i know i did and still do!
dont get me wrong i love sins but i miss homewold 2 and cant get it to work on vista or with my 8800 card
did you play the homeworld games?
what did like about them?
do you wish sins had some homeworld features?
do you still play?
I loved them. I still love them.
The games were perfect in every aspect - from story, hand-drawn, perfectly narrated cutscenes, to absolutely amazing music and, most important of all, perfect gaming experience. It is the only strategy game that has given us true 3D movement that actually makes sense from a tactical/gameplay perspective.
The graphics are pure style, even today.
I could go on about this game whole evening. It is a work of art.
How did I not know this thread was here?!
Suffice to say, after all these years, Homeworld, Homeworld: Cataclysm and Homeworld 2 are the only original disks I still have. They're above and in front of me right now, and all three are installed. (Part of why I haven't switched to Vista/7.)
Homeworld (The Voyage Home *Rimshot*) will always be the best strategy game I have ever played. A large part of that is nostalgia. Another large part of that is innovation. The third large portion can be put down to the graphics, the environments and the soundtrack (The other final 'game' CD I still have in original form, the soundtrack).
It was fun. It was challenging (not always, but a lot of the time.). It was so challenging, when it came out, I couldn't beat the campaign. I went back three years later and demolished it with a sort of bittersweet happiness. I still play a skirmish or two each week, depending on which game I'm in the mood for.
Cataclysm was just more Homeworld with new races and options to me. I didn't like the story as much, but skirmish and multiplayer was just as captivating.
Homeworld 2. . .I really don't know what to say. Back when it released, anyone who asked would receive a vehement "THIS IS SHIT!" from my direction. Now, it's just sort of a "Eh *Shrugs*" It's neither bad, nor great. It feels like a mutated Homeworld, maybe another version of the Complexity mod for HW1. I could really care less about Homeworld 2 at this point, except to hope that, if they make more Homeworld, they buiild off 1, and not 2.
That said, to anyone who played Homeworld online, Oi
Loved HW and Cataclysm but just didn't like HW2...compared to the other two, it blew.
When I purchased Sins I had hoped that I was in for another Homeworld epic single player story/game. But, it was not to be. The intro movie was superb and really set up a potentially awesome story. I'm hoping that Stardock will add a micro expansion that will add a single player campaign to the game. The story has to be awesome though, whether they want it to or not, it will be compared with HW's story to see if they are the same caliber. Many players were moved emotionally by HW's story, a big part of why many loved it so much (myself included).
If there is no HW3 coming, hopefully we can count on Stardock to step up.
Homeworld is best game ever ...however multiplayerwise Sins is better...i remember back in the day i really wished for game like HW but with this 4X feeling to it, colonizing planets, building starbases in different starsystems, bombing enemy homeworld to stoneage like Centauri did to Narn on Babylon 5.... i had to wait for Conquest Frontier Wars for this and then Sins...thank god there are people like Sins developers, who know what kind of game i like, otherwise i suppose i would have to start developing games myself
I miss Conquest: Frontier Wars. I wish they'd made 2.
It is somewhat difficult for me to choose between Starcraft and the Homeworld series as my fav. I play Starcraft a lot more often, but that's because, even on Windows 7 64-bit, I can play Starcraft. Homeworld (and HW2) just doesn't work on any modern OS, and none of my systems that could play homeworld (the last of which ran Windows 2000) are operating anymore. I have two current computers: this laptop and my gaming rig. Both of these have multi-cores, and RAM and hard drives that exceed the capacities of 32-bit OSes
When I think about categorizations and my affinities, it seems a bit odd that I loved the HW series so much ... in Starcraft, I tend to turtle, build heavy overlapping defensive towers (like the Protoss' photon cannon). There are no such permanent, immobile structures in Homeworld -- one of the definining things about it is that you operate from a Mothership. You have no permanet base ... even your 'HQ' (the mothership) moves. And yet ... I truly loved it. Resource harvesting, tech upgrades, battles that generally take more than just a couple vollies to be over (one feature I think Sins copied well) which eliminated the one thing I do NOT like about most RTSes: clickfest contests. I don't like losing battles because my hand-eye coordination isn't great and didn't get a kajillion clicks per second in. I want to play a strategy game, not a third-person shooter, and Homeworld I think really clinched that. It was beautiful with no visible borders or map edge, a vast playfield and was the first game I played that gave a really tremendous sense of scale with units ranging from small scouts and fighters up through capital ships and the behemoth motherships ... and it wasn't always the biggest ship that would win. Nimble fighters and bombers could take out a capital ship, but were vulnerable to corvettes and smaller capital ships with robust point defense weaponry.
I really, truly miss it. Master of Orion II and the Homeworld series are the two games I most wish to see a modern remake/sequel to.
Have you tried alpha/beta demo of Conquest:Vyrium Uprising? It looked almost the same like the first game apart few new effects - IIRC specular maps on ships etc... There was a new race called Vyrium, who were in possesion of some cool weapons, planetkiller for example... there was only one mission, where you have to stop them from attacking one of your or Celareon systems...i am not sure, if it was scripted or i played it badly, but they managed to destroy one of the planets with the planetkiller...it was great looking animation of ring of fire moving across the planet surface and turning the blue terrestrial planet into lifeless wasteland...
it really sucks this game did not make it.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
Sign in or Create Account
