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c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11286 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-30 05:11:08
July 30 2017 05:09 GMT
#1
Recently on staff chat, me and John came to a topic about unit portraits. Now as many of you guys know, older games and resolution go hand in hand to confuse gamers about the real appearance. Sometimes it can last for just a few days until you realize on your own or maybe you ask a savvier friend. And sometimes, it can take literally years before you realize how wrong your view was. Although many of the pictures cannot be viewed now, this thread made back in the early '10s highlighted this confusion. From dragoons with dreadlocks to the man spinning with the turret (lmao), SC was full of these fun interpretations.

For my part here were a few I was hilariously wrong at:

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For some reason I mistook the devourer as a giant flying mouth that spit some corrosive violet cloud.


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It took me some time to figure out how lurkers and hydras were actually supposed to resemble each other from the torso up.


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For the longest time (years) I always saw the DA as a blob. The helm/hood swaying didn't help either.






Now that Remastered is almost out (in Korea at least) I took the time today as many of you guys who are also eagerly anticipating the big reveal in Korea, to watch some leaks on youtube. Thanks to some posters, I managed to watch some portrait videos (like the ones posted as I made this blog) and came to some, shocking realizations... once again. Gaahh, I thought I was already done with this. I thought I already knew everything there was to know about SC portraits. But alas, there were still a few things I wouldn't have known until today.


First off, a discovery that's not really related to Remastered
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In-game and out-of-game, lurkers are a handful. Also, yes, my life is a lie.


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Because portraits are small, it's easy to ignore the left eye peeking out from the right side.


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I had to do a double take here to make sure Blizzard didn't just add the transparent membrane out of nowhere. And wouldn't you know it, cerebrates did have a transparent membrane lmao.


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Ever since I first saw infested terrans, I've always thought they were completely elephant'ized. It turns out there is actually a human head in there lol.





As for closing words, firstly, I want to thank you if you managed to trudge through my incoherent babble and read up to the end. I kinda wanted to cover my various praises (Infested Kerrigan is a chick now lol) and semi-complaints (Samir Duran, Terran Kerrigan and Aldaris) on the new portraits on this blog post as well but this has taken too much of my time already so I'll just leave this as it is for now.

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WriterMovie, 진영화 : "StarCraft will never die".
Six.Strings
Profile Joined July 2017
48 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-31 15:05:26
July 30 2017 16:25 GMT
#2
Haha, I don't think I could have taken lurkers seriously if I thought they looked that silly.

Quality post!
Knatterking
Profile Joined April 2014
Germany405 Posts
July 30 2017 23:50 GMT
#3
100% agree on the infested terran
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10691 Posts
July 31 2017 09:18 GMT
#4
Amazing post, I never could really make sense of Devourer really so I never tried, it always just looked like a giant glob of random shit lol.
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c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11286 Posts
August 02 2017 13:52 GMT
#5
Yeah, it's weird how hazy pixelated units and portraits can work in one's imagination. It basically works like an optical illusion. One guy can see something totally different from another guy.
WriterMovie, 진영화 : "StarCraft will never die".
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
August 03 2017 01:59 GMT
#6
Maybe it was just me but I always saw things as intended. The infested terran for example, looked like a head with a helmet on top and life support or something. Lurkers had those eyes and defilers looked like they were laughing. Regardless, if there are more, post them! :D
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
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