Revisiting the Warcraft Strategy Trilogy

This is video retrospective of the Warcraft strategy trilogy, including Warcraft 1,2,3, and both expansions. It looks at how the games develop over time and how the distinctive Warcraft look and feel evolved. It also features a brief tutorial on how to install and run the first two games on modern systems.

______Table of Contents______
Warcraft 1-- 0:54
Warcraft 2-- 8:44
Warcraft 2, Beyond the Dark Portal-- 15:03
Warcraft 3-- 20:06
Warcraft 3, The Frozen Throne-- 29:31
Warcraft 3, The Founding of Durotar-- 34:04
Appendix, Installing and Running Warcraft 1 & 2-- 37:37
Special Thanks to Patrons-- 42:06

__Warcraft 1 and 2 Links__
To Download as Abandonware:
For More Information on DOSBox:

__PATREON LINK__

[Omgacow]

That early description of Blizzard being a company people love made me giggle. Oh how times have changed

[subatomicseal]

"[Blizzard is] a financial juggernaut that its fans really loves, and really loves its fans back"

I miss 2015

[ReinBelmont]

You missed the best feature of Warcraft 2.
Being able to record new audio for your units, like a deep fart for explosions. 10/10

[tranquilghost]

Blizzard: What are you doing, son?!
Activision-Blizzard: Succeeding you, father.
History repeating itself, as always.

[MrXalloc]

Warcraft 1 and 2 are now available on GOG.

[bboythekidstudios]

I would very much appreciate it if you did an episode on the X-Com series.

[janx]

Hey Noah. I know internet comments tend to lack tone and feel impersonal but I just want to reach out to you and say that you have really made a big impact on me as a gamer and a writer and a creative. I really love your work and you're my inspiration in terms of word choice and sentence structure. I want you to know that I will always watch everything you make. I have lived a sheltered and abusive childhood and you mentioned how you had a similar experience in an old video if I remember correctly. I remember reading a post on your Patreon or YouTube saying that you were not satisfied with your work and were depressed. I just escaped from my abuser. Please get medicated or at least attempt to solve your depression problem.

Do not give up, man.

[rudolphrictor]

How insanely fitting that you posted this video on my birthday. I grew up playing warcraft 2 on my dad's lap since the age of 3, I played all of the games so whole-heartedly, during my teenage years of like 13-17 I played warcraft 3 and the online games for approx 6 hours a day. I played competitive DotA from some of its first, wildly unbalanced forms (Can you guys believe that butterfly used to take 6 level 4 items to make, and gave +50% IAS, 80 AGI, 120 damage and other shit? oh yeah. Slardar used to have a ranged nuke.) through until near its end and promotion to stand alone game. I played games with both guinsoo AND icefrog as they released the latest versions for the first time, and on their team, multiple times.
This brought back such visceral memories it brought a tear to my eye. Thank you very much.
Also, my real name is Noah aswell, lol. Love your videos dude.

[Grummar]

Warcraft 3 is such an amazing piece of software. The campaign and it's representation feels much more modern than even SC2 in 2019. There are much less polygons but the artstyle just doesn't get old. I'm personally not sure if the remaster is a good thing but it's good Blizzard gives it some more attention.

[ABuffWizard]

It completely blows me away how in depth and complete the script feels. Noah, you're really a master of your craft.

[cryohellinc]

Intro song - Castle Walls - Styx (1977)

[erickortizfranco]

I absoultely love the way you narrate the video, you sound like a real scholar and skilled researcher. I enjoyed this video a lot.

[emdeo]

Warcraft 2 briefings are where I started learning English. What a great retrospective..

[glassisland]

I can't believe I never saw this video - I've such fond memories of WC2, and it's awesome to see you revisit the series. Love it.

[S-Nova]

I love the glee you describe Warcraft III with. It truly is just a perfect game, not only for its time but even today. Its aesthetic is timeless, and has carried onto WoW but also the MOBA craze today. The story has charm and is interesting. Its graphically gorgeous and there's great use of textures and it models its cartoony characters onto a low-poly framework instead of trying to painfully escape it. Wonderful, wonderful game.

[coddiwomple]

Warcraft 2 had amazing character. The lore, story and the art style was so good for the time. Like you said, these games were punishingly difficult. There really wasn't much strategy since units all had the same stats. Winning a battle came down to who had the most guys. Although I think the Horde is stronger because the orge magi could cast blood lust boosting units past the equal stats.

[BelatedGamer]

I just love how no one commenting has watched it yet, but we know it'll be great.

[El-Duderino-His-Dudeness]

I'd love to hear Noah do a full retrospective on Command & Conquer.

[annefrank]

balancing four races with unique build orders must have been a fucking nightmare

[ChocorocK]

"Succeeding you, father" - Arthas

Warcraft:3 is so good.