From HW series I liked most Cataclysm. I actually completed it first, then I went back and finished HW1 as well, with "maybe it isn't so cookie-sugar as I originally thought" approach. HW2 didn't impress me for some reason.

There was another game - O.R.B. that also passed roughly fogrotten (but started development before HW1, so they say).

What did you do with the corpse?

Homeworld is the best space tactical game ever created in the history of humankind. HW:C is just more of it even if it does silly things like putting the Middle East on Hiigara, and HW2 was good too it just lacked the first's polish.

HW3 is likely in development, not only because THQ bought the licence but also Relic keeps talking about its super secret project.

Edit: ORB was crap, don't buy it.

I don't remember... I think I was consumed by temporary insanity.

ive playe homeworld and hw cataclysm and theyre both great , i havnt played hw2 bit if those games r any indication of the other, its a great game

Nexus 1, that is Nexus: The Jupiter Incident was awesome. It had so much potential.

People compare Homeworld and SoaSE a lot because they are in fact extremely similar. I think SoaSE is more Homeworld then Galatic Civ II tbh. However I cannot say that I really liked Homeworld 2, and many big Homeworld fans didn't either. The interface is terrible IMO, the subsystems was a nice idea but was badly implemented, and there was little macro involved.

I just finished Cataclysm for about the 4th or 5th time since it was released, still a brilliant game.

Also look at Haegemonia (aka Hegemonia), it implemented many of the ideas that Sins has now; ie the combination of 4x and RTS. Diplomacy and spying were both very well done. Still the best explosions in a space game as well

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I didn't like Homeworld 2 .... The first one was one of the greatest Games i've ever played.... For me, there was a big black hole after Homeworld 1 and Cataclysm... It took a couple of years till i got a similar Game with additional content (Skills/Items) that i missed in Homeworld... And then i played the Demo of this new Game and throw it in the corner... 2Years later i bought it for 20sFr... And played it 10 times... Sometimes life is strange... Anyway... If you love Homeworld like gameplay with a greate story, nonlinear Storyline and a lot of Skill/Item fun, then buy Star Wolves... Star Wolves 2 is realy bulls**t, but the first one is a kind of "old" Games i remember from Amiga... Anyway, if you have the chance to play it, do it... If you finished the third mission, you will be adicted to it...

Homeworld did have an excellent story behind it. Think the story was by someone named Dave Applegate?

So has anyone found out ANY way to make Homeworld 2 run in vista?
After the patch obviously, thats neccessary for the neat mods.
I just keep getting the DEP error, all the time. Cant even start it up
Never had any problems like that with any other game, ever.. And if i try to change the settings to be able to pick which apps should NOT be protected by that DEP thing, when i choose the homeworld2 exe it just says "This application HAS to be protected by DEP".
I mean, what the fuck?

And yes, tried running in compatability mode, im always in admin mode, etc etc etc. That aint the issue. DEP is. The reason i ask here is, well.. The homeworld official forums dont exist/are dead lol

I think HW2 was better then HW and expansion. Because in HW2 it had lot more things that could be done, espcaily the ablity to hide in dust clouds and surprise attack. And the subsystem idea was great in HW2 on the mothership, and also that capitail ships. Wish that it could have been done in SOASE.

It'll work on Vista,
i have it here and works fine.

Dude... ummm.... I respect your opinion and all that jive but.... YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR GOD DAMN MIND! HW2 > HW1... that's blasphemous!

I do however agree with subsystems for SOASE

I think part of it is that when anyone sees two games with spaceships they think they are the same. It is like that with science fiction in general with a lot of people. Put on any show in space with aliens and people think it is Star Trek.

 
  Abso-f***ing-lutely!

HW1 = greatest space story-driven game I ever touched.

HWC = wicked "expansion" on the already deep HW lore.

HW2 = should never have been made! (wow, what an epic letdown that POS was)


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I liked all three of the Homeworld games, although the only one I played multiplayer was HW2 (I played a LOT of HW 2 multiplayer off and on for about 18 months!). I thought HW1 had the best single player story (and music) by far, but the story in Cataclysm wasn't bad either. Although I probably liked the gameplay of HW2 the best of the three, I thought the story was pretty cookie-cutter Sci fi fare...


Nexus the Jupiter Incident was a very cool game also, but I thought the gameplay lacked a feeling of really controlling the fleets. Maybe I was missing something, but it seemed to me like you would customize your fleet, and then send it in and sort of watch what happens. Trying to manuever the ships where you wanted them once battle was joined was difficult, so it was mostly just picking targets to focus fire. Sins is far better in this regard (now that I am more used to the interface).

I thought Imperium Galactica was sort of a weak ripoff of Pax Imperium, which was a very old and obscure RTS space empire game somewhat similar to Sins in many ways.

The best space empire games are Moo1 and Moo2. I really tried hard to like Moo3, and I am hopeful that a competent dev team can revive the Turn Based MOO franchise...

Yeah it was a fantastic game, i stumbled upon the first one by accident, got in a 3 for 1 offer. Then noticed a week later the second one on teh shelves.

HWI:
Graphics are outdated, but this game earmarked a new age of RTS.
The story was second to NONE and had me completed enthralled by time I reached the Garden of Kadesh (still one of my favorite missions).
Finally reaching the Exile's Homeworld and defeating the centuries old Emperor Kaiidan was epic.
The narration drove this game as much as anything else, imo.

HW:Cataclysm:
Provided an in-depth view of Kiith Somtaaw, a lowly working family that, through the greed of their leading council, unleashed the Beast on the galaxy.
The fleet commander of Kiith Somtaaw is voice acted superbly. When you fire the siege cannon and he quietly says, "Burn, you monstrosity," I got a chill. Ooh, I just got one thinking about it.
The addition of individual ships receiving experience points and the associated boosts in power added a level of attachment that was profound.
I strove to keep every ship "alive" and hated losing even a lowly scout.
I loved my ramming ships (stupid beast conversion beam!)

HW2:
Graphics are top-notch. When firing cannons, ship's turrets actually recoil and when missiles slam into a ship hull they break apart.
We lose the individual fighter in favor of fighter squadrons (which I didn't like) and we lose the experience system which makes losing any ship inconsequential.
Where's my Super Acolytes!?
The story of finding Sajuuk and fighting off Makaan is epic.
Battlecruisers for the win.

I think people are being a little unfair to HW2. The story line followed canon and was still one of the best I've ever experienced. The progenitor ships, the Gate of Balcora, the revivification of Sajuuk and the revelation of inter-galactic travel and the progenitors becoming immortal through their machines were awesome story elements. I only wish Relic stuck with the original storyline for HW2. I pray HW3 comes out one day and they bring back ship experience a la HW:C to make one want to save their pilots and not just "zerg" their opponents, but use strategy to minimize losses.

For people with HW. Get the PDS mod, it's pretty much a remade of the the entire game, epic is the only word to describe.

HOMWORLD 2 best of the best no oter rts can compair to it

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HW 1 = best ever.....period.

HW C = second by a slight margin

HW 2 = looked nicer than HW1....but didn't improve anything else, and in fact broke some gameplay elements that made HW1 the "game of the year".

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