Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness - Intro Cinematic
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- čas přidán 25. 09. 2008
- The opening cinematic for the 1995 PC game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness in the highest quality possible extracted from the newer version Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition.
The story picks up from the end of the Orc campaign of Warcraft I: Orcs and Humans where the invading Horde conquers Azeroth while its survivors as seen in this cinematic have retreated north of The Great Sea to Lordaeron and the Orcish Horde have followed them. North of Azeroth there is also Khaz Modan and Quel'thalas. The Alliance is formed with the coming of The Tides of Darkness.
Warcraft 2 was Blizzard's first hit. A legendary strategy game that took all gamers by storm. it sold over 3 million copies, this game was the foundation that made blizzard as big as they are now. - Hry
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When i was a kid i thought these graphics were insane.
they are still insane when compered todays some of games cinamatic.
ColDrip I know right, serious sense of nostalgia watching this. This and red alert two were my favourite games. God knows how many days of school faking to be sick I pulled so I could play them all day.
They were. They blew everyone's mind.
same. amazing how much of our imagination we put into this things
Its still insane man. Still insane...
Something I missed from Warcraft 1 and 2 was that dark fantasy war story feel. Warcraft 3 and especially WoW become more about individual heroes. Which is fine. But Warcraft 2 was a war story. The mission intros talk about strategy, tactics, conquest, battlefields and the suffering of war.
It was really awesome.
I think most of the fans, like me, think the hero characters made the lore more interesting, but nice to see a different opinion.
does anyone know the name of this song?
@@FinSynthMusic I didn't like the emphasis on hero units, I was worried it would dilute the strategy aspects of the game and was proven right by DOTA and WoW.
@@FinSynthMusicAs a life-long WC3 hardcore fan who only played through WC2 a while ago, I have to say I really enjoyed that "war story"-feeling. Of course the storytelling in WC3 was better and more flashed out and it is always great to have a clear "canon" instead of that awkward "so this can go two ways, but for the sequel we have to choose one of them"-thing that WC1/2 suffered from.
But I still appreciate it, the jumping around, having strategic goals instead of just "get through this obstacle" etc.
Wish we could get a combination of both to be honest.
1:47 "Now, united in arms with new allies against a common foe, mankind stands at the shores of destiny and awaits the coming of - The tides of darkness" - That line still gives me nice shivers, 25 years later.
Roll credits *ding*
@@Saiyanprince1114 dang it Jeremy!
War is a force that gives us meaning.
Back when the Horde were clearly the barbaric aggressors and Blizzard hadn't yet made the Alliance the bad guys.
@@DeadlyRamon exactly before blizzard got woke
that second canoneer is going to be super pissed no one loaded his cannon
LOL! I don't think I ever would have noted that, had you not said anything.
that one the dwarves sold preloaded, it was the floor model.
LOL ! XD
"...the orcs constructed ships of WOARR!"
They constructed ships of WHAAAAAGH !!!!
Gnomelotte Whatsername
P.S.: They should have painted them ships red,
would have taken those humies by surprise.
BLACKROCK SPOYAA!
AHM DA BIGGEST WARCHEEF IN DIS ORDE!!!!
Except these Orcs talk like Yoda, and not like they have boxing dementia. Edit: please don't punch me, Mike Tyson....
19 years later and this cinematic still looks amazing
When I first saw this intro, I already felt pitty for the humans, and scare the sh-t of if I were them
It was made not to be patched after development, and as such with a LOT of love and preparation. Developers today should re-learn this even with the need for patching.
The ocean reflecting its waves on the castle walls as the cannons appear...such memories.
That narrator could make me dressing in he morning sound cool.
25 years later and I still love this intro.
@@nacionaldelacapital yep, when it zoomed out to show the massive fleet you realise how screwed they must be (and how great a general you are going to have to be to stop such a horde). Seeing the humans rush to the defences and arming themselves blew my mind as a kid though, as I realised the heroism that was manning defences in the medieval world (I was only 8 at the time).
maaaan, thinking back, my friends and i were always like: "dude i wish the ingame graphics were like this" when watching intros back in the day. look where we are now :D
Yeah, except with all the money that Blizzard has, they could have voice actors to describe quests like they did before the beginning of each round in this game! That was one of my favorite parts of WC and SC that they didn't include in the addiction of a video-game that is WoW. Games that read to you like that encourage better vocabulary and deeper immersion, no matter what the graphics are like.
Not to mention the voice actors were obviously WAY into it themselves, when they said things like, "IN THE AGE OF CHAOS, TWO FACTIONS BATTLED FOR DOMINANCE!" It's amazing what writing these games had to make up for the lack of video memory!
I remember watching this cinematic as a kid and thinking how awesome and overwhelming the battle looked. Watching it again all these years later I remembered every line of narration and even anticipated the sound effects to go with the song. Also, I realize only now that there are only like 3 orcs per ship lol
does anyone know the name of this song?
this opening made my eyes almost pop out of my head when I was a kid.
I love WC3 but it felt like a reimagining of the theme rather than a continuation. I wish they could have kept iterating on this simpler, more Warhammery and more military take with evil and brutal orcs vs good humans going in some form. The human campaign in Beyond the Dark Portal in particular was a great concept, a medieval crusade to a different world.
I only played tides of darkness, I played it online with my brower. Couldn't find beyond the dark portal. This intro is still one of the best in videogame history, as it is the game.
does anyone know the name of this song?
This game is so old yet my memories of it are very sharp. Time flies yet at the same time it doesn't. He I am nearly 30 looking at a game I played when i was 9
Wow!! Gameplay and cinematic trailer seamlessly flowing together! Instead of luring eye candy bs. Thanks for the refresh!
This should be remade in live action for the Warcraft film sequel.
Yep just like the first Warcraft film should have been made well...
Remember when Warcraft used to be a full-on fantasy game with little to no Technology? Miss those days....
Back in Orcs and Humans, yeah.
Tides of Darkness had helichopters, tanks, guns, engines, zeppelins, explosives, etc
Tim Mitton Wtf happened to those days?
Tim Mitton
There were no tanks or guns, but beyond that, yeah. :P
deloctyte I was thinking the same but he's probably referring to Ballista's and Catapults as tanks. The gyrocopter had guns I thought.
Actually I think gyrochopters didn't.
But there were Submarines as well, and sappers, so guns shouldn't be that difficult..
yes this is awesome
We should get this on steam!!!!!
lol I still have the sharwear cd if you want it.
GOG has it.
I guess I hadn't really realized at the time just how much they were trying to focus on the naval combat aspect of the game in everything from the subtitle of the game, to the cinematic, to the box art. They were either trying to directly compete with some other game at the time or this was their claim to fame.
I do remember this game pretty fondly, and as a kid this was the first game where I ever made any custom maps.
Even the soundtrack has a vaguely nautical theme to it
I don't think they were trying to compete, it was a new mechanic of the game they introduced and made it their selling point.
I always loved the music and sound effects in this game. PC gaming was great during this time.
THIS is what I like. Warcraft to vanilla wow. Just stereotypical classic medieval fantasy, pen and paper, choose your own destiny book feeling
I would think that the Warcraft games could use a couple of modern remakes. Given that remakes seems to be the regular thing these days, it would be amazing to be able to relive the old Warcraft battles without the limitations of previous technology and with perhaps even updated voice acting and better graphics. Given that Starcraft II is going to be releasing its final expansion and WoW is reaching a waning point and starting to evoke nostalgic feelings with WoD, the RTS devs in Blizzard should think about potentially rekindling our love for fantasy strategy games.
I'm from future - some of them games did so, but older Warcrafts got ported on GOG Platform.
THIS is how you make a Warcraft game. Dark atmosphere, plenty of bloodshed, and not a single panda in sight!
fukin pandas man!!
Fuck this thilf pandas! Only Mighty Humans and cruel orcs!
Pandaren were in Warcraft 3 a decade before Kung Fu Panda was a thing.
It’s amazing watching these old cutscenes. When I was a kid, our one and only family computer could BARELY play Warcraft 2. It wasn’t until my dad decided to upgrade that we were able to play this as it was intended.
Fast forward to 2023, and people are playing Doom on potatoes lolol
My fucking childhood.
jesus the technology of those cinematics changed SO MUCH on warcraft III,its like worlds apart.
The water is also amazing. This cinematic was ahead of its time.
I remember I played this game on my brand new "Compaq presario 5510" computer =')
man i was playing this game hours an hours...ah the good old times :DDDD
man, when internet wasn't a thing I used to write down the script then memorize it so I could narrate with the cinematic. old times ;)
*_Hold your formations! The Kodos must be protected!_*
Watching this after Arclight Rumble announcement… man, this was so awesome…
this narration plays in my head whenever I watch the final scene in the GoT S6 finale
Still loving the intro in this year of 2022
describing it as a tide is somewhat comforting. it will never stay forever past its welcome nor leave forever and let you miss it.
EPIC !
Chills down my spine.
I just seen a clip of a US Gerald R Ford class carrier moving with its supporting fleet and it trigged a memory of this cinematic lol. I haven't seen this in decades.
haha, i remember them remaking this scene for the end credits of wc3
tenjek any link?
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Uncle Lothar needs you!
When I was a kid, I’d take a bath and pretend the soap dish was a boat while humming this music.
holy shit this takes me back
this is the real good stuff! fr
I would kill for a remastered warcraft 2
DAT EPIC GRAPHICS!
It’s not just the darker tone I miss. The vocabulary used to describe and set the scene.
OMG blizzard was a good company at one point... i almost forgot about that
this is awesome i wish i had one
"the Horde are the good guys, guys!"
Looking back on it now that we have a proper map of the Eastern Kingdoms, the first two games took place over fairly small areas individually. Granted, Azeroth is larger in lore than WoW would have you believe, but the entirety of Warcraft 1 was on the land between the Dark Portal and Stormwind.
This clip was re-enacted in the end credits of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.
EngPheniks I was so excited when I first saw that
I swear in my mind, this looked like those awesome cinematic intros from World of Warcraft. Now I see how poor my taste was, how strong was my imagination of perfecting it in my brain. I guess I'm too old now, or my standards have grown. Only narration is still as day one, perfect.
Oh the nostalgia
I guess this was the graphics quality the creators of skyrim was aiming for lol.
These were ground breaking graphics for the time. This was only a month after Toy Story was released.
Growing up playing the c64, I'm well aware :) Just felt like bashing skyrim a bit.
+Gunnariffic Don't cut yourself on that edge, boy.
fuking heel eu sou brasileiro
***** If you're going to be all whiney and angry you could at least write me a comment that isn't boring.
@Vipar557 No, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans was not Blizzards first game. Their first, self developed game was The lost vikings, when they went under the name Silicon synapse.
It was the first title they released after their name change to Blizzard entertainment, but development began before that.
Cue a video game sequel so good, the original is deemed as inferior and thus mostly skippable.
Love how this cutscene is sorta remade for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos' campaign victory credits.
And 9 nine years later, a masterpiece was released.
Coming back to GOG soon, I can barely contain myself.
love the that guys voice
my childhood
The Once Mighty Army Of Azeroth Lay Among The Blackened And Chard Remains Of Stormwind Keep, Those Had 2 Escape Lead Across The Great🌊, Bringing Tales At The Suffering They Had Faced At The👏Of The Orcish Hordes!
Good old school fun
Back when Warcraft had proportionally sized armor.
In retrospect, WC3 was the beginning of the decline. No wonder the aesthetic choices really bugged me back then.
Even the emphasis on hero unit levelling and gear had me worried even then that it would be a slippery slope to moving away from being proper RTS and DOTA proved me right.
at that time, this was like Whoa!!!
Back then this would be like watching the legion trailer cgi
Actually, this was pretty average back then. Blizzard cinematics didn't really become the masterpieces that we know them for until WC3. They were average for the times with WC, WC2, D1, they were pretty good in SC1, and they were impressive in D2. But it was only by WC3 when they released cinematics that made people go "Whoa!!!"
I sang the last bar: "except for that one cannon guy!"
Looks like they also need some Wildfire
The 90`s were awesomeness.
No. It's the Battlenet Edition. Which was a Re-release of the game except this time running on windows rather than DOS...
Yes for Loardaeron
holy shit look at these graphics
If only blizzard kept caring about game quality for the next 30 years instead of selling cosmetic upgrades and in game gold.
Replace "ruins of Stormwind" for "ruins of Blizzard" and you're pretty much get the present state of things.
Which is sad.
Yes, I have the Battle.net edition, too. But I cant get it to work unless I run and install it with DOSBox.
When warcraft had metal in its blood. Now it hasn't even a spine.
Close the borders and stem the tides of darkness!
I never skipped this and now I'm so ashamed
I mean WHAT . . . what are the humans doing at the end flailing their arms around, why does it look like it's happening inside that Dire Straits video
Great graphics for a 32 bit video game.
Blizzard never failed in their cinematics.
Warcraft II Reverse (2020)
Imagine this scene being redone by Blur Studio
I Remmber Going To The Mall.. They Had A {Cyber Cafe} To Play All Kinds Of Games.. But By Far The Best Game Ever Was {War Craft}.. I Would Play It For Hours.. Till The Mall Would Close.. One Of The First Games That I Could Remmber.. Were You Did Not Have To Be..? {The Shiny Paladin} But The Kick Ass Ork..
actually The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game series which was developed by Silicon & Synapse........(later Blizzard Entertainment)
i hope i can install this in my mac, probably too old of a game considering most games now aren't even compatible.
Fuck yeah.
it doesnt play on my version...i have the battlenet edition. is it exclusive to the DOS versions of the game i suppose? or maybe my version is just corrupted cuz i kinda torrented it lolz
Yeah. It will be released in 2015.
I just realized how strategically foolish it would be to mount a ship assault on a castle wall when they could easily establish a beach landing on another part of the land and mount a more effective ground assault
Δamn, i am old..
@Vipar557 Warcraft was blizzard's 13th game, not blizzard's 1st. It was their 3rd game under the blizzard name. It was also not one of the first RTS', not even one of the few - you have Dune, Dune II, Lords of the Realm, etc etc.
ahhhh.
ships were "a feature" back then.
You are probably too young, of course you won't like this. It's nostalgia that keeps games this old still around, and you could never have it when you are 14 or so
Is this the same guy who sung the ballad of Baggie B? from team 17?
Due to your position as a regional commander of the southern defense forces...
UPD : About to start ToD Human campaign once again.
Have fun building the Township of Southshore!
The themes and atmosphere of Warcraft 2 is so much better than WC3 and WoW....sadly the franchise fell hard, now it is almost sci fi fantasy, with ships, planets and aliens
*Footman sadly salutes*
That game with sci-fi and ships and planets and aliens....that's Blizzard's other game that's similar to Wacraft series...Starcraft.
heroic them war is coming
I knew Battlegrounds combat stage music sounded familiar
does anyone know the name of this song?
When does this clip play??? Right when you boot up the game? OR start the campaign? Or what?
The Lost Vikings was Blizzards first game.
What a dramatic narrator
I guess that you're right
orcs where just getting ready for the flood :)
Sliping of the seaaaa