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Why Warcraft 2 is still probaly the best RTS games to date

June 9th 2014, 11:39 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
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Warcraft 2 is still one of the best games ever just the unit voices are so eargasmic the ending in the Human campaign ending is epic and awe inspiring and the orc ending quite well "dark"
The soundtrack is probably top of the line as far as gaming goes its very atmospheric and the buildings I can still picture the buildings in my head becasue of how well drawn and distinctive it was.

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June 9th 2014, 01:18 PM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
Yeah, no one doubted it was a great game.
June 9th 2014, 06:15 PM
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KrisKnox
Peasant He/Him United States
The site's resident Therian (Dire Wolf, Dragon) 
Well, when I get the proper resources, I'm going to make the best RTS game to ever grace the planet Earth.
June 9th 2014, 11:06 PM
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Cocomonkey
Bard He/Him United States
Please Cindy, say the whole name each time. 
moar Turn-based strategy plz
June 10th 2014, 07:45 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
(Tag Line) How long is this line. 
Well, when I get the proper resources, I'm going to make the best RTS game to ever grace the planet Earth.

Best RTS game to EVER grace the earth....... unlikely
Best game to grace the earth after 2007/2008 ABSOLUTELY!! developers/publishers today are nothing but greedy ,incompetent, evil ,retarded,and just straight up stupid who cant make a game to save their lifes.

I think what made WC2 so great was Bill Ropers voice acting which was mostly missing in WC3
WC3 is still a very good game and the last overall good game from Blizzard Forget that WOW crap thats for casuals and suckers.
June 10th 2014, 03:12 PM
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Starcraft still gets the edge for me over Warcraft II or Warcraft III, though they all have their own flavor that makes them unique so that I enjoy them all. I haven't really played many newer RTS games so I can't say if there have been any newer ones that are absolutely great. I guess the newest RTS I've played and liked a lot would be Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge and that's not exactly new.

Well, when I get the proper resources, I'm going to make the best RTS game to ever grace the planet Earth.

I wish you luck! It will not be easy to get everything perfect (Hell, even AI is tough to do).
June 10th 2014, 04:02 PM
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metatarasal
Bard He/Him Netherlands
I object 
The great days of the RTS are behind us. Back in the 90s an RTS was pretty much the most impressive type of game you could make. Right now that prize goes to 1st or 3rd person games, usually shooters. The audience has become smaller. Additionally RTS games (or pretty much any hardcore strategy games for that matter) are inherently unsuitable for console gaming, but that didn't stop people from trying. Only to find out that it indeed didn't work. That also really cuts down the available budgets.

But the real nail in the coffin is the lack of innovation. It is surprising how modern red alert still is, even though it was released two decades ago. Not all that much has changed since red alert. If I were to make a list of the greatest RTS games of all time it would probably consist mostly out of stuff from the late 90s and early 00s. There just haven't been enough really original RTS games.

I personally never played warcraft, so I can't judge it.
June 11th 2014, 02:05 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
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The last good RTS was probably C&C3 from 2007 to me that game was very important to me personally because it mark the end of an era
My brother bought the game years ago and it got scratched(A lot of people use to live in our house)

The best RTS after that released in early 2009 WAS BLOODY HALO WARS A CONSOLE RTS FOR CHRIST SAKES!!
The game was ok not great but not terrible either but its stil better then any post C&C3 RTS.

June 11th 2014, 04:12 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
(Tag Line) How long is this line. 
Starcraft still gets the edge for me over Warcraft II or Warcraft III, though they all have their own flavor that makes them unique so that I enjoy them all. I haven't really played many newer RTS games so I can't say if there have been any newer ones that are absolutely great. I guess the newest RTS I've played and liked a lot would be Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge and that's not exactly new.


Well Starcraft 1 is still a very good game however like I said Most of the buildings are no where near as distinctive as the the WC2 buildings
Starcraft Vanilla was very good Brood war on the only hand I didnt like as much its just Kerrigan screwing everyone over and no payoff the ending sucked still way better then SC2.

I mean just check out the qoutes and sound effects.
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With the exception of the Protoss soundtrack WC2 has a much better soundtrack.
June 11th 2014, 11:50 AM
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Well, both games have a lot of value in them so I won't argue with you. And Warcraft 2 does have a very great soundtrack when you consider how awful midi usually is for music (I guess the same could be said about Dink Smallwood, actually, though it's more generic at least it makes midi sound reasonable). I wonder if there a remastered version of the Warcraft 2 soundtrack somewhere, other than a few tracks that were reused in Warcraft 3?
June 11th 2014, 12:17 PM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
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MIDI?

Warcraft 2 didnt use midi atleast not the full retail version.

This is the warcraft 2 soundtrack Expansion included.

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June 11th 2014, 08:21 PM
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Oh... Sorry for the mistake. It seems I haven't really sat down and played the original Warcraft 2 in a long time since the disk got lost. For some reason I remember hearing it as midi but maybe it was just our old computer or we accidentally chose midi output as the default... I don't really remember. Thanks for the correction, and yes it is a great soundtrack. (actually a little better than I remember, considering it's not midi.)
June 12th 2014, 02:04 AM
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ThePunisher
Peasant He/Him Australia
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Yep I knew you would would like it

My favourite parts are first 10 seconds second human soundtrack 2:42 to 2:52
entire first orc
entire second orc
middle part of the third orc especially 30:45 to 31:15(that part you creep me out as a kid awesome)
either the fourth or fifth orc 37:10 to 37:40

One thing you need to know is the description in the video is inaccurate so dont bother using it to search a part the video.