Three Moves Ahead 615: Homeworld 3

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Len, Luke, and Ian warp in to discuss Homeworld 3, a space strategy sequel more than two decades in the making. We discuss its use of space terrain, the more intimate storytelling in the campaign, the co-op Wargames mode, and what it has and hasn't preserved from its pantheonic predecessors.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am Len. I am your host for this week,
0:04.6	and I am joined by our friend Ian Boudreau.
0:08.8	Hello, everybody.
0:10.6	And by our other friend, Aftermaths, Luke Plunkett.
0:14.8	Hello, Strategy gamers.
0:17.5	And it's a big one this week. We are here to talk about Homeworld 3.
0:23.6	I would say maybe one of the most long-awaited RTS sequels ever.
0:32.5	It's got to be up there.
0:34.3	Yeah, when did Homeworld do come out?
0:36.4	Was that?
0:37.4	It was 21 years ago. Yeah, when did Homeworld do come out? Was that? It was 21 years ago.
0:40.1	2003, yeah.
0:41.9	Yep.
0:42.9	21.
0:43.7	It's old enough to, it's old enough to drink in your country.
0:47.6	The golf between Homeworld games, yeah.
0:50.0	That's longer than the gap between StarCraft and StarCraft 2, which felt like a million years.
0:55.1	So, yeah, that's a long, it's a long way.
1:01.0	Or even Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3.
1:03.2	That's got to be a pretty big gap too.
1:04.7	But yeah, this is, there's nothing.
1:06.5	I don't think that comes quite close to it.
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