Homeworld & Homeworld 2 HD remakes in the works

Reppyboyo said:
TBH didnt think HW2 needs a remake, its still a good looking game to me.

HW1 remake though...count me in!
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They both still look great and very easy to get working in widescreen. All they both need is high-res textures and really it! Still i'm happy about this as if there's enough interest then there might be a HW3 :)
 
Be cool if they can update hw1 engine to dx9 at the least. Should be sorta doable because ive just found out that worms armageddon which is like dx5 or somit like one of the first dx's has been updated to dx9 and thats a very old game around the same time of hw.

If they do that i hope they can up the polys and texture details a bit as thats all i reckon would need doing really and a few new gfx options maybe cos of dx9?

Hw2, is fine enough maybe update it so it can use 10bit for the backgrounds so they dont band as much?

Edit - Hopefully it can match this game with the updates they make to hw1 and 2. As this game below looks awesome for a hw inspired new game from ks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bmBpfTt9UXY#at=82
 
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The cynic in me thinks this is gearbox's attempt to win back some community love after the abomination that was aliens colonial marines :)

Plus with doing a HD remake they can (hopefully) not screw it up as all that really needs to be done is a big graphics / performance update.
 
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthr...eakers&p=1045472995&viewfull=1#post1045472995

Some new pics of what the HD remakes will possibly include. I.e before and after pics of cinematics and textures on ships. Farther down the topic theres talk of tesselation and possible pricing of 14.99 dollar value of hw 1 and hw 1 remake edition packs?

Btw to me it seems there trying to inject there borderlands cell shading into the textures i.e thick black lines. I duno if i like that. The original textures just a higher res of them would have been enough without altering them imo. From when hw was first made the textures must have been very high res and then scaled down for game release cos of pcs at the time wernt good enough for hd textures i would imagine. Them textures are the ones i would have like to see being released in the hd redo.

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/communityday keep an eye on this for to get ur hands on hw and the hd versions.
 
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oll3h said:
Sounds like a new game is inc too; Homeworld : Shipbreakers!
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Not quite .... Shipbreakers is a game being made by Blackbird Interactive who are comprised of guys who used to work at Relic. Its a completely different game compared to the Homeworld series although the art style is similar. They announced this a number of months ago as Hardware: Shipbreakers ..... Gearbox are lending the Homeworld name to the game which Blackbird may or may not retconn back into the Homeworld universe. Most likely a Gearbox PR stunt :p

Link to Shipbreakers: http://blackbirdinteractive.com/games/
 
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