Warcraft 1: Orcs and Humans - Full Human Campaign Walkthrough / Longplay / Speedrun

[@Vaxliscious]

Indie game devs always think they're going to have "I see only darkness before me"-quality dialogue right off the bat, while ignoring the twelve years of "Yes? Yes. Yes milord" it takes to get there

[@errata]

fucking gold.

[@fourthknower9831]

then again the flipside of that is that then you get uh DIFFERENT writing quality

[@LordSluggo]

You gotta remember this is from 1994. Having any voice acting at all was pretty revolutionary

[@iamapotato.8525]

Yes finally, I hate especially how in some stories they rush title introductions thinking it would sound cool, but in reality it's just cringey. Oh and btw even tho ur an atheist God still loves u.

[@williammcconville4967]

This is not an indie game

[@donskiver]

YES MY LORD YES YES YES MY LORD YES MY LORD YES YES YES Makes me really appreciate all of the different units voices and lines in later blizzard RTS games.

[@comradecarl8105]

Why do you keep touching me?! Yes? Yes Yes Yes ……..my lord

[@skullbones7452]

Yes, My lord.

[@chrisbutler2502]

STOP POKING ME!

[@andrebarasuol029]

​@@chrisbutler2502 yes, my lord

[@Ghost.girI.]

When Blizz was a small indie company :)

[@AcornSmokes420]

Now it’s almost bankrupt lol

[@IvanFazekas]

Sorry I had to break your 69 likes cuz I liked your comment too much

[@sangbum60090]

Money corrupts

[@anthonyluna352]

Late 90s and early 2000s were the golden age of Blizzard. Diablo 2, Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft. Been all downhill since they merged with Activision. Same with Bioware/EA. Such a shame.

[@taylor6618]

@@anthonyluna352 the fact they killed warcraft 3 with the reforged abomination says all you need to know about how the operate now.

[@exmaarmaca]

The "Welcome to the world of Warcraft" hits so different right now.

[@XX2Media]

It’s where the phrase “World of Warcraft” originated.

[@chris-tm8ok]

Yeah now it means a shitty mmo

[@aziris7257]

Ahhh, the good ol' days when the orcs where monolithic hellspawned evil brutes.

[@ElArchivador]

Now: Green human

[@Chris-jl6vp]

more "yes my lord" than your brain has room for.

[@PrimeGamator]

You end up feeling like a true king after so many of those, it's good brainwashing

[@Jay-vp5tn]

yes my lord

[@MateusRG]

Yes my lord!

[@books4739]

Yes

[@svartedauden3566]

the humans draw near. the orcs are approaching. what a game.

[@opsimathics]

this was the age of the RTS; C&C, C&C red alert, warcraft II, KKDN, dark reign, total annihilation, starcraft, red alert 2, C&C tiberian dawn

[@YUhave2Bawsome]

Tiberian Sun, Warhammer. Lots of good memories there

[@skytg7739]

Dune2 was the dawn. mhm better.. The Dawn

[@dradonie]

age of empires, civilization, age of mythology, Empire Earth, stronghold

[@yguy8445]

Rise & Fall

[@od1401]

Shame there were no achievements, loot boxes, season passes and digital pre-order bonuses back then, would've really enhanced the experience

[@sebastiannemeth-ramirez2160]

I remember playing this game at my mom's house with speakers instead of headphones for some reason, therefore, she could overhear what was going on. Eventually after hearing it a bunch of times, she finally exclaimed "No!" Fun times. Then she said "What's with all the 'yes's?" I honestly had no reply to that.

[@canobenitez]

my mother mocks me by repeating grunts lines from time to time, specially from orcs, even if more than 15 years passed from the last time I played lol

[@johannchristian2551]

Lol 😅😆😆

[@joelwallenius2877]

That is precious.

[@balan1983]

LOL

[@overk1llz]

At work we used to always "not enough mana" when we didn't feel like doing stuff.

[@brianvalenti1207]

"Your sound card works perfectly"

[@timtank3669]

"Enjoying yourself?" XD

[@jackypaulcukjati3186]

Yes

[@KnutFuchs]

Drinking game: Take a shot for every "Yes"

[@PrimeGamator]

A toaster in the tub is cheaper

[@123TauruZ321]

I'll say like James Hetfield: Iiiiii don't want to diiiiiiiee!!!!!

[@lamun7768]

@@PrimeGamator p

[@SaulidSnake]

Yes my lord

[@biwarayoganata]

@@123TauruZ321 It's been one year, but: Oh! Ride the Lightning reference in Warcraft!

[@miketurilo8944]

Oh... How much I want to get back to those times... And the quality games! Love it! Nostalgia intesifies

[@yaboyflvckor456]

nostaliga hit me like a damn brick. i totaly agree!!

[@brucetungsten5714]

It's not only nostalgia - there was a golden era in games as there was in music & cinema.

[@FistSaidToTheFace]

i was hoping for just 1 "no" this entire time. my mind needs to be at ease

[@derthevaporeon]

w h y a r e y o u t o u c h i n g m e

[@HexicanLS460L]

Yes

[@akeyrtainment8507]

0:30

[@llSuperSnivyll]

"How many times do you have to use the same response to my orders?" "Yes"

[@elasiduo108]

Warcraft I, a.k.a. the spamming archers game. Jokes aside, even if the archers (and spearmen) were very OP, this game really holds on. It's still a great experience. Blizzard really spoiled us.

[@kagekurasu3579]

"blizzard north" spoiled us new blizz fucked us

[@charlie1234500]

@@kagekurasu3579 They were simps for the player and then they became the pimp lol

[@janveidt2700]

Played this as a kid. Back in the 90s. And loved it, I'm sure! But, man... I would never wanna play this again today.:D

[@HelmutKohlrabi]

YES. YES. Yes. YES MY LORD. YES. YES. YES. Yes. YOUR BIDDING?! YES MEI LORD!! Holy shit these old games were not made for the click happy high APM / AHDH people.

[@jdspeters7087]

ahdh = auction house demon hunter

[@HexicanLS460L]

Yes

[@dougprince5309]

I played a lot of these games as a kid including this one and my dad used to get really pissed off and start yelling “YES MY LORD”

[@rintv3675]

@@dougprince5309 same hahaha. I have warcraft 2's orc ZUD ZUD engrained into my brain.

[@neogabriel1320]

@@dougprince5309 LMAO

[@nigen]

52:10 that demon that shows up scared the shit out of me as a child as he started just killing all my remained troops with ease. I was really scared of demons after that.

[@5434345]

Imagine 10 - 15 daemons destroying your village right after you build wizard tower.

[@nigen]

@@5434345 well, after that dungeon that sorta played out, but it was me spamming armies of elementals.

[@thienle743]

Yeah I had the exact same nigh nightmare lol After that I always tried to rush to Water elementals

[@nigen]

@@thienle743 summons broke the late game.

[@Mr_Edwards_1995]

I love the beta tester section at the end. In the early 90s beta testers for a video game must have been an OG thing.

[@Sad_Finz0]

Dialogue Opening: 0:00 Ending 1:28:57 1:15 Mission I 5:33 Mission II 10:30 Mission III 17:46 Misson IV 24:11 Mission V 33:42 Mission VII 41:58 Mission VIII 46:42 Mission IX 53:04 Mission X 1:04:39 Mission XII 1:08:01 Mission XIII 1:16:45 Mission XIV

[@Fenrize]

Where's the timestamp for "Yes, my lord"? That along with "Yes" are my favorite video game quotes of all time.

[@finn8537]

@@Fenrize my favorite was “Your will, sire?” so much flavor there

[@patmacrotch5611]

God this brings me back!! I remember this getting released and playing with my elementary school friends!

[@Hb093]

- So, son, do you like Warcraft? - YES, MY LORD.

[@666CrazyCory]

18:43 getting pummeled by a ogre, "yes yes yes"

[@Mopehome]

🤣🤣

[@jackypaulcukjati3186]

Seems like the footmen like to be touched. “Yes my Lord!” While the peasants in the other hand Yes! What do you want? Why do you keep touching me?

[@SkeletauR]

*STOP POKING MEEEEE!!!!!!!!!*

[@jackypaulcukjati3186]

@@SkeletauR yes my lord!

[@Brian-rt5bb]

man the 4 character selection limit was so brutal in this

[@fulviopontarollo2952]

Wasn’t this also one of the firsts (or maybe even THE first) to allow multiple units selection on the other hand?

[@roflol100]

@@fulviopontarollo2952 well beside Dune 2 i dont know any other RTS before warcraft. Maybe command and conqure but not sure about it

[@darkbol10]

incorrect it's an enhanced version because I remember selecting one by one each unit and be hugely enthousiast with warcraft 2 nine selection unit!

[@Daniel-rd6st]

@@roflol100 Hmm i remember having to send my units one by one into combat in Dune 2. First game i remember with multiple unit selection was C&C 1

[@roflol100]

@@Daniel-rd6st yea in dune2 it was 1 by 1, in warceaft 1 was 4 unit select i remember because i would group 4 water elementals for attacks. But i think that c&c come after warcraft 1 so yea warcraft 1 was first to introduce group select

[@standardaussie]

Oh the goosebumps the second I heard "Yes" "yes milord" I played this on my dads computer in the days of dos, couldn't even boot the computer up but when dad left it on oh yeah. This gem👆 Doom, heretic, some giant wizard game, commander keen, wacky races its all flooding back. I'm 33 now it must have been over a couple decades ago now, I reckon 23 odd years at a guess. I used to love playing as orcs, the unfamiliar buildings ect let my imagination run wild. Like they knew something the humans didn't 🙄 can't explain it well but it was a 7 year olds mind can you blame me? The wonder was great though.

[@Armaron06]

This was as close as we got to a warcraft city builder with the road building option.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

Trope: "Early installment weirdness" :P

[@odgreen9113]

Didn't we get walls in wc2? I have a vague memory of that

[@1926jqg]

I love how absolutely broken the water elemental build is

[@Wil_Dsense]

Both the Daemons and Elementals were OP as fk in war1.

[@5434345]

@@Wil_Dsense Imagine final mission with AI mercilessly harass you with hordes of daemons from start.

[@thienle743]

@@5434345 Ah yes, the deamons. I still have nightmares about my first encounter with their kind. Imagine my horror when a fireball from a catapult hit it straight on the back but did not seem to affect it (one of these would decimate 9 archers); and it still proceeded to 1 hit wack 2 of my knights and went on to kill off everything I had at the base except a pair of archer

[@AnnaBenIsrael]

About 8 archers do the trick and kill the deamon before it reaches. Better keep something to deal with catapults though. Those are scary. First encounter was devastating, then I learned to scout ahead.

[@5434345]

@@AnnaBenIsrael It's 1 daemon, but imagine being attacked by 10-15 daemons every 5 minutes non-stop.

[@bborkzilla]

I remember the "STOP POKING MEEEEE!!!" if you clicked on a orc too many times.

[@rubenhayk5514]

My dad played this and i was advisor. Build more mages i said.

[@Radii_DC]

Amazing run! So far the best Warcraft 1 player on youtube!

[@bantehayes9973]

"Why do you keep touching me?"

[@AlexeiVoronin]

And here we see the first ever raid into the Deadmines :P

[@joelswatten9611]

" A group of horde are ganking lowbies at Northshire Abbey for self esteem as they are hardstuck at 1200 in arena, you must go and destroy these treacherous noobs at once" "Yes my lord"

[@nicolasconradoanasco6553]

All lore-lovers need to see these videos (and the orc campaing too). Amazing job

[@ICantThinkOfANameB]

I remember playing this with my dad as a kid, but we were both woefully untrained in strategy games, especially with the 4 unit select cap. I remember it being way harder and i don't think we ever discovered how broken summons were.

[@brownshoeT2]

When I played this game as a kid I never knew you could group command your units, so I would just tell all my units what to do one at a time

[@htklsl]

Yea it's so unintuitive you have to press a key to "enable" the group control of a big group of... 4 xD Rts was way different back then

[@Azurada23rd]

*Sees the mass of elementals laying waste to Blackrock Spire.* Ah, these must be the Tides of Darkness.

[@rosnira]

I find it more challenging to play the Level without summoning any Water Elementals at all

[@seanturner1197]

0:53 now I know the origin of the undead scourge slaughter house sound effect when you click on it.

[@henry961]

This was one of my first games, i remember playing it on my first pc, a 486dx2 over 20 years ago

[@dragonslair951167]

The road system is interesting. Looks like a precursor to creep and blight to discourage proxy building.

[@jimbaily734]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

[@sumerian88]

Yes man.

[@HexicanLS460L]

Yes

[@solarianstorm]

Much easier way to deal with Mission 8: At the start zone, use the archers to scout to the upper right bend of the chamber, then have one of the clerics cast Far Seeing just outside of that vision range. Medivh will be revealed and immediately cast a summon. However, because his magic has not fully charged, he doesn't summon a daemon, instead summoning a spider. It is also possible to line up all the archers in the far right of the chamber and attack Medivh from there. Just heal the archers quickly, pulling them back when the clerics run out of magic, and eventually, Medivh will die. He has a lot of HP, the same range as the archers, high rate of fire and does slightly more than your fully upgraded archers, so he can kill them in around 4-6 hits, but if done carefully, he can be taken out without losing an archer. After that, just kill off the rest of the beasts normally, and not worry about Medivh or his final daemon summon at the end of the long raid in the tower.

[@FelipeWalker2]

Holy shit you are so good at this game. I'm getting stomped by the cpu and you clear the stages flawlessly.

[@mat5267]

After watching this I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve been playing it wrong 😂.

[@HexicanLS460L]

Yes

[@sarissanhunter7227]

Just build walls of ranged, move them up, use a sacrificial unit to kite stuff into your wall of ranged.

[@tdb517]

@@sarissanhunter7227 And literally just spam water elementals for late game.

[@peteralexandergraae2830]

"look at this amaaaazing animation... the torches in the intro secuence is moving so fluently... it is as if you can reach out and feel the heat..."

[@quetzacoatl1154]

Fun fact: You can kill Medivh right from the starting point by placing an archer I think where the footman is located at 47:13, using far seeing and a lot of healing 🙂

[@HistoricDefense]

I always do that. Makes the map super easy.

[@vnvlthm007]

Crazy how I remember discovering this game at the time, loving it then seeing the first articles about Warcraft II, then even better the first intro animation of Warcraft II waw it was gonna be so cool.... then playing it for a few years. Time flies, now so many stuffs has happened in Azeroth

[@Tom_Van_Zandt]

Warcraft 2 improved on this game in every way imaginable. I actually started with WC2, so I don't have nostalgia for this game...I've never put more than 10 or 20 minutes into this game. The in-game menu, unit movement, etc...they're all just so primitive. I can go back and play WC2 and STILL have a great time. So many hours spent in a room with 6 PC's all networked together playing this game with and against friends. If we weren't play this then we were playing Doom 2 or Magic the Gathering (the actual card game) and then Diablo 1 soon after. Those were the last of my high school and early college years. After that it was on to the N64 with Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Super Smash Bros, etc...and then everyone drifted apart... :( Life is a big stupid jerk whose face is dumb and looks like a butt.

[@Eye_Exist]

lack of roads and walls though, they were such an architectural element in WC1. I largely didn't get into WC2 because of that. it looked all so scattered to me.

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

You can play this one in the same style as the sequel now.

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

@@Eye_Exist quite. Absolutely. I couldn't get into it due to the fact that the characters were insane amidst insanity. There being a lack of dungeons in the game & such not lost on me either. 👣

[@feandil666]

Warcraft has aged so much nobody would play it again. But Warcraft II though, it's still playable and created so many standards of the genre.

[@vladimir4526]

I never play this game and i want to after watching this.

[@jackierenee1691]

Omg I remember watching my Uncle play this when I was little. He eventually turned the sound off because it started to annoy my Aunt. My cousin's and I started saying "yes my lord" to everything, annoying her even more 😆

[@timtank3669]

Corwin of Amber: Pot of Gold, Sally Shears, Noglues, There can be only one...

[@jimmrazek]

In 30+ years I have never forgotten how absolutely broken water elementals were. Blizzard got us back in round two with death nights and blood lust

[@sandumihai4405]

:)))) Stu's unique signatures: killing his own ppl, selling command centers :) Other than that, he is an awesome gamer!

[@TL582j]

The best way to play is to set up lines of archers. That way you dont have to use the clunky controls. Also their rate of fire is ridiculous and they never miss

[@TL582j]

They have some powerful repeater crossbows

[@deathya1]

Bunch of Archers lined up, use a Knight to pull their armies, and GG EZ. Just gotta watch out for unexpected catapults, cause those things could kill 4-5 units per shot.

[@blackoutgstar9949]

ah. the days when you didn't have to p2w good old days

[@bouji_]

This makes me want to play this game.

[@vladimir4526]

Same

[@ComandanteJ]

I never played this back in the day but recently I found my first PC, a 486DX-50, and decided to restore it and play some of the games I didnt back then. I sailed trough levels one and two but this third one broke my balls, LOL. Certainly clunky when compared to even just slightly more modern games, like C&C, but very charming.

[@TheRetroWorld]

the memories of this game are unmatched 😭

[@tyrus350]

You play this game beautifully, awesome!

[@FretboardToAsh]

This hit the nostalgia-spot hard, might actually give in and purchase a digital version of it.

[@themurmeli88]

Holy shit! You can build ROADS! What is this sorcery?!

[@DelcoRanz93]

In this game, you HAD to build roads in order to construct buildings, the later games do away with this mechanic.

[@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich]

@@DelcoRanz93 well if you played with the undead in warcraft 3 you needed to transform the soil before build anything

[@oneblacksun]

@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich Which, I think, is just a retooling of Zerg creep.

[@oemahkucing7876]

i dont know why this appear on my recommendation but yes thank you so much!

[@lesterbeats7108]

i remember when i was a child, this game system requirements is too high to play in my father's computer, and compromises fast movements because of lags and No Audio Outputs, miss the old days :'(

[@Hunnah0055]

thanks for bringing back. I was like 6 or 7 when this game came out lol. YES YES, YES MY LORD!

[@HyperXcube]

those were the times when blizzard was good and made of people who had passion

[@OliveOilFan]

It’s amazing Warcraft started out as a typical western fantasy setting with wizards and knights turn into its own thing

[@blackbiblecompound5760]

This is too lewd when I heard "YES" too much.

[@HexicanLS460L]

Yes

[@SeoulMan]

Water Elementals hurl water at buildings, setting them on fire. Seems legit. :)

[@AlexeiVoronin]

It's magic.

[@fisk0]

Making buildings out of potassium seemed like a good idea at the time.

[@rcook2608]

I remember being in grade 3 and loading this on my schools Mac.

[@123TauruZ321]

Enjoyable run. Good job!

[@gargamellenoir8460]

I really liked the final twist that *spoiler* all this time we were playing Asterix the Gaul!

[@marklanfier8287]

I love that GOG made these available to play on the modern PC. Still remember all the cheat codes. Pot of gold Sally Hurry Iron forge Eye of newt

[@prez4pres329]

Wow this brings back memories. So crazy lol I remember playing this when I was like 8

[@eitantal726]

I had no idea elementals are so strong! They're basically the Archons of WAR1, except you get them for free!

[@thepaladinofthelight1991]

In this part of the lore the orcs were the victors. They killed King Llane and sacked Stormwind Keep. Any remaining forces then fled across the great sea to Lordaeron where The Alliance would be formed.

[@dontsuspendionlyspokemymin5384]

thanks.... I loved this game. got it as a hs ggrad present for myself

[@123TauruZ321]

Damn it's nice to see a proper, normal playthrough of this game!!! So many bad players in youtube!!!

[@ghos7bear]

I always saw water elementals as blue smiling faces

[@skytg7739]

I always saw water elemental as killing machine..

[@ageofstrange657]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes? What? Yes, Mylord. Yes, Mylord. Yes. Yes. Yes, Mylord. Yes? Yes? Yes, Mylord. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, Mylord. What? Yes? Yes, Mylord. Yes. Yes, Mylord. Yes. Yes

[@philosoFreedomGaming]

This transcript, must survive to teach future generations of our gaming wisdom

[@kylethomas9130]

To think the Devs originally wanted to make a Warhammer game, but Games Workshop wouldn't lease their IP back then. So Blizzard just made their own lore, borrowing the Dune gameplay, and started a journey none could have predicted back then.

[@pavelyankouski4913]

Great, I've never played WC1, but its sounds good. I was stoned by WC2

[@zarombiste9158]

Just sound brings me back to the past when I was young boy I played wc1. Same with diablo 1 and sc1

[@Unity800]

Excellent video

[@rimefang5988]

I beat this n the orc campaign recently with help from this vid props to you. Also elementals op lmao

[@TeacherGalante]

I miss this game. Thanks for sharing.

[@MurseSamson]

Fun fact: in the original CD/Floppy versions of the game, the Human campaign was impossible to beat without cheat codes. Somewhere around mission 6, a task requiring you to free your peasants first in order to build an army, would initiate an all-out attack from the Orc stronghold, that you had no chance of defeating. Back at this time the only way to get patch versions of games was to: A) have an internet connection, and in 1994 & 1995 that was a not a common thing, likely less than 5-8% of USA households. B) Know what a 'patch' was, that it even existed, where to go to get it, and the what, why & how to install it! 🤣 Suffice it to say that if you were a kid playing this game without help from a grown-up who knew about the internet, you were never going to beat the Human campaign without cheat codes, using the original version. The Humans never even stood a chance. 😈

[@LordSluggo]

Yep, when I got the battle chest for Christmas 96 my dad's friend told us to not even bother with War1 be cause of the glitch

[@chris-tm8ok]

Well it makes sense, the humans lost in war1

[@skytg7739]

"you need exalted Argent Dawn rep to gain a free enter to Naxxramas. you will join this task?" "yes yes yes yes yes.. y y y y y y y y.. yes my lord!" (mylady tbh) Blizzy forcing us to say yes to everything...

[@roccorobertomundo8182]

when the games were played with the heart

[@zotya5787]

Anno in the 90's my father played a lot

[@matthewbaker1361]

I remember playing this back in the day and boy was it hard and annoying at the same time, but fun haha.

[@MrGlenbw]

"WHY DO YOU KEEP TOUCHING ME?" 😲 😲 😲 😲

[@Quiras2]

Watching the cutscenes always make me hungry.-_-II

[@forcastiabluey]

I actually started playing this myself just yesterday. Having to specifically command either Move or Attack takes getting used to, especially after C&C's "do whatever's relevant" left mouse click. Also I was not expecting the gold mines to literally collapse once they were spent! Thought I was under attack.

[@thesocialartsclub9095]

I used to play this on a 33mhz computer on a modem with my friend. When I told a footman to walk across the map...it used to take 10 to 20 minutes. Very realistic.

[@SorenDaein]

"Yes, my lord? What? What do you want? Why do you keep touching me?"

[@BookBoards]

these footman, archers and GRunts are all the ancestors of the heroes we love today.

[@XX-sp3tt]

Before the lore went to hades.

[@sjoroverpirat]

Yes

[@arthurwulfrun]

Yes, my lord? Yes, my lord. My leige? Yes. Your command? Yes, yes, yes, Your will sire? Yes, Yes, Your bidding? Yes, my lord? Yes, my lord......

[@datemasamune2904]

Ironically, after the Orcs came, humans started making fancier castles and buildings. XD

[@andrewvincent7299]

Wow, I never realized that they took the sound bites of the footmen and the song from this game and turned it into Warcraft disco that you can hear in Warcraft 2