Very slow and complex, with a completely useless tutorial. Compared to Homeworld, I think it's much easier to control and has an infinitely better interface (once you figure it out). It also takes place on a 2d-plane of 3d space, so you don't have to worry about all the different 3rd-dimension movement that sometimes (in my opinion) made Homeworld a bit of a chore to control and follow.

Games, even on a small map, will take hours and hours. Games on a large map could go on for weeks at a time. Homeworld had a much better story (as in, it had a story).

Overall, while I liked Homeworld, I really, really like Sins. It's probably in my top 5 or so RTSs of all-time, along with Company of Heroes, Age of Empires II, Black & White 2, and Empire Earth 1.

Also, it begs comparison to Supreme Commander because of the scale and the icons that represent different things because of how far you zoom out. One thing that really, really pissed me off about SC was that it had these really cool graphics, but you only saw the icons and a flat map most of the time because you couldn't control shit when the camera was close. Sins remedies this partly through scale (large capital ships, tiny squadrons of fighters/bombers), partly through scenery (cool planet/space/nebulous backgrounds), partly through interface (icons on a sidebar for your ships/structures as well as enemy ships in the planet's gravity well), and partly through the cool effects in-battle.

@RockstarLlama:

You're right, it runs and scales very well. I don't get slowdown until I get close to ship max with hundreds of ships. (My favorite thing: Getting 150+ bomber squads. You attack a capital ship, and it gets housed in one pass. All the bombs homing in looks just ridiculous, there are thousands in space at a time. Hilarious.)

Strangelove

The dominant buyers of PC gamers are casual and average gamers, which is why the chart is usually dominated by games that have socially active player-base, while games that do not have them will rise and fall then disappear.

ssh83

RockstarLlama

rainofwalrus

JackTretton

It's sad that most of my PC game support is now just two publishers. (stardock and paradox)

arstal

UFO

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

demonknightinuyasha

Atheist Jew

Passa

Is it similar to homeworld or more complex?

Also I wonder if my PC will be able to run it. D: Somehow I doubt it seeing how homeworld 2 gives me some problems at times. :x

Witzbold

1000 planets spanning a 50 or so stars? :)

eld

And the game isn't absolutely terrible. It's fine as a casual game. My biggest gripe with it is that it plays alot like the Lost ARG Find815.com ... Which we got for free and not 60 dollars.

huginn

Not shitting you.

Black-Dog-Howls

TheIrishNinja

Gam3r

Asfad

Chewbenator

And I still haven't gotten around to picking up LOST: Via Domus yet. I don't care if it sucks; it's LOST, brother!

Tyber_Zann

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

fruitsofherwomb

Detre

the guys at www.bethblog.com was trying to promote Sins Of A Solar Empire saying it's awesome so i guess some people heard about the game at least.

having Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate instead of another Sim's game is shocking

FP Bleentastic has cake

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

failzmcgee

Strangelove

I feel bad for PC players who bought this buggy game.

MoeB

As much as hardcore gamers have a tendency to use Steam, the casual market is just that much bigger.

That, and if you track online sales, it would probably consist entirely of PoPCap Games, not Steam DLC.

Gelatin_Cube

(which I mean in a good way ;)

Morithain

Now back to playing.

RockstarLlama

mva5580

AuraHACK

Aprocalypse

NessD12