flarty said:
mirage202 said:
Well, that killed my hopes for Homeworld 3.
RTS really is a dying genre isn't it?
Hopefully 2k will show some footage of a fps gearbox has produced called homeworld. You know where im going with this?
Please let it be so.
Starcraft is alright (2 I mean) but it's focus is.. a little off for me personally, as someone else said, it's all about APM and build orders, fair enough that is strategy in it's own right, but not the kind I look for.
Sins was good, Hegemony is another good one and the Total War games I love. Yet everything else is kind of meh. I'm not quite ready to blame MOBAs yet as it is just the current bandwagon, consoles and publisher focus on them is an obvious part of the decline though.
I'd love to look to indie devs to revitalize the RTS genre, alas unfortunately they are too busy copying the practices of the big publishers and are all (figure of speech, not literal) trying to do the same thing. Seems for every 10 Indie games announced 9 of those are some form of single gimmick puzzle platformer, every one wanting to be the next Journey/Braid/Limbo etc.
Could have been a SoaSE 2, but no they made a MOBA, could have had a SupCom3, but no SupCom2 had to go and ruin it by trying to appeal to console gamers. Now we see Gearbox of all people with Homeworld, why? What can they possibly do better than Stardock, or Paradox? Hell even those guys with the kickstarter would have given it the care it deserves if nothing else.
Yeah not sure where I was going with that really aside from having gone from a little hope of a HW3, to no hope at all. Could be wrong, but I've found pessimism serves me much better than optimism with news like this.