Topic Subject:Which is your favourite culture: Greek, Egyptian, or Norse?
Alexandergreat3 Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:16 PM EDT (US)
I'm a little curious as to what everyone's favourite culture is. As a designer, which of the three cultures do you find most fascinating and see yourself designing with? As a scenario player, do you have a preference for one of the cultures over the others?
If I will ever design, I think I would go for the Egyptian and the Greeks, because I know more about them, and it's easier to find information on them. I would definitely play scenarios of all three cultures. They're all interesting.
-Alex
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Life L33ch Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:18 PM
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Go Vikings!
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Ian_Koratsky Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:19 PM
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now that I have played it, I feel all the civs. are equal in strength, you must but mearly utilse that strength, Hades and Lokie
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Ian_Koratsky Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:20 PM
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yep vikings are a good football team, but how is that relavent?
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Life L33ch Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:21 PM
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Vikings were part of the Norse tradition, silly . Why on earth did I have a feeling someone would say that?
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Alexandergreat3 Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:23 PM
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I take it that your favourite culture is the Norse . How about the Greek and Egyptian - will you design/play a scenario that has one of these cultures?
Life L33ch Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:28 PM
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To be perfectly honest, I wont be designing anything historical anytime soon. I probaly will create a really nice fantasy scenario, I mean with those strange yet cool looking myth units and all those future gaia items, and (what I hope) the power to make GPs through triggers.
Thankfully, where I live, few are interested in computers, so AOM won't be sold out(hopefully).
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Alexandergreat3 Mortal
posted 13 September 2002 09:40 PM
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Well, the game isn't about history anyway... Age of Mythology. I suppose that designers can make a non-myth scenario, but I think that would be a waste of many of the nice features in AoM, such as god powers and mythological units .
ToXiC TaNK Mortal
posted 14 September 2002 02:54 AM
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DIE NORSE AND GREEK. go egyptians! I had this thought that all multiplayer senarios should have a 3 versions 1 with greek 1 egypt and 1 norse. it would make it all more balenced
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Wok Mortal
posted 14 September 2002 07:51 AM
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From what I have seen/heard, norse and egyptians seem good.
I, too, will probably design fantasy scenarios as well though. You are not limited to what really did happen, and you don't have to spend boring hours digging through history books to make sure your scenario is historically correct.
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Shiva HG Alumnus
posted 14 September 2002 08:58 AM
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Each god's "bonus" (eg : isis monuments make that god important to a designer.
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posted 14 September 2002 08:58 AM
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I know the greek mythology the best, and I have a feeling that you will see their MUs the most in secnarios, for they are more 'monsterish' then other civs (albiet the giants would be scary).
But I like eggy the most
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Nite Demonz Mortal
posted 14 September 2002 09:06 AM
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I will probably mix 2 cultures. It will make a nice storyline for me. It will be easier for me to work on it.
Life L33ch Mortal
posted 15 September 2002 11:06 AM
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the norse have good looking MU's too, like fire giants. That would make for a neat boss in a RPG campaign...
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Tevious Mortal
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posted 19 September 2002 11:25 AM
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I'll probably use mostly Greek and some Norse in my FM scenario (Code named "Final Mythology"). I like Egyptians a lot too, but I don't think they'll work out to well for what I have planned.
I love Egyptians. Even though ES recommends to play Greek first and get the game play-atmosphere I played Egyptians first, and after a while I was so used to it that I couldnt play Greek or Norse well. It can change though after I played the actual game not alpah since Es is changing stuffs
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Surge Mortal
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posted 21 September 2002 10:48 AM
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posted 21 September 2002 11:53 AM
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