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They tried their best to kill the game :(

Actually they didnt do that well to be honesy. Ladder was fucked up at launch for weeks. And technical problems to this day. Also the communty has been just left in the rain numerious times, without any communitcation. And various features promised to be shiped with, where put into the game years later, some are missing to this day, like 2 vs 2 ladder...

What's good about StarCraft Remastered? What's new in this update? Well, besides high-resolution textures? Ability to choose AI difficulty? No. Improved music and sounds? No. Improved campaign? No. New units? No. Fixed pathfinding? No, no way. But there are paid sets of announcers (and they are all Korean, for some reason), cartoon graphics, slightly improved original textures, and that’s all. In my opinion, this "game" is no different from Reforge in terms of quality.

All sounds were rerecorded, and the old ones are also avaible. The campaing is improved in the sense that there is more to choose, now you can change languge, there are some nice screenimages and they at least scaled the old cinematics. In general this update has been amazing, but it is also true that they dropped the ball on many things. Finally custom hotkeys, ladder, they got rid of the mouse same time key problem, you can zoom out in the campaign with zoom zoom(cheat) and playing like that in singleplayer. Way more graphical options, to toggle and many way to custom your interface. You can even play some of the outsourced campaign like insurrections, etc. And adjust many things how your play, they kept the core gameplay which is good, they shouldnt change that since than it would be just a worse version of SC2... And not starcraft broodwar/remastered. THey made the game modern and fixed a lot of stuff.. But the fact that their main guy leading the remastered is a cinematic guy and they didnt remade new cinematics or remastered the cinematics of the campaign, tells you that they didnt backed this up with full force and left a lot of potential... An other problem is that some of the stuff looks way to cartoony, how comes some of the old broodwar things, portrait looks way more real, and better ... Like the Kerrigan human portrait looks like a Barbie, and the old one wasnt even the best, but looks leagues ahead... They also didnt supported a widescreen old gameplay look. Which sad... In the remastered look we lose some of the old gritty dark, dirty look. @@jamesschultz2039

the old blizzard guys went to Runic games and made Torchlight

I member the old blizzard, friend. StarCraft, WarCraft 3, Diablo 2... those were our games.

Honestly I blame WoW for this, not the activation merger. Before they had to struggle like any other company to turn a profit. After WoW, they could do stupid stuff and even mistreat their customers and still turn a MASSIVE profit.

Word is that they are already working on a Warcraft 3 remaster.

John Smith no way!!???

I believe it was IGN who mentioned it briefly. Something along the lines of that there are job listings for people to work on a remaster of it, the same way there were about a year ago for someone to work on a Starcraft remaster.

Rei dos Vermes I'm really hoping for a Warcraft 2 remaster the most. Warcraft 3 is good but Warcraft 2 is amazing

Honestly, I think Warcraft 3 still looks fantastic.

You kinda have that by playing Remaster but turning off all the new graphics features, specially the Real Time Lighning, it gives a very "Old Starcraft feeling" you can check it here on 7:01.

you can kind of, you just press F5 and than need to put your screen resolution in windows or whatever system you are using to one which covers the old resolution of the old game than you will have full screen.

Adam Zey if they allowed zooming out in matches it would mess with the balance

Probably not, I started playing this in 2020

surely they did for red alert one.

Firebat...like at all.

Well Blizzard solved that when they did SC2. In Sc1 I always thought it was some sort of acid shot due to the graphic (despite it saying SPINES on their unit card) and sound...then SC2 made it clear they shot spines.

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@@majormononoke8958 Why are you asking why?

Nope. It can be a pain in the ass but it's still the same game.

Just $15 compared to $30 also. I'd say the price point might sorta set your expectations.

And Reforged ruine, replaced and killed the game.....Thats the difference.....and i will never forgive Blizzard for it.....never...

w3 reforged its remake =_=

I haven't experienced that when playing Remastered myself

If you are speaking about the pathfinding from the units, it is part of the game really. It is fundamental, balancing of the units, etc. Like the Dragoon best unit of the game, if hold potion, once it moves more or less worst unit in the game.xd

I understand, but what is the point ? The 12 unit selection is a fundamental part of the game... It is like we introduce the easy press button for great effect of street fighter 5 into earlier street fighter. It is fundamental mechanic difference between these games.

The 12 unit selection cap is weird, but at least it prevents deathballs like in SC2. There it is too easy to move your army.

Maarten Bos I still hate EA for what they did to that franchise, C&C 4 was a travesty.

I haven't even played it on principle. :)

Yeah, it has that retro appeal and triggers your nostalgia.

Old players will play with old graphics but observers of tournaments will observe with HD graphics and make the game more apealing to viewers.

They forgot about them, than it was to late.

True.....I love the original SC and the Remastered version, but a part of me wishes the maps were more immersive...Imagine if there was real time weather changes (like in GTA) that could affect the gameplay....for example, if there it is raining/storming and that makes High Templar's Storm attacks more powerful....or if there are maps with sand or other natural barriers that slow down ground units......OR if there were some units like scouts, etc that could go in water....I think it would be so cool!

There are reasons to play Starcraft 1 rather than Starcraft 2 while still wanting quality of life improvements, for instance the ability to take control of a Terran or Zerg unit while playing as Protoss and building all three sets of buildings/units within one session. I can see how it would negatively affect the ESports community who learned to play the game with certain tricks that rely on it to work as it does, but I think it would have been nice if there were multiple versions of the game with one for ESports and one for casual play with quality of life improvements only on the casual version, but that would have been quite a lot of work so I can see why they didn't do that.

@@Bowlfrog44 I wrote this 5 years ago lol

It happened actually

Carefull with what you wish, once said

yes.

Those are 4k requirements.

Rahul Pandey I don't really think so. Check it out on Square Enix Homepage. Well I guess you're right,

Recommended system requirements are for 4k and size of 170 gb because of 8k textures.

Those aren't real.

That would be awesome, the community has done some patch work and such on CnC but a remaster would be nice.

Krush Kill n Destroy, Dark Reign, total annihilation, Mayday, Z, Earth 2140 with this kind of graphic.

Meledyne yes, that is their arms that you can't see in original

isnt that what they actually do in-game :p

Nope

Lol warcraft 3 is harder by light years. Specilly of the expansion.

@@majormononoke8958 I didn't mention WC, did I?

Just imagine people playing these current console games with the same numbers as brood war in 20 years time, even bfore this remaster. Just imagine a massive esports scene around a 20 year old console game. Just imagine a 20 year old console game that keeps getting supported by its devs and keeps online multiplayer for that whole time. It wont happen, no matter how much they try and force those exclusives down our throats they are dead and buried within a year

lolbreakers failed and hit 30 floors thru the floor, right to the basement. Cliffie B. can only take a shovel and bury it. No idea what he thought before release an another trashy hero-based online fps. There is nothing to remember. Patient is dead and buried.

But there is still SC2 with upgraded gameplay, why not play that title?

Saying that the SC Tournament scene is crep is pretty pretentious, also considering that in Korea it's still bigger of the sc2 one

Lol, isnt this exactly what recall is ? sc2 has the orginal campaign as a mod ... The gameplay is fundamental to what a game is ... So if you change that, it wouldnt be sc1 anymore...

Fuck a remaster, need a full new graphic engine .

Claire, yup I'm pretty excited to see what they could do with an upgraded engine, for the likes of a Warcraft 4.

Diablo 4 more like Path of Exile and Diablo 2. Go!

No need for new engine, just the old 2D art in hires, kthxbye

Upscaled 2D remaster are awful to look at. Look at SC, Age of, Might and Magic, they all look like garbage, no thanks, bye.

it literally just makes the graphics look pretty, how the fuck is that one of the best remasters ever!?

because that's what a remaster's supposed to do, dummy!

remasters change some things in the gameplay to make the game more enjoyable to play, which leaves me confused on why they called it a remaster because a HD remake is what literally just updates the graphics, which is what this is.

If I were you I would use glasses

^wife... *facepalm*

Hmmm.....how does 500 minerals and 150 vespene sound?

*aiur