Gearbox announces Homeworld remakes.

[sofa king]

http://themittani.com/news/gearbox-announces-homeworld-remakes

Gearbox, developer of the Borderlands and Brothers in Arms franchises (among others), has announced their intention to develop and release high-quality remakes of Homeworld and Homeworld 2.

Homeworld, like the FreeSpace series, is a franchise that a lot of EVE players have fond memories of. The original game, released in 1999, was awarded "Game of the Year" by dozens of publications. It's a space RTS; a revolutionary game with truly three-dimensional battles and a sense of scale and beauty that was unmatched at the time.
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Homeworld is still a game that I periodically loaded up and played all the way through Windows XP. It is, in my opinion, the greatest single-player RTS game I have ever played, and that achievement is exponentially multiplied by the fact that it was first released in 1999. It had a popular multiplayer component that I never really tried, but those who did swore by it.

Homeworld was, in essence, a wonderfully refined and tweaked remake itself, of the TV show Battlestar Galactica (we're talking the Lorne Greene version, here) but with a somber theatricality that was never a thought in the original show.

The truly epic missions near the end of the single-player game suffered from in-program lag that as far as I know could never be fixed, but which should be easily dealt with now.

As an added bonus, when you beat the game you got to hear what might be the last great song from the prog band Yes.

So hell yeah, I want to see Homeworld remade. However, I will add a cautionary note that while the Homeworld: Cataclysm expansion was also truly great, Homeworld 2 was an enormous disappointment to me. This game is easy to emulate imperfectly, and even easier to screw up.

But I can hope!