Diablo 2, Starcraft and Warcraft 3 HD Remakes Possibly Coming!

[Samfisher]

Source : http://manaflask.com/articles/diablo-2-starcraft-and-warcraft-3-hd-remakes-coming

 

 

 

 

A new job announcement has brought to light Blizzard's plans for revitalizing some of their classic games. As HD remakes are all the rage nowadays, it makes sense to get into that market, and luckily for us we all get to benefit! While the games all still playable today, a visual bump as well as integration into the new battle.net system will definitely do wonders for these games and hopefully will introduce younger audiences to the games that made Blizzard the powerhouse they are today.

 

 

 

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I know many people frown on HD remakes, but these games are absolute classics for millions of fans and both a HD remake anintegration into the Battle.Net client would breathe A LOT of life into the franchise and to keep them running smoothly on modern OS's and for future OS's to come as well.  Pretty excited!

[Glenwing]

As long as I can select more than 12 units at a time in SC I'll be happy

[Bsmith]

might be more of an update to the older games that are using battle.net.

 

Would be nice for the people that have the "legacy" games and still getting HD out of them.

[Bogica]

TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!

[Samfisher]

As long as I can select more than 12 units at a time in SC I'll be happy

 

What a preposterous idea!

[XTankSlayerX]

And this is where it begins...

 

Hollywood has bled into the Gaming industry...

 

Oh well.

[Yog]

I know many people frown on HD remakes, but these games are absolute classics for millions of fans and both a HD remake anintegration into the Battle.Net client would breathe A LOT of life into the franchise and to keep them running smoothly on modern OS's and for future OS's to come as well.  Pretty excited!

Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 started with battle.net at release...I don't know about starcraft, though.

[Yuto]

TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!

And the always Online time

Nope...don't needed. Diablo 2 is one of the last really LAN Party Games.

[Samfisher]

And this is where it begins...

 

Hollywood has bled into the Gaming industry...

 

Oh well.

 

Except there are genuine concerns about running these games on modern systems, and for future systems as well while integrating it into Battle.Net

 

Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 started with battle.net at release...I don't know about starcraft, though.

Not the Battle.Net client and the B.Net they are connected to are the depreciated versions and no longer maintained.

[ChineseChef]

And this is where it begins...

 

Hollywood has bled into the Gaming industry...

 

Oh well.

 

Eh, I can watch my old movies on my new TV.  I can't play my old games on my new computer.

 

Usually cause I can't find my old discs though, lol.

[Samfisher]

Eh, I can watch my old movies on my new TV.  I can't play my old games on my new computer.

 

Usually cause I can't find my old discs though, lol.

 

And sooner or later these games will be like how Warcraft 2 runs on Win7, at hyper speed cos they were locked to CPU clock speeds.

[Commander Llama]

Diablo II....

 

I finally got out, and they pull me the fuck back in!

[pk-man]

inb4 they add Candy Crush style microtransactions

 

Buy Blizzard points for a chance of getting Legendary Loot!!!!

[Samfisher]

inb4 they add Candy Crush style microtransactions

 

Buy Blizzard points for a chance of getting Legendary Loot!!!!

 

Blizzard has 0 history of doing this, so... FYI..

[weez]

An HD remake of WarCraft 1 and 2 would be amazing. Too bad that will never happen

[Samfisher]

An HD remake of WarCraft 1 and 2 would be amazing. Too bad that will never happen

 

Once they have a team for remakes, they may very well do them!  Warcraft 1 and 2 are practically impossible to play on modern systems now.

[Tech_Dreamer]

This is nice! B)

[nnelg]

oh my gosh that would be glorious

[dalekphalm]

I would purchase a StarCraft remake if it was done in the sc2 engine and all the cinematics were also redone.

I just hope they keep all the original balancing for single player, but add in. UI tweaks, like being able to select any number of units at once.

As others have mentioned, being limited to 12 units is ridiculous.

[LAwLz]

I don't know if this is a good move. I think remakes are good when they can improve upon the original game. For example like in Pokemon FireRed where the underlying mechanics got upgraded. I don't see what they could do with Diablo 2 other than make the graphics better. Making the graphics better would kind of ruin the feel of the game. Especially if they make it cartoon-ish like Diablo 3.

[Sauron]

As long as I can select more than 12 units at a time in SC I'll be happy

 

they didn't fix selection or unit pathing is the aoe2 remaster so unfortunately I doubt that will happen

[Samfisher]

I don't know if this is a good move. I think remakes are good when they can improve upon the original game. For example like in Pokemon FireRed where the underlying mechanics got upgraded. I don't see what they could do with Diablo 2 other than make the graphics better. Making the graphics better would kind of ruin the feel of the game. Especially if they make it cartoon-ish like Diablo 3.

 

Make it compatible with modern systems and future systems and integrating into the new Battle.net system

[Slinkey]

HD remake! Yes please! Specially Diablo and Warcraft series.

[Lethal Seraph]

I'll be playing Diablo 2 then.

[patrickjp93]

Except there are genuine concerns about running these games on modern systems, and for future systems as well while integrating it into Battle.Net

Not the Battle.Net client and the B.Net they are connected to are the depreciated versions and no longer maintained.

Yeah. Diablo II is so old it uses fixed function pipeline programming.