They did a great job remastering Crash and THPS, so this could be very good news. Besides, it’s hard to imagine they could make it worse than the original. (I dare anyone to give a better example of a game of such magnitude and reverence, which was technically so abysmal.)
Good call on the backups tho. Blizzards does us nasty removing those originals.
it’s in the “joke”, they (blizzard) screwed up reforged badly, not just on like a technical, promise/content level, but concept and implementation - rendering your original warcraft 3 game practically void by the merged “upgrade”
which was an actual problem for some people suddenly not meeting the (ridic) requirements for Reforged but had a perfectly playable WC3 the day before
tho this seems be hinted a remake not a remaster, it’s not entirely certain it will suffer the same fate as previous “legacy” titles, but it’s definitely a concern, and one “big” enough (imo) to warrant the advised precautions of safeguarding your OG version(s), incase this do become a reforged clusterfuck
The story and the direction outlined in the article makes me think there’s no reason to expect another reforging.
Regardless of what comes out of the new version, I’m a strong advocate of always preserving the original works, so… yeah.
Question is, do developers or news outlets these days even know the difference of a remaster versus a remake. 
I do have some hopes up for a good deliver, but I doubt it will be a work of love like what seems to be the case with the C&C remaster. Also, David Brevik’s thoughts from last year, no idea if he changed his mind, doubt though.
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oh, we got wide videos now
ye that’s why i think it’s actually a remake and not a remaster, since an actual remaster would probably be “impossible” to do in a decent way with missing the original ingredients
-and is also why i think/fear it might suck regardless because it means not only the chance of a “modern blizzard” game(Diablo 3), but that we might run into the type of “lets add/alter things in this “remake” because reasons”, like you know how the CoD4 remaster got mtx shoved in it and such…
Blizzard not being “blizzard north”, Vicarious Visions competence and track record aside, is why i have very little faith in them to make an actual, not just diablo 2 remaster/remake, but diablo game at all, “they” just have no clue what made the first 2 games “diablo”, and i’m “confident” even if they did have the original assets and complete source, that they would still botch it, not just from their own “incompetence”, but constantly trying to “update” things to fit the “modern” era
I think I still have the original discs, though maybe they are too old to function.
As long as we can still play the original, if they learned with the previous mistake, it’s fine. I mean, killing the original would also mean killing the current ongoing mods that makes people still play D2.
that’s gonna hurt
nuts, i do agree with some regional locks being absolutely stupid…
A good example was the last giveaway from Namco Bandai (Little Nightmares), where not all European countries could participate.
wait, i don’t get it - aren’t they complying with the law, since ex some games would be illegal to sell in germany, thus geo restriction is necessary for that,
and how come it’s only “these” companies, when others do the same ? heck PAL is a thing still right? @_@
I think you’ll find some eastern Europeans not agree with you on that one. The region locks were there because it allows them to offer the same goods for lower prices in countries with weak economies where the basic $60 price tag is a ludicrous suggestion.
Such regional pricing on digital goods is only really possible if you can to some degree limit who can and can not buy and use such goods. Otherwise why should I buy games in Sweden for Swedish game prices when I could buy them through @onLooSe for “eastern EU” prices. Not sure if he actually gets any currency related discounts as it stands, but that’s the point of the region locks anyway.
As well as the legality situation where Germany are dumb and if they can’t region lock some things to either not be sold in Germany at all or be sold as a different version to comply with German laws. They would effectively dictate that all EU countries can only buy things that are legal in Germany and that’s going to be a really bad thing for all of us. I really like it if Germany can be region locked out of things so that I am able to buy those things.
ye, i’d really hate starting to get censored games just because 1-3 diff EU countries mandated various censorship, and because of “region locks not allowed” meant “only” way to enforce those local censor laws “across the region” would be that now all others got the worse version
also strange the way they seem to have a problem with it “now”, but again “with those companies”, when it’s been a AAA thing for years, and not even unique to steam
and really strange they don’t see the logical argument of it allowing cheaper prices for lower income countries - i’m sure all of those EU countries are gonna celebrate things getting more expensive for them now 
I was actually referring to the blockade the prevents some games being able to be purchased in various regions. I was not referring to regional pricing differences.
Authorities determined that the companies geographically blocked about 100 PC games.
These titles could not be activated and played in certain countries of the European Union, which violates the single digital market rules of the region. The report confirms that the blockade was to prevent the purchase of securities at a lower price in certain countries.
I was not at all referring to fair regional pricing that makes some games cheaper in areas where people make less for a living.
I think for most games, they not necessarily regionally priced fairly for @onLooSe or @DontBeSilly, and may of our friends here, because I have been gifted games by them, and we know how Valve doesn’t like gifting games that make them lose any more than a small fraction of their earnings by not allowing cross regional gifts.
yes but they (some) have to be blocked in some countries, for local legal reasons, like ex germany,
which makes it weird for them to claim that’s illegal, when some games are blocked in order to comply with local laws (even if they cherry picked 100 games that was blocked for pricing reasons like i’m assuming poland or something)
suppose my personal “confusion” stems from them claiming it’s the act that’s illegal, not the underlying reason, thus ex with germany, it’s illegal for publishers to block certain digital games from germany? despite it being illegal if they didn’t block it because german/local laws @_@
like, that doesn’t make sense.
Yeah, it’s definitely really confusing for me, looking in from the outside. Germany did eliminate a lot of the games based on sexual content and it was enforced kind of recently, right? All of a sudden those games are not visible and cannot be purchased any more. Or so I heard.
available soon at your nearest drive-by point-of-care test facility; just drive up, moon the nurse through the window, and she’ll take care of the rest 
this shit is getting funnier by the hour
where’s @Shalandir at with his professional analysis