Reddit reviews Warcraft III Battle Chest - PC/Mac

The battlechest is $20 on Amazon.

I've played neither LoL or HoN, only DoTA. Real dota is going to be the best practice for dota 2 for a few reasons:

• You're going to get a good "feel" for the heroes, like attack speed/animation/cast point etc. This is sooo important for dota since there is so much focus on laning, last hits, denies, half-denies and harass
  
  
• You'll get familiar with the actual hero spells, so you won't get used to playing an odd reworking of clock or lich or something, get reliant on a skill that works differently, and then have to 'relearn' how the hero actually works
  
  
• Its $20 new or $10 used on amazon.com! Seriously! One of the greatest games of all time, and you get the real dota!
  
  
• You'll get to know and hate the Dota community, and then you'll get to actually appreciate the hard work valve's put into improving the new-player experience.
  
  
• Similar, you'll get to see how absolutely shitty dota looks, and it will be so nice when you get to move to dota 2. If you 'start' with lol/hon, you'll miss out on the creamy-jeans you'll get the first time you play dota 2 yourself!
  
  
• If you want someone to play some pub dota with, I'll totally play with you! Really!

Here it is on amazon for both Reign of Chaos and Expansion, and other goodies for $20. Or you could try and find it used and hope the cd key still works and is not in use.

Some of my favorites...

• The Baldur's Gate series by BioWare and its spin-offs built on the same engine. You can get them all in a $20 DVD-ROM here. An early precursor to Dragon Age.
  
  
• Neverwinter Nights is the next step from Baldur's Gate, before Dragon Age. Amazon has a cheap box set with all sequels and expansions.
  
  
• Fallout 1,2 and Tactics... they're not FPS like Fallout 3 but rather top-down RPGs like Baldur's Gate. Again, Amazon has a cheap box set (just make sure you don't buy the censored European version).
  
  
• Diablo II and its expansion. Get the Diablo Battle Chest to play it along with Diablo 1. The upcoming Diablo III plays a lot like the originals, so D2 will get you prepped. TorchLight is also a similar game, developed by some ex-Blizzard people I blieve.
  
  
• Of course there's Warcraft (not the MMO World of Warcraft) and StarCraft to get you into real-time strategy games. There are Battle Chests (box sets with expansions) for WarCraft III and Starcraft 1. StarCraft II is also out but it's not complete yet. (A Battle Chest for Warcrafts 1 and 2 also exists but it's out of print and expensive now.)
  
  
• All Most of the Sim games (SimCity, its sequels and its sister games like SimTower). Avoid most of the post-EA Sim games like The Sims, SimCity Societies and Spore. There are good non-Maxis, SimCity-inspired games like Cities XL and Tropico. Worth checking out sincee the "real" Sim series has gone to shit lately.
  
  
• If you want to get into MMORPGs, World of Warcraft (WoW) is the king for a reason. You can play it, and its copycat Rift, for free up until level 20. Star Wars: The Old Republic is a SW-themed WoW copycat, that plays nothing like the original BioWare Knights of the Old Republic games. Guild Wars is also a favorite... developed by ex-Blizzard peeps, you buy the game retail but don't pay a monthly fee. There's a number of other free-to-play MMOs out there, but they're mostly crap. Also, some pay MMOs are crap, too.
  
  
• Many western RPGs developed for PS3 and 360 play better on the PC (meaning, with higher graphic capabilities and a mod community), including: Dragon Age Origins and 2, Mass Effect series, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim. There's also PC ports of Fable and Jade Empire. You can usually connect a USB Xbox 360 controller if you want gamepad controls.
  
  Good Old Games and Steam are good resources for finding PC classics on the cheap as well as being patched to work on modern PCs (Windows 7 64-bit).

Assuming OP lives in the USA, TFT costs $11 new now ...

The Battle Chest is $20 new.

OP, I heavily advise you invest in TFT.

Blizzard is notorious for this. Their games will occasionally be 50% off, but anything akin to Steam Sale prices are unheard of.

Warcraft 3 $20 (2002)

Diablo 2 $15 (2000)

Starcraft $19 (1998)

If you can get a hold of WC3 and TFT (only 20$ for the Warcraft Battlechest on Amazon atm) and play through all (9 in total I believe) the campaigns you'll have half the lore leading up to WoW nailed down. The rest would be reading the Warcraft books, which are mostly good and better, despite some not liking some of them, I think all the books are worth the purchase, or read.

The rest is completely up to you, jumping from one lore page to the next on Wowpedia (or Wowwiki) simply according to my curiosity is how I learned most of my lore.

What's the price on bnet?

On Amazon you can pick it up for $20

If you don't have Diablo, this is the way to go. Got it myself a few years ago, and it was well worth it. Got it along with this and this.

Not sure if things have changes (since you said you had no way to buy it again) but Blizzard still sells WC3 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-PC-Mac/dp/B00009ECGK

Where you get everything else...:

https://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-PC-Mac/dp/B00009ECGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465572909&sr=8-1&keywords=warcraft+battle+chest

:)

It is $20 on Amazon and you can register it at Blizzard. It has been as low as $8 on Amazon (that's when I finally picked up a copy) and hopefully it is due for another quick daily sale.

You might want to set up an alert at a price tracking site like Camel.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00009ECGK/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1313560982&sr=8-1&condition=new

$19.95!

I don't think so.

But you can get Warcraft 3 + Expansion super cheap from amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00009ECGK/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1410526303&sr=8-1&keywords=warcraft+3

or you could try ebay.

Nope. I know every local box store still has them at that price. I guess it's whether or not the serial would activate with BattleNet. But it has been so long since I have played I don't even know if that matters.

Amazon

Ebay seems to be around $12~ in buy-it-now completed auctions.

Your right, but some games depreciate much more slowly- http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-Pc/dp/B00009ECGK

than others
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0004M9CXA/ref=sr_1_olp_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1256874569&sr=1-2&condition=new

If you'd prefer something more RTS, I'd recommend Warcraft III or Total Annihilation. For a ton of older strategy/sim games, I'd check GOG, they're pretty great, I think.

I haven't played Red Alert or WC 1, 2, or 3 since they came out. I would send you my disks if I could find them! (probably lost in my parents basement)

But if I were you, I would just go to Best Buy or use Amazon and purchase the Warcraft 3 Battle Chest - there should not be an issue installing from the disk. Plus, it usually comes with some cool art books and knickknacks.

Warcraft Orcs and Humans
Warcraft II Tides of Darkness
Warcraft II Tides of Darknes, Beyond the Dark Portal
Battle Chest
https://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-Battle-Chest-Humans-Darkness-DOS/dp/B00002SUHI
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft III battle Chest

https://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-PC-Mac/dp/B00009ECGK

Old yes, but WC 1 and 2 are still fun to play, i have both on my crappy windows 10 laptop and run them in dosbox

http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-Mac/dp/B00009ECGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319490620&sr=8-1

"Ahh.. Fresh meat!"

WC3

http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-PC-Mac/dp/B00009ECGK is what he's talking about.

http://www.amazon.com/World-Warcraft-Battle-Chest-PC-Mac/dp/B000H96C9M is what you're talking about.