Age of Mythology: Retold

[A Chinese opium den]

They should AI upscale all of the old art and not try and make anything new.

[Irenaeus]

I hated all the new art.

[rusty_shackleford]

going to go out on a limb and guess some autist obsessed with the game will create faithful AI upscales of all the art

[Acrux]

It's all so they can sell you the old portraits for $6.

[Oyster Sauce]

******* TRASH these devs should DIE IN REAL LIFE

[Vergil]

Every screenshot has been a direct objective improvement btw

EDIT:

[Decline]

What is soulless here?

The same kind of incoherent babble that plagues D4 or rather the critique of it.

[rusty_shackleford]

What is soulless here?

The same kind of incoherent babble that plagues D4 or rather the critique of it.

only remotely good class in d4 requires you to play as an obese person
not even "strong man obese", he's just obese.

[Decline]

What is soulless here?

The same kind of incoherent babble that plagues D4 or rather the critique of it.

only remotely good class in d4 requires you to play as an obese person
not even "strong man obese", he's just obese.

He's got strong bones.

[rusty_shackleford]

The same kind of incoherent babble that plagues D4 or rather the critique of it.

only remotely good class in d4 requires you to play as an obese person
not even "strong man obese", he's just obese.

He's got strong bones.

[Jordy]

only remotely good class in d4 requires you to play as an obese person
not even "strong man obese", he's just obese.

He's got strong bones.

[Fuze]

All the EE content, especially the chineese, was hot garbage, it's not in retold and good riddance.
For the female model character, they amount to a grand total of 4 in the campaign, and amanera is the only recurrent one. Retold made her look particularly ugly, and she along with Circe lost her midriff.

[Finarfin]

added the egyptian pantheon comparison

[Vergil]

I asked for hunks not furries

[Finarfin]

I asked for hunks not furries

I know, but I am doing the pantheons in turn.

[Finarfin]

Added the Greek Pantheon comparison

[Finarfin]

Added the Norse Pantheon comparison

[Manny V]

got it and played a bit with my aoe-obsessed mates, and it seems alright so far

they added cringe female variants of Ulfsarks and renamed them to Berserks for whatever fuckin reason (although thankfully there's already a mod that restores them to how they should be), and there's some other odd additions here and there, but it could be worse

[Finarfin]

got it and played a bit with my aoe-obsessed mates, and it seems alright so far

they added cringe female variants of Ulfsarks and renamed them to Berserks for whatever fuckin reason (although thankfully there's already a mod that restores them to how they should be), and there's some other odd additions here and there, but it could be worse

They added female ones because you used to convert peasants into Ulfsarks. Female peasants turned into men, literally ftm. The name change is most likely due to them not wearing exclusively Wolf skin, they wear progressively bigger animals as headwear.

[Manny V]

got it and played a bit with my aoe-obsessed mates, and it seems alright so far

they added cringe female variants of Ulfsarks and renamed them to Berserks for whatever fuckin reason (although thankfully there's already a mod that restores them to how they should be), and there's some other odd additions here and there, but it could be worse

They added female ones because you used to convert peasants into Ulfsarks. Female peasants turned into men, literally ftm. The name change is most likely due to them not wearing exclusively Wolf skin, they wear progressively bigger animals as headwear.

i mean ye turning female vills into male warriors is odd sure, but:

A) how often do you even convert vills into ulfsarks

B) if you're not cherrypicking your vills so you only select males to become soldiers then wtf are you doing


on a similar note i try to keep female vills consigned to berries and farms, and only men for wood/gold/stone and building, in both aoe and aom (granted sometimes it's just not worth the effort)

[Finarfin]

got it and played a bit with my aoe-obsessed mates, and it seems alright so far

they added cringe female variants of Ulfsarks and renamed them to Berserks for whatever fuckin reason (although thankfully there's already a mod that restores them to how they should be), and there's some other odd additions here and there, but it could be worse

They added female ones because you used to convert peasants into Ulfsarks. Female peasants turned into men, literally ftm. The name change is most likely due to them not wearing exclusively Wolf skin, they wear progressively bigger animals as headwear.

i mean ye turning female vills into male warriors is odd sure, but:

A) how often do you even convert vills into ulfsarks

B) if you're not cherrypicking your vills so you only select males to become soldiers then wtf are you doing


on a similar note i try to keep female vills consigned to berries and farms, and only men for wood/gold/stone and building, in both aoe and aom (granted sometimes it's just not worth the effort)

Who says I don't do that already? My younger self did it and I still do that. Women do food related stuff and Men mine and build.

[Stack of Turtles]

B) if you're not cherrypicking your vills so you only select males to become soldiers then wtf are you doing

On the other hand, cherrypick the female vills for the 'delete' key

[Element]

The new portraits are fine for the most part. Old vs new feels like browsing artstation and seeing what someone was painting when starting out a decade ago vs now. I'd say the fidelity of the backgrounds in the new ones is too high, so the characters don't stand out as much as they do in some of the originals with just a flat fill background. They should have also kept the poses and the angles of the old ones - they're more striking. But I'm not gonna pile on on the style. Yeah, digital stuff tends to undergo convergent evolution, nothing we can do about that. No-one is going to ditch their wacom and take the crippling productivity hit.

[Lord of Riva]

So the gods have been made a lot less sexualized, it's Microsoft, I'm not interested out of principle for this decline.

Microsoft is one of the publishers I have on ignore for a good reason.

[Decline]

So the gods have been made a lot less sexualized, it's Microsoft, I'm not interested out of principle for this decline.

Microsoft is one of the publishers I have on ignore for a good reason.

It has always been Microsoft though.

[Lord of Riva]

So the gods have been made a lot less sexualized, it's Microsoft, I'm not interested out of principle for this decline.

Microsoft is one of the publishers I have on ignore for a good reason.

It has always been Microsoft though.

I know, seems like Microsoft has been corrupted by the wokesters for quite a while doesn't mean they always have been.

[Jordy]

******* lol @ the difference between Aphrodite and Hera.

Hera became a plus sized model.

[DDC]

I just started this and it's a really weird DEI virtue signal flex that seemingly all Microsoft games now have menu text narration on by default. Annoy 99% of players and give them a bad first impression of the game to avoid trivially inconveniencing less than 1%. How many blind people are even going to play a RTS?

[Jordy]

I just started this and it's a really weird DEI virtue signal flex that seemingly all Microsoft games now have menu text narration on by default. Annoy 99% of players and give them a bad first impression of the game to avoid trivially inconveniencing less than 1%. How many blind people are even going to play a RTS?

Never realised they did it on all their games. Agree that it's annoying and dumb.

[Finarfin]

Xbox just announced the chinese pantheon DLC