The original starcraft along with the brood war expansion is now free

the original starcraft along with the brood war expansion is now free

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Oh boy! I can't wait to mine for minerals and wait to be zerg rushed before i can make my army!

I'd rather be playing Company of Heroes

Lol I'm not playing your shitty games even if they are free grandpa.

Kill yourself!

It's fun and I'm enjoying it again. The first terran campaign with its music is comfy as fuck.

"Shitty games"

Let's hear your definition of a good game you motherless faggot.

gookclick is the greatest genre ever

Looking forward to that shit. Now let's hope they let you select more than 12 units and I'm set.

They're not.
So I guess you're not set.

Where has that been confirmed?

ive no sources but day9 said it so chances are its true

teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/520464-an-interview-with-the-devs-of-starcraft-remastered

anybody know if theyre going to revamp the campaign editor ?

They don't want to change the core gameplay, they're in cahoots with the Korean professional scene so they're not going to do anything too drastic.
They're going to fix some historical bugs about the Valkyrie and another unit I don't remember and maybe add custom keybinds but that's it.
I'm not going to link you a source because I'm lazy but i'm not bullshitting you.

They're not even fixing the Valkyrie bug anymore. They're changing absolutely nothing but the graphics

I guess I can't really complain, it makes sense that they don't want to change the core gameplay but frankly this is the one exception I would be more than okay with.

are they going to fix the muta stackign cancer ?

Why would they?
Nothing's being added to the game, just new graphics.

We know you autistic horsefucking retard

You weren't even BORN when this game came out

Meh

i meant expanding the possibilities of what you can do with it. its pretty limited right now

Changing the 12 unit selection would be such a massive change to the competitive gameplay that they don't dare risk it. The balance of the game which has been worked on by map makers for 19 years would be completely thrown off.

> Let's you know that the best RTS ever made is now free
> Calls you an autistic horsefucking retard
Yet, for some strange reason, I feel enamored of you user.

I highly doubt it.
But you never know.

Not a chance.

honestly you get re-used to it very very quickly

by the way the 12 units per group was a choice made by the developer not something they were forced to do because its old

They explicitly said so, I'm assuming there's going to be another patch when the Remastered version releases to keep it fully compatible.

I am sick of you kids trying to get into what was cool when you weren't alive

dude im 31 years old ive no idea what the fuck youre talking about. its not summer yet can you go away and bring your aids in 2 months

I tried this. Quite liked SC2 for all its faults but this shit right here is unplayable to me. The default hotkey to make a Marine is M. Fucking M. You need to take your hand off the mouse to hit fucking M. I saw no way to rebind it natively and my google attempts only brought up TL threads for dead programs (WC3 required a simple text file change). So until they fix that I won't be playing. M. What were they thinking.

had my fun with this game 15 years ago. campaing is great. gonna steal remaster to play it again. i'm not that autistic to play this game outside LAN
>play lan with bros
>have fun against equal or close skill opponents , banter, people watch you play and give advice
>starcraft online
>cheese central, autistic spergs and 400 apm gooks without soul
lol no let this fucking game die.

>The default hotkey to make a Marine is M. Fucking M. You need to take your hand off the mouse to hit fucking M.
Or move your left hand a few inches? They will probably be adding hotkey rebinding for remastered though so your delicate princess hands can handle it.

I was born in '92, I was a fucking legit little 6 year old playing this game when most faggots were playing Crash Bandicoot.

SC2 autism has tainted the memory of this amazing game. There's a reason it's still one of the top played games in net cafes, boys... mostly because Koreans are born autistic, but also because it's a good game. SC2 is more refined, but so is Diablo 3, does that mean D3 is better than D2? Sometimes, lack of refinement is what makes a game endearing.

You could just set custom keybinds for your keyboard like SC players have done for literally years

>You need to take your hand off the mouse to hit fucking M
dont you have 2 hands ?

>lying on the internet

what the fuck is the point? maybe you should try getting a job

>Haha let's remove the 12 unit restriction and let Zerg players micro hundreds of lings and scourge haha, oh and make the muta deathball even more deadly lmao!

fuck off kid

@374718090
piss off (you) gatherer

is this free anyway ? prob not

Lol the fucking morons in this thread. I'm sorry you're an underage faggot that his absolutely shit taste and guzzles the trash disney games shoved down your throat, but don't spout off about shit you clearly don't understand.

SC and Brood War are fucking legendary. Kys.

Cool, where can I subscribe to your blog?

>beg for 13+ selection
>muta micro one shots turrets and every unit
>flock runs in and one shots your starport

Aint a problem in SC2. SC2 mutas even have crazy regen.

yep

bw is the chess of video games. one of the most important and best game of all time

because SC2 is balanced around infinite unit selection, BW isnt

>"""free"""

so it doesn't really interest me, i'm not autistic enough to be able to play with keybind and dumb sc2 shit. SC1 is a near perfect game and I eve prefer its big wobbly pixels over the "HD" versions of the sprites which destroy the actual game's aesthetic.

>They're not even fixing the Valkyrie bug anymore
Why? It's not gotta fuck up the meta

>@

Just kill yourself kid

The reason this is being remastered is a pretty simple one and it's South Korea. SC2 despite uninformed belief to the latter did not take off in South Korea with the fans, despite most of the pro-scene switching over (more-so because they had no real choice, that was where the money was, that was where the tournaments were and Broodwar had taken a lot of damage from the SAviOr match-fixing scandal that scared off a lot of sponsors). Brood War continued to be a more popular game in PC Bangs than SC2 by a large margin (mostly due to UMS and the Fish server), efforts to convert fans to watching SC2 were for the most part a failure, even with brief spikes of interest when Broodwar stars like Flash and Jaedong switched. They have since gone back to Broodwar and recent Broodwar tournaments have had massive spikes in viewership on Afreeca (South Korean streaming service) and at times are eclipsing Starcraft 2 events even without much viewership in non-Korean countries. There's basically no hope of ever getting Korea to accept SC2. Starcraft Remastered is the answer to that, giving South Korea exactly what they've been asking for over a decade and putting in the necessary features and support to encourage large-scale Broodwar competition in South Korea again. In short, it's not made for us. It's made for them. If we buy it (and some will) then great, but that's not their concern. South Korea will buy it. Any changes made to the game that in any way affected the way it is played or its balance would not be tolerated. People who want modern changes such as UI improvements, unlimited groups, multi-building hotkeys, auto-rallying workers, then go and play Starcraft 2. Anyone complaining about the way this remaster is being done has fundamentally misunderstood what and who it's for. Blizzard wants South Korea back, they want Starcraft to be loved over there again and this is the only way they can make that happen.

Is that why Diablo II and Warcraft III are also getting remastered? Because the remastering effort covers all three games, not just Starcraft.

Seriously, when did people start hating SC1? Game was fucking legendary until SC2 and moba spergs got involved.

>Is that why Diablo II and Warcraft III are also getting remastered?
link ?

i actually am interested in the Diablo one because I think it's the only one who didn't aged well.

People who never played it
As per usual Sup Forums is nice and classy

what does "chess of video games" even mean

wccftech.com/blizzard-hd-remaster-starcraft-warcraft-iii-diablo-ii/
Old news.

It's just newfag/edgy poltards contrarians who never played the game and are only here to be angry at things, don't even read their posts, it's unnecessary.

Lol is that fucking David Doak?

BW was always hated by a subset of RTS players that consider it mindless gookclick.

I think the hate start coming in after Korea time stopped. It's just a few trolls so not a bother.

sc1 made gookclick synonym to rts and genre died shortly
because no one wants to complete in clicking. we had counter strike for that

>genre died shortly
BW survived to this day.
Perhaps all the other RTS games were just shit.

funny how v complains about lol being casual shit and call bw ''gookclick''

nice meme

Warcraft 3 didn't age well man.

>he thinks SC and even SC2 are easier or as hard as LoL
kek, lol is normie-tier trash get out faggot.
Assfaggots =/= RTS

yeah but old Isometric RTS aged better than old Isometric Diablo/Diablo-like and Baldur's gate-like game IMO

As in beer.

the fuck are you talking about i never said that

i said its funny how v call lol a casual game and cry about an actual competitive game being too hard for 1000 reasons

because SC is inherently harder to learn and master than LoL

i know... sigh

all im saying is v whines no matter what.

Cool but I don't get why I would play that antiquated piece of crap.

It's so disappointing too, Blizzard had a chance to really bring back Starcraft after they fucked up the management of SCII's esports scene, but they decided to go the safe route instead.

>is now free

well... aren't you thankful?

>Fire this fucker up.
>Join a random game.
> set network for extra high latency
>kek forgot about that
>having difficulty moving around the map
>when I was deep into this game I only used my Dell™ mouse on my Dell™ mousepad
>sliding all over
>f-fuck
>missing my supply depot wall locations
>dropships getting shot down everywhere
>for some reason I thought set rally point on minerals would have SCV's automatically harvest is that not how it works?
>economy is far behind
>"dude what the fuck are you doing"
>*sweatyman*

PTSD

If they had followed your advice this remaster would be dead before arrival.

And what would you have done differently?

I had forgotten how ass only being able to control 12 units at a time was.

On the bright side, it reminded me what a well balanced game plays like.

Blizz did everything they could for the SC2 esports scene besides actually make the game that interesting to watch. Starcraft with unlimited unit selection was inevitably going to lead to 2 deathballs clashing and deciding the game right there. SC2 was fucked from day 1. It's gotten better since then and LotV is actually watchable but SC2 in 2010 was just an unfinished, half baked product with design mistakes that haven't been fixed to this day

>for some reason I thought set rally point on minerals would have SCV's automatically harvest is that not how it works?
Ya in SC2 lol

>play with keybind and dumb sc2 shit
I'm sorry being able to do change keybinds is to autistic for you, user.

so it's another case of a game being to hard so you just call good players autistic and don't play unless it's against your shitty friends.

Well first I get that why they're doing this instead of a third game is because they really screwed up SCII's artstyle, and they want to gain back the South Korean audience (and also they screwed themselves with the story).

I definitely would have updated the gameplay to more modern standards though. Things like controlling more than 12 units are a must and there's no real excuse to not having it in the game now that the RTS genre has basically been perfected. I do get that some strategies would become overpowered (like the above-mentioned Mutalisk spam), but the game could easily be rebalanced too. It's not like the gameplay designers are the guys doing the graphics update, so it wouldn't necessarily delay the remaster. Really, gameplay that is balanced around clearly arbitrary restrictions is not good design. A couple more units per faction would be good too.

Then there's stuff like the UI. God that UI. Don't tell me you actually need all the unit command buttons on the bottom-right part of the screen, anyone decent uses the hotkeys and thus they could easily add a minimal UI option. It does look nice but a minimal UI could look nice too, and esthetics should not trump gameplay (we got enough of that IRL, hehe).

see ANY change to the gameplay would have it be a massive failure in Korea, which is what this is really aimed at.

Friendly reminder: Bundled with free starcraft and reportedly other blizzard games is useless apple bloatware called bonjour something or other. If you've installed the game you can find in in program files x86 in the blizzard folder. It's claimed that this program helps with LAN games, but the official description of the program mentions no such thing. If you have no use for it feel free to end its process in the task manager and delete it, however it'll probably be reinstalled the moment the game updates.

Well yeah, as I said I'm disappointed they decided to play it so safe.

You're disappointed they decided to not ruin the game?
Go figure.

before i download, are people actually playing used map settings now?

did they get rid of all the hackers and bugs on bnet?

It's not playing it safe, it's doing the only thing that will get grant a benefit.
Only 4 nostalgic guys will play it on the west, if you lose the Korea market by adding unneded QoL improvements the whole project will be a failure.
They're listening to the actual fans, the ones that still care about BW, what's the point of making a remaster suited for the people that will stop playing after one week?

im happy because blizzard kind of got lucky with BW success. I dont think they could make a game this good even if their life depended on it

Huh I figured that was a Windows thing. Thanks

That's because old Bliz is completely different from new Bliz. Why do you think D3 ended up such shit?

Bonjour was made by apple dumbo

There's no need to be so pessimistic. If you really lack confidence in Blizzard, they could always have gathered the original team to get their new take on Starcraft after additional 15 years of game design experience.

Remaking the same game with updated graphics is the definition of playing it safe. Even Beamdog added things to their remasters of the Baldur's Gate games.

it means it's inferior to the Go of video games which is

>If you really lack confidence in Blizzard, they could always have gathered the original team
You do realize most of the developers are gone and working on other projects for other people right? They would have to pay an obscene amount of money to make them drop whatever they're currently in.

There's a difference between "playing it safe" and "giving the community exactly what it wants". Not sabotaging their own product isn't just playing it safe, it's just smart

> Remaking the same game with updated graphics is the definition of playing it safe.
But it doesn't need to be anything else. Adding new features makes it a new game. If you want a new game, place SC2 or any other RTS. All they need to do is bring the graphics into the modern age and keep the same gameplay.

nobody wants that shit, everyone complains about new remakes ruining the original.

No, they're really one and the same. Truth is standards only grow as you're exposed to more things. The community may think it knows what it wants, but it could find out some other thing is even better even if it's not what they wanted.

>But it doesn't need to be anything else.
Again, maybe you feel it doesn't need to be anything else, but the fact is it could have been *more*.

> it could have been *more*.
So what is the "more"? What do you want? More units? More maps? Different gameplay elements? Like I said, it makes a different game. Either you want a new game, or you want Starcraft HD remake. Pick one.