I posted this up so I didn't have to finish the game next time to enjoy this song... That was 11 years ago, and 2 years before the Remaster cut the song from the end credits, which is when this video exploded in views from people missing the song after finishing the game. I appreciate all your your comments and I
Still the biggest mistake to remove the song for the credits. In a sense, it encapsulates the message of Homeworld into nearly ten minutes of music. It's a shame, truly.
My dad (rest in peace) was always a huge fan of Yes. I remember this game coming out when I was bout 8 or 9 years old and my dad was excited that one of his favorite prog-rock bands had incorporated one of their songs into a Sci-Fi PC game. This song brings back floods of good memories. I miss you, dad - and those lasts lines from this song have always had a special place in my heard for you : "Peace is a word we teach A place for us all to reach Sing as it sings to you As it sings to me As I will always need you inside my heart" I love and miss you dad!
My father passed away in 2012 and I was a bit older than you when this game came out (13) and my dad loved playing Homeworld and watching me play... great memories! This was the first time I had heard a song from Yes and I fell in love.
Damn... That brought tears to my eyes. May your dad rest in peace, I'm sure he was an awesome man. Those last lines of this music is something very special indeed.
I loved this. When I finished the game and this started, it was.. I don't know how best to describe it, but it was perfect. Every time I hear the song, I remember how I felt that day.
TheRogueX I was completely blown away! I've been a fan of Yes since 1968...yeah, I'm old! I was so enthralled by the song, I put on my headphones, cranked it up and played it over and over again...then I went out and bought the CD...
I understand perfectly. I am a fan of epic tales, from LOTR to Star Wars; from Gilgamesh to GOT. But nothing compared to the feeling of having reached Hiigara for the first time.
Indeed, and a good reward after fighting tooth and nail without cheat codes and burning through multiple levels of hell. You earned victory in Homeworld.
The only video game ending I bawled my eyes out to. No fancy trailer, no skit, just a very powerful, universal message. Still have the original installer CD (remember those?).
This still makes me cry 20 years down the road. Every time. I'm so grateful to have played this in my teenage years. I bought the collectors edition of the remastered series to keep me reminded. Homeworld will always have a special place in my heart 💙🌌
@@MisterSiga I've been resisting this since Gothic 3 until I fell for it again with Diablo 3. Today I only buy fully patched GOTY editions and since I've been waiting for it for so long anyway, I'll wait another 2 years and then it'll be available for a tight budget. It also has the advantage that you save on the graphics card. But don't tell everyone else that, otherwise it won't work for much longer. xD
My godfather gave me this as a gift sometime around 2002 when i was 10. He passed away from a tumor last month at 59. Feels like he knew this was something new and special. And it is....Amazing game, great memories, thank you Paul!
Absolutely the best closing credit sequence for any game ever. I first encountered this game as a GOTY edition and it came with a manual that had LOADS of lore and development art in it that really fleshed out the universe. It is far and away one of the most lovingly crafted games I have ever seen, and it gets THIS song as a sendoff! Just beautiful ^_^
That book/manual was absolutely instrumental to make the game the most emotional I have ever played, all the lore and drawings made me feel part of the Higaran history and feel their destiny and pain. I have never ever felt that connection to any other game. Maybe I got spoiled by the best.
This was the exact moment that made a young me know that video games are just as much an art form as any movies. And the greatest of them are truly amazing memories in the landscape of my emotional past.
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
When I first saw it say "You are here, " I was mistaken to think it shows how insignificant we are in a vast galaxy. On the contrary, it shows us we not only are part of the vast galaxy, but that we will have a place to call, home.
in 2001 i skipped the end credits. Today I sat through it's entirety, enchanted.. I don't think I've ever seen an end credits so spot-on to leave me with a deeper appreciation of the heart and soul put into a game. And now apparently there's a band I have to check out.
Yes, indeed. I found a particular live performance recording to be far superior to any studio version for all the songs. I can't even listen to YES studio recordings now, they sound so dry in comparison.
@@FLMSTR typically if you can hear the audience (cheering) in the background during the start and end of a song, it means it’s a live recording. Usually it will sound more “real” because there are no edits or refinements done to the voice that you would typically have from a studio recording. It’s pretty simple just search up the song you want and then type ‘live’ at the end of it. Like for example; ‘Roundabout by Yes Live’
To my 15 year old self in the past. Well done on finishing this awesome game! Don't forget to ask your parents what a Yes is and how to listen to more of them, and most importantly what Yes is.
It was for those who wanted to dream, of distant worlds! About flying through the darkness of the universe to the stars, to meet the unknown, to meet new wonders. Unfortunately we have grown up and the world we live in has only become darker, and the dreams have faded, but not the hope.
I had no idea this was coming... I beat Homeworld, and then heard the best song from one of my favorite bands, for the first time. No words can describe that feeling.
When i finished this game, i was young (10 years old), and as a french guy, i didn't understood the lyrics, except some few words, but i always loved this song, the dynamic tempo and the good feeling it bring. Many years later, when i came back to this song and understood the lyrics, i cried.
+Xaveric Jr I feel you there. This song gave me goosebumps. I was so young when I played Homeworld. Now I come back to it and all the humour in the credits, I can't thank the team enough for making such a great game for us all.
I'm still remember that early morning it was 2:23 am when I finished the game. Was summer and I played this gem on my 266MHz Pentium 3 with 128MB ram, 1,5GB HDD aaaand 1MB graphic accelerator. On the lowest resolution I had 2fps, in the battle I had 1frame per 1.5 to 2 seconds without knowing how to use support frigates(fast double leftclick or maybe my pc didn't recognized with that low FPS)... I was 13years old. And that empty feeling when I finished the game... It's done. What I have to do now? What's really matter? And I start the game from the first mission again :D
@Sternia Hoenheim splendor mod is better. Did you wanted capture Turanic Carrier from the 4th mission and build their ships? YOU CAN! Did you wanted capture Kadeshi needle ship and build their ships? YOU CAN!
I remember playing this game in highschool. It was so amazing that I kept playing until I finished the campaign even though it was my finals. Definitely of of the greatest games of all time.
Probably one of the most atmospheric, as well as, visually beautiful and technically brilliant games I have ever played. Carrying over your entire force (coupled with the ability to capture any large enemy vessel) and resources from one mission to the next, I hadn't seen in a game before Homeworld, the true 3D maps that allowed for multi-vector assaults and ambushes in a 360 degree spherical arena... It was mind blowing for somebody who had been previously used to the Westwood RTS games - C&C/Red Alert/Dune and their clones. This was something else, something new. The pencil-art cinematics and with strong voiceover storytelling and great usic of music only added to the drama - Homeworld didn't need green screened full motion video sequences starring Michael Biehn or John Rhys Davies, it was already plentiful in the great story writing I still remember the "Kharak is burning..." sequence. The ending coupled with this song really brought a lump to my throat, something that rarely happened in my more cynical and nihilist teen years (I would have been about 15 going on 16 when I got this game). It gave me a bit of cred among the music crowd when I went to school talking about how I had gotten into this band called "Yes" - I'd heard Owner of a Lonely Heart on the radio but hadn't really paid much attention to it, it was only later when listening through yes' older stuff that I realized it was the same band. obvious listening to it now, but back then I was totally oblivious. *cough* /Fanboying
Amen brother, this felt like a step change in RTS. The 3D controls were incredibly well implemented, for me it brought the "Lensman" space combat strategy to life. On top of that the emotional charge from start to finish was fantastic, "Kharak is burning" and the end credits both still give me the shivers.
A very dear friend of mine got me this game about a year ago. He grew up with it as a kid, and we played it side by side with him watching. Experiencing this game and everything in it and sharing those moments with my friend, as well the journey of this game, was deeply fulfilling. And this song brings it all home in a way that words cannot convey. Bless this game, all who made it, and you for posting it years ago. Godspeed friend!
Man, this game was a rollercoaster of emotions. The credits roll after the absurd final battle in orbit of Hiigara was one of the best payoffs in videogame history. Thanks for uploading this!
Still listening to this song from time to time after more than 20 years. Such an awesome game, and what a blast to discover this masterpiece in the credits.
This is only one of a handful of games in my life that I've played more than three times because it is JUST THAT AMAZING. I'm a big fan of RTS games but this is the one that literally brought the game to a whole new level. The expansive battle map makees me feel as if I am truly in control of a space fleet. Then I hear Yes for the first time in the end of the song and it made me cry because it is the culmination of a galaxy-trotting adventure. "You've done it. You've made it. You're home." It is truly magical and I'm still gonna play it again.
When I was 7 years old(2005), I saw the CD cover sold at the mart and bought it because I thought it would be so fun to play SF games, but due to language barriers, I only played games without clearing the campaign. And when I was over 11 years old and learned English and encountered the game again, I finally cleared it for the first time. It was so hard. Over 30 hours, even after the goal was over, we prepared for the next mission by collecting some resources. I started over 10 times in the last mission, but it was so touching when I saw my hometown. That's why I looked like the earth, overcame that difficult hardship, watched the ending credit, and remembered this song forever. Actually, I didn't know the band Yes. However, after I cleared the remaster over 20 years old, I remember the meaning of the lyrics again as I understood the lyrics and their meaning. After this credit, I don't turn over credit scenes such as games and movies. But I don't think there will be a credit like Homeworld forever. It's so nice to listen to it after clearing it again. As a person who develops games, I will cheer up and live.
This game was so satisfying to complete, I remember this very well. I even got this song from Napster. I remember the "you are here" really well, at the end
18 Years ago I was 10 Years old and finally managed to End the Game, though I hesitated destroying the emperors ship... And as the Credits started this came up... I always feel kinda proud, happy and sad (because this great game ended) at the same time whenever I hear this song even now. A great Game with a great ending
i got this game for christmas right after it came out. I was finishing up my last year in the Marines at the time . I remember being blown away by the gameplay and the story(side note this was very first RTS game I ever played as at that time I was a hard core FPS gamer IE Quake 2) and when i finally beat the game that first time after being on that roller coaster. I sat there and watched the end credits and when it faded to black I was literally staring at my screen mouth open silent. I was stunned that a video game had such an impact on me emotionally. the story telling, the visuals at that time, the voice acting, and the sound score was absolutely brilliant. To this day there have been very very few games to match this one.
Rewatched after beating that inferior Remastered version, since I can't fix the resolution problem and Homeworld Must Be Fullscreen. Best end credits of all time, movie, show, or game. Brings a literal tear to my eye.
Fantastic! Homeworld was such a groundbreaking game and having this song in the credits was just amazing! I used to start the game just to play the credits to listen to this song. I was so happy to see Yes in concert for The Ladder tour and listen to this song live. Even after all these years, to me, this is the number one best song ever in a video game.
When I played this game, lo many years ago now, and finally finished it, I was so satisfied with the ending. And then this song came on in the credits. I didn't know who it was, but it sounded familiar. I recognized the voice and the musical style. It sounded like Yes. I'm a big fan of Yes, but I thought, "No. These guys didn't hire YES to write and record the music for the credits." So I looked it up, and lo they did! I was pleasantly surprised, and it made me appreciate both the game and Yes even more.
You were able watch the credits (and listen to the tune) from the main menu at any time without finishing the game, so these are strictly speaking not "ending" credits. ;) But yeah this is such a beautiful tune, and it got me into Yes the band for which I'm eternally grateful. While "The Ladder" album as a whole is not as strong as some of their 70s output such as The Yes Album or Fragile, the song is classic prog rock.
The song could pass for late seventies, I love it, probably my favorite post 90125 yes song. The album as a whole is very ok, nine voices is a good song as well
Took me until today (well, yesterday) to make the connection between this beautiful game and this fantastic song. Wowzah. How do you elevate a timeless masterpiece game? well...
Homeworld is one of the best games I've ever played. I can't wait for the remastered version! :D Just released today! And it was precisely what I hoped for- Epic and awesome!
Best way to describe when first hearing this at the end of the game, is like start of the credits for a amazing movie that just ended. This song starts playing and brings everything full circle. Like 80's-90's movie ending credit song that hits everything right.
The best game I played! Everything about it is very engaging, the game play, the music, the story, the script, voice acting, the drama and finally reaching this part, what a way to end. So much memories.
A Game that rewards you with this song for finishing it. I can't think of another game with an ending so epic.. Maybe Arkham City, joker singing 'Only You' would be a distant 2nd, but hardly compares to this epic finale...
One of the best games I've every played and hearing this music was like a well deserved treat at the end of your saga. This THIS was money well spent on not just a game but a truly great experience of creativity, imagination, and effort. Thank you programmers, artists, and yes even the b.s. legal office. You... all of you.... did a great job getting this to the public. I remember buying this at an electronics store (remember those?) and proudly walking home with my CD bouncing around in the crisp box. Thank you all for this!!!!
Probably be my first pick if I had to have only one game . This is truly a classic game. For those of you that have never played it you should. Even the origa6nl CDs run well on win 10. Give this game a try and you will not be disappointed. If you like RTS this is the game for you. If you want a very cool stoner friendly game look up " The Ur-qua6n Masters " It's old school but a very cool game. Funny as fuck . Some of you know it better as Star Control II I came across this game in 1994 for the 3DO system I still run it on all three of my computers runs well on all of them. Best part it's totally free as is warzone 2100 a6nother great game from the past Thanks for letting me rant =) BBB
No. The game is released to public in BETA test mode. So full paying customers are doing the job that paid game testers should be doing BEFORE the games released. Formations don't work. Tactics - Passive and Aggressive do NOTHING. There is no fuel for light crafts, so no docking required in game... (Just to mention a few problems) Until these issues are sorted out please do not buy the game. They should be paying people to BETA Test it. Not selling it to the customers and making them do it...
Misanthrope What era do you live in? Or are you blind and ignorant that having people pay to beta test games is now the industry standard? We can all agree it is not right. However, this is the world we live in.
Misanthrope I just beat the game, and had a huge blast playing it. It does have a few draw backs and some ships are now essentially redundant, but the game is still fun. I had as much fun playing the first time i did years ago as I did just now. And that last mission had me stumped for 2 days before I decided to go back a level and reorganize my fleet.
This was one of my favorite games of all time! Cool now that I am friends with Trevor Rabin and his wife Sherry. I hope this game is revived and new games will be made. DO NOT CHANGE THE PLATFORM... JUST IMPROVE IT AND CREATE NEW STORIES TO PLAY.
This game was very special to me. The end credits brought a tear to my eye when I got here the first time. I thought it'd be nice to post it, so I could rewatch any time I wanted to recapture that moment... 110,000 views later. I guess it was special to other people as well :)
Yep, this was back when Valve was still a fairly small time player in the videogame industry. The original Half-Life had only been out for 10 months when homeworld was released. The amount of incredibly talented people that had a hand in making this game is amazing
@@jeryn23 It is indeed amazing. But also, to be expected, given the quality of the final product. I can honestly say no game has ever impacted me more, with the exception of Neverwinter Nights, by Bioware, but that was a multiplayer experience designed to mimic tabletop DnD, and as such had a deep social element to it. In the realm of art I experienced by myself, this has impacted me more than any movie, for example. Simply amazing.
Absolutely love this song and game. One crazy thing, if you listen to the sounds at the beginning of the song, one of the higher sounds is verbatim one of the sounds used in the fourth level of the first Pikmin game which came out a few years after this game. there's no way that those are two separate sounds. They sound exactly the same. If you ever played that level, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Law Ton Agreed. One can only hope the devs made it easy to mod. The replacement track will surely be ok, but the original ending was SUCH a great moment. I was really looking forward to it. :-/
nmarebfly Amazingly shortsighted on Yes' part. I probably bought twice as many Yes albums due to the inclusion of this song (granting that I had some before).
