Kotaku posted what I believe is the first footage of the upcoming Star Trek videogame, based on Nu-Trek, and made by Digital Extremes, who did The Darkness 2. Now, as a person whose favorite Trek is the original series, I have no problem with a Star Trek game being about beaming down to planets and shooting lots of things instead of space battles, although I don't begrudge any Trek fan who is upset with this. However, that one shot of Kirk fringing himself from ledge to ledge exactly like Ezio from Assassin's Creed, the Prince from Prince of Persia, Kratos from God of War, and 458 other videogames drives me absolutely insane. A fucking Star Trek climbing-exploration game? You have got to be fucking kidding me. I don't care if Captain Kirk climbs mountains in his spare time, that's a stupid idea. Seriously, you have an entire galaxy to explore, and you're going to have Kirk crawl around pillars? Bleeerrrg.
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This is what bugs me about this game that seemed to take a page out of the Megaman games: why the pointless climbing and exploring? Why not just teleport to the exact spot where your objective is located, and complete the mission in two minutes tops plus commercial?! Logic, people! Logic!!
Looks okay but not great... just like most games out there, so what's new? Other than the fact that it's a Star Trek title... I'll probably still at least try it out anyway.
And to everyone calling it "Star Trek In Name Only/STINO" and various other lame eponyms... grow the fuck up.
Instead of a repeat of my previous rage over the arrogance and impudence of telling me, a perfect stranger you have zero knowledge about, to grow the fuck up, I offer you this Rage Guy meme:
I agree, only children can have opinions about beloved multi-decade spanning sci-fi franchises. They should grow up and stop liking/disliking things.
So you assume that I was shitting on the older fans? Nice logical leap right there, considering I am one of the older fans.
You were insulting people for having an opinion. Doesn't matter whether they are old or new fans. Telling people to 'grow the fuck up' because they feel a movie violates a beloved franchise is an incredibly childish and arrogant thing to say. No leap in logic required.
Awesome. A trailer including virtually nothing we know or care about from Star Trek.
How Lame.
Gods, I wish STINO would just die already...
Makes me miss even the Activision era of Trek games, where they made crappy games that felt like Trek rather than generic games that didn't.
It's too easy to hate. I think it looks pretty fun. Nothing mind-blowing, but I don't think they're looking to release a AAA $60 game. If I have to choose between a generic Trek game that doesn't really bring anything new to the table or getting nothing at all, I'll take my chances. Worst case scenario it's a flop and the world goes on hating Trek games. Even if it were great, it'd be dismissed because it's Trek.
Wow. Combine nuTrek and a Star Trek video game. Are they hoping two (usually) terrible things are going to circle back around and make an awesome?
I'm counting on a singularity of suckitude being formed myself.
This just looks weird.
And honestly, it's Star Trek! I don't want to run around shooting things. I want to do cool Star Trek things on the Enterprise.
My first real trek game (Other than wintrek, a goofy little freeware game) was Voyager: Elite Force. The first level is a battle on a Borg cube that turns out to be a Kobayashi Maru-esque scenario, then you got to hang out on the bridge before having to run through halls and toy with force fields, then you got to run around engineering and prevent a warp core breach with just seconds to spare. And even though it was just a generic fps it seemed to just be so proud to be a Star Trek game and really drew you in, as if it knew all the fun things you wanted to do and let you do it.
Then they released the expansion which would just let you wander the ship, goof off as Captain Proton on the holodeck, collect little hidden treasures. Or, if you wanted to cut things short, they had a hidden self-destruct button on the bridge. Never before or since have I ever felt a game just let you be in the universe, without any real pressure placed on you. I wish there could be more Trek games like it.
True, and all 100 of us that buy it would love it, as the company that makes it goes bankrupt....
AGREED. I think they could get by with the 60% of it done, and probably get Shatner back for a majority of it. He doesn't sound nearly as old as Nimoy does, and you'll just have to scale back McCoy's involvement (unless his lines were fully recorded).
I'd buy the shit out of that game...
Apparently, the "Star" in the title has not permeated into those tick game planner's skulls, it seems.
Scamco's publishing. Expect to pay $5 for a Shatner/Classic skin, another $5 for the Picard skin, etc. And there WILL be skins. Just in case you needed any further reasons to dread this!
I'm STILL waiting for a Trek game which is done top-down retro Zelda/Pokemon/Final Fantasy style which lets players eke out a career for themselves in the Federation aboard the Enterprise/DS9. Totally open concept. You could become an enginner, a captain, a bratty redshirt... and play your part in various missions and minigames. I've wanted it since keyboard-mashing my way through A Final Unity.
That makes me think of the TNG episode where Q showed Picard that his human heart was made of chickenshit. I can only think there are few worse things in the universe than being patronized to by Counselor-cum-6th-Lt.-Commander Troi during your performance review.
You know, if I'm going to play a Star Trek game that features a lot of ground-based combat, I'd rather it be a game set during the middle of the Dominion War. At least the game could rely on the strengths of some of DS9's more interesting episodes. But they seem happily set on the path of least resistance by crapping out a generic action title that can tie in with the latest film.
Maybe this will get modded into that. Star Trek does have one of the biggest online modding communities, thank Cthulhu!
Ehhhh, kinda... That was more interested in the Pah'Wraith's storyline. Not so much Dominion involvement.
its a star trek video game that MAY not suck. that in and of it self is kind of great.
At least it's not "Doctor Bashir's Springball" or something equally inane.
besides. captain kirk is going to make love to that mountain.
Plenty of Trek games that don't suck: 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites, Bridge Commander, Armada, etc. There just haven't been an awful lot of good ones in the last 10 years.
Star Trek Online had *some* promise, and I still think its ship-to-ship combat is fairly fun, at least as of the last time I actually played instead of just logging on for 15 minutes to do my Farmville-like duty officer missions and then signing right back off.
I actually think that STO is the best Trek game I've personally played (although that says more about the lack of quality Trek games than it does about STO, but still...). Yes, it's an MMO, with all that entails (grinding, trolls, griefers, etc.), but in general I didn't think it was anywhere near as bad as some others I could name.
The away missions are generally interesting (the combat's a little clunky, but not horrible, at least for someone who's as FPS-challenged as I am), the space battles are a lot of fun, and there's a story in there, too. And I do like the way they've tried to blend in every bit of the cannon that they can, without becoming slaves to it; it feels like they've found a nice balance. The story makes sense, it's not *too* complicated (for Trek, anyway...), but there are still enough layers to keep it interesting.
But yeah, those duty officer missions (and whoever came up with them) can go frak themselves. The second you try to make me feel guilty for not logging onto your game for a day, I'm done.
A bad action port of "25th Anniversary" was made for the NES, nowhere near as good as the PC version, that was essentially an adventure game. Judgement Rites was also 100% for PC and Mac, and came in 2 versions: Text based, and a CD-ROM that actually had the entire cast for voice overs. That game is by far one of the best Adventure Games as well as Trek Games. It's one of the only games I've ever see nearly rival a LucasArts Graphic Adventure...
All were for PC, and I think 25th Anniversary is also available on Nintendo (NES). Only one I'm not 100% sure on is Judgement Rites. Wiki'ing now...
Am I man enough to attempt parKirk running and jumping?
*goes to kitchen**returns with chips**sits down in chair*
Yes, yes I am. (But I'll still wimp out and choose the Spock jetpack.)
Why oh why can't I just get a TNG Conference Lounge game, where you and the crew try to decide if something is really alive by talking it out?
Yeah, the closest they ever came was Bridge Commander, and unfortunately that was released just as the series was waning in popularity. If someone remade that game with a more modern engine (say, the Skyrim Engine), it'd be amazing.
Gameplay tip: Agreeing with Worf is the equivalent of not having a lantern in Zork; you're liable to be eaten by a grue.
Eh. Didn't really grab me. Besides not liking the Abram's Star Trek (so I admit I may be a little bias) it really didn't seem interesting from the clips.
I'd love to see more of a Amalgam of the original Star Trek / mystery / Batman type game. Unusual Tech shows up on planets that shouldn't have it; have to solve mystery of what they are and how they work through exploration; communicating with the natives; travel between planets; physics and mental puzzle solving; and with mysterious aliens on planet and in space trying to stop you.From what I see in these clips it feels more like another run and gun game.
I loved the latest film (for different reasons than I love the original series). But this game looks so horribly generic and dull. It looks like flavorless scifi, despite the production values.
so far from that clip looks like the game makers are trying to turn star trek into its own verison of mass effect . guess this means kirk and spock will not be spending much time on the enterprise
Well, if it really is like Mass Effect, then you can spend lots of time on the Enterprise, but you spend it all trying to romance Spock.
Does this mean no space battles? Or is that something we don't know yet, either way? Because if they combine awesome spaceship battles (and maybe somehow coordinating fleets or something) And have EzioKirk levels, that could be a great combination.
