Blizzard-made Warcraft 1&2 remasters look like Zynga games made by blind duck

In some places it looks almost as though they&#x27;ve taken the old tiles and fed them individually through some neural upscale&#x2F;img2img diffusion.<p>The rocky coast[0] seems to change style slightly from tile-to-tile without much regard for how they fit together. The wall[1] has random artifacts, and equal trouble with tiling properly.<p>I think you could potentially avoid the tiling problem if you feed in a valid arrangements of tiles rather than each tile individually, and switch around the arrangement each diffusion step.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;XTSFvAX.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;XTSFvAX.png</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MgLqKA6.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;MgLqKA6.png</a>

We&#x27;re about 30 years too late to complain about the art style.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree with the comparison of the visuals to flash games, but that&#x27;s more or less all you can get to without a lot of backlash over completely changing the game&#x27;s appearance, since the originals were very low-resolution highly cartoony things.<p>You could certainly have redone 1 and 2 in 3&#x27;s engine, but that&#x27;s a different market, in a lot of ways.

Is there a comparison image? I’d like to see screenshots of the original and the corresponding screenshots of the remastered version.<p>Update: the trailer shows the old and the new version at ~26s, direct link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_iWMpW_C7Z0&amp;t=26" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=_iWMpW_C7Z0&amp;t=26</a>

&gt; brightened up with an MS paint tool meant to emulate crayons made of the sun<p>I’m old, but if you want to describe the graphics of the original Warcraft 1 &amp; 2 that is a pretty fitting description.<p>It does seem a little disingenuous to not include any comparison images in the article. From the looks of it I’d say it’s pretty close to the original. Warcraft didn’t really get its modern distinguishing style before Warcraft 3. I’d be more curious about whether or not they kept the maximum unit selection at 4… which at least was 3 more than in dune 2, but probably not a great fit for 2024.

It would be adorable if it was made by an actual blind duck.

Eh I mean it’s not <i>that</i> bad - this article is super short on details too, I need a unit-by-unit comparison describing an overall approach to the art style that changed between the original release and this one. This post is a glorified xitter rant basically. If I want three whiney paragraphs on a subject I’ll ask ChatGPT about it.