Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.

I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.

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philistine 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I recently replayed Warcraft II and fell out of my chair when I realized the original did not have control groups. Those were only added with the Battle.Net edition!

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Gud 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!

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cozzyd an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I had a pirated version on a zip drive

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red-iron-pine an hour ago | parent | next [-]

people wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol

	▲	cozzyd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Before cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!

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balls187 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

IOMagic Zip Drive?

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crims0n 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

38 even!

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wcallahan 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).

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virtue3 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

	▲	Gud 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mostly the best of times

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Xunjin 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

33 here, started with Dark Saga in my old PS1, after few months of my first gameplay got a used computer and played A LOT of warcraft 1 and 2.

PS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.

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ab-dm 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans. Never liked the hero focus of w3

	▲	cogman10 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same. I think it adds just too much complexity to an RTS where I want to just have an army to control. Were it not so buggy, I think C&C generals ranks pretty high on fun modern RTSes.

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Aeolun 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

38, I played 2, but it was pretty bad compared to Warcraft III. Three still holds up just as well as it did back then.

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croon 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not to be a patronizing old fart, but may I assume that you played II after III? If so I can understand it, but II was very special when it came out, and I never revisited it after.

I think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.

	▲	kemotep 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		2 is a much harder game in my opinion. I don’t think even at the hardest difficulty level Warcraft 3 has any levels that require you to do a contested marine landing and then build a base before immediately being attacked again. The final Orc mission took me forever to beat. And the expansion? Good lord.

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cogman10 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

IMO, Starcraft 1 is better than both 2 and 3.

III has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.

That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.

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jonathanlydall 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.