Homeworld

Surprised there where that many attempts to purchase this old IP.

Seconding the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Maybe if Team Pixel creates a new "Keep Gearbox The Fuck Away From Homeworld" KS they can achieve much better results.

Stardock making Homeworld 3 would have been fantastic.

If only...

I really wanted to love Homeworld 2 (I never played the first) but the lack of scalable difficulty killed it for me. I never got past the third mission.

Homeworld 2 had dynamic difficulty that was tuned such that you were frequently better off with a small fleet than a large one.

edited 22nd Apr '13 2:23:49 PM by Fighteer

Which is stupid. Just keep the challenge the same, don't escalate it just because someone wants to take advantage of the ships they get!

What's wrong with plain old difficulty levels, anyway?

Yo 100 years ago uh sattelite detected an object under da sands o' da Great Desert. An expedition wuz sent.

<WUBBING INTENSIFIES>

An ancient starship, buried in da sand.

<wub Wub W Ub WUB WUB WUB>

Deep inside da ruin, wuz uh single stone dat would change da course o' our history forever. On da stone wuz etched uh galactic map, an' uh single werd mo' ancient than da clans themselves.

<WUBBLE WUB WUB WUB WUBBLE WUBBLE WUB WUB WUB>

Hiigara.

<PAUSE>

Our home , wOrd!

<BASS DROP, CALL 911 NOW SKREEEEE WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB SKREEEEE BOOP BEEP BOOP BEEP>

That was 100 times funnier and more interesting than what I believe Gearbox will make.

Due to the way that it was written I imagined that it was how the Orks discovered space travel.

Umm, why did company that makes FPS buy a strategy game rights anyway?

Because maybe they can sell it for a better price since they won it at auction? Or possibly hire a different studio to work on it and function as a publisher?

Yeah, Gearbox has a great history with outsourcing to other devs.

I have "heard" that one of the Gearbox execs is a huge fan of the series.

I have heard that they were huge fans of Aliens as well.

Just saying.

edited 23rd Apr '13 10:43:09 AM by Psyclone

I WANT THAT MOTHERSHIP REPLICA!!!! Still wonder which one I should vote fore...

edited 5th Mar '14 5:59:00 PM by onyhow

Oh, HELL YES! I've played the original game but it always chugged and whatnot because my computers were a bit too good for it. Can't wait for this to come out ^^

Crap , there goes the $15 USD I spent buying the original sucker off Amazon...

edited 5th Mar '14 7:30:04 PM by SgtRicko

I got it for Christmas several years ago so it's no real loss to me. I can my wait to see how it looks with updated graphics :D

The 12 inch version won

This is gonna be awesome :D

That's frighteningly awesome. I really am going to be tempted to get it.

Looks like the time of it's release is coming... It's finally appeared on Steam with a release date of February 25th.

WHY LORD GABEN? WHY OF ALL TIMES IS MY WALLET NOT READY?!?!

Homeworld 2 is added?

Based on what I've heard of it...not sure if want.

It's a solid game with some improved mechanics and good gameplay.

The removal of fuel and turning strike fighters into squadrons is... interesting, but works quite well.

The story... well, it ignores Cataclysm (Not contradicting it, just... ignores it) and you see exactly 0 Taiidan despite it being implied that the Imperials were absorbed by the antagonists of the game.

It gets a bit more "spiritual" than the first game and does some weird things with the Hyperspace cores, making them into "magical items", essentially. But it isn't bad by any stretch. Only complaint I have is that they waste some of the potential of the Universe and tie things off at the end. But I'd still definitely recommend it.