Age of empires 2 was great, much better than Homeworld imo. I used to play a lot of rts and would rank them as follows: Warcraft > AoE > Dungeon keeper > Command and Conquer > Populous the beginning > Homeworld > Total annihilation > others (I have never played Starcraft oddly)
However I could not get ack into AoE2 HD, only 30 minutes played on Steam. Nostalgia isn't all that. Homeworld devs making AoE4 isn't such great news for me either.