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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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Sora the Cat
Member
Is there a way to play the original online with this release? I want to try it with a friend
There is. Interview says:
: BW and SC:R are fully compatible, so if someone doesn't like the remastered graphics can still play on the ladder using the free 1.18 against others with the hd version"
yay!
I don't like the remastered graphics too much, but maybe they'll grow on me!
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
The original is going to be FREE, and yes, you can play with your friend once the update 1.18 is out! That and both HD and Non-HD will be cross-compatible online!
KojiKnight
Member
The best/craziest news is that they aren't throwing the original away, but going to keep it updated as well.
2 decades later, still receiving updates AND still having official servers hosted... Someone needs to remind every other company of this every time they say they "have" to take down their servers on older games.
2 decades later, still receiving updates AND still having official servers hosted... Someone needs to remind every other company of this every time they say they "have" to take down their servers on older games.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
How can you guys not like SC2 and call yourselves StarCraft fans. The learning curve is insane but once you have it down you feel like Ender Wiggin.
Not everyone likes casualized games.
After years of doing nothing (not like anything is really needed, the community took care of it - we also use our own servers). Also, not every other company has World of Warcraft.
Looking at all the videos I think it looks better than how I maybe first judged it. I'll need to see new full games of it to fully know if I'll like it or not, but still I can play on the normal client so it's all good!
I really hope if they do add modern obs features that tournaments don't use them all, because one problem I always had with SC2 was there was never any tension as the observer would show literally every detail about the game.
I really hope if they do add modern obs features that tournaments don't use them all, because one problem I always had with SC2 was there was never any tension as the observer would show literally every detail about the game.
Adam_Roman
Member
I've been craving playing an RTS recently because Endless Legend and Civ 5 haven't been scratching my strategy itch. Being able to finally beat SC's campaign will hopefully be exactly what I'm looking for. I was strongly considering buying SC2 but now I'm definitely gonna wait.
Personally I've always been more of a Command & Conquer fan but we all know that's not gonna happen any time soon.
Personally I've always been more of a Command & Conquer fan but we all know that's not gonna happen any time soon.
When another company has a game which is still played extensively up to this date then you can tell them ;-)
Monocle
Member
Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggghhhh!
Your UI is archaic and your mother has atrocious pathfinding.
It's been 19 years and BW is still the king <3
go_straight
Banned
mmmm, how do lootboxes fit in all of this?
You can upgrade your HD textures one by one to SC2 graphics.
phoenix296
Member
All they're doing is adding HD sprites to the original game so if you have a computer from this decade you'll probably be able to run it just fine.
InquisitorAles
Member
Where is my Warcraft 4 RTS, Blizzard?
KojiKnight
Member
Never going to happen. Believe this till the day you die, then be surprised if something else happens.
That said wc3 remake next please!
NaDannMaGoGo
Member
Holy fuck!
Now THAT is how you remaster. I personally wasn't even that SC1 obsessive sort of player that kept lamenting about SC2's gameplay. Like, I vastly prefer SC2 in that regard but still, there's been a lot of people who wanted a remaster with intact gameplay and updated graphics. This certainly delivers on that and some more.
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I'm legit surprised that some people are disappointed in the updated visuals. I mean, I suppose here and there a tad bit of grittiness or so got lost, but it looks miles better. SC1 has always been a pixelated mess and and that's fricking ugly. Not like SC1 was really one of those pixelart games either when the sprites where generated from 3D models (and maybe touched up by hand, dunno).
Can't wait for Diablo 2 to retrieve a similar remaster, too, so that that even bigger pixel mess becomes playable \o/
Now THAT is how you remaster. I personally wasn't even that SC1 obsessive sort of player that kept lamenting about SC2's gameplay. Like, I vastly prefer SC2 in that regard but still, there's been a lot of people who wanted a remaster with intact gameplay and updated graphics. This certainly delivers on that and some more.
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I'm legit surprised that some people are disappointed in the updated visuals. I mean, I suppose here and there a tad bit of grittiness or so got lost, but it looks miles better. SC1 has always been a pixelated mess and and that's fricking ugly. Not like SC1 was really one of those pixelart games either when the sprites where generated from 3D models (and maybe touched up by hand, dunno).
Can't wait for Diablo 2 to retrieve a similar remaster, too, so that that even bigger pixel mess becomes playable \o/
I honestly don't like this. The biggest problem by far is that they retained the same choppy feel of the animations that makes it feel like the game is running at a low framerate. This has always been my biggest pet peeve with the original Starcraft, and when juxtaposed against the new high res art it actually makes the problem even worse.
Just remaking the first game in the SC2 engine would have been far better.
Just remaking the first game in the SC2 engine would have been far better.
TheContact
Member
Holy fuck this is awesome. I played through sc/bw again before the last exp for sc2. Such a great game. I spent so many hours on that game back in the day. I still remember when launching sc I would hit M then E on the keyboard to get right into battle net.
It'll be. Why else would they make the original version free?
MegamanXZero
Member
EVOLUTION COMPLETE!
TheContact
Member
Would be nice if people owned the game already if they gave us the remaster, made the original free, and charged anyone who didn't have the game to upgrade. Kinda like how skyrim handled their remaster. (Except they didn't make their original free)
Either way, I'll pay for it. Can't imagine it will be more than $20
CommandThrower
Member
I really don't like the sound of that. If unit lines are different, then fine...but, don't touch the campaign dialogue and don't touch the hero units. If you do, then give us the option for the original voice audio.
Other than that, it's cool to see this finally confirmed!
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yeah I'm like why who asked for that. Just make update existing unit portraits for HD and leave it at that.
A lot of voice acting I SC2 was comparitively poor somehow.
I feel the opposite. I don't really feel that game design elements can be dated in the sense of obsolescence as opposed to that of revolving fashions or competitive solved-ness, and I welcome the idea of giving games which still aren't solved a fresh coat of paint and renewed commercial hype without changing how they actually play.
I also really like the idea of backdooring F2P's huge playerbase advantage into an existing title by moving it to free with an optional glorified skin pack.
Valkyre bug is mentioned in the 1.18 patch notes.
Lord Phol
Member
I think I actually prefer the originals visuals to this, or even the SC2 mod for the matter. SC2 did a lot of things wrong with the characters, story and voice acting but the gameplay and visuals were definite improvements over the orignal IMO. Being able to replay the old campaigns with the SC2 visuals felt like the perfect remaster/remake already. So this does very little for me, but glad for the people that will enjoy it.
Soulblighter31
Banned
lol, dated. This isnt console games, where in one gen you have a controller with a dpad and two buttons and games play and are designed a certain way. Then another gen you have a controller with a single stick and some buttons and games play entirely differently. Then another gen you have twin sticks and games again suffer new design and again play differently. This is where the term "aged games" comes from on this forum. PC games use the same input tool for 30 years. They dont "age". Well, most of them dont. RTS games have the same structure and play the same since Command&Conquer in 1995. If you're having troubles with Starcraft, its all you, not the game.
Er-PC games can definitely age, same control scheme or not.
This is such bullshit. The ui and pathfinding in Broodwar have aged terribly. Has nothing to do with control schemes.
Soulblighter31
Banned
Pathfinding is the age old problem RTS games always have and Starcraft probably did it the best out of the 90's games. I even have a local magazine review from back then where they were praising it compared to other titles back then. UI is classic, many other games use it. If by UI you mean how you can only select 12 units or train 5 units at a time, thats not UI, thats some of the games dumb design decisions that Blizzard employed, they were bad then and bad now. Thats how the game was made. We always had to play the game around this shit. The way "dated" is thrown around seems as if its some unplayable piece of shit that you cant spend 5 minutes in before quitting in disgust. Which is completely false. The games playability is immense. Same as with most RTS games.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
WHY WOULD YOU?????
people would go berserk if it wasn't mechanically the same imo