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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Phoenix Dark on March 26, 2017, 02:36:46 PM

Title: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 26, 2017, 02:36:46 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypU9j4w3_w
Highlighted Features:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/520461-starcraft-remastered-to-be-released-summer-2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBLv0qrDQcA

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Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2017, 03:27:22 PM
lol, dated. This isnt console games, where in one gen you have a controller with a dpad and two buttons and games play and are designed a certain way. Then another gen you have a controller with a single stick and some buttons and games play entirely differently. Then another gen you have twin sticks and games again suffer new design and again play differently. This is where the term "aged games" comes from on this forum. PC games use the same input tool for 30 years. They dont "age". Well, most of them dont. RTS games have the same structure and play the same since Command&Conquer in 1995. If you're having troubles with Starcraft, its all you, not the game.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2017, 03:30:26 PM
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In preparation for StarCraft: Remastered, Blizzard Entertainment will update StarCraft: Brood War later this week to version 1.18. The update will include bug fixes and improvements, including the ability to rebind keys; observer mode; modern anti-cheat measures; compatibility improvements for Windows 7, 8.1, and 10; and more. Once the update is live, StarCraft Anthology, which includes the original game and the Brood War expansion, will be free to download and play.
:leon

no idea where discs are and created a new battle.net account when i got overwatch because lol no idea what original one was, probably tied to some long dead hotmail account or something
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 26, 2017, 06:50:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aw-42JO3qk
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 26, 2017, 07:05:02 PM
lol, dated. This isnt console games, where in one gen you have a controller with a dpad and two buttons and games play and are designed a certain way. Then another gen you have a controller with a single stick and some buttons and games play entirely differently. Then another gen you have twin sticks and games again suffer new design and again play differently. This is where the term "aged games" comes from on this forum. PC games use the same input tool for 30 years. They dont "age". Well, most of them dont. RTS games have the same structure and play the same since Command&Conquer in 1995. If you're having troubles with Starcraft, its all you, not the game.

enjoy having to buy two Titan X's just to run this at 60fps, loser. I'll stick to the superior N64 version.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: D3RANG3D on March 26, 2017, 07:05:57 PM
My $5000.00 rig is ready.  :smug
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Positive Touch on March 26, 2017, 07:46:13 PM
getting rid of the old cutscenes boooo
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on March 26, 2017, 07:57:17 PM
Shit yeah, can't wait. I wonder if they'll redo the groups to be like SC2. Would really change how the OG is played
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Yeti on March 26, 2017, 08:00:32 PM
I was pretty bad at this game because I always wanted to play it more like Sim City than an RTS.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Huff on March 26, 2017, 08:33:05 PM
I don't think there's a game I am worse at than starcraft

day 1
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2017, 08:41:05 PM
lol, dated. This isnt console games, where in one gen you have a controller with a dpad and two buttons and games play and are designed a certain way. Then another gen you have a controller with a single stick and some buttons and games play entirely differently. Then another gen you have twin sticks and games again suffer new design and again play differently. This is where the term "aged games" comes from on this forum. PC games use the same input tool for 30 years. They dont "age". Well, most of them dont. RTS games have the same structure and play the same since Command&Conquer in 1995. If you're having troubles with Starcraft, its all you, not the game.

enjoy having to buy two Titan X's just to run this at 60fps, loser. I'll stick to the superior N64 version.
lmao having to have an expansion pak to play the full game :neogaf
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Syph on March 26, 2017, 09:02:22 PM
The Bore plays Starcraft WHEN??
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Huff on March 26, 2017, 09:36:43 PM
when i said day 1

i really meant day one its at least 50%

who buys full price games anymore. nerds
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2017, 11:38:21 PM
it's gonna be free breh

they also finally renamed battle.net to Blizzard App today, i think this was announced like five years ago
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 26, 2017, 11:39:02 PM
it's gonna be free breh

I think he means the remake, dude.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: benjipwns on March 26, 2017, 11:41:13 PM
i assumed it was gonna be f2p too

but pay like billion dollars for skins and crap
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Valkyrie on March 26, 2017, 11:58:01 PM
Where is my The Lost Vikings Remaster
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: benjipwns on March 27, 2017, 12:13:32 AM
here: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/the-lost-vikings/

as related aside, it's not a remaster but it, rock n' roll racing and blackthorne are sitting "hidden" on battle.net for free like rockstar had the old gta games and stuff on their site for a while:
https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic

i think they're DOSBox packages
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: bluemax on March 27, 2017, 01:59:01 AM
It's like they saw the FF Mobile remakes and decided that was the right way to do things visually.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Valkyrie on March 27, 2017, 06:22:45 AM
here: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/the-lost-vikings/

as related aside, it's not a remaster but it, rock n' roll racing and blackthorne are sitting "hidden" on battle.net for free like rockstar had the old gta games and stuff on their site for a while:
https://us.battle.net/account/download/?show=classic

i think they're DOSBox packages
Holy shit benji, they put it back! They removed all those 3 last year and redirected the page to their web shop, I was bitching to them on Twitter a few weeks ago, and suddenly they're back! God bless you, bro.

Edit: You made me realize that Eric = Torbjorn, and Baelrog = Roadhog
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on March 27, 2017, 05:35:28 PM
BTW where's the F2P stuff coming from? I saw a couple articles mention the pricing was still in question, and there's an ars technica article that retardedly calls it "free-as-in-beer," whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: archie4208 on March 27, 2017, 05:37:38 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/26/15064174/starcraft-brood-war-free-blizzard-version-118

OG SC will become free.

SC remastered will cost money.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 27, 2017, 05:44:41 PM
Looks like I was a victim of #fakenews guys. I apologize. Not gonna edit thread title tho, so more people feel the pain I feel.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 27, 2017, 05:48:17 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/26/15064174/starcraft-brood-war-free-blizzard-version-118

OG SC will become free.

SC remastered will cost money.

Like I figured. "First Hit's free" and all that.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 27, 2017, 07:30:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-00uQzXyujI
:tocry
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: Syph on March 27, 2017, 10:17:28 PM
BTW where's the F2P stuff coming from? I saw a couple articles mention the pricing was still in question, and there's an ars technica article that retardedly calls it "free-as-in-beer," whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean
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Actually, that's precisely why the expression exists. When you think of obtaining beer, it costs you something. So if someone says "free beer", you know it's related to the aspect of price.

The other, closely related expression is "free as in speech". When you say "free speech", that "free" part is not the same as when you say "free beer". In other words, there are two ways of looking at something that is "free", and this is how you differentiate it.

"Free as in beer" = it's given out without a price. "Gratis"
"Free as in speech" = there's no restriction in using it. "Libre"

In the case of software, "free" can mean either, so we must say that it's either "as in beer", "as in speech", or both. The Starcraft SD being "free as in beer" means that it will cost you nothing to get it, but it will still be subject to licensing restrictions imposed by Blizzard.

On the other hand, open-source software with non-restrictive license would be "free as in speech", in that it gives you freedom to do whatever you wish with it.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on March 30, 2017, 08:23:46 AM
That is still distinguished mentally-challenged
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (Summer 17, FTP)
Post by: chronovore on March 30, 2017, 09:26:32 PM
It's like they saw the FF Mobile remakes and decided that was the right way to do things visually.

Yeah, that's my read on this as well. I'm honestly a little surprised that WC2 wasn't the first title they'd do for this, but I guess SC is the better-balanced game.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: Syph on March 30, 2017, 09:48:07 PM
That is still distinguished mentally-challenged
i dont disagree but dont shoot the messengers messenger breh
 :ufup


ps. i was serious about bore nights with this game if people are down
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: thisismyusername on March 31, 2017, 12:20:11 AM
That is still distinguished mentally-challenged

Blame GNU/FOSS for it. *shrug* It's an old-old-old-old school (like 1970's 1980's) computer geek term. No wonder Ars is using it.
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: D3RANG3D on March 31, 2017, 01:04:08 AM
#Fossworldproblems
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on March 31, 2017, 01:26:38 PM
I guess if it's old it's slightly less irritating. No shots intended syph #blessup
Title: Re: StarCraft Remastered announced (FAKE NEWS trigger warning)
Post by: Syph on April 04, 2017, 02:23:09 AM
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20753915707

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