Hey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!
replyI had a pirated version on a zip drive
replypeople wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol
replyBefore cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!
replyIt was magical for about 2 years, then USB drives came along and made it look quaint.
replyI was the kid with the backpack Zip drive and Zip disks, like a weird Santa Claus of game piracy. Duke3d, Descent, Quake, you name it. All of it was in service of modem dueling each other. Wild times!
replyIOMagic Zip Drive?
reply38 even!
replyI recently replayed Warcraft II and fell out of my chair when I realized the original did not have control groups. Those were only added with the Battle.Net edition!
reply48, and I'm a medieval man.
replySame. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
replyMostly the best of times
reply42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).
reply33 here, started with Dark Saga in my old PS1, after few months of my first gameplay got a used computer and played A LOT of warcraft 1 and 2.
replyPS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.
I mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans.
Never liked the hero focus of w3
replySame. I think it adds just too much complexity to an RTS where I want to just have an army to control.
replyWere it not so buggy, I think C&C generals ranks pretty high on fun modern RTSes.
Try Generals Evolution mod for RA3.
reply38, I played 2, but it was pretty bad compared to Warcraft III. Three still holds up just as well as it did back then.
replyNot to be a patronizing old fart, but may I assume that you played II after III? If so I can understand it, but II was very special when it came out, and I never revisited it after.
replyI think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.
2 is a much harder game in my opinion. I don’t think even at the hardest difficulty level Warcraft 3 has any levels that require you to do a contested marine landing and then build a base before immediately being attacked again. The final Orc mission took me forever to beat. And the expansion? Good lord.
replyIMO, Starcraft 1 is better than both 2 and 3.
replyIII has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.
That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.
Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.
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