Comments on: What’s to love about Cryptic’s Star Trek Online?

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:22:37 +0000

There’s a new Zork? MMO? Cool!

By: Taymar

Taymar — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:51:09 +0000

Between this and Zork, I’m really looking forward to up-and-coming games again.

By: Sente

Sente — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:04:15 +0000

When Cryptic revealed that they were doing STO I believe Jack Emmert stated that it would be ready within 3 years. That is one reason I have my doubts about 2009, but if they manage that and get a good game out I will be very happy to try it out.

I am an ESAK myself and the approach Cryptic is taking do seem hopeful. I am no ST geek and would not really be bothered if there were details that are not quite as it may have been in some movie or TV series. As long as it is an interesting and fun game I will try it.

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Feeling bored? Cool stuff to check out « Welcome to Spinksville! — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:38:07 +0000

[...] lists the things she loves from what she has heard so far about Star Trek Online. You get to recruit, train, and level your own bridge crew? I’m [...]

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:51:28 +0000

If the game is fun to play, I can forgive a lot of subprime visuals. If the game stinks, pretty visuals won’t save it.

It sounds like the gameplay of STO may well be awesome, so I’m looking forward to it.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:35:38 +0000

Yes, I would really enjoy getting together with friends and taking the Enterprise, or something like that, out for a truly large mission, where we would all have to be at our stations working together to do things. But THAT’S not a game either Perpetual was or Cryptic is making, so, can’t have everything. I wonder if that’s something they might add in an expansion?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:18:07 +0000

Thank you very much for writing your thoughts on STO.
I now understand why you find the game appealing. I do admit now that I too see it as being something I might enjoy.
One thing that would ruin it for me is a lack of polish. A lot of the players will have seem some star trek before or may even be very familiar with it. If they skip on the polish, then instead of being like “This is awesome! I’m on a federation ship!” it’ll be like “WTF! This isn’t how it looks/operates at all in star trek!”

Originally I had hoped STO would be more like your comment: ‘group together with other players to form the bridge crew for a major starship’
Being a single person, living in the Star Trek universe. Actually going to Star Fleet Academy for a while, actually having to run from ten forward to engineering when an emergency hits and perform your duties. Working together to be the best ship possible, that really sounded appealing.

However I understand how the ‘arcade game’ aspect that the game really is might be a lot more fun than the simulation type of game I just described ;)

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:14:57 +0000

You are SO not going to like Earth Eternal...

By: Spinks

Spinks — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:05:28 +0000

It does sound interesting. I hadn’t realised that you didn’t make up the ship’s crew with other players.

The downside of user created races is that it’ll be full of catgirls though. And other assorted furries. (But I suppose there is a sort of scifi precedent. And at least Vargr were cool.)

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +0000

That brings up a good point about IP-based games. If you weren’t into the IP, the game starts off on the wrong foot. I enjoyed the first few Star Wars movies, but if I wanted to play a MMO with magic swords, wizards and wise goblins, I could play WoW. I mean, Star Wars isn’t even science fiction, it’s fantasy. At least Star Trek pretends to be about science fiction — exploration. I can’t imagine SW:TOR will dwell much on just getting out into the void and seeing what you can find there.

It will, I’m sure, do a lot more of the fantasy magical stuff like in the movies. And like most fantasy MMOs, it will center around killing vast hordes of nameless beasts, I’m sure.

Not saying I won’t try it. But from this end of the cosmos, STO is looking better to me. And yes, I am more of a ST geek than a SW one — I haven’t read the Star Wars books or all the comics or watched the cartoon or seen Clone Wars, so I lose SW geek cred completely right there. I don’t think I even bothered buying Episode III on DVD. Watched it in the theater, never again.