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Starcraft Remastered confirmed [Summer 2017]. Original SC/BW to be free!
- Thread starter Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Rats Off To Ya
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I've played the original StarCraft campaign within the last five years and I had a jolly old time.
Been playing BW on and off since 1998 so no problems here.
QuixoticNeutral
Member
Automatic matchmaking will mitigate this somewhat as you will be playing against people who are struggling equally against the same difficulties. But yes, this is the reason I'm not worried about people deserting SC2 en masse, as a lot of players will ultimately prefer to stick with its conveniences. Many of them, I expect, will revisit the campaign, get a rock-bottom ladder rank, fool around in Big Game Hunters a bit, then leave (or proceed straight to Sunken TD).
Honestly, though, the inconvenience of certain systems and interface elements is balanced out by familiarity with BW among players who never migrated to SC2 (or may not have played a computer game since). I've had BW LAN parties in recent years with the unlikeliest people, some of whom I didn't even know played PC games of any sort. They won't especially see the lack of worker auto-mining or multiple building selection as anything wrong.
Me too. From everything we've been told, they nailed this.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Nah BW has aged like fine wine, liked Street Fighter 2 and Doom
LAN is one of those things that has gone missing in lots and lots of games. LAN is to me important to esport gaming when internet is out..what will happen then? We seen it many many times, during a match or even before a match internet blows out.
Yeah very awesome seeing this from them, this was really needed.
KojiKnight
Member
Campaign isn't hard, but ladder will be fun.
phoenix296
Member
This Flash v Stork game 2 is great. Lots of back and forth.
E: gg Flash.
E: gg Flash.
Urgh, no thanks. They did not do great job with SC2 story.
BossDarkseid
Member
While I imagine this has been in the works for a while, the reception to the Diablo 20th anniversary probably helped them know what fans want. If people at Blizz want to do it, I'd assume Diablo will get the treatment in a year or two.
It's scheduled for 3am PDT. Wonder if they'll push it up? Seems like a really long break.
Looks okish as far as HD remasters go. These things are never going to nail the original feel. Advertising LAN of course got a good chuckle out of me.
I'm gonna admit, after the whole Diablo anniversary thing I'm surprised that this is actually happening. And being super cynical and all that I just assume it is happening because Starcraft as a property is otherwise dead within Blizzard.
So I'm not gonna get my hopes up for more stuff like this. Especially not Diablo.
I'm gonna admit, after the whole Diablo anniversary thing I'm surprised that this is actually happening. And being super cynical and all that I just assume it is happening because Starcraft as a property is otherwise dead within Blizzard.
So I'm not gonna get my hopes up for more stuff like this. Especially not Diablo.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Rumors about remasters and HD updates for Blizzards big 3 (Diablo II, Brood War, Frozen Throne) have been coming from credible sources for years. I'm sure they have all been deeply discussed internally at least.
I don't see Diablo II and WC3 not getting the same treatment eventually.
I don't see Diablo II and WC3 not getting the same treatment eventually.
Warcraft 2 and Diablo 2 getting the same HD treatement is great and easy for Blizzard considering its 2d sprite nature. Warcraft 3 being 3D on the other hand would need a lot more than just uprezing the textures, high resolution textures on low poly models would look ugly IMO, Warcraft 3 needs a remake in SC2 engine not just a remaster.
Flash, Bisu, Stork and Jaedong tried the remaster, and the were happy with it. They only had negative impressions at some unfinished art.
SmartWaffles
Member
They already upgraded the majority of unit models and assets of WC3 and ported them into SC2 for custom maps like two years ago.
Palette Swap
Member
Wow. They actually delivered. Giving away the current battle chest is also pretty cool of them. As an aside, that's one thing I really liked and rarely seen mentioned, that they let you convert your physical copies of SC, D2 and W3 to digital downloads.
I guess the only thing I'm a bit torn about is the FMVs. In an ideal world, they'd have rerendered them at 4K. Their encoding was already ugly 20 years ago though.
I guess the only thing I'm a bit torn about is the FMVs. In an ideal world, they'd have rerendered them at 4K. Their encoding was already ugly 20 years ago though.
Whoa, cool then. I haven't bothered with SC2 beyond the campaign so didn't notice.
Millsington
Member
Nice! Bring back the masters.
Wolfgang Jr
Banned
Diablo 1 & 2 remaster plz!
SporeCrawler
Member
SCII was awesome.
manfestival
Member
Never! only starcraft deserves the true love! The realest of the real breadwinners amongst all
Merrydeath
Member
I been waiting for this announcement for a long time. Time to relive my childhood.
I wonder if the Warcraft series will get a remastered as well?
I wonder if the Warcraft series will get a remastered as well?
I'm gonna be stoked as FUCK for a D2 remaster, but I will admit D2 would be prime for a few small QoL upgrades too; most notably, auto-gold-pickup, which every modern game in the genre has seemingly adopted. I would sort of question the stamina bar in this day and age too, though that one would actually have gameplay/potential PvP balance ramifications, so probably less likely.
SC1 is cool and all, but I'm actually more hyped to see what they do with Diablo and Warcraft.
On a personal level, can't help but be disappointed in this. I've never been able to get into StarCraft since it's so dated. I'd hoped this would be a modern re-working of the concept a la REMake, building on the foundations of the original but modernizing it for newcomers. Instead they've very clearly targeted this at the existing esports devotees. Which is great, that's a nice bone to throw a devoted fanbase and keep them hooked for a few more years. But it does nothing for people like me looking to get into the series for the first time.
I hope if they remaster Diablo 2 (a childhood favorite of mine) they take some risks and give it a complete overhaul - given that it doesn't have the same slavishly devoted Korean esports scene, maybe they'll feel they can take a little more liberty. Not counting on it though, since they seem to have decided on this minimalist remastering approach across all the franchises.
I hope if they remaster Diablo 2 (a childhood favorite of mine) they take some risks and give it a complete overhaul - given that it doesn't have the same slavishly devoted Korean esports scene, maybe they'll feel they can take a little more liberty. Not counting on it though, since they seem to have decided on this minimalist remastering approach across all the franchises.
Age of Empires 2 HD has done well enough to get 3 expansions on Steam, I'm sure that's exactly what Blizzard is planning on doing.
What could they do though? The story kind of followed in on Starcraft 2...
Age of Empires 2 HD still has a totally fucked UI for anything higher than 1080p displays. Completely unreadable.
I'm not a Starcraft fan so I can't honestly say. I suppose it could be a multi-player only expansion, or perhaps a side story set in the universe?
Johannsson
Member
Just saw it too.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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I think so, yes.
Exactly this, urgh.
The first one had nothing to do with HD. They just bought the already existing mod from the developers.