Nice shot of the Progenitor in the second screenshot.

*Runs*

But yeah, Homeworld and Sins have nothing in common apart from being real time and in space.

....You're comparing the texture quality on a frigate with that of the biggest and most prominent ship in Homeworld?

yea, sins and hw2 shouldnt be compared because they arent really that similar

and of course sins is wayyy out of hw2's league

Perhaps I should compare them with a picture of a fighter? I mean just look at that block in the second screens corner.

I agree and what you say has already been said countless times..I've just gotten to the point that I want to sick the Space Ponies onto the people that say "sins sucks and hw2 pwns it and leik it grafics are teh best kk."

Homeworld 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire are both space-based RTS games, but with several distinct features. I'm addicted to both games and think both are great.

QQ newbs. Homeworld 2 FTW =P

Err.. no. Homeworld (or do you mean Homeworld 2?) could easily have over a hundred ships on the screen at the same time. It's not to the same scale as sins, but it's not as bad a comparison as the post implies.

The first post is dramatically unfair. It takes one of the worst Homeworld 2 screenshots I've seen and puts it up against a perfectly framed Sins "screenshot" that I think may have been retouched but doesn't even look like the current game engine (how do you make a media centre tilt, and what's with the traffic on the planet's surface?). If you want to do a side-by-side comparison, record some high-resolution combat footage. Sins will still *win* IMO, but when you see a Homeworld 2 Hiigaran corvette actually fly in 3d around a capital ship, blasting with its 3d mobile turret that casts a shadow on itself, it's hard to diss the graphics that were provided with that now-old game.

If you're going to compare, at least be objective about it.


-- Retro

Aah. I even went before I posted that and looked through the keybindings to see how to move the camera so that it "twists" from the default horizontal, but I didn't see anything there that leapt out at me, although there was a "Z-axis" command that might do it. That the screenshot was from Beta also explains the planetary civilization looking markedly different. Thanks for the clarification, kryo.

-- Retro

ive never seen HW have that many

Homeworld was epic beyond belief. Nostalgia or not, i love that game with a passion.
Now if only they could release more than higher res textures, and maybe have decent particle effects a la Balknight's mod.
And don't say, omg for slow computers it would be bad!! Because I play with those particles on a bunch of different computers, and the game runs BETTER.
Specifically, balknight dealt with the iconis shield projection making it easier to see through and less taxing on pcs.

Apknullare: pretty as they are, some of those screens are modded and do not come from vanilla Homeworld 2, so they're also not quite "fair". Destroyers shoot projectiles, not beam weapons. The ships in your second and fourth screen do not exist in canon, and the ones they're derived from don't have nearly as many weapons. To be on a level playing field, wait a year until some good retooled Sins ships and weapon mods are released from creative modders, and post their screenshots in comparison.

Homeworld 2 self-shadowing was awesome although it killed your computer, but combat could get quite ball-of-light-ish. The reflective hulls of Advent and Vasari are equally sexy, and a fleet of Advent bombers focusfiring on an enemy flagship can be incredible if you grab the screenshot just at the right second, and watching a capship explode is a bit of a treat. So both games have their strong points.

-- Retro

Multianna, nobody said they did. But they had a cute bald chick on the cover of their game box, so there.

BTW, those screenshots are hilarious. Imagine seeing that fleet warp into your home system, even if it IS just scouts! OMG MALICE MALICE WHERE IS MY MALICE CAPSHIP???

Seriously though - HW2 was the kind of game that doesn't lend itself well to giant megauberfleets like the one you posted. It was a fleet-vs-fleet RTS combat game that focussed more on tactical elements in a single map that required hands-on management more than Sins. Because Sins provides many more "4x" elements including the concepts of planets, phase lanes, fixed infinite resourcing, capship levelling, and diplomacy, there will be a number of differences in the depth of the combat gameplay, particularly including shipcaps.

-- Retro