The First Portal to Azeroth - Warcraft 30th Anniversary

[@Kritigri]

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!

[@mickcraftgaming]

Thanks for watching! I'm glad this could provide some insight into Warcraft 1 for you as a WoW player. It's actually quite the interesting experience for me, having grown up with the RTS games but now living in a world where Warcraft and WoW are synonymous for probably 99% of people - I occasionally meet people that are aware of WoW or even play but don't even know the RTS exists! Definitely a lot of great things in Warcraft 1. The controls are really what have aged the most in my opinion, but they aren't as bad as they initially seem. I'll probably do a more proper tutorial video on that soon. Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad you were able to find the video. I hope you continue to enjoy WoW and maybe even check out the RTS titles at some point too 😎

[@Kritigri]

Heck yeah! RTS isn't really a genre I tend to enjoy but I do occasionally experiment. The controls for sure seem like the mitigating factor here.

[@mickcraftgaming]

@@Kritigri fair enough! And definitely the case. RTS already tends to have a lot going on, so the addition of clunky controls only furthers an already tough barrier.

[@DCPTF2]

This was a good watch

[@mickcraftgaming]

Many thanks! Thanks for being around since my first Warcraft 1 video 🎂

[@nelsonpally]

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.

[@mickcraftgaming]

Thanks for watching! A lot of great times with RTS games back in the day! I spent most of the past decade not gaming all that much, glad to have really gotten back into it last year.

[@nelsonpally]

@@mickcraftgaming I used to play Command and Conquer and Warcraft 2 and the series, afterwhich WoW...

[@mickcraftgaming]

@@nelsonpally do you still play?

[@nelsonpally]

@@mickcraftgaming Yes once in awhile, I will play WC 3 the frozen throne but I am mostly playing WoW.🙂

[@mickcraftgaming]

@@nelsonpally very nice! WoW is a lot of fun

[@cattrucker8257]

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.

[@mickcraftgaming]

The shareware demos of the 90s were great, sad that modern full releases have taken on the "pay more to continue" approach. It is definitely cool to see how the game quickly advanced into what Warcraft 2 would become, which came out just a year later. Amazing what could be accomplished in such a short time in gaming back then. Truly revolutionary times.

[@classicsremastered5562]

LEGENDARY 🎂

[@mickcraftgaming]

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[@ХамитЮсуп-т5ь]

30 years. Damn we're old

[@mickcraftgaming]

I know, it's crazy!

[@matthewsteele99]

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

[@mickcraftgaming]

Oh wow, looking at the hair on the unit and Griselda icon, I think you are right! Thanks for the comment and theory.

[@klauskinski139]

Yes my Lord..

[@mickcraftgaming]

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[@Canuovea]

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.

[@mickcraftgaming]

I'd be curious to see what could be accomplished with the editor as well! There is surprisingly a Warcraft 1 map editor floating around too, which I personally have yet to get working, that allows for some interesting creations by manipulating the Warcraft 1 save files.

[@Canuovea]

@@mickcraftgaming Oh ho! I didn't know of any map editor, but I suppose there must have been.

[@mickcraftgaming]

@Canuovea it was fan made, I've never seen it in action but I've played some of the maps. They typically involve stacking units on the same tile to create auto-enemy spawners and mock cannon towers.

[@Canuovea]

@@mickcraftgaming How creative!

[@TatarKhanEng]

And they say modern games are expensive

[@mickcraftgaming]

For real! Crazy suggested price haha 💵💵💵💵

[@warcraftlegends1648]

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[@mickcraftgaming]

Awesome, I'll look out for it 😎

[@해빈이-k3x]

celebrate with emerald sword

[@mickcraftgaming]

⚔️

[@ХамитЮсуп-т5ь]

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

[@mickcraftgaming]

The original RTS universe is definitely the real Warcraft!

[@leonidas3563]

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...

[@mickcraftgaming]

Hola! It seems we have a good number of Warcraft fans in Argentina. I think that Warcraft definitely took on a lighter tone as it progressed game to game, the one light element in Warcraft 1 is a couple of jokey voicelines when you click on the units too much. Warcraft 3 really expanded on that and added a ton of pop culture references and then it went even further in WoW.

[@TheVivalajady]

I'm hungry

[@TheVivalajady]

For content

[@mickcraftgaming]

The content train keeps a rollin' 🚂

[@maximakulov3118]

👍🍾🍰

[@mickcraftgaming]

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