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Playing through Warcraft II

I haven't played the first two since I was a kid and I wanted to see how they hold up. I tried starting with Warcraft but it's completely unplayable. Which is kind of sad because I think with just three tweaks it would still be incredibly dated but at least playable. It needs:

1. Right click to move, attack, etc - By far the most painful omission. Having to hit a hot key every single time to just move around is so painful.

2. Bulk select units - You can only group up to four units at a time which is pretty bad but the worst part is you have to shift click them all individually.

3. Unit group hotkeys - The lack of these is especially egregious given the above. Every single time you want to issue orders to more than one unit you have to shift click them all.

After giving up a few missions in I moved on to Warcraft II which is a much smoother experience. It has some dated designs (weak mission design overall, needing to hunt down every last fricking enemy building to complete the mission) but it's still completely playable and fun. I'm awful at RTS games so it's possible I'll hit a point where the missions are too hard and I move on but so far it's been smooth.

I plan to run through Warcraft III as well. I bought Reforged on sale, I know it had a rough launch but it seems okish now and I think it will be worth it just to play at a normal resolution.

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Don't buy WC3R. Just pirate WC3 TFT

Game unironically looks better than the remake

Yes the remake has more polygons, but that's it. the game's graphics were remade by indians earning $1/hour, having an actual art direction is much better than simply stuffing your butthole full of polygons

you want proof of this? they added female DKs to the game (I think female DHs too) and they had to make a low-poly model, just look at that and see how it stands out from the original low poly models

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You can use the original graphics w/ the remake. In fact that's the only way I'm "allowed" to play - I never bought the remake but had the original tied to my bnet account, so I can install and play WC3R, but the config toggle to select the new graphics is greyed out unless I pay $30. Mechanically everything is identical.

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they added female DKs to the game (I think female DHs too) and they had to make a low-poly model, just look at that and see how it stands out from the original low poly models

They look cute and valid https://i.rdrama.net/images/1720116821956257.webp

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Jesus Christ

Arthas went off the deep end

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