400 hours of work, 100 unique characters, and 50 working quests: One Skyrim fan's year-long journey to recreate the RPG in Age of Empires 2 is almost over

https://www.gamesradar.com/400-hours-of-work-100-unique-characters-and-50-working-quests-one-skyrim-fans-year-long-journey-to-recreate-the-rpg-in-age-of-empires-2-is-almost-over/

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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Impressive it only took 400 hours to recreate not only the entire map, but also 50 quests.

jet@hackertalks.com · 11 pts · 2y

I was about to say the same thing. 10 working weeks of human time to make a large project is amazingly short.

Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I love hearing about stuff like this. Besides the time and dedication, it's impressive that everything looks authentic to Skyrim while being made entirely from AOE2 assets.

3ntranced@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

We all know Todd ripped off AoE and threw some new textures in.

XTornado@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Looks cool and when it's out I'll download it. But holy shit, that page had an ad like every other line I'm the article.

Maestro@kbin.social · 18 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Firefox Mobile + uBlock origin. I didn't see a single ad.

TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I used hermit to make a web app for kbin. I'll have to see if I can have it open links in Firefox! Thanks for the tip!

pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y

Or on Android check out adguard, blocks ads systemwide. That includes in app ads. I couldn't live without it anymore.
I can't remember what the free version is missing but I bought a lifetime license and it was well worth it.

TarquinNimrod@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Ha, same! Well, Iceraven. Very clean page. Impressive project and looking forward to the dld.

TheDankHold@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

That’s such a cool project!