STAR TREK GAMES SUCK

monetteman · Apr 20, 2008

Is this because the games suck, or is star trek just a crappy idea for a video game?

Haggis and tatties · Apr 20, 2008

Vastator · Apr 21, 2008

Those were some great ST games though recently it seems a lot of them quite frankly suck. Not really impressed with Bethesda's track record in Startrek games, I was looking forward to that game Startrek Conquest hoping it would perhaps be a good game plus expand on the Dominion War then I heard you only get two ship types and that it came out and died without anyone noticing. Hopefully something happens that puts trek back in the spotlight in terms of gaming.

Haggis and tatties · Apr 21, 2008

Trek legacy although not dire is playable, but its definitely a bargain basement purchase.....i would say the Console version i far more playable.....

Legacy 360...5/10
Legacy PC.....3/10 simply because its a mess...add 1 point more for its being modifiable.

I'm really hoping the next Trek movie bump starts the franchise again and we see some good trek games again.

RobertScorpio · Apr 21, 2008

I still play my old Armada 1 game. There are still tons of mods out there I love to use from time to time. Is it the greatest game of all time? no. But if you just want to have mindless fun building up a wall of ships and then, when you are tired of that, to set them loose..IT IS PURE ASS FUN!!!

Robert
Scorpio

daedalus5 · Apr 21, 2008

monetteman said:
Is this because the games suck, or is star trek just a crappy idea for a video game?

One warning for trolling.

Please don't post such antagonising thread titles and bodies in messages in a forum designed for Trek gamers!

ktanner3 · Apr 22, 2008

Holy cow mr. itchy trigger finger :wtf:

. Most of the games ARE pretty bad and the better ones were skins copied onto previous game engines. I know it's not the most popular opinion in the room, but he shouldn't be warned for that.

WalkinMan · Apr 22, 2008

Well there are more tactful ways of expressing that opinion. The Star Trek gaming 'curse' is a talked-about issue and there is definitely lots of criticism, much deserved, of ST games from fans.

archeryguy1701 · Apr 22, 2008

I have a couple Star Trek games that I'm pretty fond of. In fact, my biggest gaming regrets are giving away Elite Forces, and not getting EF II and New Worlds (?). The one thing I would like to see from Trek is a colony based RTS that has skirmishes and a little more building felxibility than New Worlds.

Delsaber · Apr 22, 2008

ktanner3 said:
Holy cow mr. itchy trigger finger

You kiddin'? If this were my board...

But seriously, truly great Star Trek games really are few and far between (TNG: Echoes from the Past is still my favourite, and that was on the Sega Genesis!) But honestly, you can say the same thing about Star Wars games, too. There has yet to be a good Battlestar game which isn't freeware, there's nothing at all for B5, Stargate games are just starting up, etc, etc. Licensed sci-fi properties have never had much luck in the gaming space.

However, original sci-fi franchises such as Mass Effect are a different story. Perhaps the problem lies in adapting the narrative to an interactive format, in which case building something new from the ground up is probably easier.

Kadratis · Apr 22, 2008

archeryguy1701 said:
In fact, my biggest gaming regrets are giving away Elite Forces, and not getting EF II and New Worlds (?).

New Worlds? :wtf:

That's probably the worst one out of the Interplay games, because you can't even save!

archeryguy1701 · Apr 22, 2008

I don't know, I had always kinda enjoyed it. Of course, I was only able to get it from the library twice, so I never got very far into the game. I do agree that I dislike the lack of saving abilities.

Amaris · Apr 22, 2008

I'm a huge Klingon Academy fan myself.

J.

Haggis and tatties · Apr 22, 2008

Kadratis said:
archeryguy1701 said:

In fact, my biggest gaming regrets are giving away Elite Forces, and not getting EF II and New Worlds (?).

Click to expand...

New Worlds? That's probably the worst one out of the Interplay games, because you can't even save!

You can save....but only after you have completed a level...and yes a level can take up to two years to complete.

Still i think the big D was right in giving the OP a warning, starting threads with the pointless "Trek game suck" opener is definitely not a good way to start a thread, nor is it true.

ALF · Apr 22, 2008

EGA TREK

The best Trek game ever.
http://www.flightsim.com/arcanum/egatrek.htm
or
http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3104
And you know it's true.
Download it and play it for free. I remember finding this for 5 bucks on 3 1/4 disk and getting mighty jazzed up to crank it up on the Tandy 1000.

Ronald Held · Apr 22, 2008

Too many good games to mention. IMO, a bad post in a forum such as this.

Destructor · Apr 23, 2008

I agree with Daedelus. If this were the relicnews forums that post would have been deleted about two mins after it was posted.

donners22 · Apr 23, 2008

I do worry when somebody lists "great" Trek games, and one of them was never actually released. I love Trek, but aside from 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites, there's very few that have come close to being among my favourite games.

ktanner3 · Apr 23, 2008

Destructor said:
I agree with Daedelus. If this were the relicnews forums that post would have been deleted about two mins after it was posted.

Glad I never frequent there. If you can't handle criticism on the internet then you have issues.

GalaxyX · Apr 23, 2008

I've played TNG: A final Unity. Bridge Commander, and Armada II

A Final Unity was a great game! Worthy of being a TNG episode, and a story line better than half the actual TNG episodes themselves lol.

Bridge Commander is nice for mindless phasering fun (I love loading up the Galaxy X variant and targetting like 20 phaser beams on a Romulan Warbird) but it gets boring fast.

I was dissapointed in the graphics for Armada II, so I never bothered playing it much.

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