[poll] What pantheon would you like to see next?

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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What Pantheons would you LIKE in the game?

  • Inca
  • Tupi
  • North Americans
  • Inuit
  • Celts (Gauls, Britons, Irish, etc.)
  • Slavs
  • Romans
  • West African (Voodoo, Yoruba, Malian, etc.)
  • Canaanites (Phoenicians)
  • Israelites (Jews)
  • Christians
  • Muslims
  • Mesopotamians (Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Akkadians)
  • Tengri (Scythians, Mongols, Turks, etc.)
  • Zoroastrian
  • Hindu
  • Buddhist
  • Polynesians (Hawaiians, Maori, etc.)
  • Other (please mention in the thread)
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What Pantheons would you NOT LIKE to see in the game?

  • Inca
  • Tupi
  • North Americans
  • Inuit
  • Celts (Gauls, Britons, Irish, etc.)
  • Slavs
  • Romans
  • West African (Voodoo, Yoruba, Malian, etc.)
  • Canaanites (Phoenicians)
  • Israelites (Jews)
  • Christians
  • Muslims
  • Mesopotamians (Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Akkadians)
  • Tengri (Scythians, Mongols, Turks, etc.)
  • Zoroastrian
  • Hindu
  • Buddhist
  • Polynesians (Hawaiians, Maori, etc.)
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How many more Pantheons do you want?

  • A lot more
  • Only a hand full
  • No new Pantheons
  • New Major Gods for old Pantheons first
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The developers likely already started working on the next Pantheon so this poll will likely not be able to affect that, but we can show them what we’d like to see after that.

Mesopotamians vs. Celts (poll)
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Celts, then Mesopotamians and then Yoruba/Maori.

tbh the hate voting is stupid and pointless so I would remove it even after giving my vote there (don’t like the idea of abrahamic religions as part of the game).

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I changed it to “not like”. “hate” was a bit too extreme, I agree.

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Should have Romans as a choice even if unlikely, and why having Abrahamic religions as 3 separate which have similar mythology and unlikeliness?

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You’re right, I just simply forgot them.

I edited the poll. Unfortunately that deletes all existing votes.

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Canaanite should be called Phoenician/Punic/Carthage (they are not jew)

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oh you’re right about that too. I mixed them up.

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Personally i think Abrahamic/Bhuddist/Monotheistic mythologies are the least likely to ever be represented, they don’t quite make.

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Buddhism as gods though. Buddha himself is “just” a person.

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Do they? I thought it was supposed to be a philosophical religion without deities at all, like Confucianism or Taoism

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Nope. They believe that you can be reborn as higher being including literal gods. But only humans can find enlightenment.

Those gods have overlap with other religions like Hinduism.

The Japanese already have Buddhist elements so that makes it harder to make Buddhism it’s only pantheon.

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Qua è difficile. I pantheon politeisti più famosi li abbiamo tutti. Sarebbe una scelta complessa per gli sviluppatori. Io penso che dovrebbero aggiungere gli ultime due divinità (1 Atlantidei e 1 egizi)

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At first I didn’t see there was more than one poll, so I kind of voted AGAINST the pantheons I’d like to see in the game lmao. My bad!

That being said, I think I’d be happy with any new pantheon. However, if they were to add, lets say inuits, I wouldn’t want them to get the same fortress type building just in order to fit in the game. Inuits didn’t build anything like that. And before anyone tells me : “fortress building is a prerequisite for mythic age”. I’M VERY AWARE OF THAT! In my opinion, this is an opportunity to make something different.

To conclude, I think any culture could be added to the game, but I’m against it if the devs don’t make it coherent with itself.

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The NO WAYS for me: easy, no modern religions. First of all, it would never happen because some religious groups are very conservative about portrayals. Secondly, I want to play mythology. A lot of these religions are monotheistic and don’t have ‘creatures’. Also, there are enough wars because of religion going on now, I’d rather escape that if I can…

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I think AoM is flexible enough to have a civ without a fortress.

It’s so much worse in AoE2 where civs like Huns need to build castles. They don’t even have houses.

Too late, we already have the Japanese. The Japanese in the game worship the same gods as modern Japanese people do.

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Current Japanese religion is weird mix of Bhuddist and Shinto Philosophy, and Gods are ancient and doesn’t seem to be a main focus of believe anymore. Also they themselves put them in animes and video games, and in general they are more secular, they might see Amaterasu like and Italian sees Jupiter.

I’t’s not the same as the Hindus who still worship and pay respect to their gods more directly and see as more controversial and disrespectful their portrayal in games.

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I mean, it should. But I’m not sure the devs actually are. I’m among those who are not happy with the jaguar rider.

That’s why I hate this game. If the devs won’t put the effort and take the risk to make things different because they want to satisfy conservative players, than they probably shouldn’t add all these new civs.

Same thing applies to Retold as well.

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Many good pantheon to be added …

I voted for : Celts, Slavs, Tengri, Maori and Aboriginal (Other)

I’m french so I heard of Gaulish gods in Asterix since many decade, I hope than I will play with them one day. Also O see good picture of slavics gods. Tengri : yes with a civilization like the mongols of AoE4 and with a campaign with more than 12 scenarios like a Gnghis Khan grand campaign with mythic unit ! Then Maori and Aboriginal.

There is only 5 options so next : Mesopotamian, Inca, North American and West African.

For the Roman they are good but their pantheon look like too much those of the greek and the Atlantean have already roman unit.

I voted against monotheistic pantheons (Jew, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist) because this game is only for polytheistic pantheons. An if the Arabs will be added one day this will be with the pre-islamic polytheist pantheon.

I want many more pantheon and gods pack, I hope that we will have an egyptian god pack at the end of the year.

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Nothing has really changed to how religion worked in Japan 500 years ago around the time the AoM Japanese represent. There are a few more new religious movements nowadays but generally it’s till the same with gods having about the same importance.

The AoM Japanese also have a lot of Buddhist elements already so it’s not like they are currently Shinto only.

People put god, Jesus, angles and demons in western media and games too.

There is no fundamental difference between them other then that Hinduism is being politicised a lot in India recently and hatred towards Muslims is very common.

But on the other hand the former Japanese prime minister was killed because he associated himself with a religious cult.

Buddhism is definitely not monotheistic. They have many gods but Buddha himself is not one of them.

What I voted for

Celts

Celts are kind of in between Greeks/Romans and Norse in many way, geographically and also culturally.

Celts settled half of Europe and directly interacted with both Norse and Greeks historically so there is a lot of potential of missions including other pantheons without having to use god powers, magic or the underworld to move around again.

Mesopotamians

I just really want to see Gilgamesh in AoM.

Also they could offer a new unique way to have a 2nd city building civ like the Egyptians.

Tengri

AoM doesn’t really have a cavalry focused civ yet. Also it would allow to have an actually nomadic civilisation that can move all it’s buildings like Mongols in AoE4. Of course TCs still need Settlements.

Mounted villagers could also be interesting and fit into AoM pretty well.

North Americans

They got a lot of interesting and diverse mythology. Of course one specific one would have to be picked here but there are many good options.

AoM would also allow to represent them a lot more authentically since they wouldn’t need to have siege engines or cavalry.

Romans

I really wanna see a retelling of the Aeneid in AoM. That story would work perfectly as an AoM campaign it even already has an underworld section build in.

I also think they offer a lot of potential interesting unique game mechanics, like having a main infantry unit with a charged ranged attack or mechanics based around Vestales or the Senate.

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I decided to choose some obscure ones in hopes that they might garner some interests.

I think Maoris and Canaanite could be potential dark horses that may actually be fun to conceptualize especially the latter.

Even the Romans could surprise players. I would love to see them gain favor through building massive road networks. These roads could speed up favor generation and also increase the movement speed of their units.

The tricky part would be how players issue commands. Attack clicking or right clicking could become awkward if they accidentally click on the roads. Probably a solution to this would be for the developers to make completed roads untargetable, or to add a separate hotkey specifically for destroying them.

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