Star Trek Online thread

[henrie85]

like Jack Emmert said its gonna take about 3 years before they release the game. by then hopefully the graphics engine will be allot better then what we all saw in the video and im looking forward to playing sto

[Darkthunder]

Somehow I doubt it's gonna take 3 years

If it were true, I find it highly odd that Cryptic would decide to show off gameplay content this early in development, if it's not intended for release until several years later. My bet is it will be out sometime 2009, or early 2010.

[lint]

Agreed!

[UPD Equinox]

Well I was on the Unofficial STOnet forums early on in the piece, and to be honest i think the suggestions from the fans were better. The whole idea of becoming an 'shake and bake' captain is quite frankly repulsive. In the interview Jack Emmert went on and on about how true to the series they were trying to be and how TOTALLY TREK it was going to be. How trek is it when you can instantly become captain!? A heavy portion of perpetual's development focus was on STA and how you would recieve traning and such. Also the addition of completely NPC crew begins to remove you from the ST community.

The only interesting aspects of gameplay was the possibilties to meet and study new races and form part of the galactic economy, something i was inately interested in with EVE, but could never get into because of the UI and the completely foriegn environment. Heres hoping that their version of star trek is a more friendly environment...

Also on the time thing, id imagine that 3 years is a overstatement. He was obviously pulling a abitrarily long time out of the air so as not to get himself in trouble. Since they already have the engine and a game video id say that the main hurdle now is content. Also with the eleventh ST movie coming out next year id say that they are going to try and release the game at the same time. Cliched yes, but effective for promotional reasons.

[UPD Equinox]

Yeah the Post Nem idea was definately one of the only good ideas they had.

[Tuskin38]

http://files.startrekonline.com/movies/trailer/STO_Trailer_1280x720.mov


Here is a really HQ trailer if anyone wants to make screencaps. The Galaxy Class bridge looks awesome.

[Tuskin38]

As I've said before, how would you do a all Player crew? Scheduling conflicts would be horror.

as I posed in the other thread there is a HQ trailer here.
http://files.startrekonline.com/movies/trailer/STO_Trailer_1280x720.mov

[Voyager16]

I kinda like the Sovereign variant thing, except for the naccles

[Tuskin38]

I kinda like the Sovereign variant thing, except for the naccles

I like it except for the weapons pod thing.

[Nighthawk]

whoever designed those ships, deserve a shot directly at where it hurted most... I leave it at your discretion to find a word-
Seriously... what's the matter with that ENT era hull plating and color? that Sovvy with NX01-ish nacelles? WTF? uniforms of the Voyager era TNGrised? isn't this supposed to be set some 10 years or more after Nemesis? why does everyone forget that shinier graphics doesn't mean better?
gameplay might be immersive and fun, granted, but gameplay alone doesn't do the game itself. the game needs a storyline, the storyline is backed by the acting and the graphics. how you follow and build the storyline depends on the easiness of playing.

[Tuskin38]

whoever designed those ships, deserve a shot directly at where it hurted most... I leave it at your discretion to find a word-
Seriously... what's the matter with that ENT era hull plating and color? that Sovvy with NX01-ish nacelles? WTF? uniforms of the Voyager era TNGrised? isn't this supposed to be set some 10 years or more after Nemesis? why does everyone forget that shinier graphics doesn't mean better?
gameplay might be immersive and fun, granted, but gameplay alone doesn't do the game itself. the game needs a storyline, the storyline is backed by the acting and the graphics. how you follow and build the storyline depends on the easiness of playing.

MMO's normally don't have Acting.

There is a story line, over the next few months they're going to be putting up a time line spanning between the end of Nemesis and 2406.

[Voyager16]

Mwah, It can do  :lol:

[Tuskin38]

The Ships are suppose to be customizable so it was either added, or you can remove it.

[Voyager16]

I do like it, after seeing the video where he tell everything ( I find that little girl so cute XD)
but about combat, I mean, will it be like "Press F1 for phasers, F2 torpedo's etc"
or like bc..?

[Voyager16]

So we (players) Can get familliar on what has happend in those years etc.

[Nighthawk]

MMO's normally don't have Acting.

I mean rpgs in general. MMOs have a background story too, although it's up to the player to follow it or not

[AdmiralKathryn]

 I don't particularly think this looks like Trek but then maybe their planning on it looking more like the reimagined movie, to tie in with it? As in carry it on in that kind of timeline?

I dunno, I think the worst thing they can do is alienate the main demographic for the game!

I think this has the potential to become a really good one, if they stick to what fans are saying, IMO that would generate the largest profit for the company.


Then again, a good bunch of Trek games have been lacklustre and disappointing, from a visual and Engine side of things, I think I'll just wait it out and acquire Excalibure by Assimilation. lol.

[intrepid90]

that looks uber crap
only the battle scenes on the bridge look interesting...

[Nebula]

graphics isn't everything... and it looks fine to me anyway...

[ChronowerX_GT]

Well, the PS2 is coming up to 9 years old and Sony are plannig to release a new version of it to the russian market so for a console to last 10 years is really good. I doubt people sell PC's from 2000 in PC world. This shows how more advanced consoles are than the PC.

Not really. It means that the PS2 still sells more that the 3 and is cheaper to produce, so Sony still can extract some money out of it to cover PS3 loses. Selling more does NOT mean being more advanced (hell, PS2 hardware is ANCIENT).

Besides, the PS3 has bluray and although the PC can support it, i've never seen any games available that use blu ray. So i'm guessing that it'll be about 2011/2012 until PC's truly catch up to the PS3 and about 2009/2010 until they catch up to the 360. These consoles most probibly have a longer life than previous ones since they update themselves.

What has Blu-Ray to do with being more powerful? BR is just a disc with bigger storage capacity, it doesn't make the PS3 better. Put a PS3 game in a PC using 2-3 DVDs and the results will be better: higher resolutions, refresh rates, antialiasing... (if it's a good port, of course).

PD: guys, wtf is with those walls of quotes :lol:?

Well it's the end result that matters, not the speed. And the end result of consoles are that they last a long time. As for PC running higher resolutions, many ps3 games run at 1920x1080 so it's pretty high (and higher than my PC can support with my monitor). And Blu-Ray, whislst not making it more powerful, adds to it's life. Also it can access the disk faster than DVD. Either way, I'd like to bet that a PS3 will out last a top spec PC from 2006.