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Homeworld
2008 · Film · 104 min
Directed by Phillip Hudson
The year: 3037. Earth is at war with aliens called Mendax, who have remarkable mental abilities and are determined to wipe out humankind. In retaliation, a military team is sent to the Mendax homeworld. Their mission: To deliver the Devorga Strain, a powerful virus engineered to attack the Mendax immune system, exterminating them from their planet. One of the team members is terribly injured when their ship crash lands on the Mendax homeworld. Will they leave a member of their team behind, or risk being slowed by the burden? When the secret of Homeworld is discovered, they must find the truth within themselves or all is lost. But how can you learn the truth when everything you see and feel may be an illusion?
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To be fair, the most memorable times I've played in games have nearly never been about the graphics or presentation, and nearly always about what something __means__, whether to me personally or to me as a player.
In MMOs, I remember the hard things I did solo, the hard things I organized a team for, and the personal milestones. The zones might be ugly or beautitul. The task might simply be to kite some big demon through a wintry landscape, or it might just be doing something in a new role for the first time. (First time tanking, early raid leading successes.)
In the brief (trial!) time I played EVE, there was a lot I had to learn, and never mastered... but I could see the appeal. While a lot of the success comes down to planning (ship loadout, where you quest/farm/etc), at some visceral level I was still hunting pirates, and trying to solo hard fights that I could not quite beat. It's a rush, even if it doesn't look as cinematic as Homeworld or action movies.
This is likely the same reason people can get amazed or excited about chess or poker. :-)