Remastered Release Date Announced.

[Undeadprotoss]

So StarCraft Remastered will release on August 15th, and you can pre-purchase it right now at starcraft.com

It's been quite a short-whileish ride! What do you guys think? Is the game ready and faithful enough or what?

[Visions of Khas]

This all reminds me of a WarCraft panel some years ago. A fan asked of there would ever be support for a legacy/WoW vanilla server, and the Blizz Guy said, "You only THINK that's what you want, but it's not."

Way to eat your words, Blizzard.

[TheEconomist]

I remember that. I don't think that's as bad as Jay Wilson basically saying that no one played Diablo 2 PvP (literally everyone did) and they wouldn't bother implementing it even though it takes no effort.

August 15 is great. And, for once, I don't have classes starting almost immediately after a StarCraft release so I can actually enjoy this. Can't wait to play all those old melee maps with good MMR, and all those nostalgic, primitive-but-somehow-better-than-sc2 UMS.

[KaiserStratosTygo]

"and all those nostalgic, primitive-but-somehow-better-than-sc2 UMS."

Because SC2's arcade sucked, the editor is too hard to use and the core gameplay is inferior

but yeah, there's a couple of issues I have with the remaster but if it stays 15 bucks on release, I can easily accept them.

[Visions of Khas]

God. The Antioch Chronicles were the best.

I'm trying to learn the Editor right now, and it hurts. Gone are the days of, "If player N brings X units, issue Order Y." Instead, you have to do this stupid nested functions workaround to make things work. Ugh.

[Robear]

So StarCraft Remastered will release on August 15th, and you can pre-purchase it right now at starcraft.com

It's been quite a short-whileish ride! What do you guys think? Is the game ready and faithful enough or what?

Honestly, as critical as I can be (and I can be extremely critical, of all the minutiae, believe me), the overall product looks and plays just like Starcraft, in widescreen, running on modern systems. That's basically all I could have ever asked or hoped for. My least favorite thing about it is that I didn't get to work on it. :P

Not gonna preorder but I'll probably buy it, curious to see what they did with the campaign...

[Gradius]

God. The Antioch Chronicles were the best.

I'm trying to learn the Editor right now, and it hurts. Gone are the days of, "If player N brings X units, issue Order Y." Instead, you have to do this stupid nested functions workaround to make things work. Ugh.
Man, if I ever make another campaign again or finish Origins, I'm doing it in remastered, just for the time saving functionality. This isn't my job and I can't afford to spend dozens of hours on one map, meticulously painting textures on terrain, creating data for new units, kitbashing 3d models, etc.

Blizzard even said they have little interest in working on the editor because there's already so many of us cranking out content and are basically working for them for free.

[Visions of Khas]

Man, if I ever make another campaign again or finish Origins, I'm doing it in remastered
Oh, you're going to finish Origins, and you're going to LIKE IT! *cracks whip*

I really enjoy the terraining process. As an artist, I live to meticulously paint textures. As for the data and trigger aspects, it all started out as a puzzle for me to solve. Over time, it became a war, with the main goal of not letting the bastard have the last laugh.

[sandwich_bird]

No hate on the pre-order skins? I'm disappointed. Idk, maybe it's just me but they look like some intern just applied a bunch of photoshop art filter on the originals... But, this made me think: if they're willing to add new skins, maybe they added skins in the campaign for hero units? I'm down for that.

[Visions of Khas]

Yeah I ain't too crazy about this either.

https://res.cloudinary.com/pvplive/image/upload/fl_lossy,f_auto/article_images/scremasteredskins.PNG

[Robear]

Oh yeah I don't like those at all lol, and I wouldn't be surprised if they added more. But they won't disturb my campaign, UMS and vs ai experience.

[Undeadprotoss]

Yeah I ain't too crazy about this either.

https://res.cloudinary.com/pvplive/image/upload/fl_lossy,f_auto/article_images/scremasteredskins.PNG

I give a lot more liberity with that stuff becuase it's kind of tounge in cheek. You get some "bling" for buying it early, and it's kind of funny/show off for an opponen to see that in a match.

[TheEconomist]

The beginning of DLC skins for outrageous prices? Oh my.