Warcraft 2 Campaign!! - Revisiting One of My 1st RTSs | WC2 P1

This was one of the games that started it all!! Before Elden Ring comes out and consumes my entire existence, I decided to take a trip down memory lane and do the Warcraft 2 Campaign!
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[@Dragoonkain101]

“My brother and I played so much Warcraft 2 as a kid…” Sean and Nick confirmed as a previous child archon

[@busbee247]

its like you take turns playing the game and watching the other play the game. when you arent playing you're backseating. thats why sean doesnt mind backseating in this game. nick was backseating constantly

[@alexanderjmihalich8525]

As a low skill rts player, audio overlap wasn't a bug it was a feature. I remember games as a kid that were just a battery of things that animated when you click on them, so it was a positive that you could intentionally spam voicelines for the effect

[@cubandarknez]

As a kid, the red and white grey of the orc buildings just looked like a bunch of candy cane decorations to me.

[@yankee1112]

Yes! I got this game handed to me by my dad after a painful orthodontist visit in ‘95. So many good memories. Can’t wait to watch this whole series!

[@redwings13400]

So fun fact about warcraft 2 that I didn't know until I played through a bunch of challenge runs last year: Saving and reloading completely destroys the AI in this game. It just... makes the AI behave super weirdly, changes their attack patterns completely, makes them often stop training new units, changes their upgrade decisions, and often makes them forget to chop lumber. It's a little ridiculous that I never noticed this as a kid, but I guess the AI just breaks in other ways often enough that it felt normal enough to me. Its also not a consistent glitch, as it has different effects depending on where the AI currently is in their script, and reloading a save a second time can change the AI to new modes. It also doesn't completely turn off the AI, just makes them... weird, so it's not always super obvious.

[@RealmRabbit]

46:34 Makes me think of Age of Empires 1 since I remember I had this strategy... 1. Find a large forest. 2. Chop down a narrow path that ideally curves around deep through the forest. 3. Chop down a clearing deep in the center of the forest. (Can also use catapults for clearing things out). Make sure not to create any new entrances into the center accidentally. 4. Build a base deep in the middle of the forest. 5. The enemy will be so perplexed by what is going on that it'll be a long time before they find your secret base. I also had it in Warcraft 3 where in the human campaign where you're defending a city being attacked from 3 directions I'd just build houses and stuff on the long road behind the city I was meant to defend... And like, there I would basically win the game because I would be hanging out with a few units as the undead destroyed everything... And I'd just be praying that they didn't find me before Uther arrived to save the day... Legit just like one peasant or something hiding out in the back... And then when Uther does arrive he's like "GOOD JOB ARTHAS! YOU DEFENDED THE VILLAGE!" and I'm just thinking "Don't lie to me Uther..."

[@jdpietersma]

Best sound track ever. Used to listen to it as a kid, still do as an adult. So good.

[@DyceFreak]

The DOS version in particular since you had your choice between CD audio and nostalgic SoundBlaster MIDI.

[@SilverKnightPCs]

Hey I love it so much I got it on vinyl. Kind of a rare vinyl to come by too. Warcraft 2 is my favorite RTS

[@joshuahensley9395]

having just played SC1 again there so much of that same feel, thinking about the tristram theme too, old blizzard had such amazing music

[@Jekubman]

I used the "disco" cheat so often to get the special track to play.

[@SilverKnightPCs]

@@Jekubman ironically enough a version of Mechanical Man from C&C.

[@MrMacMan23]

I know the original experience hits the nostalgia, but even for 30 minutes I’d love for you to try chronicles of the second war which is an amazing Warcraft 3 remastered full conversion of Warcraft 2.

[@clearlypellucid]

1:05:24 The corpses were a mild resource in 2, also. Death Knights could raise them as really bad skeletons, lol.

[@duelisticnature6901]

You're an absolute hero for playing this! After a day of insufferable project management hassle in the healthcare sector. This is a gem!

[@UberZackson1]

I can't believe that Day9 and I had the same "first RTS" experience in the form of Warcraft II. Day9 says how nostalgic it is for him to be playing it and all I can think is "Oh yeah. Me, too." This game was, quite literally, my childhood and just seeing the missions and the maps again makes me so nostalgic.

[@citizenhal]

You can’t believe that a gamer, who you’re watching because you also like games, grew up playing the same very popular RTS game that you did? I can believe it, it seems highly probable.

[@UberZackson1]

@@citizenhal I always thought of Warcraft II as the clunky beginning of the Warcraft series (though, of course, I know about Warcraft I.) I always thought that if anyone would play the Blizzard RTS', Warcraft II would be skipped in favor of Warcraft III or the Starcraft games. I also do know that Day9 has played these games, and I have watched them, but, like I said, I didn't expect him to play Warcraft II because, prior to watching this video, I didn't know he loved it so much. I didn't think anyone would want to play Warcraft II. That's my logic. But thank you for the passive aggression.

[@Iptqwerty]

Having never played the game, I never once realized that the hearthstone matchmaking music was actually from WC2!

[@Jackie54Fresh]

The nostalgia is overwhelming. We only had one computer in the house. My older brother played the human campaign when it was his turn on the computer. I played the orcs during my turn. So many memories.

[@jermwork-c3r]

such nostalgia for this game. the music was awesome. it didn't take itself too serious. it was so much fun

[@panbaiye]

Popping the compact disk in the the CD player and cranking your sound system to max gives you the largest goosebumbs

[@fifthofascalante7311]

I was a little too young when this came out and didn’t speak English yet. StarCraft was the game of my childhood. This was my dad’s fav game. And yet the look and sound of it has stayed with me. I think it’s one of the most beautiful games ever. All of the sprites are so colourful, memorable and clear! Chris Metzens sketches are gorgeous. The music I still listen to when I want to get pumped in the shower.

[@YorenSt]

Same, brother! Warcraft was the first game I remember playing at like 3 or 4 years old on my dad's PC. Warcraft and Heroes 3, LEGENDS of games.

[@Takeshita_Sakakaki]

warcraft 2 music in the shower is crazy i'm proud of you

[@Pidgey650]

Wow this brings me back!!! I remember my older brother getting me into this! Always playing together on the weekends and building my own maps

[@jashuaaltig6058]

My dad gave me this game (i still have the actual discs) the minuet i learned how to read. The core memories I have of playing the campaign and then later on against my mom and my dad in a 1v1v1 deathmatch multiplayer game...ended up being my mother who absolutely wrecked face. I'm not sure how she managed it because to this day when i replay the missions i cant, managed to reach GOD rank before the end of the game. Id pay full price for a remaster of Warcraft 2 and its expansion, without QOL improvements of course. The amount of times ive had to hit restart campaign because i couldnt win due to resource attrition made me realize that you have to be VERY conscious of how you play each one. You could really screw yourself early on if you dont plan accordingly.

[@Helbovie]

So much nostalgia I love it. This game was my first intro into RTS games. StarCraft and AOE shortly followed. Opened up such fun worlds of gaming at such a young age. Have to thank my dad who always had a computer and was loaded up with floppy disks and CDs of 80s-90s games.

[@MadsFeierskov]

I spent so much time in the sound editor for the game just playing all the different sounds and voice lines. Pure nostalgia to watch this.

[@DosboxLetsPlay]

Funny thing about orc mission 6 is that you can just rush all the way to the end past enemy units with your main guy and win it as you are slightly faster than everything else.

[@Seiceros]

You've been one of my favorite streamers since about the time this game was still popular :) Crazy that you're still going strong. Loving watching you play whatever games you feel like and hearing your takes on them. This is a good era

[@blu1mpact]

I recently discovered you as streamer through the WoW videos and I already love watching your content! ♥

[@marklanfier8287]

I still remember all the cheat codes. glittering prizes make it so every little thing she does deck me out it is a good day to die I can type “it is a good day to die” fast enough to save “Lord lorthar” on the flying stage. The next stage still says “Lord lothare is dead”.

[@bruinfan05]

1:32 so nostalgic I could cry

[@1000DeadFlies]

The manuals for these games were amazing. Used to collect them there were unfortunately all destroyed in a basement flood but man they were cool

[@zaloisofsantiago2589]

Really hope Day9tv continues playing WoW and also finds things in WoW that give him the “Oh hey I remember that thing in WCII!!” Or “I remember that place I destroyed!!!” lol

[@Draffut2003]

I was 10 when this dropped. Playing over a 56k connection was wild.

[@j.t.8848]

Sure was. I remember for a few summers all I did was play this online and download a segment of coast to coast with Art Bell to listen to when i went to sleep off a file sharing network and it would take an hour to download the 13mb file

[@GuiltyKit]

I remember seeing this on my friends macintosh. And how he had to go into some menu somewhere to modify how much memory the operating system was using so he could even load the game. I eventually got to play it myself when I got a PC of my own and I had such a good time with the ships in this game.

[@synthetic240]

'95 was just before the RAM pricing crashed. I had a PC with 4 mb of RAM and WC2 needed 8 mb. I don't recall exactly how much it cost me, but it was around $100. I was only a kid, so that took a long time to save up from allowance. The next year, RAM sizes and speeds exploded and the price per mb of RAM dropped dramatically. That same $100 could've gotten me 64 mb of RAM just 2 years later. 256 mb 2 years after that.

[@gssuper1438]

this game was everything to me as a kid. spend nights and nights messing around in map editor. amazing game

[@BookmansBlues]

When it comes to things like ships and aircraft, I think whether or not they add to the overall concept depends largely how they are used, and the scale of the map. For example, If you have large maps, and use concepts like fuel, loiter times (for air craft) where if you deploy an Air unit they can't just hang out over the terrain, and would have to come down to refuel/repair, etc. Similarly with ships, and motorized land units, if you have to maintain supply lines to the front, how you deploy your units, and have differing order types such as Strategic vs Tactical. So if for example you wanted to make the DCS of the RTS genre, you could even do things like have hierarchical levels of player inputs, where a General player makes the overall strategy, tells other players where to deploy their units, and those players then handle the more micro deployment of units, and of differing services, such as Army, Navy, Airforce, etc, all having to have supply chains maintained, and those roles could be subdivided based on the number of players in the game. Now for a WCII scale game, this does not make any sense, but WC, and SC to me are Arena games, where something like Civilization we know as 4X. However what I am describing would be an intermediate class RTS. Probably better suited for something that encompasses the best of both, and would be akin to a simulator.

[@clockwork1376]

This warcraft artwork is so rooted in 80s and 90s heavy metal I think perhaps as that type of metal went out of fashion so too did the art style of warcraft.

[@CrimzonClover]

This game, after years of not thinking about video games, had me in its clutches from minute one. Still a game addict and proud of it:]

[@SecondSince]

The Orc voice that does the mission intros sounds like Fozzie Bear! XD

[@youbetterwakeup2449]

"What'chu want?!" "Work, work."

[@Gunbudder]

AQUA KNIGHTS 24/7!!!!! lol countless hours of joy playing bnet and making friends. never once met a single creeper on their either. i really miss the days of the irc style chat that came with bnet games. some people would just run a chat client and chat with people without even running any game

[@Sorenzo]

Day9 continually building workers when he has 9000 gold but refuses to build a second barracks so he can train grunts to support his catapults... Yea he's definitely gone back to playing as he would as a kid 😂

[@tomoliop]

I haven't watched you in so long, happy to watch some of this!

[@ModdingNewbie]

The problem you describe as "supply blockage" is why I like playing on High resource custom maps.

[@ModdingNewbie]

I learned that my optimal size for a "do-anything army" in this game was 41 people. So build enough farms to feed that many, and we were good to go! :)

[@Trspence71]

Please play the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion too!

[@etherialaardvark9780]

Man, Grover was a heavy smoker back in the 90s. Quite impressive they got him in for the orc voice overs.

[@lothrazar]

omg when Warcraft 2 came out and all the lore built upon the world of the first game. 1 and 2 both had such great online multiplayer

[@Endelin]

I've been playing Wargus almost every day recently. It's an open sourceish version of Warcraft 2 with some modern niceties like widescreen, etc.

[@TS_Tasteless]

When world of warcrft came out I always thought ppl were talking about this, far superior, game. 😂

[@zulawoo]

Ahh, this and CnC, Red Alert, Conquest of the new world deluxe... those were the days

[@strategystuff5080]

I love how to orc campaign is narrated by basically a muppet.

[@AgonalRhythm]

I'm surprised the retro gaming movement never moved on to recreate these isometric RTS games. Bring in a smattering of the devs favorite modern RTS features, get the badass pixel art that artists have started getting really good at, keep the scale smaller, etc. I feel like there's something there

[@ModdingNewbie]

Never stop building workers? Funny thing, I always found 5 gold gatherers and 2 woodcutters to be sufficient per each Town Hall regardless of side or rank...

[@alanhersch4617]

I think one of the big failures of water in games, is that a lot of times the maps are just a lot of open water and IF they have small islands etc, they arent worth doing anything with. So it makes big maps actually feel empty. The oil patches HELP in war2, with giving you a reason to have control of the seas, but I think it would be a lot cooler if they had other water features like some games have, Reefs/ocean mountains you could hide units it, with some slow VERY large range siegers. I simpler change would be to make oil a more versatile reasource outside of ships. if certain tech required big oil costs then it would help to, but as is, you want JSUT enough navy to move your units around, and otherwise it isnt worth it.

[@robertstraughan6194]

Awesome nostalgia kick, love that we're not interested in good RTS gameplay but instead focus on making sheep and seals explode, may actually have to dig out Warcraft 3 again

[@maxthompson907]

Classic, I replayed this a while back in an emulator. So good

[@dunadanjsr]

"It one-shots? IT ONE-SHOTS?!" - Day9, after his 15% health remaining Ogre got hit.

[@Sorenzo]

I used to intentionally damage some of my own buildings because they looked cooler with a fire on top 😂 BTW Starcraft 2 also has exploding critters... I saw a Harstem game where his opponent exploded a critter and accidentally gave away his units' position (because he must have been in range of the critter)

[@tjv323]

absolutely love this game

[@nervousguy]

'Hope no one is watching me live' made me giggle. Does watching the replay make a difference? xD

[@SusaVile]

Oh come on, Day9, I have 2 kids to attend to and wife and... oh, the music! The music!!!

[@kurojima]

this catapults me back, the amount of care given to this game so long ago, i wish blizzard would have just stayed the path, they stood for quality, always an instant buy, but nowadays i cannot even look at their games, they have become so bad

[@dannyldd]

for anybody interested, in my channel you can find out plenty of new generation WAR2 MODS. Plenty of playthroughs while testing the mods I've been doing since 2020, including playlists with proof of the featues. Please feel free to join the live broadcasts!!

[@snuffeldjuret]

47:18 the resources in stormgate looks horrible. But it is sci fi, so it does not have to make sense. Dune 2 was awesome, harvesting that spice while under the threat of the worms :).

[@bassbar3239]

„Noones ever aimed a cannon into the sky and been successfull!“ u sure about that, sean? 😂

[@ModdingNewbie]

_Warcraft II_ was peak RTS, in my opinion... everything afterwards was (needlessly?) more complicated.

[@corhellion]

Man... The Orc Peon portrait still messes with me...

[@7H3PH3N0M3N]

Still confusing the tusk with a mouth?

[@corhellion]

@@7H3PH3N0M3N I can't NOT see it. Freaking sly smirking Orc...

[@SephonDK]

Played this as a kid. Still good fun for me to run up every once in a while. Wanted to play multiplayer with pals forever, but even the friends of my that are into retro stuff think the game is a tad too... Stark? The look and sound is like very sharp and in your face if that makes sense. It's very saturated and the sounds are a bit piercing. To me I'm just very charmed by the sheer quality of it all. It's a taste thing. But I will say the game still looks amazing, to me. My favorite unit was the axethrower. Justice for the trolls :)

[@forsakenquery]

Wow this is my content. How good is that menu music ?

[@joshuahampton6141]

I can't decide if the campaign voiceover sounds more like Sam Eagle or Fozzy Bear.

[@thebigl321]

Does anyone else default to seeing the Peon's art box as a sultry green lady peon looking facing left, and glancing back towards the right? Where one of the horns is its mouth and she has a very large nose/rhino horn on the far left of the art box? It takes conscious effort for my brain to register the intended dopey looking peon art.

[@Triskitout]

that's all i can see

[@AutoReroll]

Tbey made kermit SO mad before he recorded the orcish narration

[@SPAMMAN123456789]

as like basic as the tool tips are in their advice, this game along with CnC were like the first RTS games, when there wasnt established norms in the genre, so as funny as they seem now, back then a person may well have never known they can select groups and so on haha

[@Nooneaskedforthis]

the best rts ever

[@Nr4747]

Wow, the German version of the intro is so much better.

[@kirbyrock5]

Love everything about this game but the music. I'm losing my mind, lol

[@dakineprotoss]

i would not be as good of a typer (because we did not have voice chat, or even shared ally vision in the first version of war2, so you had to type EVERYTHING like "THEY ARE RUSHING ME" quickly), as knowledgable about building PCs, nor had early coding interest (geocities HTML websites lol) without war2. i built a barebones PC kit from ebay when I was like 11 or 12 since it was all I could afford from saving up various birthday and chore monies. then the obsession led me to create websites for my war2 clans this game shaped me into the tech leaning guy that ended up being my career and a core part of my entire life being interested in computers

[@RealmRabbit]

This is interesting, I played Warcraft 3 and got rlly into that for awhile and also rlly into WoW in TBC and quite a bit since TBC (not lately though rlly) and also I read many books... Warcraft 2 I've seen some cutscenes and screenshots of the game, but I've never really actually watched the gameplay and gotten an idea of how it differs from Warcraft 3 aside from the obvious graphical/UI aspects... I'm also not entirely sure about what the story of Warcraft 1 or 2 is, iirc one of them has a lot to do with Medivh creating the dark portal as he is possessed by Sargeras, hoping that's in this one since I love Medivh's story (powerful insane mage + demonic possessed = 2 sorts of characters that I like together in one)... Idk if that's Warcraft 1 or 2 though and other than that, not very familiar at all with the story...

[@killerwolfpack]

Hit this video so fast I knocked my tablet over

[@macpotty]

Never pet a burning dog.

[@xr8em_554]

You should play the old kknd series on gog man

[@SuomiGameHUB]

These people didn't make Diablo. Diablo was made by Condor. And only after they changed it from turn-based to realtime and added multiplayer, did Blizzard give it green light.

[@no_nameyouknow]

I forgot that the Trolls in this game are vaguely Jamaican

[@rowbradley]

I think I underestimated how formative this was for me...

[@ModdingNewbie]

Maybe you'd consider it cheating, but I hated Fog of War and always turned it off in the options menu...

[@stratking86]

I remember asking my parents to buy it at costco

[@snuffeldjuret]

to me, warcraft 3 felt very crowded not having water and boats, and logically it makes less sense. Fantasy has boats. War 2 felt much more open and grand playing.

[@ModdingNewbie]

Even if it was cartoonish, it took me a bit to get into this game when my neighbor first showed it to me, because it was one of the goriest things I'd ever seen in my life up to that point...

[@starfishedmurloc3885]

Hate the fact I bought warcraft 2 battlenet edition on battlenet and can't play it. It'll download but not run.

[@marklanfier8287]

Turn off “the fog of war” in preferences.

[@MrBluman999]

Build more farms

[@colinmartin9797]

The other thing that blizzard used to do, that they absolutely have given up on in the pursuit of hiring psychiatrists and psychologists to just create as many psychologically manipulative ways of getting you to spend more money - is sound design. It's not that it needs to be good sounds. They just have to be incredibly distinct. Every noise in WC2, starcraft, was low-bit, but if I could somehow connect a piece of information to a sound from WC2 I probably would have learned all my MCAT information ten times faster.

[@SoTOreo]

my brother playing war2 on ps1 "the game looks way better on play station" me being like.... yea youre dumb.... the only thing ps1 version had over pc was there was not group limit so you could just draw a box around all your dudes and go attack. my brother got a pc shortly after then started saying how much better war2 looked on pc.... classic brother mentality. you could have the exact same product but his is better than yours.... because its his.

[@CacklingGoblinX]

Argh?

[@Ardunafeth]

It's funny to watch you do all these botched attacks. You're making it so hard on yourself all the time. Instead of going the easy way and taking full water control first and then bombarding the shoreline you make every landing look like a D-Day landing where the Germans have full water control, outnumber you 10 to 1 and you land only 2 transports at a time...

[@tokiwartooth4404]

I have a program called Wargus for this game and my classic disc. Let's you play in higher res with more game map on screen at one time. For Starcraft 1 classic disc version I have Chaoslauncher to fix all the Windows bugs. Fixed Diablo 1 with a simple dll file. Right now running Diablo 2 classic disc with PlugY, increased drop rates, and something old called D2multires to again fix the Windows issues. With a little GPU control panel tweaking I resmaster games myself for free with no annoying game apps wasting my time.

[@furiousweasels]

I played warcraft 1&2 so much as a child that I would experience audio hallucinations of the voice lines and building sounds while in school. Zug.

[@DyceFreak]

Isometric 90's games were peak. From WarCraft, C&C, TA, Diablo to Fallout, Balders Gate, HoMM, The Sims & Roller Coaster Tycoon, ALL GOATs.

[@DarkMoe]

isometric were like SC. WC is topdown, not isometric

[@Chubbajawa]

I played Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe recently on steam for quite a bit and it is so much fun. I grew up with that game not knowing english and going by feeling.

[@citizenhal]

Isometric is a very specific type of projection. Warcraft, Starcraft, Red Alert, TA and HoMM are all not isometric.

[@mvpmvp2980]

Man I love how zoo tycoon and roller coaster tycoon look compared to the newer ones. And the nice relaxing straight gridlines to build on. I actually cant play the newer ones at all.

[@jeremy____5747]

They came a little later but: Commandos and Desperados

[@CaptWaffles]

To some this music sounds familiar, even though they’ve never played Warcraft before. That’s because the song is still used in the retail version of WoW. It’s the song that plays when you go into a pet battle. It’s sorta a little Easter egg.

[@goro158]

Can't wait for the Human campaign with the music that was later used in Hearthstone when searching for an opponent!

[@trad5479]

Love those nostalgia vids man. Also it's pretty crazy how well Warcraft 2 aged for it's time. It's still a very much playable game with iconic voice acting and beautiful music despite it's age.

[@Lunarcheese72]

The unit quotes from this game wormed their way into 6-year-old me's head and never left at any point.

[@aceking121212]

Back when Blizzard made good games

[@coachleif]

I will never forget the excitement of playing this in the computer lab at school during lunch break. This was THE game growing up

[@maxvarjagen9810]

The animation is pretty terrible, but the sprites themselves are gorgeous. 2D is so much easier to read than 3D. The more fancy graphics effects they add, the harder it is to tell what’s happening. This is *clean*