Warcraft 3: Campaign Masterpiece or Overrated?

It says a lot that I'm willing to watch almost 4 hours and 45 minutes of someone telling a story I know so well that I could tell it myself.

The implication that Archimonde counts as a “summoned unit” because he was summoned through the demon gate, thus meaning Wisp detonations damage him is a hilarious interpretation of the Reign of Chaos ending

One iconic thing to me is that when Ner'zhul tells you to complete the circle, you really do it as a player! You start with the Frozen Throne as the background for the main menu and the story finishes at the exact same frame.

The only thing truly missing from this hectic video, would be a mention of the credits scenes that play at the end of base campaign. Those clips were so random yet hilarious

Ah, I can't wait to watch this brief retrospective. Hopefully soon we'll get a 12 hour retrospective on the effects of the effects that Command and Conquer had.

4 hours 44 minutes and 44 seconds. On another amazing RTS. I LOVE IT

Why is it so good? Writing, worldbuilding & lore. This foundation has carried everything until today. It's an absolute masterpiece of art.

I think the story of Thrall and his Orcs is probably one of the most interesting things about the Warcraft series. When I was a kid, seeing Orcs that were heroic and noble instead of savage monsters was a really interesting and fresh idea to me. I found the story of Orc Moses and his tribes of monsters seeking a new homeland so they can live in peace instead of waging constant warfare was super compelling. Seeing Grom sacrifice himself to save Thrall from Mannoroth and at the same time redeem himself for the evil he'd done actually made me cry. By the same token, seeing the once good Arthas slowly lose himself to madness and become one of the greatest monsters Azeroth has ever known was also a really interesting thing to see when I was a kid. I never got into World of Warcraft and frankly a lot of that game's story sounds kinda dumb but the story of Warcraft III and the Frozen Throne will always have a special place in my heart.

50 runs through of this game and I never knew you could repair the bridge on the elven invasion, that's why I love these videos, ou learn weird little things like that.

The "Tiny Building" items are in fact part of the lore as engineering deployables. In WoW, Pop-up buildings are also prominently featured in the goblin starting quests.

Glad I could make it, Arthas.

I think Warcraft 3 made me realize how important audio clarity because to this day, I can easily distinguish what units are attacking or what spells are being cast just from the sound effect like the resurrection spell or a sound of an archer shooting an arrow. Even in non rts games, I have no idea what's to going on and one of the major reasons is audio clarity.

Quick thought on Blackrock and Roll. The cutscene that introduces the Blademaster doubles as a second important job of showing off his Mirror Image ability. Its the first ability you'll see from an enemy hero and one of the few in the game that isn't obvious in its purpose compared to something like Chain Lightning. So having Uther kill one in the cutscene nicely shows off that the image copies you'll be fighting in a minute are just an illusion.

The part mentioning Dryads would have been perfect to talk about units voices an how WC3 is is just the GOAT at that. "I'll attract the enemy with my human call: 'I'm so wasted! I'm so wasted!'"

Man it was WONDERFUL reliving my childhood through this video. I can't believe just how much of this game's story I remember and just how much of an impact it has had on my life and my obsession for fantasy. Thank you for making this!!!

fun fact theres a bunch of hidden mini-factions blizzard made that you can only play in 1 non-campaign map with a code. load up the monolith custom map that ships with the game, the one where you fight AI players playing as hostile & organized creeps, and enter -creepmeout into the chat and it replaces your base with a monolith that lets you pick one of the creep races to play as a non-main faction. one secret desire i've had for a long time is seeing people play against eachother as the hidden minor factions in a competitive PVP fashion. i'd be really interested, even if just as a sort of a goof, to see people work out how the troll faction plays vs the wolf faction, or whether the spider faction is IMBA

The TFT Rexxar campaign is severely underrated and not talked about enough

Sometimes all you need is a 5-hour video on the greatest game ever made.

Even better about the Shadow Orb, you can pass it on from Maiev to Malfurian who can then pass it on to Ilidan, then when Illidan appears in the Blood Elf campaign he still has it, and will continue to have it when hes an antagonist in the Undead campaign.

warcraft 3 is my childhood i grew up on this game. i still remember getting it for my 9th birthday it was one of the first video games i have ever played and i instantly fell in love. i genuinely think i wouldnt be the gamer i am today if this game didnt exist