Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - PushingUpRoses
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2016
- With all the buzz around the new Warcraft movie, I felt inspired to play the original DOS games! Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness still holds up as an amazing real-time strategy game.
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To this day, I still love Warcraft 2 the most.
The first time I played this game was over LAN with my best friend and his dad. It's hard to describe to someone that isn't my age but multiplayer computer games were amazing back then. Mind-blowing. What a great memory.
I got the same memory me and my brother playing sometimes all night
This is a fun game. Shame we'll probably never ever see a proper WarCraft IV. People will probably just say "Wait, why's it skipping parts II and III?"
Goddamn. Have to admit I raged at that thought
You mean "Wait, why are we doing Cataclysm again?"
Everyone knows about the 3. That's the only RTS warcraft game anyone seems to be aware of. It's the only one I played
What's ironic is Warcraft III is the only game in the franchise I have never played. I've beaten Warcraft I and II plus II's expansion many times and I've played brief stints of World of Warcraft and Hearthstone. I was thinking about getting the III Remaster but the launch was a diaster of epic proportions so I'm giving them a year or two to fix it before taking the plunge.
@@roguerifter9724 Do it, I played 2 and 3 and while they are completly different they both are equaly great! You could say while II has a big plus in style and flair and the missions a simpler apporach (not any less good tho) the 3 has a brilliant story and deep tacticle gameplay.
Shame they didn't continue on with their rts versions
Lor doo
Warcraft II and Starcraft are my favorite RTS games of all time, they are so freaking good!
I love Warcraft 2 I remember when I first got it I spent all night playing it so awesome.
LOL the Grim Fandango beatnik open mic poetry is my favorite thing ever! LUGUBRIUOUSSS.
My friends call me strange for claiming that orcs are cute. Guess I'll just send them this video to prove to them that I'm not alone in finding orcs cute!
"STOP POKING MEEEEEE!"
Me not that kind of Orc!
Poke, poke, poke! Is that all you do?!
Always played the orc horde in WC2 because they were just more fun ;]
I loved this game. My friends had this big lore tome Blizzard made that expanded on all the characters and story. We poured over it for hours and hours.
How the hell have I not seen this video before? This is one of my absolute favorite games. I remember trying to make Gul'Dan a playable character as a kid, and was miffed that he would just stand there, not being able to be controlled. Sweet video!
"Who doesn't want to ride a dragon and wreck havok on all who defy you" - a seer is among us! #got
This game was my life back in the day. Also, the KQ7 music in your video is a whole extra wave of nostalgia!
One of my favorite poke quotes from Warcraft 3 is "Me no sound like Yoda. Do I?" and "It not easy being green."
this is my childhood 😭😭 Great video! Last time I played warcraft 2 was over 7 years ago but it will forever be special for me
The custom sounds were prime fodder for sibling antagonism. I still remember changing the settings before my brother played, changing the 'TASK COMPLETE' sound effect to 'WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!'
This and Beyond the Dark Portal were basically my childhood and the kickstart for my mythology love. I now have an HD version for Windows, but back then I not only had the DOS version and Windows 95 version, but the Sega Saturn version. The HD fan remake is pretty much the perfect version.
But yeah, I absolutely adore this game.
hd fan remake?
Stratagus?
When I was 8 or 9, someone burned me some copies of Baldur's Gate, Heroes of Might and Magic, Warcraft 2 and a couple others and I instantly fell in love with the Warcraft series. i don't think I ever played through the entire campaign, but I spent countless hours playing and I've been looking for another copy ever since that. A couple years later I got Warcraft 3 and that one really blew me away and I spent even more time on it. I somehow lost it and never played again but last month while in Wisconsin I found the Warcraft 3 Battle Chest complete in box with everything included for only 6 dollars at a goodwill and that made me so happy. I never originally had the Frozen Throne, and it's amazing! If I can find 1 and 2, my life will be complete. I haven't had internet in so long so I never got too heavy into WOW, but i used to have an account and I played on my friend's computer when I was in high school and it was pretty good too but I don't think it compares to the rts elements or feel of Warcraft 2 and 3. They're two of my all time favorite games and I'd love to see Blizzard release a new rts Warcraft.
War II: BNE was the first game I could call mine. I still have my jewel case and disc. :)
Loooove this game!
Never did the WAV thing, but I did spend hours on end in the Map Creator.
Warcraft 2 is the best warcraft game. The artstyle, the 14 different factions, the lore, the naval combat, the elven rangers, the ogre magi!
When the franchise is aware how the Orcs sound like Frank Oz:
"I don't sound like Yoda... do aaaaiiiii!?"
What a gem!
I remember playing the crap out of this as a kid on my friend's PC and later on my PSOne.
My first and favorite RTS, so many memories!
Thanks for the vid PUR!
I love the grim fandango references, it was your channel that got me into it and now it's my favorite game of all time! Great review as always.
WC3 is my jam. I played SOOOOO much of that in middle school. I even talked to some online buddies from back then. We've known each other for like 10 years. Crazy!!
you can still play. there are multiple tournaments running almost every day, some with really big prizes. and there are a lot of people playing ladder, too.
There’s also Battle Net edition which is sort of an expansion set that introduces a few heroes, it’s a bit more challenging imo.
Also there’s a function where you can customize maps, both are hallmarks to my childhood 😁
I first got a Warcraft demo (3 or 4 senerios) with a Sound Blaster audio card. I purchased Warcraft 2 on release and played it religiously until Warcraft 3. I think Tides of Darkness is still my favorite and i use the sound wavs from the disk as notifications on my phone to this day.
Boy did this take me back! Great video as always. I used to play this game all the time when I was a kid! I couldn't get enough of it! I would even bring the instruction manual with me to the bathroom. It had some amazing art by Metzen.
Haven't watched enough PUR lately. Glad to be back with ya.
Totally love that you did a review of this gem
Watching old PUR videos, relaxing.
I got my start on WarCraft 2 and I've been a big fan of the series ever since. Of the RTS's I love WarCraft 3, personally. I just love the story and the interesting factions and units. I do play WoW, too, and it is also a favorite of mine, again for the story and stuff. I just love the whole franchise, what can I say.
A couple of my co-workers and I are fans of the original Warcraft games and we often talk like orcs to each other. "Something need doing?", "Zug Zug", and after lunch, "Back to work"
Hey the humans ARE NOT BORING!!! The knights are bad asses, and I love the variety of the alliance. It's a conglomeration of humans, elves, dwarves and gnomes who ally against a common threat to protect their home!
I looked this up while installing WW2:TOD. This is am awesome vid! Bout to subscribe. Thanks for uploading
I used to love this game - and the music was excellent.
I remember playing it in Highschool, it got really hard later on but man it was so fun.
Awesome video as always! Even though RTS games and Warcraft isn't my thing because, this is one of your videos it's worth it. The combination of your witty descriptions, humor and you sharing your nostalgic memories always makes it a worthwhile experience even if the games covered isn't always your thing. Okay, hopefully I didn't sound like too much of a kiss ass. Thanks for sharing!
those were the days.. love this review PUR!
Warcraft II was the first video game that I ever truly fell in love with. So, this was a huuuge nostalgia-trip for me.
I loved the Griffon Riders and the Paladins, not to mention the Mage, that´s why I frequently played as Human.
This game takes me back. Great review!
This is the game that was my foray in to Warcraft as a franchise, I was 12 years old. Been Horde4Life since then. wc3 Is my favorite in the series, but wc2 definitely still holds a special place in my heart. It's grimdark aesthetic ( despite how silly the Hordes voice clips are) is still my favorite as far as what I think the world of Azeroth should look like.
I never had the DOS version of this game. When I got it many, many moons ago, it was titled warcraft 2 battle.net edition.
I kinda wish it was on battle.net.
Death knights are the literal definition of badass
I loved Warcraft II very much. I also liked Warcraft III a lot, but a lot of my best memories about the series are connected to Warcraft II. Like playing it on Christmas Eve on a snow map and looking up to find that snow had started falling outside. 'X marks the spot' was one of my favourite maps...
Ah, memories. Possibly the best thing about playing games.
2:10 LOL I like how you started using music from Kings Quest VII
The grave digger had an awesome theme.
Yup, I looked for that comment
Man I still remember the day a dude in highschool got warcraft II and installed it on all the computers in the computer lab, so many classes skipped while playing warcraft II lan in the lab.
one of my favorite games ever ! great review
Playing as humans was hilarious. "Why do you keep touching me?" And Warcraft Disco was da bom.
ARE YOU STILL TOUCHING ME.
EVEN ELDER RACES GET TIRED OF WAITING
YOU DON'T TOUCH THE OTHER ELVES LIKE THAT
Ah memories - I still remember this being the first PC game I ever bought, coming out of the department store just before it closed, eagerly installing the game on my PC the next day...
Though one other thing I would have mentioned is the manuals. I know few ever read them, but seriously, the short stories and miscellaneous lore about the clans and stuff was a level of detail I don't think anyone else went to. And the artwork by Metzen is still some of the greatest I've ever seen...
For those who want to play Warcraft II online, since I don't think Battle.net has any WC2 servers, anymore, check out Warcraft II Combat Edition. They operate what I guess you'd call a "pirate server", or fan server, and distribute their own copy of WC2, setup to connect to that. The single player campaigns are also playable, but there are no cinematics or music. For me, the cinematics and music are a personal highlight of the games. Warcraft II was the first game that really made me pay attention to the music, and started a long standing love of video game and movie music.
There's no DOSBox version?
this is one of the best reviews of an RTS on youtube. spot on.
Interesting review. It is nice to have a new look on a classic of my youth.
I remember rushing Dragons and making maps for wc2 & 3 as a kid
"Fortunately, Orgrim Doomhammer has saved his greatest weapon, ready to unleash it upon the unsuspecting Alliance at just this moment - Dragons."
You can tell that orcs are carnivores by the massive ham.
one of my favorite PC games of all time. i can't even imagine the amount of hours i logged in that game.
I remember playing the network edition for Macs and cheating my way to the end. Also don't forget about the music cheat DISCO; that song was awesome.
My first encounter with the Warcraft universe was Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos and since then I found it really entertaining, love both of the games and when the movie came out. WOW this is awesome it's not Hollywood it's all there and Blizzard was in on it from start to finish.
i miss playing this game
I like to read a poem! 7:37 best line ever
I grew up watching my old brother play Wc2, when Wc3 came out he left and i ended up playing 3 and really enjoying it. but 2 was still really good.
I have played this for many hours! This and the original Starcraft.
This is also my favorite Real-Time Strategy game of all time. My dad bought the Battlechest when I was a kid and never got into it, so it got passed to my brothers and I.
The Map Editor was an incredible feature. I spent probably hundreds of hours painstakingly recreating the story of The Hobbit in Warcraft II. If I recall correctly, the Hobbit was Danath and the 13 dwarves were Six Dwarven demolition squads and a footman (Thorin Oakenshield).
Between Warcraft II and Diablo, Blizzard became one of my favorite Game Design Studios, alongside Sierra and Bethesda Softworks.
I was a little late to this party; my cousin had Warcraft 2 so I played a bit on his PC, but I didn't have a CD-ROM drive until 1998. So basically, I got Warcraft 1, Warcraft 2, and StarCraft all within the same year and the three games competed for my attention until Diablo 2 and that became my one true PC gaming love for the next six years or so.
Though I have to say, Warcraft 3 was the best of the series by my measure. Just from a gameplay perspective, having the different factions with their own strengths and weakness added some much needed depth to the game.
the depth was mostly removed due to small scale armies and removing naval combat. I found it a regression in terms of RTS at scale.
I remember taking the unit sounds and making them my windows sound effects. Hilarious to have a Win95 pc play the confused orc sound for error messages.
I remember playing this game's Demo repeatedly as a child. I even obsessed over it during a vacation, speculating what would come in the later levels. I eventually bought it while bringing my older brother along because of the age restriction in the store...
Great video, Roses. I have some fond memories of this game. I actually started playing this game + the expansion on the PS1. It was in that funny period when developers regularly made console ports of RTS games. I remember the campaign of the the expansion being brutally difficult, I revisited this game a while and found out that it still is. That last mission with the Orcs is a nightmare. Also I always wondered, what do the Ogres use as a weapon? to me it looks like they just use huge oversized ovenmittens.
This a really fun, if a tad bit shallow, review. Glad someone else found the orcs adorable. First RPG for me. Still a favorite.
For the record - You don't even need DOSBOX. They made a Windows version that still runs to this day. With full Battle.net capabilities (Their dedicated online multiplayer service)
You need DOSbox if you want to play the DOS version, which I of course, do. ;) This is a DOS game review, after all!
(But it of course cannot be overstated how awesome Blizzard is when it comes to keeping their old games playable! GO THEM.)
It is impressive that they aren't letting their old games just die. Didn't Diablo II get a patch just a few months back?
Except the Mac versions. Fx WC3 will work on your Intel Mac, but the game installer doesn't, since it is made for PowerPCs :(
Chris Jeppesen You can download the new version through your Battle.net account, Chris.
Blizzard really cares about their customers.
I like old games but I mostly subscribe to this channel for the Clue references.
I love this game till this day. Great review! I love your voice ;)
The first two Warcraft games are among my favorites.
Love that game! Good times!
incredible game. thank you for the review.
Inspired by Command and Conquer...
*coughs* "inspired" by Warhammer *coughs*
Yeah.... "inspired".
i suspect the tone of the series changed drastically since the third game so it wasn't so "inspired" on warhammer
Warcraft II got me into the series - I was so excited when Warcraft III came out! I became a huge need for the world they created by the time I finished WC3, I naturally gravitated towards WoW and I still play it on and off today.
This really brings me back. So many times i would rush home from school to play, only to see that my older brother beat me home and was already using the computer..
Awesome review, this was one of my first RTS games along with Age Of Empires. For the Horde!
Oh man, I remember the old days of Warcraft II LAN parties. Too fun...
I'm a big strategy fan and I adore Warcraft III and Frozen Throne, especially as they had a ton of in depth story and lore alongside distinct and interesting factions. And there were four of them! You were lucky to get more than two out of most Command and Conquer games (which I still love anyway
See I'm on the opposite camp to what you mentioned at the end. I love and grew up with the RTS games and couldn't get into WoW or Hearthstone. Much more interested in crushing my enemies than grinding.
Same here. RTS games were my childhood and I still prefer them over most other genres. Apart from RPGs, there are some excellent old school RPGs out there. Baldur's Gate for example.
I also noticed you slipped in some King's Quest 7 music into your review alongside WC 2's music. Very clever!
A friend of mine played this and I loved it. He gave me the game and the book and I read it inside and out and played it more than any game.
The manual was so gorey with decapitated heads, skeletons; if anyone finds the manual buy it! It's not just a manual, it's also got artwork from the creators and even a freakin story in it!
TIL my favourite Murder She Wrote youtuber also loves my favourite RTS
An absolute classic. This game was great.
Funny how you always click the icons in the sidebar, when one of Warcraft II's biggest innovations was the "right click on anything in the environment and your units walk, attack or harvest depending on what you're right-clicking" feature. ;)
Loved this game when I was in high school
OMG I remember this when I had my first 330MHz pc which was highly expensive for the time. My friend in middle school had this game and copied it for me it took 13 3.5 floppy disk.. ahh the good old times with lan parties.
Let us not forget the many and varied awesome characters from the Warcraft universe blizzard gifted to us! Such regal names as OGRIM DOOMHAMMER and MALFURION STORMRAGE!
Best WarCraft title. Time is of the essence!
I never played world of warcraft that much or Warcraft I or II But III was a favorite back when i went to school :) Everyone played it and since we could use computers non-stop we even played against each other on Battlenet
The Orc Voice in WarCraft I & II was Bill Roper.
This game is sooooo good.
still have my physical manual of the game, love the artwork. Also I find it foreshadowing that back then my favorite human nation to play as back then was Gilneas and in wow, my favorite race to play is Worgen...aka as a former citizen of Gilneas.
Glittering prizes... oh my god the nostalgia!
This is my favorite and was the very first pc game i played on my first pc
In these first two Warcraft games, you can see the influence Warhammer Fantasy initially had on this franchise, mostly the orcs having really silly voices to the point of comic relief. Prior to Warcraft, orcs were 1-dimentional villains described in Tolkien's works, while Blizzard helped flesh them out to have more personality in-line with WH, and later having their own culture, backstories and character development as the games went on. Nice review pur, brings back memories :)
This is the first time I am seeing female to talk about playing RTS game. I have to say that this is quite charming and quite unique since mostly I have heard other females just praising and praising RPGs and platformers (coughcoughfinalfantasycoughcoughcrashbadicootspyrocougcoughCOOOUGH).
Seeing how you build up your army was also very charming. Unfortunately I got to say that your base is extremely vulnerable to enemies air forces since without guard towers and troll destroyers gryphons/dragons would easily burn out your base to the ground. Trolls and death knights of course can shoot upward but they won't last long.
This is also one of the good things of Warcraft II: seeing weaknesses, since AI isn't always (at least in campaign) focusing on everything (unlike in scenarios). For example last mission on humans: there is two orc camps and one is focused on death knights most of the time and other is spawning dragons only. Just plenty of paladins and archers and it's pretty much done!
Sigh... this makes me wish to have a copy of Warcraft II Battle.net edition. I lost it at some point of my life and have no clue what-so-ever where I put it.
HOLY CRAP! I can NOT believe you just said, "Geocities" LOL!!
I got this game at Portland Retro Gaming Expo from the Unipiper, along with it's expansion (Beyond The Dark Portal) and Warcraft 1. What's your thoughts on Beyond The Dark Portal?
Fantastic channel. Keep it up
I never played the first two but I definitely played a ton of 3 and Frozen Throne. Dicking around in the level creator was also super fun for me even though I didn't really know what I was doing.
Oh, and I was too impatient to learn how to gather resources properly. greedisgood 1000000