[disillusioned]

Hello, fellow 40-45(?) year old.

I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.

[Gud]

Hey, lots of us 39 year olds who played Warcraft 2!

[cozzyd]

I had a pirated version on a zip drive

[crims0n]

38 even!

[mathgeek]

My goodness, it's scary how much I reminisce about long summer days doing nothing but playing War2 over Kali before the days of Battle.net.

[philistine]

I recently replayed Warcraft II and fell out of my chair when I realized the original did not have control groups. Those were only added with the Battle.Net edition!

[virtue3]

Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

[Gud]

Mostly the best of times

[Aeolun]

38, I played 2, but it was pretty bad compared to Warcraft III. Three still holds up just as well as it did back then.

[croon]

Not to be a patronizing old fart, but may I assume that you played II after III? If so I can understand it, but II was very special when it came out, and I never revisited it after.

I think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.

[cogman10]

IMO, Starcraft 1 is better than both 2 and 3.

III has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.

That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.

[wcallahan]

42 here, played a ton of Warcraft II, but my favorite to return to now is definitely Warcraft III (or AoE II).

[Xunjin]

33 here, started with Dark Saga in my old PS1, after few months of my first gameplay got a used computer and played A LOT of warcraft 1 and 2.

PS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.

[ab-dm]

I mean, I’m 37 and my first ever RTS was Warcraft: Orcs and humans. Never liked the hero focus of w3

[cogman10]

Same. I think it adds just too much complexity to an RTS where I want to just have an army to control.

Were it not so buggy, I think C&C generals ranks pretty high on fun modern RTSes.

[codebje]

48, and I'm a medieval man.

[jonathanlydall]

Speaking as a 44-year-old, this tracks.