Ah yes. Back when an expansion was basically a full game with new features - heroes - new maps and missions, and expanded the story. It was like dlc and microtransactions, but well worth it.
And the box was pretty, with a map and stuff. Blizzard was so mature, different, fast and creative back in the day. They dropped Warcraft 1, one year later Warcraft 2, one year later Diablo, two years later Starcraft, two years later Diablo 2, two years later Warcraft 3 and these were all highly polished. After that, both Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 took 12 years to complete. WOW changed everything.
When I was a kid, I thought it was the coolest thing ever to see a hero unit with better stats than a normal unit. Nowadays Blizzard is like Oops All Heroes!
"You never touch any of the other elves like that... Do that again and you'll pull back a stump." *Knight* "For the king!" Not even 4 minutes in and I'm laughing my ass off. Can't wait to watch it all. Thanks for the nestolgia.
Warcraft 2 happened to be very hard. Especially the expansion pack. Good thing you’ve got all the briefings, intermissions and pre rendered videos recorded here too. I was mostly watching this for the lore before I’d get my hands on Warcraft 3. So I really do appreciate your effort in recording everything without cutting anything out. Now It’s safe to say I’m ready for Warcraft 3 now after having to learn some lore… especially one thing about Ner’zhul
@@overshantaed3952 I've finished War3 and its expansion in hard mode. Also WC1. In m opinion, WC2 campaign, specially the expansion, is the hardest game of the series.
This game's difficulty is no joke, this is from a time where sometimes not even developers were sure if some of the maps were fair or beatable. I struggled a lot with it as well considering how clunky the game is from a modern RTS standpoint. Absolutely amazing work.
Especially in those days, "balance" was often just what 1 person thought was okay. Nowadays they playtest measuring thousands of players. This is why games seemingly have become easier and handhold-y, because who could have known that most players aren't as good as the developer that played it day in day out for months/years on end.
I was so proud just to actually get to draneor in this game.... Meanwhile in heart of the swarm you can literally beat the last mission without using a single unit other than kerrigan It actually felt like an accomplishment getting past part 1. Of course back in those days campaigns were much more important compared to multiplayer than they are now, but also games have gotten easier.
Seeing that Balista kill on your own units at 19:08 made me happy for I am not the only one who does that. I do that in a very, very dumbed down way tho lol
@@Urza26 No, Attack Ground doesn't clear any terrain but sometimes if something is just outside of your range your ballistas or catapults can cause "splash damage" and destroy buildings or enemies. Or, in this instance, attack the sea area that has an otherwise hidden submarine.
Year 1995. I remember my dady bought my 1rst pc a pentium. Back then the only game console i had was NES. Then a friend of mine gave me a cd with some sarewares. One of them was Warcraft 2. When i saw it, it was love in 1rst sight. The music, the game play and the atmosphere was incredible. Those years was perfect.....
Could never beat the expansion 25 years ago but with some of the strategies being employed here as well as quite a bit of SC2 ladder experience I finally managed to pull it off :) In my opinion the understated VIP is the flying machine. Scouting is nice but more importantly it totally counters death knights. Rather than casting death and decay or coil they spam storms. The storm gives the flying machine 5-10 damage before it manages to fly away. Have one on the death knight path a safe distance from home and they will never get the opportunity to do real damage. Lvl10 is supposed to be really hard but with Kurdran single handedly suppressing the noth base you'll never see a single dragon. Lvl11 is ingenious how you use Turallyon to suppress the south west base. Seems to be a bit luck dependant. I did lose hime once. Lvl12 not losing the central base changes it from an extremely hard level to an easy one. The building wall which funnels the units which subsequently get Blizz'ed was brilliant but surprisingly easy to execute.
war2combat its perfectly playable in win10. You can also get the WarCraft 2 mod for the WarCraft 3 engine, at least the old one... All in all, the game was/is fun, but you can't deny it has some balance issues, like: - some magic powers are way too much overpowered (Bloodlust or Exorcism, or the Blizzard / death & decay) - also the square unit/building logic allowed for some cheap movements like auto cornering new units - AI was kind of poor (but this was more so in Tides of Darkness, the Beyond the Dark Portal AI behavior was quite stronger and more dangerous)
Cutscenes/Dialogue Opening: 0:27 Ending: 1:32:18 Act 1 A Time For Heroes 1:30 I. Aleria's Journey 5:45 II. The Battle For Nethergarde 15:07 III. Once More Unto The Breach Act 2 Draenor, The Red World 25:30 IV. Beyond The Dark Portal 35:23 V. Upon The Shadowed Seas 44:12 VI. The Fall of Auchindoun Act 3 War in The Shadows 47:04 VII. Deathwing 50:14 VIII. Coast of Bones 1:02:25 IX. The Heart of Evil Act 4 1:11:00 X. Siege of Vanguard 1:18:49 XI. Dance of The Laughing Skull 1:26:07 XII. The Bitter Taste of Victory
Mission 11 was always a weird one. You get a briefing from the Orcs, but your interface is Human... but rescuing units plays the Orc rescue sound and the adjutant is the Orc one (They're destroying our city!) Orc units also sound normal so clicking on a Grunt won't make them sound like a Footman and all the structures sound like Orc structures on selection but again, music and interface is Human. How DID Blizzard pull it all off considering how you can't do that in the Scenario Editor?
I just rediscovered this game not long ago.... I was so proud of myself for actually making it to draneor... This is back when beating a game was an accomplishment, not a given.
one curious thing, in portugues the audio from "aye" is commonly used for when you get hit and feel pain, so imagine me, as a kid, not knowing anything in english hearing: aye aye sir! yeah I still lol every time till today, when I imagine the captain of the sip getting spanked to go to the location XD
in 1 hours and 40 minutes I may manage to complete first 3 missions of campaign if I tried hard enough, this guy managed to complete the whole campaign lol
I had a dream once, as a young kid, that I was captured by a grunt. I was lying down. He had his sword on my heart. He was standing over me, looking straight ahead. He had his foot on the handle of the sword. After a few seconds he slowly pushed down. I jolted awake with pain in my chest/heart.
Believe it or not, I visited Dark Temple while on shrooms back in 2007 or so. I saw everything from a different perspective, saw how massive everything actually is, and the craziest thing -- I felt the air temperature on my skin. It was quite warm! I did not expect that. So it makes me wonder... What happens when someone sits down and starts creating something. Where do these ideas come from? It's a cool and wild thing to think about...
I love how in the one map with 3 heroes - Stu recognizes how much faster the knights are and goes in further into map getting Catapult zooming past a grunt and are thrower while his other units take care of those units - incredible !
Great run. Love the way you target bases and raze them as fast as you can. Wc2 is such an awesome game. The art style and sound still makes it the best strategy game in my eyes. The 2 factions are really well balanced(yes even with bloodlust, humans can counter that). Wish this game got a remaster or a modern update to bring back the servers and update the ui and make some quality of life changes.
Yep, insane how quickly it can be done. I instead, sometimes played so defencibly and long that AI players goldmines ran out. Then those peons/peasants wander to nearest goldmine, even if its in enemy town-so eventually AI runs out of gold (and peasants). Then it's time to launch counter attack.
@@Tegelane5 That was my go-to strategy when I played Tides of Darkness back when I was 10 :D It wasn't enough to get me through the expansion, though - I only beat that after I gained some RTS experience playing Starcraft )
I ended up playing through this game again because of these videos, i watched one campaign, then i decided to get it working myself, I've been playing a level and then seeing how you did it afterwards over the course of a week on and off.
Thank you so much for this video and the orc campaing too. I recently started replaying WC2 for nostalgia and I always got stuck in the expansion. I usually played it in a defensive way, but I never thought of the idea to just rush the enemy to shut them down. Keep up the good work!
I rewatched that level where you start at Dark Portal with a ton of units - I finally saw how the griffon went at edge of rock mountain and took out an ax thrower - then moved right then up to gold mine - it is beyond me how other axe throwers didn't challenge the griffon - keep in mind if STU played map before than he would have aforknowledge; he was able to wipe out peons at the one enemy base while moving units down and building up first base at gold mine - he got his units gathered quickly and built farms and town hall then lumber mill ; some enemy structures left; good job STU
So many memories with this game man , Absolute classic , War2/Diablo1/2/Starcraft , Childhood and memberberries right there , Back when blizzard was the best of the best. And this came out the year i was born xD
It's too bad Khadgar, Alleria, and the other triplet heroes are stuck in the demon wastelands after the destruction of the portal. Hope they can somehow live happily there.
@@ViquelOoste I never played WoW as I dislike MMORPG - are characters from Warcraft 1-2-3 appearing in WoW? I thought it's only player-created characters, since, like, it's a multiplayer game? I feel really stupid now '-_-
@@ivankuzin8388 nobody plays the characters of Warcraft 1-2-3 but there is a storyline and quest line that includes characters like khadgar, Thrall, Sylvannas etc that the player character can experience or be tangentially related to.
Holy cow - Act 2 - first map - it was a massive onslaught! Griffon used for northeast portion of map! And Stu slides units past cannon tower; then tons of farms right away! Attack continues to northwest as Stu builds and goes back and forth giving commands at base or managing his attacking force- units and protecting catapult(s); he keeps up attacks and building and adding units to his force; I don't think the enemy had a chance ....
Ahhh, back when elves were decent enough people, opposed to having a conga-line of misdeeds so insanely long that you're left scratching your head at how the heck anyone could have ever considered them anything resembling good guys.
having played every warcraft game made, I have no idea what you are talking about. The elves as a whole have been a force of good for a looong time and though individual elves may fuck up (Dath'remar, Kael'thas, Sylvannas) the race as a whole is good.
@@XxXDemonhunter I know, I play wow and the Elves do not have a 'conga line of misdeads', they are a race that have as whole done far more good in the world then bad and what bad was done can be laid at the feet of a few bad apples that every race holds.
That first map. Is setup just like Elwyne forrest human starter zone in WoW O.O that church in the top right is where you start as a human in WoW. I didn't know they actually did that.
In Act 1 I was amazed that Stu used 3 catapults and didn't make a 2nd barracks; he made a Stable instead and unit by unit sent Knight reinforcements to first unit group while adding on to the catapults and continuing to press on toward the goal; with 3 catapults I saw units try to 'look' from computer but then be retracted back; I only saw one mistake when catapults clobbered some of Stu's own units when a lone grunt challenged the catapults north of the 2nd gold mine base; incredible that he established new base while wiping out remaining structures; I also like the time when he gets between the gold mine and enemy base with no towers present - peons go from how ever many there are to 0 or nil! Then it's 2 Mage buildings and 6 griffon Averies ! And he still is collecting on first gold mine - that's how fast it is ! And he brought back 3 knights and 1 archer to first base for protection perhaps from other units or dragons - I wonder if he even upgraded 1 tower at all ? And did he only have 1 Blacksmith upgrade or did he add on to that later ??
Very good gameplay1 Keep doing what youre doing! One question, with what did you recorded the whole gameplay? I'm trying to start a TH-cam Channel as well, but I didn't find a good video recorder.
Man this takes me back to the 90s and my first PC XD I do wish they stayed to this style of art design for WC3 though... I found the character models way too cartoonish and fake (the actual design of the models, not the graphics obviously - if that makes sense)
This is nuts man I'm playing through this campaign right now and it's a struggle. Mostly cause i dont know the map layouts and which enemies will aggro etc. Honestly, losing each mission has been a much better option for me at least once haha
It always surprises me how aggressive Stu is, I'm usually just struggling to survive, much less attack somebody (of course that may be why I lose, I end up fighting 3 opponents rather than 2)
I would play this game with my lil brother for hours na hours an hours.. COULDNT wait too get home from school too play on my PlayStation.. it was so hard I remember and lose an play an lose an play and come up with strategies too win lol 😂 😢😂😢😂 brings me too tears GOOD GOOOD MEMORIES
I tried Act 2 initially but haven't seen Stu do it yet on video - I want to see how he manages the units at least up till base building and initial attacks; of course I'm curious for more - does he go after mine with the demon or does he completely ignore it ? Does he establish logical base choice below the Dark Portal to the south and take griffon to wipe out first cannon tower southeast of dark portal? When does he challenge the stronger presence to the northeast of southern gold mine area ?
And so it ends. The armies of Azeroth flees to unknown worlds. Ner Zul and his council is still at large, with the power to open rifts, although Kadgar hold that power as well. I wonder is the Laughing Skulls made it through. Though allies for but a moment, maybe it was enough to create a bond between the two. Or perhaps they escaped, and will one day recreate the Horde. After seeing this game again, honestly, I'm not even holding Warcraft 3 as canon anymore xD.
Game : You will be unable to maintain this foothold for long against their numbers, so your victories must be daring and swift Stu: Hold my beer Man how I struggled with these missions as a kid, played them through as a grown-up man. Back then, if I'd just known to "rush B" all the time. It was a Playstation version though, not great for fast and smooth gameplay. :D Great gameplay of a great game!
Gonna take a look at your other videos, really liked this one you are pretty good. Wonder if they had other plans for the Khadgar finale, kinda off it was not addressed in warcraft 3 and was only brought back many years later in world of warcraft
'The female archer Alleria must be a new character? I don't recall her from the original Warcraft II. "you never touch the other elves like that" :) Does she have an orc female counterpart?
Now I am on new level in Act 3 of BTDP for Human Campaign and saved it; I scoped out the level a bit with the knights and found 80 k gold mine to middle south and other minor gold mine with a little wood to cut through to get to that one which is north west but just below a barrier; I'm kind of wondering if STU brute forces his way through enemy forces - I might scout a bit more then restart level and try initial phase a few times to see if this onslaught is possible given units you start with; if I'm thinking more clever like STU - I would think he wants to put pressure on enemy right away - maybe he does establish 80 k gold mine and begins doing farms and town hall then lumber mill - but at same time uses fighting units to harass enemy to north - I just don't know because I forget what units you start with; I imagine further north there might be more enemy presence but that part hasn't been scoped out yet
Also, how does the Book of Medievh and the Skull of Gul'dan end up back in Azeroth? Did they get tossed into a rift and ended up back there? And those rifts are too small for the heroes to go through? Or are there like many of the items all around the place? Is the Skull of Gul'dan actually a skull owned by the guy and not actually his skull? Did Medievh have many spellbooks? Actually he probably did. Why would the mage only have one after all?
Level three is really hard. There is another goldmine to the left that's easier to take and lets you build more units to take the other goldmine. Then just spam out gryphons and focus on the objective rather than killing everything. Good luck :)
Then there was the level with island and farm making and bringing navy to the left - getting that first cannon tower with dwarven demolition team and getting a second one too further in so not so many units die; more of my units died than STU's play so getting that other tower south and starting that 2nd gold mine didn't happen till later; my transports died and farms got attacked on first island - had to rebuild farms at first main base; my strategy was a bit different as STU is just amazing; I went for yellow and that island gold mine - cleared cannon tower and shipyard - ferried units back and forth for peons to clear wood and finally build a town hall - I focused on wiping out yellow and staying away from red - that faction doesn't expand with other gold mines and is just annoying with whirlwinds , axe throwers bloodlusted and catapults; I built up a navy and ventured all around yellow; found footing and sent in upgraded archers and mages ice storming; I also had 2 catapults, knights , mages ; I really didn't need so many griffons as I had remembered in prior failed attempts the bloodlusted axe throwers - near the edges, the battleships can wipe them out but need to be careful with catapults and whirlwinds - I eventually won the level but it was time consuming to ferry the peons back and forth and bring the archers onto island with the gold mine along with a few added mages
I sometimes go down to the 2nd fastest speed during fights in this one. Fastest speed is pretty crazy in this game, even the multiplayer pros play on 2nd fastest.
Then there is this amazing hero level to wipe out Deathwing - a huge asset to the Orcish Horde - I was simply amazed no town hall built ! Instead units at upper left corner of that region with archers there and Mage back up along with knights that can heal- Stu goes for a ton of risk early on taking his knights which are fast and zooming through various light enemy occupied territory with a heal along the way then past cannon towers, hitting enclosed wall to get to other units and key Griffon - then uses that griffon bringing him to dragon roost way in the mountains hard to get to and also confronting death wing - I'm not sure if STU used slow on death wing to allow archers and heroine archer to wipe out death wing or if he used ice storm - I think either would have been effective here with exception perhaps of death wing moving out of way for ice storm; and griffon helped too then griffon wipes out dragon roost and level won ! Great work STU on that high risk venture ! Very very clever
Very impressive skills. I actually prefer taking out black right from the start on level 2. It’s hard and usually leaves only the peasants and Danath alive but it can be done. But then I prefer facing dragons to death knights.
siege of vangaurd mission, can you actually win by just defending and waiting? I somehow feel like that's not a thing for an gold game like Wc2 lol, doesn't help that there is no timer.
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Ah yes. Back when an expansion was basically a full game with new features - heroes - new maps and missions, and expanded the story. It was like dlc and microtransactions, but well worth it.
@Kamari Jaxxon no i dont care
@Kamari Jaxxon f*ck off creep
I thought you could turn the fog off remember that. Everything you explored would stay visible
@@tompurchase7466 You can, though to be fair I learned that yesterday lol
I just wish they had added they units and buildings. It felt more like a mission pack, rather than a true expansion pack…
Blizzard creative team was something else. The music. The sounds. Everything was just crisp.
@@josephbrewer3877 No. WCII sound is really gorgeous
@@josephbrewer3877 Eh?
And the box was pretty, with a map and stuff. Blizzard was so mature, different, fast and creative back in the day. They dropped Warcraft 1, one year later Warcraft 2, one year later Diablo, two years later Starcraft, two years later Diablo 2, two years later Warcraft 3 and these were all highly polished. After that, both Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 took 12 years to complete. WOW changed everything.
When I was a kid, I thought it was the coolest thing ever to see a hero unit with better stats than a normal unit. Nowadays Blizzard is like Oops All Heroes!
This came out when I was 25 :(
Heroes inflation
@Oren Black I was 7 in 1996, he must be 51 now, +-.
Yeah like +1 vision :/
Dat "GG" was a nice touch 12/10
Glad I scoured the previous comments before making this observation myself. "GG" was *chef's kiss*
I feel like this still be the best looking Blizzard game to me. These hand drawn sprites and character designs just can't be messed with.
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True
The great chris metzen. He nailed it on that part. True mastermind
25:04....*Gives order to attack the wall.*
"A noble quest!!" 😂😂
"You never touch any of the other elves like that... Do that again and you'll pull back a stump."
*Knight* "For the king!"
Not even 4 minutes in and I'm laughing my ass off. Can't wait to watch it all. Thanks for the nestolgia.
Warcraft 2 happened to be very hard. Especially the expansion pack. Good thing you’ve got all the briefings, intermissions and pre rendered videos recorded here too. I was mostly watching this for the lore before I’d get my hands on Warcraft 3. So I really do appreciate your effort in recording everything without cutting anything out. Now It’s safe to say I’m ready for Warcraft 3 now after having to learn some lore… especially one thing about Ner’zhul
@Over Shantae'd good thing I’m sticking to Normal difficulty
@Over Shantae'd yep. I’m currently playing through the alliance campaign on Frozen Throne. The story is well written btw
@@overshantaed3952 I've finished War3 and its expansion in hard mode. Also WC1. In m opinion, WC2 campaign, specially the expansion, is the hardest game of the series.
This game's difficulty is no joke, this is from a time where sometimes not even developers were sure if some of the maps were fair or beatable. I struggled a lot with it as well considering how clunky the game is from a modern RTS standpoint. Absolutely amazing work.
Kind of funny considering the base game is mostly a complete pushover
I don't think I'd be able to beat it with the fog on and without "on screen" 😅😅😅
Especially in those days, "balance" was often just what 1 person thought was okay. Nowadays they playtest measuring thousands of players. This is why games seemingly have become easier and handhold-y, because who could have known that most players aren't as good as the developer that played it day in day out for months/years on end.
Like the final mission of Jean d'arc on AoE II... Man, what a suffer play that level...
I was so proud just to actually get to draneor in this game.... Meanwhile in heart of the swarm you can literally beat the last mission without using a single unit other than kerrigan
It actually felt like an accomplishment getting past part 1. Of course back in those days campaigns were much more important compared to multiplayer than they are now, but also games have gotten easier.
Seeing that Balista kill on your own units at 19:08 made me happy for I am not the only one who does that. I do that in a very, very dumbed down way tho lol
man I had no idea you could hold the base initially on the final level, that was impressive
I love the aggressive play style, you surgically strike the enemies and decapitate many of their bases at the beginning with excellent micro.
42:55 When you sunk the submarine, completely jaw-dropping!!! Why have I never thought of that?
Lol is always wonders what the hell the point of attack ground was. The times you could use it to block off a pathway are few and far between.
I used to do that as a teenager all the time, somehow I forgot when I picked up the game a decade or two later
You could also use this for balistas and catapults if the submarines are close enough to shore.
@@HallyVee I had always assumed that the attack ground was for clearing off trees or something. Not sure if it can actually do that
@@Urza26 No, Attack Ground doesn't clear any terrain but sometimes if something is just outside of your range your ballistas or catapults can cause "splash damage" and destroy buildings or enemies. Or, in this instance, attack the sea area that has an otherwise hidden submarine.
Insane speed, what took me 2 weeks to finish took him less than 2 hours
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Another stellar run. Considering the difficulty, you absolutely smashed it!
Year 1995. I remember my dady bought my 1rst pc a pentium. Back then the only game console i had was NES. Then a friend of mine gave me a cd with some sarewares. One of them was Warcraft 2. When i saw it, it was love in 1rst sight. The music, the game play and the atmosphere was incredible.
Those years was perfect.....
I still remember playing it on my Pentium 2 system for 8 hours straight. Amazing times.
The best thing about this game is the sounds, games dont have these kind of brutal sounds anymore.
Wc2 is undoubtedly metal to the core
Could never beat the expansion 25 years ago but with some of the strategies being employed here as well as quite a bit of SC2 ladder experience I finally managed to pull it off :)
In my opinion the understated VIP is the flying machine. Scouting is nice but more importantly it totally counters death knights. Rather than casting death and decay or coil they spam storms. The storm gives the flying machine 5-10 damage before it manages to fly away. Have one on the death knight path a safe distance from home and they will never get the opportunity to do real damage.
Lvl10 is supposed to be really hard but with Kurdran single handedly suppressing the noth base you'll never see a single dragon.
Lvl11 is ingenious how you use Turallyon to suppress the south west base. Seems to be a bit luck dependant. I did lose hime once.
Lvl12 not losing the central base changes it from an extremely hard level to an easy one. The building wall which funnels the units which subsequently get Blizz'ed was brilliant but surprisingly easy to execute.
wish they would remaster this game.....what a classic
I wish they would make a sequel 🥴
modern blizzard? btw battlenet edition is remaster
war2combat its perfectly playable in win10.
You can also get the WarCraft 2 mod for the WarCraft 3 engine, at least the old one...
All in all, the game was/is fun, but you can't deny it has some balance issues, like:
- some magic powers are way too much overpowered (Bloodlust or Exorcism, or the Blizzard / death & decay)
- also the square unit/building logic allowed for some cheap movements like auto cornering new units
- AI was kind of poor (but this was more so in Tides of Darkness, the Beyond the Dark Portal AI behavior was quite stronger and more dangerous)
NO! just NO!...
...unless you want another Reforged (REFUNDED) debacle
@@mueezadam8438 why make a sequel tho? the chronological order (game wise) is W1,W2, and W3 ROC then TFT
Cutscenes/Dialogue
Opening: 0:27
Ending: 1:32:18
Act 1 A Time For Heroes
1:30 I. Aleria's Journey
5:45 II. The Battle For Nethergarde
15:07 III. Once More Unto The Breach
Act 2 Draenor, The Red World
25:30 IV. Beyond The Dark Portal
35:23 V. Upon The Shadowed Seas
44:12 VI. The Fall of Auchindoun
Act 3 War in The Shadows
47:04 VII. Deathwing
50:14 VIII. Coast of Bones
1:02:25 IX. The Heart of Evil
Act 4
1:11:00 X. Siege of Vanguard
1:18:49 XI. Dance of The Laughing Skull
1:26:07 XII. The Bitter Taste of Victory
Mission 11 was always a weird one. You get a briefing from the Orcs, but your interface is Human... but rescuing units plays the Orc rescue sound and the adjutant is the Orc one (They're destroying our city!)
Orc units also sound normal so clicking on a Grunt won't make them sound like a Footman and all the structures sound like Orc structures on selection but again, music and interface is Human.
How DID Blizzard pull it all off considering how you can't do that in the Scenario Editor?
Loved this game, but I never managed to beat it, so good to see this playthrough
I just rediscovered this game not long ago.... I was so proud of myself for actually making it to draneor... This is back when beating a game was an accomplishment, not a given.
With your help, I finally beat this game, for the first time ever (without cheat codes) today! Thank you, Stu!
one curious thing, in portugues the audio from "aye" is commonly used for when you get hit and feel pain, so imagine me, as a kid, not knowing anything in english hearing: aye aye sir! yeah I still lol every time till today, when I imagine the captain of the sip getting spanked to go to the location XD
in 1 hours and 40 minutes I may manage to complete first 3 missions of campaign if I tried hard enough, this guy managed to complete the whole campaign lol
Great, i was waiting for this one, you play very well.
Will you do Brood War too?
yes, coming soon
My first Rts game. Had it on the original playstation around 97'-98'. Good times.
I had a dream once, as a young kid, that I was captured by a grunt. I was lying down. He had his sword on my heart. He was standing over me, looking straight ahead. He had his foot on the handle of the sword. After a few seconds he slowly pushed down. I jolted awake with pain in my chest/heart.
Believe it or not, I visited Dark Temple while on shrooms back in 2007 or so. I saw everything from a different perspective, saw how massive everything actually is, and the craziest thing -- I felt the air temperature on my skin. It was quite warm! I did not expect that. So it makes me wonder... What happens when someone sits down and starts creating something. Where do these ideas come from? It's a cool and wild thing to think about...
I love how in the one map with 3 heroes - Stu recognizes how much faster the knights are and goes in further into map getting Catapult zooming past a grunt and are thrower while his other units take care of those units - incredible !
Great run. Love the way you target bases and raze them as fast as you can. Wc2 is such an awesome game. The art style and sound still makes it the best strategy game in my eyes. The 2 factions are really well balanced(yes even with bloodlust, humans can counter that). Wish this game got a remaster or a modern update to bring back the servers and update the ui and make some quality of life changes.
Yep, insane how quickly it can be done. I instead, sometimes played so defencibly and long that AI players goldmines ran out. Then those peons/peasants wander to nearest goldmine, even if its in enemy town-so eventually AI runs out of gold (and peasants). Then it's time to launch counter attack.
We would hate the remake ...
Having two almost identical factions with one of them being a bit stronger seems like a really shitty way to balance things.
@@Tegelane5 That was my go-to strategy when I played Tides of Darkness back when I was 10 :D It wasn't enough to get me through the expansion, though - I only beat that after I gained some RTS experience playing Starcraft )
I ended up playing through this game again because of these videos, i watched one campaign, then i decided to get it working myself, I've been playing a level and then seeing how you did it afterwards over the course of a week on and off.
Amazing mouse and management skills
I think the term you're looking for is "ubermicro" 😋
Thank you so much for this video and the orc campaing too. I recently started replaying WC2 for nostalgia and I always got stuck in the expansion. I usually played it in a defensive way, but I never thought of the idea to just rush the enemy to shut them down. Keep up the good work!
My favourite RTS
"Excuse me? You never touch the OTHER elves like that. Do that again,and you'll pull back a stump"....lmfao,classic!!!! :P
This game sure aged really well. I've been playing it and it's still really fun.
I rewatched that level where you start at Dark Portal with a ton of units - I finally saw how the griffon went at edge of rock mountain and took out an ax thrower - then moved right then up to gold mine - it is beyond me how other axe throwers didn't challenge the griffon - keep in mind if STU played map before than he would have aforknowledge; he was able to wipe out peons at the one enemy base while moving units down and building up first base at gold mine - he got his units gathered quickly and built farms and town hall then lumber mill ; some enemy structures left; good job STU
Oh I was wondering if you have beyond the dark portal after I watched you play the base game.
So what happens to Khadgar & friends? Do they just kinda chill in the Outlands until the Burning Crusade?
Alleria's "EXCUSE ME!" never fails to crack me up.
So many memories with this game man , Absolute classic , War2/Diablo1/2/Starcraft , Childhood and memberberries right there , Back when blizzard was the best of the best. And this came out the year i was born xD
It's too bad Khadgar, Alleria, and the other triplet heroes are stuck in the demon wastelands after the destruction of the portal. Hope they can somehow live happily there.
never played burning crusade on world of warcraft ?
@@ViquelOoste i guess, it was a joke :D
@@ViquelOoste I never played WoW as I dislike MMORPG - are characters from Warcraft 1-2-3 appearing in WoW? I thought it's only player-created characters, since, like, it's a multiplayer game? I feel really stupid now '-_-
@@ivankuzin8388 nobody plays the characters of Warcraft 1-2-3 but there is a storyline and quest line that includes characters like khadgar, Thrall, Sylvannas etc that the player character can experience or be tangentially related to.
Holy cow - Act 2 - first map - it was a massive onslaught! Griffon used for northeast portion of map! And Stu slides units past cannon tower; then tons of farms right away! Attack continues to northwest as Stu builds and goes back and forth giving commands at base or managing his attacking force- units and protecting catapult(s); he keeps up attacks and building and adding units to his force; I don't think the enemy had a chance ....
Ahhh, back when elves were decent enough people, opposed to having a conga-line of misdeeds so insanely long that you're left scratching your head at how the heck anyone could have ever considered them anything resembling good guys.
having played every warcraft game made, I have no idea what you are talking about. The elves as a whole have been a force of good for a looong time and though individual elves may fuck up (Dath'remar, Kael'thas, Sylvannas) the race as a whole is good.
@@alithanar8 He refers to wow.
@@XxXDemonhunter I know, I play wow and the Elves do not have a 'conga line of misdeads', they are a race that have as whole done far more good in the world then bad and what bad was done can be laid at the feet of a few bad apples that every race holds.
The last level has a bug where the enemy Orcish heroes are on the map near the Dark Portal, but assigned to the wrong player, causing them to vanish.
I actually didnt know this, despite being a lore/trivia junkey for these games.
That first map. Is setup just like Elwyne forrest human starter zone in WoW O.O that church in the top right is where you start as a human in WoW. I didn't know they actually did that.
I know some of the cheese.
But I have never seen someone combining perfect micro with cheese.
My hero.
Waiting to finish off a tower so you can blizzard the peons they send to repair it is pretty clever.
In Act 1 I was amazed that Stu used 3 catapults and didn't make a 2nd barracks; he made a Stable instead and unit by unit sent Knight reinforcements to first unit group while adding on to the catapults and continuing to press on toward the goal; with 3 catapults I saw units try to 'look' from computer but then be retracted back; I only saw one mistake when catapults clobbered some of Stu's own units when a lone grunt challenged the catapults north of the 2nd gold mine base; incredible that he established new base while wiping out remaining structures; I also like the time when he gets between the gold mine and enemy base with no towers present - peons go from how ever many there are to 0 or nil! Then it's 2 Mage buildings and 6 griffon Averies ! And he still is collecting on first gold mine - that's how fast it is ! And he brought back 3 knights and 1 archer to first base for protection perhaps from other units or dragons - I wonder if he even upgraded 1 tower at all ? And did he only have 1 Blacksmith upgrade or did he add on to that later ??
Alleria's range is so op
Very good gameplay1 Keep doing what youre doing! One question, with what did you recorded the whole gameplay? I'm trying to start a TH-cam Channel as well, but I didn't find a good video recorder.
I use AMD Software
@@StuGames Thank you so much!
i love the knights voice and the church sound
Shocking how good the game holds up. Thats the brilliant artstyle! Doesn`t look dated at all
Man this takes me back to the 90s and my first PC XD
I do wish they stayed to this style of art design for WC3 though... I found the character models way too cartoonish and fake (the actual design of the models, not the graphics obviously - if that makes sense)
"You never touch the other elves like that."
This is nuts man
I'm playing through this campaign right now and it's a struggle. Mostly cause i dont know the map layouts and which enemies will aggro etc. Honestly, losing each mission has been a much better option for me at least once haha
I would love to see a remake of this classic.
It always surprises me how aggressive Stu is, I'm usually just struggling to survive, much less attack somebody (of course that may be why I lose, I end up fighting 3 opponents rather than 2)
I would play this game with my lil brother for hours na hours an hours.. COULDNT wait too get home from school too play on my PlayStation.. it was so hard I remember and lose an play an lose an play and come up with strategies too win lol 😂 😢😂😢😂 brings me too tears GOOD GOOOD MEMORIES
It never seizes to amuse me how much hp a farm has, compared to the juggernaut.
i did most of campaign in max speed but was clearly having a hard time compared to your lighting speed invasion, terrifying
I tried Act 2 initially but haven't seen Stu do it yet on video - I want to see how he manages the units at least up till base building and initial attacks; of course I'm curious for more - does he go after mine with the demon or does he completely ignore it ? Does he establish logical base choice below the Dark Portal to the south and take griffon to wipe out first cannon tower southeast of dark portal? When does he challenge the stronger presence to the northeast of southern gold mine area ?
And so it ends. The armies of Azeroth flees to unknown worlds. Ner Zul and his council is still at large, with the power to open rifts, although Kadgar hold that power as well.
I wonder is the Laughing Skulls made it through. Though allies for but a moment, maybe it was enough to create a bond between the two. Or perhaps they escaped, and will one day recreate the Horde.
After seeing this game again, honestly, I'm not even holding Warcraft 3 as canon anymore xD.
Holy F SHI Stu ! This is so speedrun, I cant lift my jaw off the fracking floor! O.O
Game : You will be unable to maintain this foothold for long against their numbers, so your victories must be daring and swift
Stu: Hold my beer
Man how I struggled with these missions as a kid, played them through as a grown-up man. Back then, if I'd just known to "rush B" all the time. It was a Playstation version though, not great for fast and smooth gameplay. :D
Great gameplay of a great game!
Gonna take a look at your other videos, really liked this one you are pretty good. Wonder if they had other plans for the Khadgar finale, kinda off it was not addressed in warcraft 3 and was only brought back many years later in world of warcraft
That game was about 43000 won as korea money.43000 won for both Tide of darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal.
This is perfect to watch before Classic TBC comes out. Thank you Stu!
Btw, was this a speedrun attempt or are you just really good?
This is so nostalgically good
God do i love the narrator's voice in this game, awesome gameplay too-
this game is a masterpiece
'The female archer Alleria must be a new character? I don't recall her from the original Warcraft II. "you never touch the other elves like that" :) Does she have an orc female counterpart?
Вспомнил детство своё, настольгия...
Hey Stu how do you hotkey multiple units??
that massive ballista friendly fire at 19 minutes xd
What epic musics , good times back then...
One of the few things I would change in this if remade would be the ranking score
Now I am on new level in Act 3 of BTDP for Human Campaign and saved it; I scoped out the level a bit with the knights and found 80 k gold mine to middle south and other minor gold mine with a little wood to cut through to get to that one which is north west but just below a barrier; I'm kind of wondering if STU brute forces his way through enemy forces - I might scout a bit more then restart level and try initial phase a few times to see if this onslaught is possible given units you start with; if I'm thinking more clever like STU - I would think he wants to put pressure on enemy right away - maybe he does establish 80 k gold mine and begins doing farms and town hall then lumber mill - but at same time uses fighting units to harass enemy to north - I just don't know because I forget what units you start with; I imagine further north there might be more enemy presence but that part hasn't been scoped out yet
-тебе до сих пор нравится варкрафт2 ?после стольких лет?
-всегда...
I remember playing this game while jamming to billy joel. I dont recall having as easy a time as you lol
I also liked how he uses Allaria - archer heroine - the archer has a longer range and Stu uses that !
Stages 11 and 12: You get admiral rank without commanding a single ship.
Also, how does the Book of Medievh and the Skull of Gul'dan end up back in Azeroth? Did they get tossed into a rift and ended up back there? And those rifts are too small for the heroes to go through? Or are there like many of the items all around the place?
Is the Skull of Gul'dan actually a skull owned by the guy and not actually his skull? Did Medievh have many spellbooks? Actually he probably did. Why would the mage only have one after all?
How many times did you play each level until you beat it? I've been trying to follow you exactly and I keep on failing, at level 3 :/
Level three is really hard. There is another goldmine to the left that's easier to take and lets you build more units to take the other goldmine. Then just spam out gryphons and focus on the objective rather than killing everything. Good luck :)
Awesome games from the 1990s I don’t understand why your playing speed is cranked?
Fastest speed was the most common on BNE era WarCraft 2.
good old times
this is my childhood
Then there was the level with island and farm making and bringing navy to the left - getting that first cannon tower with dwarven demolition team and getting a second one too further in so not so many units die; more of my units died than STU's play so getting that other tower south and starting that 2nd gold mine didn't happen till later; my transports died and farms got attacked on first island - had to rebuild farms at first main base; my strategy was a bit different as STU is just amazing; I went for yellow and that island gold mine - cleared cannon tower and shipyard - ferried units back and forth for peons to clear wood and finally build a town hall - I focused on wiping out yellow and staying away from red - that faction doesn't expand with other gold mines and is just annoying with whirlwinds , axe throwers bloodlusted and catapults; I built up a navy and ventured all around yellow; found footing and sent in upgraded archers and mages ice storming; I also had 2 catapults, knights , mages ; I really didn't need so many griffons as I had remembered in prior failed attempts the bloodlusted axe throwers - near the edges, the battleships can wipe them out but need to be careful with catapults and whirlwinds - I eventually won the level but it was time consuming to ferry the peons back and forth and bring the archers onto island with the gold mine along with a few added mages
I forgot how much of a beast Danath was.
All the heroes really
@@bemasaberwyn55 Step aside, Junior
@@carelesscloud9816 Khadgar is still my favorite (kirin Tor bitches)
Didnt you get the designer rank after you beat this campaign?
Is the game speed any different per mission? I feel like some of the missions were played in slower speed than the usual fastest setting you use.
I sometimes go down to the 2nd fastest speed during fights in this one. Fastest speed is pretty crazy in this game, even the multiplayer pros play on 2nd fastest.
Then there is this amazing hero level to wipe out Deathwing - a huge asset to the Orcish Horde - I was simply amazed no town hall built ! Instead units at upper left corner of that region with archers there and Mage back up along with knights that can heal- Stu goes for a ton of risk early on taking his knights which are fast and zooming through various light enemy occupied territory with a heal along the way then past cannon towers, hitting enclosed wall to get to other units and key Griffon - then uses that griffon bringing him to dragon roost way in the mountains hard to get to and also confronting death wing - I'm not sure if STU used slow on death wing to allow archers and heroine archer to wipe out death wing or if he used ice storm - I think either would have been effective here with exception perhaps of death wing moving out of way for ice storm; and griffon helped too then griffon wipes out dragon roost and level won ! Great work STU on that high risk venture ! Very very clever
For deathwing, 48:55, was getting the gryphon the reason he actually moved? Usually, unless I destroy all the buildings, Deathwing doesn't come out.
Very impressive skills. I actually prefer taking out black right from the start on level 2. It’s hard and usually leaves only the peasants and Danath alive but it can be done. But then I prefer facing dragons to death knights.
At least you can one-shot a Death Knight with a Paladin's Exorcism skill.
@@MetalSmasherGaming True, but you can also one-shot a dragon with polymorph. You just need a lot of mages so they don't overwhelm you.
siege of vangaurd mission, can you actually win by just defending and waiting? I somehow feel like that's not a thing for an gold game like Wc2 lol, doesn't help that there is no timer.
You know shit's about to get real in a Stu vid when the Gryphon / Dragons start coming in. lol
Does the game run faster on higher difficulties or something? I don’t remember it playing attack and movement animations that fast.
I think it was sped it up for the sake of time.