Purkake Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) Since the sequel has been officially announced and apparently no one has heard of, let alone played this, I made this nice thread for it. Now take your minds back to 2004, it was a dark time indeed, the home consoles were eating PC gaming's lunch and the future looked gloomier than ever. But not all hope was lost, a few still braved the stormy markets and made sophisticated PC games to rival the best the consoles had to offer. Once such company was the Hungarian Mithis Entertainment. Nexus was everything a space RTS should be and more. Instead of focusing on large fleets and hectic action like Homeworld, it took the more tactical approach of giving you a few ships with customization and much more tactical combat. It features individual weapon control, targeting a wide variety of subsystems, power management, boarding parties, drone fighters/bombers, layered shields and much much more. Most importantly it has a pause feature, which lets you take your time when making decisions instead of the hectic hotkey mashing you get in most RTSs. Here is the most decent gameplay footage I could find. Nexus the Jupiter Incident is available on Steam for $10 and unfortunately not on GOG. Edited August 18, 2011 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Ah yes, last mission killed my old PC. Wonder where the disc is, hm. Homeworld was as awesome as this though. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 Hey, I'm trying to get people excited here. They're differently awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Oh right right. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendu Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Nexus was fine, but I still wish they would have made Imperium Galactica 3. Nethertheless, this is next to Homeworld the best thing you can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 There's only one ship. Where's the fleet. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 You get others as the game progresses, forget how many, but maybe 4 or 5 ? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 There's only one ship. Where's the fleet. Second picture, left sidebar. I think you'll get up to 7 in the campaign. You can have a whole bunch in the multiplayer. Oh, and there's a ton of mods as well, including an pretty good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flouride Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Hmh, I wonder why I never bought this game. I remember enjoying the demo. Hate the living, love the dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drowsy Emperor Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I'll kill you for the subtitle Purkake. Played Nexus for a short while. Wasn't a bad game at all. И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,И његова сва изгибе војска, Седамдесет и седам иљада;Све је свето и честито билоИ миломе Богу приступачно. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) If Relic had used this engine for Homeworld the awesome would have fallen in on itself and sucked us into an alternate universe where everything is great. It would have been a universe without this board, and I don't think anyone would have wanted that... Edited August 18, 2011 by Purkake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drowsy Emperor Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) If Relic had used this engine for Homeworld the awesome would have fallen in on itself and sucked us into an alternate universe where everything is great. It would have been a universe without this board, and I don't think anyone would have wanted that... Homeworld's art direction is several light speeds ahead of this, dunno what you're talking about. The problem was the sequel sucked in most other respects. Edited August 18, 2011 by Drowsy Emperor И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,И његова сва изгибе војска, Седамдесет и седам иљада;Све је свето и честито билоИ миломе Богу приступачно. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 By engine, I mean the gameplay part. Have you actually played Nexus? And this thread wasn't really supposed to be about Homeworld vs Nexus, they both have their charms. Just like Icewind Tale and Baldur's Gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drowsy Emperor Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) I have. Its lack of a tutorial and a decent introduction to the overall mechanics was a killer. I remember getting stuck at some point in the beginning with no help from the game as to how to proceed so I dropped it after a few days. The gist of it is that it didn't draw me enough to put some real effort into it. Too many sliders and opaque upgrades whose function is not explained well enough, and not enough ships. But I did get an impression that the game was unfairly ignored by the press and gamers in general. Edited August 18, 2011 by Drowsy Emperor И погибе Српски кнез Лазаре,И његова сва изгибе војска, Седамдесет и седам иљада;Све је свето и честито билоИ миломе Богу приступачно. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purkake Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 It's pretty much the same deal as with say.. JA2, you'll figure it out eventually and it's awesome, but you need to read the manual/tinker with it/read the internets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entrerix Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 im going to buy it, and then probably never play it. i want to play it. but really, who am i kidding, my backlog has nearly 60 games in it. im not gonna play this one either. Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgon Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 (edited) Can't they just outsource Homeworld 3. They have lost all their mojo making all those boring 40000K games anyway. And I like 40000K quite a lot. Edited August 18, 2011 by Gorgon Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Nexus was fine, but I still wish they would have made Imperium Galactica 3. Nethertheless, this is next to Homeworld the best thing you can get.Nexus was supposed to be IG 3, but something happened then it wasn't anymore. Anyway, I got this game bundled to a magazine I bought, but the DVD version was asking for CD 2 and I couldn't install it in the end. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I played nexus back in the day. It was indeed awesome. Might have to reinstall for that bsg mod alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now