Worth noting: The Second layer of Fog of War obscuring enemy units if you don't have units nearby was not added until Warcraft *2.* This makes exploration more powerful in Warcraft 1, because once you explore an area, you can see enemy units that patrol through the area.
I liked the more educational/historical bent to this episode. I'm just old enough that Warcraft I was the first Warcraft game that I played, although I was too young to be very good at it. Still, I was surprised just how familiar the gameplay still felt while I was watching this video; those childhood experiences can really stick around in the back of your mind.
Honestly, I feel like the movie would have been much better if split into two, one for Orcs, and one for humans. A lot of the problem was it's focus was too split, and so couldn't give enough attention to what it needed to.
The four-unit selection limit was an explicit design choice; it was supposed to encourage a more tactical approach than "send everything you have into the fray and hope for the best". We all know how that ended up working in practice - instead of giving more value to tactics and strategy, it encourages very fast clicking :P
10:16 "Warcraft has continued to improve with every Warcraft and StarCraft that came after it" *Warcraft 3: Reforged wants to know your location* *Activision-Blizzard want to know your credit card number*
Probably meant what the games would improve on before Activision crawled into the corpse of Blizzard and started to parade it around while wanting people to give them more money and taking away things that made Blizzard special.
I remember my brother playing Warcraft and Warcraft 2, and being stunned when I heard the franchise became an MMORPG. Now with their remaster of Warcraft 3 sucking so hard, I doubt we will ever get a true successor to these games. Great video! It's always fun to look back on gaming history and see how far we've come in not very much time.
@@seawind930 completely incorrect... the original game ends at the battle for mount hyjal. the frozen throne campaign ends when arthas takes up the helm of domination in icecrown. nothing from the endings has been changed
@@laertesindeed Warcraft 2 plot is dependent upon the wc1 orc ending being canon. WC 2 introduction cinematic clearly states that after sacking stormwind the orcs sailed north to once again enguage in battle. How else could the orcs reach the northern kingdoms? The wc2 canon ending is a combination of both sides
Yeah this game is exceedingly rough around the edges. Requiring a lot of planning and some luck at times. The melee units are at best a meat shield for ranged units
I always hoped you would review games like the Dishonored games, Thief, Prey, and then the Sierra games (all easily completable, as I have done, a simple human), but this is a great direction to explore. This, along with Dune II (also very completable) were huge games for me
Warcraft was my childhood and what got me interested in the RTS genre! I discovered it one fateful day at my elder cousins house and it became hooked for life. Warcraft II Tides of Darkness is my all-time favorite! And with the third game I love the addition of the night elves. I might be in the minority but I was actually kind of disappointed when World of Warcraft came out because blizzard started focusing on multiplayer titles because online subscriptions were more profitable. Sadly they stopped making single player story campaigns efficiently.
This was my first RTS and I loved it. PS: You can't heal when you play Orcs but you can resurrect corpses (even your enemies) to turn them into "The Dead" units. wow.gamepedia.com/The_Dead
Man, this one really takes me back. The days of Super Nintendo, and computer games that looked and sounded a bit like this one. My older brother introduced the Warcraft games to me, in '95 or '96, just after WC II: Tides Of Darkness came out. I remember just instantly falling in love with the units personalities, and really favored the Horde over the Alliance. Then he showed me the first game, and while I definitely preferred the second game over it, there was something about the first game where, it felt like it deserved a proper amount of respect and admiration - after all, it DID launch the Warcraft series, for better or for worse (depending on how you feel about the series nowadays; WoW was a fantastic game, until it just continually fell further and further downhill until I hardly cared about the story anymore during the Legion and Battle For Azeroth expansions). Also, I was never into the online multiplayer aspect of the games, least of all with Warcraft III, and with the current "out of season April Fool's joke" that is Warcraft III: Reforged, I just wanted to share here that, you CAN still re-install the original WC III, if you can find the installers on the internet, OR, if your PC still possesses an optical drive (CD-rom, DVD-rom, Blu Ray-rom or what ever Blu Ray drives are referred to as), installing from the CD does still work, and the game is very much still playable, IF your intent is NOT the online multiplayer part of the game, which is good and enough for me, I never cared about the online multiplayer, only once or twice, against my younger cousin, where we did have this one hilarious day, when I had distracted him (we were both living in my grandmother's house, so yeah both of our computers were in the same house etc.), and while he was distracted, I was annihilating him in the game. And, no, I would not exactly want to go back to or revisit that, it WAS funny that one time (for me; he pouted over it for at least two years afterward, and any time I bring it back up, he's still mad that I WOULD do that to him, hehe), but the classic Warcraft games will always hold a special place in my heart, and as a reminder that, there once was a great game developer, both of console AND PC games..... actually now that I think about it, did they even develop or port their own games to consoles? Now I'm thinking there were third-party publishers that did that work, like Interplay..... anyway, yeah, R.I.P. Blizzard Entertainment, I dearly miss them every day anymore :(
When I was a child. Computers were adult related things. Don't touch, get away from that kind of thing. Then one day while I was visiting some family. A guy my aunt happened to be dating was sitting at a computer and I could hear what was obviously a video game but I don't see a console anywhere. He was playing a Star Wars chess game, I watched him play for about 15 minutes and he was so excited to see how excited I was. However, he never offered to let me play it. The next morning I woke up to computer being in the living room and he had hooked up a second computer. On screen Warcraft: Orcs and Humans was running. He explained the basics to me and let me play the first stage, I chose to play as Orcs. After that stage (which I believe I had to build 5 farms and 1 barracks). He and I went into a private match by what I believe was done via ad hoc. He destroyed me of course but he showed me computer gaming for the first time. The other side of the coin if you will. I would keep playing consoles for the most part but always dabbled with a computer game or three every year. Man that was a crazy day.
Computers were like hallowed ground back then, so expensive and rare, only "computer people" had them. Network gaming was a real eye opener for many, the experience of having your own personal screen whilst playing in multiplayer is such a huge quality of life upgrade compared to the limited options of playing on the same screen, split screen or taking turns to play as was what few games offered multiplayer back then. The experience was so addictive and exciting like nothing else.
Ah man, I remember my uncle letting me borrow this game, with all the codes written on a piece of paper taped to it. I loved these games... though I kinda missed being able to build walls in wc2.
I still remember the first time I played this... We were at a Network Cafe, it was 1994 and the game just released. I had never played an RTS before. The Cafe had Doom and Warcraft, I had a buddy who played in Doom tourneys and he dominated those match ups. But, when it came to WarCraft I won every match. I realized that it was best to create Necrolytes and Warlocks. So I created a ton of Demons and dominated. It requires heavy focus on the Micro due to the 4 unit max grouping, but at the time that was an advancement. So yes, going back now the game is far more difficult than it was b/c we've been spoiled with large grouping. But, it's still a fun game. I will admit WarCraft II aged far better than the original.
Still got my copy of Warcraft 1 and play it sometimes. I just went and showed the manual, which is maybe one of the best ones visually, to a few friends who were never around when the game came out and showed them the original lore and all that.
I think you missed the second i in Completionist on the white board there bud. For real though- I look forward to these every week. Keep up the good work!
Can’t wait until an RTS comes out and looks like a full scale war is going on. Honestly I haven’t played an RTS since Starcraft 2 and never really thought about it but I really like every RTS I’ve ever played
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans was the first PC game I owned. I was raised by my grandparents and they were strict with what games I could play for the most part. I was 6 or 7 years old at the time and my grandparents decided they would let me pick out a game for my birthday. I was so excited. So many good moments. Also, was the start of my path to becoming a Horde loyalist.
I still have the original CD-ROM release of this game and the big cardboard box what PC games had at the time. Now complete the Playstation version of this game. =)
What a time to review a Warcraft game, given the state of the franchise today! Part of me wonders if this episode was commissioned by Blizzard in a vain attempt to remind fans how great they are, er, WERE. But that’s probably just crazy thinking. Great video! Keep it up!
Speaking as a fan of this genre, I would recommend to newcomers to check out the Age of Empires series. Notably Age of Mythology. It’s easy-to-learn, hard-to-master approach has aged incredibly well. Heck, Age of Empires 2 still has a vibrate competitive scene with a major tournament coming up in March.
@@ShingamiRei I was more a fan of AoM but I did warm up to AoE2. Largely thanks to T90 who is currently setting up for Hidden Cup 3 this week. And AoE2 Definative Edition is fantastic.
Did y... Did you buy that couch just for this bit? Because I have to say, I like the historic lore theme of this video and the dive it takes into the games genre history and influence. You should do that bit again every now and then
Actually Gerrard the game was supposed to be based on games workshop’s Warhammer fantasy tabletop game. But GW was unhappy with the deal and turned them down so they created their own fantasy setting. Bet GW wished they had taken that deal in the long run.
When I first discovered this channel back in 2013, I was playing through Warcraft 2 and needed something in the background. Guess we've kinda come full circle. Last I finished Warcraft 1 was in the late 90s, couldn't bring myself to play it for long when I gave it another try later. But Warcraft 2 is another story, that one is still my favorite of the bunch.
And we all want one of the pioneers in arcade fighting games on the PC, One Must Fall 2097. OMG, OMF was the the most metal game ever. It mostly holds up too!
defiantly didnt expect a rts on this channel and if u want another one that's easy to complete and fun try lord of the rings war of the ring, warcraft 3, or starcraft 2
I was just checking my phone when I suddenly saw the two magic words: "Warcraft" and "Completionist". I thought, "The Madman actually did it, he's actually gonna do a Completionist video on a MMORPG!" then I noticed there wasn't the World of part of World of Warcraft. Great video nonetheless! Make a video about WoW someday or year, even if it is on April Fool's.
fun fact due to the games ultra simple nature there was a notepad file that had the stats for units and you could very easly change the stats around you could make archers have unlimited range
This was my first Warcraft game, cause I was a huge fantasy geek as a kid, and my dad found this in a bargain bin at our local Curry's store, so bought it for me
Oh my gosh! I remember installing the demo back in the day and loving this game. I felt like the only person to know what Warcraft was back then. It has grown so much. Haha, I feel like the game's father.
@@ShingamiRei stilll better option than the game that shall not be mentioned. Also I recommend have a watch at No String Pod's "What happened to Command & Conquer - history of failed spin-offs". You'll be suprised how many horrible games beard boi can choose from
I played this game only because i'm a warcraft fan. I did the exact same thing as you, turtle up, create lots of summoners and use that free army to attack, selecting 4 units at a time... the later games were much better.