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I wish Blizzard loved Warcraft as much as I do
The Warcraft franchise deserves so much better than the two remasters Blizzard just released.
There’s a great YouTube video explaining the issue, but the short of it is the company didn't accurately represent the “tall pixels” that the original graphics were designed around, so every asset appear stretched horizontally. At the very least, Blizzard could have done a balance pass and added a ladder mode to give the game a chance to attract a new multiplayer fanbase. Age of Empires II managed to pull this trick off with flying colors: Since the release of its Definitive Edition in 2019, Microsoft’s genre-defining RTS has never been in a better place.
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