Indeed. It has been a long time I get this kinda chills from a Blizzard game. I'm really excited for this one. Hope the battle.net support is as brilliant as well!
i started playing scbw when i was 8. cant wait to see all the old greatness flow again. i wonder if my old buddy admiral sam is still around... i still remember playing a rigged map with him, slot 1 always made you the alien.
oh man.. I hope they change at least some of the things. Honestly, I'd rather see the entire campaign remade in SC2 but I know that would probably make A LOT of people angry, so...
Few things I love about the original Starcraft: 1) Full 3 faction campaigns both SC and Brood War 2) SC has the most memorable soundtracks I've ever heard 3) simple gameplay
Well Starcraft + Brood War was pretty simple to play since all you had to do was make a large army and push forward and hope for the best since you can't move your units around efficiently like in SC2. So it was simple until you came across a single photon cannon then your marines somehow had the accuracy of StormTroopers..
Simple, yes. Simpler than 2 in a few ways. But it's nearly impossible to master - the skillcap virtually doesn't exist. And yeah, it takes some time to learn microing and macroing. But overall, "simple".
I suspect the team that worked on updating original SC sprites will move onto either WC3 or D2 now. So yeah, most likely we get either of those. Funny enough blizzard has begun PTR testing for WC3 just as of recent. I wonder if that has to do something with it.
Thats true, they left the gameplay the same, only improving the graphics (and adding custom key-bindings, I also heard that there will be comic-book pages interluding in the campaigns, "Enhancing" the story)
Yeah, I'm okay with this. Blizzard, I was worried about so many things. That you were going to significantly change the gameplay, that you were going to lock it to online only, that the "HD" was going to look completely different, and that you were going to divide the community even more. Then you confirmed that the Fish server will be a native gateway, that you're patching the original game to work on modern computers, that you're introducing better anti-cheat protection... and the HD version just looks brilliant. I had an idea in my head of what the best possible product would be, and this announcement EXCEEDED that. I am so bloody excited! Thank you all. I absolutely do
Wait, they're just patching the original game with this? So my old CD copies of the game will automatically get patched into this once its out later this year and I don't need to rebuy it?
So awesome.... But seriously though, the protoss better sound the same, especially the lead characters, Tassadar, Fenix, Zeratul, Artanis, Aldaris, etc.
How do you upgrade old audio to modern standards? Unless what was used in the game wasn't the full quality they already recorded, then that would make sense to me.
This is exactly what old-school fans wanted when talking about a "Brood War HD remake". No changes to unit selection limit, no changes to balance or the like. The same game as it is, but updated with higher fidelity graphics and 4k resolution support. I might have not liked your last decisions in terms of stories and games as much, Blizzard, but you have done this the right way. One can only hope this foresight will extend to your future entrepreneurs. Keep up the good work.
When I first heard "Remaster", I immediately wondered if it was just basically going to be a Starcraft 2 mod. But no, this looks like the most earnest remaster I've ever seen.
I'm really hoping this remaster will breathe life into the SC1 community again - us die-hard fans have been sitting around whispering that we wish this would happen! And please, please let old UMS (custom maps) files be usable.. and give us more tools to create custom scenarios with.. please?
Makes a whole lot more sense being based on a 3d engine with infinite resolution scaling vs a sprite based engine that has very limited resolution scalings.
So excited about this! I hope their animation framerates also get an upgrade. The characters attacks are usually made up of 4-6 frames, it would be great to see more smoothly tweened animations.
I've played sc for 2 decades since 1998 when I was 6. Still remember that time I was a kid and play it with my father. thx blizzard very fun time until some day I can beat him with my Protoss.
All the chills from the music, effects, and visuals!! I REALLLLLLY hope that the online servers allow the old maps and there isn't a need for converting as there were SO many good custom games.
I think all audio has been re-recorded (maybe besides projectile and attack sounds?), but it should sound pretty close to the original. Source: starcraft.com
MarphitimusBlackimus I hope the Spanish dub gets remade or removed. StarCraft 2 has an outstanding dub, but StarCraft 1 on the other hand... it has the worst dub I've ever heard in any game.
In the website it says "re-recorded" also, the original voice actor of zeratul, dugalle, the overmind and edmund duke Jack Ritschel is dead, so we are probably going to get the new voice
That's a really good concern.. well, they are remastering all of the unit portrait animations, so perhaps they will be re-doing the cutscenes? If they want to charge more than 10-20$ for this, they better - it's clear to me they are just re-using their old assets, just at a higher res
When working with 2d sprites made from 3d renders it does work like that as long as they still have the meshes and a render engine capable of importing them.
whilst they may not have rendered the 2d assets from 3d models (which would allow them to a certain degree to reuse old assets) if they manually drew the 2d assets out back in the day, they might've been drawn at a higher resolution than what was released, although im not sure either way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Would love to see it happen, but with the current wow divided into 2 main sides it's not going to happen, only way for it to is if they split them all up again or did a sort of parallel universe thingy.
The Viking Raiders Why would that mean it's not going to happen? It wouldn't be difficult to engineer a plot involving a schism between races on each side, they've already done that in WoW a ton of times. Besides, just because they're allies doesn't mean they can't be individual races. Night Elves and Alliance were allied for most of Warcraft III but they were still distinct armies. Or they could just make the Burning Legion into its own race (or some other major faction--haven't kept up with WoW lore in quite some time). And the majority of Undead are still separate from the Forsaken.
Little detail: I noticed the unit portraits were at the original resolution, which made me wonder about Blizzard being able to rerender the original 3D assets for portraits and cutscenes-I would expect that if any company would hold on to all of it's production files for a game, it would be Blizzard. Especially for StarCraft! Who would throw those away? But I'm not worried, because at 0:39 the portrait for the Terran Battleship is now high-res, indicating that this will be done before release for 3D-rendered scenes. They shouldn't have to futz with the models at all, though they may redo some low-res textures to make them look better in high resolution. I'd be happy with the original 4:3 aspect ratio for the cutscenes, though I expect they'll probably be reframed for 16:9, which if done right would require new animation work to add image to the sides (a straight crop would mar the framing worse). Anyway, looks like good work so far. I'm impressed with how faithful they kept the look, and I trust I won't be disappointed, and it will look close enough to my memories. Those A-to-B comparisons were very impressive in how faithful the new 3D models were to the spirit of the art of the 2D pixelated sprites.
Thank you, Blizzard and staff. Thank you all so much. I started playing Starcraft at the age of five, and while I was atrociously awful (completed the first two Protoss missions!) and eventually lost the game, I finally got another copy a good twelve or so years after. It was as fun as I remembered and my skill hadn't drastically improved since then, but in the back of my head I often wondered if I'd see a remake of this game, with the gameplay being as it were in the original, with the delighted exception of improved dragoon/Goliath pathfinding. And I'm so happy to finally see it. Thanks for all the great memories, and I wish you all the best
WOW. I'm definetely buying this. "Mass Recall" was good but... feeled odd sometimes. I hope they'll also remaster WC (At least WC3) and D2. I like D3 and SC2 but... sometimes I want to play that "old classic"
The 2d model sprites in Star Craft 1 were based on "screenshots" of 3d models. (I think it is the 3d models seen in the manual) I wonder, did Blizzard just make new "screenshots" of the same old models, but this time in high resolution? P.S. I see still some work left on the portraits. The new Battlecruiser portrait looks nice, though 👍 P.P.S Voice acting rework not necessary!
Ryan Gonzalez literally all they've done is redraw the models and make it 4k compatible. everything else is going to be exactly the same. same story same multiplayer same music same cheat codes.
Absolutely sure. They mention it in the announcement video about some of the changes being made. One of those is new storyboards inbetween missions. No mention of cinematics.
If they're not careful, they'll start being taken seriously as an e-sport developer again. They won't have to bribe professional players with millions of dollars just to pretend someone cares about SC2. Luckily SC2 didn't kill Brood War, so they can kick the real money-maker right back into full gear.
They never lost people taking them seriously. Blizzard's success, however, has been with other games: Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch. StarCraft's heydey is gone. Still relevant, but not exactly top tier.
For starcraft remastered you need a couple new textures and you can call it a day. For wow legacy servers you need 10-15 years of backwards compatibility. About the same difficulty really
if people can do it on a private server so can blizzard, there are thousand's that play on private servers because they don't like how blizzard made the game to casual.
Those are two completely different concepts. With Starcraft Remastered, Blizzard did nothing except update the graphics and interface. Otherwise, the underlying mechanics are exactly the same as the last version that was developed. What people are asking for with Legacy servers is for Blizzard to host an old version of a game that's currently in production/development.
+Gamerfreak88 private servers aren't perfect, they have bugs and inaccuracies, and even still, they're built on open source server code which has been developed through thousands and thousands of volunteer man-hours and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, over years of development. In Blizzard terms thats big bux, maintaining multiple code infrastructures, etc. It's not likely for them.
Calm down, thats my favourite too! :) I've recently played with Diablo 1 Belzebub mod (fullHD), you should try it too. You can find installation instructions on my channel if you wish to do so.
I'm buying starcraft remastered and I won't even play it. I hate starcraft but if they see it sell well they will definitely remaster D1 and D2 so lets pray
Yeah, that really does bring up some memories. Like, "wait, my units are under attack... WTF is it doing THERE?! It supposedly was on patrol, but now is on the other side of the map!" And yes, I suck at RTS games, but still love them.
It's about profit, not necessity. Brood War still has a large active community on US East and Asia (and maybe Europe, idk), and it's still sold by Blizzard on their site. The only reason for this remastered version is that the Brood War fanbase is big enough to generate demand for it. WC1 and 2 don't have that. They aren't going to invest money into a project that won't give them a generous return.
HydroGlobus the point is that I shouldn't need DosBox to play. Especially now that Blizz are entering the "remaster" market. Krista L They'd make a really good profit actually if they remastered WC 1 and 2.
Yeah, I get it, I was trying to help you out there. As for your War1-2 comment, you are absolutely right, and not only would that profit come from the sales themselves, but I suspect there would be a lot of returning players to WoW as well. The early games are chock-full of interesting lore places and names.
for the true Starcraft experience, watch this in 144p
lolll
its really funny at 0:23 how when they show the updated and improved graphics, it doesn't even change the respolution lol
for the N64 Starcraft experience, watch this at 76p
(well, if it's possible to go below 144p)
+XfStef I think you mean 480p ;p
I love how it makes it look like nothing changed. LOL
"Evolution complete." gave me CHILLS!
all hail the PROTONS!
All hail the fail!
Overmind used to be a really cool race before getting cucked by modern kerrigan
My words man!
Indeed. It has been a long time I get this kinda chills from a Blizzard game. I'm really excited for this one. Hope the battle.net support is as brilliant as well!
"Evolution complete"
I cried
me too T T
Man i'm in a infinite loop in this end, so good
@@ComeToPudge so good TT
I am 79 and still playing SC., started at 60.
i started playing scbw when i was 8. cant wait to see all the old greatness flow again.
i wonder if my old buddy admiral sam is still around... i still remember playing a rigged map with him, slot 1 always made you the alien.
9 more likes to be age = likes.
Is this real?
When i was 5 i played it a lot and still play it sometimes. PLZ don't call me noob i am not yet experienced.
Hello noob
My wallet for Aiur
xLetalis En taro, fellow Templar.
ahhhhhhhhh it's the Witcher guy.
Starcraft 1 was a masterpiece just like the Witcher :)
totally agree
both starcraft 1 + bw and the witcher 3 + exps are games that redefine its genre
NO NO WARCRAFT 2 YOU MONG!
It's time to play cat vs mouse once again.
miss that game!!!!!!!!
LOL!! haha I miss that so much!
Pretty much the only way I played SC online was UMS
When the remaster comes out, first thing I'm doing is bringing Raccoon City back to life!
I like how you think, young man!
Amazing! It's been 19 years!
And I'm 19 today, it's my birthday. wow.
Happy birthday!
well this made my day heh !
I am 79 and still playing SC.
Shut up and take my minerals!!!!!!!
José Juan Moreno Sánchez Shut up and build my pylon
You must construct additional pylons.
José Juan Moreno Sánchez Not enough minerals.
theyre rocks!
José Juan Moreno Sánchez they are minerals
I can't wait to have 7 control groups of zerglings again.
Only 7? 12324456 control groups minimum.
oh man.. I hope they change at least some of the things. Honestly, I'd rather see the entire campaign remade in SC2 but I know that would probably make A LOT of people angry, so...
Mass recall, that is SC and BW remade in SC2. Awesome mod.
yeah with patrol command
Few things I love about the original Starcraft:
1) Full 3 faction campaigns both SC and Brood War
2) SC has the most memorable soundtracks I've ever heard
3) simple gameplay
simple gameplay?
Its simple and fun to play.
But hard to master.
Idk, guess that is what he meant. Lol
Well Starcraft + Brood War was pretty simple to play since all you had to do was make a large army and push forward and hope for the best since you can't move your units around efficiently like in SC2. So it was simple until you came across a single photon cannon then your marines somehow had the accuracy of StormTroopers..
Ever watched pro games? Maybe you did this with your friends but competitive starcraft isn't max out to 200 then push while crossing your fingers. lol
Simple, yes. Simpler than 2 in a few ways. But it's nearly impossible to master - the skillcap virtually doesn't exist. And yeah, it takes some time to learn microing and macroing. But overall, "simple".
I was more excited than the Korean crowd, almost cried.
J Vega Oh no son you have no idea.
The president would had made an announcement of the remastering if there only was one ;(
we need Diablo 2 HD rework
kajcsapapa both 1 and 2 would be amazing
d2 and wc3 remastered are rumored to be next in the pipeline of remasters. Probably next summer maybe? Or maybe we will know by Blizzcon
OH MODAFCKN YES PLEASE BABE!!! Would've been like a second christmas and birthday at the same time!
I suspect the team that worked on updating original SC sprites will move onto either WC3 or D2 now. So yeah, most likely we get either of those. Funny enough blizzard has begun PTR testing for WC3 just as of recent. I wonder if that has to do something with it.
Yes yes, especially Diablo 1 we need a reboot.
Blizzard still respects the original version. I heard they didn't touch the original game play except fixing few bugs.
Thats true, they left the gameplay the same, only improving the graphics (and adding custom key-bindings, I also heard that there will be comic-book pages interluding in the campaigns, "Enhancing" the story)
Custom key bindings thank GOD
so tarpit defense will be playable now? and your units wont stop firing after they have killed 250 guys?
Map Maker correct
Map Maker Most liklely yes.
Yeah, I'm okay with this.
Blizzard, I was worried about so many things. That you were going to significantly change the gameplay, that you were going to lock it to online only, that the "HD" was going to look completely different, and that you were going to divide the community even more.
Then you confirmed that the Fish server will be a native gateway, that you're patching the original game to work on modern computers, that you're introducing better anti-cheat protection... and the HD version just looks brilliant.
I had an idea in my head of what the best possible product would be, and this announcement EXCEEDED that.
I am so bloody excited! Thank you all. I absolutely do
TLP Overwatch this one online only? like starcraft 2 and d3??
Rayenvolk You can play SC2 offline, just obviously not the online multiplayer part.
Wait, they're just patching the original game with this? So my old CD copies of the game will automatically get patched into this once its out later this year and I don't need to rebuy it?
I hope they remaster Brood War's intro. This game was my childhood, I remember planning strategies for this game in an old notebook.
i think they shouldnt remaster the cinematics because they wouldnt look as good
Now I wanna see that notebook. XD
This is incredible!
LowkoTV yeah totally make it into your channel lowko I missed u I've been too much into overwatch finally I can go back to SC!
Full campaign playthrough my man, still waiting for the frozen throne gameplay though
LowkoTV i would love to see some sc bw videos on your channel, but not only explaining, but actual matches
"You wanna piece of me, boy" "Skraaarck" "My life for Aiur".....Aaaaa the feels....
You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind.
You really nailed zerg there
we use "for the Swarm!" when it comes to the Zerg, not skrark.. c'mon now casual fanboy git gud.
Lock and Load!!
"in the pike, 5 by 5."
Adun Toridas, brothers.
En Taro Tassadar, friend.
Finally now I know how the Dragoon look like. I always see them as giant butterfly with legs
in starcraft 2 dragoon existed since leagecy...
Le tuan linh they were displayed in onr of the campaign cinematics.
Yeah, but they look very different.
I've stocked up my sick and vacation days in the event this would happen.
The time has come, my entire life has been building up to this moment. God help us all.
Now WarCraft III Remastered PLEASE
Youre welcome
Wc3 reforged :D
Wish granted: WC3 Reforged
Thanks for telling me guys, that's awesome news, now I'll go see how it looks like.
We were so naive and happy back then haha
Who else listened to this several times just for the music?
you are not the single one mate ^^
YEAAAAHHH
several times just for everything 8)
The terran music is very OP. Im bored when i listen toss and zerg music but terran music is amazing.
help, what's the exact title of the trailer song???
the true starcraft is back!
Who is hyped for 13 supported languages!?!
I'm gonna play it with all of them!
So awesome.... But seriously though, the protoss better sound the same, especially the lead characters, Tassadar, Fenix, Zeratul, Artanis, Aldaris, etc.
I want the zerg Overmind to sound the same as well. And the zerebrats.
Daggoth in paricular had a nice voice.
its all the same recordings from back in the day they are just vamping them up to HD
How do you upgrade old audio to modern standards? Unless what was used in the game wasn't the full quality they already recorded, then that would make sense to me.
A proper remaster of a classic game? Good job blizzard!
We'll see if it's proper or not when it comes out. But yeah they might have put moreeffort into this than Diablo
EMPeter they have never remastered a game before though, have they?
D1 was only an anniversary thing, and. D2 was only a patch
it's just a graphical remake i suppose so it CANNOT disappoint
cyberianrave Well I hope they will fix the pathing of units, like when they get stuck in minerals line ahaha
oh that was pure pain
also dragoon and goliath pathing
starcraft : remastered game speed maximum is fastest.
starcraft 2 game speed maximum is faster.
fastest > faster.
This is exactly what old-school fans wanted when talking about a "Brood War HD remake". No changes to unit selection limit, no changes to balance or the like.
The same game as it is, but updated with higher fidelity graphics and 4k resolution support.
I might have not liked your last decisions in terms of stories and games as much, Blizzard, but you have done this the right way. One can only hope this foresight will extend to your future entrepreneurs. Keep up the good work.
It's the original Starcraft, not Brood War
It's with Brood War you don't see the expansion units like Terran Medics?
did you even watch the video? It's BW. There are lurkers in the video.
If the 12-unit selection limit is still there, I'm not buying this.
dragonslair951167 why? because you can't press f2 and attack key somewhere on the map and just sit back?
When I first heard "Remaster", I immediately wondered if it was just basically going to be a Starcraft 2 mod. But no, this looks like the most earnest remaster I've ever seen.
"WE'RE ALL DEAD!!! BLOW IT!!! BLOOWW IIITTT!!!!!" "YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH...!!!!" ****BOOOOOOOOM!!!!****
I got yer Zerg right here he he slurp*SPLAT*
I'm really hoping this remaster will breathe life into the SC1 community again - us die-hard fans have been sitting around whispering that we wish this would happen!
And please, please let old UMS (custom maps) files be usable.. and give us more tools to create custom scenarios with.. please?
agreed lol
+Do Bo
that's not what most of the comments were saying.
I'm pretty sure UMS files will work fine, I read somewhere that the engine is so unchanged you can even watch replays from 1.16.
I can spend rest of my life by playing SC1 Remastered custom campaigns and other maps.
If they do something about the cheats it will. I stopped after it jad become nothing but cheats.
Take my money. Next - Diablo 2 !
Diablo 1 PLS.
I say BOTH
I want a Diablo with D3's graphics and D2's content and gameplay.
Why? Diablo 3's graphics are one of its many flaws. Its so ugly and WOW like.. it does not look like a Diablo game at all.
Are you sure you're not mistaking graphics for aesthetics? D3 was only really critcized for the latter.
I just hope they keep the music the same
Okay I am waiting warcraft 3 now!
YES !
Makes a whole lot more sense being based on a 3d engine with infinite resolution scaling vs a sprite based engine that has very limited resolution scalings.
would love that. My favorite game ever.
wc3 could indeed upscale. HD textures for the models, more polys etc. Not sure it really needs it, not as bad as BW did anyway
AvenaPros I am waiting for Warcraft 4 :D
Well butter my biscuit!
that's not funny anymore Harley!
spread it thin?
Show me the money #10k
or perhaps it would be better to say Shut up & take my money!
sums up everything wrong with sc2 right there
Orders received.
Finally some company remasters an awesome old school game in a proper way without changing gameplay. I wish more companies did that to old classics.
DO THIS FOR WARCRAFT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
Yeah I say either WC2 or WC4 ... or both!
I'm still waiting on WC3 and a D2 remaster. D2 more so.
YASS! but bigger control groups... xD
D2 got a huge compatibility patch last year if I recall. Patched to work on new pcs
Seriously. Warcraft the frozen throne was their best game before WoW came out
Out of the many we shall build an indivisible whole, capitulating only to a single throne, and from that throne, *I shall watch over you*
Emperor WeeWeeJumbo of the Terran Dominion.
Oh man~ MY DREAM came True!
I still play SC1 because it's still fun, but I get to play with remaster!!
Shut up and take my minerals :v
haha
we require more vespene gas
Additional supply depots required.
In the rear with the gear!
show me the money :p
OMFGGGGG YES!!! AND I MOVE BACK TO KOREA IN 2017. THANK GOD!!!!
So excited about this! I hope their animation framerates also get an upgrade. The characters attacks are usually made up of 4-6 frames, it would be great to see more smoothly tweened animations.
how did that work out for you? 5 years later.
Is there still a 12 unit selection max?
Yes.
Yeah, but i sure hope not :((
The engine is untouched, only the graphics.
sad... At least AI should be remastered too
Honestly, this makes me loose interest
I came when I heard "Evolution complete."
So many hours of my childhood were spent hearing that. I LIVE FOR THE SWARM.
I think I've watched this trailer at least a dozen times. Still gives me goosebumps
I've played sc for 2 decades since 1998 when I was 6. Still remember that time I was a kid and play it with my father. thx blizzard very fun time until some day I can beat him with my Protoss.
Well I know what my Dad's going to be addicted to this summer...
heroin?
All the chills from the music, effects, and visuals!!
I REALLLLLLY hope that the online servers allow the old maps and there isn't a need for converting as there were SO many good custom games.
se me puso la piel chinita!!! que emoción. aguevo!!!
Will the unit voices remain the same?
More clear sounding, but should be the same.
I think all audio has been re-recorded (maybe besides projectile and attack sounds?), but it should sound pretty close to the original. Source: starcraft.com
MarphitimusBlackimus I hope the Spanish dub gets remade or removed. StarCraft 2 has an outstanding dub, but StarCraft 1 on the other hand... it has the worst dub I've ever heard in any game.
In the website it says "re-recorded" also, the original voice actor of zeratul, dugalle, the overmind and edmund duke Jack Ritschel is dead, so we are probably going to get the new voice
I'll pay $100 for remastered Diablo 2, just in case if you want to know.
bro kinda they will take ur money ! :D they just confirmed diablo 2 remaster :D
give them 100$ now hehe. welcome to 2021
"Ready to roll out!!! "
I am Wretched... but I am Strong!
I am the Future... I am Zerg!
Ab-so-lutely!
make starcraft great again
In the rear with the gear.
Wait.... I don't think that was on sc1. Or maybe I don't remember.
I've been wanting this for so long! I've been playing this game since I was a child, this makes me so happy!
My favorite childhood game is being remasterd? Glorious!
It's so dense, every pixel just has so much going on.
looking forward for the 'beautiful' cutscenes in 4K
That's a really good concern.. well, they are remastering all of the unit portrait animations, so perhaps they will be re-doing the cutscenes? If they want to charge more than 10-20$ for this, they better - it's clear to me they are just re-using their old assets, just at a higher res
When working with 2d sprites made from 3d renders it does work like that as long as they still have the meshes and a render engine capable of importing them.
The stuff looks just like a lot of the vintage units in sc2, the engine looks like the same too. Expect a $40 price tag :D
Looks like they are using old assets from SC2 and SC1, they have already re-done a lot of the old models.
whilst they may not have rendered the 2d assets from 3d models (which would allow them to a certain degree to reuse old assets) if they manually drew the 2d assets out back in the day, they might've been drawn at a higher resolution than what was released, although im not sure either way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
NOW I WANT WARCRAFT 3 REMAKE!!!!
Warcraft 4!!
Would love to see it happen, but with the current wow divided into 2 main sides it's not going to happen, only way for it to is if they split them all up again or did a sort of parallel universe thingy.
"armies of azeroth" in process, look it on youtube
The Viking Raiders Why would that mean it's not going to happen? It wouldn't be difficult to engineer a plot involving a schism between races on each side, they've already done that in WoW a ton of times. Besides, just because they're allies doesn't mean they can't be individual races. Night Elves and Alliance were allied for most of Warcraft III but they were still distinct armies. Or they could just make the Burning Legion into its own race (or some other major faction--haven't kept up with WoW lore in quite some time). And the majority of Undead are still separate from the Forsaken.
The Viking Raiders Why would you want a remake over a new game?
Little detail: I noticed the unit portraits were at the original resolution, which made me wonder about Blizzard being able to rerender the original 3D assets for portraits and cutscenes-I would expect that if any company would hold on to all of it's production files for a game, it would be Blizzard. Especially for StarCraft! Who would throw those away? But I'm not worried, because at 0:39 the portrait for the Terran Battleship is now high-res, indicating that this will be done before release for 3D-rendered scenes. They shouldn't have to futz with the models at all, though they may redo some low-res textures to make them look better in high resolution. I'd be happy with the original 4:3 aspect ratio for the cutscenes, though I expect they'll probably be reframed for 16:9, which if done right would require new animation work to add image to the sides (a straight crop would mar the framing worse). Anyway, looks like good work so far. I'm impressed with how faithful they kept the look, and I trust I won't be disappointed, and it will look close enough to my memories. Those A-to-B comparisons were very impressive in how faithful the new 3D models were to the spirit of the art of the 2D pixelated sprites.
Thank you, Blizzard and staff. Thank you all so much. I started playing Starcraft at the age of five, and while I was atrociously awful (completed the first two Protoss missions!) and eventually lost the game, I finally got another copy a good twelve or so years after. It was as fun as I remembered and my skill hadn't drastically improved since then, but in the back of my head I often wondered if I'd see a remake of this game, with the gameplay being as it were in the original, with the delighted exception of improved dragoon/Goliath pathfinding. And I'm so happy to finally see it. Thanks for all the great memories, and I wish you all the best
Pathfinding is going to be the same, though
It was more of a hopeful 'if there's anything I won't miss it's that' than anything, I figured they really did mean a pure graphical update.
Please remaster WarCraft II next, it's a seminal game without which StarCraft would not exist
Am i the only one that was still playing Sc1 and will now just buy the remaster to play more of it?
Dark Trudel nope
Never thought I'd see the day... But my god what a beautiful day it is.
I CANT LIKE THIS MORE THAN ONCE HELP
MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS PROBLEM DONE!!!!!!
WOW. I'm definetely buying this. "Mass Recall" was good but... feeled odd sometimes.
I hope they'll also remaster WC (At least WC3) and D2. I like D3 and SC2 but... sometimes I want to play that "old classic"
I am crying love you Blizzard
Operation Cwal
The 2d model sprites in Star Craft 1 were based on "screenshots" of 3d models. (I think it is the 3d models seen in the manual)
I wonder, did Blizzard just make new "screenshots" of the same old models, but this time in high resolution?
P.S. I see still some work left on the portraits. The new Battlecruiser portrait looks nice, though 👍
P.P.S Voice acting rework not necessary!
childhood has been remastered!
Goosebumps when he said "Evolution Complete."
My favorite childhood videogame is Back!
now will "power overwhelming" still be coded in?
Probably.
Ryan Gonzalez literally all they've done is redraw the models and make it 4k compatible. everything else is going to be exactly the same. same story same multiplayer same music same cheat codes.
think they will remaster the cinematics also? that would be so cool
i wish all remasters took this simple approach.
The best game of all time and...my entire childhood is reborn!
I watched this video in 144p
Paulo Escobar why does it feel weird when people say stuff like that and I'm watching 1080P on my phone?
Full old school immersion
Paulo Escobar Was that your attempt at humor?
Clock Work, was it your attempt at irony?
Paulo Escobar Why did you felt the need to share that?
Starcraft is, and always will be, the mother of all RTS games.
Are the cinematics going to be remastered too?
Alesso4ever yes
n0m4d o Are you sure? Cus that'l be cool.
yes i did read it from some officials
Absolutely sure. They mention it in the announcement video about some of the changes being made.
One of those is new storyboards inbetween missions. No mention of cinematics.
I just want to hear the academy scream again
I hope this revitalises the brood war community and competitive scene somewhat
If Blizzard is not careful, this could kill SC2.
who cares about SC2?
If they're not careful, they'll start being taken seriously as an e-sport developer again. They won't have to bribe professional players with millions of dollars just to pretend someone cares about SC2.
Luckily SC2 didn't kill Brood War, so they can kick the real money-maker right back into full gear.
SC2 is already near dead, that's why they bought old SC back!
*brought not bought it is their game.
They never lost people taking them seriously.
Blizzard's success, however, has been with other games: Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch. StarCraft's heydey is gone. Still relevant, but not exactly top tier.
Sure we can have SC remastered and it's totally fine, but if we ask for legacy servers for wow we need to stop living in the past and move on, right?
For starcraft remastered you need a couple new textures and you can call it a day. For wow legacy servers you need 10-15 years of backwards compatibility. About the same difficulty really
if people can do it on a private server so can blizzard, there are thousand's that play on private servers because they don't like how blizzard made the game to casual.
Those are two completely different concepts. With Starcraft Remastered, Blizzard did nothing except update the graphics and interface. Otherwise, the underlying mechanics are exactly the same as the last version that was developed. What people are asking for with Legacy servers is for Blizzard to host an old version of a game that's currently in production/development.
+Gamerfreak88 private servers aren't perfect, they have bugs and inaccuracies, and even still, they're built on open source server code which has been developed through thousands and thousands of volunteer man-hours and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, over years of development. In Blizzard terms thats big bux, maintaining multiple code infrastructures, etc. It's not likely for them.
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i smell a comeback for the original starcraft esports scene to break out
can someone plz tell me the minimum requirements to see if my PC can run this game? I'm not sure if it can.
Intel 4004 740 kHz or AMD Am29000-25GC
Voodoo1 4 MB vram
4-8mb ram
and atleast 10gb hard drive
You needed a potato in starcraft. Now you need 2! That's expensive
Can't you just buy a fresh potato from your local grocery store?
Yours fans are waiting for Diablo 1 and 2 Remastered! :)
Calm down, thats my favourite too! :) I've recently played with Diablo 1 Belzebub mod (fullHD), you should try it too. You can find installation instructions on my channel if you wish to do so.
Dyingsoul I don't want it in HD, the old version is just fine.
Dude, you can use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. :D Nvm I don't want to convince you, you don't even listen...
@Jesus Christ Nobody cares what you want.
I'm buying starcraft remastered and I won't even play it. I hate starcraft but if they see it sell well they will definitely remaster D1 and D2 so lets pray
I'm just excited to see players back on SC. nobody is ever online these days.
The biggest question is... Did they update Dragoon pathfinding?
Omg yess, the suffering...
Yeah, that really does bring up some memories. Like, "wait, my units are under attack... WTF is it doing THERE?! It supposedly was on patrol, but now is on the other side of the map!" And yes, I suck at RTS games, but still love them.
They said they untouched the engine. And yes, that means Reaver's bomb will get stuck in mineral field in this Remake.
Please, remaster. Not a remake. Not even close.
No they didn't.
Thank God.
I mean it's better than nothing, but honestly the difference in quality is tiny.
tgo007 1 year later
Just downloaded this!
But... Starcraft can still be played on a 64-bit OS. You know what can't be? Warcraft 1 and 2. Where's their remasters?
It's about profit, not necessity. Brood War still has a large active community on US East and Asia (and maybe Europe, idk), and it's still sold by Blizzard on their site. The only reason for this remastered version is that the Brood War fanbase is big enough to generate demand for it. WC1 and 2 don't have that.
They aren't going to invest money into a project that won't give them a generous return.
You may or may not have heard of it, but... DosBox. Look it up, you'll thank me later.
Krista L
I am from Europe and still playing it. Playing is US East tho because Europe servers are empty.
HydroGlobus the point is that I shouldn't need DosBox to play. Especially now that Blizz are entering the "remaster" market.
Krista L They'd make a really good profit actually if they remastered WC 1 and 2.
Yeah, I get it, I was trying to help you out there. As for your War1-2 comment, you are absolutely right, and not only would that profit come from the sales themselves, but I suspect there would be a lot of returning players to WoW as well. The early games are chock-full of interesting lore places and names.
SC:BW >>>>>>>>>> SC2 !
I really hope SC:BW R will be the same.
I'd really love to see the HD version of the Nuclear Bomb.
Hope the deep learning AI is coming together.
I would pay $500 for an rts Warcraft 4. Blizzard.
especially if it has esports potential
$550 here. No joke. RTS WC4 Blizzard MAKE IT HAPPEN ASAP
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Kevin Carpenter I'd even settle for war 3 remastered.
No, the hero units are the reason why I love wc3 so much. It gave gameplay a new twist.
I hope they fix the Valkyrie bullshit that was in broodwar that caused the unit not to be functional on large maps with 8 players.
I can't be the only one waiting for turret defense maps , cat and mouse!!!!!
All the old UMS maps should still work with it. They're only changing the art assets and netcode.
Cat and Mouse
NO I DIDN'T SEE THIS COMING OMG WTF YASS!!!!!!
Ah, before the "every villain is just corrupted" story arcs that Blizzard has come to love.
Lan Gameplay
TAKE THAT AOE 2 HD!