Star Trek Online thread

[JimmyB76]

^^^ what he said lol

[Darkthunder]

I disagree. Cryptic Studios are an experienced and compatent developer studio, and have proven themselves in the past with City of Heroes/Villains. The new STO is being made with their own "Cryptic Engine" which is not the same as what is powering City of Heroes/Villains, and the upcoming game Champions Online.

I'd rather stay in "wait and see mode" until the gameplay video has been released.

[blaXXer]

I disagree. Cryptic Studios are an experienced and compatent developer studio, and have proven themselves in the past with City of Heroes/Villains. The new STO is being made with their own "Cryptic Engine" which is not the same as what is powering City of Heroes/Villains, and the upcoming game Champions Online.

I'd rather stay in "wait and see mode" until the gameplay video has been released.

The only thing the actually *can* do is milk an old cocept with new window ressing. I seriously doubt ST:O will be much different.

[ChronowerX_GT]

The sad thing is that this is what they were going for at first. Why change it from that to this?

[henrie85]

The sad thing is that this is what they were going for at first. Why change it from that to this?

you get all does nice screen shot but we dont see a bridge yet

[MLeo]

I disagree. Cryptic Studios are an experienced and compatent developer studio, and have proven themselves in the past with City of Heroes/Villains. The new STO is being made with their own "Cryptic Engine" which is not the same as what is powering City of Heroes/Villains, and the upcoming game Champions Online.

I'd rather stay in "wait and see mode" until the gameplay video has been released.

From what I've seen from Cryptic, they only "mod" as it were. They change the resources (text/models/textures/quest titles) and sell it as a new game. That ought to keep the costs down for when it comes to servers.

[undedavenger]

To be fair, I say let 'em make it. It don't cost us anything if it sucks. On the other hand, if it turns out to be a true gem, we're all lucky. Maybe if it flops, they'll make us a new BC or Armada game...

[Kirk]

Or if it flops, they decide Trek gaming isn't worth it anymore.

[blaXXer]

To be fair, I say let 'em make it. It don't cost us anything if it sucks. On the other hand, if it turns out to be a true gem, we're all lucky. Maybe if it flops, they'll make us a new BC or Armada game...

Yeah, dream on. As long as they can sell their crap to only a fraction of Trek gamers, they will conntinue to do so.

[ChronowerX_GT]

Or if it flops, they decide Trek gaming isn't worth it anymore.

Some game dev need to take a look at BC Files. Then tell me people don't want trek gaming.

[blaXXer]

yeah, well, obvisously the devs aint gettin' it.

[MLeo]

Yeah, well, it isn't the devs decision at all. ;)


I don't particulary think that "just" BCFiles is a good idea as a showcase of how awsome we would find it. Rather, I think that they ought to look at the features the original devs didn't even think of, and somehow made it into the game, and that we would just like a shell to work from. But an updated shell.

[SimRex]

Yeah, well, it isn't the devs decision at all. ;)


I don't particulary think that "just" BCFiles is a good idea as a showcase of how awsome we would find it. Rather, I think that they ought to look at the features the original devs didn't even think of, and somehow made it into the game, and that we would just like a shell to work from. But an updated shell.

If you can convince a publisher that > 2,000,000 people will pay for a "shell", I'm sure they'd happily spend the necessary millions of dollars to create it and licence the Star Trek name... 

Also - How do you know the original devs didn't think of anything the community has already done?  They were creative people by profession!  I don't think the community has done anything that someone, at some stage in development, wouldn't have already considered.  The difference is, the community has had more manpower and time to implement new features, and 6 years of working with a completed game engine.  The original devs had about 3 years (exceeding their original deadlines!) and were developing the engine as they went.  Cut them some slack already

[MLeo]

Well, they considerd stuff like MVAM as "impossible", maybe they meant for their deadlines, but we don't know, so I like to say "impossible" as in "we can't do it, at all". ;)

I think that 2 million, in current "climes" is a bit too low.
Everything seems to need a movie backing it.

[SimRex]

Everything seems to need a movie backing it.

Well, Trek has one of those coming up next year... (queue a flood of cheap Trek movie tie-in games)

[Villain]

Everything seems to need a movie backing it.

Well, Trek has one of those coming up next year... (queue a flood of cheap Trek movie tie-in games)

And all of them on the horribly outdated Wii, or another console.

[MLeo]

Yes, but those type of games aren't that moddable.
See the Transformers game.
Actually, I ought to check that out first.
But it's not as easily modded as BC.

[ChronowerX_GT]

Everything seems to need a movie backing it.

Well, Trek has one of those coming up next year... (queue a flood of cheap Trek movie tie-in games)

And all of them on the horribly outdated Wii, or another console.

I'd love a BC style game to come to PS3. Using the six axis on that would be soooo cool.

[MLeo]

I'd love a BC style game to come to PS3. Using the six axis on that would be soooo cool.

Huh? How are you going to mod a game on the console?


Oooohhhh, you don't mean the practically boundless modding potention that is BC at it's core.....

[ChronowerX_GT]

I'd love a BC style game to come to PS3. Using the six axis on that would be soooo cool.

Huh? How are you going to mod a game on the console?


Oooohhhh, you don't mean the practically boundless modding potention that is BC at it's core.....

I just mean that it would be really good to fly a ship using the PS3's Six Axis controller.