>>714012478 (OP)
Warcrap Pee

RoC was a good game. TFT kinda sucked, especially the campaign. WoW vanilla was good too. TBC kinda sucked. WotLK was peak disneyland faggot cringe crap.

>>714012924
Nobody sane gives even the slightest shit about world of warcraft in 2025

>likes the game but has to make an OP saying its bad to get replies
grimmsville

>boomers
It came out in 02, not 80s or 90s.

>>714012478 (OP)
It was peak. Zoomers wouldn't understand.

>>714014346
Peak of what?

>>714012478 (OP)

We legit felt things in our stomach consooming this kind of content back then. I remember shaking with adrenaline on my first clicker backpedaller pvp encounter.

I feel bad for kids and people under 20 / early 20s, really.

Another thing was the quality jumps from graphics in the gens. PS1 to PS2 and then the PC upgrade to 1-2gb VRM + games.

I was 11 and it was the best game ever made to me.

that feeling when I first ever loaded up the campaign

>>714014660
>PS1 to PS2 and then the PC upgrade to 1-2gb VRM + games.
24yo scumfuck zoomer here. my progression was ds>wii>x360>xone>pc. it was rapid, about as much as ps1 through maybe ps4 for example, but god damn. looking back through the archives of how people reacted to the earlier generations, and having played a lot of older consoles myself both as a kid and later in life, that must have been something else. i think the only leap even close to what you guys experienced, and it's really not even that comparable, is the progression of VR. valid gripes over game selection and devs aside, the jump from massive powered contraption that requires HDMI to standalone $300 headset that's infinitely better has been quite something to behold. yeah, it's mostly new implementations of existing tech, but that can be said for a lot in gaming.

RoC was pretty bad
TFT on the other hand is certified kino

>>714014660
what an embarrassing thing to post. no wonder blizzard fans all behave like cultists if this is the highlight of gaming for them

>>714015125
>24

>>714015125
>24

>>714012478 (OP)
C&C (Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2)
Age of Empires 2 and Age of Mythology
Starcraft and Warcraft 3
W40k: Dawn of War
Ground Control, Earth and Homeworld series
Rise of Nation
Spellforce series and Paraworld

Those were the times when RTS ruled. Going to get a sip, thank you for the memories, OP.

>>714015548
it is over. nothing ever happens, nothing ever will

>>714014660
Very based take. I remember gaming during from the late 80as to the mid 2000s. Every single year was fucking HUGE, huge technological improvements, huge graphical improvements, huge fucking games released each year. I also really liked the internet spreading and becoming an actually usable thing from a glorified Usenet chatroom, although in hindsight I wished on a monkeys paw. Gaming these day is just an algorithm slop too of endless, samey-looking garbage and shit like league of legends, WoW and fortnite just never dying for decades.

We will never have genre-defining shit like playing Doom for the first time or Half-Life or the sheer FREEDOM of GTA 3

>>714016263
>Every single year was fucking HUGE,
Gaming 25 years ago felt a lot more personal that's for sure. It was literally nerds making games for other nerds and we only knew about it. Once corpo rats and other faggots smelled the money it was over.

>>714017176
Nah, don't go coping too hard son. Gaming was literally corpo shit from the moment of inception. See the video game crash and everything.

>>714017321
sure but it wasn't THIS bad, and nerds had a lot more creative control and a lot more experimentation was going on

>>714017779
It was exactly this bad if not worse. Nerds had ZERO ability to make anything as gaming was mostly on consoles and very few if any had the devkits and the ability to make bootleg cartridges. The "creative control" and "experimentation" was making games on C64 at best, with no way to distribute it beyond a few floppies to your friends.

The comparison to modern day ability to make games and distribute them is laughable.

>>714018058
Yes but the pendulum had swung for a bit. You are talking about the 80s and consoles, and I'm talking about the 90s and PC when things were better for a bit, and then the 2000s happened.

>>714012478 (OP)
Lil' unc mad he never experienced the most KINO era in gaming. Stay mad blud.

>>714018358
The 90s weren't any different. Sure, you had your shovelware on PC but being an "indie developer" was not really a thing until the mid 2000s.

The real discovery was UMS maps
i remember playing some dota variation where there were anime characters and distinctly seeing "luffy" as a hero name and then not hearing the name for another probably ten years
WoW3/Frozen Throne are fun to play about once a year, I recently replayed sc/bw in the sc2 engine and liked the bigger groups

>>714019512
>WoW3

>>714019512
>I recently replayed sc/bw in the sc2 engine and liked the bigger groups
i want to do this soon

>>714014090
This is Warcraft you dumb baboon nigger

>>714019750
follow the guide, but download everything it offers, it was giving me issues for not having "the unnecessary"

>>714015359
cope lil zoomie, you didn't have a proper gaming childhood

>>714012478 (OP)
Duh, because it was a kino sovl gem?

SAY THE WORD

Warcraft 1 was peak.

>>714012478 (OP)
i did piss and shit myself but because i was mad over the reforged thing

>>714012924
Reign of Chaos is true ludo-kino minus maybe a third of the Scourge campaign (2 of the elves missions and 1 before that really fucking drag, especially if you're playing on hard because you can't airdrop your heroes to steal all the keys with minimal fighting). Night elf campaign would also be mid story-wise (it's just about getting all your units), but it ends with one of literally the best and virtually unreplicated defense RTS missions ever made.

Orc campaign tutorial/demo (with all 5 missions): 8/10
Human Campaign: 9/10
Undead: 6/10 until you get to Elf Mission 3, then it's a 7 or 8 the rest of the way.
Orcs again: 8/10 (Fel orc mission was a 10)
Night Elves: 8 /10 (Last mission a 10)
Would give the entire campaign experience a 9 with how many times I've come back to it. I think it's a 10 if you play on Normal and you still get a challenge out of it.

TFT was maybe 7 at best for the campaign.
Night elves was not great, but it was one of the longest and varied, love Miev. 7/10

TFT's blood elf campaign just ended too soon, feels unfinished, and just started to get good with only TWO missions that let you build naga and elves. 7/10, but with the length, it's a 6.

The last Scourge campaign mission was a tedious slog, but satisfying to beat, especially on hard. Sylvanas' missions were actually kinda better? 7/10.

Orc RPG campaign was either the dopest shit ever (as a kid) or a completely consequence-free repetitive slog, I'm leading in between both as I replay it. 6/10

Only reason people loved TFT was Competitive and Custom games. I wasted so many hours playing Undead Assault II and Azeroth Wars LR.

>>714021032
I really liked the feeling of the early undead missions, with the elves and a lot of ghouls in the dark forest, and the first 2 missions had the funny easter eggs

last TFT mission could be cheesed in the funniest way by a shade surround

>>714012924
RoC is unplayable garbage just because it doesn't have shops lol. It's like early access version of the full design.

>>714012924
>TFT kinda sucked
How can you say this with rexxars campaign belonging to the tft expansion?

>>714021032
>Orcs again: 8/10 (Fel orc mission was a 10)
Orc campaign was slop. Because they couldn't heal themselves in any way. This made all the grunts disposable. 5/10

TFT is unplayable garbage just because it does have shops lol. It's like some pay to win version of the full design.

>>714012478 (OP)
I pissed and shat myself at the cutscenes to be honest. Imo the one where arthas kills his father still sends me chills if I watch it

they were cooking something back then that has been lost

>>714023978
Only an issue in the first few levels, Witch Doctors fixed this. I beat the entire thing on hard. It was mostly fine.

>>714012478 (OP)
the warcraft 3 custom games selection was top tier. second only to source engine

>>714012478 (OP)
>boomers
Gen X and Millenials, actually.

>>714012478 (OP)
Back then, anything Blizzard was an event. Stores would offer free pizza on night releases.