WarCraft III: When Men Were Men, Orcs Were Orcs, and Customs Were Fun

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Not to mention the Starcraft 2 artstyle is boring. The Warcraft 3 models were all gigantic and cartoony and colorful but everything in Starcraft is this neon black pool of indescribable poo poo.

Zerglings are cool though.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2014 23:15

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 21:31

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

My fav. WC3 custom map was Anime Wars. You picked from a wide range of anime characters and there were just a fuckton of creeps in the center of the map, so basically everyone would just run around killing the creeps and each other. Every five minutes, there'd be a WORLD TOURNAMENT, where the players would randomly face eachother in a single elimination 1v1 tournament. Last man standing got a huge amount of gold.

I distinctly remember Vash from Trigun being broken as gently caress at farming creeps because his ultimate was just a giant laser that killed everything in a huge line after a few seconds, so he could just kill every creep and half the people farming at once. On the flipside, he completely sucked at the tournament part, since all his abilities had channel times so he could just be stunned out of them.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2014 18:56

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

darealkooky posted:

My favorite was one that sounds exactly like that, but it was called anime fight.

Was there a thing in the corner where if you walked down a winding path and avoided a bunch of rifleman you got a bunch of gold?

Yeah. I think that map got copied and slightly edited a lot, I've played it under like twenty different names over the years with only minor differences. Though the one that added Sephiroth was pretty sweet because everyone would immediately pick him even though he sucked.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2014 08:52

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Ungoal posted:

Anyone remember that huge LOTR custom map called The Ring Wars or something which had a LOT of custom skins/spells/terrain designs in it? I remember how those would last for hours and how fun it was. Also, you couldn't go wrong with Footmen Frenzy either.

That LOTR map was awesome because of how huge it was. The best side was the Ring Wraths because you could just stomp around the map picking off stray heroes.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 10:38

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

If I buy this off the battle.net client, can I play online? I figured so but Blizzard's wording on the subject is vague. I wanna play some castle fight dammit.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 07:53

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

Xaris posted:

Castle Fight was so good. Too bad the poor imitation Nexus Wars or whatever in SC2 was loving awful, and no one really made a good CF clone

chaos was the poo poo

# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 17:27

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

whose bright idea was it to make warcraft 3 Realistic and Grey

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Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/1222365505459191809

Not only has Blizzard made a crappy remaster, they've made Warcraft 3 worse, retroactively.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2020 13:00

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