Age of Empires 2 HD El Cid Campaign Cutscenes (English Ver.)

[@olivius8891]

I would pay to watch a movie of this.

[@sorodin1697]

Deus Morris You can watch; the cid (the old movie or the animated)

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid_(film)

[@olivius8891]

@Jeremy Brookes That would work too

[@xantiago22]

@Jeremy Brookes you can, the next month on Amazon Prime. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKa3g4lrr7KKsNk

[@rosuflorian9861]

@@xantiago22 an infect ,,neomarxist" pervesion of the history.

[@ShaDHP23]

The good queen would not hold the throne for long, but she was brave even in the face of Armageddon. The Cid had a truly strong bride.

[@cool06alt]

No throne was held, it was alternate history writing.

[@LaplacianFourier]

Holy crap this game had amazing cutscenes. I can't believe they replaced the definitive edition's cutscenes with awful ones. This is a crime.

[@CaptainGrimes1]

What did they replace it with? Any links?

[@Lei_1]

@@CaptainGrimes1 They remade all the cutscenes' audio. And some of the art of newer ones. The narration can't be compared to the original in quality terms, but overall, the game is excellent.

[@LegendKingY2j]

they used the same dude to voice almost every campaign and tbh i don't like his narration, sounds uninterested

[@LegendKingY2j]

the music was also changed, even the original tunes used during the narrations were better

[@crimsonflame7188]

@@LegendKingY2j one of the reasons why 2 is better than 6(recent one) is because 2 actually gave you more or less a back story of each leader(ruler,warrior)

[@weebslayer3411]

The loyalty of this man is legendary

[@deltacolonystudios9320]

Beautiful Story, sad by the end but also good to know who will be carrying the torch :)

[@PKClanNet]

The wife was overthrown 2 years later.

[@usamazahid3882]

so, who took the torch after her then?

[@cool06alt]

King alfonso and yusuf

[@GumaroRVillamil]

Had his son Diego not died in battle, history might have turned out different. Maybe he would have been able to keep an independent Valencia. That's what I did in my CK2 run as el Cid.

[@videomaster412]

Her final sentences is spoken with the determination that, (at that time), only few army commanders had.

[@jimmytaker]

My Favourite Campaign!

[@suhyun0428]

+jimmytaker Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar!! I had played a lot it too~

[@jumpinshade]

it was so good until you picked saracens. Spanish were super broken past castle age

[@Tlacaelel789]

I watched Charlton Helston's acting as El Cid and he was superb. I also watched the movie because of this campaign.

[@stefan_c.76]

So... pretty much the conquerors have ill fates. Attila the Hun died of a nosebleed. Barbarossa drowned. El Cid died of a straight arrow.

[@TheParez]

smelly smelly, fishy fishy...

[@alperb.]

Many other deaths done and gone. World turning and sun ll always rising...

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

Stray*

[@SloveneAnon]

qui acceperint gladium, gladio peribunt

[@niallyuxinxie3938]

and Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people

[@Ranjan_Mohanty]

And finally, I will be visiting Valencia !

[@marianofernandez6470]

They didn't last much after this, but it was a better ending than all of the other campaigns.

[@FlymanMS]

King Alfonso is like Aldaris from SC1 of this story. Acting like a stubborn asshole 99% of the time then doing something good in the end when it's too late anyways.

[@usamazahid3882]

Yeah, You'd think that Jabroni would've learned his lesson by now?

[@FFFFFFF-FFFFFFFUUUUCCCC]

Imagine some creep following an old widow around for three blocks asking her endless questions

[@ChampionElCid]

I'd say they did my story justice....

[@chibiguardian7587]

King Alfonso was a selfish jerk

[@Deaglan753]

Most kings at that time were

[@thedude9024]

Contrary to the history and these scenes, King Alfonso VI was an intelligent, effective and cunning King. He was responsible for the capture of Toledo in 1085 which put back the Christians Hispanics on the road to Reconquista.

[@usamazahid3882]

Sucks to be King Alfonso, dude. Just as he was about to revel in his glory, everyone might've booed the hell out of him at the time, and instead chanted *"EL CID CAMPEADOR!!!"* in unison whenever Rodrigo's around and even in death, they still honored him.

[@fran9201]

was Yusuf from present day Mauritania or Western Sahara?

[@dorkmax7073]

I wonder where the music came from

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

what do you mean? The music came from the composer and the artists?

[@InchonDM]

Yeah, the soundtrack in AoE2 is all original composition, not pre-existing music.

[@EngPheniks]

I find the original version of AOE2 much better than the DE.

[@lwnystudio]

Man I prefer these older version of these cut scenes, the new ones on the HD version and the voice overs are horrible.

[@123Sunwell]

I recently bought hd on steam. I discover that all cutscenes' sketches lines do not smoothly disappear as the video shows. Also in-game lines sometimes do not finish as if they're cut out. Can it be fixed?

[@suhyun0428]

Hmm... Maybe it can't be fixed.... I captured this cutscenes in 3.9 patch. But since 4.0, this smooth scenes doesn't work.

[@InchonDM]

The HD version doesn't preserve the smooth transitions, which are a feature of the original Conquerors release. It annoys me as well, but one thing you do observe with many old games is that the timing being thrown off is a consequence of more powerful modern hardware. Games on older computers are often built with the expectation of lag and loading times contributing to the pacing, or based on fundamental computer cycles and functions that are now much faster. In the latter cases, there's often not much you can do to save the timing without completely rebuilding the game.

[@ImperialDiecast]

This campaign was... ehh... weird. Like in the 1st scenario, half the map was your ally's kingdom and you basically had to spend 10 mins searching for a place to build your town center. In the 2nd mission, most of the map was empty barren wasteland and Toledo was poorly defended. I liked the subplot with the imam tho. The 3rd mission was a nice adventure, probably the only mission I really enjoyed.The 4th mission was ridiculously hard, the berber black navy city had a tower every 10 meters, I spent almost 2 hours inching my way forward. The 5th mission was fast and easy because you win once the wonder is built, and the 6th is basically the 5th but with the berber camp in "africa" to the east which is not geographically accurate at all lol, since there are only the balearic isles to the east of valencia.

[@InchonDM]

Finding voice attribution for this game is a pain in the ass, thanks to credits conventions of the time and poor documentation. At a guess based off the IMDB page, however (where there's only one attributed woman), I think Ximena is voiced by Melinda Renna, who had a bunch of roles in the 1990s in lesser-known work such as Natural Born Killers, or more recently in Baghdad Texas. A severely underappreciated performance regardless.

[@ersatzvitamin1]

Castillano accent (THid, Thamara, etc.) is not here, but intended Anglophone audiences were apparently more familiar to Mexican Spanish anyways so... understandable.

[@techspeakz]

Come on occasions

[@zerrkamph2180]

I never understood this....at Valencia Cid had a combined army of 28000. Yusuf's own army was nowhere near this in terms of numbers how did el cid even have a problem with yusuf

[@Liberator2460]

Ever heard of different military tactics, some of these kingdoms have their own way of fighting. Everyone is not the same.

[@Kevin-wx7wu]

Jimena Diaz speaking english... sounds legit

[@olivius8891]

Actually, it is Ximena.

[@argentumtempestate9677]

Es Ximena de Asturias, como Mexico o Texas. X = J en asturleones.

[@usamazahid3882]

@@argentumtempestate9677 Either case, it stood the same.

[@LegendKingY2j]

turn your game to Spanish then, what in the hell are you even complaining about if you wanna listen to it in ENG lol

[@mertcanduran9049]

Were the Spanish defeated by Berbers?

[@dorukumuttuksal]

That time moors was the general term of the muslims in uneducated pop I think...

[@LegendKingY2j]

the Spanish used to call the muslims as moors, that's why they are called like this here

[@richarddechatfield2297]

Seleucid antioch

[@housshil3675]

I dont like how berbers are portrayed in this campaigns.. Shields from Hippopotamus hide, really ? 😂😂😂 Hippos live tens of thousands of miles to the south in the african swamps

[@cool06alt]

Also they are potrayed as the losing side, while its the other way around in history.

[@housshil3675]

@@cool06alt yeah true.. Berbers held south of spain, or al Andalus, up until 1492 !

[@El-Silver]

well trade does exist

[@djackzdjackz7004]

Sorry my KZbin account are deleted because insulting judios, actually moors using Gazelle / deer hide skin as Shield called Al daraqa in Arabic , in Spanish language called as adarga

[@usamazahid3882]

@@djackzdjackz7004 I believe it was due to Religious content and Hate speech. That's what happened.

[@ladiesmanincredibledjssj5155]

Its Amazing how Saracens Ruled Spain way before Spanish could rule Spain. Us Black people are that Gifted!!

[@ladiesmanincredibledjssj5155]

@ZaqueHunzahua Saracens is another name that is used to describe Muslims.

[@ladiesmanincredibledjssj5155]

@ZaqueHunzahua kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWaZiYOpe8uDq80

[@ladiesmanincredibledjssj5155]

@ZaqueHunzahua and i ain't no fool Dumbass.

[@ladiesmanincredibledjssj5155]

@ZaqueHunzahua you certainly don't know Black Culture or Black History so get out of here and think before you say something Fool.

[@niasee]

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