Blizzard remasters original StarCraft

[sTizzl]

i don't know about anyone else but this hit me right in the feels, the nostalgia is real. think they will implement some sort of VR support? that would be interesting.

 

i am probably looking forward to all the old school custom maps the most, how about you guys? what are you looking forward to reliving?

 

Release will be this summer.

 

 

[Master Disaster]

Strange choice considering how much controversy there's been over classic wow recently, you'd think they'd want to remaster that instead.

[VVoltor]

VR support? Are you serious? It won't even be 3D.

They'll just make it compatible with modern hardware, use higher resolution graphics and maybe a few effects here and there. And then cash in on the nostalgia factor. Just like pretty much any other remaster that comes out now.

[Maslofski]

53 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Strange choice considering how much controversy there's been over classic wow recently, you'd think they'd want to remaster that instead.

starcraft seems much easier to remaster, since its just a few factions worth of units and some maps. wow on the other hand is a lot bigger

[matrix07012]

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 hour ago, sTizzl said:

 think they will implement some sort of VR support? that would be interesting.

I think VR is between irrelevant and detrimental for strategy games. First person games make a lot of sense in VR, but in a RTS you don't want to be "immersed", you want to have the full picture as much as possible.

1 hour ago, sTizzl said:

 

i am probably looking forward to all the old school custom maps the most, how about you guys? what are you looking forward to reliving?

The fun. Probably the most fun I had with an RTS, and almost the last fun one (WC3 was still OK).

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Strange choice considering how much controversy there's been over classic wow recently, you'd think they'd want to remaster that instead.

Apparently the hundreds of thousands of people who play vanilla servers don't know what they want...according to Blizzard.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Nice!

[Mister Snow]

Oh, this is great, I was waiting for it to finally replay the original Starcraft. Hope they remove group unit capacity limit.

[Agosto]

WARCRAFT PLS

 

[Valentyn]

2 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Apparently the hundreds of thousands of people who play vanilla servers don't know what they want...according to Blizzard.

Well people wanted the difficulty and grinding of Vanilla back as well. They got that in Legion, and they're still complaining

Raiding has gotten so hard at Mythic levels, world first and top guilds are all quitting because of the time investment required is too much.

 

WoW is harder now, and more grinding than it's been since even TBC, can't make everyone happy.

Should they offer some Vanilla servers? Sure, why not. But only on the condition that they never updated or changed. So class balancing, and everything stays the way it was until the TBC Pre-Patch hits.
So people can enjoy having some utterly useless classes and specs again. 

 

Issue is, then people will also want dedicated servers for every other Expansion. That stuff is super expensive, but I wouldn't be opposed to a trial run.

 

Let's say 1-2 servers for each region, and let them last a year and see what the userbase is.

[Sauron]

Seems like a lazy graphical update, as good as it was for the time starcraft is dated in more ways than just graphically. I might have preferred a full remake with the sc2 engine or better yet something new - with proper pathing and less interface limitations.

[Valentyn]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

Seems like a lazy graphical update, as good as it was for the time starcraft is dated in more ways than just graphically. I might have preferred a full remake with the sc2 engine or better yet something new - with proper pathing and less interface limitations.

That's what I was expecting when I heard about this. Shame they didn't really.

[DocSwag]

It just happens that in a few weeks I'm gonna be touring Blizzard HQ lol... This might be something I could ask them about, then.

 

Unfortunately, NDAs are involved so I can't tell any of you guys what they tell me  

[zMeul]

what a piece of shit 

better than remastering that crap, they should've done a Diablo II remaster

[Valentyn]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

It just happens that in a few weeks I'm gonna be touring Blizzard HQ lol... This might be something I could ask them about, then.

 

Unfortunately, NDAs are involved so I can't tell any of you guys what they tell me  

I want to know if they have a snack room as well provisioned as Valve's please!

[DocSwag]

3 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

I want to know if they have a snack room as well provisioned as Valve's please!

Will do, if they happen to take me to a snack room. Just checked and the NDA doesn't seem to say anything about taking pictures, so it is possible that I could take a picture of it if they take me there. The NDA only limits me in terms of info of products and whatnot. So hopefully I will be able to take a pic. I've set reminders and bookmarked your post so hopefully I don't forget

[TetraSky]

Neat, but I wouldn't be buying it. If I wanted to play original starcraft, I would either dig out my old discs of it or play the fan remaster of it in Starcraft 2, which looks a hell of a lot better than the original SC or this remaster.

I also doubt it will give much more life to the SC e-sport scene.

[PCMasterDebater]

Anyone else get a chuckle from the music accompanying the movie? Such a dramatic piece for a lightly polished graphical update.

 

I'll end up buying it once it goes on sale so I can play it a few times.

[Misanthrope]

I guess battle chest sales have finally slow down enough for them to milk their cash cow again. Whatever I prefer this to more efforts at their fucking MMO or stupid TF2 clone.

[Misanthrope]

3 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

I think VR is between irrelevant and detrimental for strategy games. First person games make a lot of sense in VR, but in a RTS you don't want to be "immersed", you want to have the full picture as much as possible.

The fun. Probably the most fun I had with an RTS, and almost the last fun one (WC3 was still OK).

I think VR is detrimental for gaming in general: there's a reason why it has been mostly just casual games implemented and it will likely remain like that regardless of empty promises like "2nd generation" devices magically improving everything.

[TigerHawk]

Still waiting for that Diablo 2 HD they mentioned at a blizzcon like.....6? years ago?

[Delicieuxz]

I really hope that Warcraft II and Diablo II will receive the same treatment.

[sgloux3470]

I hope they don't charge for it.  I own the original starcraft anthology and don't want to buy it again for minor changes.

[Taf the Ghost]

2 hours ago, Sauron said:

Seems like a lazy graphical update, as good as it was for the time starcraft is dated in more ways than just graphically. I might have preferred a full remake with the sc2 engine or better yet something new - with proper pathing and less interface limitations.

This is mostly targeted at the still thriving SC:BW scene in Korea.  That's why there is money to be made with it.  Most of the quirks of the interface and pathing have been figured out and adapted in high-level play.  (Maps are built with it all in mind.)  Thus they didn't want to touch of those issues.

 

It's actually the same graphics engine, just updated slightly and with improved textures.  Update some binaries and a few other details and you've got a version that'll work on Windows 10 and future Windows editions for a long while, of which there are people that want to buy it still.  They're also updating the Online Server structure, as well.  Fun times for the Korean scene and much easier on the eyes in the future.