One of the best gameplay vids I've ever seen: -no annoying personal intro -no distracting overlay stuff, no commenting -complete story, including vids -just 100% pure focus on the game alone and good gameplay while at it Needs more well deserved views. Thanks for sharing this with us.
It might sound strange, but I'm tearing up right now. I used to play these games with my father when I was 10 or so, almost 2 decades ago. We used to have lan parties and I would make a bunch of goblins and go blow up his base. Watching these videos means more to me than I could ever tell you. Thank you for these.
You and me both :D....there is just something about the soundtrack, the graphics and the narration (both human and orc) that made Warcraft II so iconic classic for so many. To me it was also one of the very first games I played back in 1996 when our family bought first Windows PC. Well its demo was, I actually only played the full game many, many years later but I do remember playing the demo version of Warcraft II very often :D
45:45 Even as a kid, I thought that cinematic was simultaneously badass and frustrating. It was frustrating because in the game play itself, catapults CANNOT hit flying units. So strange that they put it in the cinematic.
This game was one of my favorite of all time. I will never forget the sound effects and voices. My dad and I still will quote them when we are together 😂
Holy shit, I've played the full version many, many times over the years and have almost the whole thing memorized, and yet I haven't touched or thought about the shareware of this since maybe 1996 and completely forgot about that! Time to go see if someone's uploaded some gameplay of that on here
Shoutout to the biggest unsung hero of the saga, the footman who took it upon himself to point at Khadgar where the giant swirling magical portal was so that he could destroy it. Presumably without his efforts Khadgar would have starved to death looking for it fruitlessly.
You know, I was proud to beat the last mission of ToW on the human campaign. I got rekt so many times the game threw me a bone and stopped the black death knights run by. Then I see you and my confidence plummets more than a griffin flying through 9 death knights with full mana But truly: this is fing amazing. Never knew that SUCH hyper aggression would be so effective (though only if one got the skill to pull it off, I only managed to pull it off with naval combat). The gameplay and especially the timing in such a fast-paced game is truly out of this world. Maybe I'm late to the party but I will start watching and will continue so (also the fact that there is no commentary, the game is fullscreen and the story parts are not skipped (bloody love than narrators in W2) and no corny intro or part to "like sub and bell" is a breath of fresh air). I will be very interested in further Blizzard speedruns (especially if you plan to do W3) :)
Death knights hate being seen by flying machines. Once you've gotten your colony stabilized with anti-dragon defense and you're ready to build gryphons, build a couple of flying machines and station them right next to black's ogres and farms. The death knights won't pass under them to hit your colony, and they won't whirlwind them if they're above enemy units. That will give you the freedom to destroy white (or patiently wait for white to run out of gold) and then come back to take out black at your leisure. Use lots of polymorph and exorcism if you're taking the non-speedrun, kill all enemy units while taking minimum casualties approach.
I got wrecked trying the ork campaign of beyond the dark portal got a decent way through though up to the mission where you get spammed with dragons after a few minutes
who else put the game disk in a cd player just to listen to these amazing tracks? we also used to replace the speech sound files with clips of dialogue from movies. when you clicked on a knight it might be arney saying "come with me if you want to live", when it died "ill be back".
There was an editor for the Warcraft II binary file. One could change color palette and tiles and alot of other things. Most of the time you ended up breaking the game and it wouldn't start. I remember putting in a midi-file from Heretic into it, having Heretic music playing during gameplay, but it kind of broke the war2 atmosphere 😂
Back in the days of the initial wave of War2 modding, people were all about replacing the unit voices with Monty Python and the Holy Grail soundbites. And Army of Darkness. It was standard. Replacing the human death noise with "RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!" was absolutely horrendous but we insisted on it.
I remember well first time hit a wall in mission 6. Dun Algaz, when I found that while I CAN defeat the orcs, I waste too much troops and resourses, and gold mine expire before I can finish the mission. Thus I learned micromanagement and accurate usage of small unit groups, not just attack-move clicking and refilling the loses.
Same with me tho it was my brother. I thinks he ended up losing bc of the tower on the far left and then when I wasn’t looking(went to get lunch or something) he reloaded the game and used the cheat codes to beat the level. But I learned you have to beat levels faster to make them easier. The less decisive you are in attacking, the more wasted resources you have and more likely you get overrun or you run out of resources.
I remember playing the mission back in the day made me feel more like an oppressor than all the Orc missions I've done. Probably taxes are high because of the war and their brother was drafted to the army and then killed by the commander so that more peasants can be sent to the mines. But of course... send in the knights. All in white as well...
@@ivankuzin8388you and the person above don't seem to realize Alterac was working with the horde from the beginning, no action from the alliance caused Alterac to betray the alliance. The elf ambush, peasant rebellion and the Alterac sailors helping the orc fleet was all Alterac's doing.
Youve destroyed the entire army of evil and sealed the portal, trapping the vile hoard forever beyond reach of our lands. Youve collected more gold, produced more lumber and food for the war effort, trained and raised more effective, merciless troops than any ten generals in a 5th of the time. We promote you! To Corporal!
Thanks Stu for your help on the last level here - the guinea pig route of using dwarven demolition teams and going after 15 k mine; doing shipyard, collecting oil , risking transport kills from dragons, going to right ; demolition team again to go past narrow point by orc fortress, and then build at 70 k - all totally mitigated with you making Griffons !! And using 6 towers around gold mines - no archers - wow Stu - can't wait to play this level again and actually win this time and play BTDP for human campaign; your efficiencies, and choices are simply amazing !! And a prior level using 9 griffon Averies with second assault with knights - genius !! No pesky death knight whirlwinds gonna stop you Stu !!
the kind of streaming I like to see. Just playing the game as best as you can. Thanks for not sharing your opinions of latte while you played. cheers bud
There will undoubtedly be people who use the world editor to recreate the Warcraft 2 campaign. They already have it for the original warcraft 3. Sadly, that is probably the closest we will get to remakes of Warcraft 2.
@@NotARussianDisinfoBot Never say never... they are doing a re-release of WC2 on GOG at some point in the near future, not sure if it's a full HD remake or just a version that's W10 compatible... but it's still possible!
I started remaking the full game with HD sprite, any-resolution compatible and multiplateform some years ago, and I finished the main graphic engine, but it is quite the work. Fortunately, the campaign map files specifications are available, so no remaking the entire scenario scripts. Maybe I'll find the time to restart the project and put it on open source if people want to contribute.
Khadgar's face is the same as the King of Lordaeron in the final cutscene of the Orc campaign. XD In Starcraft, the face of Lester (the "I love you, sarge!" Terran) was also used for Admiral DuGalle of the UED fleet in Brood War. Back when Blizzard could be forgiven for cutting corners. XD
I personally blame Burning Crusade. Warcraft 3 changed things around a little bit, by making the Orcs noble and the humans despicable, but it was not a huge departure from the lore set down in the first two games. Even the base game of World of Warcraft built off of what came before it in WC2 and 3. Burning Crusade started the trend of retconning everything at the drop of the hat. Illidan? Yeah he’s not dead. Silvermoon and the Sunwell? Still around. Outland? Still inhabitable. Those rotten walking whale-creature afterthoughts we called Draenei? Now they’re blue and hot, and they look like demons. Elves? They’re with the Horde now. Wrath, for as much as I love it, is guilty of this too; so it was TBC where the trend that has made Warcraft lore a mess got its infernal beginning.
I love the Alliance in Warcraft 2 The humans are seafarer from coastal fortresses The elves are from the arctic forests far in the north. The dwarves live in the mountaintops amidst griffons. And I love the design of their buildings too. Honestly it makes me want to retcon everything after warcraft 2 and continue on this particular lore. But maybe I'm just old. Edit: God, even mentioning it makes my imagination run wild. An RTS with the Alliance faction being really good at infrastructure, able to retire soldier back to peons to farm, mine, and cut wood, leading to a strong economy but relatively weak army until properly upgraded. And a Horde made of powerful units but unable to sustain a strong economy because peons are beneath contempt, having to rely on raids and capturing enemy's infrastructure in order to build up momentum. I'm absolutely sure it's a bad idea xD, but yeah... A Warcraft 2.1, exploring the further conflict between orcs and humans, perhaps keeping the demonic involvement, but dropping things like Deathwing becoming such a huge deal, and demons being aliens from space.
your comment is very touching! For as much as I really loved warcraft 3, I felt warcraft 2 was warcraft lore at its peak. Warcraft 3 the lore became more comical, while warcraft 2 lore was more dark and serious. I also like the fantasy that either the horde won or that alliance won, none of this overarching storyline stuff. The best part of early warcraft lore was that orcs were truly monsters with a goal was wiping out humans for their territory rather than innocent beings corrupted by the demons..
"Amazing... the water in the intro sequence is so fluently animated. It is as if you can simply reach out and your hand will get wet. And the flames aswell. Astonishing "
That's what I used to do. The frustrating thing about the first game was you could only build your outpost in one side of the map. You have to send your troops all the way across the map sometimes to invade the enemy. In this game you can build wherever you want as long as its not too close to a mine. I'd just replace the Orc shit with Human stuff making the end of the level look pretty funny.
Indeed, Warcraft II was one of the very first games I played....well its demo version that is :D I was playing it at the age of 7, not understanding English at all but there was something about its world, its tone and graphics that just hit me and even today gives huge amount of nostalgia. Looking back at it now, its clear that what set Warcraft II apart was not only its very good looking graphics for its time but also the soundtrack, story/world building that was still taking baby steps in video games at that time. But also we have to be real about it and say that Warcraft II quickly aged when compared to Starcraft and Warcraft III. But for its time Warcraft II to me was much more appealing that for example Command & Conquer even though I later came to appreciate C&C as well.
The perfect gameplay So many strategies you used I would never think of.... like using a full gryphon rider army for the last stage. That one was one of the best "I'll eff you up raw" strategies I've ever seen in my life. That last level always pisses me off 😂
Cutscenes/Dialogue Opening 0:27 Ending 2:01:39 Act 1 The Shores of Lordaeron 2:24 I. Hillsbrad 4:53 II. Ambush at Tarren Mill 6:20 III. Southshore 11:56 IV. Attack on Zul'dare Act 2 Khaz Modan 19:25 V. Tol Barad 28:52 VI. Dun Algaz 35:51 VII. Grim Batol Act 3 The Northlands 45:41 VIII. Tyr's Hand 54:39 IX. The Battle at Darrowmere 57:00 X. The Prisoners 1:06:46 XI. Betrayal And The Destruction of Alterac Act 4 Return to Azeroth 1:16:41 XII. The Battle at Crestfall 1:23:28 XIII. Assault on Blackrock Spire 1:43:06 XIV. The Great Portal
I always think of having considerable amount of archers on having to defend the bases on the final mission. But yeah, all you gotta do is to build bunch of towers and hold out until you can train as many birds as you can and destroy the portal. It's really hard if you dawdle.
I have access to a variety of streaming services with a lot of high quality content, but I chose to watch a guy play WC2 for an hour...and I’m good with that.
Hahaha on the level you're supposed to avenge Lothar, I turned the speed all the way down and turned on God mode at the very beginning and Lothar survived the first attack. I slaughtered every last Orc and the level still didn't end, it was then I realized Lothar HAS to die in order for the level to end. Well played game designers, well played.
@46:00 truly the greatest footman of the whole franchise… he not only one-shot a grunt, he was able to shoot a zeppelin with a catapult-an anti-ground siege unit!
Remember playing this game before StarCraft or command an conquer lol THE BEST RTS GAME WHEN INWAS A TEENAGER!! Remember my uncle an aunt came home from block buster videos with this game!! I put it on my PlayStation lol an played it day in an day out!!! 😢😊😢😊… then yrs past that’s when starcraft came out on Nintendo 64 and feel in love with that game!!
I almost wondered if the devs should of made the last mission get a mage to the portal. But then I realized, I and most usually decimated the horde before we reached the portal lol
Love the efficiency so far - and excited to see the videos for the harder levels especially where there are limitations on gold mines and quirky paths to victory for the Human campaign vs the Orc campaign such as barriers, etc - this plays out on What to build on choices; sometimes more run through are needed for a tougher level
I only now have realized that the text in the book between the mission is actually cyrilic and it not complete gibberish: The text is English encrypted with Cyrillic letters, a simple substitution, and some phonetical consistency: цчроникал - chronicles; Лорадереон - Lordaeron; Тче баттле бегон... -The battle begins... However the substitution was clearly done by the person who dosn't speak russian using phonetic table of the russian alphabet. Here is my take on decryption as much as I could decipher the text: Цис из а цчроникал оф тце вар This is the chronicles of the war бевен тце орцс оф тче Варсонаг клан...[Hidden by dagger] possible [анд тце хуманс оф] between the orcs of the Warsong clan...[Hidden by dagger] possible [and the humans of] Лорадереон. Lordaeron. Тце орцисч чардс, лед вар...[Hidden by dagger] he orcish hordes led war [Hidden by dagger] possible[chief, Orgrim Doomhammer] ..цкчанд, че оф тче.. [Hidden by dagger]... Low confidence ..thand? che? of the..[Hidden by dagger]... Low confidence ..статед чаллчале он арм... [Hidden by dagger]... оф ..stated challenge on armies? [Hidden by dagger]... of Лорадереон Lordaeron Тче баттле бегон... The battle begins... Here is the decyphered text with relatively high degree of confidence at least in part: "This is the chronicles of the great war between the orcs of the Warsong [clan and the humans] of Lordaeron. The orcish hordes led war [chief, Orgrim Doomhammer, of the Blackrock clan], bestowed a challenge on armies of Lordaeron. The battle began..." The biggest problem of translating the "..цкчанд, че оф тче.." it he shadow of the book and dagger partiallty obsucring most of the text making it difficult to decypher. I have the feeling that I have heard some variation of this text it some decades ago somewhere in the game narration.
theres a long while since Ive seen something sharp on Internet bro... but now... seeing your work here... Im completely satisfied until 2030.. tnks a lot for that... cheers from Brazil
I had wc2 before bnet and you had to launch it through dos lol. I played this game to friggin death, and I still have fun playing it sometimes when I can handle the suffocating nostalgia.
I remember my parents allowing me to play this game whenever I got good grades. The better grades on homework I got the more time I got on the game. And if I got an a on my tests I got double time. Needless to say I had straight As for a couple years.
As long as they only remaster the graphics & cinematics, and not touch the mechanics, gameplay, or literally anything else. Something like the Age of Empires 2 re-release.
When the Elven Destroyer's said "AyeayyeyeyyeyyeSirAyeSirAyeyesirAyeyeyeyeSir"... I felt that. Played when I was a kid and have played WoW for 20 years and just realized that they actually used the same model of those ships for the elven ships in WoW. Even the sunken ones along the coast in some places have the little unicorn emblem on the sails just like the ones from WC2. Cool detail. Makes me wonder, since there's a lot of naval action Hillsbrad missions, that would explain all the sunken wrecks along the coast of hillsbrad and arathi highlands. Wonder if they did a lot more to reference the older games than I thought.
I kind of wished they brought back navy combat in Warcaft 3 but they hardly did that. Don't know why. I also wish they did make a new warcraft game and go back to an rts style and have it where you can choose each race, like Goblins, Orcs, Naga Night Elves, ect.
I was under the impression that Blizz are working on a new RTS Warcraft game? If they do, I sure hope they bring back naval combat. Kind of one thing I do love in RTS games: Amass a great army both ground and sea and then launch an attack so devastating even Death would fear.
The triple land bridge map was always my favorite. I always captured the top right gold mine, then I'd harass the bottom right horde base with ballistas, drawing their defenders out as my footmen and archers defended the ballistas. Then I'd take the mine, make another base with only a town hall for the gold, a few towers and archers defending, and build up a huge army at my main base. I'd station half of the new troops in the bottom right, behind the wall of towers and the other half in the top left. Once I had fifteen or so of the knights, ten archers and four ballistas in both areas I'd attack while I built footmen and trickled them down into the fray. By that point in the campaign I just wanted to have a massive battle so badly.
I first played this game back in my sophomore year of highschool in 1997 in computer class. I bought the cdrom after highschool amd i still have it playing it right now!
Heard they were remaking these two but obviously these games would need more work compared to wc3 as they simply just needed to upgrade the engine instead of having to remake the entire game.
Unfortunately Blizzard sold the rights to both WC1 and WC2 + expansion to GOG so even if they wanted to, they would have to either work in cooperation with GOG or buy the rights back.
It's funny how much easier the first few missions of Warcraft 2 were compared to Warcraft 1 or Starcraft... And even compared to SC2 or War3. I wonder if that was why it was so easy for so many people to get into it back in the day... I remember those first few missions very strongly, as I played it really young, must have taken me an hour to build 12 footman. lol
That last level is really difficult. The AI/Pathfinding is hopeless in this game, they always run around the long way (where enemies are), get stuck or don't go or attack where you tell them to at times.
In reality it's easy if you manage to protect your base from the oncoming dragons with guard towers. Stack of pallys and couple ballistas did the trick with the black base. It took me couple of tries to get my initial base running, but once I've figured it required towers, I was the one on the winning side.
Aah, the nostalgia! You're really taking me back. The music, the sound-clips, the visuals. The only thing that is different is the gameplay: I *never* thought of playing hyper aggressive. And I never thought of killing my combat units to free up space to build economy. Anyway, thank you so much for bringing back the memories. I feel good inside now :-)
@@USDebtCrisis I remember creating kill zones with the ballistas: is y have several of them attack the same spot, with shots landing almost immediately one after the other. The dumb AI didn't alter its attack path. There was orc meat splattered everywhere... until the death nights came, that is.
You, sir, are a monster,! I always make it my point to avoid any casualties (only as Humans, though; Greenskins are worthless, Alliance for life!), I really care about my men even if they're just a bunch of pixels. In W2 I tend to send off my seriously wounded into the safest place possible where they can be healed by paladin or, most often just wait it through untill the victory. I know that before getting paladins it's better to get them killed and replace them, but it's not my style, I just prefer to build more farms. And the only times I got innocent critter killed was when a sheep got in the way of my mage's blizzard.
Yeah, that's my style too. I keep my orc's alive too though. I like to try and get the best kill ratio possible as an added challenge, rather than speed. Not that I don't respect the talent behind a good speed run of course. I liked the to do the same in Starcraft 1 also. SC2 and W3 were all about heroes and made the player lose touch with their individual units.
finally i did it i beat last lvl. i killed everyone and everything. I just chop last trees and prepareb transports. I'll destroy the portal with each of 2 units. Including peasants. Because they all earn a piece of glory. No catapults and griffins tho, They have done enough for 5 games. your runs are like encouragements!
One of the best gameplay vids I've ever seen:
-no annoying personal intro
-no distracting overlay stuff, no commenting
-complete story, including vids
-just 100% pure focus on the game alone and good gameplay while at it
Needs more well deserved views. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I really wanna like this comment but you already have 69 likes and that's a funny number. So I'll just say I agree with your comment full heartedly.
That's because it's a walkthrough, not a let's play.
@@xFlareLeon Plenty of walthroughs with commenting
Hear hear. More relevant than ever.
Protip: start injecting "longplay" into your video game searches.
It might sound strange, but I'm tearing up right now. I used to play these games with my father when I was 10 or so, almost 2 decades ago. We used to have lan parties and I would make a bunch of goblins and go blow up his base. Watching these videos means more to me than I could ever tell you. Thank you for these.
Sounds like a made up story, but ok.
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@@noanyabizniz4333 what's wrong with you
you can get it now on GOG. It's pretty awesome.
I feel you. It's the same for me. WC2 was a big part of my childhood I will never forget.
For eliminating the Orcish Horde and destroying the Dark Portal in just 2 hours, we grant you the rank of.....CORPORAL! 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine, they gave Gavinrad the Dire the order to fortify Hilsbrad, and just a week later, they hear he closed the Dark Portal in 2 hours.
I recall getting the ranks of general and admiral in the custom game. But I don’t remember the map name. That were islands for 8 players.
The narrator...is SO FREAKING EPIC.
That's how shit was back in the beginning...
@@SimonPlays93 my generation is better in every aspect of life and society.
I played this game so much as a kid I could actually do that accent. It sounded so dramatic and awesome.
plot twist: because its totalbiscuit father
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Indeed the narrator both human and orc are so epic and the way they deliver those lines is just something else :D
Imagine if you spoke like the footman/narrator in your everyday life to your family/people at work...
Sounds just like Lewie from The Jaboody Show
Your soundcard works perfectly!
Do you deserve a raise? ..,..jobs done
Imagine if talked like a peasant...
Funny thing is someone prolly does sound like this, have to check the credits lol
Due to your position as regional commander of the southern defense force. What a way to start off the campaign!
The killing combat units at the beginning of the game, to free up food to create peons, is an strategy that I never saw, or though of before.
Oh so thats why, I was like why are they killing their own units 😂
EXECUTE ORDER 66
When the economy is more important than military infrastructure.
But yes it does speed things up.
I can't even begin to describe the level of nostalgia I'm feeling right now.
You and me both :D....there is just something about the soundtrack, the graphics and the narration (both human and orc) that made Warcraft II so iconic classic for so many. To me it was also one of the very first games I played back in 1996 when our family bought first Windows PC. Well its demo was, I actually only played the full game many, many years later but I do remember playing the demo version of Warcraft II very often :D
i feel u bro! Good times!
Today is a good day to die
No commentary. Included cutscenes and stage briefings. Excellent work.
45:45 Even as a kid, I thought that cinematic was simultaneously badass and frustrating. It was frustrating because in the game play itself, catapults CANNOT hit flying units. So strange that they put it in the cinematic.
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I felt the same about the intro of animes, specially Samurai X, it was so smooth, the rest was ok but you know what I mean
The orcs cant do it. It was a footman who pueeld the trigger 🙂
This game was one of my favorite of all time. I will never forget the sound effects and voices. My dad and I still will quote them when we are together 😂
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57:20 Escort the prisoners so they can be interogated.
57:31 *Proceeds to kill the prisoners*
"The commander said we only need four of them..."
Ah, brings me back to the summer of '96 when I played this game, blasting the epic soundtrack!
Summer of 97 for me. Good times
You blew up the Horde's main fortress after they killed our leader. RANK: SERGEANT
You destroy forever the most powerful menace that has ever desolated our entire world. RANK: CORPORAL.
RANK: DESIGNER
Today is a good day to die
RANK: CHEATER
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I was completely hooked on the demo of this game. The "annoyed" quips said things like:
"In the retail version I'm much funnier"
Holy shit, I've played the full version many, many times over the years and have almost the whole thing memorized, and yet I haven't touched or thought about the shareware of this since maybe 1996 and completely forgot about that! Time to go see if someone's uploaded some gameplay of that on here
Shoutout to the biggest unsung hero of the saga, the footman who took it upon himself to point at Khadgar where the giant swirling magical portal was so that he could destroy it. Presumably without his efforts Khadgar would have starved to death looking for it fruitlessly.
And as id that werent enough, that knight is the player themselves, pointing the cursor and spamming the blizzard hotkey
You know, I was proud to beat the last mission of ToW on the human campaign. I got rekt so many times the game threw me a bone and stopped the black death knights run by. Then I see you and my confidence plummets more than a griffin flying through 9 death knights with full mana
But truly: this is fing amazing. Never knew that SUCH hyper aggression would be so effective (though only if one got the skill to pull it off, I only managed to pull it off with naval combat). The gameplay and especially the timing in such a fast-paced game is truly out of this world. Maybe I'm late to the party but I will start watching and will continue so (also the fact that there is no commentary, the game is fullscreen and the story parts are not skipped (bloody love than narrators in W2) and no corny intro or part to "like sub and bell" is a breath of fresh air). I will be very interested in further Blizzard speedruns (especially if you plan to do W3) :)
Death knights hate being seen by flying machines. Once you've gotten your colony stabilized with anti-dragon defense and you're ready to build gryphons, build a couple of flying machines and station them right next to black's ogres and farms. The death knights won't pass under them to hit your colony, and they won't whirlwind them if they're above enemy units. That will give you the freedom to destroy white (or patiently wait for white to run out of gold) and then come back to take out black at your leisure. Use lots of polymorph and exorcism if you're taking the non-speedrun, kill all enemy units while taking minimum casualties approach.
@@andrewvanatta1569 Yeah, minimum casualties was the way I played. Took forever but I did my utmost to lose as few as possible, lol.
I got wrecked trying the ork campaign of beyond the dark portal got a decent way through though up to the mission where you get spammed with dragons after a few minutes
who else put the game disk in a cd player just to listen to these amazing tracks?
we also used to replace the speech sound files with clips of dialogue from movies. when you clicked on a knight it might be arney saying "come with me if you want to live", when it died "ill be back".
awesome yours had surely an lot of fun back these time
There was an editor for the Warcraft II binary file.
One could change color palette and tiles and alot of other things. Most of the time you ended up breaking the game and it wouldn't start.
I remember putting in a midi-file from Heretic into it, having Heretic music playing during gameplay, but it kind of broke the war2 atmosphere 😂
Back in the days of the initial wave of War2 modding, people were all about replacing the unit voices with Monty Python and the Holy Grail soundbites. And Army of Darkness. It was standard.
Replacing the human death noise with "RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!" was absolutely horrendous but we insisted on it.
I remember well first time hit a wall in mission 6. Dun Algaz, when I found that while I CAN defeat the orcs, I waste too much troops and resourses, and gold mine expire before I can finish the mission. Thus I learned micromanagement and accurate usage of small unit groups, not just attack-move clicking and refilling the loses.
Same with me tho it was my brother. I thinks he ended up losing bc of the tower on the far left and then when I wasn’t looking(went to get lunch or something) he reloaded the game and used the cheat codes to beat the level. But I learned you have to beat levels faster to make them easier. The less decisive you are in attacking, the more wasted resources you have and more likely you get overrun or you run out of resources.
Man the sound track was great
yup, i used to put the game disk in my cd player and listen to the tracks that way lol.
"There's a minor peasant uprising!"
*literally 6 peasants the knights come in and slaughter in 5 seconds*
Dirty little peasants don't need to learn their place if they're dead.
I remember playing the mission back in the day made me feel more like an oppressor than all the Orc missions I've done. Probably taxes are high because of the war and their brother was drafted to the army and then killed by the commander so that more peasants can be sent to the mines. But of course... send in the knights. All in white as well...
@@AnnaBenIsraelAnd they wonder why Alterac sided with the Horde!
@@ivankuzin8388you and the person above don't seem to realize Alterac was working with the horde from the beginning, no action from the alliance caused Alterac to betray the alliance. The elf ambush, peasant rebellion and the Alterac sailors helping the orc fleet was all Alterac's doing.
@@Vendrix86 its a joke.
Damn, that last human level! I can keep the dragons at bay; it's the death knights that crush me. Not sure why they left you alone.
Back when the knights looked badass.
in w3 are badaas
@@tassadar9623 look like crap comparing to W2....
@@Igorsov 100% this. I was pretty disappointed with the cartooney overwork of the design style and concept for majority of the units in WC3 over WC2.
@@Volkaer Hey, I love their mustache and lack of eyes
@@Volkaer wc3 was fine, reforged was god awful
Youve destroyed the entire army of evil and sealed the portal, trapping the vile hoard forever beyond reach of our lands.
Youve collected more gold, produced more lumber and food for the war effort, trained and raised more effective, merciless troops than any ten generals in a 5th of the time.
We promote you!
To Corporal!
Thanks Stu for your help on the last level here - the guinea pig route of using dwarven demolition teams and going after 15 k mine; doing shipyard, collecting oil , risking transport kills from dragons, going to right ; demolition team again to go past narrow point by orc fortress, and then build at 70 k - all totally mitigated with you making Griffons !! And using 6 towers around gold mines - no archers - wow Stu - can't wait to play this level again and actually win this time and play BTDP for human campaign; your efficiencies, and choices are simply amazing !! And a prior level using 9 griffon Averies with second assault with knights - genius !! No pesky death knight whirlwinds gonna stop you Stu !!
I have to say that's one hell of powerful mission briefing narration
the kind of streaming I like to see. Just playing the game as best as you can. Thanks for not sharing your opinions of latte while you played. cheers bud
Still getting the goosebumps from the early blizzard logo and game menu.
Oh how does he make the creation of four farms and a barracks so cool and epic.
I love the end of Dun Algaz.
"work completed" VICTORY
I really love the super dramatic and badass intermission narration and music :D
“Your sound card works perfectly”
Ah I remember that
I remember as a kid I thought that was THE proper English :D (English is a second language to me)
The nostalgia!
I really loved the cartoony aspect of these old games and the voice acting is just 😙🤌 (chef's kiss)
READY TO SUURRVE
...wait you think THIS is cartoony? have you seen wc3? wc2 > wc3
“You will be able to employ knights..”
Builds only footmen.
I hope that they do an HD remake of Warcraft 2. Happy that they are doing an HD remake for Warcraft 3 but I would much prefer 2.
There will undoubtedly be people who use the world editor to recreate the Warcraft 2 campaign. They already have it for the original warcraft 3. Sadly, that is probably the closest we will get to remakes of Warcraft 2.
@@NotARussianDisinfoBot Never say never... they are doing a re-release of WC2 on GOG at some point in the near future, not sure if it's a full HD remake or just a version that's W10 compatible... but it's still possible!
@@NotARussianDisinfoBot the wc2 campaign is already fully made for wc3. its basically same gameplay
I started remaking the full game with HD sprite, any-resolution compatible and multiplateform some years ago, and I finished the main graphic engine, but it is quite the work. Fortunately, the campaign map files specifications are available, so no remaking the entire scenario scripts. Maybe I'll find the time to restart the project and put it on open source if people want to contribute.
WARCRAFT REMASTERED WAS A FAILURE! FUCK ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
Khadgar's face is the same as the King of Lordaeron in the final cutscene of the Orc campaign. XD
In Starcraft, the face of Lester (the "I love you, sarge!" Terran) was also used for Admiral DuGalle of the UED fleet in Brood War. Back when Blizzard could be forgiven for cutting corners. XD
Back when the continuity wasn't a twisted mess.
I personally blame Burning Crusade.
Warcraft 3 changed things around a little bit, by making the Orcs noble and the humans despicable, but it was not a huge departure from the lore set down in the first two games. Even the base game of World of Warcraft built off of what came before it in WC2 and 3.
Burning Crusade started the trend of retconning everything at the drop of the hat. Illidan? Yeah he’s not dead. Silvermoon and the Sunwell? Still around. Outland? Still inhabitable. Those rotten walking whale-creature afterthoughts we called Draenei? Now they’re blue and hot, and they look like demons. Elves? They’re with the Horde now. Wrath, for as much as I love it, is guilty of this too; so it was TBC where the trend that has made Warcraft lore a mess got its infernal beginning.
I love the Alliance in Warcraft 2
The humans are seafarer from coastal fortresses
The elves are from the arctic forests far in the north.
The dwarves live in the mountaintops amidst griffons.
And I love the design of their buildings too.
Honestly it makes me want to retcon everything after warcraft 2 and continue on this particular lore. But maybe I'm just old.
Edit: God, even mentioning it makes my imagination run wild.
An RTS with the Alliance faction being really good at infrastructure, able to retire soldier back to peons to farm, mine, and cut wood, leading to a strong economy but relatively weak army until properly upgraded. And a Horde made of powerful units but unable to sustain a strong economy because peons are beneath contempt, having to rely on raids and capturing enemy's infrastructure in order to build up momentum.
I'm absolutely sure it's a bad idea xD, but yeah... A Warcraft 2.1, exploring the further conflict between orcs and humans, perhaps keeping the demonic involvement, but dropping things like Deathwing becoming such a huge deal, and demons being aliens from space.
your comment is very touching!
For as much as I really loved warcraft 3, I felt warcraft 2 was warcraft lore at its peak. Warcraft 3 the lore became more comical, while warcraft 2 lore was more dark and serious.
I also like the fantasy that either the horde won or that alliance won, none of this overarching storyline stuff.
The best part of early warcraft lore was that orcs were truly monsters with a goal was wiping out humans for their territory rather than innocent beings corrupted by the demons..
back when blizzard was a respected video game company
Not sure why, but this is so relaxing to
me... maybe it’s the nostalgia aspect ? Not sure, but it’s great.
The player's efficiency probably helps. There's nothing to stress over when it's clear they know what they are doing.
"Amazing... the water in the intro sequence is so fluently animated. It is as if you can simply reach out and your hand will get wet.
And the flames aswell. Astonishing "
I was astonished back in the day :D
Normal people : to destroy orcs cities, i'm gonna invade them with too many soldiers
Stu : I build farms and barracks in the city to destroy them...
That's what I used to do. The frustrating thing about the first game was you could only build your outpost in one side of the map. You have to send your troops all the way across the map sometimes to invade the enemy. In this game you can build wherever you want as long as its not too close to a mine. I'd just replace the Orc shit with Human stuff making the end of the level look pretty funny.
I wouldn't want to be in your army. You kill them!!! Lol
LOL! Yes.
In the words of the Alliance's Footmen after you click them so many times...
""Join the army", they say. "See the world", they say."
such a great game for its time. Brings back the memories
Indeed, Warcraft II was one of the very first games I played....well its demo version that is :D
I was playing it at the age of 7, not understanding English at all but there was something about its world, its tone and graphics that just hit me and even today gives huge amount of nostalgia.
Looking back at it now, its clear that what set Warcraft II apart was not only its very good looking graphics for its time but also the soundtrack, story/world building that was still taking baby steps in video games at that time. But also we have to be real about it and say that Warcraft II quickly aged when compared to Starcraft and Warcraft III. But for its time Warcraft II to me was much more appealing that for example Command & Conquer even though I later came to appreciate C&C as well.
@@Balnazzardi couldn't have said it better myself
damn, the AI might be suffering from PTSD after that game, superb
Those Footmen have epic moustache
Real men, real Warcraft. Man the story, the sound, the music and the art all made sense
Sam Elliots
The perfect gameplay
So many strategies you used I would never think of.... like using a full gryphon rider army for the last stage. That one was one of the best "I'll eff you up raw" strategies I've ever seen in my life. That last level always pisses me off 😂
Cutscenes/Dialogue
Opening 0:27
Ending 2:01:39
Act 1 The Shores of Lordaeron
2:24 I. Hillsbrad
4:53 II. Ambush at Tarren Mill
6:20 III. Southshore
11:56 IV. Attack on Zul'dare
Act 2 Khaz Modan
19:25 V. Tol Barad
28:52 VI. Dun Algaz
35:51 VII. Grim Batol
Act 3 The Northlands
45:41 VIII. Tyr's Hand
54:39 IX. The Battle at Darrowmere
57:00 X. The Prisoners
1:06:46 XI. Betrayal And The Destruction of Alterac
Act 4 Return to Azeroth
1:16:41 XII. The Battle at Crestfall
1:23:28 XIII. Assault on Blackrock Spire
1:43:06 XIV. The Great Portal
Act I is titled “The Shores of Lordaeron”.
@@LG65 👍
Wow, was not ready for the nostalgia hit this brought me...
I always think of having considerable amount of archers on having to defend the bases on the final mission. But yeah, all you gotta do is to build bunch of towers and hold out until you can train as many birds as you can and destroy the portal. It's really hard if you dawdle.
I have access to a variety of streaming services with a lot of high quality content, but I chose to watch a guy play WC2 for an hour...and I’m good with that.
I can’t count the times I’ve played this game and the narrator… wow, he has never been matched in any game
Hahaha on the level you're supposed to avenge Lothar, I turned the speed all the way down and turned on God mode at the very beginning and Lothar survived the first attack. I slaughtered every last Orc and the level still didn't end, it was then I realized Lothar HAS to die in order for the level to end. Well played game designers, well played.
Knight: For the kiiiing...
@46:00 truly the greatest footman of the whole franchise… he not only one-shot a grunt, he was able to shoot a zeppelin with a catapult-an anti-ground siege unit!
I remember playing this when I was a kid. Wow, ty for the video.
I've always thought the peasants look like Tim Allen
Lmao
Haha now that you say that...
I used to be addicted to playing this game. I’d kill to play this again.
Bro, there's a remaster out.
@@thecatillaccat yeah I know now. I bought it. Thank God
Oh, sweet memories of my childhood
Holy hell. I remember the sounds and the shapes of the buildings mostly. This used to stress me out as a 10-12 yr old. Crazy crazy
Remember playing this game before StarCraft or command an conquer lol THE BEST RTS GAME WHEN INWAS A TEENAGER!! Remember my uncle an aunt came home from block buster videos with this game!! I put it on my PlayStation lol an played it day in an day out!!! 😢😊😢😊… then yrs past that’s when starcraft came out on Nintendo 64 and feel in love with that game!!
Always loved that deep “for the king” from the knights when they received orders 😂
I almost wondered if the devs should of made the last mission get a mage to the portal. But then I realized, I and most usually decimated the horde before we reached the portal lol
Love the efficiency so far - and excited to see the videos for the harder levels especially where there are limitations on gold mines and quirky paths to victory for the Human campaign vs the Orc campaign such as barriers, etc - this plays out on What to build on choices; sometimes more run through are needed for a tougher level
By far my favorite in this series
That was the first stategy game i ever played and this is always an awesome game even to this day !
That dragon attacking you at the end only helped with destroying the portal faster~
I only now have realized that the text in the book between the mission is actually cyrilic and it not complete gibberish: The text is English encrypted with Cyrillic letters, a simple substitution, and some phonetical consistency: цчроникал - chronicles; Лорадереон - Lordaeron; Тче баттле бегон... -The battle begins... However the substitution was clearly done by the person who dosn't speak russian using phonetic table of the russian alphabet.
Here is my take on decryption as much as I could decipher the text:
Цис из а цчроникал оф тце вар
This is the chronicles of the war
бевен тце орцс оф тче Варсонаг клан...[Hidden by dagger] possible [анд тце хуманс оф]
between the orcs of the Warsong clan...[Hidden by dagger] possible [and the humans of]
Лорадереон.
Lordaeron.
Тце орцисч чардс, лед вар...[Hidden by dagger]
he orcish hordes led war [Hidden by dagger] possible[chief, Orgrim Doomhammer]
..цкчанд, че оф тче.. [Hidden by dagger]... Low confidence
..thand? che? of the..[Hidden by dagger]... Low confidence
..статед чаллчале он арм... [Hidden by dagger]... оф
..stated challenge on armies? [Hidden by dagger]... of
Лорадереон
Lordaeron
Тче баттле бегон...
The battle begins...
Here is the decyphered text with relatively high degree of confidence at least in part:
"This is the chronicles of the great war between the orcs of the Warsong [clan and the humans] of Lordaeron.
The orcish hordes led war [chief, Orgrim Doomhammer, of the Blackrock clan],
bestowed a challenge on armies of Lordaeron.
The battle began..."
The biggest problem of translating the "..цкчанд, че оф тче.." it he shadow of the book and dagger partiallty obsucring most of the text making it difficult to decypher. I have the feeling that I have heard some variation of this text it some decades ago somewhere in the game narration.
theres a long while since Ive seen something sharp on Internet bro... but now... seeing your work here... Im completely satisfied until 2030.. tnks a lot for that... cheers from Brazil
I had wc2 before bnet and you had to launch it through dos lol. I played this game to friggin death, and I still have fun playing it sometimes when I can handle the suffocating nostalgia.
You've done the Alliance Justice!!
That was a nice little nostalgia hit. Thanks for the video
I remember my parents allowing me to play this game whenever I got good grades. The better grades on homework I got the more time I got on the game. And if I got an a on my tests I got double time. Needless to say I had straight As for a couple years.
Класс, самое мощное прохождение последнего уровня, что я видел. Теперь он кажется намного легче, чем раньше.
7:19 lol, you're a monster
Sealclubbing, alliance style.
Now this game should be remastered!!
As long as they only remaster the graphics & cinematics, and not touch the mechanics, gameplay, or literally anything else. Something like the Age of Empires 2 re-release.
rembers of Vietnam wars
Shits so addicting to watch. Was even more addicting to play as a kid.
When the Elven Destroyer's said "AyeayyeyeyyeyyeSirAyeSirAyeyesirAyeyeyeyeSir"...
I felt that.
Played when I was a kid and have played WoW for 20 years and just realized that they actually used the same model of those ships for the elven ships in WoW. Even the sunken ones along the coast in some places have the little unicorn emblem on the sails just like the ones from WC2. Cool detail.
Makes me wonder, since there's a lot of naval action Hillsbrad missions, that would explain all the sunken wrecks along the coast of hillsbrad and arathi highlands. Wonder if they did a lot more to reference the older games than I thought.
1:24:15
When I was a kid, one of my favorite accomplishments was keeping Lothar alive via "it is a good day to die"
I kind of wished they brought back navy combat in Warcaft 3 but they hardly did that. Don't know why. I also wish they did make a new warcraft game and go back to an rts style and have it where you can choose each race, like Goblins, Orcs, Naga Night Elves, ect.
I was under the impression that Blizz are working on a new RTS Warcraft game? If they do, I sure hope they bring back naval combat. Kind of one thing I do love in RTS games: Amass a great army both ground and sea and then launch an attack so devastating even Death would fear.
The triple land bridge map was always my favorite. I always captured the top right gold mine, then I'd harass the bottom right horde base with ballistas, drawing their defenders out as my footmen and archers defended the ballistas. Then I'd take the mine, make another base with only a town hall for the gold, a few towers and archers defending, and build up a huge army at my main base. I'd station half of the new troops in the bottom right, behind the wall of towers and the other half in the top left. Once I had fifteen or so of the knights, ten archers and four ballistas in both areas I'd attack while I built footmen and trickled them down into the fray. By that point in the campaign I just wanted to have a massive battle so badly.
I was born the year this game came out and I’m the second child in my family. Warcraft 2 and i have a lot in common ❤️
i am excited they just announced it on gog now congrats on 1k subs
Great walkthrough!
Great walkthrough! Thankyou!
Loved the systematic way every sheep has been slayed
I first played this game back in my sophomore year of highschool in 1997 in computer class. I bought the cdrom after highschool amd i still have it playing it right now!
Wish they would remaster this and wc1 instead of wc3.
Why noth trilogy remake tho? ^^
Heard they were remaking these two but obviously these games would need more work compared to wc3 as they simply just needed to upgrade the engine instead of having to remake the entire game.
Done
Someone did make a WC1-in-WC3 campaign remake with original narration on mission briefings, so there's that.
Unfortunately Blizzard sold the rights to both WC1 and WC2 + expansion to GOG so even if they wanted to, they would have to either work in cooperation with GOG or buy the rights back.
That last mission where you attacked with all the gryphons was fucking SICK when i was a kid that mission took me 3 days
It's funny how much easier the first few missions of Warcraft 2 were compared to Warcraft 1 or Starcraft... And even compared to SC2 or War3. I wonder if that was why it was so easy for so many people to get into it back in the day... I remember those first few missions very strongly, as I played it really young, must have taken me an hour to build 12 footman. lol
That OST is just insane
Your sound card works perfectly!!
That last level is really difficult. The AI/Pathfinding is hopeless in this game, they always run around the long way (where enemies are), get stuck or don't go or attack where you tell them to at times.
In reality it's easy if you manage to protect your base from the oncoming dragons with guard towers. Stack of pallys and couple ballistas did the trick with the black base. It took me couple of tries to get my initial base running, but once I've figured it required towers, I was the one on the winning side.
Aah, the nostalgia! You're really taking me back. The music, the sound-clips, the visuals. The only thing that is different is the gameplay: I *never* thought of playing hyper aggressive. And I never thought of killing my combat units to free up space to build economy.
Anyway, thank you so much for bringing back the memories. I feel good inside now :-)
You pretty much have to play aggressively or you just get your head stomped by bloodlusted ogres
@@USDebtCrisis I remember creating kill zones with the ballistas: is y have several of them attack the same spot, with shots landing almost immediately one after the other. The dumb AI didn't alter its attack path. There was orc meat splattered everywhere... until the death nights came, that is.
You, sir, are a monster,! I always make it my point to avoid any casualties (only as Humans, though; Greenskins are worthless, Alliance for life!), I really care about my men even if they're just a bunch of pixels. In W2 I tend to send off my seriously wounded into the safest place possible where they can be healed by paladin or, most often just wait it through untill the victory. I know that before getting paladins it's better to get them killed and replace them, but it's not my style, I just prefer to build more farms.
And the only times I got innocent critter killed was when a sheep got in the way of my mage's blizzard.
Same here and I like to destroy every orcish thing on the map, down with the horde!
+Smok I can tell you sir, that as a Footman, I would be rather under your command, than under one, that is in this video.
Yeah, that's my style too. I keep my orc's alive too though. I like to try and get the best kill ratio possible as an added challenge, rather than speed. Not that I don't respect the talent behind a good speed run of course. I liked the to do the same in Starcraft 1 also. SC2 and W3 were all about heroes and made the player lose touch with their individual units.
Odd. I guess I needed this. Thanks.
How did you have basically no death knights attack you in the last level?
this is the best RTS game ever made my goodness!
It's a great video to remind me of my old time. Thank you
Your description says orc campaign if no one else has pointed that out yet.
finally i did it i beat last lvl. i killed everyone and everything. I just chop last trees and prepareb transports. I'll destroy the portal with each of 2 units. Including peasants. Because they all earn a piece of glory. No catapults and griffins tho, They have done enough for 5 games. your runs are like encouragements!