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Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old. I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.
by disillusioned 8mo ago
Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.
I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.
- virtue3 8mo agoSame. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
- Gud 8mo agoMostly the best of times
- jonathanlydall 8mo agoSpeaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.
- Gud 8mo agoHey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!
- crims0n 8mo ago38 even!
- cozzyd 8mo agoI had a pirated version on a zip drive
- red-iron-pine 8mo agopeople wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol
- cozzyd 8mo agoBefore cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!
- scottLobster 8mo agoIt was magical for about 2 years, then USB drives came along and made it look quaint.
- anarticle 8mo agoI 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!
- balls187 8mo agoIOMagic Zip Drive?
- Aeolun 8mo ago38, I played 2, but it was pretty bad compared to Warcraft III. Three still holds up just as well as it did back then.
- croon 8mo agoNot 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. I 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.
- kemotep 8mo ago2 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.
- cogman10 8mo agoIMO, Starcraft 1 is better than both 2 and 3. III 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.
- OoooooooO 8mo agoWarcraft 3 custom map mod was the birth of Defense of the Ancients Allstars which then became its own game by Valve as Dota 2 (and Blizzard was pissed and tried legal stuff to reclaim) which now became Deadlock = Dota 3. It's been a while ...
- ab-dm 8mo agoI mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans. Never liked the hero focus of w3
- cogman10 8mo agoSame. I think it adds just too much complexity to an RTS where I want to just have an army to control. Were it not so buggy, I think C&C generals ranks pretty high on fun modern RTSes.
- elektronika 8mo agoTry Generals Evolution mod for RA3.
- efreak 8mo agoIf only the mods didn't crash so much.
- wcallahan 8mo ago42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).
- Xunjin 8mo ago33 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. PS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.
- philistine 8mo agoI 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!
- codebje 8mo ago48, and I'm a medieval man.
- mathgeek 8mo agoMy goodness, it's scary how much I reminisce about long summer days doing nothing but playing War2 over Kali before the days of Battle.net.