User blog comment:Hawki/Thoughts on StarCraft: Remastered/@comment-250398-20170422145524

The way I've viewed it mostly is that Mass Recall isn't a game for us, it's a game because after all these years Brood War's competitive scene is still kicking so they wanted to give it an upgrade to make it more accessible to the modern viewer. Hence just the basic graphic upgrade. BUT you can't really sell just that so we got the revamped campaign with the cutscenes to keep us more campaign oriented players happy.

Personally I'll get it but also I bought StarCraft 64 for collector's price and the WoL Collectors when it was not the best price so my StarCraft purchases aren't usually sane. I agree I wish they'd have a casual mode for campaign, or make improvements to some of the gameplay there. I get keeping the quirks for multiplayer but I don't think that anyone would complain if they ironed out some of the campaign problems.

I still hope they add more to the game, maybe put in some of the maps they didn't have in release and remaster them like the Stukov ones, or heck maybe just add more (maybe explain what this attack Jim did on Kerrigan that made him give up his quest for revenge was). As it stands the offering is pretty barebones, but also details have been left purposefully vague.

My biggest concern and issue and something I'll raise a stink about is the "remastered audio and dialogue." If it means the touchups to the quality they did for the BW soundtrack in SC2 I'll be all for it that was great, but if they mean rerecording the dialogue it will only serve to piss people off. Especially when most of the community agrees Jack Ritchell's Zeratul was one of the high points of the series, and since he died removing that in favor of Tatasciore in SC1 I could only see ending poorly. Part of the appeal is nostalgia, and there's a reason everyone gets nostalgic for the old sounds. I may just be preemptively making a stink over nothing though, we'll see.

I do expect we'll see the player characters, they've already put out things hinting they'll be showing Artanis in Episode III. I do hope we see more of the later characters appear in the background, maybe Warfield, Horner and Liberty could make an appearance (and we'll finally figure out which story is canon). There are some cool sketches by the guy who did the StarCraft to Scale in the Field Manual of the UED captain and the magistrate I think it'd be cool to draw inspiration from too. My fear though is changing too much will have the George Lucas Special Editions effect of changing something people argue for the worse and having everyone go up in arms. We already have the cancer of the battle.net story forums making a stink about Artanis maybe being shows as the Executor when that's so firmly established they probably should have gotten over it by now. But I think people will complain no matter what at this point.

I'm pumped because of my horrendous UED bias to see them again (just got a UED tattoo I'm proud of), so I'm riding a lot on them not messing them up. My worry is they'll do the tiny thing Mass Recall did of showing the UED committing atrocities when the ambiguity of DuGalle and Stukov seeming to be good people fighting for an evil force was what I liked about them (I have a lot of problems with Mass Recall but that's a rant for another day). Diving deep into that era Blizzard even left out of the SC2 "story so far" will be interesting but I'm cautiously optimistic, NCO and Evolution were both really good stories so I think they'll get the essence of what people liked.

Basically, I'm cool with it even if I'd much rather they make new content rather than wallow in the Great War/Brood War. But I get why they did it, and it wasn't specifically for us lore fans, and I'm happy they threw us a little bit of a bone with the new cutscenes, though we'll see if they meet the high standards of the community.