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So here I am, playing Starcraft.
Jul 18 2018, 11:31 am
By: johntimber  

Jul 18 2018, 11:31 am johntimber Post #1



Hi,

who was a big Starcraft fan back in the day, got all excited when hearing about the long-awaited announcement of Starcraft II. So he naturally dug out his old CDs from God knows where and successfully installed the game. He even had a valid CD key from a decade ago when he first bought the game. Amazing the stuff he has stashed away somewhere. I lost my CDs years ago.Naturally, he roped me into playing through the game's Single Player campaign with him. I have always sucked at RTS and I tend to avoid them whenever I can, but I figured 10 years later it couldn't hurt to play it for kicks. He ripped his CDs to ISOs, zipped them up, and uploaded them to me and gave me his CD key.So here I am, playing Starcraft single player. 10 years later, in fact, and nearing the game's 10th Anniversary as it was released way back in 1998. Later, as a joke, I think I'm going to install Virtual PC 2007 (which is a free download from MS's website) and try running Starcraft inside a Win98SE installation inside Virtual PC. I think Core 2 Duo can probably handle that. Right now, I'm just blasting through the Terran campaign Episode I all over again and pretending it's my first time, you know, watching the cutscenes and listening to the mission briefings. It's surreal to be hearing John Raynor talking again after all these years. I'm a little disappointed, though, as I seem to be tad rusty (imagine that). On Terran mission 3, I used to be able to kill the Zerg base before the 30 minute time limit ran out and get outright Victory instead of waiting for the dropships to arrive. There was just a building left and a couple of Overlords left when time ran out. Hell, I don't remember what order to build anything anymore or even what half the buildings are for. Oh well.

Thanks!

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Jul 19 2018, 7:07 am by NudeRaider.



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Jul 19 2018, 5:09 am Lanthanide Post #2



Do you know about Starcraft Remastered? It's completely free (with SD/original graphics) and runs on modern systems.



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[03:29 am]
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
[2026-6-22. : 8:35 pm]
Ultraviolet -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 11:38 pm]
Symmetry -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new :lol:
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic
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