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30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by amatecha »

thih9 wrote: post #19
YesBox wrote: post #18

So happy I bought this game on GOG before they replaced it with the revamped version (modern looking art, etc). I played through the orc campaign last year and had fun. It's definitely aged, but it makes me wonder if something like that could exist today. Story games are popular, and I think always will be (people like stories). Instead of a solo protagonist, can we bring back the hero (a la WarCraft III) and their a…

Here is a comparison of the original vs the remaster: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KZ9Ac4WVW6Q&t=100s in case anyone else is interested too.

Ah wow , rip the awesome fonts used in the original game. The new ones are so "clean" and boring :(

Glad to see the art itself was not too badly modified. It's weird though, like the vegetation in the Farm building looks weird. The original version you can tell it's some kind of yellow fruit or vegetable but in the remaster the yellow dots are unusually small and don't really "feel right". Strikes me as AI upscaling rather than hand-crafted editing.

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by MobileVet »

If you still want to experience the joys of RTS... but struggle to play after so many years away, I highly recommend catching a few streams from Grubby. He plays WC3 and a few other games and is quite entertaining to watch. He is also crazy good... His typical APM during a game hovers between 200 and 250. He is an absolute beast at leveraging his items and maximizing his heroes' hp.

https://youtu.be/qaaWsRfbsls?si=EJ0WBvJ9hMmQCaNb

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by officeplant »

Warcraft II was the first game I ever played over modem direct connect with a friend across town. Later on there was another friend that lived way outside of town where you could only get dial-up internet who I played Starcraft with over modem. Those were probably some of the most enjoyable moments I ever got out of dial up internet.

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by nerdix »

AOL had an amazing warcraft 2 community. There was an online games service in the 90s called Engage and AOL had a partnership with them that allowed AOL users to play multiplayer games through the AOL service. There was a additional charge and it was quite expensive (I believe there was a per minute but my memory is a little fuzzy on the details).

There was a very active AOL message board dedicated to Warcraft 2. Most of the active community used other services (Kali, MSN Zone, and later Battlenet when BNE came out) to play the game since AOL's service was prohibitively expensive.

The best part of the community were the clans. Some of them ended up outliving AOL. The biggest one that I remember was a clan named Splintered Orcs Clan (SoC). Actually just found an old forum post written by the founder of SoC. Looks like they tried to branch out into WoW (I was way out of the scene by then)

https://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/12955/splintered-orcs-c...

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by nerdix »

rickcarlino wrote: post #22

Was this the one AOL charged me to play by the minute when I was a kid?

Yes it was!

I just posted a comment about how amazing the warcraft 2 community was on AOL. Couldn't remember if they charged per minute or per hour so you just confirmed it for me. I just remember that some kids were racking up insane bills. I had to play on Zone (and then Battle.net when Battle.net edition came out) but I loved the AOL war2 message boards.

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by nerdix »

rickcarlino wrote: post #62
recursive wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not and has never been an AOL game. Unless you were paying by the minute for internet access for multiplayer via Kali.

I don’t think I was using Kali. Did AOL partner with them? As I remember, I found it via AOL in a sponsored or semi official capacity. There were a number of RTS games available via the AOL gaming channel, integrated or closely aligned with the AOL app.

It was a partnership through a multiplayer service called Engage.

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by theposey »

MobileVet wrote: post #72

If you still want to experience the joys of RTS... but struggle to play after so many years away, I highly recommend catching a few streams from Grubby. He plays WC3 and a few other games and is quite entertaining to watch. He is also crazy good... His typical APM during a game hovers between 200 and 250. He is an absolute beast at leveraging his items and maximizing his heroes' hp. https://youtu.be/qaaWsRfbsls?si=EJ…

sub to the grub!

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by amatecha »

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #36

I still remember the 3 level demo CD they made. Awesome demo levels that made me buy the game, which is still one of my favorite games of all time.

Yeah! My intro to the series was the 3-level WC1 demo. I was absolutely blown away as I had never played any game like that before it. Instantly obsessed haha

Re: 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness

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Post by tshaddox »

capitainenemo wrote: post #63
guerby wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And now Beyond All Reason keeps it alive and free software

Huh. I'm familiar with the Spring RTS FOSS project ( https://springrts.com ) which started as a reimplementation of TA, and of course Planetary Annihilation, but not "Beyond All Reason" - do you have an authoritative link?

The official website is https://www.beyondallreason.info/

It's an open-source project that started as a fork of SpringRTS. To my eye it looks nearly like a clone of Supreme Commander.

I watched a few ranked 1v1 games on uThermal's YouTube channel (he's a former Starcraft 2 pro who mostly makes YouTube videos about Starcraft 2). Here's the playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_USFDBbymGUwLPiopP2q...

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