Because it was still extremely like warhammer… (it’s inspiration) With Warcraft 3 it started going into a different direction. One I enjoy but definitely different
I like how in the brief for one of these quests, it says that Gul'dan is ready to unleash his Death Knights, yet this guy created an army of _Ogre-Mages_ instead.
Man this brought back some great memories. My dad was always a prettt serious, stern type, but seeing me play this got him into the game. As silly as it sounds, it brought us closer together through a shared love of the game.
Some of the earliest memories when I was a child was me and my dad playing warcraft 2. This and the first Command and conquer. I was too young to understand the strategy of which units to build but I think I did fairly well.
I have fond memories of watching my father play warcraft 2 campaigns and struggle, then I played them too and my father sometimes watched me play. I think I only got to like 7-8 missions in both campaigns and on expansions I only got to second mission on both human and orc, this game was so hard to me as a kid. My father finished the game and I got to play the final missions a lot, didn't get far :P. I really liked the very final orc mission in the expansion where you start with the army and are against like 4 or 5 factions, never managed to beat it as a kid and I remember my father struggling with it for days and then barely managing to win haha.
Before the dark times, before World of warcraft. Anyone else noticed that they just didn't pay any attention to Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft RTS for half a decade after they started milking the WoW cash cow?
These early games of Blizzard's (warcraft 2, Diablo 2, and Starcraft 1) Blizzard really knew what to do with the limited resources to make it look as good as possible. It's great.
Well I actually have this game and there's a setting in the settings menu where you can speed up the game (I know its weird but its a old game.) anyway it looks like he did that. No hate are anything.
@@johndash9711 some people say that after warcraft 3 (so in world of warcraft, and it's expansions, like shadowlands in specific) the lore just became shit, a shitty joke, even
7:22 This is exactly the first thing I ever did when I played this game for the first time the only difference it was in the first level. warcraft2 was the first RTS game I played in my life, and i had no clue what to do in the game and I did'nt understood the concept of a strategy game back then. I was like 9-10 years old, and I did'nt undertand english. It took me some time to understand the idea behind the game, and it was all by trial and error. I learned a lot of stuff in that time...I was also very proud of myself because I figured it all alone.
Pragmatic Tornado yeah the bright vibrant colors were iconic and persisted in Warcraft 3 and even early WoW which is why so many people dislike the bland dull "remastered" graphics of Warcraft 3 reforged and just use the old classic graphics lol, this art design is amazing
This game is a trip down memory lane.This,diablo 2 and starcraft were the first PC games I played when I was 10 when I was lucky enough to play on my uncle's computer.Thanks for uploading!
WC2 was my first computer game ever, and I used to play SC online over an ISDN modem with a time-dependant bill from the phone company. My dad wasn't to happy.
look for war2combat, it is a "free" up to date version of WC2 based on WC2 BNE, you can play both the Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal campaigns
I can't believe it, I remember when I was a kid a single middle mission took me hours or even days like the one you have to kill Gul'dan, and you did it in just minutes, my respects, just a great video!!
Yeah I have to agree. I can't think of a single decent or remotely memorable RTS title released after command and conquer 3. C&C / RA franchise has been killed and the corpse defiled by EA. Warcraft has been made 'refunded' by blizzard, and they already openly stated that they won't make StarCraft 3 since they can't milk as much money with the RTS genre as they can with overwatch and whatnot. Which may not be a bad thing to be honest as Blizzard has completely lost all creative and entertainment edge they once had, so SC3 would be potentially the death of the franchise.
@atombrain111 Maybe. But I haven't seen anything original from Blizzard since Starcraft 2. Maybe that's what you mean - in that anything like original WC3 or SC2 that people still play, enjoy and can create content in through custom maps since release and to date, isn't a continuous revenue stream? But that means the only things that would be, are short gratification drop box crap that would get boring after a few hours of playing without the cash grabs - so it does explain it to a degree I guess...
Act I: 3:05 I. Zul'dare 4:54 II. Raid at Hillsbrad 6:42 III. Southshore 11:58 IV. Assault on Hillsbrad Act II: Khaz Modan 21:01 V. Tol Barad 32:29 VI. The Badlands 34:05 VII. The Fall of Stromgarde Act III: Quel 'Thalas 46:46 VIII. The Runestone at Caer Darrow 54:32 IX. The Razing of Tyr's Hand 01:05:03 X. The Destruction of Stratholme 01:18:25 XI. The Dead Rise as Quel 'Thalas Falls Act IV: Tides Of Darkness 01:30:16 XII. The Tomb of Sargeras 01:45:12 XIII. The Siege of Dalaran 02:01:40 XIV. The Fall of Lordaeron 02:14:55 Debriefing and credits
Actually, what you see in this video is a remaster (released in 1999) :P The original Warcraft II was a DOS game and lacked some of the features you see here (e.g. control groups). The cinematics were in much lower quality too.
@@Isaac-gh5ku 2.00 (when installed from original CD) They released one patch for this remastered version, which upgrades it to 2.02 (with some bugfixes).
I remember playing this with my friend growing up. I asked my parents for it, and my grandma ended up buying me Warcraft 1: Orcs and Humans instead for Christmas. I graciously accepted it and played the shit out of that game, but man was this game a lot better and more fun. Good memories.
Wow! The Goblin Sappers are like a beta Kerrigan voicewise and they explode just like the Infested Terran. It's cool to see how some things inspired others
Yo-yo-you're the AHOY yo-your'e the cap-I WOULD LOVE TO-the captain! Thanks for this playthrough, to the point and I don't have to install and play it to get my nostalgia kick
7:19 I already love the Orc 2 theme but I've finally been able to experience it along with the gameplay and somehow it is even more incredible! The instrumentation, especially those timpani and oboes (I think?) add SO much to the atmosphere. Glenn Stafford did an amazing job on this.
The tides of darkness campaign shouldn't be too bad with the exception of the last few levels of each campaign, which can be pretty tough (the last level especially). Beyond the Dark Portal is another story though, those levels match in difficulty the hardest levels Blizzard has ever put out. That campaign is terrifying.
@@redwings13400 True. While ToD AI is passive most of the time, BtDP introduces us to a completely new level of difficulty. I always used an invincibility to roll thru - kill each and every peon/peasant and main structures, plundered all resources available and right before mission accomplishment I reloaded the game to avoid being accused of cheating. Finally when I got to play thru BtDP campaigns without cheating, I had no idea, and you can guess, what I put myself into... 😄
I just finished watching and I have two take aways. 1. If you want to win, you've got to collect resources FAST and basically ZERGRUSH. 2. In universe, this Orc Campaign would have been frightening to face.
This video helped me finally beat WC2 for the Horde after the first time I played on Playstation in 2000ish. Gonna finish the Alliance tomorrow. Thanks!
i've gived a try to this, and i got stuck around the part at 53.40 minutes, you make it looks simple AF, but when I try it, I got some sort of huge rockets coming from no where everytime killing my forces! U legend!
You manage to bake some weird, unnecessary shit into your longplays without compromising the speedrun factor - 48:13 - I love that. Makes these playthroughs more interesting.
I was born far after the prime of OG warcraft and because of that grew up playing only WoW- never having touched any of the original warcraft games. It wasn't until recently when I decided to buy wc3 reforged that I became interested in the older warcraft games. I had not realized it but I actually had a huge affinity to RTS games. My only previous experience with the RTS genre was with the Spore tribal and civilization stages. The tribal stage in particular was my favorite. It wasn't until I got into Warcraft that I realized *why* . Controlling groups of units to support a base was my cup of tea. So after playing wc3 reforged I decided to give Warcraft 2 a try. And omg is Warcraft 2 a captivating game. The atmosphere just has you wanting to continue. So far I've only reached past the destruction of Stromgarde in the Horde campaign and I can't wait to continue. Idk how but it's more inviting than wc3 reforged. The music, unit voice lines, simple story- it all just feels so *warcraft*
this is awesome! i wish there was a way to 'replay' games, it'd be cool to see what else is going on in the map while each mission is occurring. thanks for posting this!
My first true Blizzard game i played in 1998 and owned. StarCraft was the next one in 1999 along with Diablo II. Didnt own Diablo I until 2002 i think. Diablo I was my first experience of Blizzard games after seeing an old elementary classmate playing it in 1998/1999 on his PC. I didnt know it was Diablo I at the time until later on after i had already gotten WC2BNE. So many memories although i mostly played Diablo 2 and Starcraft in the 2000s on classic Battle.Net on USEast realm.
Canonically everything in the Orc campaign happened in the lore. except the final mission, where the abscence of Gul'dan's troops spelled doom for the Horde's siege, aaaand they were also the main force defending southern Lordaeron. This led to the Human campaign, where Turalyon takes back southern Lordaeron and Khaz Modan, trapping the Horde in Quel'Thalas, where the Alliance won the war after the fall of Blackrock Spire.
Well, not really - this is a retcon. Originally, only several specific events from this campaign were canon, the rest was strictly non-canon. But then came the "Tides of Darkness" novel, which tried to make both campaigns canon (a bad decision, IMHO), which does cause a lot of contradictions in the story (e.g. was Told Barad successfully defended... or was it destroyed?). Personally, I prefer the original situation, where only the Alliance campaign was fully canon. It made more sense.
Yeah if it weren't for Gul'dan's betrayal the Orcs most CERTAINLY would've won the second war, heck they even managed to take out the leader of the Human Alliance, Anduin Lothar of Azeroth
The final Horde level was 10 times easier than the final Alliance level. As long as you have good defense at the base in the lower left corner, you'll win easily. The Alliance level.... dragons... dragons and more dragons...
Best game ever. I still remember the cheat codes lol. It was bad ass for the times and it till holds up. Would make an awesome mobile game. I always played as orc.
I remember buying this game in a game store out of love of the third game. I was 12, and I loved it..... and then the fire at my home took it all away... >_
the best game ever... i still play it on regular basis. Both campaigns are virtually identical up to and including scenario 5 after that they are very different Orc campaign it's a little bit easier than Human campaign, many scenarios have a naval focus, so it goes something like "build up your base, once you are ready build your fleet, delete enemy fleet and then when enemy is decimated perform an amphibious operation with enough strengt to kill the enemy. Human AI never really challenge the build up except for the Quel'Thalas and Lordaeron scenarios but even those are not as hard, most people will win the campaign. Orc units are more ofensive by design, Bloodlust boost the attack but it last very little. The death knight unit is very limited due to Paladin's exorcism and Dragons can be boosted with "Haste" and "Bloodlust" but they do not last that much so at the end they are limited Human campaign is harder, some scenarios are ment to be close call from scratch, against multiple active foes, but to be honest the only real challenge is the Dark Portal scenario. It is that much hard that i have only managed to win it once despite having played it many times. The Humans are more defensive, since Paladin's heal can save a lot of money in units but really need time to make a difference and exorcism isn't as propperly used by OP than by AI. Mages are way better unit than D.K. since they don't have a specific counter and they can move freely. Gryphon Riders can be healed which is a huge save of money compared to dragons At the end of the day it is a fun game to try, War2Combat can be installed freely and there's even a small online community to play it against others but the skill level must be really high i guess
LMFAO!!! 11:40 Exploding sheep!!! Quit molesting the livestock!! LMAO!! I had forgotten all about the exploding critters in this game. At least in WC3, the critters leave a rumble or crater when they explode LOL
Watching the second mission saving the trolls made my memory of it a lie.. I remembered it as the map was way bigger than just run->save->run and I also thought there was way more trolls with different hair colors.
I wish Blizzard would remake first two Warcraft but sadly that Blizzard is long gone 😔 Luckily Warcraft II campaigns are getting remade as Chronicles of the Second War (Warcraft 3:Reforged mod) but even then its not gonna have amazing CGI cinematics/cutscenes that true Blizzard remake would have/deserve
The soundtrack honestly back in 1995 when it came out was absolutely epic, and has aged so well. Having the option for CD or MIDI was great too - obviously the MIDI didn't sound as good but they still did a great job with it. Lots of nostalgia with this game :)
1:26:55 That's one of the big problems of playing on such high speed, the bloodlust runs out before it can be used to full effect ^^ It's almost better to just send them all in and use bloodlust on the ogres that needs it the most.
25 years later and this game has still aged well.
The first one not so much lol
Blizzard in their prime.
Hey i downloaded for smartphone with ps1 emulator
With snes or ps1 u get awesome games on smartphone
meeeeh warcraft 3 has aged better still
This game oozes with personality. This was definitely my favorite of the Warcraft series.
I get tons of nostalgia just hearing the wood chopping sounds lol.
@@eggoslayer1001 Me too. My favorite sound though is the Bloodlust sound.
Because it was still extremely like warhammer… (it’s inspiration)
With Warcraft 3 it started going into a different direction. One I enjoy but definitely different
I like how in the brief for one of these quests, it says that Gul'dan is ready to unleash his Death Knights, yet this guy created an army of _Ogre-Mages_ instead.
Man this brought back some great memories. My dad was always a prettt serious, stern type, but seeing me play this got him into the game. As silly as it sounds, it brought us closer together through a shared love of the game.
Some of the earliest memories when I was a child was me and my dad playing warcraft 2. This and the first Command and conquer. I was too young to understand the strategy of which units to build but I think I did fairly well.
it was the other way around for me. My dad was plying this game and i loved watching it
I understand exactly what you're saying. My dad is precisely the same style
Nice memory :)
I have fond memories of watching my father play warcraft 2 campaigns and struggle, then I played them too and my father sometimes watched me play. I think I only got to like 7-8 missions in both campaigns and on expansions I only got to second mission on both human and orc, this game was so hard to me as a kid. My father finished the game and I got to play the final missions a lot, didn't get far :P. I really liked the very final orc mission in the expansion where you start with the army and are against like 4 or 5 factions, never managed to beat it as a kid and I remember my father struggling with it for days and then barely managing to win haha.
Back when blizzard was blizzard
Before the dark times, before Activision
Next year available on mobile phones :D
@@The__Danny
Are you serious?!id love that!itll be available along with battlenet?or just a campaign?
@@sexysalmon4411
Are YOU serious? xD
Before the dark times, before World of warcraft. Anyone else noticed that they just didn't pay any attention to Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft RTS for half a decade after they started milking the WoW cash cow?
The musics in this game are pure love. Graphics are kinda good for so old game
The music is terrible, sounds like Wolfenstein 3D.
These early games of Blizzard's (warcraft 2, Diablo 2, and Starcraft 1) Blizzard really knew what to do with the limited resources to make it look as good as possible. It's great.
*for a so old game.
IDK how old you are but at the time when it was released it was the coolest game ever!
Well I actually have this game and there's a setting in the settings menu where you can speed up the game (I know its weird but its a old game.) anyway it looks like he did that. No hate are anything.
The best Warcraft game ever.
3rd best
@AoE II HD GAME fuck you
I played all three Warcrafts and I would have to argue that 3 was the best, though it was missing ships. Don't get me wrong, 1 and 2 are awesome.
@@dkkanofkash8798 it's the soundtrack that takes me back and the ships were pretty cool.
@Hunter Coleman it's always hit home.
Warcraft 2 has no business aging this well. It still looks and plays smooth as butter.
Good old times when the Warcraft lore wasn't completely messed up.
god i'd love a warcraft 4 that completely ignores everything that happened in WoW
@@ipraytovodka yes, please
could you tell me what you mean by that more precisely ?
@@johndash9711 some people say that after warcraft 3 (so in world of warcraft, and it's expansions, like shadowlands in specific) the lore just became shit, a shitty joke, even
@@temst2561 God I wish Blizzard would just retcon all of Shadowlands.
Whoever did the orc voices deserve an oscar
Orc scar.
@@JonCombo :D
Fun fact: the human voice actor and the orc voice actor are the same guy.
it was the same person that does Yoda from star wars.
@@kxr842 "Me no sound like Yoda, do I?"
Orc: What’re your orders for our first mission?
Chieftain: Kill each other, so more peons can be made.
YOURE THE CAPTAIN
I WOULD LOVE TO
ARGH?
AHOY
Who wants to sing?
I WOULD LOVE TO
ARGH
7:22 This is exactly the first thing I ever did when I played this game for the first time the only difference it was in the first level. warcraft2 was the first RTS game I played in my life, and i had no clue what to do in the game and I did'nt understood the concept of a strategy game back then. I was like 9-10 years old, and I did'nt undertand english. It took me some time to understand the idea behind the game, and it was all by trial and error. I learned a lot of stuff in that time...I was also very proud of myself because I figured it all alone.
same for me :D
This game is so stunning when it comes to visual composition, whether it be tone, color or material.
Very true. The graphics still hold up great even today, because of it.
Pragmatic Tornado yeah the bright vibrant colors were iconic and persisted in Warcraft 3 and even early WoW which is why so many people dislike the bland dull "remastered" graphics of Warcraft 3 reforged and just use the old classic graphics lol, this art design is amazing
Blizzard artists have always been so talented, they pretty much pioneered the stylized art :P
Woah, this game is better than Warcraft III reforged
Zug zug.
True
@@nicolehessling1 zug zug
Taboo
Hahahaha
:(
@@lampualadinidx9060 lo3dam
This game is a trip down memory lane.This,diablo 2 and starcraft were the first PC games I played when I was 10 when I was lucky enough to play on my uncle's computer.Thanks for uploading!
WC2 was my first computer game ever, and I used to play SC online over an ISDN modem with a time-dependant bill from the phone company. My dad wasn't to happy.
Starcraft Broodwar. The best game ever created.
My uncle worked for nintendo
look for war2combat, it is a "free" up to date version of WC2 based on WC2 BNE, you can play both the Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal campaigns
And Age of Empires.
I remember mastering all the build keyboard shortcuts instead of learning something stupid, like Algebra
Hahaha nice
I am 7/8 away from 40... still haven't used algebra in real life; you made a good choice.
I have used calculus though...
I can't believe it, I remember when I was a kid a single middle mission took me hours or even days like the one you have to kill Gul'dan, and you did it in just minutes, my respects, just a great video!!
Man, used to play this on dial up on big old Dell pc listening to DMX as a kid...the golden ear. These kids don't know what they missed.
Man, I wish the RTS genre never faded into oblivion, but remained popular.
It seems that im the only one who still play war3 in 2021
@@dendiepie1547 Yeah, pretty much. We're still waiting on an official ladder nearly a year after reforged's delayed release. :\ RIP genre.
RTS didn’t fade into oblivion, but Blizzard has fallen.
Yeah I have to agree. I can't think of a single decent or remotely memorable RTS title released after command and conquer 3. C&C / RA franchise has been killed and the corpse defiled by EA. Warcraft has been made 'refunded' by blizzard, and they already openly stated that they won't make StarCraft 3 since they can't milk as much money with the RTS genre as they can with overwatch and whatnot. Which may not be a bad thing to be honest as Blizzard has completely lost all creative and entertainment edge they once had, so SC3 would be potentially the death of the franchise.
@atombrain111 Maybe. But I haven't seen anything original from Blizzard since Starcraft 2. Maybe that's what you mean - in that anything like original WC3 or SC2 that people still play, enjoy and can create content in through custom maps since release and to date, isn't a continuous revenue stream? But that means the only things that would be, are short gratification drop box crap that would get boring after a few hours of playing without the cash grabs - so it does explain it to a degree I guess...
My favorite part of this game was always the guy describing the mission objectives.
And you being part of the story not just you controlling some in game character.
Bill Roeper one of the blizzard og voiced the orcs for the rts series.
Act I:
3:05 I. Zul'dare
4:54 II. Raid at Hillsbrad
6:42 III. Southshore
11:58 IV. Assault on Hillsbrad
Act II: Khaz Modan
21:01 V. Tol Barad
32:29 VI. The Badlands
34:05 VII. The Fall of Stromgarde
Act III: Quel 'Thalas
46:46 VIII. The Runestone at Caer Darrow
54:32 IX. The Razing of Tyr's Hand
01:05:03 X. The Destruction of Stratholme
01:18:25 XI. The Dead Rise as Quel 'Thalas Falls
Act IV: Tides Of Darkness
01:30:16 XII. The Tomb of Sargeras
01:45:12 XIII. The Siege of Dalaran
02:01:40 XIV. The Fall of Lordaeron
02:14:55 Debriefing and credits
thanks, added as video chapters
@@StuGames thank you for great walkthrough, its a pleasure to see such skilled playthrough
Thank you.
The music is soooooo nostalgic........ the good old days...
i just want a remaster of this, so much childhood nostalgia
Actually, what you see in this video is a remaster (released in 1999) :P
The original Warcraft II was a DOS game and lacked some of the features you see here (e.g. control groups). The cinematics were in much lower quality too.
@@AlexeiVoronin So what version number is the 1999 remastered version?
@@Isaac-gh5ku 2.00 (when installed from original CD)
They released one patch for this remastered version, which upgrades it to 2.02 (with some bugfixes).
Be careful what you wish for, look at WC3 reforged
Stone. Cold. Classic. The memories are good. Thanks for this playthrough!
I remember playing this with my friend growing up. I asked my parents for it, and my grandma ended up buying me Warcraft 1: Orcs and Humans instead for Christmas. I graciously accepted it and played the shit out of that game, but man was this game a lot better and more fun. Good memories.
Wow! The Goblin Sappers are like a beta Kerrigan voicewise and they explode just like the Infested Terran. It's cool to see how some things inspired others
Понастольгировал, спасибо большое! Аж слезу пустил😥
Yo-yo-you're the AHOY yo-your'e the cap-I WOULD LOVE TO-the captain!
Thanks for this playthrough, to the point and I don't have to install and play it to get my nostalgia kick
The Warcraft Trilogy was the best and nothing can ever replace that experience
God I could listen to the narrator forever lol. Such an amazing job!
This is one of my favorite games of all time.
7:19 I already love the Orc 2 theme but I've finally been able to experience it along with the gameplay and somehow it is even more incredible! The instrumentation, especially those timpani and oboes (I think?) add SO much to the atmosphere. Glenn Stafford did an amazing job on this.
I can't believe I watched this whole thing
Its funny
Try watching 8 hours of God of War.
@@KaraokeNig why not 10 hours of tetris?
Nah, that's just waste of precious time.
you da boss
Man, hearing these sounds again is wild. Thank you Stu and algo.
11:45 the sheep explosion is epic. Nice.
Seems like I've played it wrong! Remember this being way harder lol
This guy just has made skills
me i cant pass the levels o used cheatd
The tides of darkness campaign shouldn't be too bad with the exception of the last few levels of each campaign, which can be pretty tough (the last level especially). Beyond the Dark Portal is another story though, those levels match in difficulty the hardest levels Blizzard has ever put out. That campaign is terrifying.
@@redwings13400 True. While ToD AI is passive most of the time, BtDP introduces us to a completely new level of difficulty. I always used an invincibility to roll thru - kill each and every peon/peasant and main structures, plundered all resources available and right before mission accomplishment I reloaded the game to avoid being accused of cheating.
Finally when I got to play thru BtDP campaigns without cheating, I had no idea, and you can guess, what I put myself into... 😄
The ruthless efficiency with which this is executed is both incredibly impressive and utterly disgusting.
**Golf clap**
So much nostalgia... And now I realize I've been playing this game so slowly as a kid jfc
Same. Took months to get through a campaign XD
Me as a young teen: you want me to handle more than one base?!
Me as an adult: where's my third base my Army isn't growing fast enough
I just finished watching and I have two take aways.
1. If you want to win, you've got to collect resources FAST and basically ZERGRUSH.
2. In universe, this Orc Campaign would have been frightening to face.
did download it and playing again after 23 years. This is actually still fun :D
Where did you download it?
This video helped me finally beat WC2 for the Horde after the first time I played on Playstation in 2000ish. Gonna finish the Alliance tomorrow. Thanks!
I wasn't planning to see this but I just can't stop. So many memories from the 90s ❤️
Damn i remember this game back then when i was 20 years old, now im 40. Countless hours , amazing game!! Never played world of warcraft though.
I would play this demo when I was 5 or 6 years old at my grandparents house on the old Mac system. First memories of my childhood
It was quite funny how the ending showed that orc pretty much body slamming the knight off his horse and proceeded to bash in his face
i've gived a try to this, and i got stuck around the part at 53.40 minutes, you make it looks simple AF, but when I try it, I got some sort of huge rockets coming from no where everytime killing my forces! U legend!
You need to build a zeppelin to see the enemies submarines!
@@StuGames It took me ages to get that! So annoying.
One thing I enjoyed doing was creating dragons, but then endowing them with bloodlust from an ogre and haste from the death knight.
Same x)
3:28 top ten anime betrayals
I have not laughed that hard in many moons, thank you
KEK
peon: ready to work
grunt: oh f..
F
The first game a friend and I ever played on line. Some of the best memories.
53:35 You're the captain! You're the captain! You're the captain! You're the captain! You're the captain!
Cem Temeltaş lol
you're decapited
You're a beast! As a little kid I played this and loved the way you could upgrade shit and bloodlust orges fascinated me
Great game! Just back in time of my childhood! Thank you!
I loved that you did the clicking thing to annoy the units.
SUCH good memories, when life was nice
@@mastermirror1972 Appreciate now though, time flies so much! Chin up fella :)
childhood memories - really wanna thank you for this upload!!
The audio. The video. The story. Holy moly this brings back memories. 😍
Thanks for the idle clicking, I remember a time where Easter eggs were greatly appreciated
Aw man that "ZUG ZUG" really brings back memories.
You manage to bake some weird, unnecessary shit into your longplays without compromising the speedrun factor - 48:13 - I love that. Makes these playthroughs more interesting.
I was born far after the prime of OG warcraft and because of that grew up playing only WoW- never having touched any of the original warcraft games.
It wasn't until recently when I decided to buy wc3 reforged that I became interested in the older warcraft games.
I had not realized it but I actually had a huge affinity to RTS games.
My only previous experience with the RTS genre was with the Spore tribal and civilization stages. The tribal stage in particular was my favorite. It wasn't until I got into Warcraft that I realized *why* . Controlling groups of units to support a base was my cup of tea.
So after playing wc3 reforged I decided to give Warcraft 2 a try. And omg is Warcraft 2 a captivating game. The atmosphere just has you wanting to continue. So far I've only reached past the destruction of Stromgarde in the Horde campaign and I can't wait to continue. Idk how but it's more inviting than wc3 reforged. The music, unit voice lines, simple story- it all just feels so *warcraft*
I remember Tides of Darkness, this was such a fun game.
Brings me too tears!!! Whaaaaaaat!!! Love the orcs voices so much!! BLIZZARD MAKE MORE WARCRAFT AND STARCRAFT RTS GAMES FOR EVER PLEASE!!!
I could listen to that narrator all day long
The game series that made them rich!
Oh, that time of my sweet childhood... Warcraft II was one of my favorites those years!
This is the First Video Game i Played and immidetly got addicted
Without words watching this.. flood of nostalgia its depressing
this is awesome! i wish there was a way to 'replay' games, it'd be cool to see what else is going on in the map while each mission is occurring. thanks for posting this!
49:29 I love this old school theme. I hear it in Warcraft 3 as well
My first true Blizzard game i played in 1998 and owned. StarCraft was the next one in 1999 along with Diablo II. Didnt own Diablo I until 2002 i think. Diablo I was my first experience of Blizzard games after seeing an old elementary classmate playing it in 1998/1999 on his PC. I didnt know it was Diablo I at the time until later on after i had already gotten WC2BNE. So many memories although i mostly played Diablo 2 and Starcraft in the 2000s on classic Battle.Net on USEast realm.
This game merged real life and dreams into one
This is the True Horde Race! Combination of Orc,ogre and troll not wow Horde
this and aoe 2 ....the best game;s of all time...
and warcraft 3 an aoe 3 are legendary to
Canonically everything in the Orc campaign happened in the lore.
except the final mission, where the abscence of Gul'dan's troops spelled doom for the Horde's siege, aaaand they were also the main force defending southern Lordaeron. This led to the Human campaign, where Turalyon takes back southern Lordaeron and Khaz Modan, trapping the Horde in Quel'Thalas, where the Alliance won the war after the fall of Blackrock Spire.
Well, not really - this is a retcon. Originally, only several specific events from this campaign were canon, the rest was strictly non-canon. But then came the "Tides of Darkness" novel, which tried to make both campaigns canon (a bad decision, IMHO), which does cause a lot of contradictions in the story (e.g. was Told Barad successfully defended... or was it destroyed?).
Personally, I prefer the original situation, where only the Alliance campaign was fully canon. It made more sense.
In the Lore The Orcs almost succeeded in taking Lorderaeon. If it wasn't for Guldan it could have been a different story.
Yeah if it weren't for Gul'dan's betrayal the Orcs most CERTAINLY would've won the second war, heck they even managed to take out the leader of the Human Alliance, Anduin Lothar of Azeroth
KiLLa_HaLo checking in here - miss all the warcraft II homies!
The final Horde level was 10 times easier than the final Alliance level. As long as you have good defense at the base in the lower left corner, you'll win easily. The Alliance level.... dragons... dragons and more dragons...
Orc campaign overall was easier than the human. Makes sense I guess since Orc is meant to played first.
The time when I should be asleep but instead I played this instead.
Same!
Just bought a copy at a local games and records store for 11.99cnd Ontario Canada and it runs great on win xp ❤❤❤❤❤
Playing the campaign now. Its still so good.
Best game ever. I still remember the cheat codes lol. It was bad ass for the times and it till holds up. Would make an awesome mobile game. I always played as orc.
the timing on the sheep kill in southshore
Such good souvenirs ❤️👌
I played Warcraft 2 between 1996 and 1998 if I recall well, that’s fun to remember it.
Thx for sharing 😊
I remember buying this game in a game store out of love of the third game. I was 12, and I loved it..... and then the fire at my home took it all away... >_
the best game ever... i still play it on regular basis.
Both campaigns are virtually identical up to and including scenario 5 after that they are very different
Orc campaign it's a little bit easier than Human campaign, many scenarios have a naval focus, so it goes something like "build up your base, once you are ready build your fleet, delete enemy fleet and then when enemy is decimated perform an amphibious operation with enough strengt to kill the enemy. Human AI never really challenge the build up except for the Quel'Thalas and Lordaeron scenarios but even those are not as hard, most people will win the campaign. Orc units are more ofensive by design, Bloodlust boost the attack but it last very little. The death knight unit is very limited due to Paladin's exorcism and Dragons can be boosted with "Haste" and "Bloodlust" but they do not last that much so at the end they are limited
Human campaign is harder, some scenarios are ment to be close call from scratch, against multiple active foes, but to be honest the only real challenge is the Dark Portal scenario. It is that much hard that i have only managed to win it once despite having played it many times. The Humans are more defensive, since Paladin's heal can save a lot of money in units but really need time to make a difference and exorcism isn't as propperly used by OP than by AI. Mages are way better unit than D.K. since they don't have a specific counter and they can move freely. Gryphon Riders can be healed which is a huge save of money compared to dragons
At the end of the day it is a fun game to try, War2Combat can be installed freely and there's even a small online community to play it against others but the skill level must be really high i guess
LMFAO!!! 11:40 Exploding sheep!!! Quit molesting the livestock!! LMAO!! I had forgotten all about the exploding critters in this game. At least in WC3, the critters leave a rumble or crater when they explode LOL
LOL how it says before exploding: “baaa F U”
I feel like Ive been playing the game wrong all these years. 🤤
Watching the second mission saving the trolls made my memory of it a lie.. I remembered it as the map was way bigger than just run->save->run and I also thought there was way more trolls with different hair colors.
@@MrFasho123 There are more trolls than just Zuljin. Replayed it two years ago. This guy is doing a speedrun, so you won't see everything.
I am 35 years old and sometimes I play WC2. These are my fond memories of childhood.
Thanks, this brings back memories
Best play through. Right to the action, no passive exploration crap. Good job 👍🏻
The soundtrack
Damn I feel like some really sick cinematics could had come out of this if it was done a bit later.
I wish Blizzard would remake first two Warcraft but sadly that Blizzard is long gone 😔
Luckily Warcraft II campaigns are getting remade as Chronicles of the Second War (Warcraft 3:Reforged mod) but even then its not gonna have amazing CGI cinematics/cutscenes that true Blizzard remake would have/deserve
ohh when blizzard had a soul
I just love how you bother the ish out of them ,with the repeat clicking on everything XD
See if this came out for phones instead of diblo immortal i would be so happy........
The soundtrack honestly back in 1995 when it came out was absolutely epic, and has aged so well. Having the option for CD or MIDI was great too - obviously the MIDI didn't sound as good but they still did a great job with it. Lots of nostalgia with this game :)
*DABU*
*SON SON*
*EHHHEHEUuuGgHH THAT TICKLES!*
I really enjoyed the quippy answers the units would give you if you clicked on them too much
damn, the nostalgia is real! *tears*! lol
1:26:55 That's one of the big problems of playing on such high speed, the bloodlust runs out before it can be used to full effect ^^ It's almost better to just send them all in and use bloodlust on the ogres that needs it the most.