A game that took the complex tactics and ideas from the growing RTS genre of the nineties and threw them into space, creating epic battles with little regard to how moving to a fully 3D area would completely change the style and basic fundamentals. This is a game that I hold dear to my own heart. We miss being able to hide in a dark room playing broken buggy games on our Intel P200 processors.Homeworld: Remastered is one of the latest games on the market to receive such treatment after the rights passed on to Gearbox. And despite the almost blatant lack of care and attention that has gone into some of this work, we lap it up because we miss being young. The gaming market, not one to miss an opportunity, knows this and as such we’ve seen a sudden explosion recently in re releases, reimaginings and remasterings of classic games from our youth. I say we because I’m right there with you, with my greying hair and a desire to hear that majestic beep of a 56kbps dial up modem. We’ve hit that point where we look back at the life we have led and wonder where it has all gone. Many of us now have lives, with jobs, maybe kids, maybe a mortgage, but most of all hopefully a disposable income. The gaming generation of the nineties, those that grew up on clunky desktop PCs playing Westwood’s hardcore Real Time Strategies and crazy Lucasarts’ Adventure games are getting old.
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