Warcraft III: Reforged - now with lowest user metacritic score of all time

[MajorMace]

The framerate actually drops in this version
It weighs 30 gigs
kill me

 

[alighieri]

So I can't play WC3 now without downloading 30GB of shit that also fucks up the game?

 

[Black]

WC3 marked the start of decline for Warcraft, let it burn.

 

[Multidirectional]

It's at 0.9 now. Pretty sure that is the lowest user score I've ever seen on Metacritic.

 

[Lacrymas]

Sometimes, the appraisal on Metacritic is absolutely correct.

 

[Tacgnol]

It's at 0.9 now. Pretty sure that is the lowest user score I've ever seen on Metacritic.

Fucking up a remaster of one of their most beloved games was always going to end badly for them.

Considering the whole Immortal and free HK fiascoes, I'm surprised they didn't put more effort into this.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Arthas looks like Siegfried, but in gayer armor.

 

[catfood]

I'm so glad I still have my old 1.27 installation on my PC. I'm going to burn it on a DVD and keep it safe. Gaming is insane. It just goes to show you that the all-digital future is a nightmare and not a blessing.

 

[Lacrymas]

I also have the newest patch before Refunded installed, so I just have to unplug my internet cable before playing it, lol. You can't play it online, though, not that I'm such a big fan of that.

 

[catfood]

I also have the newest patch before Refunded installed, so I just have to unplug my internet cable before playing it, lol. You can't play it online, though, not that I'm such a big fan of that.

You don't need to unplug your cable because the game only updates if you press the Cattlenet button.

I AM upset about not being able to play online because there were a ton of great custom maps, though I don't think the user base was what it used to be back in the day.

 

[Galdred]

 

[pongle]

oh god oh no

 

[AdamReith]

Those LOTR multiplayer horde maps were so great back in the day.

 

[RoBoBOBR]

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Looks like a modern indie game with "quirky xdd" artstyle. Pretty 2020.

 

[Tacgnol]

Looks like a nightmare to me.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

What a lazy ass job

 

[Kingston]

 

[fizzelopeguss]

I'm pretty sure they released it in such a horrible state because they were obligated by law. They probably underestimated how long it will take to finish it or overestimated the outsourcing. What irks me is that the metacritic score is most likely due to bugs and technical issues, as opposed to the art style being a crime against humanity and good taste, the original forcing you to dl 30 GB of garbage, cut features, Blizzard's disgusting policies (especially with what happened concerning China, but also they owning every custom map), their conga line of reputation sinking moves, and on and on. Something disturbingly incompetent is going over at Blizz. Anyway, I'm sure if they work on this and remove the bugs normies will lick it up again.

BfA nearly killed their bread and butter, they probably pulled everyone off every project to get them on shadowlands. Diablo 4 is atleast 3 years away.

 

[janior]

Pure incline of Blizzard

 

[Lacrymas]

BfA nearly killed their bread and butter, they probably pulled everyone off every project to get them on shadowlands. Diablo 4 is atleast 3 years away.

I can see that, but that doesn't explain why the graphics look like an unfinished fan mod. If I had to guess, it was because they underestimated the time it would take to finish everything (WC3 is quite a huge game with a loooot of assets) while being lawfully obligated to release it in a specific time window after the preorders started + pulling everyone of their own people to work on other projects. I was actually quite skeptical of their claims when they announced this game, I knew WC3 is too big and diverse (in terms of models and assets) to be developed with current 3D graphics while redoing every single cutscene, and I suspected they changed the Stratholme map not because they wanted it to be more inline with WoW, but because the engine couldn't handle such a huge map with the new make-over. That Asian studio must've worked its employees to death to be able to do what they did in such a short amount of time.

Either way, I'm very much curious what Blizz will do for damage control and whether they'll try to fix everything, or just remove the most glaring bugs, bring back ladder and sweep it under the rug as if it didn't happen. Blocking refunds doesn't seem like it's doing them any favors.

 

[JBro]

They outsourced a good portion of the game to Lemon Sky, way more than Starcraft Remastered. I imagine that they did that for budget reasons, and that combined with Blizzard's poor management of the now outsourced project led to this.

 

[Fedora Master]

I can only hope this finally causes all the normal cattle that still think Blizzard today are the same as D2/WC3 Era Blizzard to start thinking.

 

[Viata]

I can only hope this finally causes all the normal cattle that still think Blizzard today are the same as D2/WC3 Era Blizzard to start thinking.

They can't do that, they are enjoying Overwatch right now.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Lol

They are adding checkpoints in the campaigns. Every major fight. So if you fail you can reload. IN AN RTS GAME. WHILE REDUCING THE DIFFICULTY. Christ I am slow as fuck and didn't manage to beat the original WC3 campaign on Hard. But Blizzard makes the campaign requires 2 digit IQ to play right now.

For Christ sake Blizzard. You can just replace the models + having the promised dynamic cutscene and most people would probably be happy.

Right now the custom maps developers are also in fumes because imports are fucked. Those who have official WC3 on Battlenet basically has their maps fucked because the editor somehow is not capable of correctly loading the assets.