Write me a better story and i'll animate the concept art myself

[JacksonWallop]

That was the most cringe awful story my god.
Bad CG, bad story, portrayed from the eyes of characters I do not care about.
If someone writes a HW1 style script I'll do the animation in the HW1 style. Someone can mod it in.
A story from the perspective of a civilization about a civilization.

Trying to think if it would even work to replace the cutscenes... if you scrap all the magic hyperspace visions and awful fleet command dialog... replace that with HW1 style briefings... does it still work? Maybe the plot is fine but the way the story is told kills it. I'm kinda stunned how they could get that so wrong.

[TheOrangeBox]

You realised that the original writer of Homeworld was involved in writing Homeworld 3?

[Mastermatta]

Originally posted by TheOrangeBox:

You realised that the original writer of Homeworld was involved in writing Homeworld 3?

Yeah but there were alot of writers from various other places that i suspect took his basic story concept and came up with the storyboard of the game from.

Even if you ignore all the dialogue there wasnt much sense of mystery in the campaign. No really weird discoveries or cool alien encounters.

[Peter_One59]

Originally posted by JacksonWallop:

That was the most cringe awful story my god.
Bad CG, bad story, portrayed from the eyes of characters I do not care about.
If someone writes a HW1 style script I'll do the animation in the HW1 style. Someone can mod it in.
A story from the perspective of a civilization about a civilization.

Trying to think if it would even work to replace the cutscenes... if you scrap all the magic hyperspace visions and awful fleet command dialog... replace that with HW1 style briefings... does it still work? Maybe the plot is fine but the way the story is told kills it. I'm kinda stunned how they could get that so wrong.

If the mod tools are amazing, I may look into making a new campaign for my vision of a homeworld sequel. I'll be looking for you 😉
Otherwise I'll use generative AI to make the cutscenes..

[TheOrangeBox]

Originally posted by Mastermatta:

Originally posted by TheOrangeBox:

You realised that the original writer of Homeworld was involved in writing Homeworld 3?

Yeah but there were alot of writers from various other places that i suspect took his basic story concept and came up with the storyboard of the game from.

Even if you ignore all the dialogue there wasnt much sense of mystery in the campaign. No really weird discoveries or cool alien encounters.

You couldn't seriously project your wishes into the author mind nor presume some employees are overwriting the author's work.

Even Homeworld Cataclysm and Desert of Kharak had the original writers onboard.
You can dislike how the story is told but arguing that the story isn't Homewolrd is far from reality.

[Utwig_Chenjesu]

Originally posted by JacksonWallop:

That was the most cringe awful story my god.
Bad CG, bad story, portrayed from the eyes of characters I do not care about.
If someone writes a HW1 style script I'll do the animation in the HW1 style. Someone can mod it in.
A story from the perspective of a civilization about a civilization.

Trying to think if it would even work to replace the cutscenes... if you scrap all the magic hyperspace visions and awful fleet command dialog... replace that with HW1 style briefings... does it still work? Maybe the plot is fine but the way the story is told kills it. I'm kinda stunned how they could get that so wrong.

Do you have a link to your art?