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Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II: Battlenet Edition now available on GOG

Helios

Member
https://www.gog.com/game/warcraft_b...aign=20190328_warcraftbundle_entw&utm_term=EN
In anticipation of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Warcraft, we brought you the real-time strategy classics that started it all Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II Battle.net Edition, including both the original Tides of Darkness and the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion. Starting today, players can once again explore these universe-defining games as they become available digitally and DRM-free for the first time ever!

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans takes players back to the original battle for Azeroth, challenging players to pick a side and raise an army of human or orcs capable of bringing ruin to their enemies. Warcraft IIand its expansion take the battle to the high seas with a host of naval units, and introduces more of the races that make up the Alliance and the Horde, bolstering the human and orc forces with elves, trolls, dwarves, and more.

The first part of the legendary series plays and feels just like the original from 1994, it’s just updated to run flawlessly on modern operating systems. Warcraft II Battle.net Edition, similarly to the release of first Diablo on GOG.COM, comes in two versions, which players will choose from the launcher. The classic one allows for the authentic experience and a fully functional multiplayer with Blizzard’s Battle.net online gaming service. The updated version comes with a number of fixes to provide full compatibility with modern machines as well as hi-resolution support and upscaling.
 
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stranno

Member
Meh, classic lazy GOG repacks.

W1 is just regular DOSBox + the OG game, OST as extra.
W2 uses the same "solution" as Diablo. A custom DDraw to Direct3D wrapper. Exactly the same graphics in both modes, of course, but this wrapper, at least, scale the game to modern resolutions without much performance impact. 40 random community maps and crappy 1280x768 desktop backgrounds as extras.
 
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Shotpun

Member
Going to get these but only after they go on sale, it's entirely possible I never get around playing them, especially the first one.

I wish GOG someday gets GTA Vice City
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stickkidsam

Member
Finally I can chop down trees and feed it to the magic well to kick some orc ass!

(Never played Warcraft but I've always wanted to)
 

Scopa

The Tribe Has Spoken
Sweet. Adding to my wishlist.


Meh, classic lazy GOG repacks.

W1 is just regular DOSBox + the OG game, OST as extra.
W2 uses the same "solution" as Diablo. A custom DDraw to Direct3D wrapper. Exactly the same graphics in both modes, of course, but this wrapper, at least, scale the game to modern resolutions without much performance impact. 40 random community maps and crappy 1280x768 desktop backgrounds as extras.
Did you say a similar thing in the Diablo thread? How would you want them released? What is missing? I don’t really get the technical stuff.
 

stranno

Member
Did you say a similar thing in the Diablo thread? How would you want them released? What is missing? I don’t really get the technical stuff.
They are selling exactly the same original games with a few launchers + dosbox + wrappers. There isnt anything new. I dont expect even a single new asset but at least a modern version of those games, programmed in Direct3D, maybe expanded FOV or interpolated animation. IDK, something.
 

petran79

Banned
They are selling exactly the same original games with a few launchers + dosbox + wrappers. There isnt anything new. I dont expect even a single new asset but at least a modern version of those games, programmed in Direct3D, maybe expanded FOV or interpolated animation. IDK, something.


There was also a direct3d patch for MSDOS version of Dungeon Keeper back then. It made the game so much better looking. Unfortunately it only runs in native Win9x mode with old hardware.

virtualizing win9x direct3d mode for modern os has been on a dead end for years. Some programming difficulties. I would have liked it for to be implemented and increase the visual quality of the games.
Xwing vs Tie Fighter looked so much better in d3d
 

Lucumo

Member
They are selling exactly the same original games with a few launchers + dosbox + wrappers. There isnt anything new. I dont expect even a single new asset but at least a modern version of those games, programmed in Direct3D, maybe expanded FOV or interpolated animation. IDK, something.
And you are blaming GOG instead of Blizzard for it?
 

Shotpun

Member
They are selling exactly the same original games with a few launchers + dosbox + wrappers. There isnt anything new. I dont expect even a single new asset but at least a modern version of those games, programmed in Direct3D, maybe expanded FOV or interpolated animation. IDK, something.

Oh so you only want them to rewrite parts of the game engines, that's all. And here I was thinking you didn't like the fact they didn't release their old games as a 1:1 original disc image or something, how silly of me.

Wow. Well at least you aren't asking much.
 

Drell

Member
I'm disapointed they didn't even ported the Mac version of Warcraft 1, it had twice the resolution and a CD ost (ms dos was adlib fm).
 
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