FalseTautology

I tried every item on the breakfast menu, only the breakfast crunchwrap thing was anything less than disgusting.

I came here to find this. Thank you.

I don't know if you're still here but I wanted you guys to know something (assuming that you all worked on Homeworld together).

I bought Homeworld when it first released in 1999. I brought it home (I was living with my parents at the time) and stayed up reading the manual, which is one of the greatest manuals of all time. Anyway, as I was reading my phone rang. It was pretty late, my parents were asleep, so I answered the phone.

It turned out one of my best friends had died; the phone call was his brother letting me know that it had just happened. He was a couple years younger than me and a total wreck, sobbing on the phone. I couldn't believe it and sat back on the couch, not sure how to react. He was the first friend that died, the first person I was close to that died. I didn't know what to do.

My friend, call him J, had joined the military the year before to become a translator. We had spent a lot of time together through our teens and enjoyed a lot of the same video games, especially the original XCOM. He loved tactics and strategy, but didn't really go for the hardcore simulators. As I sat, not sure of how to feel or what to do, I thought about how I'd been looking forward to telling him about Homeworld. The idea of a truly three-dimensional real-time strategy game would've been right up his alley.

In the end I just sat there for a while, reading the awesome textbook style manual to keep my mind off my sadness and when I was done I installed the game and played it for him, in memoriam. He would've loved it.

As a result I have very powerful emotions tied up with Homeworld; the fact that it was a stunning game and a wonderful story (and that Yes song at the end... perfect) only compounded this. This was the first game I ever played that made me cry; whether it was my own heightened emotional state or not, the post-credits sting of the galactic map and "you are here" crushed me.

I just wanted you to know that you touched someone very deeply with your game and that it helped me with what would've been a very difficult moment in my life. I know that's not the reason people make games in general but whatever. You have a fan forever, even if you make games I wouldn't normally be interested in.

That said, I didn't like Homeworld 2 very much (seemed too simplified and the story didn't touch me like the first one did). Sorry. I hold out hopes for a Homeworld 3 (or even a remake of the original) but whatever, I know the audience for 3d scifi RTS games has shrunk. I'm glad you made such awesome Warhammer 40k games (ALL of them including Space Marine) and I'm glad you guys survived the crash and burn of THQ. I bought all the Dawn of War games twice so it wasn't my fault.

Seriously, you guys are awesome. I'm pretty sure you even replied when I applied for a job with you despite having absolutely no appropriate training or background experience. So thank you. Thank you very much.

At work tearing up, thanks.

What an honest answer. Bless you.