Which version should I do a let's play series of? (Classic vs Reforged)

[Karmondia]

Hi everyone! I was thinking of replaying Warcraft 3, and while I'm at it, I thought it might be fun to record it with some commentary. I'm fine with both Classic and Reforged, I'm just curious. What would you guys be interested in more: Classic or Reforged?

 

[MildKidneys]

Classic is probably going to be the more popular answer.
It's easier to differentiate Classic graphics, with the models/animations built to be seen from a top-down perspective. Classic's sound effects are also better in regards to easily picking out what's happening in a fight.

 

[Retera]

Maybe play the Reforged campaign with the Classic HD graphics on it, so that everything breaks and the units moon walk around and stuff doesn't load correctly and sometimes Reforged models load in an otherwise "Classic HD" environment. Then you could actually generate quite a lot of commentary about Microsoft.

Then you could have a second play through where you use a CD and play Reign of Chaos Patch 1.00 from the disk, followed by Frozen Throne Patch 1.14 from the disk. [Edit: And maybe a third playthrough with the Reforged 1.33 campaign played on the 1.32.10 engine.] And these would be in stark contrast to the other playthrough, since the game technology would work mostly perfectly and feel cohesive and clean.

I don't mean to be snide, but I think the "Classic HD" campaign hodgepodge is a real thing that new players to the game might easily end up playing after the Microsoft updates, and I have a hunch that it would... leave something to be desired. People have made fun of Reforged, but playing the Reforged campaign with the "Classic HD" models pasted on top of it would likely be such an absurd laughable crapshoot that in order to even explain what's happening on the screen, and units moon-walking during cinematics and then loading Reforged models sometimes but not other times, in order to talk about that you would be forced to provide a fascinating commentary about how the problem with Reforged isn't necessarily Reforged, it's that as the game changes hands to new people one after the other, everyone wishes to believe "the problem is those people" who came before them, and wishes to believe in themselves, and they end up adding layers onto the cake that make an uglier and less consistent cake.

 

[Ravager16829]

I haven't played vanilla campaigns for a long time, nor even custom campaigns and Reforged campaign. I'm usually having a fun with melee games vs computer on different patches (1.24b, 1.26a, and 1.29.2), though at some occasion I even played DOTA maps vs computer and custom games (like TD or RPG).

As stated above by Retera, the Reforged campaign is very good to go, although it's prone to various bugs if you played this on HD asset mode (some of them were fixed if you were on the latest patch), so you could do what Retera suggested: playing on Classic HD asset mode if you don't risk bug. There's also a "harder" version of Reforged campaign (the one with 1.33 balance changes). It was originally scrapped in one of the patches, but it's now playable on the latest patch through custom campaign (thanks Kam).

For the Classic, it's very much complicated. If you, for whatever reason, want to play the game in its original iteration, clunky, buggy, and unbalanced, try playing campaigns on both ROC 1.00 and TFT 1.07 if you have an original disc. However, as Retera mentioned, there's a point where you must patch TFT to 1.14 for one reason: the Bonus Orc campaign. Although the missing 2 acts (Old Hatreds and Blaze of Glory) were added in 1.13, that version still has a serious bug, pertaining the slow attack speed for all heroes after completing Act 1. This leads me to the next point:

The best tradeoff in my opinion is playing on either 1.26a and 1.27b. These 2 versions have most of the modern features and are far more stable. You don't need an original disc to play, the Widescreen option is available (though stretched), and most people stayed on those versions for one reason: the ability for online play (pirated server still works, but not official) and LAN. Some people had even favored 1.27b only due to the map file size limit being patched with this version, particularly for multiplayer hosting (8MB to 128MB), although this version is prone to random crashes that 1.26a doesn't have.

 

[Karmondia]

Hi everyone! Thank you for your input, today I'm releasing the first part of my playthrough of Warcraft 3 Reforged (1.33) on Hard! Once again, thank you, for helping me decide!