I am not sure the people that wrote this have ever played the original. Both Karen Sjet, the Taiidan Emperor in the original and Makaan in the sequel speaks in a technically eloquent and dispassionate patterns not because they do not understand the gravity of the situation but because their station requires their professionalism. The queen's angry trash talk feels so out of place in this game. It's like if Nagumo started cursing on the comms as the Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were burning. 😅

Ahh, Homeworld 3, the story of 3 ugly space Karens... the classic.

Guess it's safe to say there won't be a Homeworld 4 unless someone sweeps the IP away from Gearbox.

Well...time to reinstall Homeworld 1 and Cataclysm

That close up camera face spin when they go into hyperspace, dear god

What happened man. How did we go from DOK to this?

Holy Shit. This story is awful. I’m so glad I cancelled my collectors order.

Playing the campaign was like watching a season of Star Trek Discovery, in a BAD WAY.

i have a feeling female model for imogen was some self-insert female writer with large jaw insecurities

There’s nothing wrong with having cutscenes per se, but I feel like a lot of the appeal of the Homeworld games was that you never saw anyone’s face, and hardly ever saw anybody at all except for outlines of Karan S’jet. Feels like a weird shift in direction for the series to take.

Good lord. This is impressively awful.

despite my best attempts, i have no idea what the hell is the story of this game

God that was painful... There goes another beloved series turned to dust

Thanks for posting this. I'm so baffled that this is somehow the script they went with after 20 years of waiting. Not only is it clumsy and uninteresting, but also goes against so many of the core values of why the Homeworld story is so fondly remembered. Tragic that this might be a death sentence for the series.

Thanks for video, no matter how bad it was.

I only played 6 hours of HW3, after that I decided to uninstall it and just watch the cutscenes here, thanks for the video, you saved me hours of wasting my time on this crappy game. RIP to Homeworld history it was good until the 1st game and Cataclysm

There's a really weird use of contractions here - kind of sounds like wasn't written in english as a first language?

1:25:45 .... BWAHAHAHAHA

"No! Foolish girl! Vicious girl! What have you done? I crafted the Titanship as an extension of my Will, and you have ruined it! I swear, I will create a new one from the bones of your entire people!" - game's villain Any ridicule I think of comes up short when compared to the quote itself, verbatim. Who OK'd this? How did this pass play-testing? You mean to say people playtested the game, read _and heard_ these lines... and they _didn't_ hack up a lung from laughter? I'm sitting here and I feel bad for the person who did the voice acting. Not even _they_ thought that this is kinda-sorta cringe-worthy?

The moment when they found the Khar Sajuuk and the music kicks in, that was beautiful.

That jawline could cut fucking tomatoes cleanly. I have jawline envy.

The capital ship knifing through another ship was funny, they defiled the warp cores, Karen has the full faith of her people while Imogen is actively arguing with her own Intel officer, also Karen once again has carried the game’s spotlight lmao she deserves a rest

I just starting to watch this, and I'm assuming it's gonna be about Imogen being the most awesome lady in the universe and how she's going to solve everything and she's the bestest navigator and also the bestest engineer that designed the mothership and the hyperspace cores and will beat the bad guys if only the asshole dudes on the ship didn't get in the way of her awesome 🤣

Story is total disapointment

Wait a minute how is the TECH have TECH printed on their uniforms…I didn’t realise these hiigaran are using written English?

this story is so bad lmao

This is hilariously bad. 1:55:00

Thumbs up for the video thumbs down for gearbox ruining our beloved homeworld

Oh no lol Oh NO LMAO

These cutscenes are terrible, like they've been ripped from a destiny 2 expansion. What happened to the simple artwork style they had, they could've used DoK style and it would've been perfect, what a shame.

Good graphic but story lacking in the end the queen was just lonely? is like she haven't a real purpose music weak didn't felt the kick of the previous homeworlds

So the queen wanted to create a race of navigators? To do what? Boss them around? She already has legions of loyalits from the look of it. She's already all powerful too, so gaining power can't be the goal either.

It was a great run, Karen. I don't even know how old she is in game now.

The ending was rather underwhelming.

Good lord this is terrible

Here we go

Can not wait for a mandalor review

Someone please be kind to explain to me why in the heavens the Titan design is absurdly familiar to the Hiigaran design in their triangular shapes, even when the Incarnate fleet is obviously using a (literal) mix of the Progenitor and Vaygr designs? I mean, wtf happened to the design team in the last years? Just like the Hiigaran cereal-box Carrier ended up becoming the Raider carrier, was this Titan originally designed to be a Hiigaran behemoth? I am very very very frustrated with the design decisions in this game (not to mention everything else).

I saw the CG cutscenes, then i heard the synthetic hyperspace cores, then i switched off the video

Seems like a truly shit story told from the eyes of an emo teenager.

omg... im lucky i didnt buy it yet... what the hell happennnnnn... BIG NOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Wait, does it have the ending as Halo Wars?

the wow factor was just wow girl yaaas scale up to that b* then rotate in place

wtf happened to the story? it's beyond shit. nonsensical as all hell. i mean, sure, it's sci-fi but HW1 and 2 made sense. HW3 is utter crap. so much woke propaganda, Karan sounds like she just woke up, no feeling put into acting, and the new navigator and baddie (i refuse to use grown up names for w/e she's supposed to actually be) sound like marvel phase four actors doing their worst. and the animation has lost all of its magic. there was a reason it was animated pencil work instead of full HD cinematics. holy hells, this is bad! thank you for taking the hit and actually playing through all of it to warn the rest of us.

I wonder if some modders will not remake this game to be more closer to original games. With AI Image generation making new cutscenes in the same style as in HM1&2 would not be a problem. Add to that new campaign and maybe this game could be salvaged.

If this is the full game in less then 3 hours not worth buying it

Bad story, woke bullshit. Same old shit in every new game? Nobody cares what folks want or like.

So somehow, this queen has enough power to destroy Galactic civilization yet they couldn’t flush out a story behind her, and she just disappears because she’s misunderstood and sad?

This review starts with the Admiral L. Soban line: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLJ7iqSL2K3cXYk.htmlfeature=shared&t=686 I was really hoping that Karan would become Sajuuk-Khar, the chosen one, get bold and mad and become the villain with that kind of galactic power. But nooo, they had to ignore the previous plots. What happened to Sajuuk? What happened to Movers, Keepers and basically every Progenitor drones? Where were the Incarnate in the last millenia when not even the Bentusi knew about them? Why did the Incarnate queen not considered the Bentusi as "Navigators", but the Bentusi considered Karan as they were, unbound? This is not Homeworld 3, this has to be a sad and blind spin-off made for children.

They still use Baserunner huh

LoL the first thing we see in the credits is the better looking version of the protagonist. Not the baboon we got in the cutscenes.

RIP Homeworld 3.

At the least the music is still really good, I prefer the cata and DoK soundtracks but this one is great

Something feels off the the scale of things, both the story and the ship sizes, early on the mother ship hits a freighter and takes heavy damage, that freighter was HUGE, or the mothership is just tiny

Hahaha 1:28:05 what the fuck

To think my friend tried to force me to pre order. I knew BBI was bad news when they publicly announced their political views years ago. Thanks for showing us the game

I think they were trying to copy the Stasis games. I get that feeling from the mo-capped faces and the weird religious overtone of the Queen. Because it reminds me of Stasis: Bone Totem. It’s not bad, design wise, voices are decent but overall…not so much. I’d give this an overall 5/10. Not bad, but not great?🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

There is much I dont understand about the ending, but I am alsno not somebody who knows HW1, Cataclysm or HW2.

Man these cut scenes suck. They feel like the most generic sci fi video game schlock. This isn't Homeworld. This is counterfeit trash.

Post Modern writing everybody. Sigh.

imagine they hire Nexon to make female 3D model for them

What the fuck am I even watching?

What in tarnation is this parody?.....

That game already had so dayum many red flags before release. The story beeing dumped down is no surprise.

the game is ok i just do not like the Sajet close ups . she is over animated and anoyng . and the hair is bad . the first mod i instal is skip the close ups . and use only the voice .

Wow! Collectors edition arrived today. Playthrough starts tomorrow. The mothership model is bad ass.

Hahahahaha, who wrote the dialogues for this, "coming of age" crap. The industry is absolutely in the gutter...

Holy fuck this story is flaming garbage. 1:27:50 made me laugh my ass off. Also 2:30:18 leaves me at a loss lmao I just can’t

What in the blue hell have they done to my HomeWorld.... This is a cheese fest. I'd rather play mine sweeper on a 386 pc running Windows 3.1 FFS...

plz check Sweet Baby Inc detected the Homeworld 3 on the list

wow just watched hw2 cutscenes and this give so much less in terms of world and scale building and instead focuses on a woman in a pod. Lin failed the community

Thank you for uploading this so I don't need to waste money on a horrible story

The game got so woke that all gamers woke up from buying the game.

Overall disappointed ! We live in an age when politics influences even the games that we play , because I smell woke crap having to do with the production of this. I guess is time to re-play Homeworld 1& 2 remastered. I ain't spending any money on this horse**** . Thank you for sharing the cutscenes !

I don't see how the story is bad. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The writing was understandable, Character and ship designs were good, motivations for all those involved was good. I honestly think this was a good addition to the franchise

wtf? no thx

2:28:53 2:29:05 The Queen is having a meltdown.

Too many cutscenes that pull you out of the game and really infantilized writing overall. Back to Cataclysm and HW!

Ooooo, memeberries everywhere. But the amount of complaining this woman makes reeks of some Sweet Baby Inc sibling company all over this. Though the level of complaining here is delicious for all the wrong reasons, lol.

I played the first mission and got sleepy lol. Game is boring and lacks the power and the story I hear is awful. God what a waste. Feels like a smash and grab scam.

It is the first disappointing entry in the series. Let's be clear, nothing was ever going to match the story of 1, the burning of your world, and the frantic race across the galaxy. Cat and 2 were good, Deserts was good. This is the first meh entry, I hope they fix it.

I'm so confused by this game. So the Taiidan didn't deal with her despite hyperspacing at will. The Vagyr didn't deal with her. Where's the Galactic Council from the first game that the Bentusi kept mentioning and show up last mission in HW1. And not gonna mention the Beast from Cataclysm. It's such a dumb story and seems to retcon so much. F this game

So, girlboss designed her own hyperspace tech, to "free us from unreliant progenitor technology". There goes bentusi sacrifice. There goes war with makaan. There go struggles on kharak. And its like literally second minute of intro. That is just sad.

Pretty sad that they opted for such a generic brain-dead storyline. Easily could have wrote something highly relevant for 2020s, hint hint advanced AI automated robot or biological/robot fleet. Hell divers did this well with the robot faction. Really could have explored why the AI would want to throw down on humans and flesh out that idea - heck maybe even make it so that you kinda feel bad for the AI?Instead the opted for something totally boring.

this looks, not like the homeworld i remembered, it used to be so epic, this looks like, scifi drama, what a downgrade

Hehe, terrible story aside these cinematics are terrible. Why not go with what they had previously? Still images... it would be better than these slap stick commedy exagerared movements and plastic faces with bad limp sync. Maybe hire actors and do it live, or go more stylized, cover it in shadow and mysique... not this...

That's a man!

Fastest dislike I ever gave. Nothing personal mate. It's the game, not you.

I very much don't approve of this game series. BUT, the story itself? I can make an exception.

Homeworld DEI edition

Man this is, ouch. OoF, even. I don't get the complains about DEI or diversity though. This is just bad writing and bad story telling, what does skintone or facial features have to do with this? It's bad CGI, not a woke agenda, christ almighty it's no wonder the world's in turmoil. Good stories get gutted because companies think they can make a profit by being a bad stereotype on what "woke" means, destroying development studios, cutting corners wherever possible to appease shareholders. That's not as far out nor nearly as complicated as a woke conspiracy to destroy all good media. God this is a repeat of the Star Wars sequel movies. BAD WRITING, IS BAD WRITING, RACE HASN'T GOT A THING TO DO WITH THIS!

I mean, after 2 minutes I have been bombarded with political messaging (intersectional and feminist already), as the writer clearly is someone egotistical unable to write a character that is not exactly that. So the character - no comment about how average they purposedly made her, to appeal to a "wider modern audience" that do not exist (many people have shitty tastes and many other who are full of shit exploit that, but there is some objectivity to beauty that inspire awe and this is not it) - need to say stuff like "i am a scientist", "i earned my place" which for anyone who is familiar with the ideological rethoric are key talking points. But we are not being shown that, we are being told and must believe. Well, is that why they made her very average, so no one would suggest she might have used the powa of the booba to get to her position? Anyway... I digress. So we are presented with a menace after slightly less than a minute into the intro cutscene, which "threatens everything she has ever known". It does not threaten what is good in the world, it does not threaten the peace of the universe or all living things, no, no. It is all about her and what she values, right? Who wrote that shit and what follows? We get a bit of techno babble which is fair enough in the setting, but when she talks about the merging with the ship and asks "will I still be me after the procedure?... I don't know". What kind of fucking scientist are you? And how the hell was that machine-living being interface even created if you don't know what it does to the subject? Sure, it was built and no one knows what it does, but it just works. Right, Right. And don't get me started with the patriarchal technology --- er... sorry progenitor technology that you wanted to move away from... Ok, I could go on and in more details, but this is an already too long youtube comment. I'll finish by saying that after looking a bit of gameplay (which seems to have quite a few more of the childish, shallow and mediocre writing in many more cutscenes that keeps interrupting the game) I wanted to say that instead of telling us from the horse's mouth (she looks a bit like one, don't she?) that she earned her place as the best navigator that was supposed to train all navigators to a new era... I wanted to say "show, don't tell". Well, I then saw that her first navigational decision of importance was to crash herself/her ship into another one, when this ship is literally a weapon factory and that was absolutely unecessary as more reasonable alternatives should have been considered. Yeah... that was stupid, but since writers can never write characters or stories that are more clever than themselves, we get that shit (when used in ST movies, there was some kind of setup for it and ramming was a desperate move, when everything else failed, and in SW when this was used, it was in a shit movie). What is sad, is that people with the same level of intelligence (which are probably 50% of the potential audience, will fall for the gorgeous graphics, and think this is a masterpiece of story telling... because, sadly, to have an average, we also need people that are below said average). Just for that, and considering that of the about 12 hours of gameplay on Hard (so I read from a lot from player reviews, so it must be quite accurate) there is about 20% of that spent watching this mediocre, uninspiring feminist wet-dream of a heroine and well, that led me to unwishlist it. Thanks for uploading the full movie, sadly, I can't bring myself to watch more of it (I already spent too much time writing about it here and I am not a writer at all lol) and realise that it would likely be just more of the same than the 2 first minutes I watched and already had nausea from.

Why did this traitor betray super earth? "destroy the enemy and the enemy will die" "people die when they are killed." tier writing. Like no shit

I heard somewhere that sweet baby or some DEI company touched this game i can clearly see their garbage writing here granted that its more subtle than other woke games. RIP Homeworld it was an amazing series. They also somehow made the story about the villain wanting to exterminate the galaxy to create the perfect race of navigators wtf??? Why wokesters need to insert race into everything even if it doesnt belong these mentally ill people are so obsessed.

Cutscene simulator.