Dozens of hours in, I realize I've painted myself in a corner in Homeworld Remastered (2015). See, in the original, the enemy forces were pre-defined per map, so capturing more ships meant an easier time. They must have realized that when they remastered the game because now enemy forces seem proportional at least to your arriving fleet.
And towards the end of the campaign, my painstaking capture efforts are actually preventing me from completing a mission where a small expedition force gunning for the Mothership has become absolutely unstoppable.
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•Guess i´ll give HW3 a try 😀
Hypolite Petovan
•@Raroun Homeworld (1999) was revolutionary. A full third dimension to master in a real-time space strategy game, ballets of fighters, original missions, a strong visual style supported by a moody soundtrack, it had everything.
Homeworld 2 (2003) mainly kept the visual style and ditched the third dimension altogether which made it more accessible. Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (2016) is surprisingly similar to Homeworld 2, despite happening on land, because of the same missing third dimension. Neither are bad games, but they kind of pale in comparison to their elder.
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Raroun
•I remember one game back in the days - but not the name.
It was an epic RTS with galaxies and spaceships and you had to colonize planets (your had to build structures on the planets too). You had to zoom in on every planet and then it becames like "dune".
It was playable over LAN but you could never finish a game, because as the game advanced, it went so big, that you allways run "out of sync" and the game crashed.
It was not Masters of orion.
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•exactly 😁
Raroun
•Imperium Galactica.
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Raroun
•it says 4x genre - but i was more like RTS - especially on planets.
Well its a long time. Probably im wworng 😀
But this was the biggest, most epic game i can remember.
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Jonathan Beverley
•Cataclysm needs to be mentioned here. IMO, it's the best of the series. If you want to look for it these days, it's been renamed "Emergence", because Blizzard stole the name from them.
The only RTS I can think of that even slightly matches @Raroun's description is Sins of a Solar Empire. But that was limited to a single solar system.
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