Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - The Rise of the Horde and Alliance
31K views · Apr 17, 2026 · Gaming
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@SeanzenGaming · 5 months ago (edited) · pinned
Hi Everyone, quick point and correction for the video:<br><br>I did some research and was notified that YouTube might consider some of Chris Metzen's iconic manual artwork as sensitive. Specifically, images of one character holding the head of another. Because of that, I blurred a few images only from the manual as I read that makes a difference from images in the game itself.<br><br>If you're interested in seeing the manual for its high quality artwork or more of the lore, I highly suggest looking at it online!<br><br>Correction: I didn’t realize the original WC2 came with the option for MIDI music and a higher quality CD version. From what I researched, the WC2 remaster also remastered the music but it technically already existed in the original version which I don’t mention in the video. Thank you for the comments mentioning this! See MacJulian88’s reply to this post for additional information on the sound.<br><br>For now, I wish you all a healthy and hearty Zug zug, Dabu, and Lok’tar.
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@exmaarmaca · 5 months ago
Love how on WOW you can still see dead bodies of those giant turtles that were used like "submarines" on Swamp of Sorrows or tons of elven destroyers shipwrecks on other areas.
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@arbiter11171 · 5 months ago
“Fun for the whole family.” I was between 5-7 years old when I watched my older brothers play this game, and I played with cheat codes.
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@Blaaland88 · 4 months ago
Not going to lie, the remastered version of music is exactly how the original music sounded in my head back in the day
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@alexejfrohlich5869 · 5 months ago
i came for the review -- i stayed for the seal refugee island <3
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@crownedcaribou9928 · 5 months ago
I love the guy doing the mission briefings so much
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@Meta_Mage · 5 months ago
Shoutout to my 12 year old self replacing all the death sounds of orcs with burps with the built in sound editor
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@RunesandReapers · 5 months ago
I loved that manual so much. <br>I miss those amazing days where games just had all this great lore and artwork in manuals.
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@ezcyberpup · 5 months ago
my favorite part of the horde ending cutscene is the grunt just pounding the tar out of something at the end there
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@Eddman368 · 4 months ago
excellent idea for the next vid as someone who never played warcraft, knowing the motivation of the factions in each missions helps create context, especially since these guides seems to be written from the perspective of a soldier on the ground.
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@onatgz · 5 months ago
dear mr. gaming,<br><br>finally.<br><br>best regards,
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@neuro_krem · 5 months ago
If you look at the book in original human campaign briefing, the right side is written in cyrilic. In remastered version the book has more in-universe writing style.
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