The cut scenes, story and narration for the Homeworld games were on a level that made every sci game look foolish by comparison. I never played the games, but always marveled at the cinematics. They would make Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke proud.
@@lobbyskids2 the science is almost not even there though the story and lore is whats consistent a race that once had a powerful holding that descended into holding one mere desert planet was United by their ancestors ruins and embarked on their journey home
it is to be honest which makes it amazing, the people of hiigara were once an empire thousands of years ago and so many stories to tell just from this setting, political intrigues, battles even in black holes, like wow man this is very amazing world making that everything is possible
@@Solaxe you are pretty worthless as a troll. spamming comments of people liking something claiming they want nothing but drama when you're literally the only one posting spam and hate FOR drama. how bored and self loathing are you?
Jesus the music in during the first core part is just mind blowingly perfect. Watching these videos always make me sad because I'll probably won't make it to the interstellar era of humanity. I wish we would unite and look to the stars instead of fighting each other for dirt and power. :(
Man, I shed tears when the Bentushi blew themselves up. Then again, "The Vaygr most likely picked up on the explosion" DID YOU SEE THE BLAST RADIUS? I think even back here in the Milkyway a couple of astronomers would've had chills up their spine, stop whatever they were doing, look at each other and go "...what was that just now?"
They still make games on such level, but morons like you are too lazy to look up. Fucking nostalgic idiot, many old games were of even shittier quality but yeah, nostalgia glasses
***** Homeworld's story takes on a larger scale, unlike StarWars or Halos, which focus more on the individuals. That leaves a profound feeling for the players to think, interpret by themselves. Me, personally, freaking love this feel!
Yuwen Taiji It does & doesn't. But certainly the scope that it took to explain it was more grand....although I think Star Wars & Halo still have the opportunity to exceed the Homeworld Series. After all, they are all Journey's of the Soul. This is all religion, in adventurous format. It's purpose is to activate the greatness within you, by touching upon the very image of God, piece by piece, & then finally as a whole. It's just short of God & Godhood, because The Journey continues...& that is where we get all these awesome games. :) The Hyperspace Cores are Thought, Feeling, & Action. The Hyperspace Gates are Possibilities & Opportunities. Karen S'jet is basically Aphrodite, our adopted mother, who represents Feeling (empathy) Makaan is technically Hades in this setting, who represents Thought (psychopathy) & is purposefully used as a "Sacrificial Ram" to fight against in order to give you Artificial but real Challenge (Chaos that is not actually necessary for your development, but is used to accelerate it). The Bentusi confuse me a little bit, but they appear to be sortof the balance or something. Idk. However, in real life, Makaan appears to be more like the current enemies of Freedom, found here at home (America & The West) & in the Middle-East (& soon to be all of The East). I could go over & over the rest of the details, but absolutely, this game is good religion.
Ok seriously, what is up with the ending? "[After the hyperspace cores were united] Ancient conflicts came to an end." Why? How? "The Eye of Aran was discovered." The what? Why has this never been mentioned before? "It was opened by the power of the three." Why? Slow down! "A great network of hyperspace gates, perfectly preserved in the void..." STAHP
Lord Zephyros Well, the company did on planning making Homeworld 3, there are even rumors that they are working on a story. But its been a dead scent since 2008, I think.
John Hutchins I just looked up what you said, you are right, HD remake are being created and I am VERY excited for that! But the Homeworld 3 is still unconfirmed, and the new one being made is a prequel with a different name.
that1dude0092 They're outsourcing the franchise to Blackbird Interactive, THE ORIGINAL CREATORS of Homeworld. They're the senior developers of Homeworld that left Relic Entertainment to create their own studio. They're currently working on Homeworld Shipbreakers which will be a prequel to Homeworld 1 set on Kharak. (Originally this project was called HARDWARE shipbreakers completely independent with Homeworld but Gearbox and Blackbird signed a contract which allowed them to use the IP and obtained more funding for the game). I am actually extremely pleased with how Gearbox handled this. I was worried when they bought the Homeworld IP but they're actually doing it right this time. They're handing over the development to the original creators. It's too bad the narrator and the voice actor for the Bentusi (Campbell Lane) passed away last year );
i hope im not the only one Crying over the lack of content since 2003? And abit of this story as well. Just went through the game for the third time. Beats the hell out of alot of todays games.
@@jaquigreenlees Ikn who made the Homeworld series. I still has t installed on my PC and play with a friend of mine sometimes. H3 will be my 1st ever prepurchased game!
I played this game in french, and by god it's amazing how good the dubbing was. I actually prefer it (maybe for Nostalgia reasons). But the english one is just as good, after seing it.
Oops, I will change the title. About the aspect ratio, I was only so limited when using iMovie, I knew it would bug some people, but there is nothing I could do at the time.
Also, it just struck me, but imo Homeworld 2 takes a lot from Dune by Frank Herbert. I can see a lot of similarities. Be it in tone, atmosphere, or events.
Great graphics and cutscenes and arguably better multiplayer, but man, MandaloreGaming had a lot of points when it came to the offness of HW2's story especially with Cataclysm/Emergence in mind.
I love this game but the only thing I didn't like was the fact the art of the salvage corvette was lost in the sands of time. That would be the only explanation for the shitiness that is the marine frigate.
It's kinda annoying how the remastered cinematics aren't as good, the voice acting, punchy editing, everything but the resolution and bitrate were better originally
I have no idea why they abandoned the realism of the first game for this strange, quasi-religious theme in the second one. One was hard sci-fi, the other tries too hard to be mystical and ends up sounding stupid.
The fact that it doesn't follow up with Cataclysm/Emergence also doesn't help. And then there's the amount of deus ex machinas, like that awesome yet also stressful endgame.
Thanks for uploading this, but the title of the video needs to be fixed. These are homeworld 2's cinematics, not homeworld's. Also the aspect ratio is off. Take a look at 3:00 in your video, specifically the circle in the center of the screen. Now look at /watch?v=LFXjGWmTY64&t=2m30s (the video should start at 2:30 for you. Just add youtube.com before it since youtube won't let me past full links.). Notice the circle is a perfect circle.
+Mr unitato. the progenitors built two means of interstellar travel, one a massive network of hyperspace gates that are in fixed positions around the galaxy, the other, the hyperspace core is essentially a mobile hyperspace gate meaning that any ship that houses it will be able to transport itself and any ships in formation anywhere else in the galaxy at any time.
Not killed, just put it on hold for a while. Good thing Deserts of Kharak did better on this, despite a few retcons. Here's to hoping HW3 follows suit.
The cut scenes, story and narration for the Homeworld games were on a level that made every sci game look foolish by comparison. I never played the games, but always marveled at the cinematics. They would make Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke proud.
@@lobbyskids2 the science is almost not even there though the story and lore is whats consistent a race that once had a powerful holding that descended into holding one mere desert planet was United by their ancestors ruins and embarked on their journey home
Man. Homeworld was sci-fi at its finest.
I love the aesthetic of Homeworld. The galaxy being so old that telling a story is like that of an ancient myth.
it is to be honest which makes it amazing, the people of hiigara were once an empire thousands of years ago and so many stories to tell just from this setting, political intrigues, battles even in black holes, like wow man this is very amazing world making that everything is possible
I miss this level of storytelling.
Me too
You know they still make such games? Ah yeah you're too lazy to do some research
Solaxe S what games than?
@@Solaxe troll
@Dan Nguyen halo lol
Almost 10 years later & I still get chills
The narration.... Dat voice. The atmosphere... The Story... Gearbox, I have faith, but I'm sceptical. I want this to be a success so bad.
RIP Sierra Entertainment! We miss you so dearly.
How so?
@@michaelandreipalon359 They were publishers of many old RTSs and other niche genres.
Back when gaming was good. You got goosebumps then and still get goosebumps now experiencing this.
Gaming is still good, you're just focusing on shitty games for drama. Christ. BaCk WhEn GAmiNg Was GooD
@@Solaxe troll
@@Solaxe you are pretty worthless as a troll. spamming comments of people liking something claiming they want nothing but drama when you're literally the only one posting spam and hate FOR drama. how bored and self loathing are you?
I don't know, Solaxe S has a point, you just need to look very hard.
amazing game. one of my favourites of all time. Great RTS with a fantastic story line.
Jesus the music in during the first core part is just mind blowingly perfect. Watching these videos always make me sad because I'll probably won't make it to the interstellar era of humanity.
I wish we would unite and look to the stars instead of fighting each other for dirt and power. :(
Wise and true words. Sadly that will never come to light
Beautiful ship designs, great looking UI and sketched cut-scenes. I loved the look of the Homeworld games.
Man, I shed tears when the Bentushi blew themselves up. Then again, "The Vaygr most likely picked up on the explosion" DID YOU SEE THE BLAST RADIUS? I think even back here in the Milkyway a couple of astronomers would've had chills up their spine, stop whatever they were doing, look at each other and go "...what was that just now?"
Eh, a few million years later, yeah.
Makaan has such a creepily suave voice...
He does indeed.
You should hear the French dub.
THAT ART! THAT STORY! SHAME ON YOU NEW GAMES SHAME ON YOU!
They still make games on such level, but morons like you are too lazy to look up. Fucking nostalgic idiot, many old games were of even shittier quality but yeah, nostalgia glasses
@@Solaxe troll
@@Solaxe relic of old doesnt even exist anymore. there is no they
Gives me chills every time.
So many years ... still got chills :)
I still get chills from that intro
4:45 I love after Macaan makes his grand speech that Higgaran defenses start returning fire - We aren't beaten yet Macaan.
I always thought the homeworld verse and the Riddick verse fits together comfortably.
They do not make games this well anymore. Such an incredible game.
Homeworld 3 is incomming! :D
It's a shame that these games aren't on Steam. I think that people would really enjoy playing them.
This year a HD-version will be released.
That's awesome, I can't wait to play it. Thanks for the information.
You welcome. Check wikipedia.
www.homeworldremastered.com/
This comment thankfully didn't age well.
Homeworld's story made most of modern day games childish.
***** Homeworld's story takes on a larger scale, unlike StarWars or Halos, which focus more on the individuals. That leaves a profound feeling for the players to think, interpret by themselves.
Me, personally, freaking love this feel!
Yuwen Taiji It does & doesn't.
But certainly the scope that it took to explain it was more grand....although I think Star Wars & Halo still have the opportunity to exceed the Homeworld Series.
After all, they are all Journey's of the Soul.
This is all religion, in adventurous format. It's purpose is to activate the greatness within you, by touching upon the very image of God, piece by piece, & then finally as a whole.
It's just short of God & Godhood, because The Journey continues...& that is where we get all these awesome games. :)
The Hyperspace Cores are Thought, Feeling, & Action. The Hyperspace Gates are Possibilities & Opportunities.
Karen S'jet is basically Aphrodite, our adopted mother, who represents Feeling (empathy)
Makaan is technically Hades in this setting, who represents Thought (psychopathy) & is purposefully used as a "Sacrificial Ram" to fight against in order to give you Artificial but real Challenge (Chaos that is not actually necessary for your development, but is used to accelerate it).
The Bentusi confuse me a little bit, but they appear to be sortof the balance or something. Idk.
However, in real life, Makaan appears to be more like the current enemies of Freedom, found here at home (America & The West) & in the Middle-East (& soon to be all of The East).
I could go over & over the rest of the details, but absolutely, this game is good religion.
Ok seriously, what is up with the ending? "[After the hyperspace cores were united] Ancient conflicts came to an end." Why? How? "The Eye of Aran was discovered." The what? Why has this never been mentioned before? "It was opened by the power of the three." Why? Slow down! "A great network of hyperspace gates, perfectly preserved in the void..." STAHP
Honestly yes I agree with you ... it felt forced . Maybe they were hoping for a sequel.
Lord Zephyros Well, the company did on planning making Homeworld 3, there are even rumors that they are working on a story. But its been a dead scent since 2008, I think.
XSefProductionX Gearbox are making homeworld 3 and a HD remake of the original Homerworld.
John Hutchins I just looked up what you said, you are right, HD remake are being created and I am VERY excited for that! But the Homeworld 3 is still unconfirmed, and the new one being made is a prequel with a different name.
Yeah. Not to mention that so many of the cutscenes in this game make me wonder "what the hell am I looking at?"
this should be a series or movie trilogy with the exact same music, narrative and art design
A movie would be too limiting, but an animated series would be swell.
Thanks i was looking for all the cinematics togheter
When you realize it's Jeremy Irons who voice acted Makaan.
absolutly amazing
Man, Gearbox better not fuck this up.
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They're outsourcing the franchise to Blackbird Interactive, THE ORIGINAL CREATORS of Homeworld. They're the senior developers of Homeworld that left Relic Entertainment to create their own studio. They're currently working on Homeworld Shipbreakers which will be a prequel to Homeworld 1 set on Kharak. (Originally this project was called HARDWARE shipbreakers completely independent with Homeworld but Gearbox and Blackbird signed a contract which allowed them to use the IP and obtained more funding for the game).
I am actually extremely pleased with how Gearbox handled this. I was worried when they bought the Homeworld IP but they're actually doing it right this time. They're handing over the development to the original creators. It's too bad the narrator and the voice actor for the Bentusi (Campbell Lane) passed away last year );
John Kim That is a relief. I was about to think Ship-breakers will be sent down the same path as Duke Nukem forever or better Aliens Colonial Marines.
+randomusernamemygod Shipbreakers comes out January 20 if you're still interested =]
foofad I will keep an eye out for it.
i hope im not the only one Crying over the lack of content since 2003? And abit of this story as well. Just went through the game for the third time. Beats the hell out of alot of todays games.
i realy hope they make Homeworld 3
Look on the gearbox youtube channel
Good news
Got good news for you, bub XD.
Yeah they did already.
Wish granted. Now, to hope they don't make another Aliens: Colonial Marines debacle out of it.
8 Vaygr dislikes the cutscenes...
That ending, epic. The age of Sjet has begun...
+Jason987262 i would murder someone to play "Homeworld 3 - The Age of Sjet".
I dont know who made this game, but i will find you, and I will congratulate you for these beautiful episodes.
Maybe someone should protect! The PDEA.
@@geekoidian wtf does the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency have to do with this?
Relic Entertainment made Homeworld and Homeworld 2. Gearbox has remastered and made several more titles in the series, the latest being Homeworld 3
@@jaquigreenlees Ikn who made the Homeworld series. I still has t installed on my PC and play with a friend of mine sometimes. H3 will be my 1st ever prepurchased game!
Just... Out of this world... leave it to the British to create exceptional art!
I played this game in french, and by god it's amazing how good the dubbing was. I actually prefer it (maybe for Nostalgia reasons). But the english one is just as good, after seing it.
Can agree, the French dubs of the games sure are sublime. One can even argue that the Kushan/Hiigarans speak what may be a form of French.
Oops, I will change the title. About the aspect ratio, I was only so limited when using iMovie, I knew it would bug some people, but there is nothing I could do at the time.
Would like to see a pre-exile home world... complete the lore :>
Also, kinda upset at the remaster's cutscenes cutting out the background military chatter.
2:06 Brilliant artwork.
Do u also agree that the PDEA sucks?
@@geekoidian What?
I'm just leaving comments everywhere as notes. I'm a writer.
The narrator's voice as well.
Also, it just struck me, but imo Homeworld 2 takes a lot from Dune by Frank Herbert. I can see a lot of similarities. Be it in tone, atmosphere, or events.
I'll say more to that with Deserts of Kharak.
Great graphics and cutscenes and arguably better multiplayer, but man, MandaloreGaming had a lot of points when it came to the offness of HW2's story especially with Cataclysm/Emergence in mind.
our home...
I love this game but the only thing I didn't like was the fact the art of the salvage corvette was lost in the sands of time. That would be the only explanation for the shitiness that is the marine frigate.
Agreed.
14:22 - th-cam.com/video/J675BQaIuQs/w-d-xo.html the story continues
I wonder how the "Progenitors" came to an end...
We'll probably see how and why come HW3.
@@michaelandreipalon359 I'd really hope so. :-)
It's kinda annoying how the remastered cinematics aren't as good, the voice acting, punchy editing, everything but the resolution and bitrate were better originally
If it wasn't for greed, homeworld could have been massive. TV shows movies who knows 😭😭
Not greed, more like practicality.
I have no idea why they abandoned the realism of the first game for this strange, quasi-religious theme in the second one. One was hard sci-fi, the other tries too hard to be mystical and ends up sounding stupid.
The fact that it doesn't follow up with Cataclysm/Emergence also doesn't help.
And then there's the amount of deus ex machinas, like that awesome yet also stressful endgame.
There are some great strategies at Homeworld 2: Advanced Tactics on Facebook.
Thanks for uploading this, but the title of the video needs to be fixed. These are homeworld 2's cinematics, not homeworld's.
Also the aspect ratio is off. Take a look at 3:00 in your video, specifically the circle in the center of the screen. Now look at /watch?v=LFXjGWmTY64&t=2m30s (the video should start at 2:30 for you. Just add youtube.com before it since youtube won't let me past full links.). Notice the circle is a perfect circle.
silos 2,3,6 and 9 stand by for launch...missles away....
How the hiigara know ALL the enemy outposts?
Well, I am pretty sure Hiigara operated all over the system, our story just focuses on their main ship with the cores.
vaygr din t just pop up magically
higarans were obviously spying on them ever since they appeared
It is only 20,000 people so we can take turns tapping them when they sleepy
The gameplay itself was fun, but the whole story pacing was a bit out of whack.
Alamandorious whats a hyperspace core?
an artifact left behind by the ancients
+Mr unitato. the progenitors built two means of interstellar travel, one a massive network of hyperspace gates that are in fixed positions around the galaxy, the other, the hyperspace core is essentially a mobile hyperspace gate meaning that any ship that houses it will be able to transport itself and any ships in formation anywhere else in the galaxy at any time.
It ignoring the foundations of Cataclysm/Emergence also doesn't help.
Give this in german ?
Snl montage
That retconning and missing understanding for the world in Homeworld 2‘s story, killed the franchise for me.
Not killed, just put it on hold for a while.
Good thing Deserts of Kharak did better on this, despite a few retcons. Here's to hoping HW3 follows suit.