Get thee shiny behind over and play the wondrous game of Homeworld 2 - Hell, just for the epic music!
I will eventually, it’s not going anywhere. I own the dang thing, just haven’t actually tried it. If I have time tonight I’ll load it up, just so y’all will shut up at least. ;)
I really wish Steam or GoG would get Homeworld 1,2, and Cataclysm up…I really miss playing these but I don’t think I have my discs around anymore.
Rubin’s a big girl’s blouse, all mouth and no trousers.
So I installed the game and played the first tutorial. My that’s a pretty game…
Not a fan of the mission structure. Too puzzly.
I finished 1 back in the day and got started on Cataclysm but got distracted, the completionist in me wants to finish Cataclysm before moving on to 2. Anyone know how that holds up today’
Agnus Dei is awesome in space as well :-)
The new Sins is pretty great, FWIW
Played through Homeworld last year and loved it. Never did beat it when I was younger. Played Cataclysm after and burnt out about halfway through. Just felt off somehow, but I should go back to it. I still haven’t given Homeworld 2 a shot. I found a copy of it while digging through my old games one day and didn’t even realize I owned it.
Apples and oranges. One is a linear, story-based RTS game using full 3D, the other is an open 4X RTS set on a 2D plane.
I actually thought Cataclysm was better than Homeworld 2 in a lot of ways…but then, I really enjoyed all three for their awesome space porn (and the first one had a truly good story).
A lot of folks seem to think Cataclysm is the best of the three. I’ve yet to play that one either (ssshhh!). ;)
I’d say Cata blows HW2 out the water. HW2…was built in 7 months. It shows, sadly.
Wow, really? That is disappointing. I didn’t know it had that short a development schedule.
Yup. As I recall offhand (sorry if I get the details wrong, but I was quite heavily involved in the community at the time…) it was a issue where Sierra cancelled the original HW2 (“Dust Wars”) and they were given 6 months (extended to 7) to make a replacement. They had to lay people of (including a friend) off after it was finished too :/
Ugh, that’s awful, Starlight. It kinda was part of Sierra’s swan song, huh? When that logo popped up last night, all I could do was sigh.
Not only that, but Cataclysm’s multiplayer was the best of the lot, 2 diverse races that worked so well, with a ton of different strategies.
It is. Best gameplay in the series and a fun SP campaign with a cool spacey horror story.
But to be honest, I don’t think the game mechanics holds up outside the campaigns. They play kind of like StarCraft would, if every unit in StarCraft could fly and there wasn’t any terrain.
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