Man, the hours I spent playing war3 back in early 2000s. The strategies and the maps offered so many possibilities, the first implementation of heroes in an RTS game which IMO made warcraft RTS genre one of the best not to mention the supply limit and upkeep which meant decisions had so much weight. Custom games gave creative minds a way to offer even more and so many other genres of games came out of it. Polished tower defense, RPG style RTS, footmen frenzy… oh and the entire MOBA genre.
Then came TFT, which added even more depth to the game. What a time it was to game with strangers and friends. I then moved on to WoW and had on and off stints of gaming periods. I recall twice between 2005 and 2018 when I actually loaded up TFT again to play the game that hooked me initially. When Blizz announced Reforged last year, it did not take me long to click the pre-purchase button.
Now I was invited to the Beta along with many others a few weeks ago and have almost completely stopped touching WoW. All the time I can use for gaming I have been on Reforged Beta. This game was so great, and is STILL so great.
Last night they added NE to play test, I already played a bunch of FFAs (my fav game mode) to try em out. Most visual feedback which I agree with have already been outlined in other posts (except the people complaining about female DH, I think it is great that we will have different gender options for heroes).
All this to say that I have been having a blast lately and will hopefully continue to do so as the game gets more and more polished and eventually released. I can’t wait to see what the creative minds of this community will build next in the World Editor, I can’t wait to play 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 and FFAs. Holy crap this is the best thing ever.
When Classic WoW launched, so many people had that “finally, we are going home” moment. Well for me it is definately Warcraft 3 Reforged, after more than a decade in the MMORPG world, I can say that RTS is what made me fall in love with gaming and that with War3 coming out like this again, I am finally going back home (shout out to starcraft 1, brood wars and warcraft 2 which paved the way). Geez… what a nostalgic post, who would of thought watching my big bro play warcraft 1 would lead to this!
Thanks blizz!