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in the past


All time classic. Absolure fart

RTS 9/11, equal to cancer, child soldiers, waterboarding.

Fantastically atrocious. Was so dissapointed with this and got a refund. Please, please, pirate the superior original. At least those graphics have charm.

Feel no guilt for shitting on this game - it was entirely outsourced to a chinese mobile gaming company.

not my cup of tea. too many things to manage and just very stressful overall. guess i just don't like RTS's.

It's my favorite game, but it punishes me for having a legitimate copy of it, and it forces me to play in a web browser main menu and an extremely unoptimized and ugly "hd" version of the best RTS. I really want to play it again. I want this game to be playable agains and I can't help but feel like I can only dream of this.


I didn't hate it like everyone else hates it, but it's very frustrating that the developers didn't bring any of the innovations they promised. They only changed the graphics, otherwise it was almost the same. It was nice to play this legendary game again with slightly more updated graphics, but the only reason I gave it such a high score is because the new version carries some of the awesomeness of the original game.

Warcraft 3 was a massive part of my childhood, hell, my life in general, and I am proud of that. Be it the memorable story campaigns, all the fucking around in melee, or at least a thousand hours spent in the editor, it's a game that has stuck with me ever since dad first showed it to me when I was barely even five. It's the whole damn reason I begged for my first PC. As a kid, it took me a while to actually find out about the World Editor, and once I did, it was fucking mind-blowing. A few years later, I found out about all the different maps, models, spells, campaigns by other people online, and I was even more awestruck. I made my own maps too, most of them sucked and were never finished, but I didn't care. I even remember once making a bot match with all the opponents named after my school bullies to vent my frustrations.
Yeah, I'm reminiscing about myself here, but I think a great game should provide either a strong and captivating world/narrative, a deep gameplay loop with hours upon hours worth of fun, or a solid amount of ways for player expression in ways the developers may not even predict. Warcraft 3 managed to excellently achieve all of the above, and has an active community even two decades after it's release. If that doesn't earn it its place as one of the greatest videogames of all time, I don't know what else can.

And with all that said, Reforged is sadly the biggest middlefinger such a game could ever receive. Almost any credit I can give to it is solely due to the fact it's on top of a fantastic game, but that too is gimped, because Reforged actually removed features that were there for ages. Extremely slow patching has somewhat fixed this, but that's no excuse.
Old Battle.net? Gone. All your ranks and levels from there? Promised to be ported over, has yet to actually happen.
Custom Campaigns? Gone, not brought back until three years later. These tend to be massive projects that can easily require up to hundreds of hours to make, and here Reforged makes them unplayable for three whole years.
Tournaments? Ranks? Ladder? Absolutely absent at launch, patched in years later.
Certain voice lines? Gone. That dryad line was too offensive, I guess. Or even better, because "Grom" is apparently a copyrighted word, how about some absolutely terrible splicing of original lines? (Thrall is voiced by fucking Chris Metzen, could they really not ask him for a few lines?)
Reign of Chaos balance? Gone. Everything is bound by TFT rules only, including the campaign.

If the biggest appeal of a remake is a visual upgrade, then this is a travesty in its own right. The lighting leaves much to be desired, the terrain is ugly, various effects look like a fart gas, and the original artstyle is almost completely replaced by this semi-realistic, mobile game looking mix that is generally lame and unpleasant to look at. The individual models may have some nice standouts, but this means litte in gameplay. This is an RTS, you're gonna spend most of it from a top-down perspective, and once combat starts, visual clarity and consistency is more important than ever. Reforged absolutely fails at this, it's extremely easy to get confused and lost while playing, everything easily ends up as a big blur, and not even a pretty one. Or a smooth one, because the performance is subpar too.
The original graphics are thankfully available, but there are plenty of things that have been irreversibly changed, like the menu. A menu that fucking lags all the time, because for some goddamn reason it runs on Chromium. It also often disconnects me from Battle.net even when I'm playing single-player, and I bet the seeming instability of the game is at least partly responsible.

All of this, however, isn't the biggest issue. If a shitty remake drops, people just keep with the original. Well, you (legally) cannot now. Reforged has been introduced as a patch, and due to this, all existing copies of the original are now forced to update to the Reforged edition, even if they don't actually own Reforged, so not only your original CD copy is now too downgraded by Reforged, but you are forced to download 25+ GB of graphics you cannot even use (then again, why would you...). This is the real reason Reforged deserves to be forever remembered as likely the worst remake of a video game in history. It's an insult to both preservation and fans of the original in the worst possible way.

And I'm not even mentioning all the new things Reforged promised to add, and then never did.

Reforged should be only remembered as a perfect embodiment of what is possibly the worst era in video game history so far. Not only is it an insult to the whole medium, but it's a disgusting embodiment of the treatment companies give to this industry. The fact the project was basically cut in half because some rich cunt didn't find it profitable, the fact it shits on the legacy of one of the most important games in video game history, the fact that it has lied to, mistreated and scammed not only it's current customers, but also the ones that had stuck with it for over twenty years. And somehow, even this utter pile of shit on a silver platter did little as a wake-up call to anyone. Pre-orders that lie to your face, disgusting mistreatment of developers, zero respect for video games as an art form, all is still at large with no real change in sight. And as long as the shareholders profit from it, they have no reason to stop, until even your favorite childhood game has been wrecked and milked dry of money.

Fuck you, Bobby Kotnick, the current state of Blizzard may not be entirely your fault, but you nevertheless are one of the people most responsible for it. I sincerely hope the ghost of that employee who killed herself will haunt you until the end of your miserable life.

How did this shit even make it through playtesting?

Played from – to: (2022-07-28 – 2022-08-13) – PC keyboard.
‣ 5/10 – Just one of Blizzards pimp slaps to the fans.
‣ Thoughts: After a few years since the disastrous release of Warcraft III: Reforged I decided to give it a go. Since I am a huge fan of these games, I knew that the base gameplay will still excite me, but where I really hoped to be impressed was in the graphical overhaul and those new cutscenes. Did I get what I hoped for? No, nobody did. Warcraft III: Reforged is a fucking scam in marketing. Almost nothing showed in the trailers were present in the game. Now with all that, I still tried to go in with an open mind. And to my surprise there were still things that felt remade. Animations and graphics were definitely improved upon and felt like they were those type of graphics you remember as a kid even though the game always looked worse. Some missions surprisingly were also touched up. They had little areas added or removed and I’m pretty sure there were even some new enemy types. And then there’s the remade cutscenes that in most cases felt worse. There are effects missing, camera angles that feel even more stagnant than the base game etc. All in all, the only reason why I’m not giving this a horrible score is because, I still love the base game that Warcraft is. The story is fun, the gameplay is good and the overall vibe of what made me enjoy these two games is, in a way, still there. I just don’t think this is a worthy improvement. They could’ve improved the horseshit troop AI, cutscenes, mission layouts, but they slacked off hard. The game deservers way more love than this.

An absolute disgrace that just looks like it was scraped off at the bottom of a fucking shoe in the trash.

Se a blizz só tivesse feito esse jogo com amor e carinho, ele teria sido caralho, mesmo sendo um remaster.

Só é bom porque é Warcraft.
Vai se fuder Blizzard.

A perfect example of overpromising, underdelivering, and completely ruining an amazing game by doing the source material a disservice.

i may or may not have a cracked copy of the original game

Una porquería, los modelos nuevos son muy malos, pero es de esperar, los compraron de una compañía china que estaba haciendo un juego trucho de warcraft 3, el doblaje es tan malo que es insoportable, animaciones sin vida, los suelos, el entorno y sobre todo el agua no tienen vida, parecen plastilina mojada, muy mal hechos y apresurados, aunque honestamente el pasto y los árboles son muy lindos, también las montañas.
los personajes parecieran estar muertos, nunca unos personajes me hicieron sentir así al verlos, quienes alaban esto seguramente son personas que no quieren jugar al original por sus gráficos ¨malos¨ (Que envejecieron muy bien, pero sus rtx 3080 les salieron demasiado caras para eso), y aparentemente les gustó la historia lo suficiente para las cinco estrellas, que, sorpresa, ES EL ÚNICO DETALLE QUE DEJARON INTACTO, Y AÚN ASÍ, ES MALO QUE ASÍ SEA.

Jugar al anterior, piratearlo si es necesario, y les juro por dios, este hateo no es porque sea fan del original y no me guste el nuevo, si piensas que es por eso o algo similar, no entendiste la reseña.

I feel like I don't want to continue this, because graphic is almost same as the og version only the characters were updated aka turn into WoW art style. Also, this game has many bugs too.

Thanks, ActBlizz for ruining my fave game. 😠

As back in the day I was neither clever nor patient enough to clear the "Warcraft III" story campaign, I gave it one more try with this remake. Too bad that this time I had to give up again due to the bugs. The Mac version keeps freezing while saving every now and then. Other than that, I can’t understand all the hate as this is a carbon copy remake of the original (you can even switch back to the original graphics). The graphic overhaul is alright, even though a little cartooney for my taste. As with the original, I loved the wide variety of civilizations you can choose from, as well as the narrative world created by Blizzard for this title. The bigger focus on the story and expansion of the game contents was a big deal and a huge upgrade from "Warcraft II", and despite the not too friendly user interface the game still holds pretty well.

i enjoyed replayin the story but damn is worst remaster of a game of all time

Not the remaster this game deserved, but the base game and expansion are so amazing, I didn't even care about the alien graphics.
The developers did the best they were allowed to do.