Jerykk wrote on May 4, 2012, 01:10:THQ actually purchased the rights from Sierra back when it crumbled, so yes, the possibility exists, but I doubt we'll ever see another Homeworld. They don't feel the market for it is big enough.Burrito of Peace wrote on May 3, 2012, 18:42:
Not Homeworld 3?
Fuck you, Relic. Fuck you.
Does Relic even own the Homeworld IP? Last I checked, Sierra published the Homeworld games. Then Vivendi bought Sierra. Then Vivendi sold most of its IP to Activision. So there's a pretty good chance that Activision owns the Homeworld IP, which means it is basically dead.
InBlack wrote on May 4, 2012, 04:50:
You can pause the game and look around??????
I think I need reinstall CoH
ShakyJake wrote on May 3, 2012, 22:12:Creston wrote on May 3, 2012, 16:46:
It also had a just plain stupid final mission. "What's the ONE thing that really pisses RTS gamers off? Oh, it's when they have to fight in multiple areas of the map at once. Let's make a map where they have to do so in three (four?) different locations! GIGGLELULZ!"
So... not terribly excited about this one, but Relic makes good enough games that it always warrants to keep an eye on them.
Creston
I had a lot of trouble with some of those missions that required a lot of attention in different areas, too. Then, I discovered the "pause" key. Being able to pause the game and review what's going on around the map, and focus on the production that needs to be done without the pressure of having things going on makes some of those missions much more bearable.
Burrito of Peace wrote on May 3, 2012, 18:42:
Not Homeworld 3?
Fuck you, Relic. Fuck you.
Creston wrote on May 3, 2012, 16:46:
It also had a just plain stupid final mission. "What's the ONE thing that really pisses RTS gamers off? Oh, it's when they have to fight in multiple areas of the map at once. Let's make a map where they have to do so in three (four?) different locations! GIGGLELULZ!"
So... not terribly excited about this one, but Relic makes good enough games that it always warrants to keep an eye on them.
Creston
Burrito of Peace wrote on May 3, 2012, 18:42:
Not Homeworld 3?
Fuck you, Relic. Fuck you.
Flatline wrote on May 3, 2012, 17:27:Creston wrote on May 3, 2012, 16:46:
I never really got into the original CoH. I thought at the time that it deviated from the established RTS formally too much (imagine my surprise when DoW2 came out...) and the really precise "this is needed to counter that and that is needed to counter that" stuff was just annoying. there were also way too many missions of the "These are your forces, and they're all you get. Now go attack Hitler's Third Legion with them!" variety.
It also had a just plain stupid final mission. "What's the ONE thing that really pisses RTS gamers off? Oh, it's when they have to fight in multiple areas of the map at once. Let's make a map where they have to do so in three (four?) different locations! GIGGLELULZ!"
So... not terribly excited about this one, but Relic makes good enough games that it always warrants to keep an eye on them.
Creston
Are you really arguing over not being able to hit ctrl-a and sending a massive overwhelming mob to win the level?
Once you got tanks rolling out they more or less won. You might need some infantry with bazookas to take out AT guns, but otherwise tanks + machine guns = win. You'd just have to flank the tanks or it'd be a long, brutal slugfest.
And considering that every previous mission dealt with area control, expanding the game to cap & hold didn't strike me as that big of a stretch.
Creston wrote on May 3, 2012, 16:46:
I never really got into the original CoH. I thought at the time that it deviated from the established RTS formally too much (imagine my surprise when DoW2 came out...) and the really precise "this is needed to counter that and that is needed to counter that" stuff was just annoying. there were also way too many missions of the "These are your forces, and they're all you get. Now go attack Hitler's Third Legion with them!" variety.
It also had a just plain stupid final mission. "What's the ONE thing that really pisses RTS gamers off? Oh, it's when they have to fight in multiple areas of the map at once. Let's make a map where they have to do so in three (four?) different locations! GIGGLELULZ!"
So... not terribly excited about this one, but Relic makes good enough games that it always warrants to keep an eye on them.
Creston
and the really precise "this is needed to counter that and that is needed to counter that" stuff was just annoying.
Verno wrote on May 3, 2012, 14:59:Flatline wrote on May 3, 2012, 14:46:
I'm actually surprised that they're sticking with the European theater. There's a lot of other options during WW2. Eastern front is interesting to be sure, but there's also the African campaign, the Italian campaign, not to mention the entire Pacific Theater.
Africa would have been great, it's always neglected in media representation. Some great battles in that for the singleplayer scenarios - Tobruk, El Alamein, etc.
Tumbler wrote on May 3, 2012, 15:47:
After DoW2, the expansions, Company of Heroes Online and then Space Marine I'm not feeling good about the next game from Relic. And I suppose that weird mini game is something too. All that weird dlc for those leader characters...can't even remember what they called it.
I'm expecting this to be some weird hybrid between space marine and CoH. The scanned mag images definitely seem to suggest they're going to extreme detail up close which looks like a FPS/3PS at times.
Tumbler wrote on May 3, 2012, 15:47:
I'm expecting this to be some weird hybrid between space marine and CoH. The scanned mag images definitely seem to suggest they're going to extreme detail up close which looks like a FPS/3PS at times.