erm gotta correct myself

theres nothing to be afraid of, trust me...



lol, comon, just one link. You and your shrink, will have so MUCH more to talk about

Congrats Multianna, on behalf of the Grand Galactic Empire I award you the Deception Award for your great attempts at scaring the community by making them trust you

And great links by the way, they did get me as well...

Actually I like people comparing this to HW, HW was a great game with a good community, one that we should try and get intrested in this game. However, this game is in no way a direct rip off HW, it impliments some of it, but its more of a mixture of 5 different games.

I agree with Emperor. Homeworld is a great game. We at HG love Homeworld. Any similarities between the two games are viewed as GOOD things, not attempts at ripping Homeworld off. We would like nothing more than for Sins to be everything that HW is and so much more.

Actually the HW community spearheaded the first major forum on the game. We were all at the original and then IC's original forum and then filtered out as it became less and less certain when a publishing agreement was going to be finalized or when we were going to get more info. I didn't realize this was a new forum. I thought I'd just forgotten my password so I made a new ID without the Chiken tags.

This is part of the reason I thought a photoshop thread for swag would be more well-received. People did crap like that all the time over at Relic's forums.

The clanners will all be back I'm sure. The game looks better than ever and most serious HW fans are into any decent game featuring star ships and strategy. I would guess the original "unnoficial" forums that the devs were kind of enough to post on was something like 90% Homeworld community. The guy who built:

WWW Link

wears Guru tags. They were one of the stronger HW2 clans and he started back before IC was even hosting their own forum which replaced the unofficial before Stardock came into the picture.

So anyway, the whole "It better be what Homeworld 3 should have been" is old ground and most of the HWers got it out of their systems within the first couple days of forum spamming when they realized that this is in fact a new game and will live or die on its own merits, not whether it's the MOO or HW game we always wanted.

attempts being the pivotal word...

yeah.

My best guess is something of a mixture of MOO and a Blizzard RTS with the massive scaling/automation factors being all its own and some interesting new 4X concepts too. You can call the 3D movement factor a Homeworld inspiration, I guess, but aside from the fact that it's spaceships and a strategy RTS it bares little resemeblance to the HWs, particularly since IC is so committed to avoiding giving an overly huge edge to micromanagers which is pretty much the entire basis for HW multiplayer competition.

I would like that a lot less if I wasn't also such a huge MOO fan and space fu nerd in general. I think the biggest challenge of the game at first is going to be willing yourself to zoom out to handle the other affairs rather than staring at the action slack-jawed and drooling from a close-up view.

Seven years is old? Okay, in the world of video games, maybe. It is also, however, irrelevant. It is because of Homeworld that I am interested in SOASE, so in my case, Relic's masterpiece is why I am here waiting. Nexus would actually turn me off space-based RTS had I played it first, and I really didn't like it very much. And don't get me started on ORB. And anyway, all games like SOASE are going to be compared to Homeworld, because in many ways it was the first of its kind. The way SOASE can distinguish itself is by better, more interesting, more fun, and everything else that goes into being a good game.

Homeworld worked for me because of its story and back history. Great ship designs and little or no micro-management. It was truly epic in its scale and scope. But also it had a nearly flawless and elegant interface that was easy to master. If SOASE can do that, then 7 years from now I'll still be playing it, because I still have both Homeworld 1 and 2 on my system and I still play them.

Wolfenstein opened up the realm of first person shooters, Alone in the Dark paved the way for Resident Evil, arguably Super Mario made Tomb Raider possible (okay, that was a reach), but each generation of something spawns the next. People who watched the original Star Wars trilogy as kids worked on the new movies. Ideas beget new ideas, improve upon, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully it will be a hit this time.

-Per

I loved homeworld, that is one of the reasons this game looks so intriguing to me!

They got you, and now your to scared to try any of Multi's links

fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.

I've yet to shame myself.

True, but the fact that your scared of a link add to my comedical alignment.

wary of a link, yes.
scared of a link...

maybe?

Still, Ill never let you live it down

Bawk @ Pherdunt!

I wouldn't consider Elemental a ripoff of Homeworld, no.

I haven't seen the comparison before, either - so no, I can't say that I'm tired of it.

Sweet bump! All these names bring back memories haha.