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So happy I bought this game on GOG before they replaced it with the revamped version (modern looking art, etc).

I played through the orc campaign last year and had fun. It's definitely aged, but it makes me wonder if something like that could exist today. Story games are popular, and I think always will be (people like stories).

Instead of a solo protagonist, can we bring back the hero (a la WarCraft III) and their army? Or even the invisible god like WC2?

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Here is a comparison of the original vs the remaster: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KZ9Ac4WVW6Q&t=100s in case anyone else is interested too.

Visually at least it looks like a pretty tasteful remaster. Mostly just sharpening things up. Thanks for posting

Ah wow , rip the awesome fonts used in the original game. The new ones are so "clean" and boring :(

Glad to see the art itself was not too badly modified. It's weird though, like the vegetation in the Farm building looks weird. The original version you can tell it's some kind of yellow fruit or vegetable but in the remaster the yellow dots are unusually small and don't really "feel right". Strikes me as AI upscaling rather than hand-crafted editing.

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