Warcraft 3: Reforged should have followed Age of Mythology: Retold path, gamers agree

It’s been more than two months since its release, and with a new free mod, Arena of the Gods, that makes the game even greater and two expansion packs waiting to be released (the first one, the Chinese-based Immortal Pillars has already been announced), Age of Mythology: Retold is being touted as one of the best RTS remakes of all time, and… wait for it… the way Warcraft 3: Reforged should have been developed in the first place.

This comes more as a rant from the gaming community, especially those who are fond of RTS, as last week, Blizzard released reforged versions of Warcraft 1, and 2, along with a patch that completely overhauls the experience of playing Warcraft 3: Reforged.

On Reddit, gamers expressed that Warcraft 3: Reforged should have been developed the same way Age of Mythology: Retold was, later praising the latter for being one of the best RTS remakes of all time.

It's a shame Microsoft doesn't give WC3 the remaster that Age of Mythology got
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Age of Mythology Retold is one of the best remasters, especially for an RTS. It has it’s share of desync issues and bugs, but overall it’s a huge upgrade over the original game from 2002. This Warcraft 3 version 2.0 is just about the laziest effort Microsoft/Blizzard could come up with after the utter disgrace that was Reforged. Warcraft 3 aged better visually than AoM, but it’s incredible seeing AoM with improved visuals. Warcraft 3 deserves better.

Released in 2020, Warcraft 3: Reforged received a mostly negative reception. Many criticized the game for its many bugs and issues and Blizzard’s inability to fix them.

In many ways, they’re right. I played the game last year, and three years after its release, Warcraft 3: Reforged still crashed in many campaigns. It took me a while to set it up so I wouldn’t experience a sudden crash. While I haven’t played patch 2.0 yet, that bug kept me out of Warcraft 3: Reforged for a while.

With the release of Warcraft 1, and 2 Reforged last week during the game’s 30th anniversary, the RTS community was hoping for a new title in the Warcraft series, more specifically Warcraft 4, now the RTS – thanks to Age of Mythology: Retold – is back in the game and gaining popularity once again. However, Blizzard didn’t mention any new titles, and we’re left thinking about how Warcraft 3: Reforged would have looked if it had followed the Age of Mythology: Retold’s developing methods.

Meanwhile, we can only hope Warcraft 4 might be coming one day. Until then, there is an increasing rumor that the two games might release a collaborative project together, although I can’t really see how, since the two games have quite different gameplay. However, the Age of Mythology: Retold’s team took to X to celebrate the classic Warcraft on its anniversary, and Microsoft-owned studios developed the two games, so basically, they’re officially siblings.

Should we hope for something? Definitely, yes.

You can get Age of Mythology: Retold on Steam now, and you can also get Warcraft 1, 2, 3: Reforged from BattleNet now.