Today at the Warcraft Direct the Warcraft teams at Blizzard Entertainment celebrated 30 years of Warcraft. Besides Hearthstone, World of Warcraft and Warcraft Rumble the Real-time strategy team revealed an update to Warcraft 3 Reforged and two remasters.
Four years ago Blizzard released Warcraft III Reforged. It was one of the worst game launches in history. The fan favourite game (which spawned games such as League of Legends and DotA 2) was missing many features, while the graphical update to the game didn’t perform well and completely changed the artstyle for the game.
Today Blizzard revealed patch 2.0. It’s bringing back missing features and adds new options to the older, more classic, 2004 graphics. This is the graphics setting most Warcraft 3 fans are using. Besides this they’ve also released a new ranked game ladder system. You can check out the game on the official website.
Warcraft Remastered
Besides an update to Warcraft 3, the team also revealed two new remasters. Both Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 remasters are available today. The remasters will let you switch between the older graphics and the new remastered graphics on the fly, similar to Starcraft Remastered. When you buy the Remasters via the Warcraft Battle Chest (which also includes Warcraft 3 Reforged 2.0) you will receive the meatwagon mount for World of Warcraft.
Funnily enough Warcraft 3 should be more suitable for console than Age of Empires. Larger units, less units on screen, more focus on heroes/RPG elements.
Hmm, that’s true for multiplayer and current difficulty settings. But I think Warcraft 3 can be adapted for console play pretty well. You just need to slow it down and tone down the difficulty.
With control groups on controllers even the micro in Warcraft 3 is possible on consoles.
You might be right. They need to figure out how to change between different subgroups in the selection, so you can control abilities on a controller. That is some of the key for a port.
Same, I’ve seen plenty of RTS translate perfectly fine for console/controller at this point, I just don’t buy that it’s impossible. Engineering would be required, sure, but that’s a given.
Problem is you’ll need to get the developers of all these custom games on board. And they’re probably in their 30’s and 40’s now doing different things in their life
My eyes always look at the cap letters to see if anything is actually spelled out, and while it’s just random, I’m amused by TOOILE. Slightly better version if it just spelled TOOL though
Have you played AoE on controller? It’s definitly subpar, and it’s a lot less micro intensive game than Warcraft. I think you are displaying quite the Dunning–Kruger effect here.
