Talk:Manzikert/@comment-190.237.183.194-20160502110550

"Minarests of dust twist upwards as horse hooves struck the fractured earth. Thousands of Seljuk Turks stream across the barrens of Anatolia to converge on the wall city of Manzikert, which was recently recaptured by the Byzantium army. "

Damn, the intro to this scenario is the best of the entire game. It manages to create such a buildup.

That mix of ambient sounds, style of narration, voice acting and accompanying music make it very easy for you to submerge yourself into the story. I think that, all in all, The conquerors expansion has the best intros and endings of AOE II, so damn well done and atmospheric.

The African Kingdoms devs tried to emulate this, but failed horribly as all their intros felt like they only put a guy reading the lines out loud in hope this was better than just the plain text like in The Forgotten. A pity.