When the Orcs invaded Draenor, massacred the Draenei, and paved the Path of Glory with the skeletons of dead Draenei before opening the Dark Portal by sacrificing the souls of thousands of Draenei prisoners… now we got gay frogs.
That art for the campaign selections was CLASSIC Chris Metzen. So punk rock and grungy. That was the 90s. There's a reason us 90s kids loved the look of the old 90s X-Men, Spider-Man and Warcraft
Warcraft 2, Diablo 2 and Starcraft were the best blizzard games for me, back when Blizzard was awesome. Ever since they went full 3d (though the very beiginning of wow was cool) they just have never been the same and progressively got far far worse over time whereas now they aren't even the same company in any way, as far as I'm concerned they are defunct and have been for quite some time.
My goodness gracious the sheer nostalgia. Warcraft II, Red Alert 1, Age of Empires 1, Heroes of Might & Magic II, Starcraft 1 : My dearest brethren & sisters of the golden 90s age, where you at?
@@gleipnirrr I miss Westwood Studios so much it hurts like the one ex-girlfriend you really wanted to stay. Times have really changed in a gaming sense, hasn't it? So much has gone by ~
Ultima Online, Diablo, Warcraft 2, StarCraft and Age of Empire 1 & 2, Command & Conquer, Sim City and the first Sims game.. Those were my jams during that time period
I found one of those at value village a few years ago. I will play through WC 1 soon. playing my original copy of WC 2 at the moment. It still holds up
Warcraft 2 was an addiction. I remember me and the boys pirating a version of it to school computers back in 2002. We would always stay to 'study' in the computer lab after school.
My mom always heard me talk about World of Warcraft to my firends, so one day after school she surprises me with this game, thinking it was WoW. I wasnt even mad. I played the shit out of this game. I only had internet at my dads house anyway. 🤷♂
I only logged in to this account to reply to your comment. Because my mom did the exact same thing with Warcraft 3: RoC and Frozen Throne when i was 8. I was so pissed when i realised it wasn't WoW. But then i played both games and my god i loved the franchise ever since
I'm surprised you as a kid knew what was WoW and what wasn't. I thought Warcraft was WoW, I had no idea what WoW was. I just knew people liked that one more.
My step dad did that once not knowing his roman numerals, he meant to get me and my brother Final Fantasy X, but instead got us VIII, we where gratefully anyway but he beat himself up over it for hours.
saw everything...mind was blown with doom...played war craft 2 against other people in a high-school computer lab lol...played the original gta in a college lab against other people too haha
I absolutely love to this day the details the devs put into this game. For example the snow on the buildings roofs on winter maps, and the icons for "Attack" and "Defend" that changed to cooler looking weapons and armor as you upgrade them. Starcraft didn't have any of that, for example, despite being an all-time great game.
@@renaldtremblay-u8p The details I gave as an example were in the original game from 1995. I didn't know there was a remastered version tho, looks actually quite good.
@@Hoi4o Warcraft 2 was horribly balanaced, despite most units being mirrored - to the point that most WC2 tournaments were forced mirror matchups. The soundtrack was the best in the series though.
I love the exaggerated accent in these games. Really takes me back. I remember my dad getting a kick out of the peons saying “yes milord”. And the fun from clicking a unit repeatedly to get them to say their funny lines. I still have my big box games for warcraft 1, 2, and the portal expansion.
@@Bit_Mingus unfortunately, Activision-blizzard cant make Warcraft 4, they are too incompetent compared to 90's - 00's era devs who made earlier Warcrafts.
I just finished playing Warcraft 1 today, and I noticed the weirdest thing while playing, for some reason I was smiling. Like, without trying to, my face just did that. Weird. Not sure how I feel about that, such a foreign sensation these days, wasn't bad though.
In Warcraft 4 Orcs are free to come and will receive money to stay doing nothing in Lordaeron. When they make trouble and someone is complaining about it they will use their ability "call out racial injustice" and they will get even more money
This game is very special to me. It was a game I played with my dad, who was in a wheel chair with only 1 functional hand.. to see him operate a PS1 controller like a pro with one hand and beat the whole campaign was freaking amazing to me and he was like a hero... As much as I dislike Blizzard and dont want to support them in any way going forward... MAN do I have to break my rule and get this game for my dads sake.
If it makes you happy, buy it! Buy it for the memories and don’t even give blizzard a thought. I hope it puts a giant smile on your face if you do decide to get it! Life is too short to not do the things you want to do because of some corporate bull.
The world was so much better back then, and hopeful for the future. As a history major in college when I and my friends played this in the late 90s, I did see a lot of what has transpired since coming. No one wanted to talk about it though. I was "harshing their mellow". I used to be bitter about this, but now I understand I think. They subconsciously knew (some of them anyway) what I knew on the surface, that the good times wouldn't last and they just wanted to enjoy the good times while they was still there.
It's 1997. I managed to get the day off school by complaining about my arm hurting. Mum has gone to work leaving me alone at home. The fridge is full of Pepsi Max. Life is good.
Messed up. Diarrhea is the best. Only have to fake it for a brief window. Can't make the car ride to school, don't have to pretend you're sick later. Cleared up by like 10am! Such a shame I had to miss a whole day of school and play Goldeneye on N64.
I was 11 when this came out. I remember my dad bought a copy of Mac Magazine and it had the Demo for this on it. I played the hell out of it on our Quadra 660av. We got the game and the whole family was addicted, we'd all take turns playing missions. It was soo fun! I was also obsessed with the artwork that came in the manual. I remember taking it with me on the school bus ride so I could read the snippets of lore over and over. Was a simpler time and I miss it. Thank you for playing this, was a such a rush of member berries.
Remember when Warcraft was a gothic fantasy setting, and orcs were just savage but-kinda-dumb muscular 6'6" dudes and the humans were disciplined with armour and training so it made sense they could defeat the orcs? But now the orcs are the size of cars and humans are just the punching bag of the franchise. Feels sad man, what we lost.
Not really, Humans in Warcraft fantasy are some of the strongest humans in fantasy, worlds strongest man wouldn’t stand a chance against a Peasant lol, Warcraft humans are basically super humans
The Warcraft you are talking about was here 30 years ago, last time when expansion to War2 came out. It's long time gone now. I miss games in such settings too. Have you ever played Disciples 1 and 2? These games had a great and dark style. Now Disciples is dead too. People now prefer cartoons, pixels arts and silly bigga orcs with bigga hammers. There is no interest in gothic fantasy setting :/
@@Fiaw1 meanwhile germans literally being called "Holy Roman Empire" for hundreds of years and during first world war their nation was literally called "empire of germany"
I’m glad to see the game back, but there’s been a discord with a decent sized and active community for ages where you can easily join and download the game for modern computers for free. There’s also a twitch streamer that streams WC2 multiplayer and campaign all the time
Imagine you're an 8 year old kid in the 90's. All you've ever known at this point, as far as video games go, are Mario, Sonic, Kirby, maybe Street Fighter (which your parents disapprove of because violence)... You know, relatively cute, kid-friendly stuff. One day, you go spend your very first allowance for one of those PC gaming magazines that had the demo CDs (and sometimes even an older game) in the front. You rifle through the demos and then you install the demo for Warcraft 2... Your first "grown-up" strategy experience. Deep story, war and violence, the "Urrrrgh!!!" sounds of the orcs dying burns into your memory. The music!! Oh god, the music!!!! You sit there, slack-jawed because you didn't know that games were even allowed to do that!! Who cares about rings or mushrooms!? You're now a soldier on the frontlines. I must have played that demo dozens of times until I saved enough to buy the full game, which I then proceeded to sink thousands of hours into over the years. And my journey and eternal love with video games pretty much began there because it broadened my horizon like you wouldn't believe. One of the most transformative experiences of my life. Even now, when Asmon booted up the game and I heard the intro song, I had to stop what I was doing with happy tears in my eyes. These were games made with love and with a vision for what gaming could be. Games like that are still out there, but one has to really look. I can't imagine anybody having the same reaction with shit like Veilguard, but maybe I'm wrong.
For me it was like 4th grade music class. There were like 4 or 5 kids in the class. We would watch a short video on music then screwed around on the computers for the rest of class. And on the computer was Warcraft 2. I was like what is this? And then proceeded to have my mind was blown. It was the second computer game I ever played. The first was Diablo 2 which my aunt introduced me to like a year before. All I had before that was stuff like crash bandicoot, ratchet and clank and spiderman 2. So I really relate haha.
I had a very similar thing with demo disc that came with a PC magazine but it had Warcraft 3 on it. I played it it loved it. Soon as I was able I got full copy of the game. Still ranks joint best game of all time for me.
I'm from this generation but my only Blizzard games were D1 & D2. I'm a social-commentary Andy. I can tell you, in only 10 minutes, that this was indeed the very height of gaming of the era. DOOM - '93. TIE Fighter - '94. WC2 - '95. Dawn of War wouldn't be for almost ten years after this. Blizzard was always peak though and everyone knew it, even if you didn't like tactical stuff. So it's not like I didn't think about it. To nerd gamers, Warcraft was a household name before WoW.
Warcraft in the 90s felt like LOTR but everybody is built like Arnold. Modern wow feels like dievant art and tumblr morphed together. It’s safe, smooth and Roblox bulky in style.
I remember when I was maybe 6 or something, my dad used to turn on his really old laptop, then play original Warcraft for few hours straight. I was watching him playing and occasionally giving him suggestions, asking for his strategy, etc. Since I was "too young to play video games", I was then drawing my own maps, and strategies on paper. That exact game started my love for the RTS genre.
I remember the cannons coming out of the keep as a kid and just losing it with how cool this looked. God I loved this game. The Expansion took it to a whole next level which paved the way for WC3's heroes. Good stuff.
Warcraft 3 was my childhood. Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne. As a child, I always thought the quests would go on FOREVER. So when I realized finally completed the whole game, I felt empty for weeks 😢
blizzard - $12 for hd graphics. they didn't even improve sound quality. 💀 modders - $0 for remake of wc2 orc campaign on wc3 engine, with custom cutscenes, more story telling, full voice acting etc. pathetic.
"Improve sound quality"??????????????? Lol. You couldn't improve WC2 sound quality if you tried. They ruined Reforged sounds so it was extremely smart to leave WC2 alone in that regard.
I played Warcraft 2 all the time as a kid. It was the first game I played multiplayer over the internet using a dial up modem to modem connection. Like I had to dial up my buddies phone number to make it work. And I have to admit I don’t remember that opening cinematic at all!
cant believe it took the remaster for asmon to learn about blowing up critters. the shockwave it caused on War3 was an amazing surprise when that released
I remember when 9 year old me managed to convince my dad to buy WC2: Tides of Darkness back in 1996. We had to drive to a neighbouring (and ironically, smaller) town because no retailers in town where we lived had the game at the time. Amazing game for its day.
Remember how in the 90's, PC game magazines came with CD's in them? This was my first Warcraft game that I played, and I think it was from one of those CD's. Must've been a demo of it or something. I'm gonna have to buy this for the memories.
So that it doesn't get lost in all this commotion, War2 is also there. It's part of this battle chest, or you can get it separately (also on GOG). Remasters actually do add a few things that became more standard after the first two Warcrafts came out, like increased size of control groups, and wouldn't be surprised if they add few other things. Point being, you want actual pure OG experience, it's also there and that's what's important.
Warcraft 2 tides of darkness was also my very first introduction. My first rts. I didn't have internet at the time, so I spent much of my time with the map editor alot & playing the game with and w/o cheat code phrases. So gonna get this next week.
I remember trying out the AoE 2 : AoK demo for the first time from the CD that came with that month's Chip magazine. This was back in 1998 or so. I was absolutely hooked. My friends at school grew sick of me talking about AoE 2, back then.
This was my very first windows game. I would just carve pathways thru the trees for hours, even if the mission was done. I thought the visuals were on par with real life. I used to have to call my cousins house phone, make sure no one answered, then our 56k dial up modems would connect. Oh the memories 😢
It's '94, I powered up my 486, scrolling on norton commander ( an interfaces over DOS ), opend the folder Games - and there it was WarCraft I Orcs & Humans !!! My childhood game ! I love that game, I played it for years - much better than Dune II ....
I remember being blown away by how the cannons came out of the wall at different speeds. I can't stress how amazing and cutting edge those cgi intros were at the time. I spent years playing this game and introducing friends and family to them.
Yeah, I tried it twice and found it unplayable. Now that it has right-click move and attack and multiple unit selection, I may actually be able to play through it!
The overvoice at the start sounds like a guy in his room, under his blankets, practicing his scary story telling voice for the next time he goes camping w his siblings 🤣
Actually many WR2 fans didn't like WR3 when it came out. They said it looked too childish and specially didn't like the care bare orcs. In Warcraft 1 and 2 orc where brutal but in WR3 they where good guys. I myself didn't care it that much and i liked and played WR3 the most.
@ Interesting. I can see what they are getting at, but I like you played Warcraft 3 like a mad-man. Even to this day I’ll still boot up war 3 on a random, snowy day, and battle my buns off with hordes of shamans, Taurens, and WitchDoctors. Keeps my mind limber, and it’s also fun as hell.
This was my first Warcraft game. After playing it, i had to go back and do the first one as well. But for sure this is where Warcraft really started to coming together into a giant lore rich game that it is today. First one wasn't really fleshed out yet i felt but the second one where it really all began for me, and now 30 years later im still enjoying Warcraft universe they have built. What a journey
This shit changed everything... Then came Age of Empires, and then StarCraft.. BUT SHIT, EVERTYONE (for the most part) IS STILL SLEEPING ON... AGE OF EMPIRES II !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it is STILL the best RTS of all time!
WarCraft II was my first RTS. I was introduced to this game when I was 5 because my late dad tends to bring home his old Siemens laptop that ran the DOS version when he comes home from work during that time. This game and StarCraft was also our bonding time when I was young; he'd control the units while I suggest what would be the unit lineup - I often point at the Elven Archer in the Barracks as they quickly became my favorite units in the game. My fondness for WarCraft and StarCraft would eventually result in the purchase of my first PC at home.
This game...my dad was a trucker in germany and when he was home, he played this game and i (5/6 years old)was watching him playing this game. I dont have the best relationchip with my dad but the time we spent together on this game give me my best memories with him till today...the music, just everything about this game gives me this warm feeling like no other game can. Thanks for the goosebombs asmon
one of the first games i ever bought, hell yeah brother. some of the best gaming of the time, along with classics like mechwarrior 2, command and conquer & grim fandango.
Try the C&C series. Warcraft series is played similarly but much easier. For a free similar game, do Warzone 2100. It used to take over half a day to go through the entire tech tree, but that seems sped up in recent updates. People are still making maps for it.
I used to play this on, get ready! A SEGA Saturn. I don’t know if a lot of you remember that console but I wasted many a day playing Warcraft 2. LOVE IT!
I remember finishing Warcraft 2 back in '96 and then decided that it was weird that almost all the units on both sides were more or less identical except for their graphics. So I used the editor that came with the game and changed every unit's stats. The human footmen had way more armour, but the orc grunts had more health and damage, for example.
Brooooo I loved warcraft 1 and 2... Please tell me I wasn't the only one who used to click all the units to listen to their insults Orc grunt - stop poking me!!!! Soldier - are you still touching me?! Red alert 2 was anything I used ...shake it baby!, ka-ching! 😂
@manaintolerantmage let's not forget she was the best Tanya, Red alert 3's tanya... Seemed more page 3 model,,, didn't even play the role that great in my opinion (Edit) Take that back I forgot Kelly Hu for a moment there, she and Gina were the only decent female lead actresses in red alert 3
I replayed both at the beginning of this year. I was maybe 10 when WC1 came out and I couldnt beat it. It was the hardest game ever in my mind. When I replayed it I was astonsihed how easy it was, esp. the last missions: Just rush mage/warloc, summon Waterelementals / Deamons and GG. I lost maybe 4 units in total during the human campaign...
WC3, AoE2 and AoM were my late-90s/early-2000s jam. In the last few years, I discovered the AoE2 esport scene, and then more recently AoM Retold released (elevating that game with some great new enhancements and changes). And now, Blizzard have finally made a peace offering to fans with the latest update to WC3 reforged, with a feeling that they might actually be putting effort into that scene again going forward (although they still have many things to do there...). My personal RTS nostalgia-cup is over-flowing right now
I copped WCII a few months ago, I was crying man. Fucking 33 years old, crying in front of my computer screen cause I literally was living in nostalgia.
What a blast from the past. I think the thing that i loved the most in this game were the character portraits. I think it was Grom Hellscream with a bloody portrait, like blood on his jaw.. or was it kargath bladefist.. damn need to play this again
On the one hand, it looks great and the memories are beyond imagination. On the other hand, I don't want to give Blizzard any money anymore. Edit - not gonna buy it. After much thought, I just can't in good conscience give money to modern day Blizzard. Time to sail the seas again.
@@MatthewKelley-mq4ce you're not jaded, this is possibly their laziest attempt to date of rehashing old shit. Btw, most remasters in existence shouldn't even be a thing, game dev companies should just either remake things, or straight up create something new, just for a change.
My dad played wc1 way back and he would always talk about how my grandma would get annoyed at the voices on the computer constantly going "YES ME LORD!" lol
Man, Warcraft 2 and 3 were peak, maybe one day blizzard will make Warcraft 4 and with all the new WoW lore, we could get so many more Things in this game.
Lol...first of, the original creators of WC3 are long gone from Blizzard so you will never get the same quality again. Second, why would anyone want WoW new lore on a Warcraft game? Blizzard expansions after Legion are straight trash , with the real decline starting even before probably around Warlords of Draenor and Pandaria. Blizzard current lore is trash and the company is not the same, you saw the damage they did with the Warcraft 3 Remaster.... Let the classics be classics, enjoy what was
@@ThatNorma last patch of cata was the true beginning of the end. they had to scrap planned content and they went super weak sauce mode with the wedding of thrall...... /puke
"Back when Orcs didn't have feelings, they had axes and muscles"
And bad temper
They had feelings.
Rage is a feeling.
@@lightworker2956bloodlust too
And hunger too... Wow, the orc culture is so rich!
When the Orcs invaded Draenor, massacred the Draenei, and paved the Path of Glory with the skeletons of dead Draenei before opening the Dark Portal by sacrificing the souls of thousands of Draenei prisoners… now we got gay frogs.
That art for the campaign selections was CLASSIC Chris Metzen. So punk rock and grungy. That was the 90s. There's a reason us 90s kids loved the look of the old 90s X-Men, Spider-Man and Warcraft
90s art, especially Spider-man and the X-men, was a very mixed bag.
Batman beyond went hard
I LOVE chris' art
Warcraft 2, Diablo 2 and Starcraft were the best blizzard games for me, back when Blizzard was awesome. Ever since they went full 3d (though the very beiginning of wow was cool) they just have never been the same and progressively got far far worse over time whereas now they aren't even the same company in any way, as far as I'm concerned they are defunct and have been for quite some time.
Don't forget Pogs, and early 2000s Crazy Bones. Man, those were good days...
My goodness gracious the sheer nostalgia. Warcraft II, Red Alert 1, Age of Empires 1, Heroes of Might & Magic II, Starcraft 1 : My dearest brethren & sisters of the golden 90s age, where you at?
They are hiding like Solid Snake!
it's soul crushing to me that RTS has fallen so much out of popularity in the current day.
@@gleipnirrr I miss Westwood Studios so much it hurts like the one ex-girlfriend you really wanted to stay. Times have really changed in a gaming sense, hasn't it? So much has gone by ~
Magestorm, spellbinder, mech assault, splatterball +, Neverwinter nights, legend of k... (Forgot), and I forgot the names of the rest.
HOMM3 & Command & Conquer would swap Red Alert & HOMM2 but that's just cuz it's what we had lol i spent many hours grinding all these games out
Ultima Online, Diablo, Warcraft 2, StarCraft and Age of Empire 1 & 2, Command & Conquer, Sim City and the first Sims game.. Those were my jams during that time period
The first Doom as well
100%
Oh man I spent so much time on Ultima Online. I always wondered what happened to all my boys in Visolara on Atlantic server.
Sim City dropped in 1989 so it was quite a bit earlier than the rest. Sim City 2000 fits the timeline better.
The golden age of gaming
Back in the day I got the "Warcraft Battle chest". A big box that included WC 1 & 2 + the expansion set. Still the crowned jewel of my collection.
I found one of those at value village a few years ago. I will play through WC 1 soon. playing my original copy of WC 2 at the moment. It still holds up
Warcraft 2 was an addiction. I remember me and the boys pirating a version of it to school computers back in 2002. We would always stay to 'study' in the computer lab after school.
are u me lol? I got hooked playing at lunchtime at high-school in a computer lab
Someone installed unreal onto all the library computers and we had a full library death matches for a few days lol
My mom always heard me talk about World of Warcraft to my firends, so one day after school she surprises me with this game, thinking it was WoW. I wasnt even mad. I played the shit out of this game. I only had internet at my dads house anyway. 🤷♂
I like this story!
Momma unknowingly turned a common L into the biggest of W's. Go mom!
I only logged in to this account to reply to your comment. Because my mom did the exact same thing with Warcraft 3: RoC and Frozen Throne when i was 8. I was so pissed when i realised it wasn't WoW.
But then i played both games and my god i loved the franchise ever since
I'm surprised you as a kid knew what was WoW and what wasn't. I thought Warcraft was WoW, I had no idea what WoW was. I just knew people liked that one more.
My step dad did that once not knowing his roman numerals, he meant to get me and my brother Final Fantasy X, but instead got us VIII, we where gratefully anyway but he beat himself up over it for hours.
Being a teen in the mid to late 90's was OP
saw everything...mind was blown with doom...played war craft 2 against other people in a high-school computer lab lol...played the original gta in a college lab against other people too haha
OLD ALERT OLD ALERT!!!!
I absolutely love to this day the details the devs put into this game. For example the snow on the buildings roofs on winter maps, and the icons for "Attack" and "Defend" that changed to cooler looking weapons and armor as you upgrade them. Starcraft didn't have any of that, for example, despite being an all-time great game.
but... this is a remastered... not the available version. wtf is this ?
@@renaldtremblay-u8p The details I gave as an example were in the original game from 1995. I didn't know there was a remastered version tho, looks actually quite good.
@@Hoi4o thats what were looking at
The things mentioned are still in the original version regardless of whatever version this is @@renaldtremblay-u8p
@@Hoi4o Warcraft 2 was horribly balanaced, despite most units being mirrored - to the point that most WC2 tournaments were forced mirror matchups. The soundtrack was the best in the series though.
I love the exaggerated accent in these games. Really takes me back. I remember my dad getting a kick out of the peons saying “yes milord”. And the fun from clicking a unit repeatedly to get them to say their funny lines. I still have my big box games for warcraft 1, 2, and the portal expansion.
It's racist and the wokes say you shouldn't have fun.
Ah yes, Orcs and faction warfare.
As Warcraft should be.
Where is Warcraft 4!!!?
@@Bit_Mingus unfortunately, Activision-blizzard cant make Warcraft 4, they are too incompetent compared to 90's - 00's era devs who made earlier Warcrafts.
@ sux.. so sad.
@@Bit_Mingus hopefully never
@@Tyranno-Bore-Us There's more to WoW than factions
I just finished playing Warcraft 1 today, and I noticed the weirdest thing while playing, for some reason I was smiling. Like, without trying to, my face just did that. Weird. Not sure how I feel about that, such a foreign sensation these days, wasn't bad though.
Ikr? It's so weird. Is that normal when playing a game?
Play more games, princess.
You enjoyed a video game? In this day and age? Crazy talk.
@@Doomsong83 Stop making Warcraft into a fairy tale Disney movie..
13:00 I've always loved how the elves in this game sound like they're ready to gut you at a moment's notice
In Warcraft 4 Orcs are free to come and will receive money to stay doing nothing in Lordaeron. When they make trouble and someone is complaining about it they will use their ability "call out racial injustice" and they will get even more money
dustborn devs are available, right?
Use build wall and make the Orcs pay for it.
And then Lord Garithos becomes the King and makes Azroth great again.
Lmao
Work work gets a whol different meaning like that 😂
This game is very special to me. It was a game I played with my dad, who was in a wheel chair with only 1 functional hand.. to see him operate a PS1 controller like a pro with one hand and beat the whole campaign was freaking amazing to me and he was like a hero... As much as I dislike Blizzard and dont want to support them in any way going forward... MAN do I have to break my rule and get this game for my dads sake.
Damn PS1 controller with one hand is goat.
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If it makes you happy, buy it! Buy it for the memories and don’t even give blizzard a thought. I hope it puts a giant smile on your face if you do decide to get it! Life is too short to not do the things you want to do because of some corporate bull.
I played this as a kid but didn't like it much because I played WC3 first lol
Can always buy the gog version too although that is not a remaster
The world was so much better back then, and hopeful for the future. As a history major in college when I and my friends played this in the late 90s, I did see a lot of what has transpired since coming. No one wanted to talk about it though. I was "harshing their mellow". I used to be bitter about this, but now I understand I think. They subconsciously knew (some of them anyway) what I knew on the surface, that the good times wouldn't last and they just wanted to enjoy the good times while they was still there.
Every generation says this. When you were young things were better, now that you are old, they are worse.
It's 1997.
I managed to get the day off school by complaining about my arm hurting.
Mum has gone to work leaving me alone at home.
The fridge is full of Pepsi Max.
Life is good.
Arm. Fake a cough lol
Heaven... I'm in Heavennnn
Damn, I was an infant back in 1997. I bet the world went crazy when Warcraft 3 got released.
Messed up. Diarrhea is the best. Only have to fake it for a brief window. Can't make the car ride to school, don't have to pretend you're sick later. Cleared up by like 10am! Such a shame I had to miss a whole day of school and play Goldeneye on N64.
@@chicken_poo_house5683 Maybe it did but you would know because the internet barely existed.
The sound effects and the way the characters talk, bring back so many memories.
warcraft 2...nostalgia
This is exactly what I wanted for Warcraft II. No remake, just make sure it runs well and looks a little bit better than the original.
this is the game that made me love the rts genre
That was Dune Battle for Arrakis for me but I played TS out of WC2
@@Wahinies yeah dune 2 was epic
I was 11 when this came out. I remember my dad bought a copy of Mac Magazine and it had the Demo for this on it. I played the hell out of it on our Quadra 660av. We got the game and the whole family was addicted, we'd all take turns playing missions. It was soo fun! I was also obsessed with the artwork that came in the manual. I remember taking it with me on the school bus ride so I could read the snippets of lore over and over. Was a simpler time and I miss it. Thank you for playing this, was a such a rush of member berries.
Remember when Warcraft was a gothic fantasy setting, and orcs were just savage but-kinda-dumb muscular 6'6" dudes and the humans were disciplined with armour and training so it made sense they could defeat the orcs? But now the orcs are the size of cars and humans are just the punching bag of the franchise.
Feels sad man, what we lost.
Not really, Humans in Warcraft fantasy are some of the strongest humans in fantasy, worlds strongest man wouldn’t stand a chance against a Peasant lol, Warcraft humans are basically super humans
The Warcraft you are talking about was here 30 years ago, last time when expansion to War2 came out. It's long time gone now.
I miss games in such settings too. Have you ever played Disciples 1 and 2? These games had a great and dark style. Now Disciples is dead too.
People now prefer cartoons, pixels arts and silly bigga orcs with bigga hammers. There is no interest in gothic fantasy setting :/
@@thegermanempire489 The Germans never had an Empire. Also, source?
@@Fiaw1 meanwhile germans literally being called "Holy Roman Empire" for hundreds of years and during first world war their nation was literally called "empire of germany"
@@JM-mh1pp Not an empire
I’m glad to see the game back, but there’s been a discord with a decent sized and active community for ages where you can easily join and download the game for modern computers for free. There’s also a twitch streamer that streams WC2 multiplayer and campaign all the time
Imagine you're an 8 year old kid in the 90's. All you've ever known at this point, as far as video games go, are Mario, Sonic, Kirby, maybe Street Fighter (which your parents disapprove of because violence)... You know, relatively cute, kid-friendly stuff. One day, you go spend your very first allowance for one of those PC gaming magazines that had the demo CDs (and sometimes even an older game) in the front. You rifle through the demos and then you install the demo for Warcraft 2... Your first "grown-up" strategy experience. Deep story, war and violence, the "Urrrrgh!!!" sounds of the orcs dying burns into your memory. The music!! Oh god, the music!!!! You sit there, slack-jawed because you didn't know that games were even allowed to do that!! Who cares about rings or mushrooms!? You're now a soldier on the frontlines. I must have played that demo dozens of times until I saved enough to buy the full game, which I then proceeded to sink thousands of hours into over the years.
And my journey and eternal love with video games pretty much began there because it broadened my horizon like you wouldn't believe. One of the most transformative experiences of my life. Even now, when Asmon booted up the game and I heard the intro song, I had to stop what I was doing with happy tears in my eyes. These were games made with love and with a vision for what gaming could be. Games like that are still out there, but one has to really look. I can't imagine anybody having the same reaction with shit like Veilguard, but maybe I'm wrong.
For me it was like 4th grade music class. There were like 4 or 5 kids in the class. We would watch a short video on music then screwed around on the computers for the rest of class. And on the computer was Warcraft 2. I was like what is this? And then proceeded to have my mind was blown. It was the second computer game I ever played. The first was Diablo 2 which my aunt introduced me to like a year before. All I had before that was stuff like crash bandicoot, ratchet and clank and spiderman 2. So I really relate haha.
for me it was starcraft demo when i clicked on first marines !
I wish I knew gamers like this IRL. I swear... people that get it, get it. It's a special experience we all share. PC Gamer FOR LIFE!
Swords and Sorcery! It had Warcraft II, Blood and Magic, and Heroes of Might and Magic II, still three of my favorites.
I had a very similar thing with demo disc that came with a PC magazine but it had Warcraft 3 on it. I played it it loved it. Soon as I was able I got full copy of the game. Still ranks joint best game of all time for me.
I'm from this generation but my only Blizzard games were D1 & D2. I'm a social-commentary Andy.
I can tell you, in only 10 minutes, that this was indeed the very height of gaming of the era. DOOM - '93. TIE Fighter - '94. WC2 - '95. Dawn of War wouldn't be for almost ten years after this.
Blizzard was always peak though and everyone knew it, even if you didn't like tactical stuff. So it's not like I didn't think about it. To nerd gamers, Warcraft was a household name before WoW.
In Warcraft 1/2 years, the fantasy art aesthetics was on its peak. The modern slop is nothing but a joke compared to the good old times.
YES!
The attention to detail is next level!
2024 and Veilgiard is considered Dark Fantasy OMEGALUL
Remember how disappointed I was seeing the cartoony graphics of w3, only then to realise that this was a thing for blizzard to go forward
Warcraft in the 90s felt like LOTR but everybody is built like Arnold. Modern wow feels like dievant art and tumblr morphed together. It’s safe, smooth and Roblox bulky in style.
I remember when I was maybe 6 or something, my dad used to turn on his really old laptop, then play original Warcraft for few hours straight. I was watching him playing and occasionally giving him suggestions, asking for his strategy, etc. Since I was "too young to play video games", I was then drawing my own maps, and strategies on paper. That exact game started my love for the RTS genre.
I remember the cannons coming out of the keep as a kid and just losing it with how cool this looked.
God I loved this game. The Expansion took it to a whole next level which paved the way for WC3's heroes.
Good stuff.
Warcraft 3 was my childhood. Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne.
As a child, I always thought the quests would go on FOREVER. So when I realized finally completed the whole game, I felt empty for weeks 😢
blizzard - $12 for hd graphics. they didn't even improve sound quality. 💀
modders - $0 for remake of wc2 orc campaign on wc3 engine, with custom cutscenes, more story telling, full voice acting etc.
pathetic.
"HD graphics" implies it's actually HD.
They just put a super-sampling filter over everything and called it a day like the lazy hacks they are.
You can tell who did it out of love and who did it just for the paycheck.
"Improve sound quality"??????????????? Lol. You couldn't improve WC2 sound quality if you tried. They ruined Reforged sounds so it was extremely smart to leave WC2 alone in that regard.
It's almost as if one categorically works for free, and the other has bills to pay.
I hate wc3 pathing so much.
I played Warcraft 2 all the time as a kid. It was the first game I played multiplayer over the internet using a dial up modem to modem connection. Like I had to dial up my buddies phone number to make it work. And I have to admit I don’t remember that opening cinematic at all!
cant believe it took the remaster for asmon to learn about blowing up critters.
the shockwave it caused on War3 was an amazing surprise when that released
This made my whole day dude. My nostalgia is on fire right now lol
The music! The VOICE LINES!! The nostalgia is too much! Red alert next??
*Frantic AIM sounds
Diablo 2* asmon has NEVER PLAYED D2........
I use "You want axe?" for my message notifications on my phone
I was also a W2 gamer, and it was my favorite one by far. The departure in art style, I never quite recovered from tbh!
I remember when 9 year old me managed to convince my dad to buy WC2: Tides of Darkness back in 1996. We had to drive to a neighbouring (and ironically, smaller) town because no retailers in town where we lived had the game at the time. Amazing game for its day.
19:28 he did't know, lol) Old good just animals that make boom.
Omg in an era when body type one actually has muscle and body type 2 actually has breast, even in pixelated style.
WTH is body type 1 and 2?
@@GeorgeMonet Little bro living under a rock.
@@GeorgeMonet Male and Female. Although nowadays there's body type 3. Don't think I need to explain that one to ya.
There are zero body type 2s in the original Warcraft II. The expansion introduces one, as a campaign hero unit. Alleria I think.
@@GeorgeMonet get with the times bottom G
Remember how in the 90's, PC game magazines came with CD's in them? This was my first Warcraft game that I played, and I think it was from one of those CD's. Must've been a demo of it or something. I'm gonna have to buy this for the memories.
That was how I first encountered the AoE 2 demo (Chip magazine).
WE'RE READY MASTER
- I'M NOT READY!
The voices and music! Legendary
For reals
So that it doesn't get lost in all this commotion, War2 is also there. It's part of this battle chest, or you can get it separately (also on GOG). Remasters actually do add a few things that became more standard after the first two Warcrafts came out, like increased size of control groups, and wouldn't be surprised if they add few other things. Point being, you want actual pure OG experience, it's also there and that's what's important.
I want to ask about the remaster since i don't have pc to play it was it good or bad
*Loading up old games brings back memories* ⏳
Warcraft 2 tides of darkness was also my very first introduction. My first rts. I didn't have internet at the time, so I spent much of my time with the map editor alot & playing the game with and w/o cheat code phrases.
So gonna get this next week.
This soundtrack is an absolute banger. So many memories
Warcraft II, Dune II, AOEII, the 90's were a good time.
I remember trying out the AoE 2 : AoK demo for the first time from the CD that came with that month's Chip magazine. This was back in 1998 or so.
I was absolutely hooked. My friends at school grew sick of me talking about AoE 2, back then.
@@tiffles3890 Hell yeah !
This was my very first windows game. I would just carve pathways thru the trees for hours, even if the mission was done. I thought the visuals were on par with real life. I used to have to call my cousins house phone, make sure no one answered, then our 56k dial up modems would connect. Oh the memories 😢
WHAT IS IT
I fucking loved Warcraft II so much. I used to spend hours in the map editor spawning deathwings errywhere
"Make Warcraft great again, true brother"
*immediately starts talking about peasants*
It's '94, I powered up my 486, scrolling on norton commander ( an interfaces over DOS ), opend the folder Games - and there it was WarCraft I Orcs & Humans !!!
My childhood game ! I love that game, I played it for years - much better than Dune II ....
nc was so good :)
I remember being blown away by how the cannons came out of the wall at different speeds. I can't stress how amazing and cutting edge those cgi intros were at the time. I spent years playing this game and introducing friends and family to them.
Warcraft 1 was rough compared to Warcraft 2. It did not age well even in 90-es.
Yeah, I tried it twice and found it unplayable. Now that it has right-click move and attack and multiple unit selection, I may actually be able to play through it!
The overvoice at the start sounds like a guy in his room, under his blankets, practicing his scary story telling voice for the next time he goes camping w his siblings 🤣
Mom is looking down today with a big smile brother. She is happy and so proud of you.
Absolute classics right here. Thank you for the nostalgia trip!
Huge fan of Warcraft 3. It's amazing how much that game progressed from 2-3. Both are good, but wow.
Yeah, wc3 was a huge step forward.
Actually many WR2 fans didn't like WR3 when it came out. They said it looked too childish and specially didn't like the care bare orcs. In Warcraft 1 and 2 orc where brutal but in WR3 they where good guys. I myself didn't care it that much and i liked and played WR3 the most.
@ Interesting. I can see what they are getting at, but I like you played Warcraft 3 like a mad-man.
Even to this day I’ll still boot up war 3 on a random, snowy day, and battle my buns off with hordes of shamans, Taurens, and WitchDoctors. Keeps my mind limber, and it’s also fun as hell.
@@Kornn66 That's so true. I still don't like WR3 to this day :D
@@Kornn66I was in that group. 3 was a gut punch and I didn’t care for it but 2 is amazing.
This was my first Warcraft game. After playing it, i had to go back and do the first one as well. But for sure this is where Warcraft really started to coming together into a giant lore rich game that it is today. First one wasn't really fleshed out yet i felt but the second one where it really all began for me, and now 30 years later im still enjoying Warcraft universe they have built. What a journey
This shit changed everything... Then came Age of Empires, and then StarCraft.. BUT SHIT, EVERTYONE (for the most part) IS STILL SLEEPING ON...
AGE OF EMPIRES II !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and it is STILL the best RTS of all time!
broodwar is :D, they still have massive prize pool tournaments in Korea
WarCraft II was my first RTS. I was introduced to this game when I was 5 because my late dad tends to bring home his old Siemens laptop that ran the DOS version when he comes home from work during that time.
This game and StarCraft was also our bonding time when I was young; he'd control the units while I suggest what would be the unit lineup - I often point at the Elven Archer in the Barracks as they quickly became my favorite units in the game. My fondness for WarCraft and StarCraft would eventually result in the purchase of my first PC at home.
7:26 Roach out! Lol. He was damn near petrified.
This game...my dad was a trucker in germany and when he was home, he played this game and i (5/6 years old)was watching him playing this game. I dont have the best relationchip with my dad but the time we spent together on this game give me my best memories with him till today...the music, just everything about this game gives me this warm feeling like no other game can. Thanks for the goosebombs asmon
WC2 music is by far the most iconic in the entire series
Still got my wc2 cd, first pc game I ever had. you can actually play the music in a cd player.
It was the last warcraft game where they made good music instead of good background music.
I remember the booklet you got with the pc version way back. The artwork was awesome. I loved it as a kid.
one of the first games i ever bought, hell yeah brother. some of the best gaming of the time, along with classics like mechwarrior 2, command and conquer & grim fandango.
Try the C&C series. Warcraft series is played similarly but much easier. For a free similar game, do Warzone 2100. It used to take over half a day to go through the entire tech tree, but that seems sped up in recent updates. People are still making maps for it.
I'm still bothered by EA for killing Westwood Studios.
I used to play this on, get ready! A SEGA Saturn. I don’t know if a lot of you remember that console but I wasted many a day playing Warcraft 2. LOVE IT!
lol are you me?
Wc2 , command and conquer red alert , StarCraft , age of empires . The golden age of RTS
This game went so hard. I played this game so much until age of empires 2 came out
Dude age of empires was the goat aside from Warcraft. I always went with Greece. Such an awesome game
I remember finishing Warcraft 2 back in '96 and then decided that it was weird that almost all the units on both sides were more or less identical except for their graphics. So I used the editor that came with the game and changed every unit's stats. The human footmen had way more armour, but the orc grunts had more health and damage, for example.
Brooooo I loved warcraft 1 and 2...
Please tell me I wasn't the only one who used to click all the units to listen to their insults
Orc grunt - stop poking me!!!!
Soldier - are you still touching me?!
Red alert 2 was anything I used ...shake it baby!, ka-ching! 😂
Tanya was every boy's (and some girls) first crush who played Command and Conquer lol Ka-ching indeed!
@manaintolerantmage let's not forget she was the best Tanya,
Red alert 3's tanya... Seemed more page 3 model,,, didn't even play the role that great in my opinion
(Edit)
Take that back I forgot Kelly Hu for a moment there, she and Gina were the only decent female lead actresses in red alert 3
I replayed both at the beginning of this year. I was maybe 10 when WC1 came out and I couldnt beat it. It was the hardest game ever in my mind. When I replayed it I was astonsihed how easy it was, esp. the last missions: Just rush mage/warloc, summon Waterelementals / Deamons and GG. I lost maybe 4 units in total during the human campaign...
Warcraft 3, Command and Conquer, Total Annihilation and StarCraft. My Childhood Games. 😊
WC3, AoE2 and AoM were my late-90s/early-2000s jam. In the last few years, I discovered the AoE2 esport scene, and then more recently AoM Retold released (elevating that game with some great new enhancements and changes). And now, Blizzard have finally made a peace offering to fans with the latest update to WC3 reforged, with a feeling that they might actually be putting effort into that scene again going forward (although they still have many things to do there...). My personal RTS nostalgia-cup is over-flowing right now
I copped WCII a few months ago, I was crying man. Fucking 33 years old, crying in front of my computer screen cause I literally was living in nostalgia.
Dude! So glad to see you playing this! I play StarCraft 2 with my kids and was thinking about getting them into playing this as well.
No vulperas. No worgens. No Im14andthisisdeep dialogue. Orcs vs Humans. War. Savagery. The way it should've stayed.
Hey Gilneas was badass
What a blast from the past. I think the thing that i loved the most in this game were the character portraits. I think it was Grom Hellscream with a bloody portrait, like blood on his jaw.. or was it kargath bladefist.. damn need to play this again
"These orcs didn't have feelings"
I'm pretty sure the entire plot of Humans and Orcs was about an orc catching feelings.
Garona's a half-orc, she don't count
@@TheMTSilver How do you think a half-orc was born
3:51 FOR REAL!
On the one hand, it looks great and the memories are beyond imagination. On the other hand, I don't want to give Blizzard any money anymore.
Edit - not gonna buy it. After much thought, I just can't in good conscience give money to modern day Blizzard. Time to sail the seas again.
Especially when they tend to do low effort changes, the minimum they can do. I might be jaded with remasters though.
@@MatthewKelley-mq4ce you're not jaded, this is possibly their laziest attempt to date of rehashing old shit. Btw, most remasters in existence shouldn't even be a thing, game dev companies should just either remake things, or straight up create something new, just for a change.
I’m with you. Quite the dilemma
I get the sentiment but you buy products from China every day so there's the conumdrum.
@DarkflameEmperor yeah but I can live without playing wc2 again.
This takes me back to the good old days. I hope you play all the missions and campaign and upload them to youtube
this game means a lot to me, i remember playing this to death back then
My dad played wc1 way back and he would always talk about how my grandma would get annoyed at the voices on the computer constantly going "YES ME LORD!" lol
I don't know how they always manage to make a worse looking menu. Those deep red buttons in the original orc menu was the best part.
man i remember when this came out and how much i played then when wc3 came out and how hyped it was. I miss those days
Next I wanna see him play Red Alert 2
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Beautiful game!
i will pull my hair out watching him play, how many harvesters do you think he will lose
You need to play this more man, it was so much fun to see.
The true Hillsbrad experience couldn't have been captured better when the Alliance ran from a 3v1 because the odds weren't enough in their favor.
Just like in wow. They really nailed that one.
10:35 can't you see, he's the man, let me hear you applause...
warcraft 2, red alert 2 & total annihilation peak rts back in late 90s, than the peak evolution came starcraft 2, command & conquer & warcraft 3 !
You missed a lot.
@@Rai2M ya theres tons, but just giving mainstream sample
I friggin loved these OG Warcraft games. They hooked me on the RTS genre. They are basically the reason I ever built a PC to begin with.
Ive still my original disc.
Same. :)
Me too!
Got my original WC1, the WCII Battle Chest edition and WC3 discs
Same dude. And diablo 1 disc too. Are the good ole days.
@@novakain6 Hell yea. Still got my Diablo 1 disk too. :)
Its crazy how this game looked exact same back in the day whenever you first played it, remasters like this are amazing.
Man, Warcraft 2 and 3 were peak, maybe one day blizzard will make Warcraft 4 and with all the new WoW lore, we could get so many more Things in this game.
it would be bad imo. warcraft 2 is golden and adding a bunch of vulperas and mecha gnome wont make it better at all
Pls no.
Blizzard can't make even half descent games anymore.
Lol...first of, the original creators of WC3 are long gone from Blizzard so you will never get the same quality again. Second, why would anyone want WoW new lore on a Warcraft game? Blizzard expansions after Legion are straight trash , with the real decline starting even before probably around Warlords of Draenor and Pandaria. Blizzard current lore is trash and the company is not the same, you saw the damage they did with the Warcraft 3 Remaster.... Let the classics be classics, enjoy what was
@@ThatNorma last patch of cata was the true beginning of the end. they had to scrap planned content and they went super weak sauce mode with the wedding of thrall...... /puke
My problem is that they don't have the old dev team for that. I think a Warcraft 4 would be a huge disappointment if they would create it now.
PLEASE UPLOAD MORE BRO THIS NOSTALGIA GOT ME FEINING LIKE A JUNKIE
The 'Chronicles of the Second War' mod for Reforged is the best thing in the history of Warcraft since lich king
When RTS games ruled the land 🙂
I always forget pre-WoW Warcraft games weren't RPGs.
I literally never knew that
Back when gigachad rts and arena shooters ruled pc gaming
What I love is that old school 90s and 80s "Metal" look to the medieval fantasy genre back then.