Gearbox Snags Homeworld Rights

[Master_Fubar23]

Yaaaaaay, looking forward to another disaster from gearbox just like Duke and Aliens. Let the good train wreck roll.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Eh... So you are saying this title has a better chance because the people there want to work on it? Duke Nukem would love to speak to you...

fun fact, DNF wasn't made by Gearbox, it was made by 3D rRealms, and released by Gearbox.

 

[flarty]

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I love RTS but i usually find myself Tropico and Anno more than anything these days, think i like the relaxed pace. But saying that TBS have made a big come back since Civ and XCOM and theres a few indie projects developing there own. I doubt it will be long till the same is true for RTS.

Eh... So you are saying this title has a better chance because the people there want to work on it? Duke Nukem would love to speak to you...

fun fact, DNF wasn't made by Gearbox, it was made by 3D rRealms, and released by Gearbox.

I wouldn't waste your breath, everyone refuses to believe it.

 

[Whatwhat]

OH THE HUMANITY!!
To add insult to the injury Stardock and Paradox Interactive were second and third in the bidding war.

No love for Stardock?

"Starts leaping up and down, screaming something about the awesomeness of Galatic Civilizations and Stardock in general"

Oh well I guess I will have to be happy with more Crusader Kings II dlc and Sins of a Solar Empire expansions if I want to play any real new strategy games that I haven't mastered yet. (maybe Europa Universalis IV shall quench my thirst for world domination for a while when it finally comes out)

 

[Weaver]

This is fucking horrible. Considering Relic still exists and is simply owned by Sega, I was really hoping Sega would pick this up.

Gearbox is not a studio that makes games I like. Even Borderlands I'm not entirely fond of. Homeworld was a strategic and complex game, and one of the very few space RTS games that featured fully 3D ship positioning, and if it sounds hard to control Relic somehow made it work. It was a cerebral game, and a tactical challenge that was made fun and rewarding by a great user interface.

Gearbox, on the other hand, makes games that are built to entertain anyone who has two working braincells to bang together (with the possible exception of the first Brothers in Arms). This is compounded by their abysmal user interface history. Gearbox can't even make equipping a gun from a list a smooth experience on the PC (the fucking scroll wheel glitch is STILL IN THE FUCKING GAME) I have the absolute lowest, and I mean lowest, hopes for this once excellent series.

 

[Monsterfurby]

Man, the tech demo for this is going to be AMAZING!





PS: I'm sad that my favourite dev/publisher Paradox didn't get it, though...

 

[ffs-dontcare]

Yeah, nah. I have zero faith in Gearbox making this work.

I can't even bring myself to say that I hope I'm wrong. It in all likelihood won't happen.

I don't blame them for Duke Nukem Forever, and I know they've made good games in the past but this... this has me so skeptical.

Bookmark this article, people. If Gearbox does screw it up in the future, we'll know we all called it.

You know what, I'm anticipating a few horrid things here:
1 - It will lack fully 3D ship positioning.
2 - Larger ships will no longer have sub-systems that can be manually targeted.
3 - Fleetwood Mac will get another round.
4 - Add your own!

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

Another great IP lost to the hands of incompetent developers......
Sheesh

 

[Death916]

Any news is good news to me concerning Homeworld. I thought it was completely dead as a franchise.

 

[2clueless]

Is this worrisome? Yes.

Is it cause for doom and gloom and end of the homeworld muttering? Not yet.

Let us wait and see what comes of this. Keep hope, and we may even be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Weaver]

Gearbox is associated with Sega. Sega owns Relic. Gearbox have a history of studio collaboration.
I say they're working together.

If Relic gets involved, I will support this so hard. I loved Impossible Creatures to death. (Impossible Creatures is the Relic game everybody loves them for, right?)

Relic also, you know, made both Homeworld games...

Also, Falterfire is simply wrong. Gearbox is in no way associated with Sega besides helping them secure the license for Aliens Colonial Marines. Gearbox is a privately held studio with no publisher.

 

[skywolfblue]

/sadface

One the one hand I guess I should be happy that a new homeworld game happens at all. On the other, It's sad that Gearbox probably doesn't have a clue on how to treat the series properly.

 

[MarsProbe]

It would be great to see another Homeworld game...a good one anyway. Even if part me would be downright terrified at the thought of facing off against the Kadeshi again. I never actually made it past the Cathedral of Kadesh level.

Still, here's hoping they can make this work.

 

[Yoshisummons]

Good bye Homeworld franchise.

Wait! on the maintenance frequency... I'm receiving a signal from the cryo trays in orbit, one of them is suffering a massive malfunction.

 

[ChemicalAlia]

This thread makes me sad, why do I even click on stuff like this? Also, never even heard of homeworld c:

 

[SecondPrize]

Damn, Gearbox really fucked their reputation with gamers. This is not a friendly thread, not that I can blame anyone for a lack of enthusiasm for this news.

 

[flarty]

To be fair, Gearbox was the one who assembled all those pieces of fail it into a game, but I can't imagine they were very thrilled once they actually saw what they were dealing with.

Gearbox was faced with either prolong the joke of DNF development or put this chapter of Duke to bed. since they had just purchased the rights and was probably well aware that nothing could live up to the hype, they decided on the latter. Thinking about the long term and when they could put the rights to good use in the next game that didn't have a decade of hype.

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

People, people chill it could have been worse... EA could have bought the rights! I'll leave you with that nightmarish thought.

 

[Zipa]

The best thing Gearbox can do is a HD re release of the original Homeworld. Also Cataclysm that spin off of home world was greatly underrated.

HW2 meh it wasn't so great anyway compared to the original it went too Star Warsy chosen one prophecy in the story.

 

[Weaver]

Eh... So you are saying this title has a better chance because the people there want to work on it? Duke Nukem would love to speak to you...

fun fact, DNF wasn't made by Gearbox, it was made by 3D rRealms, and released by Gearbox.

I wouldn't waste your breath, everyone refuses to believe it.

To be fair, Gearbox was the one who assembled all those pieces of fail it into a game, but I can't imagine they were very thrilled once they actually saw what they were dealing with. By comparison with previous outside IPs this one is lucky to have relatively few strings attached and Gearbox has no other pet projects to distract them. Homeworld has a chance for a completely fresh start, and there is nothing I'm aware of to prevent them from making a good game out of this. We know they are good with stats at least.

The studio that brought you Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever is now going to work its magic on Homeworld, and while I'm perhaps being a bit harsh for the sake of a zing - after all, Gearbox is also responsible for the reasonably decent Borderlands and Brothers In Arms - I can't say that my heart is aflutter with relief that it's these guys who ended up with the rights to Relic's storied space opera RTS.

Wasn't the first Brothers in Arms the highest rated WW2 game ever?

Company of Heroes was rated higher... and like Homeworld, was developed by Relic.