Comes out today No thread about it. Did you pre order my goyims

>>387089529
no

>>387089529
no

>>387089529
no, it's just a texture pack it's not even a game

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>>387089859
>tfw just preordered it

>>387089529
>requires base game (which is free)
>literally the only thing it does it enable an hd option in the settings menu (you can already see it greyed out in the free game)
who the fuck cares

Yeah, I've wanted to replay the campaigns for a while, $15bux to replay them with new grafix is worth it alone for me

>>387089529
New blizzard truly are the most disgusting gold diggers in the industry. I'm surprised they didn't add lootboxes to the remastered version

game play?

No, why the fuck would I give ActiBlizz money? I think I'll replay SC+BW and remember how good Blizzard used to be though.

>>387090648
>I'm surprised they didn't add lootboxes to the remastered version

Just wait. They're already offering bonus skins for the Command Center, Nexus, and Hive if you preorder. The cosmetics are coming

>>387089529
Eurofag here, it comes out in 16 hours right?

>>387090975
they said on the 14th, is that korea time?

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>>387090781
it's exactly the same. starcraft remastered is a graphical patch, not a game. the game is free already. this is the only difference.

>>387089529
>Giving Blizzard money
No, they have to earn their money Anon. They'll probably break Brood War anyway by trying to balance things out, thus turning it in to the snoozefest that was SC2 esports

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>>387089859
>it's just a texture pack

>every piece of terrain, unit and UI portrait has been re-modeled, textured and rendered from scratch at much higher resolution

Blizz is a shitscum company and has been for years, but the team that worked on this is probably their best department at the moment. Compared to other awful remasters from the last few years, (Silent Hill and FFX were like $40 and they looked worse than the PS2 versions) 15 bucks is pretty fucking cheap.

>>387091064
Thought it was 10AM west coast time, (PTSD??).
Think it translates to 7pm here in middle of yorup.

>>387091289
they deliberately have not touched an inch of the gameplay. Fuck, they even wanted to add in rebindable hotkeys but the koreans thought it would change the race balance so they had to take it back out. There were even people complaining about them fixing the valkyrie sprite bug because they thought it might make them overpowered if they worked as intended.

>>387091180
is the zoom exclusive to the remaster?

>>387091321
yeah, it's 10:00 (GMT-7)

1st day pirate

>>387091294
still looks like shit

>>387091294
>15 bucks is pretty fucking cheap

It's still 15 bucks Neoblizz doesn't deserve. I'll just watch ASL and enjoy the new graphics there.

>>387091417
Rightly so, Blizzard can't be trusted to balance games anymore. I'm glad the Koreans threw their rice and dog meat in to the air.

>>387091294
that looks awful

I did. regret nothing. I still play SC and WC3 all the time.

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>>387091064
I heard it was 10am US time on monday it was going to come out. Who knows what time everywhere else.

Anybody else gonna watch the launch event? They wheeled out a shit ton of old non-korean pros like Draco, White-Ra, incontrol, G5 and others. Artosis is playing as well, plus casting with tasteless and Day9. Gonna be fun to watch them dick about since they'll be rusty as fuck.

Brood War was and always will be a shameful cash grab.

>>387091294
wait THATS the remaster? I still looks like shit except with cleaner menus

>>387091803
t. Someone that never watched Jaedong v Flash matches.

>>387091727
theres a launch event?

Warcraft 3 remastered when?

>>387091417
Incorrect, they temporarily took out custom hotkeys because they had to fix a bug involving them

>>387091727

TITTY SAMBOOOOO

>>387091294
it fucking looks like a smooth filter. fucking lazy as fuck.

>>387091532
Sweet, should be out when i get home from work.
Thanks.

>>387091953
Okay, I'm worried again now.

>>387091803
Well, yes, many people liked Starcraft, so they wanted to GRAB more of their CASH by adding a new campaign and units to use in said campaign

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>>387091951
>Mfw imagining War3 with the dogshit new Blizzard artstyle

>>387091937
Yeah, there's a StarCraft 2 tournament.

>>387091626
I haven't given Blizzard money since I made the mistake of buying Diablo 3 on launch, playing for ten hours and snapping the disk. But I'm hoping that if enough people buy this they'll go ahead and do the same for Diablo 2 and WC3.

I don't really give a shit about the graphics in the remaster, the old ones were fine. What I do want is a fresh injection of new players at my skill level to play with that only a release like this brings. So I'll take the hit.

>>387091294
old one looks better

MY WIFE

>>387091294
that looks worse what the fuck

>>387092092
Only race I dont like the look of the in remaster is teh zerg.

they look too cartoonish particularly their buildings

>>387091937
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/525647-starcraft-remastered-launch-event

It's similar to the one they had in korea the other week, just over 2 days and it'll be white dudes playing. and it'll be a bit more like a big LAN party with tastosis and day9 casting the matches.

>>387089529
How much is it? 2? 5 dollars?

Reminder: Warcraft II > Warcraft I > Warcraft III

>>387092085
>But I'm hoping that if enough people buy this they'll go ahead and do the same for Diablo 2 and WC3.

The graphics don't matter in either of those games. Stop enabling lazy cashgrabs like this.

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>>387092000
No, it's definitely not. Maybe they look similar zoomed out, but now you can zoom in as close as you want on the units/terrain and see that they've been remade from scratch. This is a lot of shit but it's not a lazy remaster.

>>387092070
Glad I'm not the only one that's worried. I'm not sure what they're huffing at Blizz HQ but it concerns when Arthas and Uther look like Manly Tears' manlet dwarf brother on steroids.

>>387091294
Are custom maps that are supposed to draw an image on the minimap gonna be fucked up with the HD minimap?

>>387091294
Which one is the remaster and which one is the original?

>>387092308
did you even read my post?

>I don't really give a shit about the graphics in the remaster, the old ones were fine. What I do want is a fresh injection of new players at my skill level to play with that only a release like this brings. So I'll take the hit.

>>387091294
They absolutely didn't remodel anything other than some character portraits, everything else is just redrawn over the old sprites.
And it even looks worse than the original in some cases

>>387092283
Huh, do you really like WC1? How do you feel about the balance between orc spearmen and human archers?

>>387092484
muh strip tds

>>387091972
LUON CRYSTAL

>>387090648
>I'm surprised they didn't add lootboxes to the remastered version
yet

>>387091180
>>387091294
wait did they actually just add in the old 3d models the sprites were originally made from? All of that looks like 20 year old assets.
This is a new low

>>387092174
>>387092092
>>387091849
>>387091687
>>387091609

I don't know what you guys want. It's exactly the same shit but at a higher resolution and with a few more details where you couldn't make it out in the original. A couple of colours are slightly different. Apart from that it's identical. maybe only reason brood war graphics look better to you is because a. your imagination fills in the gaps with the low resolution and b. you're used to the old graphics

>>387092665
look at
>>387092406
and tell me that's not remodeled from scratch. If you think that's just a paint over you need to get your eyes checked.

>>387093098
If you work for Blizzard please, PLEASE. tell Sam he needs to go back to his old style. I really miss his old stuff, his WC2/3 manual art is fucking great.

Fuck this stupid fucking cash grab.

The original graphics did not need changing, they literally worked on this for 1 month and are now charging money for what should be a free game.

The preorder skins are also another example of corprate greed.

The portraits are not even 3D, and in some cases drawn much worse - typical of the new Blizzard artstyle.

All this false hype and shilling does activision have any shame?

>>387093206
The sprites were nothing more than images of 3d models, and it looks to me like they just dug up those models and put them in the game, with a few exceptions.

>>387093098
>It's exactly the same shit but at a higher resolution and with a few more details where you couldn't make it out in the original
it's not the same shit, just give me the original assets with widescreen.

>>387093095
no, they didn't have a copy of any of the original models. Blizzard never keeps that shit for some dumbass reason. They modeled them from the ground up using the original sprites for reference/talking to the original 3d artists for the game to see what some of the details were that were difficult to see in the low-res

What a disappointment, I expected the in game models to actually look good. Not trash like what we've seen.

All they did was bust out the higher resolution sprites they had stored, but couldn't implement (due to PC constraints back in 1998).. And they expect people to actually PAY for it?

>>387093441
didn't someone fairly recently dig up a copy of the gold source code for star craft and then give it to blizzard for good boy points instead of releasing it to the public so people could actually do something with it?
That disc may have had development models on it.

>>387093095
I agree. At least SC2 tried to do something different and had effort put into models. This new abortion, like the diablo 3 necromancer is a CASH GRAB, and shouldn't be supported in any way shape or form.

All they did was up the resolution and charge 15 dollars for the hack job. Hacks.

>>387093441
and as a result their cancerous influence will be apparent throughout

>>387093604
nothing was on that disc that can't be datamined/reverse engineered from your everyday retail copy

>>387093098
>it's exactly the same but different

>>387089529
Community is cancer so there's no reason to buy it

I'll just enjoy HD korea time

>>387093415
you can see clearly that that is not the same model. Look at the legs and the head, parts of it look slightly different.

>>387093340
jesus christ, what weapons-grade level of autism do you suffer from? nothing would ever make you happy.

>make the original game free
>re-do all the art so it's supported at 4k
>let people crossplay between the original version and the new version

>worked on this for a month
you have never worked on anything in your life if you think this is possible in a month.

I'll agree with you on that some of the portraits look way too SC2 for my tastes, especially the protoss. I don't know why they couldn't just replicate the old ones. Other ones are spot-fucking on, like the wraith or the goliath.

>>387093768
I don't think you know how source code works. It's typically infinitely more easy to work with than a decompiled program. And it may have had more than just the code. It would make sense for their gold source disc to have all the development assets since it wasn't just a compiled gold copy, it was the actual source.

I thought it came out next week.
how many hours from now until it releases?

>>387093907

>jesus christ, what weapons-grade level of autism do you suffer from?

Not him but you're taking this very seriously. People are going to shit on a remaster like this because that's just what /v/ does. Go grab a hotdog or something.

>>387093978
okay, so it's easier to work with. That might matter for something if it was 2003 and people were still finding out new things about the game

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>>387093806
durr what is hyperbole

I'm saying that for almost all of it they've followed the original art almost 1:1, not just changed shit out of the blue like other remasters: see image

>>387093978
as far as I know that guy only gave the disc back when they were already 3/4 through development.

>>387093415
>and it looks to me like they just dug up those models and put them in the game, with a few exceptions.

Well they didn't. Which is the achievement here. They reproduced the original assets as closely as possible which is way harder and more time consuming than just making something new. It's more of a preservation of brood war than a face lift. All the sprites had to be almost identical because players would be extremely sensitive to any changes.

>>387094228
It would matter a lot if people wanted to update starcraft to be playable with widescreen and modern resolutions themselves for free.

>>387094268
>change something a tiny bit
>REEE WHY DID YOU CHANGE IT?
>remain faithful to the original artstyle
>REEE IS THE EXACT SAME

>>387093340
>The portraits are not even 3D

Yes they are. It's just the textures are the concept art projected onto the model so it looks 2D sometimes.

>>387094164
I'd go get a snag-in-a-bun from bunnings but they ain't open yet.

I only really come on here for the korea time threads anyway, I guess I've forgotten how recalcitrant /v/ is. I guess if they packaged it with free anime tiddies people'd be climbing over eachother to pre-order.

>>387094164
>>387094619
To be fair I can understand where they're coming from, I'm legitimately dreading how bad WC3 remastered will look. I feel like blizzards new artists are trying to make their mark, rather than respect the art and its original style.

>>387089529
I bought it. I'm probably not gonna play it, but I hope this sends a message for WC3.

>>387095173
Yeah, that has the potential to look awful if they go full nu-blizz art on it.

I dunno, maybe WC3 was never as close to my heart but I don't see as huge a difference between say, WC3 and HOTS as I do between SC1 and SC2, and definitely not D1/2 and 3. Maybe a bit shinier and more in places cartoony but still the same goofy style. I dunno, I would have to re-look at them to compare.

>>387089529
fuck blizzard.

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>>387095448
>>387095173
didn't blizzard already redo all the WC3 hero models for SC2? I dunno, but this looks alright to me. could be better, but could be a lot worse. I wouldn't mind if the remaster looked like this.

>>387095448
The models have always been exaggerated but with HotS they take it a step too far. As someone mentioned earlier. >>387092439 I think some of the models look okay but it feels like they've added way to much bloom, taken away what grittiness there was and turned every other character in to a stunt double for gigganigga.

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>>387095675
hm, some of the other ones don't look so good.

why did they made the blademaster so hueg, he went from ripped samurai to roided beefcake. Same with cairne.

>>387095675
I was under the impression these were from those russian guys who were doing WC3 HD. The HotS models look -way-, -way- different.

>>387095906
Yeah, thats what I'm getting at. The models are all 2x the size they were before.

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>>387095935
nah, these were from blizzard, I think. The russian guys are using them as far as I know for their WC3 remake.

>>387096096
They're not bad but I just feel like they've gone a notch too far, things are a little too beefy. It was over the top before.

>>387092110
FOR HIRE

>>387092406
I like the old sprite more. It just fits together better. The new version has this weird gloss and segmentation and elongation to it

>>387097670
I think the segmentation fits for the nature of lurkers and their attacks.

>>387097953
What do you mean? It's the blue blobby joints that bother me, and something about those spikes. I also like the shorter stubbier face way better. Maybe it's just my distaste for SC2 skewing my perception.

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>>387089529
Ye i pre-ordered. the skins are so sexy i just couldn't resist

when is it available to play?

>>387091294
What if they made a Start Craft 2 that doesn't feel like it was crafted by a fanfiction.net author and a bunch of monkeys with keyboards tied to their wrists.

>>387098287
cancer

When is the ASL and SSL classic starting up again? Weren't they waiting for this to come out?

I'd much rather have a remastered WC3

>>387091972
I miss those days.

im still waiting for diablo 2 remastered

>>387089529
I completely forgot about it. I don't see it on the Battle.net app.

>>387098509
what?

>>387098520
anon in another thread said ASL was starting start of september but I don't know if he was talking out his ass cause I can't find a source. SSL, who knows.

>>387098203
I don't think anyone (me included) that grew up with Brood War will ever be able to stomach SC2. Honestly, even if the models only slightly resemble the new art style it ruins it. Blizzards new artists just seem to love to fuck with other peoples work.

>>387094268

That remaster was made by chinks and gooks from virtuos games. They also worked on FF12

>>387100258
>Blizzards new artists just seem to love to fuck with other peoples work.
Maybe it's just their corporate overlords forcing them to do it. Or maybe it's their own desire to validate their artstyle that was rejected in D3 and SC2 by injecting it into everything (kinda like George Lucas fucking with the original remasters after shit like Jar Jar Binks was so poorly received).

Probably a bit of both. I wonder what made Metzen leave in the end, since his work was deeply corrupted.

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>The Overmind was a good guy all along, Kerrigan gets un-infested and then re-infests herself and then the Protoss circumcise themselves and Kerrigan becomes God

I don't want to hear complaining about JRPG stories being silly anymore

>>387101112
I couldn't comment on Metzen but if WoW's lore is anything to go by he got to big for his boots and no one had the nads tell him off. Though Dave Kosak is responsible for Cataclysms questing and all the zany shit apparently. According to this podcast he was having really serious panic attacks constantly, he didn't like how corporate blizzard had become and generally speaking it was driving him crazy. I wouldn't be surprised if its a bit of both, like with modern WH40K they've tried to gone for art styles and model designs they think will attract a broader audience. (Also why they dumbed the lore down, got rid of Slaanesh from what I read etc)

>>387092218
>no idra
>no nony
too bad

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>>387089529
WILL SOMEONE POST NEW 4K QT DROPSHIP GIRL ALREADY!?

>>387101957
She came out unscathed compared to poor medic-chan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEv1ouftYIg

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>>387091294
It looks nice, but I am so fucking sick of remasters, reboots, rehashes, etc. This isnt a new game in any way, most have already played the original multiple times over.

Come up with some new fucking ideas your lazy faggots. You fuckers always fail to live up to the originals anyway just try something new.

>>387101860
apparently idra was asked to come but he's apparently done with esportz now and forever, he's moved on with his life like a lil bitch.

I'm excited to see sum white-ra special tactix tho

>>387102986
>moved on with his life

He spent his life out of high school slaving in CJ Entus house and then doing SC2, what has he 'moved on' to?

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>>387101957
new valk is where it's at my friend, dropship girl does and will always look like a dude

>>387103160
i dunno, his words. I have no idea what he's up to these days but I don't think anybody gives a shit.

Is it already released? Was just about to buy it for the skins.

>>387098287
so when you are playing online people see these on your base? or just for personal satisfaction of being loyal?

>>387103495
presumably only people on remastered versions will see them, and somebody said there was an option to hide them. people playing on normal starcraft won't see jack.

>>387103634
man what's even the point if i can't force them to acknowledge my blind dedication to blizzard with a gold command center

>>387099807
you went against the /v/ hivemind, so that means you're "cancer"
you wont get e-cred from your fellow anons like this you know

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>>387089529
It's 8/15, neither today nor tomorrow

>>387090117
holy shit the jewness of actiblizzard knows no boundaries

>>387091294

Did they remake all the single player cutscenes in a modern graphics engine? Because if they didn't remaster everything in SP I don't care about going back to SC1. I'm not interested in getting curbstomped by gooks online, but I'd come back for a fully remastered SP experience.

>>387102112
Is that a lip piercing

>>387106074
Wait, no it isn't. The thumbnail made it look like she had one, but it was a spark from that animation of the ship shaking

>>387106052
I believe they've completely remade the cutscenes and either added new ones or at least some new interstitial story scenes.

>>387106052
Remade them "Comic book" style.

TL says it's not launching for 16 hours from now

>>387089529
no, I don't like RTS anymore

>>387109112
i read its 10 am pacific

>>387096096
>Strenght

> tfw preordered it
At least it was 10 bucks because third world. I'll certainly enjoy playing the campaigns again and hopefully some custom games if the community bothers with the game