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Anatharon posted:WAs it Ensemble or RElic that made Impossible Creatures? Relic. I would love an enhanced edition of that game. Edit: vv It was, however, Microsoft Game Studio, so maybe they still own it, and if that's the case, maybe it can happen? catlord fucked around with this message at 07:06 on May 9, 2014 |
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BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKcatlord posted:Relic. I would love an enhanced edition of that game. Oh, well. That game owned anyways and I played it when I played Black and White and Age of Mythology so it felt like the two combined.  What about Empire Earth?
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May 9, 2014 06:59
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Fossilized Rappy posted:
It's funny, for a couple months before I found out this was a thing, I had been dreaming about an Age of Mythology 2 with (almost completely arbitrarily) Japanese mythology, Vedic mythology, and Coast Salish mythology. We just need more factions.
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May 9, 2014 07:00
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What amazes (and terrifies) me is that I used to do admin stuff at HeavenGames, and I see that the Steam workshop already has stuff in it from people I remember from almost ten loving years ago.
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May 9, 2014 07:42
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You know, for some reason it took ten years for this to click. It's really strange that we have Egyptians, Greeks and... Vikings? The last one just kind of sticks out. I know it's because they're a really visible and well-known mythology, but I really would've liked to see some Celts or maybe Phoenicians as a faction.
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May 9, 2014 12:09
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Defeatist Elitist posted:It's funny, for a couple months before I found out this was a thing, I had been dreaming about an Age of Mythology 2 with (almost completely arbitrarily) Japanese mythology, Vedic mythology, and Coast Salish mythology. We just need more factions. Aztec, Japanese, and R'lyeh for a cthulhu civilization.  Aztec gains faith by sacrificing either villagers or enemy captives certain units can generate. R'lyeh gets it when their myth units do poo poo and have no heroes because what hero would ally themselves with such terrible things?
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May 9, 2014 13:01
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An age of mythology 2 should just be the RTS verison of Super Smash Bros, but with religion.
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May 9, 2014 13:04
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Atlantis is lame, why did they create a fictional mythology when there were so many cool ones to choose from? And then make it ridiculously overpowered... Rushing with the robot Atlantean unit is basically impossible to beat.
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May 9, 2014 13:16
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khwarezm posted:I remember the Titans campaign had an utterly bizarre difficulty curve, when I went through them the second mission completely broke me and I had to notch down the difficulty to hard, but then I was able to fly through all of the later missions Scot free on titan. Vanilla feels tougher than it was, maybe things have been tweaked with the re-release, or maybe my experience for AOE2 doesn't carry over as well as I hoped! abuse your heroes, they're crazy powerful. Titans is hard partially because Kastor sucks. the second mission, well, the AI just doesn't know how to deal with arcus + walls, which is the only meatshield you can afford before the first couple of waves. Once you get up and running you can smash his face in though. also: heroes chew up automatons for breakfast.
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May 9, 2014 13:32
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Old testament faction: God, Allah, Jaw*h 
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May 9, 2014 13:50
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Atlantis is lame, why did they create a fictional mythology when there were so many cool ones to choose from? And then make it ridiculously overpowered... The Atlantean mythology isn't fictional, it's all Greek mythology that didn't get into the Greek faction.
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May 9, 2014 13:52
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Been having some technical issues with AoM. It chugs periodically (Sometimes stalling out for up to 20 seconds), which on its own is bad enough, but I just had a crash and it spat out some kind of memory error. Anyone else having similar issues? I'm on a Win7 machine with like 16gb of RAM.
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May 9, 2014 14:09
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:Atlantis is lame, why did they create a fictional mythology when there were so many cool ones to choose from? And then make it ridiculously overpowered... I remember hearing about them adding another faction in the expansion and thinking that they would do something crazy like having the surviving Atlanteans wash ashore in the Americas for a  Aztec faction 
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May 9, 2014 14:16
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Shima Honnou posted:Been having some technical issues with AoM. It chugs periodically (Sometimes stalling out for up to 20 seconds), which on its own is bad enough, but I just had a crash and it spat out some kind of memory error. Anyone else having similar issues? I'm on a Win7 machine with like 16gb of RAM. verify integrity of game cache?
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May 9, 2014 14:19
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I remember one hilariously easy level in the titans campaign. You had an Egyptian base and faced endless hordes of Atlantean clay myth units that split into two weaker ones when killed. Even titan difficulty was a cake walk.Anatharon posted:What about Empire Earth?
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May 9, 2014 14:30
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Massing priests to kill the titan in Egypt instead of the guardian is still the best way to do that scenario.
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May 9, 2014 14:40
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Shima Honnou posted:Been having some technical issues with AoM. It chugs periodically (Sometimes stalling out for up to 20 seconds), which on its own is bad enough, but I just had a crash and it spat out some kind of memory error. Anyone else having similar issues? I'm on a Win7 machine with like 16gb of RAM. Same here man. Seeing if verifying cache works right now
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May 9, 2014 14:40
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Any decent replays out there? Had a good practice match on easy 1 on 1, as gaia. I am so out of practice it's not funny, even on easy the AI was beating me to each new era by about 3 minutes. Doesn't help that I've completely forgotten how every faction plays..
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May 9, 2014 14:45
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Poil posted:I remember one hilariously easy level in the titans campaign. You had an Egyptian base and faced endless hordes of Atlantean clay myth units that split into two weaker ones when killed. Even titan difficulty was a cake walk.
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May 9, 2014 15:06
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Sir Rabia Tirnova posted:Any decent replays out there? Just make sure you read the pros and cons of each god (minor or major), and try to stay to a set path in regards to purchasing unit/armory/whatever upgrades. Make use of your god powers to turn battles around, and remember that even just sending 10 hoplites + ajax (for example, if playing a greek god) to gently caress around near the enemies base causes damage to them.
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May 9, 2014 15:54
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My fondest memories of AoM are from playing alternate multiplayer maps, namely Helms Deep and the King of the hill based one where you got progressively more powerful units as time went on. Was that Mythodea? Also is the map editor still in the game?
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May 9, 2014 16:14
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A note that Playfire added some Age of Mythology-related rewards that expire on Wednesday, so kill some mens and get some money!
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May 9, 2014 16:16
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Anyone else notice you can move the units around on the menu screen? lmao
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May 9, 2014 17:19
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Koramei posted:You have to click on the banner at the top of the main menu to switch to the forgotten, otherwise it just stays as the conquerors. Ah awesome there it is. AoE3 is pretty good, and I always loved how buildings and ships actually showed damage being done to them. I always thought conquest of the new world was an extremely under used setting for games. There's maybe 4 games I can name of the top of my head that are set in that era (Aoe3, Conquest of the new world, Colonization and Seven Cities of Gold). I really cannot wait for AoM to get a little cheaper. I'm unemployed right now so I can't really justify spending over 20bux on a game on steam. But I think after Aok, AoM was the game i played the most. Egypt was by far my favorite faction.
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May 9, 2014 18:23
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Hollenhammer posted:Anyone else notice you can move the units around on the menu screen? lmao E: Also Campaign mode doesn't have the encyclopedia! 
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May 10, 2014 01:49
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achillesforever6 posted:I tried to and then the screen went unresponsive and crashed. The encyclopedia seems super buggy and has been working half the time and non-existent the other half. On the bright side, I finally realized that my campaign troubles can be solved by building tons and tons of Hydras 
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May 10, 2014 05:37
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NewMars posted:You know, for some reason it took ten years for this to click. It's really strange that we have Egyptians, Greeks and... Vikings? The last one just kind of sticks out. I know it's because they're a really visible and well-known mythology, but I really would've liked to see some Celts or maybe Phoenicians as a faction. My personal favorite would be African mythology from places outside of Egypt. Like the Adze, which is a bug that turns into a vampire and makes people into witches. African mythology is hardcore.
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May 10, 2014 06:03
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I didn't wind up putting down $23 for the game, so can anyone who did check whether the game folder has *.AHK files in it, like Age of Empires 2 HD does?
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May 10, 2014 06:06
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ronya posted:I didn't wind up putting down $23 for the game, so can anyone who did check whether the game folder has *.AHK files in it, like Age of Empires 2 HD does? Nope.
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May 10, 2014 10:28
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This isn't as half bad as I thought it'd be now I'm playing it again. Dominion's Atlantis factions are still the best iteration of it in fantasy vidcons though.
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May 10, 2014 23:31
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Orv posted:Nope. Excellent, they've learned how to do source control.
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May 11, 2014 00:30
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Can you explain what the importance of AHK files is?
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May 11, 2014 02:23
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Bloodly posted:Can you explain what the importance of AHK files is? they're autohotkey files used for debugging that are included with Age2HD, along with some some developer ingame user profile debris. The AHK files are pointless to run because they attempt to load scenarios from an X:\ drive which the user doesn't have, but they're on the release build because reasons. Also, logging is turned on all the time.
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LegoMan posted:Last I played, what made me frustrated was the low options for teams (I think I remember there only being 2 different teams) and the claustrophobia of the camera. Some of the mechanics were great including different buildings for different nations, and having farms that cows would be bought and raised for food. True, now I remember that you couldn't have several teams. I can't do 2v2v2v2.
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Anyone else experiencing horrible lag trying to play this multiplayer? Was just on my way to steamroll my Greek enemy , then the whole game desynched 
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May 11, 2014 22:03
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there are decade-old oneclick desync tools floating about the Internet unfortunately they can't do anything about it given a p2p hosting model
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May 11, 2014 23:45
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I just realized that the scorpion dude unit was probably made because someone watched the Mummy Returns a year ago back when they were making the game in 2002
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achillesforever6 posted:I just realized that the scorpion dude unit was probably made because someone watched the Mummy Returns a year ago back when they were making the game in 2002 They could be D&D nerds.  Man, this bug that was introduced is really ill-timed. I can't start up AOM without it crashing and then it causing Steam to crash too. :I
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May 12, 2014 00:34
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So I think this was asked before but didn't get an answer: Are there any good replays/commentaries of this game on YouTube? I don't feel like shelling out €30 on this right now, but it'd be great to watch some gameplay of this. The only one I've seen so far is the SergiuHellDragoonHQ guy, but something about his accent makes it hard for me to watch for some reason 
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Covski posted:So I think this was asked before but didn't get an answer: Are there any good replays/commentaries of this game on YouTube? AoM doesn't have the most active commentators, I suppose you could try Bolt T.V: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe-Ana7WkDk
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