Just a note to all first-time viewers: I missed MANY Easter eggs this first time through. At the end of the playlist you'll find two "addendum" videos where I cover (almost) every one I missed in parts 1 through 8. I appreciate you pointing out ones that I missed in the comments, since some may have still slipped through the cracks, but you may want to wait till you see all the videos first just in case. Thanks for all your support!
The thing for the level designer you have to balance three things, Lore/plot, contrast/visibility and gampelay convenience. And more than often with the 'professional' campaign the former will take a backseat for the two later. Blue is often the 'goog guy' color so in a campaign where youcontrol only a couple of units for a long time it sort of make sense to use it for the 'hero' unit. Besides so many things have retconned or ignored from Wc 2 at this point that color code was the least, really.
I think Illidan was green because that's the normal "This character is stuck doing some important spell" color, Kel'Thuzad was green during Under the Burning Sky
I think this mini-campaign was meant to serve as a "bridge" between WarCraft III and WoW - a transition from pure RTS gameplay towards the hero-centric RPG mechanics. And it does a very good job at that :)
It also did that bridge with the lore : with Admiral Proudmoore's death this introduced how Vanilla was meant to be started... Horde vs Alliance, exactly the same way Warcraft RTS series begun with Orcs and Humans instead.
These wildkins didn't live in tents, it was Samuro's village, so orcs were living there before wildkins attacked them... That's the quest Samuro gives to players
I agree with your colour rant. My biggest peeve in WoW is the inconsistent Dreadlord colouring. Why the hell is Mal'Ganis purple? Why did they end up changing Varimathras from purple to GREEN!?
But i thought Varimathras was red though? the purple one was Balnazzar (also Mal'Ganis was green, just pointing that out because you didn't tell what color he was before purple)
I thought they were both purple in WoW. But in WC3, Mal'ganis was green and Varimathras was red (and looked identical to Tichondrius for some reason). Balnazzar was the purple one, and in my opinion looked the coolest.
oh also, am i the only one that preffered the illidan demon form instead of his winged demon hunter? idk, maybe i just like mysterious looking demons ^w^
When I was a kid, I didn't think about how many dreadlords there are, but I thought that they all have different colored wings. That's how I remembered the "brothers" from RoC and the other brothers from TFT. The ones in RoC were: Anetheron-Orange, Tichondrius-Red, Blue...I can't remember. I checked now, it's Mephistroth. And I like how out of all of them, ONLY MEPHISTROTH KEPT HIS BLUE COLOR in WoW! And also Mal'Ganis was green. In TFT, we get Balnazzar-purple, Varimathras-red, Detheroc-green. And that's all the dreadlord bros! xD
It's a bit evil looking though... Like the slime of Felwood or fel magicks. It does look good on high elf units though. I wish that would've been their color. I also think they look stupid in blue in Quel'thalas.
illidan is blue in the beginning because he is in the night elf campain, then green because he is your unit but is doing a ritual (like kel'thuzad was) and then purple because is serves the burning legion. simple
I don’t know if this is an Easter egg: but the bonus demo campaign has song titles from rock/metal bands. ‘Riders on the Storm’ by The Doors ‘Countdown to Extinction’ by Megadeth ‘The Fire down Below’ by Bob Seger
Same on colours, I always liked knowing what clan or kingdom was involved in WC2, and was a bit confused at first when Lordaeron was using blue in WC3 when they were white before. Also, I think the reason Timmy's brothers aren't there is because we killed them all back in Scourge of Lordaeron.
The gold in Theramore is not imposible to reach, you can buy kelen's dagger and teleport there. At the end of the gold path there's a "bling ring", and everytime you activate it, it gives you gold. EDIT: I just paused the video at that point and wrote, sorry XD
Abelhawk Absolutely haha. I have been loving your videos, I just recently got back into the game with the latest patch, and found this series. Looking forward for them to fix the cinematic problems with the next one, whenever that comes out.
The main annoyances with the Frozen Throne for me was I would've loved for the naga to be able to be used in the custom games. I love their look and how they play. Another was how a lot of the larger maps weren't well balanced for more than two teams, only two teams or ffa. I love the game anyway, I've spent way too much time on it. Very cool series as well, I cheated my way through the campaign because I just wanted to see the story and I find the custom games more enjoyable (I always have and always will, although the campaign does tease those units and the naga who are unusable in the custom games which really annoys me as well). For someone who did cheat their way through, it's great to see what I missed. Also in the Legacy of The Damned, I think first or second mission, the one where you destroy all the villages to stop the humans getting into the valley, use the reveal map cheat and on the very west side of the map, you see the miniature Ice Crown Frozen Throne with Ner Zhul used for the vision Arthas has. I thought it was pretty cool to see how the map makers used the space in the map. Great video!
I don’t think that the Naga can actually produce Royal Guards, at least not whenever you are able to play as them. I might be remembering wrong, but I think that the Royal Guards are always preplaced or spawned in.
I'm aware I'm late to the party, but judging by the location where the Thunder Phoenixes are placed, my guess would be that they're not named "Thunder" due to them having a lightning properties but rather are named after the location they are placed in - the location itself looks really familiar to Thunder Ridge in Durotar. But it does make little to no sense that they are placed there, and have no lightning properties.
I've always liked Rexxar's campaign. I love the overpowered loot was fun to get from big bosses, and the easter eggs are memorable. The biggest reason I adore it is the maps. The devolpers used every inch they had to pack in as much as they could. I love finding new shops and hidden creep areas. My favorite is Neeloc's outpost. Also, I agree with the color problem.
I definitely remember hunting around for my WC2 manual to find which faction had the green anchor to figure out who was attacking Rexxar when I first played the founding of Durotar (that was before they had even added part 2 and 3!)
I enjoyed the look into the Easter Eggs, but more than that I enjoyed the rants; I'm glad to see someone cared about those little things like I did! I too was a big fan of the "color identities" being a thing in early Warcraft (& Starcraft, if you recall), and was saddened by the inconsistencies they let through in later games. Same issues with the "Thunder" Phoenixes & *especially* the "Voodoo" Spirits! So easy to change... Also a big note of appreciation; your discovery of some of those unused voice lines (& that nifty 'geyser/fountain' trick) should really help me out. : )
I've always had a love for purple since it was the national color of Dalaran so I get you. Almost tore my wc2 manual to shreds looking it over growing up. Also liked to play slightly differently in starcraft depending on which color I got as protoss, since the colors there were tied to zerg broods, protoss tribes and terran factions.
You're not the only with the color obsession, trust me. I'm the same. All those things you mentioned pissed me off a great deal when I played the game.
I love how the overworld maps for the Founding of Durotar are pretty useful in their space. Almost all space on the map is taken up, even if actual secrets and references are a bit sparse at a glance
I really wish that at least, they could make a spin off series that has the same playability as WC3 if they don't want to fuck the main story with WoW They could make side stories inside the world of Warcraft.
I totally agree with the whole color thingy, color is a sacred thing in warcraft, and it represents what faction or race they are, Like when I think of purple + warcraft, the first 2 things that comes into my mind are the Undead, and the Warsong clan.
I'm not sure if this counts as an easter egg but in World Editor, there's a secret little green gem in the bottom right corner. Clicking on it says: Gem Activated/Gem Deactivated, it will also change color to purple. If you continue to spam-click on it a random Human Hero dialogue sound will play, mocking you.
Yeah that "I wonder alone" voice line is really weird considering three out of four of his spells summon things. Even without rokhan and Chen he does not wander alone. :D
3:11 you're not the only one. When i was making maps on War2 and Sc1, i always use the right color for the right group/country. I still do that to this day on war3.
I absolutely agree with you on the player color rant! I learned to identify all the kingdoms and clans by their colors too. I feel the same way about how the Protoss use blue mostly in Starcraft when its supposed to represent Raynor. I guess we can go back to Warcraft 2 for that, since each side had their own reason for sharing a color. Both the Alliance and the Horde had a red faction (Stromgarde and Blackrock). So in Warcraft 3 for each faction the color blue represents Lordaeron, Tyrande's Sentinels, Sylvanis' Forsaken, and Rexxar's superfriends.
Of course a new Warcraft RTS is needed, not only would it breathe new life into competitive gaming but also breathe new life into Warcraft. I know it could easily make it's way into the E-Sports scene, it is such a tactical and intense game. I think if marketed more towards online competitive play it would be very successful, like starcraft 2 it will have a built in fan base who would be rearing to play it. I think staying away from the 'cartooney' style of World of Warcraft and leaning more towards Diablo 2 style or Diablo 3 art style would definitely be a big hit in this day and age. Just thinking about new races, maps, jungle enemies or 'creeps' as we used to say and just everything about it gets me excited to play it. Many of the great RTS's of today got their start in Warcraft 4, for instance DOTA started as a Warcraft 3 custom game. Adding some of those facts into the marketing might help attract those who have never played it or heard of it. All in all it would be so amazing to have a new Warcraft RTS!!!! Gotta get that GOSU MICRO :)
u're not the only one obsessed with the colours.... in warlords of draenor it bothered me a lot when I heard that the warsong clan's new colour is red... and also, during wc3, it might have been a bit more appropriate to give thrall a specific colour: light blue cause, theoretically, he's from the frostwolf clan
Late for the party but just realised couple weeks ago that if someone gives you a mission in Rexxarr campaign and you walk to them before you have completed it they talk to you and say things like: "Hey! I'm not paying you for hour!" or "Time is short warrior!"
I do like the Rexxar campaign. It's just so different from all the other campaigns that for a long time I set it aside. Now that I've played it all the way through though, I really admire it.
i think there was a lot more thought put into the color than you think. while grey, orange, or brown would have perfectly shown Rexxar's connection to the barrens, those colors would also make it kind of hard to see him and his companions, as they are the same colors of the terrain
No you're not the only one that cares about the colours, WC2 and SC1 You could know where and from which units/factions were, and on WC3 i did got confused alot
Warcraft 4, if it ever happens, needs to bring back the colour representing flags of the clans. I really loved the "blacktooth grin" clan due to the flag looking very pirate-like with its grin. Made me love playing black orcs in wc2. Hopefully, one day, blizzard will go back to warcraft rts. No idea when, but one day...
Wacka Doodle i think it wuld never happen cause many of the map maker or the staff in wc2,3,wow was fired or retired like david fried, pretty sad thou,just hope
It is a pity that people miss the mini-campaign with Thrawn and the trolls as it might be one of the best parts of all Warcraft 3 in my opinion. The atmosphere was fantastic, the environment felt strange and yet very fitting for Warcraft.
Also exodus of the horde campaign chapters are the names of some iconic songs: Riders on the storm by The Doors, The fires down bellow by Bob Seger and Countdown to extinction by Megadeth.
4:55 i have 100% heard the first two lines you said at some point in the campaign. I loved this campaign when I was younger, and loved to go around destroying things and wasting time, so maybe try that next time? (this is not the first time you shown 'unused dialog' that I have heard before, but I was not 100% sure until now)
10:20 i mabye heard that one before. i think, kind of remember something about rexars banner thing and him going to the next zone before you have it and talking to whoever that is, but im not sure
You missed the Khadgar's Stone of Health in Theramore Isles. It's clearly a reference to Khadgar the mage. Also, in A Blaze of Glory, you can find a market which sells a tomb of knowledge for 6000 golds and a blink dagger, which allows you to blink a short distance, and that's the only way you can reach the treasure island. There you can get a staff of wealth whicj gibes you some gold whenever you use it.
"I think i am the only one who cares that much about colors" Me : remembering once i made a team for half an our because "what color is good for scurge?" and i make purple and it work it just works
Glad to know i wasn't the only one enthralled by the WC2 manual and the colors for the nations and clans! :) YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I think Orange woulda been good for Rexxar.
I think the reason why there are demons in Magistrates Temple, a temple in the nowhere of the barrens, is that it was originally some sort of a temple of the Highborne, the arcane elves who later consorted with the Burning Legion
blue is most likely so you can see who you are more easily appart from the horde. purple = undead, Orange=too close to red? and so on. plus blue has always been friendly and red has been seen as enemy in most strategy games of that time.
If I wanted that, I'd turn allied colors on! :) You're probably right though. Especially since they change to different colors when they sit out of a level, like the one with Samuro.
Finally, also i noticed continuity error, reasoning errors, and just mistakes around this campaign xD Also i just lvoe your humouir and way you present these eastereggs and similar complains to mine for lots of stuff in there xD
What I find even weirder about this is that Forsaken models in WoW are still labeled as "scourge". Was the Scourge supposed to become allies with the Horde or something?
Never have I ever agreed more with someone on the internet, then when it comes to your color statments. We are divided, yet our souls already know eachother.
Just a note to all first-time viewers: I missed MANY Easter eggs this first time through. At the end of the playlist you'll find two "addendum" videos where I cover (almost) every one I missed in parts 1 through 8. I appreciate you pointing out ones that I missed in the comments, since some may have still slipped through the cracks, but you may want to wait till you see all the videos first just in case. Thanks for all your support!
Does anyone know where can I download WorldEdit-able maps of Frozen Throne Campaigns, especially of the last level "A Symphony of Frost and Flame"?
He's There....... Watching......
Abelhawk why so much racism vs the innocent hooomans ?
you should make an additional video for scourge of Lordaeron enhanced campaign.I believe you will really like it
Hmantis Did you buy it or did a relative buy it and give it to you?
100% behind you on colour.
Glad there is more of us XD
The thing for the level designer you have to balance three things, Lore/plot, contrast/visibility and gampelay convenience. And more than often with the 'professional' campaign the former will take a backseat for the two later.
Blue is often the 'goog guy' color so in a campaign where youcontrol only a couple of units for a long time it sort of make sense to use it for the 'hero' unit.
Besides so many things have retconned or ignored from Wc 2 at this point that color code was the least, really.
Im not, blue is your stuff, red is not your stuff
@@adamdobry5517 rip orcs and blood elves
@@s.m.2523 Except that doesn't really work when your orc allies are Red at some points in the campaign.
I think Illidan was green because that's the normal "This character is stuck doing some important spell" color, Kel'Thuzad was green during Under the Burning Sky
Kel'Thuzad was green because that was his standard original Scourge fraction color he was introduced as, like Mal'ganis
@Zerox The boi He became green because he was uncontrollable. Once he stopped being controllable, he turned from purple(player color) to green.
I think this mini-campaign was meant to serve as a "bridge" between WarCraft III and WoW - a transition from pure RTS gameplay towards the hero-centric RPG mechanics.
And it does a very good job at that :)
It also did that bridge with the lore : with Admiral Proudmoore's death this introduced how Vanilla was meant to be started...
Horde vs Alliance, exactly the same way Warcraft RTS series begun with Orcs and Humans instead.
Wow was already a thing
@@alenhodzic2827 Nope thats not true alen, look at the release dates of both games again
@@ilax3071 Wow was planned way before WC3 was released, I think it was at least being discussed as early as 1998
@@XiyuYang the creation of this campaign led to that planning
These wildkins didn't live in tents, it was Samuro's village, so orcs were living there before wildkins attacked them... That's the quest Samuro gives to players
I agree with your colour rant. My biggest peeve in WoW is the inconsistent Dreadlord colouring. Why the hell is Mal'Ganis purple? Why did they end up changing Varimathras from purple to GREEN!?
But i thought Varimathras was red though? the purple one was Balnazzar (also Mal'Ganis was green, just pointing that out because you didn't tell what color he was before purple)
I thought they were both purple in WoW. But in WC3, Mal'ganis was green and Varimathras was red (and looked identical to Tichondrius for some reason). Balnazzar was the purple one, and in my opinion looked the coolest.
Abelhawk me personally, my favourite dreadlord is ticondhrius, too bad he was killed by illidan though ;w;
oh also, am i the only one that preffered the illidan demon form instead of his winged demon hunter? idk, maybe i just like mysterious looking demons ^w^
When I was a kid, I didn't think about how many dreadlords there are, but I thought that they all have different colored wings. That's how I remembered the "brothers" from RoC and the other brothers from TFT. The ones in RoC were: Anetheron-Orange, Tichondrius-Red, Blue...I can't remember. I checked now, it's Mephistroth. And I like how out of all of them, ONLY MEPHISTROTH KEPT HIS BLUE COLOR in WoW! And also Mal'Ganis was green.
In TFT, we get Balnazzar-purple, Varimathras-red, Detheroc-green. And that's all the dreadlord bros! xD
Haha, I love your color rant!!
Right? It is like when people play human in multiplayer and the choose PURPLE or something
Well, that just means they're the nation of Dalaran, in which case they should focus primarily on magic attacks in order to maintain canon. :D
I always play teal night elves in custom games. Always teal, only teal. I can't help it. It's a compulsion.
I find the teal in the game ugly on any race, imho green fits NE the best.
It's a bit evil looking though... Like the slime of Felwood or fel magicks. It does look good on high elf units though. I wish that would've been their color. I also think they look stupid in blue in Quel'thalas.
wow, those underground fountains xD
illidan is blue in the beginning because he is in the night elf campain, then green because he is your unit but is doing a ritual (like kel'thuzad was) and then purple because is serves the burning legion. simple
Yea it doesn't take a lot of brainpower to figure that out
blue and purple don't, green was confusing to me as well
I don’t know if this is an Easter egg: but the bonus demo campaign has song titles from rock/metal bands.
‘Riders on the Storm’ by The Doors
‘Countdown to Extinction’ by Megadeth
‘The Fire down Below’ by Bob Seger
The comment I was waiting for
Same on colours, I always liked knowing what clan or kingdom was involved in WC2, and was a bit confused at first when Lordaeron was using blue in WC3 when they were white before.
Also, I think the reason Timmy's brothers aren't there is because we killed them all back in Scourge of Lordaeron.
I think little Timmy and his mom survived because devs made them invulnerable in the first mission.
This is such a retarded comment, Christ.
I really like the prologue bonus campaign. But the artstyle of the night elf one and the story of the undead ones are great too. :D
The gold in Theramore is not imposible to reach, you can buy kelen's dagger and teleport there. At the end of the gold path there's a "bling ring", and everytime you activate it, it gives you gold.
EDIT: I just paused the video at that point and wrote, sorry XD
Ha ha, gotcha! :D
Abelhawk Absolutely haha. I have been loving your videos, I just recently got back into the game with the latest patch, and found this series.
Looking forward for them to fix the cinematic problems with the next one, whenever that comes out.
Bling Ring baby, Bling Ring
The main annoyances with the Frozen Throne for me was I would've loved for the naga to be able to be used in the custom games. I love their look and how they play. Another was how a lot of the larger maps weren't well balanced for more than two teams, only two teams or ffa. I love the game anyway, I've spent way too much time on it. Very cool series as well, I cheated my way through the campaign because I just wanted to see the story and I find the custom games more enjoyable (I always have and always will, although the campaign does tease those units and the naga who are unusable in the custom games which really annoys me as well). For someone who did cheat their way through, it's great to see what I missed. Also in the Legacy of The Damned, I think first or second mission, the one where you destroy all the villages to stop the humans getting into the valley, use the reveal map cheat and on the very west side of the map, you see the miniature Ice Crown Frozen Throne with Ner Zhul used for the vision Arthas has. I thought it was pretty cool to see how the map makers used the space in the map. Great video!
You can make Naga playable with the Map Editor. Look up the custom map "Warcraft 4", it plays on Lost Temples.
I don’t think that the Naga can actually produce Royal Guards, at least not whenever you are able to play as them. I might be remembering wrong, but I think that the Royal Guards are always preplaced or spawned in.
I recently played. You can't produce Royal guards. But flying Nagas are even more OP.
Thats why i love playing the alliance campaign because there is many time i play with naga units hahaaa
I'm aware I'm late to the party, but judging by the location where the Thunder Phoenixes are placed, my guess would be that they're not named "Thunder" due to them having a lightning properties but rather are named after the location they are placed in - the location itself looks really familiar to Thunder Ridge in Durotar. But it does make little to no sense that they are placed there, and have no lightning properties.
I think exactly as you about these colors.Red are orcs,blue are human,purple are undead and teal are night eleves.
I've always liked Rexxar's campaign. I love the overpowered loot was fun to get from big bosses, and the easter eggs are memorable. The biggest reason I adore it is the maps. The devolpers used every inch they had to pack in as much as they could. I love finding new shops and hidden creep areas. My favorite is Neeloc's outpost. Also, I agree with the color problem.
Too bad Rexxar himself is boring asf
I definitely remember hunting around for my WC2 manual to find which faction had the green anchor to figure out who was attacking Rexxar when I first played the founding of Durotar (that was before they had even added part 2 and 3!)
I enjoyed the look into the Easter Eggs, but more than that I enjoyed the rants; I'm glad to see someone cared about those little things like I did! I too was a big fan of the "color identities" being a thing in early Warcraft (& Starcraft, if you recall), and was saddened by the inconsistencies they let through in later games. Same issues with the "Thunder" Phoenixes & *especially* the "Voodoo" Spirits! So easy to change...
Also a big note of appreciation; your discovery of some of those unused voice lines (& that nifty 'geyser/fountain' trick) should really help me out. : )
Glad to know I'm not the only one! Ha ha
I've always had a love for purple since it was the national color of Dalaran so I get you. Almost tore my wc2 manual to shreds looking it over growing up. Also liked to play slightly differently in starcraft depending on which color I got as protoss, since the colors there were tied to zerg broods, protoss tribes and terran factions.
this is my favorite campaign in all warcraft 3, because i really like the RPG elements i guess
100% Agreed on colors.
Tiny details, big difference.
You're not the only with the color obsession, trust me. I'm the same. All those things you mentioned pissed me off a great deal when I played the game.
names of missions in the bonus campaign are easter eggs themselves (The Doors song, 1974 movie and Megadeth song)
I love how the overworld maps for the Founding of Durotar are pretty useful in their space. Almost all space on the map is taken up, even if actual secrets and references are a bit sparse at a glance
You're right about the colors. lets hope they fix it in the remastered edition ^^
Now just wait for Warcraft 4...
I really wish that at least, they could make a spin off series that has the same playability as WC3 if they don't want to fuck the main story with WoW
They could make side stories inside the world of Warcraft.
It's my dream
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doubt it will happen, but we will get w3 reforged in 2019 so its even better imo
I totally agree with the whole color thingy, color is a sacred thing in warcraft, and it represents what faction or race they are, Like when I think of purple + warcraft, the first 2 things that comes into my mind are the Undead, and the Warsong clan.
Another Abelhawk video, my life gains meaning, once again!
I was always curious when this campaign take place in lore history - just before Night Elf's campaign, or maybe even after Arthas Northrend campaign.
Goretian I think about the same time as the main campaign...or even after everything's happened
I'm not sure if this counts as an easter egg but in World Editor, there's a secret little green gem in the bottom right corner. Clicking on it says: Gem Activated/Gem Deactivated, it will also change color to purple. If you continue to spam-click on it a random Human Hero dialogue sound will play, mocking you.
cheers
Ranting about colour, then talking about "red mushrooms".
loved the irony there
Actually the dialogues can be heard by going out of the trolls base and then coming back.
Thats what I thought too, but instead I saved game and load the game on the village when I heard it.
Yeah that "I wonder alone" voice line is really weird considering three out of four of his spells summon things. Even without rokhan and Chen he does not wander alone. :D
3:11 you're not the only one. When i was making maps on War2 and Sc1, i always use the right color for the right group/country. I still do that to this day on war3.
I absolutely agree with you on the player color rant! I learned to identify all the kingdoms and clans by their colors too. I feel the same way about how the Protoss use blue mostly in Starcraft when its supposed to represent Raynor. I guess we can go back to Warcraft 2 for that, since each side had their own reason for sharing a color. Both the Alliance and the Horde had a red faction (Stromgarde and Blackrock). So in Warcraft 3 for each faction the color blue represents Lordaeron, Tyrande's Sentinels, Sylvanis' Forsaken, and Rexxar's superfriends.
Nice work was done here, I am really surprised that author of video found that a lot in it.
Of course a new Warcraft RTS is needed, not only would it breathe new life into competitive gaming but also breathe new life into Warcraft. I know it could easily make it's way into the E-Sports scene, it is such a tactical and intense game. I think if marketed more towards online competitive play it would be very successful, like starcraft 2 it will have a built in fan base who would be rearing to play it. I think staying away from the 'cartooney' style of World of Warcraft and leaning more towards Diablo 2 style or Diablo 3 art style would definitely be a big hit in this day and age. Just thinking about new races, maps, jungle enemies or 'creeps' as we used to say and just everything about it gets me excited to play it. Many of the great RTS's of today got their start in Warcraft 4, for instance DOTA started as a Warcraft 3 custom game. Adding some of those facts into the marketing might help attract those who have never played it or heard of it. All in all it would be so amazing to have a new Warcraft RTS!!!! Gotta get that GOSU MICRO :)
this is magic, i have just subscribed for this video
u're not the only one obsessed with the colours.... in warlords of draenor it bothered me a lot when I heard that the warsong clan's new colour is red... and also, during wc3, it might have been a bit more appropriate to give thrall a specific colour: light blue cause, theoretically, he's from the frostwolf clan
Late for the party but just realised couple weeks ago that if someone gives you a mission in Rexxarr campaign and you walk to them before you have completed it they talk to you and say things like: "Hey! I'm not paying you for hour!" or "Time is short warrior!"
How can you not like the Rexxar campaing? That made me fell in love with the idea of WoW two years before i even heard of it.
I do like the Rexxar campaign. It's just so different from all the other campaigns that for a long time I set it aside. Now that I've played it all the way through though, I really admire it.
i think there was a lot more thought put into the color than you think. while grey, orange, or brown would have perfectly shown Rexxar's connection to the barrens, those colors would also make it kind of hard to see him and his companions, as they are the same colors of the terrain
I can't wait to play this in WC3: Reforged!
I totally agree with you about all the color stuff it really erks me
1:56 i feel the same from wc2 and sc1 man you are not alone
No you're not the only one that cares about the colours, WC2 and SC1 You could know where and from which units/factions were, and on WC3 i did got confused alot
Countdown to Extinction is also a referenace to Megadeth's Album with the same name :)
Warcraft 4, if it ever happens, needs to bring back the colour representing flags of the clans.
I really loved the "blacktooth grin" clan due to the flag looking very pirate-like with its grin. Made me love playing black orcs in wc2.
Hopefully, one day, blizzard will go back to warcraft rts. No idea when, but one day...
Wacka Doodle i think it wuld never happen cause many of the map maker or the staff in wc2,3,wow was fired or retired like david fried, pretty sad thou,just hope
Frozen Throne in a nutshell: obligatory dungeon level!
And to top it all of, we made an entire campaign ENTIRELY out of dungeon levels!
Previously on Avatar.
Really great videos man! Keep up the good work! :D
You are not the only one, I also did start from Warcraft 2 and colours matter for me. It is really confusing what they did in Warcraft 3
7:38 survived all the way from Lordaeron to Kalimdor - only to be blown later into peaced by the Mana-Nuke-Bomb from Garrosh of the Horde
Drat, if I had known someone has added the voices to the demo campaign, I wouldn't have bothered to make it myself for my cutscene series... :-/
Btw … a weird coincidence … the penguin sound is also used in Half Life 2 along the coast levels as an ambient sound for seagulls. o_O
Didnt liked the campaing of the SMOrc, but I have to say that the orc mini-campaign in TFT is SUPER COOL! :)
Colour definitely makes it. I mean imagine if the undead werent purple in reign of chaos campaign???
It is a pity that people miss the mini-campaign with Thrawn and the trolls as it might be one of the best parts of all Warcraft 3 in my opinion. The atmosphere was fantastic, the environment felt strange and yet very fitting for Warcraft.
Also exodus of the horde campaign chapters are the names of some iconic songs: Riders on the storm by The Doors, The fires down bellow by Bob Seger and Countdown to extinction by Megadeth.
I thought Rexxar was the main character because this is the first campaign I played.
Same here lmao
Alicia and Little Timmy may have survived Lordaeron, but I wonder if they survived the mana bomb...
but wait , if timmy and his mom was on theramore, that means garrosh killed him D:
4:55 i have 100% heard the first two lines you said at some point in the campaign. I loved this campaign when I was younger, and loved to go around destroying things and wasting time, so maybe try that next time?
(this is not the first time you shown 'unused dialog' that I have heard before, but I was not 100% sure until now)
10:20 i mabye heard that one before. i think, kind of remember something about rexars banner thing and him going to the next zone before you have it and talking to whoever that is, but im not sure
I loved the Bab 5 intro my dude
You missed the Khadgar's Stone of Health in Theramore Isles. It's clearly a reference to Khadgar the mage.
Also, in A Blaze of Glory, you can find a market which sells a tomb of knowledge for 6000 golds and a blink dagger, which allows you to blink a short distance, and that's the only way you can reach the treasure island. There you can get a staff of wealth whicj gibes you some gold whenever you use it.
Little Timmy and his mom make it to Theramore where they are now nice and safe from the Scourge.....
Oh dear.
I think this one was the first shot of Blizzard in giving the players some WoW experience.
"I think i am the only one who cares that much about colors"
Me : remembering once i made a team for half an our because "what color is good for scurge?" and i make purple and it work it just works
If you think about it wc3 had alot of teasers at old gods with the forgotten ones and the naga that I’m assuming weren’t under illidan
"Colour matters a lot to me."
Anyway, kill these red mushrooms.
Glad to know i wasn't the only one enthralled by the WC2 manual and the colors for the nations and clans! :) YOU ARE NOT ALONE. I think Orange woulda been good for Rexxar.
3:16 nah you are not alone, I feel it
Hype! Love your videos Abelhawk, looking much forward for your bonus video! =)
wait how did i miss chen storm stout helping rexxar where was he
The end of a great series.Had a great time with it.Why don't you make a playthrough series of Warcraft 1,2, or 3 next?
I can't help but notice the Avatar: The Last Airbender music in the beginning of your video
Can confirm, colors are 100% important for Warcraft campaigns! When making custom maps, I'd always use the proper colors. Illidan is purple, damn it!
Abelhawk In the Theramore base Where you go with Samuro to do the sabotage, if you kill the Paladin (somehow) He will drop you Orb of Lightning.
3:14
You aren't. I still have my Warcraft 2 manual with descriptions of all the various factions. I think it's a real shame.
I think the reason why there are demons in Magistrates Temple, a temple in the nowhere of the barrens, is that it was originally some sort of a temple of the Highborne, the arcane elves who later consorted with the Burning Legion
It's really fun to think of the origins of all those dungeons, even though they were probably just made up on the fly as they created the campaign!
I partially agree with you on the colour's and think you make a good point
10:12 And now there's a character in Hearthstone named "Whizbang". (he's a gnome though)
In wow as well. The dev who made the levels in wc3 actually commented on one of these vids saying that was the fav name he created
I also care about the color, and also noticed the humans, since wearing the teal color, must've been from Kul Tiras...
blue is most likely so you can see who you are more easily appart from the horde. purple = undead, Orange=too close to red? and so on. plus blue has always been friendly and red has been seen as enemy in most strategy games of that time.
If I wanted that, I'd turn allied colors on! :) You're probably right though. Especially since they change to different colors when they sit out of a level, like the one with Samuro.
I love your editing.
Thanks very much!
i also care about the colors, it also got me in Starcraft as well -__-
I actually fully agree with you on team colour use in WC3
Finally, also i noticed continuity error, reasoning errors, and just mistakes around this campaign xD
Also i just lvoe your humouir and way you present these eastereggs and similar complains to mine for lots of stuff in there xD
In the beast den to the southeast you can find a satyr base and an ancient protector which drops a tome of intelligence+2 when killed
Completely agree about the colors. To me, in capmaigns they always represented sides, like a flag
Not using any hotkeys.
[Triggered]
Are we all just going to ignore that the Rexxar and bear models on the campaign's intro screen look suspiciously WoW-like?
Cool, isn’t it? World of Warcraft was well into development before they decided to include an orc campaign in the Frozen Throne.
What I find even weirder about this is that Forsaken models in WoW are still labeled as "scourge". Was the Scourge supposed to become allies with the Horde or something?
Best campaign ever.
Never have I ever agreed more with someone on the internet, then when it comes to your color statments. We are divided, yet our souls already know eachother.
great content as always!
Riders of the storm = the doors
The fires down below = bob seger
Countdown to extinction = megadeth
ideal for my flight :D nice vids as always
Founding of Durotar feels like an early build for what they planned WoW to be like, that's the feeling it gave me anyways.