RTS Warcraft I & II Remastered

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https://www.wowhead.com/news/warcra...alpha-new-blizzard-catalog-entry-added-349660

Warcraft II: Remastered Internal Alpha - New Blizzard Catalog Entry Added​

Blizzard has pushed an update to their CDNs that includes a new title, "Warcraft II: Remastered Internal Alpha." This update also adds initial background images and logos for the likely upcoming product.





The info can be seen publicly on BlizzTracker. You can also see the full configuration file there as well.

 

[sebas]

There's not an ounce of creativity left in these big studios.

 

[ferratilis]

So, they fucked up W3 beyond belief and instead of fixing that, they decide to desecrate another old title. That's Blizzard, all right.

Although, let's be honest, people who will buy this don't care about W2, they will gladly pay 90 bucks to get the WoW mount that comes together with it.

 

[Vic]

People will buy it.

 

[Morgoth]

There's not an ounce of creativity left in these big studios.

Good thing their best remasters like Starcraft or D2 have been outsourced then.

I hope the War2 remaster will keep sprite graphics.

 

[Modron]

People will buy it.

Yes but how much worse will the game and its movies look?

 

[ghardy]

Will they "improve" the voice acting and unit talk?

 

[d1r]

I am sure that absolutely nothing will go wrong with this remaster!

 

[Junmarko]

There's not an ounce of creativity left in these big studios.

What makes it even more pathetic is that they outsource development of the assets for these remasters to cheap foreign companies.

They barely involve their own studio lol...

 

[Hellraiser]

And this is needed why exactly? The GOG version works fine on modern hardware, the game looks still pretty good as the art was good and it's late 2D "hand draw" (or at least not obviously pre-rendered) art anyway.

 

[Borelli]

I cannot imagine graphics being any better than they were when i played it for the first time 25 years ago. Maybe the cinematics but then, they would be made in the modern WoW style so no.

 

[Lacrymas]

The GOG version runs and looks fine, this doesn't need to happen.

 

[Tavar]

Oh no.

 

[Gandalf]

Not really interested in playing this, but I am curious about how much they will readjust the old lore and reimagine the game in the matter of graphics department.

The fun part is, I remember the times, old times, where people begged Blizzard for the War 1-3 remasters. Nowdays it looks like a bad idea, but Starcraft remaster didn't turned bad, I think.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Kinda weird? They've released W3 remaster first and completely fucked it up and that one had an incomparably bigger potential customer base. Not sure what the plan is here.

 

[Lacrymas]

Kinda weird? They've released W3 remaster first and completely fucked it up and that one had an incomparably bigger potential customer base. Not sure what the plan is here.

It's probably an AI upscale with no balance or campaign changes. It will make some money eventually if that's the case.

 

[Gandalf]

Not sure what the plan is here.

Plan is to remaster every Warcraft game, I think.

 

[Just Locus]

Not sure what the plan is here.

2024 is the year of the remakes/remasters. Warcraft II will undoubtedly be another game to add to the pile. Can't have game developers be original now, can't we?

 

[vota DC]

Isn't already called Wargus? That was open source Warcraft 2, you could even mod factions. I remember replacing the Giant Turtle with Kinder Happy Hippo and that was an organic unit with regeneration (the other submarine was cheaper and weaker), also I did a rock/paper/scissor system that allowed footmen to beat knights and grunts but were weak against archers.

 

[Hoodoo]

Blizzard, stop, pls stop

 

[ghardy]

 

[d1r]

In all seriousness, what even needs to be "rEmAsTeReD" here? The sprite art is perfect. The music is perfect. The sound design is perfect. No zoomer ever will buy or play it, nor do the Grognards who have been playing this for twenty years via unofficial modifications on the net. This really smells like a by-product of a sales pitch on how to sell even more exclusive WoW pets for big bucks.

 

[Inec0rn]

It's not complicated, low effort free money - durr's will buy because "wArcRaft".

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Morally bankrupt company is morally bankrupt.

 

[Inec0rn]

meh can't blame the company when the customers are retarded and enable it.