The voice acting, cut scenes, music, visuals, and the manual of HW added up to an immersive, emotional experience.Accented by moody sound design and sweeping shots of its extraplanar setting, the Announce Trailer follows a recon team consisting of three spaceships. I submit that losing paper manuals caused developers to get lazy on world-building and attention to detail. Oh, and HW and Cataclysm had epic manuals. Khatak wasn't exactly bad, but what I enjoyed didn't include the gameplay. Kharak was at best an homage and at worst a cash grab. HW2 is flawed, but if Gearbox manages something of that caliber it will be pure incline. Cataclysm was a better game, and the best of the HW series. It hit at a perfect time, had unique elements, and is a classic. I think everyone can agree that HW1 was a miracle. The parts with ancient myths was very cool. However, I loved how the Higaaran religion turned out to be at least partially true. The big reveal in the ending is also stupid. As for forced emotion, I guess it wasn't too forced for me since it worked? The Bentusi was a bit WTF, and I agree with you that the Karen S'Jet thingies just stupid and smacks of SJW. Sorry, I forgot the exact number of battle cruisers. Also, why the fuck the devs have this endless hard on since HW2 for Karan S'jet, she was merely Fleet Command in HW1 and had no particular relevancy to the overall plot, who the fuck cares and it's spaceship tiddies that should make me care Considering the Remastered versions, they'll fuck up the gameplay. They'll never manage to do it again and they'll fuck up the story without doubt (HW being interestingly enough a storyfag RTS, that's important). Regarding HW3, they don't deserve money, and one has to realize that HW1 was already sorta of a miracle and the lucky convergence of random elements. Even as a storyfag it's HW2 lite: a messy confusing plotline dumped on a game that didn't particularly blend with it well. You honestly nail it, Kharak without the HW name bolted on it would have been ignored by everyone. After playing it at release and after the fix, I'll freely admit that the fixes are good, the original THIRTEEN BATTLECRUISERS is good only for a specific player niche. Bad playtesting on that one, by itself the mission should not be bad. The Gateway rescue shows how the autobalancing fucked up heavily with mission design. HW1 didn't need to try to artificially create pathos: HW2 costantly tries to make the player care and costantly fails. The problem is that HW2's story is a delirious hack job of pieces thrown together by a massacred original version (the entire plotline of HW2 was heavily rewritten as the game run into development problems) and it commits the sin of FORCED MYSTICISM and FORCED EMOTION. I guess? Some missions are creative I have to admit, and in theory HW2 has some better mission design than HW1. The athmosphere is confusing (a shitton of retcons that make Cata seem like a work of narrative art) the pacing is wildly off, the story dumb and the challenge is ok. Sure, you can find it fun, but for most people it was a boring slog and it even fucked up the balance of some missions No reason at all to give money this early. Or maybe they are? Either way, I'm OK with holding off to give Steam my money or just buy the thing off Humble or GOG or something. They dont need my fucking money they aren't an independent short of cash. Gearbox can eat a bag of dicks if they expect me to give them money in advance for an Epic exclusive. It just isn't HW, but it does have HW-esque trappings and that was enough to give me pleasure. More of a side story and if I didnt love the HW universe I wouldn't have bothered. I did enjoy Kharak, but it wasn't that great a game. Some levels are badly designed, the gateway rescue in particular. I know I did, but I knew it just required better play so I dealt and overcame. I regret the difficulty being lowered to the degree it was, but I do think most players get really sad at fleet wipe. I bought it Day 1, finished it with the insane fleet scaling difficulty (6 battleceuisers coming at you at once is pretty awesome), and it is one of my favorite games due to the excellent atmosphere, pacing, story, and challenge.
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