Gearbox's Homeworld 1 & 2 HD Remakes - A New Hope

[pakoito]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/20/45...s-of-homeworld-and-homeworld-2-for-windows-pc

Gearbox will release high-definition remakes of Relic Entertainment's realtime strategy series to Windows PC, the original Homeworld and Homeworld 2, the company announced at its PAX Australia panel today. The company will also release the original two titles to digital distribution platforms for Windows PC.

Gearbox bought the Homeworld IP for $1.35million in April, following the approved sale of publishers THQ's games and studios for $72 million in January. At the time, Gearbox issued a statement saying that Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's chief creative officer, only had great love and respect for the Homeworld franchise and "personally spearheaded the acquisition." The company said that preserving the Homeworld games is Martel's highest priority and intends on making "them accessible on today's leading digital platforms."

Developer Paul Zakrzewski launched a Kickstarter campaign to develop a real-time strategy/space combat simulator inspired by the Homeworld series called Void Destroyer. The campaign was successfully funded in June and is currently on Steam Greenlight.

The Relic Entertainment-developed Homeworld was initially released for Windows PC in 1999. The sequel, Homeworld 2, launched for Windows PC in 2003.

 

[Excidium]

Old games being repackaged just to receive a higher pricetag after IP being acquired for a penny from bankrupt company. By Gearbox.

Whoa so much incline

 

[evdk]

Still waiting for Homeworld 3: Borderlands.

 

[Malakal]

I can already taste it: BRO THE KARAK IS BURNING! Cue dubstep.

 

[MapMan]

 

[Darth Roxor]

I could care if Homeworld wasn't mediocre at best to begin with

 

[J_C]

I could care if Homeworld wasn't mediocre at best to begin with

 

[Diablo169]

Fuck Gearbox.

 

[DraQ]

I wonder if remake will just be slapping HD packs, compatibility patches (and possibly DRM) on the originals or trying to remake them completely with all the fucktardry Garbox can muster.

I could care if Homeworld wasn't mediocre at best to begin with

Enqueue Darth Roxor along with Andyman for glue production.

 

[Diablo169]

They should sub the work to Beamdog/ Overhaul Games. We all know they do stellar work on licensed IP's

 

[Black_Willow]

I could care if Homeworld wasn't mediocre at best to begin with

Still better than ur mum.

 

[DraQ]

I could care if Homeworld wasn't mediocre at best to begin with

Still better than ur mum.

Sometimes tried & true is the way to go.

Even with comebacks.

 

[Average Manatee]

What exactly is HD here? IIRC Homeworld supported arbitrary resolutions just fine and I'm sure they won't be remaking all models and textures.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Why do I get the imagine that Gearbox is slowly and delicately spreading Homeworld's buttocks as it bends over?

 

[Tzaero]

"I think that best way to do the series justice is to make an FPS set in the universe."

 

[Hellraiser]

It's a buzzword for consoletards who came when they could see consoleshit games in resolutions that were available on PCs since the late 90s.

 

[circ]

What exactly is HD here? IIRC Homeworld supported arbitrary resolutions just fine and I'm sure they won't be remaking all models and textures.

In before Gearbox release two .ini files that change the resolution and then sue anyone that points out that all it took was an .ini hack to do it before.

 

[DraQ]

It's a buzzword for consoletards who came when they could see consoleshit games in resolutions that were available on PCs since the late 90s.

This. Even Build Engine games supported resolutions that would be considered HD by today's consoletards.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Someone should hack Pitchfork's personal computer, find child porn there, and alert the authorities.

 

[Average Manatee]

What exactly is HD here? IIRC Homeworld supported arbitrary resolutions just fine and I'm sure they won't be remaking all models and textures.

In before Gearbox release two .ini files that change the resolution and then sue anyone that points out that all it took was an .ini hack to do it before.

Sounds about right.

Looking forward to the preorder DLC.

 

[deuxhero]

It's a buzzword for consoletards who came when they could see consoleshit games in resolutions that were available on PCs since the late 90s.

This. Even Build Engine games supported resolutions that would be considered HD by today's consoletards.

What am I missing?

Was this part of the latter Build games I never got around to playing?

 

[DraQ]

It's a buzzword for consoletards who came when they could see consoleshit games in resolutions that were available on PCs since the late 90s.

This. Even Build Engine games supported resolutions that would be considered HD by today's consoletards.

What am I missing?

Was this part of the latter Build games I never got around to playing?

Although it *IS* the version with both expansion packs installed, 1998 I think.

 

[Infinitron]

Trash Whisky Newspost?

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Trash Whisky Newspost?

 

[Keshik]

Well, I guess they need something to learn on.