Homeworld 3 Review - Very Disappointing
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today's games are a shitshow of over the top graphics with zero content, zero story, zero immersion, zero passion, zero soul. these games nowadays can not be compared to the games of the 90s and even some pioneers of the early 00s. sorry for being so negative, but this is something that really disappoints me. we see the same symptoms in the game industry that we see in other big industries. the consumer is not the focal point, but the money. and it does not matter how and where it comes from as long is it comes fast into the bank account of the shareholders. it's sad and if we want to save our games we need to fight for it somehow
Been preaching this for years and you are 100% right but sadly we are out numbered by shills and apologists both in the review industry and the consumers, until they go I can't see things getting any better.
Just play older games, it's not like we don't have 5 decades worth of masterpieces available already.
Also we still get some bangers every now and then.
Indies are the way
@@WorthABuyreviews Damn right about that. Worse off is that I wouldn't be surprised if Blackrock or Vanguard have influenced this game since the story is crap.
Wanted to say something in those lines, you are absolutely right. My 2 cents would be to just don't have hope for good quality games and you will not be disappointed, play older stuff and some new indies here and there who are actually good, 💩 is not worth our time, fuk reviews, obtain 💩 in other ways to properly try it, if that way games stick with you more than 3 days buy it. That would be the main way to fight the BS and of course the second (harder) path would be to start making your own games with love.
I actually expected hw3 to suck after seeing the first trailer, tone is 💩, strategy is 💩 and everything else is 💩 except maybe ship designs are ok. This will be the pattern for many years until the suck era of games pass by.
Cheers.
I don't understand how devs can constantly make these series worse with their changes! Just take what was good about the previous games and expand on it ffs.
I'm guessing most of the devs who made the original games no longer work there. It's long enough that some are probably even retired at this point. Kind of crazy eh?
@@mablesfatalfable6021you are spot on. Nothing is original anymore. Everything is just remakes and remasters or horrible sequels in the movie arena. It is because meritocracy is being replaced with victimhood and identity politics.
Obligatory uglification of the Fleet Command girl with each iteration...
Every studio seems to think that "modern" (not DEI, but 2024 in general) audience = stupid+lazy = give easy games, blizz said something about "starcraft 2 was too hard for a 2010 game" during some conference lol, every company out of touch
Meritocracy is being replaced by identity politics and victimization. One reason nothing is original these days from games, movies and TV
Tis the decade Devs are catfishing gamers. Do not buy this game, it is just bare bones. Nothing special about it.
Nope just wait for Sins of a Solar Empire 2. it has a steam page now.
Real shame, I could have got into this one.
Was hoping something good, hopes dashed.
Everything is memba berries and bait, smoke and mirrors.
Gamers have nothing now.
I quit gaming and feel happier enjoying other hobbies.
@@Dirge_Prime Must say that it doesn't look better than the old one either.
I’ll just keep replaying Homeworld 1 for the foreseeable future. It’s still the best 25 years later.
Try out Nebulous Fleet Command when you get a second! Entirely capital ship based at the moment but to me it is the only space combat system that gives Homeworld 1 a run for its money
I love #2 but each to their own.
@@legendmir1 HW2 with mods is pretty great.
I know I have played Homeworld 1, but apparently not on Steam, well, zero chance I will give more money to these people.
Cataclysm was the best for me. It's so sad to see devs treat this beloved franchise like another cash grab. There's just something rotten about the gaming industry these days.
was amazed how shit the story is, they really hire fucking anyone to write games these days
Not anyone, but deliberately activists with certain political views. Every. Sngle. Time.
@@Jackfromshack
I feel like at this point AI can write better stories than those people..
They should've just asked ChatGPT to write a story
SBI was consulted. I was actually banned in a steam discussion by a dev for just bringing up sweet baby inc. They are insane. Said it was "hate speech" LOL
@@Jackfromshack How is this about activism? Also, what qualifies as activism here? This is just about good and bad writing and specifically in-game storytelling. From what I see, they seem to have gone too far into the "overexplain everything" school of storywriting which seems to be modern (because it's the logical result of Wikipedia-fandom and online fan culture), but that has nothing to do with political views.
I was going to get this until I saw that there was pre-order exclusive content. Fuck that.
I lost interest when I saw Denuvo being used. Then read some of the Steam reviews and any level of "if it's amazing I might just let that pass" vanished.
Pre-order exclusive content AND a season pass AND Denuvo. Just how many red flags can they pack into a single release?
I don't have a problem with pre-order content, if it's just cosmetics. Backers that lend their money without seeing the product deserve some special treatment, to compensate them for the risk they are taking. Season pass is a bit silly for a game like this... usually subscriptions are warranted when the developer has to run servers, and intends to continually update the game. I doubt that's going to happen here.
@@chrishoppner150 They added more red flags than the big ones you mentioned.
- No real gameplay was shown past the lack luster demo (No review copies went out ahead with a couple of days ahead of release like they tried to hide something)
- The game was delayed for the regular edition - Or as they call it early access for the ones willing to pay more
- The game pass ONLY had content for the game mode everyone seemed least interested in.
- The eula basically turns all your digital life ownership to them (not that it supersedes laws... but narrow sighted seems to think it does :))
My 2 cents - The dev should have worked and listened more with the community and not their own hubris - Its plain as day!
Have you heard of pirating?
In Homeworld 2 it gathered all the resources at the end of a level and if i remember right there was usually a calm beginning to most levels to let you rebuild. Weird thats gone
and cataclysm let you mine out on some maps, while on others it gave you an incentive to leave asap (often in the form of an incoming enemy fleet too big for you to handle)
Because the game would be so easy you could do it with your eyes closed if they let you repair and mine the map afterwards. It's the only way they know how to artificially increase the difficulty.
@@SteelExoskeleton They also scaled the size of the enemy army based on what you had available. This wasn't a perfect system but it felt good to play and was immersive. If you felt like you needed to be patient and build your fleet, you would be justified because the enemy fleet was huge. If you rushed because the story made it seem like you should, you weren't punished.
Why are games nowadays 4-6 hours and they expect full price?
You realize there is more to the game than just the campaign, right?
@@AvalineSky go buy it then.. I won''t!
@@AvalineSky well.... he is right tho... as you say we get 4-6h and there is stuff beside the campaing, the problem is that we used to get the side stuff beside the campaing before AND the bloody campaing used to be 15-20 h, FOR THE SAME PRICE, that's what he is actually saying when he says only 4-6 h camp, i swear so many people talk about the multyplayer and side mods part of the game like it's something that people came up with JUST a few years ago and that's why the camp are so short and shit, when in realty we got that shit before WITH a LONG AND SATYSFYING CAMP
@@Sigrid_Von_Sincluster I fully agree.. and i remember 60 hour campaigns.
@@AvalineSky There was supposed to be more, but the rest of it sucks just as bad if not more.
They missed pretty much everything that made HW good. Especially the mysterious nature of the storytelling that didn't tell you too much about what was going on. It looks pretty nice. I'll give it that. Shout out to the artists.
That aspect is quite baffling to me since the Incarnate as a faction and the setting in a barely known sector of space filled with Progenitor megaliths would seem like a good setting to do that. The fact we don't even encounter any Progenitor automata like movers drones and keepers is particularly strange.
We should boycott any game that uses Denuvo.
And pirate anything by Rockstar, EA, Take Two, Paradox...
Or any game with woke
@diego2817 that's just any game with a women for you guys...
@@maskofsan1ty then why ai like tomb raider, resident evil etc? No dude, one thing is a woman in game and other thing is a woman empowered, Marie Sue that hates white men
@@maskofsan1ty Nobody is calling Stellar Blade woke
Honestly, there were several flags suggesting that Homeworld 3 would likely be a flop. The pre-release run-up didn't have the feel of a game that has Homeworld's storied pedigree.
- The PR trailers didn't show a lot of actual gameplay. They were just teasers.
- There wasn't a coherent story related by the promotional materials. Why are we returning to the world of Homeworld?
- No early reviews from anyone. No one plugging the game as the next best thing.
- Pre-order at full price. This is maybe the worst indicator. If the devs don't have confidence in their creation and just want to try and trick people into buying it, this is what they do.
Honestly, it reminded me of some of those movies sequels they release in the theater but they know it's bad but they try anyway, only for it to go to streaming not soon after and the box office numbers turn out terrible anyway. I really don't get it. If the game is bad, do they release it to try and recoup costs? Is the lost reputation worth it?
Dissappointing to see. I remember playing the first game with huge, multi hour-long battles that were really hard. Thanks for the review!
It was so unique at the time, I put so many hours into just skirmishes with AI.
lol, the missions in the first game take like 30 minutes on a hardmode run through on the first time bud.
i had play both 1 and 2 in 90 and ofc the remaster, it was nearly never as long as multi-hour battle, i believe we was young, and was lost at this time trying figure how it was work. each missions of the campaign of 1 and 2 was extremely short. At the moment you know what to do and where was the objective primary or secondary. ... No internet for help figure thing and mechanics who at this time could have been obscure. nostalgia is offtly only nostalgia in games. ( just say i was play on atarist in middle of 80 ). It seems fans of HW, the comunity are quite divised on it. you get good and bad review, i don't know if it is just the expectations who is too much high.. the story is effectevily not great ( not that the 1 and 2 was a miles better). I respect all opinions and i can understand each point of view.. the campaign is short i tend to believe the game is a good comeback and all the additional mode, warmode, skirmish and the multiplayer should bring a bit more than the campaign.
I bought the remastered collection on green man for a couple of £££ and I'm having a blast, old games are just far better value for money imo.
Homeworld had such a unique and special feel, and they've just missed the point completely.
That EULA alone is a big reason not to buy it
Elaborate?
@@15975322 They unilaterally give themselves the right to gather and sell pretty much all of your personal information. All of it. Seriously, it's a horrifying read.
@@15975322Just read it. You don't want a summary of something that controlling and predatory.
Does it require your first born?
They give themselves license to collect data like:
- first/last name
- e-mail address
- residential address
- telephone number
- photographic images (if uploaded by user)
- credit card information, if provided to their third-party payment processors for purchases
- shipping information, if provided for purchases
- country
- game device identifier
- screen name
- demographic information (age, gender, date of birth, marital status, race, level of education, etc.), if you choose to provide it in profiles, surveys or forums, such as an application to become one of their playtesters
Some of these are obviously less reasonable than others. There's no opt out to data gathering in general.
They also say they might grab your MAC-address.
My god. As a die hard homeworld fanboy I am in tears. This review is so TRUE. To the point. And if you compare this insight to the mainstream media, they should be ashamed.
Why not play it rather than going of this clowns videos
@@dazuk2630 we all played it and refunded because of this issue
Just another example of modern gaming slop. Everyone should be weary of any ip coming out now, woke bs aside.
i knew when i saw "gearbox" on the cover that this game would be DOA
I'm happy there is another Homeworld though.....
Voice acting - ugh
Cinematics - ugh
Story - ugh
Ship management - ugh
Gameplay overall - not bad
Homeworld 1&2 did it right, why change the core of what is Homeworld
Thanks for saving me money, as always :)
The removed the button to click to end missions? WTF?
That was (for exactly stated reasons) one of the best things about the damned series!
I distinctly remember being able to recuperate after some harder missions and i do believe, tho not certain even some with timer tended to have that same approach.
This is sadly not first time a classic was brought back to just be shadow of its former self, remember Aquanox, Battlezone (altho that was second comeback the first one in90s was decent), Saints Row, Duke.... the list is nigh endless.
stupid cash in culture, soiling good memories with subpar takes on brilliance.
I just knew this was gonna suck prior to the release of the demo, it has that gearbox stank all over it
The adventures of 'The Chin That Crushed a Thousand Spaceships' and 'Nonthreatening Blackman' against 'PMS-ing Female Palpatine from the end of The Rise of Skywalker'
I was not expecting Skibidi Toilet level of cinematics. When the Queen started zipping around Sjet's dreams I was dying.
@@bfrehksdhf Skibidi Toilet has a better story and better facial proportions
The moment I saw her face I was disappointed. I can not believe they made a main character look like that. Also you can see in one of the earlier trailers, they actually made a decent looking human face but apparently scrapped it for a bog chin.
Not warping out after mission complete was such a big deal. Cleaning out systems and salvaging after battles took longer time than the actual mission and let you replenish your fleet, tech up, set up squadrons. It was the only time you had to plan for the next mission. Yes there was THAT mission that punished you for it, but that single mission was the only one where you warped bare bones and rushed to build once in the next zone... having the whole campaign be that way tells me that I won't be enjoying this skin suit of a homeworld game.
The older I’ve become, the more I resent any game that decides to remove my player agency and rip into a cut scene or some such.
And to force the player to “move on” to the next chapter without being able to harvest battlefield resources, which was a staple of the Homeworld series, is an absolute no-no.
This’ll be a regrettable but definitive hard-pass for me.
All these years of buildup, to be squandered on the rocks of “meh”…..seriously Blackbird Interactive, WTF?!
Yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man
@@RvBy88 thank you Donny!
@@thedudeabides3138 Pardon me it seems I'm a bit out of my element
@@RvBy88 so you have no frame of reference here….you’re like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie….
@@thedudeabides3138 What?? You're entering a world of pain!!
Seems to me we have more games coming out than ever before it's just that most are so meh. I think the whole industry needs a good crash or at least a major shake up.
I think when gaming as a whole became more mainstream, it was just inevitable that things would get watered down. The flip is now money > passion when it should be the inverse.
A crash is needed for sure: this is exactly what happened in the late 80’s and the crash led to a resurgence of fresh and entertaining games in the 90’s and 2000’s as the developers needed to regain the consumers trust.
Personally, this game is the biggest disappointment in a long LONG time. I loved the first two games, even the last one was kinda okay. Ive dreamed of HW3 for over a decade and then they drop this. Its just a shallow husk that looks great but has almost nothing to do with the originals. It lacks soul regarding story and know how when it comes to gameplay/strategy. I feel so let down i cant even describe it, its just a game but HW always had a special place in my heart. Everything goes to shit these days, LotR was the last one to break my heart thanks to amazon, but THIS really takes the cake.
The original Homeworld was amazing. It was groundbreaking and had an awesome story to go with it. I am so sad to see what this has turned into.
The only positives I've seen of this game are the graphics and the UI. I'm not really sure why they felt the need to even make another but here we are. Kind of crazy given how well they handled the remaster of 1 and 2 and how good Deserts of Kharak were.
the gameplay IMO is pretty good, though I have a few gripes with it. The roadmap they have proposed seems quite good with two new "factions" (remained to be seen on what that entails) by the end of the year, alongside new maps. If they actually deliver on that, homeworld 3 will have a fleshed out multiplayer experience for quite a long time, and with the modding support it will have quite a lot going for it.
However, if you want a deep and entertaining campaign story similar to HW1 or 2, look elsewhere.
The sense of scale in homeworld 3 is dialed up to 11 googols, to a point, where size and distance and inertia and speed obviously does not matter AT ALL anymore in any way, except for purely arbitrary constrains.
This is so incoherent, that it even makes DisneyWars look like shakespeare in comparison.
thats because of the scaling options, if you actually disable it the scale returns to normal (I literally did this in the first tutorial mission because it bothered me a considerable amount)
Mac, what is the song that plays at the end of your videos? I am always captivated by it.
Can you game the ‘mission over’ issue by leaving an enemy ship alive while you gather and repair?
You shouldn't need to...
haha i used to do that in homeworld 2 :D
This is the era of skin suit remakes
Well, I was kinda afraid of that when you said "homeworld 3 looks great" literally yesterday
Thanks for the info!. Was thinking about picking this up. $80-$90 for full package is expensive!. Will wait for a deep sale in a year or two.😉
Never support weasels. Never.
i waited 20 years for this, nothing will top hw1's story
Looks like a game to pick up in a 75% off sale in 6 months...
Big fan of the first one, Cataclysm and Deserts of Kharak. Played the demo for this and then bought the full game on release and played for about 10 minutes. Refunded because I immediately got a bad vibe. Maybe in a year at a hefty discount.
@@firstandlastname6194 I'm getting intense Dawn of War 3 vibes from this one.
@@CheeseDanish85 Yeah. I have a feeling this is dead on arrival for a number of reasons. The subreddit appears to be going through the stages of grief with users at various points in the process of that.
This is where the IP dies for the foreseeable future unfortunately I believe. Maybe Gearbox sells the IP for cents on the dollar in 5 to 10 years. Another studio tries again in 15 years. I wish the IP would go to a better publisher. Imagine if it went to Valve, who made Half Life while being published by Sierra who also published the original Homeworld. The IP in my opinion requires a 'benevolent' publisher for the real vision and appeal of the IP to carry through.
Its a huge shame because I think all things considered BBI hit it out of the park with Deserts of Kharak. Played the campaign through about 4 times now. Homeworld remastered released at roughly the same time so it was a golden period for Homeworld that maybe wasn't appreciated as much as it should have been.
The Dawn of War 3 comparison is apt in many ways. If publishers expected a live service model to justify the existence of Homeworld 3, then its done for. Thats not even taking into account they appear to have hitched their horse to the MOBA wagon. Ill be in my mid to late 50's potentially before someone has another run at it, once again its a real shame because Deserts of Kharak was the last time we got Homeworld, it was great in its style and gameplay and I think under celebrated.
sadly when i seen there was a mobile game for homeworld i new this would happen
Are you going to check out the Valheim Ashlands update?
One question, will you earn more via youtube Abo or patreon ? Thank you for a short info.
They are all pretty much equal tbh.
@@WorthABuyreviews Thank you, joined your channel.
When I saw the £50 price tag I was like hell naw it needs to be really good to get me to pay, so glad I’ve waited, next up sins of a solar empire 2
Homeworld remasters and DOK is often on sale at around 5 euros on third-party websites.
Homeworld 3 campaign is slightly shorter than DOK's campaign which was the shortest.
Remaster includes HW 1 and 2 including the classic version+ has mod support too.
So it is a very great value.
In the previous games all the left over resources were automatically collected at the end of the mission, I don’t know if this does the same?
If it's got Denuvo does that mean you can't play in offline mode? Or does it do the thing where it lets you play offline until a certain point where it demands you reconnect and verify you bought the game?
It's on steam... so why should you have to verify yourself? I play the game since launch and had no problems at all :)
@@Melkor1205 Idk. I've never bought a Denuvo game I've just heard that it requires an online connection to verify you as the original purchaser.
Genuinely curious if you played the originals Mac? I kinda feel like the cutscenes did that jarring “LOOK AT THIS” in those ones as well? Is this one way worse, or more jarring for some reason??
Thanks.
Homeworld 3 now stays on the shelf with such giants as -
Supeme Commander 2 and Dawn of War 3
Pity.
Will go and play Homeworld: Cataclysm again, being the best in the series.
Great review. Think you should comapre this with sins of a solar empire 2 when it gets released later this year. I think it will make for an interesting comparrison.
Why the heck are companies not capable of realizing that pouring millions into years of development to make an underwhelming game isn't going to make them the money they wanted? Yeah a bunch of people are past their refund windows now, but there's no way they're going to touch the DLC or anything else they put out after this nonsense.
I begged the developers not to force a warp out at the end of missions.
I knew there was something wrong with this game after watching the trailer. They changed the model of the main character to a person of color. I thought she was supposed to be a white woman originally. They also had a black guy in it and no white characters
Great review.
I have been playing homeworld since i first saw it on the 1999 PC ZONE demo disc. Ive hundreds of hours in Homeworld 2 and played pretty much every mod. To say I have been excited for this game is a bit of an understatement. I Pre-Ordered the collecters edition the day it came out years ago.
When i completed a skirmish in 12 minutes I knew this was not Homeworld. The campaign was ok and the game is gorgeous, but its just a zerg rush and spam build.
I am hugely dissapointed but I have faith in modders.
What's online like?
I'm a Homeworld fan, although not a die hard one. And hearing how this sequel turned out to be is heartbreaking.
been watching a bit of the campaign; they're not only holding your hand, they're literally dragging you along if you're docile, or otherwise just push you ahead anyways. the mostly soulless voice acting doesn't help either.
Is there an early look at No Rest for the Wicked on the way Mack?
was that insta leave also in homeworld 2. i'll have to rewatch mandalores review on it but i think it was mentioned in there that you can't stay after winning a mission. might be misremembering it entierly, so do not take my word for it since i am as unsure as i can be.
homeworld 2 does an instaleave, but it also automatically and instantly gives you all the ressources remaining on the map, basically mining out the while map without you having to spend the time doing it. Here seems what you dont mine is just lost instead, and they dont give you a chance to mine anything post-mission either.
@@thorveim1174 so it was optional?
@@jacobhederstrom8198 in 2 no, but the main reason you would usually want to stay post-mission (gathering all ressources) was basically automated. A case of an instaleave that gives you what you would most likely want to stay for instantly
@@thorveim1174 another reason would be to repair your ships. did it do that too.
@@jacobhederstrom8198 I honestly dont remember for that point. But at the time I know it was mainly seen as speeding up the process of end missions in HW1 where you often just had to wait a long time for collectors to finish grabbing everything (Cataclysm making the process more bearable by allowing you to speed up the game)
I'm currently having an issue of not being able to proceed past a mission. Beat it and remains stuck. Then if I take my eyes off any units, they go to the other side of the map.
its what i feared... this is the reason developers banning anyone mentioning DEI on the steam forums. Game is DEI infested. But what is the deal breaker for me is Denuvo. This only exists to punsh legitimate owners, while the prirates enjoy a crap denuvo free version. Guess which version ill be playing.
How is it DEI infested? Because fleet command is a woman and the captain is a black man? Complaining about that shows you know nothing about the universe
@@AvalineSky dem cutscenes.
@@AvalineSky Well we know it is DEI infested because it is extremely forced, not natural.
@@AvalineSky If you are incapable to see the woke tropes by this point, that's astonishing.
@@speckbretzelfan these fake actors keeps pretend like it is still 2015 and no one know what is "woke" about. Outdated instructions
0:23 enough with the man jaws.
Also getting in early comments Mack, thanks for everything you do, and have you ever tried star wars republic commando?
Are you going to be reviewing hades 2 ?
The publisher (Gearbox) outbid the developer (Blackbird Interactive) when the IP went to auction. The develops can make good games with good stories, and the difference is staggering:
HW Deserts of Kharak: The story was already completed when the IP was lost, so the developers released that good game without publisher interference.
HW3: The publisher then took over creative control on the story and just shredded it.
One of the first things I noticed, which rubbed me the wrong way were the Fighter Crafts. You can make these large formations and tell them to attack multiple enemies with that drag and click command, but these Fighter Formations act like a single entity. A single fighter craft that attacks one thing at a time.
Man. Shouldn't we be at a point by now, where each individual Ship can attack another target in an RTS?
The first review i am watching on the new shiny Homeworld. A game i adored for many many many Years.
I am kinda scared to watch this as i know Mack loves the original Homeworld so he will be brutally honest if this is yet another Bastardisation of the Franchise.
Seriously kinda anxious about clicking Play here guys had to pour myself a Brandy!!!
I'm just getting ready for Ghost of Tsushima on PC
Guess I'll buy this in a huge sale in a year or two.
The only really 3D strategy RTS series, but it seems the Devs have a hard time catching up with the fame of their firstborn. The graphics seem to be much better, but it seems strategy hasn't developed much from the past.
Yeah. I mean the tragic thing is RTS is a stagnant genre because it's effectively been left to molder and rot since the mid 2000's when Halo 2 and Halo 3 broke open gaming to a mainstream market, and then Call of Duty 4 collectively transformed the industry to "play it safe" for 20 years straight. An example:
Between 2000 and 2012 a tremendous amount of change happened in gaming. Virtually nothing like what was coming out in early 2000's was coming out by late 2000's, and by 2012 was considered intolerably old to a lot of people and outdated. Dragon's Dogma came out in 2012. Dragon's Dogma 2 came out in 2024. Annnnnd they're basically identical games in all the ways that matter once you get past the visuals and the trappings of the setting; and play almost identically. Big studios like Gearbox are stagnant as fuck.
Not to mention the devs are very "sensitive". I happened to mention "woke" in a post not even referring to their game or any person, and I got a permaban , yes, no warning, no comment deletion, permaban....just on that basis alone I de-wishlisted and will never buy.
It's a gearbox after all. See what they did with borderlands adventure.
I will not pay to get propagandized, I can get that for free. Plus, Denuvo? Zero chance I will buy any game that has it from any publisher.
@@charlesfranks1902 100%. Political propaganda, of any kind, has no place in video games. We have to reject it until they either stop or go broke.
@@Jackfromshackthis makes me feel much better about being banned.
I hope gearbox digs their own grave into bankruptcy.
Bunch of bigots
Major fan of the first Homeworld, played it and replayed it for years, still one of my favorite games ever. Second one was OK, pace was a bit high for me, but it was enjoyable. Was really looking forward to this one, sad to hear it hasn't lived up to the expectations.
Btw 4-6h campaign is beyond BS. That's how long some of the missions in the first one took to solve (they were hard) and complete.
I remember spending days thinking of the best strategy to complete some missions.
Dang it. I was a massive fan of the first game, too. But I will get it tho to complete my Homeworld collection: the only time I'll do that for a developer now days. I miss my CD and manual in a box. I owned it it at least back then!
Me personally I really like the game. I think the terrain is new and thought there are some holes but I would recommend it. But for the people who don’t like maby get it on a discount.
Cataclysm *cough* Emergence is still the best Homeworld then
If any of you wants to take a step further into really deep space combat tactics I can highly recommend Nebulous: Fleet Command. It's not much of a looker, but man it goes into some crazy details regarding fictional space warfare. It won't scratch the Homeworld itch exactly, but it might distract you from this and maybe become a gateway into a different branch of space strategy games.
I was looking for an answer on why story went bonkers and I found it, essentially Gearbox provided their own writer for the project which is woke , ironically that person isn't even credited, but there is a whole article on Homeworld Universe with name Lyn Joice
Please be respectful and use the full title "Gearbox Managing Director of Narrative Writing Lin Joyce" :p
Are you going to review Gray Zone Warfare???
i can still remember the first ones, with the spectacular score (Adagio for strings with a choir). spectacular game.
so sad the new one isn't up to par.....
Wait, the previous games had autoharvest, when you leave the map and it s safe they auto harvest everything. Is this not the case?
Last 5 lvls was just 50 to all strike craft production. Only lost one destroyer maybe 50 frigates the wholegame. Two mission restarts because of 'oh, thats what i was ment to do'. And the story. I feel like the run up to the story, plus the story was the way to go.
I believe the "let's leave NOW' thing was also present AND highly criticized in HW 2 (can't say about Deserts of Kharak, only watched LP years ago). Previous games allowed you to mine & restock, and "Emergency Jump" was actual plotpoint few times (but you still could opt to play, even if the environment was really hostile).
06:36 what did he say the pirates have? “Newvum????????”
07:29 “denewvo?????”
I dont know why, but i found it utterly hilarious how you personified the captain at the end of the mission in this game. I subscribed and happy birthday tomorrow
If resources and the state of your units is persistent between missions, it should be like call to arms, gates of hell, there's an option to stay or continue and I always stay and loot all the cool weapons, and steal vehicles until my dudes have full inventories
Jesus christ the settings UI looks like something straight out the 90s
Yeah, sadly I was expecting it to be not good at all. I have seen some videos from other people when there was only a demo and they were dissapointed as well. I was really looking forward to HW3, hopefully Falling Frontier will be much better than this.
You mentioned the word 'frantic', that's what I felt playing the pre-relaease demo. While I guess certain battle simulations might/should be 'frantic', it just seemed too 'busy'.
Really sad about this one. I'll pick it up on sale down the line when it's got some updates and expansions added to it. In the meantime I picked up the Homeworld Remastered Collection for $2.98 on GMG. What a steal!
I was looking for this and it was on my wishlist on steam. Imagine my surprise to see that price was 60$.
Perhaps the skirmish is balanced to having hotkeys memorized?
Mack! You have spoken!
However, i fucking knew it, but the inevitable lovely vid of you tearing it apart like the sweet calf in Jurassic Park always is a fuc*ing stellar moment, it really gives back some life forces, thank you
Haters living off of the negative energy?
@@cyberangel82 not taking such low quality bait anymore
I loved playing Homeworld Cataclysm. It had a great single player campaign and skirmishh mode. Homeworld 1 it both a great single player and skirmish game modes. Homeworld 2's campaign was too difficult, but the modding community made it both single player and skirmish mode fun.
2:14 that's EXACTLY what I hated about the previous ones as well
I agree. The story in Homeworld 1 and to an extend Homeworld 2 was really good. But from what i have seen on this one... its bad...
and you have also Cataclysm's story that shows that you can take the setting on a completely different route and have it WORK too.
@@thorveim1174 i had totally forgotten about that. Thou i havent played it. I have seen a playthru of it. And the story in that is really good too.
I had this happening with cutscenes it was driving me mad. I started pausing the game more frequently, hoping this wouldn't happen as often.
Looks to me as the first game lol. This game was ok back in the day they had to let it rest in peace.
I did the mistake of trying out the VR Homeworld game. It's even worse than this. Totally stripped down. There's not even a skirmish mode. You can only replay chapters of the story. And the AI in that version is brain dead.
The AI in every homeworld is brain dead, though.
@CaptainSkuzzy It's even worse due to the fact it has really low ship counts and the fact that ships can't exist outside a group. It's very streamlined.
Sad, I was looking forward to this...tks Mac for an honest review... maybe ill just buy the soundtrack if possible
...the music and sound effects are excellent
Returns with a hyperspace fart.
I backed Homeworld 3 on Fig in 2019, which was before anyone would see how Blackbird Interactive (under Focus Entertainment at the time) would also throw out everything Hardspace about "Hardspace: Shipbreaker" to instead just present another cookie cutter message about 'muh late-stage capitalism'.
Thanks for the heads up, glad i waited for a trusted review, wont be touching it.
The removal of subsystem was the single dealbreaker for me. Boooo!
no jumping in skirmishes. jumping was the only tactic of the game.
Gearbox is sweetbaby involved, by the way. No wonder fleet command looks ugly af. The original fleet command looks like and talks like an organic entwined machine. This new fleet command has more emotions then logic to command a fleet to save someone...