Homeworld Remastered Available for Pre-Order

[Rayfer]

I never owned or played the game but I remember reading a review back when it came out that said the game was incredibly difficult, so much so that many players gave up on it and moved on. Any truth to this?

[GDS_Starfury]

I found it to be pretty easy to get a grasp of.  so much so that its my benchmark for 3d camera control and GUI.
the thing to remember is that the AI is good enough to be left alone to do its thing while you pay attention to something else.  thats how you avoid the RTS overload.

[GDS_Starfury]

if you can play the Total War series you can play this.

[Kushan]

I never owned or played the game but I remember reading a review back when it came out that said the game was incredibly difficult, so much so that many players gave up on it and moved on. Any truth to this?

Because of its persistent nature the single player campaign could be damn near impossible if you didn't build the right units or mine every asteroid in a previous mission.

[GDS_Starfury]

both games had trigger points that advanced during a level that you learn pretty quickly to avoid.  O0
I had one campaign in the first game where I stole just about every ship on every level.

[JasonPratt]

I never owned or played the game but I remember reading a review back when it came out that said the game was incredibly difficult, so much so that many players gave up on it and moved on. Any truth to this?

I haven't finished many RTS campaigns, but I finished HW1 (though I never got around to buying the expansion or HW2). So it couldn't have been that hard. ;)

[glen55]

This does look cool...but I'm pretty sure when I first played Homeworld I found it pretty frenetic...and I ain't any younger or sharper now!!

I had the same experience.  And didn't they have those units that would attack your ship and convert it to theirs?  Like the #$!% priests in Age of Empire?  I hated that super-gamey hogwash.

Anyway, I never had the Homeworld love affair, but maybe I just didn't give it a fair chance.  It did, as I recall, include the essential element that makes RTS games playable: the ability to fully use the interface, including giving orders, while paused.

[GDS_Starfury]

in the first game you used salvage corvettes to take over ships and in the second game you had Marine boarding ships.  both were pretty useless in multiplayer but were pretty important in the solo campaign.

[Grim.Reaper]

Is HW only campaign/mission oriented or does it also include some kind of random sandbox mode?  Is replayability good regardless of which method included?

[GDS_Starfury]

there are hundreds of custom maps for solo and multiplayer.  I dont know if theyll be compatible right away or not but the modding community will make short work of that.  Im also sure the bigger and best received mods will be converted over.

[Con]

A little comparison of the old versus the new

Con

[GDS_Starfury]

Looking good has never been one of Homeworlds problems. 

[sandman2575]

impressive...most impressive...   

[mikeck]

Well, it's out tomorrow and I'm buying. Been looking forward to this for a long time. No other game can scratch that real time space combat itch

[Grim.Reaper]

Still on the fence myself...but will be watching....