tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post7183796676002451531..comments2024-03-22T19:07:21.790+00:00Comments on The Wertzone: Wertzone Classics: HomeworldAdam Whiteheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-59534424252711278682009-04-28T01:31:00.000+00:002009-04-28T01:31:00.000+00:00I would say Homeworld was one of the classics; it ...I would say Homeworld was one of the classics; it unquestionably changed the genre forever.<br /><br />Haegemonia?<br /><br />Not so much. It's a good game, and I enjoyed it, but I remember swearing and vast frustration when i had to recapture a planet I had just finished fortifying, because the script dictated that it belongs to the enemy in the next mission - despite allowing it to conveniently keep the fortifications I built, while reducing some of my carefully developed colonies practically back to the Stone Age.<br /><br />Homeworld had none of this; if anything, the single flaw demonstrated by Homeworld was the really incredible length of time necessary at the end of a mission for your harvesters to collect everything in the map before your departure.<br /><br />Cataclysm, frankly, was stronger storywise (heresy) although with less voice acting talent. (And, I will note, I have never had any trouble getting it to run at all.)<br /><br />Homeworld 2, honestly, was a mess.<br /><br />In real life, a fleet suffering heavy losses - such as what happens to the Vaygr several times through the course of the story - cannot simply replace them endlessly; at some point the rate of reinforcement starts to slow.<br /><br />In Homeworld 2, in several missions the "difficulty" is ratcheted up by simply adding infinite enemy spawn points that unleash a neverending flood of enemies on you... what relation does THIS have to reality?<br /><br />Yes, you can kill my battlecruisers with ease, if you can simply replace your battlecruisers with an endless stream of new ones.<br /><br />Also, there are several missions in which the enemies are indestructible for some length of time, allowing them to ravage your fleet at will, and the ships lost to their ire are essentially a matter of luck; this isn't "difficult," so much as "ghetto."<br /><br />The original was vastly superior.Xenodoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922323204747149207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-48797888442292625282009-04-15T10:26:00.000+00:002009-04-15T10:26:00.000+00:00I loved this game - it was the first computer game...I loved this game - it was the first computer game I ever played (and there have been damn few since) that gave me a sense of awe. I used to spend ages just watching my fleet from different angles, enjoying the music and graphics that have still not dated too badly. Plus, the voice-acting was top notch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-31747848739975651702009-04-13T23:44:00.000+00:002009-04-13T23:44:00.000+00:00There's also Haegemonia: Legions of Iron which is ...There's also Haegemonia: Legions of Iron which is closer to Sins of a Solar Empire in make-up, but the combat is a little bit more reminiscent of Homeworld. It doesn't have the same feel as Homeworld, though. Nothing really does to be honest.Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-84210869213146043362009-04-13T18:35:00.000+00:002009-04-13T18:35:00.000+00:00I do not really remember, but I could play Catacly...I do not really remember, but I could play Cataclysm only once on my old system... on all of the following computers it had issues.<BR/><BR/>And now with Vista I do not even dare to try it. You are right, Vista does not run a lot of games that run in XP. Not even in compatibility mode.<BR/><BR/>But there is "Sins of a Solar Empire", after all. Some call it the successor to Homeworld, and deplore the fact that it is not, actually. Despite winning quite a lot of awards, the single-player mode cannot compare to Master of Orion or Homeworld. It does not have a campaign nor a story and has very repetitive gameplay. It is still a nice game in its own way.Longaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14315739202508784897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-5534914429640274412009-04-13T14:24:00.000+00:002009-04-13T14:24:00.000+00:00I thought the story was good, and I think I mentio...I thought the story was good, and I think I mentioned it. Given the events of HW2 and the size of the Taiidani Empire as revealed in some of the auxillary material, plus the fact that Hiigara was the Taiidan capital world, I thought it a stretch that your one fleet could bring the whole thing teetering down, but the approbation of the Council and the Bentusi plus the internal rebellion led by Elson did help explain that.<BR/><BR/>Cataclysm worked fine for me on XP. In fact, I think Cataclysm came out after XP launched, so it would have had to work. Have you tried running the game patched it up to the latest version? Or in 'compatibility mode' for Windows 98 if that doesn't work?<BR/><BR/>I believe there are some issues getting the game to work with Vista, one of many reasons I haven't upgraded yet. I think HW2 is fine, but both HW1 and Cataclysm have issues and CTDs with Vista.Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-16456475080032587092009-04-13T14:04:00.000+00:002009-04-13T14:04:00.000+00:00Does it work on Vista? I played it on Windows XP, ...Does it work on Vista? I played it on Windows XP, but did not test it on Vista so far.<BR/><BR/>It worked very well on XP, but the sequel "Cataclysm" did not, for some odd reason.Longaschttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14315739202508784897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703856341303488608.post-78233051343027652482009-04-13T09:30:00.000+00:002009-04-13T09:30:00.000+00:00For a SF/F review site, I think you should have ma...For a SF/F review site, I think you should have made some comments on the story as well.<BR/><BR/>To me, the story is the only weak point of the game, whereas most reviewers I've read praise it to the skies.Thadleriannoreply@blogger.com