SC: RM Feedback/Inconsistencies Mega-Thread

[TheEconomist]

Are we getting the menu where there's a satellite, and carriers fighting?

We got damn better!

[Undeadprotoss]

Now, the splash screens are pretty much just standard landscape shots (although sometimes beautiful) or some action shot that just doesn't do it for me.

Long live creativity under restraints!

Now that I started thinking about it, I really think that the "creativity under restraint" mentality also came out in how the units were developed. The Drone/Hydralisk Den have all these weird patterns on their skin, as do a lot of the zerg buildings/units, which are removed or smoothed over in the remaster. I think stuff like that adds an important realism to the Zerg and the other races. They look like what Zerg, Protoss, or Terrans would look like if they actually existed (with all liberties with reality of the lore intact) if we were studying them in some futuristic anthropology class.

That might be looking WAY too into it, but I don't know, I think especially back then, when they didn't intend for SC1 to be played competitvely or anything near that, they took every tiny opportunity to bring the lore into the game via graphics and that clearly shows.

It's especially important to keep those subtle hints that the Zerg are sentient and have a self-actualizing purpose, to be genetically perfect and consume the Protoss.

[Undeadprotoss]

NEW UNIT PORTRAITS AVAILABLE:

https:/facebook.com/StarCraft/

The Dark Archon WEARS A HOOD, what?? I used to always just assume that the black space to he right of his face was empty space and he was bald or something.

[Gradius]

NEW UNIT PORTRAITS AVAILABLE:

https://m.facebook.com/StarCraft/

The Dark Archon WEARS A HOOD, what?? I used to always just assume that the black space to he right of his face was empty space and he was bald or something.

I mean yeah. You can tell his face is inside of it.

[Undeadprotoss]

I mean yeah. You can tell his face is inside of it.

I just assumed the black space to the right was just that: black space. So I never had any reason to consider if he was something other than some baldy, his new stature looks more badass now though.

[sandwich_bird]

I mean yeah. You can tell his face is inside of it.

man...that forever changes my perception of it. What I saw:



But I see the hood now. Wow....

[Gradius]

Wow that's crazy. That's kind of how I viewed the dragoon and Fenix dragoon. My perception of them was skewed for years.

[TheEconomist]

Haha, wow, seems like everyone had atleast one unit portrait they really misunderstood. Who would have thought that hardcore fans like us with (I'm sure) thousands of hours, would have this problem?

Also, LOL



I anticipate this to be the fate of the StarCraft fandom in the future.

[Robear]

The thing that's interesting to me is that the Guardian portrait this week is different than the one in the reveal last week. It's good to know that they're still iterating on things and that some things may be slightly improved, although I personally don't care for the change to red on the guardian mouth parts. Last week the colors were more like the original:



I doubt they'll be adding team colors to the portraits, but I guess they could.

[TheEconomist]

Still not sure how I feel about static artwork for portraits instead of the pixely, animated gobbled mess that I love so much.