I miss old Warcraft. I mean Warcraft 1 and 2. Not that crap in WoW. No sunshine and rainbows, just brutality and hardcore

30 years. Damn we're old

28:33 i think it was the troll and the Griselda icon was based around that unit

Well made!

I really like the crispness of War 2's unit design, but War 1 was really quite neat in terms of design too. Everything stood out in its own way. My favourite thing, though, is the differences. Just having the crossbowman able to shoot a bit farther, but do less damage? That was nice. I also fondly remember playing around with War 1's unit stat editor. Made Demons and Water Elementals last forever, stuff like that. I wonder what can be done with that nowadays.

Yes my Lord..

Hey, thanks for this great video! I'm a longtime WoW player but I've never really laid eyes on Warcraft 1 beyond the intro movie. This game has held up surprisingly well graphically, it just looks like a cute little indie RTS... which, I suppose, it was. The music is fantastic, too, reminds me of Worms. Your narration style is really clear and concise, I appreciated how you were nostalgic yet remained mindful of those of us who aren't familiar with the game. Great stuff!

Loved the RTS version. Hahaha famous terms i still remember is rush, scout, power level, wall in with ballista, 21 knight rush. Really loved this mate.

Warcraft 1 orcs and humans who started it all!!! I never played Warcraft the first or the second :( and I also read a KZbin comment from a user who said the following...Classic Warcraft is dark fantasy, real Warcraft is... Tell me? You as a player or connoisseur? of warcraft do you think what the user's comment said is right? I don't speak English, I'm from Latin America, Argentina xd...

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The "raise more funds" bit is almost ironically a cute relic of its times, the in-universe narration telling you to pay Blizzard for the full game to continue. Now Blizzard IRL has become that way themselves (and are owned by companies who're even worse than that yet). I personally started with Warcraft 2, sure, but 1 has its own charm of course. Definitely can feel how the soundtrack, for one, takes you to that pioneering era, you can feel its kinship with Dune and C&C but also can feel the beginnings of the tone that'll become signature to Warcraft.

I'm hungry

This was a good watch

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And they say modern games are expensive

I finally caught up on the series!

Well that was anti climactic. For the scourge 💀

I forgot to include Archimonde's subtitles in the final cinematic, so here you go! Archimonde: "Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own. Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now they shall be consumed by very flame they thought to control. Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."

There sadly isn't really anything to say about this mission like the rest of the Undead campaign, it's just a defense missions I guess the way the mission is laid out could be interesting but it's mostly just waves of enemies

Kel'Thuzad: "Wait wait wait, I need to put on my green dress!" Looks better in it too. Also, that exchange at the beginning is a good set up for the reveal that Tichondrius is really really quite wrong, and Kel'Thuzad is right.

That move with the goblin land mines was insane! 👏

Also actually quite looking forward to some WC1 content too! With 2 campaigns down, it'll be a nice change of pace to see something else before the big run resumes. That aside, though, would be also cool to see some completionist revisits for any secrets and such that we may've missed in the missions so far (if we missed any).

The bit of Archimonde scratching his chin and making a realization face has criminally underused reaction image and gif potential. Only seen it used a scant few times, for shame. I always wished there were more traces left of all the fun that happened in Dalaran. I mean, the Archimonde summoning must've left a mark there, as did all the fighting before and since, all the undead bases etc. That's one thing I definitely disagreed with in vanilla WoW, ruins of Dalaran should've been their own zone or subzone comparable in style to the Plaguewood or Isle of Thunder from MoP. No-one can convince me the smattering of townhouse ruins and a tiny islet that got airborne later was all that Dalaran amounted to, WC3 and TFT made it look like a giant metropolis no smaller than Lordaeron at least. Side interesting note, Archimonde is not technically speaking in gibberish tongues, but normal Demonic, with some Eredun style. Obviously it's all made up and not a functioning language, just like Orcish, but all the lines he says mean something. IIRC there was a captioned version of the cinematic. Surprisingly I don't think I ever struggled with this mission - then again, I played on normal difficulty :P. It did, at least, feel like you were fighting the human faction at their best, and the final "throw literally everything at you" last two-minute rush is both good for setting up a climactic final grand showdown with actual risk of losing at the last moment (and feeling like the humans are taking it seriously at least), and gives you a good reason for trying to take out the bases beforehand, to help reduce the final wave if you're having issues beating it. I find it is pretty well-balanced, not a cakewalk yet also friendly enough to the player as opposed to stomping you into the ground right away. I almost wish there was a little more to do with the Legion though, like a couple Pit Lords warping in to help ward off a final (beefed up) giant assault. A final exclamation point to the campaign showing that, yes, the demons are taking over, and to show off their awesome power without having them win the mission for you. P.S. I find it funny that the demons spawning in around Kel'thuzad have a holy-looking effect to the animation. P.P.S. Perhaps engineering the intelligent Scourge like Arthas and Kel'thuzad with utmost loyalty to the Lich King specifically, then taking the Scourge away from the Lich King, was not the smartest part of the plan. You could argue this was the spanner in the works that helped the Legion's eventual loss notably, given how Arthas later performs regarding Tichondrius.

This mission is great buildup for "big bad" and great end for Undead campaign. Too bad we don't get to play around with Kel'Thuzad, I think previous mission and one level from FT are only times we get to drop D&D on some fools. For such important character he get shockingly no game time. [edit] Oh wow, Anniversary stuff! Yeah, it's great place to pause, story of WC III does the same (we're pretty much done with Lorderon plot for while), I actually wonder if you would make something about changes Reforged made to Silvermoon? [edit 2] Is it me or Archimonde have 8-pointed Chaos star from Warhammer on his skull-belt?

I forgot to mention, but the Felhounds (Fel Stalkers in TFT) can stop Sorceresses, Priests & Archmages with Mana Burn to prevent them from casting spells

this is the hardest Undead mission, as you have to build many Ziggurats & 1 Necropolis in the top & right, but the hardest waves are the Sorceresses with Polymorph, Steam Tanks, Gyrocopters, Gryphon Riders & Knights, train Meat Wagons to counter Steam Tanks, have Necromancers reach Master Training to get Cripple, while Banshees must reach Master Training to give your Banshees Anti-Magic shell to protect your units from being Polymorphed & possessing Sorceress, Priests & Knights

Huh, that's impressive stuff. Definitely a bit of a Diablo 1 feel to it with the warrior-style character.

Would be more fun to watch without you talking.

Summoning skeletons is cute gimmick in base game, but with FT additional units and research it is pretty reliable strategy if one let UD setup meat wagons, statues and necros to just continuously flood enemy base with skellyboys. Even Dispel/Sprites have limited use. 33:33 classic Reforged.

I like unit unlocking progression in Undead Campaign. Mission 1: best scout (shade), best worker/gatherer units (no, really, Acolyte and Ghouls are top tier units), taste of summoning shenanigans that about to come (skeletons). Mission 2: WAR CRIMES ON WHEELS. I'm surprised UD don't get Crypt Fiends here.

Lil' MickCraft at 3 A.M. : Yes... I'll be keeping awake up everyone and everything, and I still feel no remorse. No shame. No pity. Once again, congrats! I really like this mission. If Acolytes had names I bet there are some that would call no. 15... Timmy. Classic Timmy, getting stuck into into bandits trap (they didn't have a cage that would fit him, so they just put some fishing net on him).