I’ve long stopped caring about them, really. From what I’ve heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it’s likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It’s not like they’re promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.
Me? I ain’t buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴☠️
Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there’s hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.
That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It’s pretty rough. It’s fun for nostalgia sake and if you’re into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn’t hold up like Broodwar still does.
I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.
I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.
The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.
I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.
I don’t think trust is at issue here. If the game sucks, don’t buy it! There’s millions of other games to play.
There is reason to hope Blizzard will turn around. Bobby Kotick is gone. Microsoft owns the company now. Say what you will about Windows but Microsoft tends to take pretty good care of the gaming franchises they own. I think a lot of AoE fans are pretty happy with how that’s going. I could be wrong though?
Are we talking about the same microsoft? Last i heard starfield kinda suck, redfall suck, studio got shutdown, tango rush pretty fine but studio got shutdown too.
Funny story. I just found out about an interesting Chinese hero shooter, but then found they literally copied Overwatch’s Gibraltar map (not the models/textures, but carbon copy of the layout).
At first I was offended, but then thought: It’s Blizzard, who the fuck cares about protecting them.
It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.
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Nope.
This will be the big test of if being brought out will help them.
They’re sitting on such amazing IPs but have just fucked everything recently. Except diablo 2. That was great.
I live in hope as warcraft is still my absolute favourite game series.
I’ve long stopped caring about them, really. From what I’ve heard, the Diablo 2 remaster was pretty good, so it’s likely that Warcraft 2 might actually be a good remaster, too. It’s not like they’re promising a whole world of stuff like they did with Warcraft 3 Refunded.
Me? I ain’t buying it. BRL buying power is shit 🇧🇷 🏴☠️
Broodwar remaster was also good. If they faithfully uprez the graphics, fix severe bugs, and do nothing else then there’s hope. The 2D remasters have a good track record so far.
That said, had anyone played WC2 recently? It’s pretty rough. It’s fun for nostalgia sake and if you’re into the lore of Warcraft or the history of RTS, but it doesn’t hold up like Broodwar still does.
Yeah like what’s actually the point? WC2 is not a game that holds up today compared to where the genre has gone.
I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.
I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.
No
Signing that one.
I guess they could make good games, it’s in their interest, I’m not going to give them money either way.
The Warcraft III Reforged shitshow was definitely something to behold
The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.
I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.
That’s some proper gaslighting!
Well yeah - they recorded the MP3s as lossless audio, clearly
The Blizzard that made good games died many years ago.
It’s like the ship of theseus, but shit. The shit of theseus.
shit of feceus. it was right there, man…
hahaha excellent
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Aw thanks.
The Diablo II remake was EXCELLENT
The rest of their games are trash now
Blizzard didn’t make the Diablo II remake, they outsourced it. Thank god.
I don’t think trust is at issue here. If the game sucks, don’t buy it! There’s millions of other games to play.
There is reason to hope Blizzard will turn around. Bobby Kotick is gone. Microsoft owns the company now. Say what you will about Windows but Microsoft tends to take pretty good care of the gaming franchises they own. I think a lot of AoE fans are pretty happy with how that’s going. I could be wrong though?
Are we talking about the same microsoft? Last i heard starfield kinda suck, redfall suck, studio got shutdown, tango rush pretty fine but studio got shutdown too.
Halo.
I only cared about the Diablo franchise, which means I’m done with Blizzard now.
Why tf would you?
Funny story. I just found out about an interesting Chinese hero shooter, but then found they literally copied Overwatch’s Gibraltar map (not the models/textures, but carbon copy of the layout).
At first I was offended, but then thought: It’s Blizzard, who the fuck cares about protecting them.
No, it’s going to be shit. Might as well just play the GOG version version of Warcraft 2, it’s pretty solid (albeit the UI/UX is somewhat old school).
Lol, lmao, no.
It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.