I had that exact same feeling when playing through. Sure it was fun till I got about 3/4 of the way through, but after that it quickly came down and I cheated my way through the last campaign just to see the storyline play out. Once I hit the night elf campaign I started to notice all the things that I really didn't like about the game start to jump out at me.
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that's pretty much what I did. Warcraft in the olden days of war2 was more about armies and tactics. tactics because there is a unit cap, armies because there was no heroes. now with war3 your entire fight is based around getting the other guy to hit your footies and other chaff while your heroes do all the smashin. ESPECIALLY after you have items of power :shudder:
Why blizzard!? Why did you have to make the game a RTRPG!? It would have been so much better if it had been more like starcraft without "levels" and "items"