Author Topic: An interesting parallel  (Read 12814 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: An interesting parallel
Cataclysm was the best of the series in many respects.

 

Offline redsniper

  • 211
  • Aim for the Top!
Re: An interesting parallel
Motherfrakkin' siege cannons up in here!
"Think about nice things not unhappy things.
The future makes happy, if you make it yourself.
No war; think about happy things."   -WouterSmitssm

Hard Light Productions:
"...this conversation is pointlessly confrontational."

 

Offline Leeko

  • Computer ketchup
  • 27
  • Lurking since 2009
Re: An interesting parallel
Aye, I blew myself up with the siege cannon the first time I used it...

"Oh, it looks like I have to get close to do full damage!" :ick:

 

Offline Commander Zane

  • 212
  • Spoot Knight of Anvils
Re: An interesting parallel
Too bad I don't think there's any programs (Impulse and such) that have Homeworld 1 or Cataclysm.

 

Offline Commander Zane

  • 212
  • Spoot Knight of Anvils
Re: An interesting parallel
Actually those kinds of online game stores don't have DRM.
Especially GOG.
Plus "aquiring" them for me never, ever, works.

 

Offline -Norbert-

  • 211
Re: An interesting parallel
I agree that Cataclism is very good (certainly better than HW2 if you ask me).
The only thing I don't like about it is, that the unit cap is shared among all shipclasses instead of having seperate caps for fighters, corvettes, ect.

 

Offline Leeko

  • Computer ketchup
  • 27
  • Lurking since 2009
Re: An interesting parallel
Agreed on both points, Norbert.

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

  • HLP is my mistress
  • 213
  • Aken Tigh Dekker- you've probably heard me
    • My old squad sub-domain
Re: An interesting parallel
Beast = sex. Topic split please ;)
 

Weeeeeeeee liiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvve.. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President of the Scooby Doo Model Appreciation Society
The only good Zod is a dead Zod
NEWGROUNDS COMEDY GOLD, UPDATED DAILY
http://badges.steamprofile.com/profile/default/steam/76561198011784807.png

 

Offline NGTM-1R

  • I reject your reality and substitute my own
  • 213
  • Syndral Active. 0410.
Re: An interesting parallel
Dekker, leave that poor dog alone!
"Load sabot. Target Zaku, direct front!"

A Feddie Story

 

Offline Leeko

  • Computer ketchup
  • 27
  • Lurking since 2009
Re: An interesting parallel
Agreed Dekker, I've always had an odd fascination with The Beast. Probably just the aforementioned suckerishness for space parasite stories. :lol:

 
Re: An interesting parallel
No? Let's see...

The Homeworld is obliterated by a superiour enemy force. The last survivours flee in a massive ship. Most of the people in the ship are inside of stasis pods, but some are awake to crew the ship and it's attending escorts.

And now tell me wether I wrote about Blue Planet or Homeworld...

You wrote about both and neither at the same time.
-In Homeworld the cryo storage people aren't survivors, they're colonists. They don't even know there's a war going on until they've already won it and have been re-awoken.

-The Orion is not "massive" by any definition of the word in Freespace.

-In BP the humans lost their homeworld. In Homeworld they basically just lost an ancient colony.

-The survivors in BP don't flee, they hide. In homeworld they don't flee, they return. They don't run away, they head back home to their real homeworld. Return out of exile essentially.



The REAL difference is that the Orion in BP is essentially an Ark. It's a ship to keep humanity going after the Shivan's flood in and annihilate everything. It was never meant as an ark, it was simply retrofitted into one when the world went to hell. In Homeworld, the ship is purpose built to return home. It's self-sustaining, with the facilties to construct new fleets and technologies. The journey the ship takes in homeworld is one that it would have taken REGARDLESS of whether its world was destroyed or not.

Or in other words, the main theme is very different.

 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: An interesting parallel
Urm, that seems kind of quibbling.

 

Offline -Norbert-

  • 211
Re: An interesting parallel
We were saying that BP and Homeworld have a few things in common, not that it's one and the same....

 
Re: An interesting parallel
Urm, that seems kind of quibbling.

Sure and the other people are generalizing. If you want to generalise things, the Sanctuary is a refugee ship. The mothership is not. The Sanctuary has more in common with Battlestar Galactica than it does with Homeworld.

The fact is when I play blue planet, Homeworld doesn't come to mind at all and I don't understand why it would for other people either. I don't believe Darius ripped off or drew inspiration from homeworld but I could be mistaken.

 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: An interesting parallel
Ripped off, no, certainly not; I believe the comparison was meant as a flattering one, not an accusation.

But the similarities are undeniable.

 

Offline Droid803

  • Trusted poster of legit stuff
  • 213
  • /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\ Do you want to be a Magical Girl?
    • Skype
    • Steam
Re: An interesting parallel
Not really, I didn't notice them until they were pointed out and even then it seems kinda forced, at least to me.
(´・ω・`)
=============================================================

 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: An interesting parallel
Okay, really?

Homeworld, BSG, and BP all share a common story element: the last survivors of a destroyed world/worlds fleeing on a vast ship while under relentless attack by a common enemy. In the case of both BP and HW, the ship carries huge numbers of survivors in cryostorage.

It certainly qualifies as an archetype, or a trope, if you will.

 

Offline Droid803

  • Trusted poster of legit stuff
  • 213
  • /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕ 人\ Do you want to be a Magical Girl?
    • Skype
    • Steam
Re: An interesting parallel
Maybe I just don't notice these things as much then. :P
Or maybe just because in Homeworld, it didn't seem like they were forced to flee (or otherwise leave) from the get-go. They go back and see it wasted, but that's more in common with the Orestes/GTVA fleet than the Sanctuay. And even then it's not that similar because Kharak isn't the real homeworld - it's more like...Beta Aquilae or something, the home away from their true home.
(´・ω・`)
=============================================================

 

Offline General Battuta

  • Poe's Law In Action
  • 214
  • i wonder when my postcount will exceed my iq
Re: An interesting parallel
Plot details!  :p

 
Re: An interesting parallel
You know what they say GB, the devil is in the details.
17:37:02   Quanto: I want to have sexual intercourse with every space elf in existence
17:37:11   SpardaSon21: even the males?
17:37:22   Quanto: its not gay if its an elf

[21:51] <@Droid803> I now realize
[21:51] <@Droid803> this will be SLIIIIIGHTLY awkward
[21:51] <@Droid803> as this rich psychic girl will now be tsundere for a loli.
[21:51] <@Droid803> OH WELLL.

See what you're missing in #WoD and #Fsquest?

[07:57:32] <Caiaphas> inspired by HerraTohtori i built a supermaneuverable plane in ksp
[07:57:43] <Caiaphas> i just killed my pilots with a high-g maneuver
[07:58:19] <Caiaphas> apparently people can't take 20 gees for 5 continuous seconds
[08:00:11] <Caiaphas> the plane however performed admirably, and only crashed because it no longer had any guidance systems