I used to watch my older brothers play this game back in 1996 probably. I found it incredibly dark and spooky and it still give me those feelings. In 1998, as a 8 year old kid, I went to visit my brother in Detroit and my parents gave me the chest edition of Warcraft. One night, we slept in a shack near a large forest and I just couldn't sleep thinking that green orcs would come out from the woods with axes. Thank you so much for the memories
Amazing! I love how they made these dark themed games, the graphs, sounds and everything culminates in this athmosphere. The 1st X-com game is also built in such a way. This is straight up 90's magic right there. My cousing played this one and Escape from Monkey island back then, and I loved watching him play.
@@nobshistoryengineering4421 don't really remember where it was exactly, but the original destination was Detroit ✌️, but we crossed all the way to Niagara Falls and it could been somewhere between with a shack in a forest
You slept in a shack near a forest in Detroit? Most people unfamiliar with the area would think you're lying about that, but I believe you, because in Detroit, the bushes and trees reclaimed land long ago forgotten.
When I was a littlekid, used to watch my older bro play this Game, I asked him what the (Red) Daemon and (Blue) Water Elemental were called as I thought they were so cool. He told me the red one was called ‘Bob’, and the blue one was ‘Frank’. 🤣 how I still remember this from about 25 years ago.
mind blowing indeed. considering the size of the franchise, you would think more people would be interested in seeing its origin. I was happy to find a dedicated warcraft 1 player showing how it's done, very impressive!
Back when WC was a dark fantasy world with grounded lore. Orcs used to be 6'6" muscular dudes, so it made sense that smaller humans with armour, training and discipline could fight them. Now it's just fucking insane, and orcs are each the size of cars.
Canonically, this is the true ending to Warcraft 1. The Orcs win all of Warcraft 1 and all but the final mission of Warcraft 2. Another interesting tidbit is, although its never expressly stated, the implication is that the player is Ogrim Doomhammer. The story is that Ogrim realized that Blackhand was just a puppet and so he challenged him to a Makgora or a 1v1 battle to the death. Ogrim wins, becomes warchief and destroys Stormwind. That's not quite what happens here but you do take out Blackhand and lead the horde to victory.
@Qimodis The human campaign in War2 IS canon but in the timeline it takes place after the final orc mission. The orcs win all the way up to Lordaeron (the last orc mission) but right before the final push they are defeated due to being weakened by splitting their forces in the missions prior. There are a few differences due to game play mechanics but the general idea is that they lost the final War2 mission then the human campaign took place wherein the humans won every mission afterwards. The reason I say that the orcs "won" War1 is because in that game the two campaigns take place at the same time and the only way for things to happen in the way they are said to have happened in future games is if you played the orc side and not the human side. With the exception of one mission where Medivh is killed.
@@Lorlic1138 I don't think it was intended this way, though.There are some major contradictions between the two campaigns, which means that they cannot both be canon. Example: the Tol Barad vs. Dun Modr battle. Orc campaign says Tol Barad was destroyed by the Horde, but the Human campaign is the exact opposite thing - Tol Barad was saved and Dun Modr was razed by the Alliance. Both missions cannot be canon at the same time, it creates a paradox. Yes, the current canon says that the orcs reached the capital of Lordaeron and failed (it's described in the "Tides of Darkness" novel as well), but the original idea of WarCraft II was that only the Human campaign is the fully canonical one (with some events from the Orc campaign being canon as well, e.g. the theft of the Elven Runestone from Caer Darrow).
@@AlexeiVoronin That's what I'm trying to say, but I worded it poorly. There are some orc missions that aren't cannon but others are. Thats why I say to get the best lore experience, play orc first but imagine you lose the last orc mission. BTDP is a whole other story.
Dialogue Opening: 0:01 Ending 1:48:19 1:15 Mission I 5:32 Mission II 11:36 Mission III 22:16 Mission IV 28:59 Mission V 39:05 Mission VII 51:21 Mission VIII 1:02:21 Mission IX 1:07:24 Mission X 1:21:28 Mission XII 1:24:17 Mission XIII 1:35:57 Mission XIV
Something I loved (genuinely) about pixels being so big back then is it pretty much let your imagination fill in the minimalistic strokes, and decide for yourself if you saw the graphics as realistic / cartoonish / dark etc. Based on the music, colours and relative gore, I saw this game as rather twisted and spooky, playing it for hours as a young kid, so, the higher res, brighter colours and somewhat cartoonish style in WC II took me a little while getting used to! (though with its more epic scope and cinematics, the overall continuity as far as dark forces, scraggly lands, weird creatures, and of course the manual's immersive illustrations and lore -that was a thing, back then-, I was soon all in, and ended up playing that one even more!) Good times!
In 1999, friends of mine and myself get to camping. One of them said "Blizzard is like Midas, everything they touch, turns to gold". It was the truth back then. So much atmosphere. Blizzards design is a part of my youth. And I will love them forever for this. But it was another time.
@@KayraSururi I don't really have that as a problem. It has more to do with the fact that the story lacks build up, the in game cutscenes not working out this time, unlike in Sc1 where when that happened, the voice acting was always a blast to hear, so it worked just fine, and it was more reasonable. In StarCraft 2 when it does it, it can lead to some silly moments, and also leads to lack of build up as I mentioned earlier. I think a good example of this, it's where in Legacy of the void, Artanis helps out Jim Raynor after escaping Aiur, with some Terran forces giving Raynor a hard time. You spend a few missions taking them on, where it escalates fighting some hybrid on the way. At the end, the mission ends on a cutscene where Jim Raynor and Artanis reflect on the damage they caused, as they looked through the moon, and honouring the fallen ones. A fine idea, but the problem is I have with it is that it just comes so suddenly. From my memory serves right, there was no change in tone of music, no fade affect or anything to really make the moment pay off. Not to mention, the writing and story can be a bit cheesy. I do agree they kind of did butcher the art style a bit, and I guess got rid of the more darker feel to the series, but I don't know. There's a fair bit that just don't really have the same punch in Sc2 that was present in the original. I still love both games, and Sc1 has flaws of it's own too, but Sc2, is a bit disappointing in those areas.
Thanks so much for this walkthrough. I always wanted to play Warcraft 1, but it felt like a daunting task as I have never played strategy games like this before. You walkthrough greatly helped me finish this game!
Really neat how the architecture of the orcs changed between warcraft 1 and 2 and they reflect the old way of orcish buildings in Outland when we go there in world of warcraft.
You should have seen my teenage self building organized lines with lots of ranged so even a demon won't touch me, of course scout ahead for catapults and draw my enemies to me, advancing carefully (until I could mass summons) I did finish both campaigns with no cheats though giving me extra gold and lumber would save the tedious gathering of resources. This was messy and wasteful for me - but I guess it's a sort of speedrun...I took my time.
Warcraft 1 canon ending is orcs with the exception of the alliance killing Medivh which is also canon in Warcraft 2 the warchief of horde is your character from 1 and with his leadership orcs are victorious till the last mission where half of their army is gone as gul'dan is secretly trying to open up the portal for the burning legion this allows the alliance to repel the attack, regroup and push them back which then makes Alliance ending in 2 canon.
This game was incredible when it first came. Warcraft 2 blew it away, of course, but I remember when my dad showed this to me when laptops were first getting affordable in 95 - we were hooked.
Never seen wc1 gameplay before and extremely surprised how many features they have "downgraded" in wc2 if compare. Levels have lots of details like books shelves, chests, chairs, bridges, roads, other props, interior tiles. Of course wc2 sprites are of much much higher quality but I feel level detalization as its missing part. There are various neutral enemies present, also felt like missing in second game.
@@ImStillRandomfungod Back in the Warcraft 1 era, they were called Daemons. Also, the human castle was called "Stonewind Keep" in some old versions (later renamed to Stormwind Keep).
@@AlexeiVoronin 0:13 sounds like stormwind to me. I played this game when I was a kid and that's what I remember the name to be. I used to look at the manual all the time because I liked the drawings in there, and I'm pretty sure that it said stormwind in there too
Holy shit, I never knew you could select multiple units at once. And the worst thing about is that I kept telling people it's impossible because I'm apparently too stupid to figure it out.
This and Mechwarrior 2 where the first games I played on my brand new, wicked fast 75 MHz Pentium Packard Bell with a massive four, yes *_FOUR_* megs of ram. LOL, those two plus Civ and Civ 2 ate up a pretty big chunk of my life.
I bought this game in 1998. Took it home and installed it. Couldn't get it to work. So I took it back to Kmart and got my money back, and bought Starcraft. In 2000, I saw it was still installed on my computer and had learned how MS DOS works. Got it to work.
The main enemy in this game: the controls. Prevents me from playing myself successfully.. THANKS for this video!!! edit: how were you able to control severy units at once?????
Man I have no recollection of enemy units teleporting directly into your base like that. That aside, RIP grimdark World of Warcraft. After the untimely death of Lord of the Clans it slowly started transitioning into Captain Planet, and yes its that kind of "transitioning." Props on an excellent speed run. I definitely never beat the whole campaign in under two hours!
@@andreashummelshjj.8165 You are totally right! I completely forgot that the Azeroth side had that spell! Even back then I was more of a horde guy so it totally skipped my mind.
@@sachavykos3206 Please. The humans in this game are as wholesome as it gets. The game goes out of its way to talk about how great things were for the humans before the orcs show up, and gives the humans a happy ending where the orcs are utterly defeated at the end of their campaign. This is just a cartoony "good vs. evil" story, not grimdark.
@@dragonslair951167 Except the game isn't called "Warcraft: Before the Orcs Show up" and its not called "Warcraft: If the humans survive." (They don't.) Just because the civilizations in the world arn't unsustainably stupid hottopic wrist cutting, humanity on the verge of extinction glamdorkdark doesn't mean its not grim dark lol. The narrator saying "humans had enough wheat to get by and live proper medieval life spans!" prior to the start of the games events does not preclude the game from bieng grimdark. lol. The flavor text talks about how the Orcs experimented with killing unarmed humans because they needed to confirm that a "Sharp blow to the back of the head" will do the trick lol, and this is two months before the Orc warlord has his own daughter assassinated because she walked slightly off to the left LOL. Should I assume that the people who have already been severely wounded while limping up to this hill that they will die on think Berserk only became Grimdark after the magical demons showed up, or perhaps that setting isn't grimdark either because theres more than 10,000 living humans in the world lol.
I lived and breathed dune 2 in 1993-1994 and six year old me thought this game was so scuffed I hated it. Warcraft 2 was where the series finally made sense to my child mind. I should revisit this game. It definitely needed a remaster more than wc3.
I remember my uncle giving me WarCraft 1 and Quake when I was like 7-8. I mostly played WarCraft because I was too scared of Quake lol. Queue me being addicted to WarCraft 2 for many years.
Yo i miss playing this game! one of the first game i ever played @ my uncles house on his computer. I was merely 6 years old and still managed to finish the game in a single week-end of sleep over (I was sleeping over every odd week-end to play computers after that, until 1998 when he bought me my first personnal computer and.... THROWN ME INTO ADDICTION OF MMOS, EQ, WOW, SHADOWBANE, DAOC, WARHAMMER ONLINE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHERE IS MY TEEEEEEN-HOOD!
I just did the mission at 12:07 and I was able to do it on my first try, but I had a lot of trouble. I had to deal with a bunch of priests. Was that because I was taking too long to attack or because I was making necrolytes?
As a kid i never could beat level 3, now i see finally how it is done. I just realized that the horde has no healers and alliance side has healers, is that correct btw?
Still playing this one today - shame they never made a mission pack.. I first saw the demo on a Amd/DX40 and later on got to play the full game in December of 1995 - a superb experience. One thing's essential - play it with keyboard & mouse or it's unbeatable. The later entries in the "franchise" were good games on their own but not in the league of this gem. Btw, you're quite the good player.
Fun fact: in the original CD/Floppy versions of the game, the Human campaign was impossible to beat without cheat codes. Somewhere around mission 6, a task requiring you to free your peasants first in order to build an army, would initiate an all-out attack from the Orc stronghold, that you had no chance of defeating. Back at this time the only way to get patched versions of games was to: A) have an internet connection, and in 1994 & 1995 that was a not a common thing, likely less than 5-8% of USA households. B) Know what a 'patch' was, that it even existed, where to go to get it, and the what, why & how to install it! 🤣 Suffice it to say that if you were a kid playing this game without help from a grown-up who knew about the internet, you were never going to beat the Human campaign without cheat codes, using the original version. An Orcish victory was the only way. 😈
Shoutout to Warcraft 2 on the PS1. This title was released in 94. Year i was born, and put in a good 14+ years of wow. Funny how it all came full circle and how important that year would be in terms of the future and significance lol. Skipping wow this xpac i think which is the first time, getting older. Point is, good memories of these titles. Intro hits differently than back in the day.
It's strange - When I see gameplay from old games I used to play when I was like ... 10 -12 years old like this. I for som reason remeber smells hehe. Anyone else? Watching this video I get flashbacks from my room in the basement of my house, and som smells i'm having a hard time pin pointing. I reccon its just the smell of the room. Weird :D Getting older ..
"Your task is simple enough that even the War Chief feels that you are capable of it." is a terribly constructed sentence. "The War Chief feels the task is so simple even you can accomplish it."
So I have to start with this game if I am planning to do the whole Warcraft series? Can someone help me with the list of games in chronological order. Thank you. Nice vid btw! 😁
Warcaft: Orcs and humans, Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, World of Warcraft
Only the Orcish campaign is fully canon. Some events from the Human campaign are canon (e.g. the slaying of Medivh), but for the most part it is non-canon, or an "alternate timeline" as the other guy suggested.
![Warcraft 2 Orc Campaign Speedrun [4K]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vtq0mwSiyV8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Warcraft 2 Orc Campaign Speedrun [4K]](/img/tr.png)
I used to watch my older brothers play this game back in 1996 probably. I found it incredibly dark and spooky and it still give me those feelings. In 1998, as a 8 year old kid, I went to visit my brother in Detroit and my parents gave me the chest edition of Warcraft. One night, we slept in a shack near a large forest and I just couldn't sleep thinking that green orcs would come out from the woods with axes. Thank you so much for the memories
I'd be more scared of black gangs if I was in Detroit lol
Amazing! I love how they made these dark themed games, the graphs, sounds and everything culminates in this athmosphere. The 1st X-com game is also built in such a way. This is straight up 90's magic right there. My cousing played this one and Escape from Monkey island back then, and I loved watching him play.
There are forests in Detroit?
@@nobshistoryengineering4421 don't really remember where it was exactly, but the original destination was Detroit ✌️, but we crossed all the way to Niagara Falls and it could been somewhere between with a shack in a forest
You slept in a shack near a forest in Detroit? Most people unfamiliar with the area would think you're lying about that, but I believe you, because in Detroit, the bushes and trees reclaimed land long ago forgotten.
When I was a littlekid, used to watch my older bro play this Game, I asked him what the (Red) Daemon and (Blue) Water Elemental were called as I thought they were so cool. He told me the red one was called ‘Bob’, and the blue one was ‘Frank’. 🤣 how I still remember this from about 25 years ago.
Can very good relate to that 😂
You need to remind your older bro of the story he will like it
2:24 Lightyears away, a Protoss Observer manages to pick up these words from Azeroth.
mind blowing indeed. considering the size of the franchise, you would think more people would be interested in seeing its origin. I was happy to find a dedicated warcraft 1 player showing how it's done, very impressive!
The Warcraft community these days is pure WoW. They think "old and hardcore" means Vanilla :)
@@yamchadragonball6983 That's the saddest thing I've ever read.
I'm sure WOW was fun, but WC1, 2, and 3 is where my heart lays. I would KILL for some new RTS Warcraft
zoomers don't care about anything past their front door
interested in seeing its origins translates to - playing a shitty game thats 26 years old?
Back when WC was a dark fantasy world with grounded lore. Orcs used to be 6'6" muscular dudes, so it made sense that smaller humans with armour, training and discipline could fight them.
Now it's just fucking insane, and orcs are each the size of cars.
? Cars are shorter than 6’6? They’d be easier to fight if they were the size of cars?
@@sauceover go and lay down mext to a car. Is it many times bigger than you? Yes.
Manaroth blood is a helluva drug
@@sauceover You are talking height, they are talking length...
@@tacitus6384 *lie. Sorry, I agree with you otherwise.
Canonically, this is the true ending to Warcraft 1. The Orcs win all of Warcraft 1 and all but the final mission of Warcraft 2. Another interesting tidbit is, although its never expressly stated, the implication is that the player is Ogrim Doomhammer. The story is that Ogrim realized that Blackhand was just a puppet and so he challenged him to a Makgora or a 1v1 battle to the death. Ogrim wins, becomes warchief and destroys Stormwind. That's not quite what happens here but you do take out Blackhand and lead the horde to victory.
If I recall doesn't the 1st rebellion fail?
When the Humans kill the wizard Midheve or whatever his name is, it knocks out Guldan and he isn't able to keep Blackhand safe.
@Qimodis The human campaign in War2 IS canon but in the timeline it takes place after the final orc mission. The orcs win all the way up to Lordaeron (the last orc mission) but right before the final push they are defeated due to being weakened by splitting their forces in the missions prior. There are a few differences due to game play mechanics but the general idea is that they lost the final War2 mission then the human campaign took place wherein the humans won every mission afterwards.
The reason I say that the orcs "won" War1 is because in that game the two campaigns take place at the same time and the only way for things to happen in the way they are said to have happened in future games is if you played the orc side and not the human side. With the exception of one mission where Medivh is killed.
@@Lorlic1138 I don't think it was intended this way, though.There are some major contradictions between the two campaigns, which means that they cannot both be canon. Example: the Tol Barad vs. Dun Modr battle. Orc campaign says Tol Barad was destroyed by the Horde, but the Human campaign is the exact opposite thing - Tol Barad was saved and Dun Modr was razed by the Alliance. Both missions cannot be canon at the same time, it creates a paradox.
Yes, the current canon says that the orcs reached the capital of Lordaeron and failed (it's described in the "Tides of Darkness" novel as well), but the original idea of WarCraft II was that only the Human campaign is the fully canonical one (with some events from the Orc campaign being canon as well, e.g. the theft of the Elven Runestone from Caer Darrow).
@@AlexeiVoronin That's what I'm trying to say, but I worded it poorly. There are some orc missions that aren't cannon but others are. Thats why I say to get the best lore experience, play orc first but imagine you lose the last orc mission. BTDP is a whole other story.
Dialogue
Opening: 0:01
Ending 1:48:19
1:15 Mission I
5:32 Mission II
11:36 Mission III
22:16 Mission IV
28:59 Mission V
39:05 Mission VII
51:21 Mission VIII
1:02:21 Mission IX
1:07:24 Mission X
1:21:28 Mission XII
1:24:17 Mission XIII
1:35:57 Mission XIV
Your a god
@@bobthebuilder243 ✋😔👌
“The SWAMPS of SOOORROOOW”
Miss this game.
It's now available on GOG if you feel nostalgic :)
Mathis Baumert serious???? Well I know what I’m buying this week!
@@mattxander8976 Warcraft 2 is available as well. 1 & 2 also as a bundle. Diablo 1 (no hellfire) is also available.
@@mattxander8976 You can play it free through browser too.
@@I_am_Dad_Son inquiring minds wish to know.
The fact that there was just 10 years between this and WoW is fucking mind blowing!
I had to look that up. That is impossible! Wouw...
there was 13 years between gta2 and gta5
its prolly less since development started before 2004 :)
Something I loved (genuinely) about pixels being so big back then is it pretty much let your imagination fill in the minimalistic strokes, and decide for yourself if you saw the graphics as realistic / cartoonish / dark etc. Based on the music, colours and relative gore, I saw this game as rather twisted and spooky, playing it for hours as a young kid, so, the higher res, brighter colours and somewhat cartoonish style in WC II took me a little while getting used to! (though with its more epic scope and cinematics, the overall continuity as far as dark forces, scraggly lands, weird creatures, and of course the manual's immersive illustrations and lore -that was a thing, back then-, I was soon all in, and ended up playing that one even more!) Good times!
Yes, that is why 90's games have such a "magical" feeling to it. I'm blessed for being a kid at that time.
I appreciate you not skipping the intro dialogue before the missions
In 1999, friends of mine and myself get to camping. One of them said "Blizzard is like Midas, everything they touch, turns to gold". It was the truth back then.
So much atmosphere. Blizzards design is a part of my youth. And I will love them forever for this. But it was another time.
What do you think about the story in SC2? Do you think it was as good as Brood War?
@@arbiter8246 SC2 lacked the dark mystery Brood War had.
@@KayraSururi I don't really have that as a problem. It has more to do with the fact that the story lacks build up, the in game cutscenes not working out this time, unlike in Sc1 where when that happened, the voice acting was always a blast to hear, so it worked just fine, and it was more reasonable. In StarCraft 2 when it does it, it can lead to some silly moments, and also leads to lack of build up as I mentioned earlier. I think a good example of this, it's where in Legacy of the void, Artanis helps out Jim Raynor after escaping Aiur, with some Terran forces giving Raynor a hard time. You spend a few missions taking them on, where it escalates fighting some hybrid on the way. At the end, the mission ends on a cutscene where Jim Raynor and Artanis reflect on the damage they caused, as they looked through the moon, and honouring the fallen ones. A fine idea, but the problem is I have with it is that it just comes so suddenly.
From my memory serves right, there was no change in tone of music, no fade affect or anything to really make the moment pay off. Not to mention, the writing and story can be a bit cheesy. I do agree they kind of did butcher the art style a bit, and I guess got rid of the more darker feel to the series, but I don't know. There's a fair bit that just don't really have the same punch in Sc2 that was present in the original.
I still love both games, and Sc1 has flaws of it's own too, but Sc2, is a bit disappointing in those areas.
Its so nice to see a well polished walkthrough, Love your Gameplay!
STOP POKING HIIIM!
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BLYUK!
Dabu !
Lok'tar
Thanks so much for this walkthrough. I always wanted to play Warcraft 1, but it felt like a daunting task as I have never played strategy games like this before.
You walkthrough greatly helped me finish this game!
Really neat how the architecture of the orcs changed between warcraft 1 and 2 and they reflect the old way of orcish buildings in Outland when we go there in world of warcraft.
you sending troops to attack: kills everyone while barely taking damage
me sending troops to attack: gets slaughtered
You should have seen my teenage self building organized lines with lots of ranged so even a demon won't touch me, of course scout ahead for catapults and draw my enemies to me, advancing carefully (until I could mass summons) I did finish both campaigns with no cheats though giving me extra gold and lumber would save the tedious gathering of resources. This was messy and wasteful for me - but I guess it's a sort of speedrun...I took my time.
Watch these videos at 2X speed. It's like you're experiencing a seizure and drinking coffee at the same time.
Actually, its still a bit slower than watching a Starcraft 2 progamers :-)
The music at X2 speed is pretty amazing :D
Apparently orcs prefer round architecture before switching to pointy and rickety architecture
Those untainted orcs in WoW Burning Crusade were still living in round buildings if I remember correctly.
It's cool, this rounded architecture gives an extra alien feeling to the orcs, which i wish was kept in later games
I love that this is canon to the Warcraft timeline
Warcraft 1 is the only thing canon to the Warcraft timeline.
@@Hamstray
WC1: horde wins
WC2: alliance wins, them came WC3
@@BeanMan157 and WC3 was the downfall of Warcraft.
very happy to see a video like this exists - been a great watch - thanks for sharing with us!
I love how they went with this canon for the second game. Makes perfect sense, if the humans won then there would be no second game.
Warcraft 1 canon ending is orcs with the exception of the alliance killing Medivh which is also canon in Warcraft 2 the warchief of horde is your character from 1 and with his leadership orcs are victorious till the last mission where half of their army is gone as gul'dan is secretly trying to open up the portal for the burning legion this allows the alliance to repel the attack, regroup and push them back which then makes Alliance ending in 2 canon.
It says welcome to the world of warcraft in the beginning. Prophetic, or they knew all along...
This game was incredible when it first came.
Warcraft 2 blew it away, of course, but I remember when my dad showed this to me when laptops were first getting affordable in 95 - we were hooked.
I miss the time when Orcs were Orcs: merciless, warlike, ruthless, and cunning yet somewhat stupid. Now, they are just green-skinned humans.
Everything gets babyfied to appease to the "m-asses".
love your videos Stu, lets me relive alot of memories
It sounds like they're saying "spark plug" and "luuuke"
Never seen wc1 gameplay before and extremely surprised how many features they have "downgraded" in wc2 if compare. Levels have lots of details like books shelves, chests, chairs, bridges, roads, other props, interior tiles. Of course wc2 sprites are of much much higher quality but I feel level detalization as its missing part. There are various neutral enemies present, also felt like missing in second game.
The Daemons were so overpowered it's ridiculous. ;)
2 Catapults: Hello there daemon (:
Demons not daemons
@@ImStillRandomfungod Says who? wow.gamepedia.com/Daemon_(Warcraft_I)
@@ImStillRandomfungod Back in the Warcraft 1 era, they were called Daemons. Also, the human castle was called "Stonewind Keep" in some old versions (later renamed to Stormwind Keep).
@@AlexeiVoronin 0:13 sounds like stormwind to me. I played this game when I was a kid and that's what I remember the name to be. I used to look at the manual all the time because I liked the drawings in there, and I'm pretty sure that it said stormwind in there too
The Warhammer influence was strong in that first game
I played warcraft 1 back on dos format lol! 2002 warcraft 3 was game changing. RoC dota was so good!
Very good, it's mind blowing that this has only so little views!
love people who didnt grow up with the franchise trying to tell people who did the lore of warcraft
Holy shit, I never knew you could select multiple units at once. And the worst thing about is that I kept telling people it's impossible because I'm apparently too stupid to figure it out.
To be fair the controls are god awful. I just bought this to try and gave up after 1 mission because it just sucked to play with the controls.
Hold down Ctrl to select more than one unit at once. You are limited to 4 units at a time.
@@AlexeiVoronin omg you have saving my life! ty! xD I have pass 3 missions selecting 1 by 1 xD
This and Mechwarrior 2 where the first games I played on my brand new, wicked fast 75 MHz Pentium Packard Bell with a massive four, yes *_FOUR_* megs of ram.
LOL, those two plus Civ and Civ 2 ate up a pretty big chunk of my life.
this got me addicted to games for the rest of my life
I bought this game in 1998. Took it home and installed it. Couldn't get it to work. So I took it back to Kmart and got my money back, and bought Starcraft. In 2000, I saw it was still installed on my computer and had learned how MS DOS works. Got it to work.
Totally sounds like the orcs are saying sparkplug.
No, they are saying "Sparkplugs" with an S
how many hour s of training to get this result ? Those deamon should be rename one punch deamon
Fond memories of my Mom wandering into the den after midnight and telling me, "NO MORE ORC NOISES!" 😊
The main enemy in this game: the controls. Prevents me from playing myself successfully.. THANKS for this video!!!
edit: how were you able to control severy units at once?????
sorry, don't remember the controls for this game :)
I think either hold shift and click, or hold ctrl and drag to make a box. Not sure.
@@Ghostly_One1 both
As a kid this game was so difficult to me. Barely made it through the first few missions.
OMG... this brings back memory....
Man I have no recollection of enemy units teleporting directly into your base like that. That aside, RIP grimdark World of Warcraft. After the untimely death of Lord of the Clans it slowly started transitioning into Captain Planet, and yes its that kind of "transitioning." Props on an excellent speed run. I definitely never beat the whole campaign in under two hours!
Teleporting? Aren't they just invisible?
@@andreashummelshjj.8165 You are totally right! I completely forgot that the Azeroth side had that spell! Even back then I was more of a horde guy so it totally skipped my mind.
@Qimodis Lmao one of us doesn't.
@@sachavykos3206 Please. The humans in this game are as wholesome as it gets. The game goes out of its way to talk about how great things were for the humans before the orcs show up, and gives the humans a happy ending where the orcs are utterly defeated at the end of their campaign. This is just a cartoony "good vs. evil" story, not grimdark.
@@dragonslair951167 Except the game isn't called "Warcraft: Before the Orcs Show up" and its not called "Warcraft: If the humans survive." (They don't.) Just because the civilizations in the world arn't unsustainably stupid hottopic wrist cutting, humanity on the verge of extinction glamdorkdark doesn't mean its not grim dark lol. The narrator saying "humans had enough wheat to get by and live proper medieval life spans!" prior to the start of the games events does not preclude the game from bieng grimdark. lol.
The flavor text talks about how the Orcs experimented with killing unarmed humans because they needed to confirm that a "Sharp blow to the back of the head" will do the trick lol, and this is two months before the Orc warlord has his own daughter assassinated because she walked slightly off to the left LOL.
Should I assume that the people who have already been severely wounded while limping up to this hill that they will die on think Berserk only became Grimdark after the magical demons showed up, or perhaps that setting isn't grimdark either because theres more than 10,000 living humans in the world lol.
I lived and breathed dune 2 in 1993-1994 and six year old me thought this game was so scuffed I hated it. Warcraft 2 was where the series finally made sense to my child mind.
I should revisit this game. It definitely needed a remaster more than wc3.
I remember my uncle giving me WarCraft 1 and Quake when I was like 7-8. I mostly played WarCraft because I was too scared of Quake lol. Queue me being addicted to WarCraft 2 for many years.
Wc1 is frustrating to play after wc2, no saved unit grouping, the groups are small, cant place buildings wherever you want.
@Qimodis well you weren't forced to build them right on top of each other I mean
Can this game be played with mouse only? My keyboard doesn't work lol
Yo i miss playing this game! one of the first game i ever played @ my uncles house on his computer. I was merely 6 years old and still managed to finish the game in a single week-end of sleep over (I was sleeping over every odd week-end to play computers after that, until 1998 when he bought me my first personnal computer and.... THROWN ME INTO ADDICTION OF MMOS, EQ, WOW, SHADOWBANE, DAOC, WARHAMMER ONLINE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHERE IS MY TEEEEEEN-HOOD!
I just did the mission at 12:07 and I was able to do it on my first try, but I had a lot of trouble. I had to deal with a bunch of priests. Was that because I was taking too long to attack or because I was making necrolytes?
STOP POKING MEEEEE!
I found your strategy of attacking with only summoned daemons from a warlock "farm" funny xD
it's the natural thing to do. this is also how i played it.
what the heck are they saying besides "Dabu" and "Lok'tar"? When you have them move they sometimes sound like they're just mumbling
One of the things they're saying is "Zug zug", which pretty much means "okay" or "yes" in Orcish.
@@arrestedeffort ah, it must be the "Zug zug" that I couldn't understand. I kept thinking they were mumbling "right boss" or something.
How do you make it so you can drag and select? It wouldn't let me do that.
I wonder the same thing too
it's totally unplayable without that when I have to select fucking ONE by ONE
hold ctrl
it was actually introduced as WoW that's pretty wild
I played this recently. Great game :)
I just realized David Brevik's name is misspelled in the end credits. It says David Bevik...
How does the Spearman appear out of nowhere at approximately the 1:28:24 mark?
The humans have an invisibility spell that the AI likes to use when attacking.
As a kid i never could beat level 3, now i see finally how it is done. I just realized that the horde has no healers and alliance side has healers, is that correct btw?
Yes. Orcs have necromancers
everytime i hear the music from the intro, I immediately thing of Altered Beast and can't get it's into out of my head lol
"What?Whaat? stop poking meeeeeeee!!!!!"............lol :P
Congratulations on Christmas !
12:14 That's weird, I remember this map having Elementals, which made it very hard. There's supposed to be a single wizard and his tower.
This is sped up a little bit yes? My "fastest" isn't this fast.
It's not sped up. Maybe you need to increase your cycles in DOSBox.
@@StuGames I'm playing it thru browser on DOSbox, that's probably why. There's no audio on the mission narration either.
*Welcome, to the World...of Warcraft*
The orc VOX sound like someone imitating a guttural orc in some nearby office room that echoes.
Still playing this one today - shame they never made a mission pack..
I first saw the demo on a Amd/DX40 and later on got to play the full game in December of 1995 - a superb experience. One thing's essential - play it with keyboard & mouse or it's unbeatable.
The later entries in the "franchise" were good games on their own but not in the league of this gem.
Btw, you're quite the good player.
Fun fact: in the original CD/Floppy versions of the game, the Human campaign was impossible to beat without cheat codes. Somewhere around mission 6, a task requiring you to free your peasants first in order to build an army, would initiate an all-out attack from the Orc stronghold, that you had no chance of defeating.
Back at this time the only way to get patched versions of games was to:
A) have an internet connection, and in 1994 & 1995 that was a not a common thing, likely less than 5-8% of USA households.
B) Know what a 'patch' was, that it even existed, where to go to get it, and the what, why & how to install it! 🤣
Suffice it to say that if you were a kid playing this game without help from a grown-up who knew about the internet, you were never going to beat the Human campaign without cheat codes, using the original version.
An Orcish victory was the only way. 😈
My 12 yr old self from the 1990s really misses this
Why does the player kill one of their own grunts?
boredom, practising your micro skills, there's a few reasons why
To make another peon.
Blackhand punishing some incompetent peon
This is what real WarCraft looks like... not that panda-infested thing they give us nowadays. Great video, thanks for making it.
x2
I think you ought to include a "time stamp" at least in the description
On the mission where you free Garona what do you do with the peons you find? They can't build anything, and they're hp-critical.
0:20 whoever built that Lego castle should be proud.
Shoutout to Warcraft 2 on the PS1.
This title was released in 94.
Year i was born, and put in a good 14+ years of wow.
Funny how it all came full circle and how important that year would be in terms of the future and significance lol.
Skipping wow this xpac i think which is the first time, getting older.
Point is, good memories of these titles.
Intro hits differently than back in the day.
It's strange - When I see gameplay from old games I used to play when I was like ... 10 -12 years old like this.
I for som reason remeber smells hehe.
Anyone else?
Watching this video I get flashbacks from my room in the basement of my house, and som smells i'm having a hard time pin pointing. I reccon its just the smell of the room. Weird :D
Getting older ..
Not sure if it's just me, but it looks like the Orc Campaign is harder than the Human Campaign?
Yeah, just finished both campaigns, and mission 6 from orcs campaign was the hardest for me. But maybe I just learned how to play:D
Ah, Warcraft 1, where placing the resources inconveniently far was the thing to do.
How did you get full compatibility with this game?
DOSbox
Swaamps of Soorrow!! xD A legend. ❤ 1:18
Its 2020 and this game still costs $6 on gog.
lol, I bought Warcraft2 complete edition for $6 or $7 almost 20 years ago, and they are selling the same game for $10 now on gog.
I got this game for 10 dollars at a yard sale in 1997
yeah, this type of game must be free today!
Get a job lol
"Your task is simple enough that even the War Chief feels that you are capable of it." is a terribly constructed sentence. "The War Chief feels the task is so simple even you can accomplish it."
So I have to start with this game if I am planning to do the whole Warcraft series? Can someone help me with the list of games in chronological order. Thank you. Nice vid btw! 😁
Warcaft: Orcs and humans, Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, World of Warcraft
Why dint they remaster this
wotte age is the game?
1994
A buddy of mine showed me this game. His method to win maps was wait till they ran out of money.
Wait, that was wc2
1:08 thats how blizzard got the idea to make wow title game
The great hall looks like a donut
Drove me out of my mind in the first couple of minutes, and out of the video.
I have the game but it not responds with right click I have to use the command, how did u solve it??
Not possible ^^ Welcome to the old school of Warcraft! Learn to enjoy it!
@@123TauruZ321 I just finished the orc campaign and im playing the human campaign.
@@chizas47 Good man!! Did you use Daemons or did you go ultra old school and only used normal ground units altogether??
@@123TauruZ321 A mix of catapults, spears and demons, and some riders. But at the end only demons and catapults.
So wait that is why I couldn't do anything in this game as a kid?! 😤
was stuck on level 3. See I have to set up better and be way more aggressive.
"We're being attacked!"
First computer game I ever played, well it was actually warcraft 2
You play good, boy.
So which campaign happened first?
The Human Campaign is an "alternate history" as they were not actually successful lore-wise. But they would've taken place simultaneously
Only the Orcish campaign is fully canon. Some events from the Human campaign are canon (e.g. the slaying of Medivh), but for the most part it is non-canon, or an "alternate timeline" as the other guy suggested.
I use to love this game
bros this soundtrack is fire
download? please
Why do the warlocks sound like they're saying "buttplugs" when you move them