While I absolutely LOVE the original Starcraft (my favorite RTS of all time), I have the feeling this time Blizzard is just trying to charge us another 100$ (or how much? 60?) for nothing. It would be awesome if they upgraded to Starcraft 2 engine, but at the moment it just looks like a rather poorly scaled graphics update.

I thought this was what was happening when I saw the post :\. I don't get why they're bothering with this. I have my doubts that they're going to drastically increase the viewport like the video implies.

Can't satisfy everyone. If they went with SC2 engine for the remake, people would be angry about that as well. I think they made correct decision and I think it looks pretty damn good after checking comparison screenshots. You are talking absolute nonsense about sprites though, they are remade from the ground up. It's not just filter as you claim. Check comparisons and you'll see what I mean, there are some slight variations in every sprite, but not enough to change the look of the game. You can't get that detail and look from using upscale filters.

Yeah your right I saw the comparison screens, that is a better compression for sure they did update them. Still what I wanted was more like what they did with Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uljAYCJec0&t=3m12s or the Halo series on XB1. It would of been epic to have this current mode labeled [old school mode] and then be able to toggle to a super decked out version like Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap that has new FX, animation, and HD sprites. The Halo series did a epic remaster job on the Xbox One as well where you could toggle: old school and pimped out. I guess that is asking too much from Blizzard 🙁