A lot of people should watch the yahoo sports interview first before saying things that are just wrong. In the interview he said when they were designing it, they tried to go 1:1 with a lot of sprites, but for some they wanted to make slight changes to how the original team envisioned it to be. That is, how it would be if they could have rendered more pixels on the sprite to begin with, aka more details.

I personally think units look much more clear and prettier. The only problem being some look too shinny, I liked the gritty dirty feel.

Also the ghost looked bad, like really bad. You can see it briefly in the trailer, but there could be a number of factors like the video encoding and the dark background, but it looks really bad.

Super excited though!!!!!!!!

Freakling

Germany1530 Posts

March 26 2017 15:00 GMT

#124

Well, looks like they are on a good path. I really hope they get some details right before release like:

Contrasts and saturation seem overly cranked up on some of the sprites and terrain textures. The blue of the mineral patches, for example, is just too saturated, and some of the terrain textures look too gritty while other look rather flattened out, asphalt terrain overall is just too light etc...
Some things look more painted or cartoonish now, it seems. Mostly because the lighting is not quite right yet. The original renderings of the units have very spot on gloss effects, which seem to be missing or at least underwhelming so far (most of the terran stuff looks actually allright in this regard, although textures could use more detail, most of the Zerg stuff, on the other hand, for some reason, does not (morphing buildings look terrible, for example.
Some details of the original sprites seem yet to be missing, or their missing becomes more apparent in higher resolution. Look at the creep, for example, or morphing Zerg buildings.

Apart from these little details, I must say I am impressed and also relieved that they keep true to the original, mostly because otherwise they would have probably invalidated the complete stock of legacy maps in the process (but I guess they figured rightly that this would have set them up for total failure with this project).
Speaking of map compatibility, they actually used footage from (3)Demian, it seems, and it looks fine, so I guess there won't be any problems.
Now I am curious : Will there be an official map editor released with the game?

EDIT: Just read the developers interview. Seems like they even have support for old replays...

KobraKay

Portugal4248 Posts

March 26 2017 15:05 GMT

#125

I know I'm in the minority here...but can't like these, at all. Excessive colours, units looking weird in relation to the map texture...

I'm glad people are happy and somewhat glad that I'll probably be able to play the game once more. However, it will look a lot worse than what it used to, at least for me. Hope it grows on me.

duke91

Germany1458 Posts

March 26 2017 15:06 GMT

#126

On March 27 2017 00:05 KobraKay wrote:
I know I'm in the minority here...but can't like these, at all. Excessive colours, units looking weird in relation to the map texture...

I'm glad people are happy and somewhat glad that I'll probably be able to play the game once more. However, it will look a lot worse than what it used to, at least for me. Hope it grows on me.

You are not the minority at all. Either it is because I'm used to BW graphics, but you can't distinguish some units well enough.

Zerglings and marines are hard to distinguish. It looks quite comically overall. It may be fixed with increasing the contrast etc.

Poly_Optimize

Canada156 Posts

March 26 2017 15:09 GMT

#127

Wow it looks awesome! I feel like they really listen to the voice of costumer! Good job Blizzard and thank you!

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

March 26 2017 15:27 GMT

#128

On March 26 2017 22:17 Terrorbladder wrote:
Are the new portraits animated, I wonder...

I would assume so. There is a slight idle animation to the new Battlecruiser portrait in the trailer.

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

March 26 2017 16:10 GMT

#129

Looks absolutely fantastic. It's literally everything people have been asking for for years; updated graphics, but keeping everything gameplay-wise.

Some people will just be salty because it isn't exactly the original 100%, but the graphics updates are fantastic. It really makes me realize just how horrific BW's graphics are now that I see the updates. I don't have any problems with the colors or distinguishing what's going on in the updated screenshots/videos.

Kacas

Brazil3143 Posts

March 26 2017 16:52 GMT

#130

I think they can fix colors to not look so cartoonish. Glad is not 3d

Carefree

United States1571 Posts

March 26 2017 17:40 GMT

#131

Yes yes yes!

Ota Solgryn

Denmark2011 Posts

March 26 2017 17:48 GMT

#132

Blizzard really delivering this time!

Isualin

Germany1903 Posts

March 26 2017 17:52 GMT

#133

It's good to see they are doing this.

I think zerg models need a little bit more work though

xiaorobear

11 Posts

March 26 2017 17:52 GMT

#134

Just to add another graphics comparison I just made, here are the old and new Zergling run cycles. I'm very happy they didn't try to modernize the ling design to look more like the SC2 ones or anything.

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One of the reasons they look a bit different is because a lot of the team color areas in the original sprites were added by hand. So in the zergling when the upper arm was in front of the body or head, it switched to being team-colored, and only becomes brown again when it isn't blocking the body. The new one stays light brown the whole time, so the upper arms will stand out a lot more.

(Also though, while details like the individual toes in the webbed feet were always meant to be in the model, I don't know that they needed to be so brightly colored. Makes the new sprite a bit busier than if the toes were also team-colored.)

im a roc

United States745 Posts

March 26 2017 18:01 GMT

#135

On March 27 2017 02:52 xiaorobear wrote:
Just to add another graphics comparison I just made, here are the old and new Zergling run cycles. I'm very happy they didn't try to modernize the ling design to look more like the SC2 ones or anything.

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I always thought those were horns, why in the world does it have human arms coming out of its head...?