Homeworld: Cataclysm, anyone else remember it?

[Fletcher]

I remember borrowing this game from a friend many years ago after I completed the original Homeworld game, and I was staggered how an off-shoot game managed to get so many things right considering its using the previous game's engine.

The story, the graphics, the combat, the flexibility, and let's not forget the malevolence of the Beast.

Beating that thing was so satisfying.

Holy hell! This game is 13 years old?! Release Date: 6.30.00 According to the Relic website.

The bloody Beast.

The screams....

Imagine the Nomads doing that.

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[AeternusDoleo]

"We... live..."

Still play it every now and then. Quite satisfying to finish off a clusterbrawl with the siege cannon

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Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.

Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.

[Fletcher]

I need to find a copy, it's pretty rare so its value is easily in the double digit range while the Homeworld 2 is far lower in value strangely. I need this back. Too bad GoG.com didn't buy a license for it.

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[Narcotic]

To be honest, I still have it installed.
Played it not too long ago.

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[kikatsu]

It was honestly my favorite game in the series, at least from a campaign perspective. I know multiplayer was a bit weird but this game was just so fun and it had such a great and gripping story... HW2 was fun, but the story was kind of blah and I really missed Cataclysm's introduction of more...well character, from the emotional Fleet Command, Intellegence, and scientists...not to mention the introduction of units each voiced by their own character instead of one of 3 random voices.

The game was just fun, spooky, and really cool.

[Veygaar]

I still play all three Homeworld games via GameRanger rather often. (although Homeworld 1 is still by far my favorite/one I'm best at)

Lemme know if you ever wana throw down against me

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[r3vange]

I still have my big box with the manual which contained 100+ pages of prehistory. God I love Cataclysm. Dem screams as the engineering section drifted away, them Bentusi which cannot be bound, dem Taiidani scared s-less...BRB reinstalling...

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[Veygaar]

I still have my big box with the manual which contained 100+ pages of prehistory.

Same man same... Damn, good times.

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[Visivicous]

Hope it's not too late to throw in my reminiscing.

I loved the entire series, but Cataclysm was the best because of the story line, though the multiplayer was fun as well.

I remember hosting LAN parties just to play this game (long before I had broadband). Hearing my friend scream from the other room "NO! F*** you, that's my ship" as I infected one of his vessels with my cruise missile. Not my fault he did not research fast enough!

I always thought that the ending of HW2 was setup the way it was just so the developers could launch an MMO based on the series. What was the point of revealing a vast network of hyperspace gates if not to setup some sort of Eve Online or Earth & Beyond style MMO? Oh well.

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