perfect.
@caspervestergaard24305 жыл бұрын
4:20 the granaries have an auto-seeding function. They have now at least, i havent played it for more than 2 weeks.
@tribalbeat64716 жыл бұрын
Age 4 isn't coming out, but if it does, it will probably be like Rollercoaster Tycoon 4. A broken cash in on fan nostalgia.
@mex_I.M6 жыл бұрын
Tribal Beat U mispelled Dungeon Keepeer mobile ?
@grayfox47116 жыл бұрын
considering the same guys that fucked up dow3 are going to make aoe4 I don't have high hopes for it
@JTmalandro6 жыл бұрын
official microsoft youtube page: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iL-njZl4v767mHU.html
@sweetnerevar35096 жыл бұрын
I enjoy the game for what it is. But I think they might of missed the ball with making the game more accessible for casual multiplayer. Players have a much bigger skill gap nowadays and its so easy to wipe out another player before they've had chance to respond, which makes really boring and harsh games for new players.
@Chocolatnave1236 жыл бұрын
That's the case with every game though. Any game that has a multiplayer feature will have players that study how to 'git gud' which creates a massive skillgap between them and players that only play singleplayer, let alone new players. SoTL mentioned a way to get around that, by having noob and pro lobbies.
@sweetnerevar35096 жыл бұрын
Sort of true to all games with player skill but the skill gap is really big and only part the issue, an ELO or ranking system would definitely help. But many other games are more back and forth and rewarding to play even as the losing side. Since we all know Age of Empires 2, that did a nice job of preventing this from spoiling for the fun for casual players, with garrisoned towers and town centres, town bell feature to prevent early game attacks completely wiping a player out. Castles help players avoid small raids destroying a whole settlement and base, allowing players to react. It's important for a player of any skill level to have an opportunity to understand why they are losing when they are loosing and potentially react. Otherwise a game just becomes frustrating and not enjoyable especially to a casual player, who's main reason for the playing is the enjoyment of the experience not the competitive or original balance.
@KoiYTPkoi-chan6 жыл бұрын
There are actually two versions of the soundtrack in the rise of Rome expansion (which the new one is a remaster of) where if you put the disk in the PC’s main disk drive you’ll get a different version of it.
@MrCheeze5 жыл бұрын
The MIDI music is NOT the original soundtrack to AoE1! It had proper audio streaming from the game disc itself, but at some point that stopped working properly.
@awildraccoon51906 жыл бұрын
Hey Vsauce, Micheal here. Where are your fingers? Well it dates back to 1943, in Nazi Controlled Germany.
@rcbuggydude4556 жыл бұрын
Radhg this was the most random comment i've ever seen
@awildraccoon51906 жыл бұрын
It isn't random when Im expressing my artistic persona. You plebeians wouldn't understand Artem if it hit you in your faciem.
@Hroros6 жыл бұрын
I prefer the graphics in the original.
@chunckstrankuz68496 жыл бұрын
The Most important thing... is the increase from max 50 popolation... is something I really wanted from the very first times i played the game.