Warcraft 3: Recast It is an irreversible disaster. Filled with loopholes, incomplete cash plunders not only fail to deliver on their original promises, but also burn their own legacy like a burning Legion invasion. This is the final nail of a gilded coffin for an ethical bankrupt, creative anemia company.
At least, that's consensus.
As far as I know, Warcraft III: Recast is fine.
The original movie is scaled poorly, so it looks incoherent and has low resolution. The new cutscene in the engine is usually an improvement-sometimes brilliant-but lip sync has disappeared. Sometimes the animation also turns off, for example when I watched Arthas stab Frostmourne and stab him with a left stab stick.
The UI changes shown in the original trailer have been discarded and replaced with some minor changes in size and visual clarity. The cutscenes in some engines used the dynamic camera angles shown at Blizzcon 2018, but many did not. The redesigned models are excellent, and each new model brings me endless joy, but on the whole, the game lacks the post-processing capabilities that tie it together. Blizzard did announce these changes in secret, but failed to extract the original video from the store page. For this reason, they are absolutely wrong.
Most disturbing is Blizzard's copyright change to custom game ownership. If anything about Reforged ignores Warcraft 3's legacy, that's it.
The competitive ladder has been removed from multiplayer games. Custom campaigns are currently unreachable. Even players who haven't bought Reforged have to download a lot of updates and now have to face some server issues.
These are notable problems, and some are more serious than others. I'm not trying to downplay community complaints.
But I'm still exploding.
In my ongoing review, I hope that after spending more time on Reforged, I will be able to separate my nostalgia and history from experience.
It turns out that I can't do it. So I don't even try. I can't tell you what going back to this version of Azeroth means to you. What does this mean for me
On the right side of my chest, there is a simple black font engraved with the words "If I must crawl, I will land on the moon". I got it when I was in first grade.
I dropped out of school at the age of 15 and did not complete the exam. I am not qualified. There is no real ambition other than playing the bass and throwing stones every day. By the age of 21, I had completed a community college, and thanks to bursaries and loans from low-income families, I was able to start a three-year creative writing course at the university. I dropped out of school almost a few times, but ended up spending my first year.
If I manage to do this, I decide that I can solve any problem.
If I have to crawl, I will go to the moon. My first task is still my only task.
You may recognize this line. Taken from the Scar Scarissue song by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Still one of my favorite lines. But I'm also happy to paint it, because I think-and still do it-if I'm not interested in the band's music, that poem is enough to hold on to me.
I really liked the band then, and for a while. I raised all of this because I wanted to emphasize that it was a difficult choice. That was the week that Warcraft 3 was released in 2002. My mom-separated from her father and making up for lost time-decided she wanted To take me and my two brothers and sisters to watch the RHCP live. If some of us don't want to go, we can get money.
What's the cost of £ 50 Warcraft 3? I can go to a band I love with my family, or I can bring my house and PC to me for a few days.
It was a wonderful day.
I'm not sure if it wasn't written for Warcraft II. At least, I wouldn't be drawn to epic fantasy in the same way. Looking back at past shots, it seems difficult to combine these two concepts. In hindsight, there was not much epic about the small-scale conflict of Warcraft 2. But it didn't feel like that. It feels great and exciting. Before the Lord of the Rings stunned me in the cinema for six years, directing these green-skinned warrior bands was the closest way to watch the full battle between elves, humans, dwarfs, orcs and trolls I've seen. I thought Warcraft had invented the orcs for some time.
Warcraft 2 is more special because I watch my father play first. The concept of strategy games is a bit mature and mature. Draw green frames around the unit, upgrade weapons and armor, and build settlements.
When my father Roy died, he had long silver hair throughout his life. He will grow the usual trimmed beards to a certain proportion. When I confirmed some details with the coroner over the phone, he said to me:
"He looks great, your father. It looks like a gray Gandalf."
On a good day, I tend to gallows humor. In tragedy, this is instinct.
I replied, "I don't think he will return with a white Roy."
He didn't know what to say.
When I grow up, my father is Gandalf. A long-haired, daunting yet gentle guardian introduced me and my siblings to mythical creatures and the magical world. Warhammer. Godzilla movie. comic book. Action figures. And PC games. Just like Warcraft.
When I was very young (probably nine or ten years old), my father's record and electronics store was broken into, and thieves stole dozens of Sega Megadrive games. After that, he just left the empty box in the store and then took a big bag every day to fill the PlayStation 1 and later Dreamcast discs. We have no money, not even money. Everything is second-hand, and my father's exchange rate is much higher than what he sells. However, if my father owns it at the end of the day, I can play.
I think Warcraft 3 was the first game I bought from outside my father's store, and probably the first game I've ever bought a new game. I didn't like the game at that time, but apart from asking for copies of Suikoden II and Abe's Exodus for different birthdays, I was usually content to play with things my father installed or had in stock.
Not Warcraft 3. Need it. I need to go back to Azeroth and finish the story. What I found was far more ambitious than I had hoped. This story not only expanded the content that existed a few pages into a world worthy of MMO, but also plunged life into a two-dimensional prototype. It was inspiring, tragic, fascinating and vast. This is everything a good fantasy story should have.
Like I said, without Warcraft, I'm not sure I will become a writer. Never go to college. There will never be that tattoo.
All these moments I originally loved still exist. Arthas marched into the throne of King Terenas, stopped, the petals falling from his gloved hands fell, and he destroyed him forever. Sylvana's death and death. Grom was destroyed by the blood of the demon, and later fought alongside Thrall. With this incredible final mission, humans are united with orcs and elves to defend the world against Archimonde.
Some are much better. Arthas found the remake of the cursed blade Frostmourne amazing. Watching side-by-side with the original work, it is impossible to conclude that "recasting" has no care or love. Whether for budget, negligence, or poor management, this cutscenes are exceptions, not advertising rules. It's a pity, because if nothing else, artists and animators working on Reforged seem to be dying to create something truly special.
If there are any serious errors and I don't find any errors, please save the time I have to restart the game because I didn't automate any tasks I tried to perform. I closed it and then started it again and everything has been fine ever since. That said, I'm under the impression that I'm bizarre, so I suggest you seek other evidence, such as pictures, videos, specific instructions, rather than just yelling on the Internet, before making your decision.
Thall carried out two-thirds of the beast offensive during the chaotic reign, sending Grom Hellscream to the northern forest and collecting wood for new orc settlement. Neither of them realized that the forest was the sacred place of the night elves who lived there. Trees felled and reused by orcs are immeasurably ancient.
After fighting the night elves, collecting a large amount of timber reserves from their sacred forest, Grom began working at the base. New things built from old ruins.
Gromm finally established the foundation, which is a good foundation. Maybe not exactly promised, but this is …fineDo you understand?
It's just a shame that he has to destroy so much history to get there.