![]() Now obviously this is not the biggest problem in the world, but it does serve as an excellent example of just how half-baked this whole remaster feels. So it is clear that even Blizzard understands how important simple features like these are, yet it's still something that's completely missing in Warcraft 3: Reforged for no discernible reason. Instead, you need to dig through your files and manually put in your keybinds like we're in the earliest days of PC gaming again.įunnily enough, the somewhat similar Starcraft: Remastered has a simple and highly effective way of remapping your hotkeys. Custom keybinds have been an important part of every single RTS game for quite a while now, yet the modern Warcraft 3 remaster doesn't feature any easy way to help you adjust them. This isn't some sort of arcane feature that only the truly dedicated few care about either. That said, something has almost certainly gone wrong behind the scenes because even the simplest of features, things like customizable keybinds, are not present. It took over two years to come out since the original announcement, so there was definitely a lot of time and effort put into it. I don't want to call Warcraft 3: Reforged lazy, because it really isn't. So when I heard that Blizzard is releasing a remastered version of Warcraft 3, my excitement knew no bounds! A bigger and better version of one of my favorite games ever? How in the world could this possibly go wrong!? Well, as it unfortunately turns out, in so many ways that even half a year later it can't hold a candle to the original. It thought me how to work together even with complete strangers, how to learn and grow from defeat, and it sparked within me the spirit of competition that burns to this very day. ![]() ![]() It was the first game that I ever took seriously, and also the first game that I genuinely wanted to be good at. Some of the maps have been altered anyway though, to match locations that are in World Of Warcraft, and most of the art assets are new.Warcraft 3 holds a very special place in my heart. Originally it was going to feature various story retcons and new cut scenes to bring it into line with modern World Of Warcaft, but somewhere along the way those plans were abandoned. There’s no doubting that Warcraft 3 is an important game that deserves to be remastered, and which remains very playable today, but Reforged is not a convincing celebration of its legacy. The game also introduced computer-controlled ‘creeps’ which attack any faction – another important building block for the creation of the MOBA genre. This in turn limited the number of units you can control at once to just 12, which is very different to the massive armies fielded by most other RTS games. Warcraft 3’s main additions to the formula were hero units with unique abilities, that can be levelled up like a role-playing game. It’s certainly strange to think that turn-based games are now much more popular, as originally the real-time concept was seen as a way to modernise strategy games and make them more widely appealing. Given how long it’s been since the genre was popular there’ll no doubt be many, especially console gamers, who don’t even know what a real-time strategy game is. Since it only used 2D sprites that would’ve been a lot of work though and the one thing Warcraft 3: Reforged makes clear is that Blizzard don’t have that kind of patience when it comes to a remaster like this. They have been on a bit of a nostalgia drive for Warcraft lately, following the release of World Of Warcraft Classic, but we’re a little surprised they didn’t remaster Warcraft 2 first, as that was the one that really put the franchise, and Blizzard themselves, on the map. Whether Blizzard ever intends to make a Warcraft 4 is a mystery, but it seems unlikely in the short term. Its built-in map editor led to the creation of many Tower Defense style mods and maps, with Defense Of The Ancients (itself influenced by the Aeon Of Strife map for Starcraft) leading directly to League Of Legends and Dota 2 – still amongst the most popular video games in the world today. As one of the last great games of the real-time strategy (RTS) golden age, Warcraft 3 is notable enough in its own right but it’s also the game that helped popularise the MOBA genre, which makes it extremely relevant today.
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