Nice shot of the Progenitor in the second screenshot.

*Runs*

But yeah, Homeworld and Sins have nothing in common apart from being real time and in space.

sins looks wayy better

i was playing homeworld 2 and it is too slow after playing sins

hw2 just isnt fun after sins

....You're comparing the texture quality on a frigate with that of the biggest and most prominent ship in Homeworld?

Of course. He needs to be fair does he not?

yea, sins and hw2 shouldnt be compared because they arent really that similar

and of course sins is wayyy out of hw2's league

I disagree...Sins is out of HW's league the way Dawn of War is out of Starcraft's league, in the sense that Sins and DoW are both much more advanced versions of games that were incredibly advanced for their time.

Perhaps I should compare them with a picture of a fighter? I mean just look at that block in the second screens corner.

I agree with Keil on this one. Homeworld 2 was an awesome game, and it can't really be compared to Sins. First off, Homeworld 2 is pretty freakin' old compared to Sins, and also, Sins is so different in style of gameplay, it really shouldn't be possible to compare the two on equal grounds.

I agree and what you say has already been said countless times..I've just gotten to the point that I want to sick the Space Ponies onto the people that say "sins sucks and hw2 pwns it and leik it grafics are teh best kk."

HW2's graphics WERE pretty good...but so are Sins'. It's really the gameplay that sets them apart. And the Story. And the music. And the general feel of the game. Etc. Etc. Etc.

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Homeworld 2 and Sins of a Solar Empire are both space-based RTS games, but with several distinct features. I'm addicted to both games and think both are great.

Homeworld renders only several dozen ships.
Sins renders hundreds of ships.

QQ newbs. Homeworld 2 FTW =P

Nostalgia.

Nostalgia I agree with, but nostalgia nonetheless.

Err.. no. Homeworld (or do you mean Homeworld 2?) could easily have over a hundred ships on the screen at the same time. It's not to the same scale as sins, but it's not as bad a comparison as the post implies.

The first post is dramatically unfair. It takes one of the worst Homeworld 2 screenshots I've seen and puts it up against a perfectly framed Sins "screenshot" that I think may have been retouched but doesn't even look like the current game engine (how do you make a media centre tilt, and what's with the traffic on the planet's surface?). If you want to do a side-by-side comparison, record some high-resolution combat footage. Sins will still *win* IMO, but when you see a Homeworld 2 Hiigaran corvette actually fly in 3d around a capital ship, blasting with its 3d mobile turret that casts a shadow on itself, it's hard to diss the graphics that were provided with that now-old game.

If you're going to compare, at least be objective about it.


-- Retro