Basic Warcraft Plot

[Qabian]

I was wondering if any of you fantastic people could point me to a page where I could find just the plot of the 3 non 'World of' Warcraft games + expansions.

I couldn't play them. I tried, oh I tried. I tried when they first came out. I tried after I started playing WoW, but I have learned that a) I suck at RTS, and b) when I'm not being frustrated with how stupid they make me feel, they put me to sleep, so even if I could just hack my way through my suckiness, I'd be keyboard-faced by the end of the first chapter.

I could just sift through wowwiki and the official encyclopedia at the WoW site for all the tidbits, which is my usual somewhat inefficient process, but I'd rather just read the whole plot of the games from start to finish without any of the extraneous background and extremely distracting links. Anyone know an easily readable site for that?

Maybe even youtube videos, although I can almost guarantee I'd fall asleep during those, too. Orcs go over here. Mine goes over there. More buildings here. Go chop some wood. Go fight those guys. Please defend this thing. Please stop dying. More work? Zzzz....

I just want a copy of the script or storyboarding or something, heh.

Of course, I haven't really even looked yet. For all I know, it could be available in book form, or maybe there's a single wowwiki page that does just that, but typing 'warcraft just give me the goddamn basic plot' in the search bar isn't particularly helpful, heh.

[Fallacy]

The most basic, I would say, would be to start with this: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/story/chapter3.html

[Qabian]

Ehh, I think that's more than I want. I think? I don't know. That's what I get for falling asleep mid-campaign, I guess.

I'm looking for something uber-close to the script itself, but I suppose I can wade through chapters of that monstrosity in the meantime. I just find the official story overly descriptive and a little more history textbook than I wanted. I was hoping for something less "There were these guys, and this is what happened" and more "Okay, guys, this is what we've gotta do! Yay, we did it!" Like something that I could read through and then pretend that I'd actually played the games when people talk about them, ha! "Remember this from that game?" "Yeah, sure, I remember that!"

Maybe such a thing doesn't exist and I should force someone else to play the games and write out the scripts for me.

[Fallacy]

Believe me, that's the watered-down version. It's probably the most compact of all the happenings of Warcraft that you'll find.

[Qabian]

Blah, well, the style bores me to tears. I was hoping for a description of action. I'm not looking for lore. I know where the lore is. I'm looking for the plot. Oh well. Maybe there wasn't any of that either for all I know, heh.

[Jeedup]

wowwiki.com is also a good tool.

[Qabian]

I could just sift through wowwiki and the official encyclopedia at the WoW site for all the tidbits, which is my usual somewhat inefficient process, but I'd rather just read the whole plot of the games from start to finish without any of the extraneous background and extremely distracting links. Anyone know an easily readable site for that?

<_<

I know where the lore is, sillies. I want to know what actually happened in the games without all of Blizzy's crazy retconning or interference from the players/writers who manufacture the info databases, but without actually having to play the games. Was just looking for an actual play-by-play from the games. Hmm, maybe I'll find some walkthrough or something, although walkthroughs tend to leave out things that might be spoilered, and I wants the spoilers.

[Xiphus]

I would suggest that you play Warcraft I, II and III. You get your action from here, for it is from these that the World of Warcraft is built upon. Be warned that some of the things, Warcraft I and II specifically, are retconnned.

And you can always read the novels. Plenty of plot and action in there as well.

[Belle]

Sounds like you just want to see the stories in action. Couldn't you look up some cheat codes and use the 'auto win' ones on each level? I know WC3 has codes like that, I assume the earlier games do too.

[Thoraggar]

I know WC2 had cheat codes, so did 3, so just get the uber-killer unit one going (auto win skips in games voices and mini events i think) and blitz everything.

[Qabian]

My original post deals with me having tried to play them and why I can't do it. I can't even watch someone else play, which is my usual strategy for getting a story out of a game I can't stand, because I just plain fall asleep, or if I don't fall asleep, I go seek out a donut and find some old novel hanging around that I haven't touched in five years and never come back to watch.

If Blizzy hadn't made WoW, I would've never been into Warcraft and just stuck to Diablo, due to the nature of RTS.

However! I think Belle might be on to something. I knew there'd be codes, but I assumed they would just make my guys uber or something and I'd still have to bother to, you know, win, the idea of which also bores me. But if there's an "I win" button, perhaps there's some merit there. :o

Still was hoping for some sort of online script/story walkthrough that I could just peruse, but if it doesn't exist, I will search out other means.

Thanks for the ideas, though. :)

[Izrail]

I use the timeline (http://www.blizzplanet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=468&sid=10a5843de700c53a5d98e65553ea3e7a) found in one of the stickies in this forum. When I need something explained further I go to Google. If you find what you are looking for, do tell.

[Verloran]

I know for fact that there's an automatic victory cheat for the first WarCraft, 'cause I used it a lot, for pretty much the same reason Qabian's looking for help with. I wanted the story, didn't care so much for the 32 bit slow paced action. So I just cheated my way through all the levels on both sides while reading the messages in between. Took me about ten minutes.

I'm not sure if the same would work for the other two, because I think that at least in the third there are things that happen during the levels that help the story unfold, like conversations and such.

Good luck finding WarCraft, though, if that's the way you're going. It stopped being made a long time ago. If nothing else, you could try Ebay.

[Qabian]

I have a copy of it. Somewhere. Probably in the basement of my parents' house. Maybe. If they didn't throw it away. Like I said, I tried to play it, heh. I just failed miserably. But yeah, not sure how willing I am to shovel through my parents' basement these days, alas.

[Abric]

The SPECIFICS of each game would be hard to type out... as it would be fucking huge.

Bottomline? Well, you got that stuff supplied.

WC1 - Orcs won
WC2 - Alliance Won
WC3 - Burning Legion lost

[Raziel]

So you want the outcomes of the wars in a short-term version then eh?

[Aquizit]

WC3 + whosyourdaddy = all the story, none of the "hard"

As for the other two games.. well.. your guess is as good as mine.

[Raziel]

WC3 + whosyourdaddy = all the story, none of the "hard"

As for the other two games.. well.. your guess is as good as mine.

That's what GameFAQS is for.

But I think he just wants the battles blow-by-blow.
Where the big fights occured
The outcome of said big fights
and the historic names involved