People are always moaning on other boards that this game is a rip off of Homeworld or Nexus, but what they do not seem to understand is that those games are old! T
Seven years is old? Okay, in the world of video games, maybe. It is also, however, irrelevant. It is because of Homeworld that I am interested in SOASE, so in my case, Relic's masterpiece is why I am here waiting. Nexus would actually turn me off space-based RTS had I played it first, and I really didn't like it very much. And don't get me started on ORB. And anyway, all games like SOASE are going to be compared to Homeworld, because in many ways it was the first of its kind. The way SOASE can distinguish itself is by better, more interesting, more fun, and everything else that goes into being a good game.
Homeworld worked for me because of its story and back history. Great ship designs and little or no micro-management. It was truly epic in its scale and scope. But also it had a nearly flawless and elegant interface that was easy to master. If SOASE can do that, then 7 years from now I'll still be playing it, because I still have both Homeworld 1 and 2 on my system and I still play them.
Wolfenstein opened up the realm of first person shooters, Alone in the Dark paved the way for Resident Evil, arguably Super Mario made Tomb Raider possible (okay, that was a reach), but each generation of something spawns the next. People who watched the original Star Wars trilogy as kids worked on the new movies. Ideas beget new ideas, improve upon, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully it will be a hit this time.
-Per
