Gearbox has Homeworld

[apocrypha]

DNF & A:CM are ... much-loved IPs

You wouldn't consider Duke Nukem and the Alien universe much loved? 

[HaemishM]

Not anymore. 

[Hoax]

For real Gearbox are shitheads of the highest order and its comical that even here we have people refusing to see that.

They swore up and down leading up to BL1 that it wasn't a console port and then we all spent the first week mucking about the .ini so we could use the mouse properly and see the fucking screen correctly and skip the 8 cut scenes at the beginning. So once we did all that it seemed like a good game so we rushed online to play it with our friends and found out you can't. Because the online was so incredibly fucked that it just didn't function.

Also it was a 100% console port. Which was what they promised it wasn't.

Then because at its core it was still better gameplay wise than HG:L we bought the dlc and found out that the dlc was just stupid. The first one basically wasn't worth playing if you were on newgame+ or newgame++ in fact the whole thing was unclear who it was intended for.

All the while in every interview you ever see from these guys they are lying about shit.

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Fast forward to the Aliens fiasco and people are acting like its the first strike against them. Look I played something like 100 hours of BL1 according to Steam. Despite them being lying shitheads that was fun gameplay and Scooter and co made it for sure an enjoyable game. But here we are with them caught lying ALL OVER THE PLACE about who made the game, when, how, what footage is demo or ps3 or 360 or pc. I mean this shit might make EA blush.

Fuck Gearbox.

[apocrypha]

Not anymore. 

Haha 

Fuck Gearbox.

Fuck Gearbox.

Fuck Gearbox.

[Mrbloodworth]

I Cant say I have much faith in this news. Someone with more RTS experience should have picked it up.

Now we are likely to get a Homeworld FPS. :/

[Phred]

Then there's the whole thing where Gearbox essentially robbed Peter to pay Paul in terms of the funding for Colonial Marines seemingly being used to further develop Borderlands 2.

This seems to have worked out.

Not for Colonial Marines it didnt. Can't understand why Sega isn't sueing.

[UnSub]

One thing that has become blindingly clear to me is that for all the complaints that studios make about publishers holding the purse strings, publishers have no idea about how their money is spent.

There were some rumours that Sega was looking at legal action against Gearbox, but I'd wager the burden of proof and trying to track money through another company versus what the ACM contract said would be delivered might make the process difficult.

Of course, Gearbox could always licence the HW IP to Sega who'd put Relic onto a new game...

[Sir T]

...a GOG-style update of the existing games for modern systems...

This.  That's all I want, and it amazes me that no one has tried to duplicate the system 13+ years.  Even after all that time, the series looks and plays like something that very well could hold it's own today.  Maybe a fresh coat a paint, at least.

Some people did. There was a minor outpouring of shitty space RTSes after homeworld, and with the minor exception of O.R.B. which was actually fairly ok if a little boring, and Nexus the Jupiter Incident which was the greatest game no-one ever bought, every single one of them were shit

You might bitch about Homeworld's interface but it was actually excellent for managing a 3d battle, and when every other game tried to change it it didn't work.

[Sir T]

If you are a fan of the Homeworls style combat there are a couple of games which you can look at GOG games right now for,

Nexus the Jupiter incident, Not an RTS but a unit management game in that you start off with a bunch of ships and thats all you have for the entire scenario, its has really immerse space combat and great graphics. Has a bit of a learning cliff though.

Genesis Rising. Its kind of homeworld-ish, but you are on a 2d playing field. Good fun if you ignore the story, which is awful. The hook is that you are Bio-ships hat can change weapons on the fly. Its pretty fun.

Star Wolves. Probably the closest to Homeworld in terms of control, only the ships you control are fighters and there is an RPG leveling up element on your fighters.. Excellent fun mission based fun. Spawned a couple of sequels. The second was buggy and crashed a lot, but the third one is excellent and worth picking up too.