remember looking at the graphics of these cutscenes and hoping normal video game graphics would be like that one day... wow... look how far we have come...
2003 - watching my cousin play this video and game afterwards was what brought me into loving history. Today, I am a certified historian and scholar. Thank you Age of Empires 2, not only you were awesome but you helped a kid start on a path of a lifetime.
And Age of Empires 2 along with my beard that began growing during college helped me discover my Spanish identity (when Honduras taught me to hate Spain). Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 (WITH YOUR INDIA) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6ESlnRid70.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map (WITH YOUR INDIA) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6nAlzSC2fs.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East (INCLUDING THE NORTH OF INDIA) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CmmvDXtC3ZU.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia (WITH YOUR INDIA) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FscEnSENTMo.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLF0NDuCkdY.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYy80ojsnj0.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI
2019: video games cause violence 1519: chess games cause violence Edit: I was literally rolling the dice to find a year ending with 19 as last 2 digits, DON'T @ ME FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY I KNOW IT'S BASICALLY NONSENSE ALSO THX FOR LIKES.
Me and one of my childhood friends used to play this and he used to scream when the guy gets set on fire at 2:06. I've since moved countries and I no longer am in contact with my friend and that little pixel man burning alive makes me cherish those memories of friendship built in the medium of gaming.
@@lablondejames200 Yes, death brings us all to Judgment. Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6ESlnRid70.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6nAlzSC2fs.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CmmvDXtC3ZU.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FscEnSENTMo.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLF0NDuCkdY.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYy80ojsnj0.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI
My dad smashed my paladin army with archers..... I remember that Edit, wait I'm wrong, it was with pikes because he lured me into the open with the archers and had the pikes hidden. Yeah.
Rewatching this, it’s crazy thinking how chess AND Age of Empires 2 both use the ELO rating system and watching an Age of Empires match is viewed as competitive as watching a chess tournament. What a time to be alive ♥️
If that was something that I loved so much when I was a kid, was this game. My cousin taught me how to play it, and since that, I used to play that game for hours, creating stages, going through the story, and just laughing making at the shenanigans. This is actually the game that made me start to get interested in games. I love it. And see the intro again is getting me chills right now.
I remember as a kid having finally got a Aoe disk and invite one of my friends to come over to play together. I went to the bathroom and when I come back the disk is gone. He was the only person in the game room. I asked him and he said he knew nothing about it. After that the friendship is gone as well. That explains how popular the game was😂
I remember seeing this for the first time when I was like 8. It brings back so many memories of this awesome game. Not to mention it looked absolutely amazing for its time.
In Honduras, a cousin told me there was a really cool, fun game to play. He then brought me down to the room with the bulky computer, and spoke of Age of Empires 1 and Age of Empires 2. He said I should play 2, but I said I wanted to play in the proper order, so I played the original first, and he reluctantly went along with that. Later the second became my favourite game ever. The first is still in the top five of my favourite games ever. Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6ESlnRid70.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6nAlzSC2fs.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CmmvDXtC3ZU.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FscEnSENTMo.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLF0NDuCkdY.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYy80ojsnj0.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI
@@saifrazorvenus2967 lol yes! When I was a kid I was so amazed by chess because of this game, my father loved to play chess and he bought one for us to play almost every day after doing my homework! Still love chess and play whenever I find someone that does too.
Imagine being a 12 years old boy with a disfunctional family living on a 3rd world country with no friends and then you get and old pc with windows 98, you knew you could play videogames on a pc because you visited a place where they had it, then you have some bucks and decide to buy a pirated cd of a game, that game is age of empires 2, and was the first game you installed on that old pc, with nothing to escape your cruel reality, only this game... That boy was me, Now im 23 and everytime i got a new pc or laptop the first game to install is aoe2
Escape to my worlds: Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6ESlnRid70.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6nAlzSC2fs.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CmmvDXtC3ZU.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FscEnSENTMo.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLF0NDuCkdY.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYy80ojsnj0.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI
This has to be one of the best intros ever How the pieces are animated in their heads and it slowly becomes the real thing, and in the end, the king piece is the symbol
Watching this makes one wonder and realize how priceless our memories are. We may not care how much money we had or how rich our parents were, but still hold unto those good memories with our friends, and our first impressions we had about our world and history mixed with these capturing ancient-themed music and images .. Let this be a reminder for each of us, not be blind of those things that really matter in our lives, and which will, one day, be our proof and contentment, and that we will look back and smile in peace knowing that we had a good life
Damaskox To be honest, I like the cut version better, but certain unshown scenes from this version (eg. the relic part, and the trebuchet falling apart) should have been shown in the conquerors intro.
Damaskox Ensemble studios always does this weird thing where their original games have a full intro sequence and the expansion packs have some weird cut version of the original. I'm not sure about aoe 3 but i know they did it for AOM and the first two AOEs
Not to mention the guy that drops the king peace, in the HD Addition that guy is actually wearing a crown which indicates the king is the only one left amidst the battlefield and ruins of what he once ruled.
The animation on this is truly incredible, just look at it on 2:15 that looks crazy accurate to a group of archers scrambling to get into position, and the charge made by the footmen would've been better if they had their shields up, but still an incredible sequence.
Pure gold. I remember picking up this game from our local Fred Meyer. Still have a couple of the old Discs and bought the Conquerors expansion a couple of times so I could get friends to play as well. Such an amazing game and fond memories. THANK YOU!
***** Really?! I wasn't talking about Age of Empires II, I was talking about the chess game the monarchs played (in response to GemueseBong's comment).
Yzacata yes you can buy it www.amazon.de/The-Isle-Lewis-Walnuss-Ahorn-Schachset/dp/B004UG0SFW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1397924297&sr=8-2&keywords=isle+of+lewis try this :)
sometimes, you do not need to upgrade your man-at-arms / some unnecessary unit when in insane multiplayer matches, Trebuchet would tear down castles fast AF while at Imperial Age players tend to built castles
my whole damn chillhood!.... i love AoE2, and have until today with 30 years a special place in my heart! thanks Ensemble Studios for this masterpiece!
First met you in 2002 on my very first PC with pentium 3 and of course no internet connection. Spent days and days trying to beat the campaigns. You are the only game I truly felt that I am achieving true victory. 18 years later I had to buy a gaming laptop just to install your DE and still enjoy every aspect of your game. If I have kids, once they grow up, you will be first game they ever play on a pc.
I remember this, actually entirety of this. There was unofficial Polish version based on that build floating around in the late 90s-mid 00s. Unofficial = one guy with Russian accent voicing everything in a quite bored voice. Eventually got the retail version, though played that one as I didn't speak English well at that time.
"Saladynie! Dokąd się wybierasz z tak wielką arm..." - "Moje liedze (?!), będę szczęśliwy móc towarzyszyć Pani do Orleanu" xd Coś pamiętam z tamtego mistrzostwa świata ;P
''[...]and, disappointingly though, most of the units' sprites are fromA ge of Empires itself.[...]'' Are you expecting to see CnC Tiberian Dawn sprites? What do you mean? x)
+Phoenix4646 I forgot to specify that it was sprites from the 1st AoE game. "Disappointingly" is probably an unfair use of word by me, since the developers likely had to use the old ones as stand-in before implementing their new sprites for the game.
+Kustin I had AoE II as a kid, and so far I remember it was the same exact intro, and I have played through the Jeanne d'Arc campaign, and there was also a map editor! I always thought this was the "normal" game..?
There are a few scenes that were deleted from the officially-distributed game intro. (The scene with the two guards in the tower, the one with the relic etc.)
+GoldieMethrans That piece is dropped by the King that is playing the Black pieces himself ( check their faces, they are the same person), and he drops the white king piece, not his black king piece ( the siege was on the white king's castle; the white king is dead).
Miguel Alvim Oh, thank you for telling this, since really, until I saw the intro for AoE 2 HD where the "soldier" indeed appears as the King himself about a week ago, I always thought that he`s, well, a soldier. ^-^ Your answer is vastly appreciated.
Wasn't the siege on the "green" kings castle? since he placed a tower and it directly cuts to a castle, and when the white king moved on of his pieces the siege was shown... so i'm guessing the white king attacked the green but in the end lost (as shown in the end)
2:27 i remember seeing this intro with my friends for the first time and without thinking it two times saying I was that knight, but then it died and my cousins say, Well you're now a dead knight, brings me back so many memories
I never get tired of this game. I used to watch my father play this game back when I was a wee lad and then I started playing it as I got older. I love this game to bits and I just got it again a few days ago with the conquerors expansion :D
This game is more, then just a r.t.s. but a chance too fell like an all powerful, king.the war is won or lost based on how well you as a strategist, rule over your empire...
Yes, feeling powerful is the biggest appeal, especially when you represent your race or nation. Wait... you're a woman!? BLASPHEMY! MADNESS!! :-) Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6ESlnRid70.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6nAlzSC2fs.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CmmvDXtC3ZU.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FscEnSENTMo.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TLF0NDuCkdY.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYy80ojsnj0.html&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI
Watching this gives me such a nostalgic feeling where I want to smile and cry at the same time. I remember playing this game after school nearly everyday. This game is very close to my heart and important part of my childhood. I remember playing multiplayer with various people across the globe when there were phones with physical keypad...Ahh this brings back so many memories nearly all those people are in colleges or working or even married. This game made me have many beautiful friendships. Most of them still in my contact...hahaha I could just go on and on about this
Wait, i've seen this intro in my game disk (my parents bought the collectors edition around 2005-2006) , now im impressed that i have watched an uncut version when i dont even know it was
I always tought this was the king and his son (the prince) playing a chess game, and in the end you see the prince dropping the king piece because his father died.
