13 years. It’s been 13 years since the release of Age of Mythology on PC. And 12 years since the release of its expansion pack: The Titans. But for great games like Age of Mythology, these years are merely a number. It’s time for a new expansion pack! With the collective experience and with expansions for the Age of Empires II series, Age of Mythology almost feels like the next logical step, although next time we probably shouldn’t wait over a decade before taking on the challenge 😉
Many of you already guessed it after the sneaky teaser at E3 and a lot of speculation has been seen across the community boards, but now the word is officially out: Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon is being created by Forgotten Empires and SkyBox Labs and will be the next part in the legendary series.
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why did ypu make us wait 13 years bastards I hate you but thank you at the same time!
Wow that was fast!
Chinese…….. Never thought about it
we need an Aztec expansion next! 😀
But the Aztecs did not exist at that time… India could be included instead
Indians, Phoenicians, Mayans, Romans, Celts and maybe Persians could be a great add on!
But Zoroastrianism is monotheistic, not polytheistic. Unless there’s some sort of Iranian Polytheism that I am unaware of that was still alive during this period.
I agree. that is why I put “maybe Persians” some people said Persian were polyteist at the beginning but i am not really convinced. I had a great discussion in this youtube video about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Zig-WIjWc
Persians were polytheist too at one point probably since there are Persian deities as well like Anahita and Persians probably honored some Babylonian gods as well like Marduk. Persian gods however aren’t famous and there aren’t many documents about them thanks to Persia’s history and people that probably preferred it all remain dead and buried.
the king of heros….
Ancient zoroastrians were polytheist, then they turned monotheist
The Sumerian religion could work. They’ve got a pretty broad pantheon that would work well. seeing as AOM took place at the time of the trojan war, around 1200bc, it would have been during the end of the Kassite dynasty of Babylon, but they kept the original Sumerian religion, the babylonians just added Marduk as the new supreme god, and Ishatar was a babylonian addition as well apparently. Thank you Wikipedia.
Sumer was my first thought, and I’m glad to see that it could actually work, though it might make more sense to name the Civilization Babylon for accuracy.
but roman gods pretty much = already existing greek gods
Copy and paste.
Roman gods are not the same gods than greeks. There is a big missconception about that. Is not like abrahamic religions where muslims christians and jews have differents names for the same god. Romans instead they tried to found parallels in the conquered civs with their own gods. They not only did this with greeks. They did it with celts and even egypts too. But romans gods are a different pantheon. Most gods had different attributes than they greek counterpart. Also the genealogy is different.
that is not true.most of them have the exact same attributes as the greek gods. the main twelve gods are almost exactly the same other then athena/minerva. in fact the sun god is apollo in bith civilisations. their minor gods differ a bit but that is it
You’re actually both wrong, and it’s waaaay more complicated than that.
Its not very complicated at all. While I agree that Roman derives a bit from Egyptians as well, the same happened in Greek too. And as I said before almost all the Olympians of Greeks are exactly the same in Roman mythology just with different names with only the exception of Athena/ Minerva. There are some different minor gods but they anyways don’t come in the game
Nope.
Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Vulcan existed in roman religion before they were influenced by greek mythology. The etruscan had a god named Tinia very similar to the nordic Thor and the latins had the sky god Diespiter. The romans called those gods Iuppiter and was equated to Zeus when they meet with the greeks. The same happened with the others. The only one really imported god from Greece was Phoebus Apollo.
You are just wrong about that statement
No, i’m not.
Here is what a roman pantheon for the game could looks like: Ceres Venus – Cupid Minerva – Silvanus Juno – Sol Invictus Jupiter Mars – Venus Vesta – Minerva Bachus – Juno Janus Quirinus Mars – Cupid Vesta – Silvanus Sol Invictus – Bachus Yes. there is greek influence obviously. But also etruscan, latin and persian. I left out Pluto(Hades) and Neptuno(Poseidon) in favor of Ceres(Demeter) and Vesta(Hestia). Ceres deserves a spot as major god since she was very worshiped in rome. Janus Quirinus was a major god who shared the archaic triad with Mars and Jupiter and he… Read more »
Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Vulcan existed in roman religion before they were influenced by greek mythology. The etruscan had a god named Tinia very similar to the nordic Thor and the latins had the sky god Diespiter. The romans called those gods Iuppiter and was equated to Zeus when they meet with the greeks. The same happened with the others. The only one really imported god from Greece was Phoebus Apollo.
Yes you are wrong, Roman mythology is almost the same as greek mythology
Is similar but not the same, I give you several examples of gods without counterpart in greek mythology.
you’re whole argument is that they’re similar, but not ‘similar enough.’ Greek and Roman gods are basically 90% similar, you even made a list yourself showing tons of gods and their Roman counterparts, you proved yourself wrong…
Yes, and I also show tons of Roman gods without a Greek counterpart.
Janus Quirinus, Sol Invictus, Pomona, Summanus, Vertumnus, Pales, Picus, Liber and Libera, Silvanus, Cupid.
But my argument is that most of the roman gods with a greek counterpart also has counterparts in celts, nordic, egyptian mythology and most of the roman gods with greek counterparts existed in roman mythology before they met the greek myths and mix them. For example, Minerva comes from an Etruscan background.
Sol invictus= Titan god Helios. Pomona= Fortuna. Summanus= no direct Greek counterpart, but just a ‘daylight’ version of Zeus/Jupiter. Liber/Libera= largely similar to Dionysus. Cupid= Eros. All Greek.
Either way, you even admit yourself that most of these gods are GREEK counterparts, and we never said the Romans didn’t borrow from other religions or didn’t have a legacy, so your argument was pointless.
More Bellona, more Fortuna, more Laverna!
you do realize they are actually the same except from different names and slight tweeks to their personalities to make them more diciplinded and warlike for them to work with the empire
But the civilization is completely different.
Sounds to me like you want to make a game like Age Of Empires Online, which had all of these civilizations (other than Roman) in it before it was shut down by Microsoft when they ended all support for their PC games.
AOE Online was basically an expanded AOM, but without the Atlanteans, Romans, or any of the civilizations’ major/minor gods, heroes, and myth units, and was restricted to online play only.
Age of Empires Online wasn’t based on Mythology.
I didn’t like the childish kind of graphics that game had.
While it’s true that Age of Empires Online wasn’t based on mythology (and had childish graphics), it did have all of the civilizations you all want, like the Celts and Persians. However, it didn’t have the Atlanteans or the Romans, and you had to pay to play as any civilization besides Greek.
Then the Mayans and Teotihuacans and the Olmecs…
I think mixing the European-Asian-African civilizations with American civs is a little weird … but it would be fun anyway
Exaclty, the Olmecs are as old as the Egyptians
Given that the Atlanteans exist in game and in mythology supposedly had colonies all over the Atlantic world I don’t think it would be too farfetched to throw in a Mesoamerican empire
Then some andean civilization too, pre-Incas.
You do realise the original game featured Classical Age Greeks and Ancient Egyptians fighting Vikings from the early Middle Ages?
Nope. The nordics in the original game are not early middle age vikings. They are ancient age vikings.
No, they’re not. They’re medieval Vikings. They made a weak attempt at making them seem more ancient, but their mythology and unit set are entirely medieval.
The nordics in the game are from roman empire time or even early. So late ancient age rather than early middle age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Bronze_Age
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Iron_Age
if you read what you linked you would notice that’s more want to be that i has been. As the majority don’t see the early figures as gods at all and there is no corroboration anywhere.
if that were the case theyd be christian (and to be fair, the norse temple is based on a church in norway)
The Viking Age happened in the early Middle Ages. They converted to Christianity slowly over time but when they first appeared as a major force in Europe they were still heathens. Most of what we known about Norse mythology comes from medieval texts and Sagas.
fair enough – it wouldn’t be the first time that the aoe series has been anachronistic.
Huns in aoe2
Exactly. The Choson appear in AoE1, despite the fact that they were medieval and lasted until the 20th century.
vikings actually existed before the knights in shining armor so therefore lived as the only barbarians alive almost
vikings were before the christian medieval ages and had their own beliefs and turned to christianity shortly after it came out so therefore they existed before the medieval ages
The Medieval Era is not defined as being related to Christianity; it started before the Celtic and Germanic peoples had all converted. The Viking Age is defined as being about 793–1066. That’s definitely medieval.
Yes, that’s true. That is the viking age. But the myths of the vikings existed before the viking age. The norse and german people existed before the viking age. And most of the vikings myths were inherited from the nordic people which the game try to represent.
The Noridic Religion dates back to some hundred years before 0 CE.
Infact the norse were made to represent the Danes, Geats, Swedes etc who all shared the same religion because they originated from Scandinavia.
The Viking Period (700s-1000s) was when infighting slowed down, and they started attacking kingdoms and raiding etc.
Age of Mythology never specifically mentions that the norse are attacking the Celtic-Britons, or the Slavs, but are still fighting amongst themselves.
Actually learn about history, rather than making assumptions.
😉
Assumptions? You mean like the one you just made about me? I wasn’t just pulling facts from my arse. Norse mythology has its origins in Germanic paganism, but the main sources for Norse mythology as we know it are from the 13th century.
There wasn’t ancient age vikings, they appeared at Caesar’s time, the same time Egypt was colapsing. And many of their history in the game are from the Middle Age nords. Example: The Vinland Saga
The era you’re all looking for is “Late Antiquity”.
Norse architecture is pretty much medieval viking. I think only the temple from the classical age could be considered ancient norse.
well, actually someone stated that the norse temple is based on a church in norway
Who cares about accuracy in a game about mythology? =P
Those of us that enjoyed the “Age of” series were always impressed about the amount of time that was put into including proper events and stories.
truth has been told
Age of mythology was never set according to historical events
Yeah, Atlantis siding with the greek on the war of troy, LOL
Age of Empires was, however. All things considered, you can easily see that the campaigns in AOE are basically historical fiction, because they are tales which are based on real-world events. Take Age of Empires 3 (AOE III) for example. There’s the first landing in the Americas by foreigners, (Morgan Black’s Crusader Knights in AOE III), the existence of pirates (Elisabet Ramsey) through to the pre-Revolution era (Act Two, original AOE III, no expansions), the American Revolution (Act One, AOE III: The War Chiefs) the American Industrial Age (Act Three, original AOE III campaign) and the exploration and lawlessness of… Read more »
Proper events like… Arkantos playing a main role in the siege of Troy? KEK
Just age of empires.
Nonsense.
Actually, Age of Empires was based on proper events and stories.
AOM was not, as mythologies are, well…
Not true in the slightest.
Ok then lets add guns and nukes to Age of Mythology, and a Leonardo Da Vinci flying unit that turns into a mech.
Why not? Sounds well with the Super Laser-shooter Bear
Indeed. They could be added as cheats. 🙂
I believe you’re looking for rise of Rise of Legends?
Like Rise of Legends? Oh God, I SO want to have a Rise of Legends expansion (with a repeatable generic conquer the world campaign)!
In that case lets have a space expansion.
No, but Asteks borrowed most of their mythology from Tolteks (in the same way Roman gods are Greek gods with different names), and the Tolteks are probably older than the Greeks. Just pretend they were the same people.
Roman gods are not the same gods than greeks. There is a big missconception about that. Is not like abrahamic religions where muslims christians and jews have differents names for the same god. Romans instead they tried to found parallels in the conquered civs with their own gods. They not only did this with greeks. They did it with celts and even egypts too. But romans gods are a different pantheon. Most gods had different attributes than they greek counterpart. Also the genealogy is different.
True. It is called “Syncretism”, the roman god Sol invictus was inf fact Mitra, from India. Al the Indoeuropean pantheon was looks like
Aztecs are way older than the greeksmy friend
No, they aren’t.
Pfffft. Not even vaguely close.
The Aztecs are total noobs compared to the Greeks.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
hahaha no. Aztecs as an empire existed just a few hundreds of years, but as a civilization existed for waay more time.
No.
No they didn’t.
Oxford University is about 300 years older than the Aztecs.
The Aztecs are an insignificant blip in history compared to the Greeks.
The Aztec civilization only last for 200ish years.
oh yeah, the anglo, non-nahua related one is more reliable than the spanish chroniclers and oral tradition…sure…
Glad we’re on the same page now.
Seems like you didn’t get what I mean…
Define “ancient greeks”… since, y’know, greeks weren’t just a sinlge unified people with an unique culture as they are now. So you can talk about minoans, mycaenans, hellenics, athenians, laconians, macedonians, seleucids, achaeans, etc…
Nope.
So didnt the Vikings a.k.a the Norse in the game, they came 1000 years after the fall of the Greek Empire and even some hundreds years after the Roman Empire.
Mayans were quite a old civilization, or might been the Incas.
Just remmember that the oxford university is older than the aztec empire, and the aztec empire was created before the mayans i think.
The Maya Timeline goes from 2500 BC to 1000 AD approximately. Please read a bit more about it.
But it was okay that the vikings, pharoes, and greek hoplite living in the same era?
… Yes, because the Vikings totally went into battle alongside the greeks. That was a thing that happened.
Atlantis did not exist at that time… neither did Rocs, Pegasi nor Ragnarok heroes
My guess is that neither did the Atlanteans and they are there arent they?
Well when the Egyptian and Greek civilizations had their high points, the Norse didn’t exist either, adn Scandinavia was inhabitated by Stone Age people, so it’s nok like the accuracy is that extant in AoM by now anyway.
I think the Olmecs, mayans, and incans might’ve.
Olmecs or Mayans then
Age of Mythology’s one big anachronism.
Ancient Egypt was a thing circa 2000 BC
Ancient Greece is somewhere between 800-600 BC
The Norse are centuries ahead of Greece, being situated around 700 AD
Mythology is about Gods not Empires(civ)
The Vikings rose to prominence nearly 500 years after the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity, and a millennium after the end of the Egyptian religion… but should we really compromise the historical accuracy of a game where a minotaur can hurl a Viking huskarl through the air with his horns, and then hack a 20 foot long scarab to death with his axe?
I will copy and paste.
This game is based on ancient age. So I guess we will only have civilizations from before the fall of Rome. Aztecs were a medieval empire so it doesn’t fit the timeframe.
Mayans instead are maybe a best choice.
Toltecs, Teotihuacán, Olmecs and Mayans are all possible.
Specially Olmecs, they appeared at the same time as the Egyptian
And don’t forget the pre-incans, like the nazcas and mojicas, they also are from Ancient Age
Despite the desition of include or not american civilizations, Ancient and Midle age is only valid in Europe. In America we must talk about pre c./classic/post c.
Babylon would work. Used the Sumerian pantheon, nearby to greece and egypt.
Agree! Mayans (or Teotihuacan). They have an impressive and interesting “mythology”. It would be amazing select to “Kukulcan” or “Yum Kimil” like main God. *-*
i think a mayan expansion is more likely since mayans existed at that time.
I’d also like Japanese and Hindu expansions
Maybe the next expansion can be about the Aztec Mythology, hm? 🙂
This game is based on ancient age. So I guess we will only have civilizations from before the fall of Rome. Aztecs were a medieval empire so it doesn’t fit the timeframe.
Mayans instead are maybe a best choice.
While the Aztec empire was indeed medieval, the people that we call today “Aztecs” (AFAIK, they didn’t even call themselves like this) always existed, and so did their religion
When will it release?
Knowing Age of Empires releases, it would be in October or November, and mid last month it was 50% complete (from the 5% in June)
I loved the job you guys did in The Forgotten and can’t wait to play this =D
Great! Shennong, Fuxi and Nuwa as I expected 😀
I loved this game so much 10 years ago.
I really hope skylab not only bring the new civ but also fix the game as is unplayable in the current state.
Nobody will buy this if they don’t patch the AoM EE
Amazing! Absolutely fantastic!
Maybe next time there can be a Roman expansion, or a Celtic expansion, though…
but why with the same old graphics??
They did update the graphics already. Go buy the Extended Edition.
it’s the same like the original
why they not upgrade the graphics like starcraft 2 graphics?
They cant, then they need to remake the whole game.
I would love it with the same old graphics. Since the Extended Edition with the “Enhanced Graphics” the game lag as hell and the units looks very, very small 🙁
Small tip: if you are having lag in EE, go to options and disable FXAA, SSAO, water reflection and set shadow quality to low. This will make the game run a lot smoother than before ^^
The screen was done in AoMEE, which has better lighting, and uses shadows instead of .dcl files, if you can’t tell the difference, get some glasses