Age of Empires 2 Intro (Uncut Version)

Back in Moscow, I've bought an Age of Empires 2 Age of Kings disc in one of the markets in the year when the real game was released. Then it came to pass that this game seemed to be in the earlier development stage. That includes a Joan of Arc campaign, map editor and, interestingly though, most of the units' sprites are from Age of Empires itself. But what eventually surprised me was that the intro video is quite longer than the one you have in your AoE II discs (I compared it with my friends). Watch it and you'll see more from the intro than you have before.
Update (29/12/2009): Got a confirmation from a guy, who actually directed this video, that this is what I think it is. "I directed this cinematic back in 1997 when I worked at Rainbow Studios in the now-defunct Animation Division. We were the subcontractor hired by Ensemble to produce this. I can confirm that this is indeed the uncut version, one that was delivered to Ensemble as one of our interim milestones. We were asked to cut it way down for the final release but this is the version that we had always intended." - PDeNigris, director of the AoE 2 intro video

[@Ryan1993uk]

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...

[@ecayeta]

Whoa its him

[@NixDarkLord]

Now it's even better than that, just look at The Last Of Us II

[@drveg6579]

@@NixDarkLord Console peasant, look at Crysis with mods

[@NixDarkLord]

@@drveg6579 *But can it run Crysis?*

[@drveg6579]

@@NixDarkLord My Voodoo 3? Yes! 144p very low settings 10 fps, sir

[@saaamaelll]

this intro is my childhood!!!

[@Untrustedlife]

Mine To.

[@minigouin]

Me too.

[@That_Blue_Emperor]

ME TOO!

[@mitchd8534]

Untrustedlife me too hahahaha

[@cactiguy4689]

Alex Reviews Same!

[@Armystuntman]

The ending always made me cry as a kid. I don't know why. It's just such a powerful way to start the game.

[@BiohazardCrow]

It has a meaning of all that. The two kings in the chess table mean they once were friends to each other and suddenly they start to figth. They escalate the conflict until the last were one king (or both) was killed. the lonley soldier at the end holding that king chess piece mean that he really loves the kingdom and it's ruler following to death. When he drop the king of his hands mean that he fail to protect the king and there is nothing left. Only death and destruction at the end.

[@Vasif_Bugrahan_Alparslan]

+DemonicGoat I always thought one was king and the other one was prince

[@BiohazardCrow]

Buğra Alparslan Well there was no age gaps for Kings. In medieval times in some regions you could become King at age 15 or at age 35-40 (If your father don't die and manage to go a healty life). Younger Kings were usually more dangerous than older Kings.

[@Vasif_Bugrahan_Alparslan]

DemonicGoat I was just a little kid when I played this game :) I was 3 when I played the original then was arround 6 when I first played this if I remember correctly

[@BiohazardCrow]

Me too. I remember my dad give me AOE as a birthday gif when I was little. Also buying the AOE2 from a Microsoft Store and playing boths games in Windows 95/98. Those games were in the Top list of the world by that time. Specially AoE 2 Label in the forums and the gamers magazines as the most buyed/playing game in the world. Almost as famous as WoW, Dota II or League Of Legends today.

[@Skrapeg0at]

My family was rather poor when I was a kid. The only electronics we had for entertainment was a slow Packard Bell computer running Windows 95 and a television set that would fuzz out at random. We had a few games for the PC, including Corsairs: Conquest at Sea, Combat Flight Simulator, and of course Age of Empires. When I was four years old, I played Age of Empires for the first time, and I was instantly hooked. It was the only game I would play on a daily basis for years to come. When I was six, my father acquired a new job with much better pay. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings has been out for about a year, and my parents finally had enough money to buy me a new game. They surprised me one day with Age of Empires II, which immediately became my new favorite game with thousands of hours spent playing it. My family didn't have very much money back then, but I was happy with the little we had. Age of Empires I & II were games to explore my massive imagination. I never got into AOE3, though, and sometimes I wonder if I'm missing out on anything.

[@tohyahachijo4026]

Check AoE III out if you can. It is not that history-ish anymore (i.e., it still deals with the history of the world at large, but the individuals it depicts are most likely written from the scratch, they are not actual historical figures), focuses on the Age of Discovery and early industrial revolution (so you can probably expect some wigs, rifles, pirates and native americans), but still manages to keep the spirit of the first two games.

[@cool06alt]

man, the age of empire graphic is just blew me of even in these time. its graphic were like it were game that released later. the water were even have the same quality as crysis in 2007

[@kpjlflsknflksnflknsa]

my wife left me during this intro, it still pains me to watch it

[@ForeverYoungForYou]

what about AOM :o?

[@MG-zu9yz]

Same story here :)

[@historiandynasty3399]

That nub tried to stop cavaliers with archers.

[@einbenutzenderbenutzer]

Historian Dynasty maybe he hasnt got any spearmen... what a noob

[@petrzeman1068]

Ever heard about Battle of Crécy?

[@drillinstructorfitch5875]

@@petrzeman1068 But in Crecy they had cannons

[@petrzeman1068]

@@drillinstructorfitch5875 In 1346? You sure?

[@jarlmedic6457]

@@petrzeman1068 yhea thats true gundpowder was starting to apear from around 1250

[@eliteteutonicknight1]

The soldier holding the last king chess piece is awesomely unforgettable and epic.

[@johnsmith-th9jj]

he's the king from the chess game

[@neptuniumchloride8434]

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.

[@vortexortex]

Lol,good one

[@Fatihturk0071]

Underrated

[@vortexortex]

not games cause violence,the lag does

[@thenasiudk1337]

Lmao underrated

[@vortexortex]

@@thenasiudk1337 what does that mean?"underrated,,?

[@YadonTheCat]

I always thought it was silly that they just cut the wires on the trebuchet, now it makes sense

[@hoseadavit3422]

Can you elaborate

[@shoukatsukai]

Hosea Davit In the short version, they don't show them tearing down the treb, it cuts off when they cut the ropes.

[@KaNofbeans]

that is why cavalry do more damage on siege weapons

[@Littlevampiregirl100]

always thought it was strange too the king playing chess made a surprised pikachu face over that. makes much more sense in this context

[@bernardmenard3056]

that trebuchet smashed that poor builder

[@hestiaisbestia6225]

This one villager is said to make a new kingdom and seek vengeance

[@SuperMrBentley]

Chara Frisk sadly he miss 1 rock to build a town center

[@javiermonti6637]

SuperMrBentley easy, just bulid a market and there you go

[@coinneachXO]

150 Wood and a Villager is all you need.

[@RoboterHund87]

Sadly he is not a villager & cannot hold a hammer, so he can't build jackshit!

[@takix2007]

100 wood and a villager is enough...

[@julianxamo7835]

Why didn't they remake this for the Definitive Edition? Wtf

[@Zoltoks]

yea a missed opportunity in my opinion...

[@EL_URUGUAYO_MV]

I think the same

[@gagemorrow6702]

Dude you should have googled it! Age 2 diffinative has been out for a couple months :) Edit: Oh, I'm dumb. Ya remastered intro would be nice.

[@ced2011]

@@gagemorrow6702 I think he meant the intro

[@OnePlancheMan]

@@gagemorrow6702 read his comment again

[@Welyn]

the fact that this vid is only in 240p hits different

[@MangoXDkd]

yo just watched a video of yours. i know you cuz of your mordau bowmaster video. love your voice. ps. awesome rap tho

[@Priyo866]

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.

[@scintillam_dei]

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) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGeohJ-kh86XbZI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map (WITH YOUR INDIA) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmfRcp-wiKhlnNU&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East (INCLUDING THE NORTH OF INDIA) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ7Qp3eOqahmkLc&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia (WITH YOUR INDIA) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKTGdqGJerOHg9E&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA kzbin.info/www/bejne/in2pYYF6qqiemrs&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rcaWOln9ihoJI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI

[@scintillam_dei]

PS Huns did not have atheism. There is some atheist and macro-evolutionist propaganda in this game by masonic corpse-oration Micro$oft.

[@ereklekorkotashvili2751]

@@scintillam_dei u r right man :)

[@TheIceisDry]

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.

[@SavageShark]

Lovely! Keep cherishing it!

[@C0TTo]

+TheIceisDry Rest in Peperonni ... 340p man

[@karlmax6673]

Try to get in touch again!

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

Seeing a man in fire screaming in pain : *this is my childhood*

[@rachard]

@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 ae

[@spind4]

one of microsoft best creation

[@Wuzu93]

Ensemble Studios best creation*

[@MrMarinus18]

spind4 I still think AOE 3 is better.

[@harald921]

marinus18 WTF!

[@hyexenforomacedonians9251]

marinus18 rolf, most ironic comment i ever seen

[@joelsinn9302]

Blasphemy! AOE2 after the expansion is one of the most timeless games ever, up there with Tetris.

[@jasons8276]

All over a simple chess match... What a mess.

[@minhtue90]

Jason S btw it’s based on the isle of Lewis set

[@saifrazorvenus2967]

yes it's just an awesome chess game.

[@JonatasAdoM]

They were playing Chess VR in real life.

[@soul-yi6ng]

Jason S and parents are saying that video games cause violence but look at the results

[@mihaidijmarescu1010]

haha

[@Saimsboy]

at the end of the game the king and the pawn go into the same box.

[@franciscocorleone1723]

nobody asked you

[@lablondejames200]

idk why, but i really felt this comment. Also go get a life @Francisco Corleone

[@scintillam_dei]

@@lablondejames200 Yes, death brings us all to Judgment. Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGeohJ-kh86XbZI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmfRcp-wiKhlnNU&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ7Qp3eOqahmkLc&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKTGdqGJerOHg9E&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA kzbin.info/www/bejne/in2pYYF6qqiemrs&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rcaWOln9ihoJI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI

[@singleme.3083]

@@franciscocorleone1723 f##k o## d### s##t

[@gmatsue84]

Yeah, but ask each which life they rather have lived..

[@Victor-bq1gx]

Gotta love that peasant's reaction at 1:28. He's like "nope, nothing to do here".

[@L3GenDaRyPr0diGy]

I don't have to love it if I don't want to, asshat.

[@lilituthebetrayer2184]

+Naruto AMVs You HAVE TO, biyatch.

[@IGROFAG]

The peasant is dancing as a robot.

[@bernardoperalta7376]

Victor o

[@kaykhosrow3263]

Victor r

[@Kaosu44]

I remember my mom screaming: "Dont attack me!! a want build a wonder!!" Family Lan games of AoE2 was amazing :D

[@sonikkumania6917]

That sounds epic.

[@sparta2705]

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.

[@radiofrog]

2:27 he was always my hero

[@mischiviousteefmonster3900]

That's some dead hero to look down upon.

[@Vasif_Bugrahan_Alparslan]

Him and the archer at 2:32

[@przemek1382]

why?

[@joew9690]

He took the arrow to the chest ....and be came a hero !

[@firstcooommment3675]

Uraneum *That horse* is amazing! Continuing to fight on through the arrows.

[@RadicalEdward2]

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 ♥️

[@Seriousbomb54]

Back when intros actually had a message. ...Most of the new games don't even have intros which is kind of dissapointing.

[@kpjlflsknflksnflknsa]

my wife left me during this intro, it still pains me to watch it

[@ljubisaknezevic9040]

Did you try WOLOLO?

[@kalinmir]

message? like "playing chess is actually killing people"?

[@YMS09D]

More like 'was it worth it'

[@joelsinn9302]

I hate how many of the newer games do not have an intro, but force you into a movie like intro that you play for an hour. Many recent games that seemed cool had such a drawn out, spoonfeeding into that I never played past the first few minutes.

[@daaaannnyy]

Monk... i need a monk

[@alecfongy3175]

wololo

[@drdre2641]

11

[@shadowlucario7125]

11

[@rachard]

11

[@user-ex2rf9ih3n]

11

[@katsuragikaini8983]

The chess pieces are the Lewis chessmen, 12th century era chess pieces dug up in Scotland. I love you humans and your history ^_^

[@tatsutones1648]

Are you.. a lizard?

[@Leom-tg6qs]

More like aliens

[@caleyb268]

They kinda look like the Lewis chessmen. ♟

[@multisat]

Lewis chessmen.... Craft from vikings if i can recall.... With walrus teeth!

[@harismunanda5322]

Yea cause weabo wasnt human, theyre urine

[@IAmABrightKid]

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😂

[@carlitagt]

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.

[@scintillam_dei]

¿¡Una mujer!?

[@shoukatsukai]

Perhaps the only strategy game trailer that actually tried to get chess players to play the game

[@saifrazorvenus2967]

actually they did it I'm chess player I miss the game at every time I play chess

[@xXg0d0fWarXx]

@@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.

[@terminallumbago0781]

wololo

[@wololo3781]

Hello there

[@向你祖母問好]

Mimimi ayeyoyo

[@andreimarcu3505]

*AZTEC*

[@aish_workshop]

That priest tho

[@Holland1994D]

30

[@ForeverRepublic]

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.

[@mitchd8534]

Same

[@DiceMasterChannel]

+1 Still does

[@scintillam_dei]

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGeohJ-kh86XbZI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmfRcp-wiKhlnNU&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ7Qp3eOqahmkLc&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKTGdqGJerOHg9E&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA kzbin.info/www/bejne/in2pYYF6qqiemrs&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rcaWOln9ihoJI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI

[@SiteM16tv]

Wow, what a talent the guys had, to make a game which is also played much after 13 years. I love this game!

[@eliavi3251]

Man, it's 19 years now and the hype still real.

[@jimmea6317]

@@eliavi3251 22

[@sparta2705]

I'm with yall.

[@Epilogue_04]

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

[@phatphan1403]

This happened to me too when I was 12. The game came out 1999 and it was my only remedy to escape the cruel world.

[@ricardocontreras5839]

Confirmó bro

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

WTF where do you know me from?

[@simpslayer7664]

I can relate to that

[@scintillam_dei]

Escape to my worlds: Epic World Map for Age of Empires 2 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGeohJ-kh86XbZI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Pacific Ocean Map kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmfRcp-wiKhlnNU&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI The Far East kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ7Qp3eOqahmkLc&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Eurasia kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKTGdqGJerOHg9E&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI EVROPA kzbin.info/www/bejne/in2pYYF6qqiemrs&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI Ancient World Map for the original Age of Empires kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4rcaWOln9ihoJI&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI

[@ChaosCharge]

Damn, kinda shows that young soldiers are just pawns to die in a game played by old men.

[@Priyo866]

ChaosCharge This is SO true.

[@joew9690]

Tacit said that " war is old man talking and young man dying ".

[@oliverlaing5722]

ChaosCharge shit that’s deep

[@dom8286]

SO Original smh

[@AreGeeBee]

"War is where the young and stupid go to die for the old and bitter"

[@Gold7G]

After so many years graphics still looks awesome.

[@declanolivetti4319]

Gold7G Gameplay < graphics

[@the_hkt]

RedBaronAce no they not

[@negroconbazuca1621]

they look like Shrek haha

[@richardpegana7446]

No

[@the_hkt]

I am also a Aoe2 fan but the graphics looks shitty for today

[@YMS09D]

20 some years after this game came out, I still tear up at the end, hat haunting melody, the uncertainty in those synth violin strings, the lingering feeling of 'Was it really worth it?'

[@kingmaniactech]

I've never seen this uncut version of the intro before. So awesome! Thank you for uploading this.

[@mujtabaraisani7376]

why bro its a crime if you are Aoe2 player 😔

[@kingmaniactech]

@@mujtabaraisani7376 I just had the usual retail game so I had no idea of the originally intended version.

[@benangell225]

He looks fucking distraught to have lost a trebuchet

[@murphyjack90]

***** So what? There's a whole forest right behind his army and i sure he can get more gold with that crown of his.

[@GoldieMethrans]

+Jack Murphy Also, given The Bishop, he also has the Relic in his possession. +Ben Angell That`s because his Trebuchet was his Pawn ... aka one of 2 main chess pieces (Pawns and Kings) you cannot replace once gone ;)

[@deepdivyam3437]

This game aged like a fine wine.

[@sparta2705]

No, the "Finest" wine.

[@sparta2705]

Jesus level quality of wine

[@TenshiRyuzaki]

Hearing the building noises at 1:00 makes me want to play

[@Terric90]

its the blacksmith you dumbass

[@TenshiRyuzaki]

selbstbewusstesMädchen yes that's why I said the comment.

[@erichumphreys5655]

***** no you didn't, you said "building noises"

[@FEAR3371]

Hearing the arrows sounds is equal to.ingame

[@ttrk9155]

for me 0:21

[@coolerdaniel9899]

Age of Empires 2 Intro (Uncircumcised Version)

[@L3GenDaRyPr0diGy]

ha.

[@gustavojavieraquijehuaman6539]

SpengRob lol

[@jinroh516]

not really, it is called the longer penis version

[@ramanand5187]

The nostalgia 😭I remember never skipping this intro

[@SplitZxxx]

the moral of the story... Don't get addicted to chess board pieces

[@drakekingblackheart5481]

hahahaha thats funny

[@markg4054]

jajjajajja xDD

[@kejiri3593]

But love chess ^^

[@BurnerStudio]

Best strategy game EVER !

[@anassyria5176]

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

[@spinakker14]

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

[@DWatchRazgriz]

The Original Game of Thrones ladies and gentlemen.

[@L3GenDaRyPr0diGy]

Wrong.

[@DWatchRazgriz]

I was making a joke.

[@L3GenDaRyPr0diGy]

DWatchRazgriz funny.

[@DWatchRazgriz]

Naruto AMVs Clearly you have no sense of humor.

[@L3GenDaRyPr0diGy]

oh good one. was that another one of your "hilarious" jokes?

[@Peetfighter]

Sounds like you got yourselves a very rare piece from that market in Moscow. Thanks for uploading this.

[@daggeroforion5897]

I honestly couldn't tell if this was real or CGI when I was a kid. Pretty obvious now.

[@C0TTo]

240p but stills awesome.

[@tomroohan]

I love that the sound effects used in the cinematic are exactly the same as the ones in game

[@zachIPFW]

That ending do, so profound.

[@TheAlexagius]

Age of chess 2: age of kings....

[@enragedkaiser237]

This would be most awesome chess game ever.

[@jmal]

An excellent game.

[@pikkuadi]

Dunno why this made me laugh so much

[@mattxoom]

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!

[@kespec]

that ending is so powerful.

[@thehh5118]

What an absolute masterpiece of a game. Best strategy game ever!

[@alexvargas-md9gf]

Este juego es de lo más hermoso que habrá en la existencia humana.

[@sirgatiaz]

El Age esta mas vivo que nunca

[@alejandroconcha1431]

Un juego insuperable

[@Waggendaily]

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.

[@Zaiaku666]

Dear lord, I've been searching for this since back when G4 was still a thing.

[@VRichardsn]

Wow... truly a lost jewel. I am sharing this!

[@VRichardsn]

***** Exactly! I just played a couple of matches with some friends, a few hours ago. 15 years later, this game is still being played. Truly a legend.

[@_mr_guiro_]

La introducción de una leyenda que nunca pasará de moda

[@Azhureus]

21 years ago I watch this for 1st time, it was such a good intro, great graphics, great music. Best strategy game overall !

[@Toblerown_ch]

Chess pieces to aoe units (does not include unique units) Pawn: trebuchet, scout cavalier, militia Rook: castle, archer towers, walls and bombard towers Knight: Knight, light cavalier, every other stables units Bishop: Monk King: King, every MALE hero Queen: Joan of Arc, every FEMALE hero

[@kevintrang3007]

And queen?

[@rikosakurauchi7161]

pawn are infrantry and archer

[@scintillam_dei]

A female hero is a heroine. Keep the sexist terms active, folks.

[@Damaskox]

It's bad that they put the cut version in the game.

[@XenoByte]

Erm, my version had this ._.

[@Damaskox]

Xeno Byte Cool. Unfortunately my didn't have.

[@julianbaba5510]

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.

[@tehgriefaa564]

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

[@mischiviousteefmonster3900]

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.

[@gonzalocastillo6489]

I love it this intro is my childhood and one of my reasons for my love to the history, I really love this game, grettings from Chilee.

[@Sexywrm]

Back when games were fun instead of been cash grabs.

[@123abcdef3]

Childhood! I still believe this to be the best strategy war game of all time.

[@robknowles4085]

Wow game intros used to last ages, this is a full blown movie!

[@mycatisdisturbed1237]

the best game and intro ever ever ever :)

[@bigbrainboys8357]

Wow I miss this intro. It’s literally it’s own short story with a great ending. I used to actually enjoy watching this before I played. I hope Age of Empires 4 has an intro this epic!

[@Zutraa]

this intro MUST stay in this quality for ever, it makes it very unique!

[@muchwow5782]

0:48 Thats how the regular military salute came to existence, lifting part of your helmet one handed

[@jingola11]

Hey it's my childhood.

[@smokeybear5460]

I remember when I was a kid my brother had this game. I had no clue how to play it but when I'd get home from school I would just watch this for fun.

[@TheKarui]

I always found it amusing that the end of the opening cinematics end up with everyone dead. It's like the developers are trying to say something.

[@GoldieMethrans]

War. War never changes. With each of them end either with the demise of the king and/or the entire empire ... and the soldiers + innocents pay the biggest prize. ;) Just my interpretation.

[@wathalol]

The king had no villagers left, poor guy

[@hanswurst7825]

one of the best game intros

[@MegaDonker]

The grafics is better than real life

[@vslsan4]

Wow so many memories..my first game with fifa 2001 in a windows 98 pc... nostalgia...what a time it was.. super music super games super movies

[@YaelToral]

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!

[@XxNienphilxX]

anybody know where i can buy this epic chess game? :O

[@JesperSalama]

***** The chess game.

[@XxNienphilxX]

***** hahaha i know that this is not a chess game :P but yes, you can buy the chess game in the intro^^

[@JesperSalama]

***** 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).

[@XxNienphilxX]

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 :)

[@CROBlackDEvil]

GemueseBong its not quite the same, but i like it anyway....340€ ftw ?

[@Foxtrop13]

2:35 mininuks, war never changes

[@shoukatsukai]

But men do

[@Cobramodder]

BlitzTaifun thought the startegies they make

[@samuelmartinez6344]

Solid Snake in MGS4 said "War has changed" though. lol

[@franchellicia]

I still remember the first time I met this game as a kid. I love this game and I always will

[@ivanthecommunist275]

Not all heroes wear capes! Thanks for uploading this!

[@kvnneo]

Anyone ever wondered why the Attacking King has Man-at-Arm in imperial Age when Trebuchets are available ?! :D

[@Diana12m]

keV Wolf he is just a mofokin noob

[@einbenutzenderbenutzer]

keV Wolf only true players know

[@iqbaliskandar3407]

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

[@bluedarkdarklin2552]

Maybe he went full into paladins and archers.

[@drdre2641]

@Brain Pains! some pointy boys infront of your longbowmen work wonders tho

[@erikraphael5552]

Back in 2003 I was 13 and I got my first computer, so my dad appeared at home with an AOE2 disc in his hands, I installed the game and became fascinated by it.

[@TheAndre1702]

heaven had already visited my childhood

[@hecorlandhecorland2355]

Conoci este juego el año 2001 y ahora a mis 58 años aun lo juego,es el mejor juego de estrategia

[@bilalcakir5750]

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.

So sad that they did not remade this intro for the definitive edition. I know it would have been a ton of work but it would have been cool.

[@SmoothCriminalAaron]

When he gazed around him and saw the destruction, dropping the chess piece in defeat, a little tear ran down my cheek.

[@GoldieMethrans]

+SmoothCriminalAaron Also, the chess piece is a king, which carries a huge symbolic value as well. Really, poor poor soldier~

[@Smogne]

+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).

[@GoldieMethrans]

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.

[@Chris-qo4rt]

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)

[@Chris-qo4rt]

Also, the banners on the castle are green and the archers are wearing green robes. The attacking soldiers wears red (like the older king)

[@_Muzolf]

Wow, it has been so long. When you realize you are no longer a child, not even the person you used to be, and that it was almost two decades ago.

[@devilmen]

I've edited this comment so noone will know why it got so many likes

[@poplabor6392]

And because sitting in front of the computer for a long time, your arm is stronger, but your feet are degenerated?

[@alexwolf551]

...same for me, but it was my brain muscles ^^

[@hermawanistiyanto3201]

😆😆

[@serresie7e]

Nice copy paste

[@MrNoot39449]

@@devilmen You assume that a guy that has manga Joseph as his profile pic doesn't read the manga

[@Terric90]

2:25 ohh the dieing knight makes me sad

[@coryfice1881]

Did you win? Green King: "Yes" And what did it cost you? Green King: "Everything...Why did you make me king...God?" I didn't.

[@UltimatePerfection]

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.

[@osrictemper4225]

"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

[@scintillam_dei]

See Poland in my map of EVROPA. EVROPA kzbin.info/www/bejne/in2pYYF6qqiemrs&ab_channel=SCINTILLAMDEI

[@Phoenix4646]

''[...]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)

[@SavageShark]

+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.

[@barth6696]

+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..?

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

Spanish archer didn't update to crossbow is disappointed...

[@marincalin]

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.)

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

iReal Worlds Monk temporary healing two injured low hp guard off screen.

[@thicccheems6017]

This just came in my recommendations and holy crap my childhood memories hit me hard I remember seeing my brother play this game and me being a child not knowing what it was obviously it was a strategy game but he was playing through the campaigns and I just sat there blankly staring at the screen figuring out who Joan of Arc and all these other important people of history were. Recently I got back into age of empires 1 and soon thereafter I got 2 and suddenly all these real people actually made sense to me since I’ve already learned about them in history class and getting really invested into the game again I even battled my brother and of course got my ass whooped like 4 times I can’t wait for the new age of empires 2 remastered it looks so amazing and does the original game justice in terms of graphics

[@ToastyVanilla]

amen brother

[@explosivehandjob7246]

My child hood was this series

[@davidhunter5802]

ExplosiveHandJob same

[@albertocastellote1342]

Cuántas horas de felicidad!!!!!! Gran gran juego!!!!!!

[@smoothbeak]

Whoever executed this has a wonderfully creative mind.

[@EricTheVillager]

One of the oldest videos on KZbin. I remember watching this video as a kid.