Age of Mythology: Retold

[lvl 2 Blue Slime]

I always found it weird that in AoM Kronos is portrayed like this:

It's not really that strange to go far afield with the design of something, but you are right because I can't remember anything in that game being too out of left field otherwise. Perhaps they just wanted to really hammer home how otherworldly Kronos was.

What is even stranger is that there's a mission in the expansion where a giant green Titan called "Prometheus" is destroying a Greek city, but playing as the Atlanteans, whenyou try to advance an age by worshipping a god, Prometheus looks completely different
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[Sarathiour]

Most of Olympian's god mythos involved them shapeshifting to trick or fuck mortal, I don't find it far-fetched that they their predecessor in the lore take monstrous form to wage war, especially because it's probably an avatar of them.
The most important thing for an rts is for unit to be recognizable at a glance, and AoM did a solid job at that.

 

[PlayerEmers]

Honestly... i kinda like it EXCEPT the artwork which is a huge downgrade form the original. But im afraid the high fidelity graphics will make unit visibility during fights shit. Im also afraid of what they will do with the campaign story (shit changes, censorship and shit). I really like arkantos story and the titans campaign.

 

[Child of Malkav]

When they showed that purple guy...wtf. I'll stick with the original.

 

[PlayerEmers]

When they showed that purple guy...wtf. I'll stick with the original.

still have a the cd and case of the original
good times

Spoiler

 

[Elttharion]

Artstyle looks like soulsless slop

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm hyped, not gonna lie.

 

[ferratilis]

Do these people know nothing about human anatomy? Wtf.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Do these people know nothing about human anatomy? Wtf.

You dare compare Zeus to lowly humans?

 

[Froila]

Do these people know nothing about human anatomy? Wtf.

At least he has five fingers.

 

[Hoodoo]

 

[Eirinjas]

Most of Olympian's god mythos involved them shapeshifting to trick or fuck mortal, I don't find it far-fetched that they their predecessor in the lore take monstrous form to wage war, especially because it's probably an avatar of them.
The most important thing for an rts is for unit to be recognizable at a glance, and AoM did a solid job at that.

Due to the cult nature of ancient Greek religion, the different city states had their own versions of the gods, and the depictions and epithets would vary depending on the city and its culture. I've never played Age of Mythology, but maybe it has something to do with that?

 

[BING XI LAO]

Do these people know nothing about human anatomy? Wtf.

At least he has five fingers.

I think it is AI generated.

 

[Elttharion]

Do these people know nothing about human anatomy? Wtf.

At least he has five fingers.

I think it is AI generated.

AI 93.11% - This image is highly likely to be AI generated

 

[Froila]

Do these people know nothing about human anatomy? Wtf.

At least he has five fingers.

I think it is AI generated.

I'm pretty sure it is.

 

[Vic]

the OG AoM still plays well on modern hardware btw, all the charm is lost with these generic graphics

 

[BING XI LAO]

>deformed nose
>hair and beard different colour
>centre of fringe disrupted (combover? lol)
>lightning bolt uncohesive, not gripped, bits of lightning scattered around
>muscles excessively iterated and deformed
>ivy wreath incoherent and shares some of its shape with the hair
>blue pattern on toga impressively coherent but still shows a few bits where it breaks or gets too thick

Some of my putin fanart is better than that

 

[PlayerEmers]

Athena looks fine, but im conflicted about Arkantos...

 

[Elttharion]

Athena looks fine, but im conflicted about Arkantos...

He looks like Buzz Lightyear.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

This looks pretty much exactly as meh as AoE3 DE does. I don't mind them doing it and keeping classic rts of the good variety alive, but at this points it seems like 2 DE was a lightning in a bottle type of thing.

 

[Lacrymas]

Arkantos looks goofy. What I want from this remaster is gameplay fixes that will revitalize its multiplayer.

 

[Don Peste]

Nice armpit

 

[Lacrymas]

SFX look bad?

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

This has to be AI slop, no halfway competent artist would make something like this. Look at Loki as an example, his torso faces a different direction than his lower body, and that random stitch to the right side of the chest. Even if it isn't it's just a straight down grade from the original art.

 

[Seethe]

This has to be AI slop, no halfway competent artist would make something like this. Look at Loki as an example, his torso faces a different direction than his lower body, and that random stitch to the right side of the chest. Even if it isn't it's just a straight down grade from the original art.

It's obvious AI slop. In fact, even the main cover "art" struck me as AI generated the second I saw it. If you zearch "AI zeus" on google images, you'll get what I mean. All these "badass" characters always get generated with the same face, proportions and expression by default. It's obviously not fully generated by AI, but some upscaler/img2img was used for sure, and it's heavily edited. But like with everything else that needs to be constructed with steps, you can at best polish a turd if the foundation is crap. Clashing art styles is the main sign, then that overabundant saturation and smoothness of AI. You can see it even on the forehead patterns in the right pic.

But the most damning proof in the Bast picture are the uneven pupils (anisocoria) which often means that you need to take your cat to the vet because it might be suffering from brain damage, and the scuffed sistrum which has those bars going through the center on one side and exiting around the edge. No human being would make this mistake three times in the sketch phase for all three elements, and then not notice the mistake for hours while also rendering/polishing the error.