Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995)
Genres:Strategy
Themes:Fantasy
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is a Strategy video game published by Blizzard Entertainment released on 1995 for MS-DOS. Warcraft 2 is a successor of the popular Warcraft real-time strategy game. The game contains many improvements over the previous version in graphics, sounds and playability. The Multiplayer was also greatly improved allowing up to 8 players in the marvelous multiplayer skirmish.Show more
Vote to bring this game to GOG and help preserve it.39 244
Blizzard (and Activision and Microsoft) are a bunch of piss babies for removing this game off of GOG. That is a major insult to games as art. Put it back and let this game be preserved!
(cross posting my wishlist story for Warcraft I into this wish ->)
Wow, the voting system to bring games to GOG (or back to GOG in this case I guess) really looks dashing. But before I digress I want to share why this game (and the second installment that I missed getting here in time) mean so much to me.
Warcraft 3 was my first Warcraft experience back in the day shortly after gaming was synonymous with console gaming to me and before I played a lot of PC games. You know, back when buying PC games on CDs was a thing.
Warcraft 1 and 2 are the hidden part to me whereas WoW just never clicked with me, guess mostly due to being a subscription. (I got my MMORPG experiences in, just not there)
I would love to play Warcraft 1 and 2 eventually and I'd love to be able to go back to those games whenever I feel like it and truth be told, I don't trust Blizzard at all keeping their legacy up in ways that respect my consumer rights. With GOG I have a little bit more of a trusted feeling knowing I can keep the installers on my terms, that there's no DRM and as long as GOG is around I guess there will be some efforts (and legal abilities) to patch any problems that get inbetween and old game and new computers and architectures.
I sadly missed getting W1 and 2 by mere days. I wouldn't call a bet on Blizzard bringing this back, but hope and dreams die last, so here I am.
If anything, Microsoft being the new owner of Blizzard (this really doesn't escape my lips lightly...) they could put their money (or commitment) where their mouth is when they claim they are about conserving video game history. I see their efforts on Xbox to make old games playable albeit I'd say it's also kinda due to them jumping architectures that they needed to invest so much effort into making old games play on newer consoles until they finally stuck with an architecture from One to Series S|X, but oh well...
This game should come back to GOG. Blizzard, Activision, Xbox Studios and Microsoft truly showed by removing it that they do not care about game preservation. The Blizzard we all knew and love died in the J. Allen Brack era, and Xbox Studios and Microsoft Gaming are run by fools who are only destroying games and their gaming divisions, so hoping someone at Microsoft again re-affirms preserving what we once had from Blizzard is the best we can hope for.
The effort to bring these games like Warcraft, and this sequel Warcraft 2 Tides of darkness and protect it from ever fading into memory, only for Blizzard to soon made you to take it down is a bummer, but not unexpected in this day and age with modern Blizzard.
I love this game as because it managed to bring forth Warcraft 3 that made me curious enough to play the prequels that lead up the third game in the series.
To preserve a game would give me a chance to gift this to a bunch of my friends every now an then that are a fan of RTS's and Blizzard games before Bobby Kodick.
This was the first old game i played with my dad. I was happy to lose repeatedly just because i loved the way the game worked, and i was playing with my dad, so it was always fun.
OMG me and my friends was obsessed with this game it would run on almost anything, we'd have sleep overs and network the pc's with serial cables at first, later ethernet.
Good times.
If we wasn't playing a map we was busy making one, I think my cousin was the most obsessed spent an entire summer in the house playing all day.
This one of the OG RTS games, man.. what happen to RTS anyway, such a fun genre.
P.S. Death Knights are the G.O.A.T
I was still on an Amiga 500. Then a friend showed me this game, and I bought it and a 486 that same week. Cross cabled our nics to play together in the same room if memory serves, I was new to it all back then. Spent a few hundred hours with this game I'm sure.
This game was one of the best, I wouldn't have looked at it if it had not been for StarCraft. These games were amazing. They were released back when the gaming industry was more then what it is today, which is nothing but a cash grab. Put it back Blizzard, Activision, Microsoft. Yes I'm talking to you. Stop taking people's fun away!
I really loved playing Warcraft II back in the '90s -- beautiful graphics, relaxing nature... And just last month I have discovered that now you can play it using a web browser on playminigames.net (via Emscripten-DOSBox) -- that is so cool!
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