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Re:Warcraft III Reforged by ascar on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:28PM (#18368124)
Absolutely excited to play all the custom maps again. Tons of awesome tower defenses, line tower wars, footman frenzy and party maps like uther party and who is the weakest link. Who remembers Don't move the tauren? xD

I just hope connecting to the online features gets an update so it feels a bit faster and less outdated than in StarCraft Remastered.

Would even be more excited about a Diablo 2 Remastered!

Re:Warcraft III Reforged by equalunique on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:30PM (#18368512)
Diablo 2 Remastered, via Steam, with Linux support. UwU
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by berbec on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:30PM (#18368129)
Pumped but a little disappointed. Was anyone else expecting better graphics?
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by lostmsu on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:51PM (#18368587)
Yeah, they surely improved unit models, but seems like terrain is still low on details in this one.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by pesmhey on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:33AM (#18368709)
I remember seeing screenshots of wc3 alpha during development, and the graphics looked similar. Maybe this stuff has been sitting around, unused all this time.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by lostmsu on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:49PM (#18368581)
Call me paranoid, but what is the chance, that they made it just to acquire some IP from custom map makers? There is a famous Dota story, after which Blizzard decided to add a clause to its Starcraft II world editor, that you grant them license to anything you create in it. If a similar clause will be silently added to Reforged, that would be bad.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by stone-monkey on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:18PM (#18368088)
Looks amazing. WC3 has outsize influence on the online gaming landscape. It'd be interesting to dissect how much of the design choices of MOBAs are holdovers of the constraints of the WC3 world editor.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by Antoninus on Saturday November 03, 2018 @04:31AM (#18369266)
I played a ton of this game on lowest resolution at the time because I didn't have a very powerful graphics card at the time. I can't wait enjoy its glory once again!
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by jorblumesea on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:00PM (#18368013)
Please, do D2 next. First Starcraft, now WC3... All the classics!
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by squirrelicus on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:19PM (#18368091)
I would die for a D2 Remastered, man. I revisited that game recently and other than the clunky controls, it's a blast.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by sli on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:47AM (#18368926)
Titan Quest on the Switch has splitscreen multiplayer. I'm not holding my breath, but I would love it if Blizzard did the same with D2.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by qntty on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:20PM (#18368099)
Many long hours spent on War3 in elementary school. It was the game that I built my first computer to play.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by thefounder on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:54PM (#18367993)
Is this for real? This this a kind of w4 or just some new missions/stories?
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by reaperhulk on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:02PM (#18368028)
It's a remaster in the same spirit as Starcraft Remastered. Higher resolution textures, higher polygon counts, better animation, higher resolution options. Same game.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by thefounder on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:09PM (#18368052)
How is that the max resolution is still 1024 x 800 ?
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by fphhotchips on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:14PM (#18368066)
What do you mean? The trailer indicates that it's going to be in 4k.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by thefounder on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:16PM (#18368080)
Well the system requirments say something else
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by lgessler on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:18PM (#18368087)
That's a minimum recommendation. Pretty sure most people out there don't plan to run this on Pentium II's
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by reaperhulk on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:17PM (#18368084)
Gameplay trailer states 4k resolution (55 seconds in) https://youtu.be/Q2zfx5hQ3CE
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by lmedinas on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:19PM (#18368089)
the latest patches for W3 already support Full HD.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by NegatioN on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:59PM (#18368009)
This is a remaster of Warcraft3. Which means, updated graphics, but proabably mostly a 1:1 copy of the original game.

It was announced at BlizzCon, which is happening these days.

Re:Warcraft III Reforged by themihai on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:11PM (#18368058)
The graphics don't seem updated (i.e. max resolution is 1024 x 786)
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by fphhotchips on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:16PM (#18368081)
You and thefounder have both said things like this, but I don't understand - the trailer is pretty clear that it's going to be in 4k.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by themihai on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:22PM (#18368106)
My bad...it seems I read the minimum requirements. It seems it's going to be 4K which is awesome! W3 is the best (and last) game I've ever played.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by lostmsu on Friday November 02, 2018 @11:56PM (#18368604)
Even the original WC III had no explicit limit on max resolution AFAIK.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by Mononokay on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:59PM (#18368008)
This is Warcraft III, remastered. This is not Warcraft IV. Just like it says on the tin.
Re:Warcraft III Reforged by Sileni on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:00PM (#18368014)
It's a remake of Warcraft 3. Kinda like the final fantasy 10 remake