Comments on: STO Update: New Episode Trailer + More Klingon Gameplay Details

By: Carlitosway

Carlitosway — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:52:55 +0000

If 19. is right then were are all screwed as I want to explore different worlds too but to have a barrier? bah how lame is that. To be on the safe side I am pre-ordering with a $5 dollar deposit to try open beta. I am not gonna rush and shell out $80 bucks for a CE without trying the game myself, this way if it sucks I just loose $5 bucks rather than $50 or $80 So far all I see are more rocks than space itself and a huge bridge with small characters. And that is so unrealistic to send so many ships after one federation starship. Come on be real Cryptic. I really have high hopes that this wont be a big disappointment to us Star Trek fans. Curious to why the other company abandoned the making of this game and let cryptic take over. So glad I am hanging on to my WoW account. Merry Christmas Everyone!!

By: Cryptic

Cryptic — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:23:42 +0000

I just drove by Cryptic on the way home. Just a few cars in the parking lot. Hope these guys are working hard on the release!!

By: Will_H

Will_H — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:49:21 +0000

This is one of those STO posts that makes me like the game less. The ship interior’s are unimpressive at best, and yes, wayyyy too big. The external graphics are nice, but the movement and effects are shaky, hopefully they’ll be better by launch. I’m still waiting for an actual good gameplay video. Story and all that is important, but how it plays is what an MMO comes down to.

By: Mark Lynch

Mark Lynch — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:39:54 +0000

@26, thanks but I already have it, a great game. Shame I can’t play it on my Windows 7 PC….. :(
Perhaps I should re-install DOS-BOX.

In fact I own or have owned virtually every Star Trek game since Star Trek 25th Anniversary came out on floppy disk… Yes I said floppy disk, 5 of them I think. But the re-issue on CD was a welcome upgrade.

From what information I have been able to find, I firmly believe that Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury, is the best Star Trek game that was never released. I know the grammars off, but hopefully you get what I mean.
It would be wonderful if some games developer picked this up, finished it off and released it. Rumours are that it was 80-85% completed.

Perhaps STO will go more toward exploration etc. in time. Then I might consider giving it a try.

By: Neville A. Ross

Neville A. Ross — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:09:45 +0000

@19: If you want, you can always buy a used copy of the old game Star Trek: The Next Generation-A Final Unity by Spectrum Holobyte-lots of exploration, meeting new lifeforms and new civilizations, and not a lot of blasting and shooting up.

By: Devlah

Devlah — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:22:05 +0000

I would have to agree on the point that it’s foolhardy to make a decision based on a game still in development. Star Wars Galaxies for example, underwent several revisions and mutations before it became what it is now.

World of Warcraft also underwent a great deal of change. City of Heroes, City of Villains, seeing a pattern here? Anyone who has played any of these games from beta to at least a year after live knows that things change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes worse (Like SWG).

It’s been my observation that people that call a game garbage or state that they have no intention of buying a game that ISN’T even FINISHED yet because it LACKS something, is most likely a troll fishing for a flame war out of boredom.

By: The Baroness

The Baroness — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:49:23 +0000

@22 – Cause you’re in the beta and you know this for a fact, amiright?

By: Jedikia

Jedikia — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:45:40 +0000

From all that I have read and seen the game is still in BETA, and like all MMO games will go through numerous patches to update content , missions , and missing detail. If there is a lack of exploratory missions I am sure they will add more. but the game needs to be released to shake all the bugs out of it, there is only so much BETA testers can do. I for one will give it a chance, and see how it goes.

By: DeathDealer

DeathDealer — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:16:01 +0000

The Klingon content in this game is garbage. This is a one faction game with LOTRO Monster-play added as Klingons. FAIL

By: Wil

Wil — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:47:05 +0000

You guys are silly…
The game hasn’t even come out yet and there are people fighting over how “awesome” (or not) it is. Wait till it comes out…until then, RELAX!

#19 – Sorry, but I don’t consider you to have an informed opinion, as you have no direct experience with the game, only your friend’s viewpoint (which I believe he is in breach of contract by telling you about it). So until you do play the game for yourself. form a REAL “informed” opinion of the game’s “trek-ness” and then continue to agree with your buddy, you will not have a complete and total level of informed-opinion.
-not to say you can’t have an opinion, just don’t sell it as something it’s not.

p.s.- Does anyone remember when games were fun, just because they were fun?