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Star Trek Online: GC '09: Five Minutes of Gameplay Footage
MikeB
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An explosive reveal of Star Trek Online has been made at this year's GamesCom in Cologne, Germany. A video on GamesVideos.com gives us a look at a full five minutes of in-game footage, featuring everything from planetary away teams to large space skirmishes.
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Unfortunately, the video is off-screem cam footage, but once the we get our grubby hands on the fullscreen version we'll update this story!
Feast your eyes on Star Trek Online here!
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Nice!
Saw a bit of stealth there. The space battles look great and I can appreciate they are still working on animations and such like.
From the brief amount I've read... Klingons get cloaking devices, Federation get improved cloaking detection. Having been a Trekie for over 30 years I was unsure about this game but the more I read and see the more I warm to it... Perhaps 'today is a good day to die'...
Looks good, but like has been said above the animation needs some work. The space battles reminded me of Armada 2. I hope this game has plenty of depth
The IP of Star trek is huge, this game could be way bigger than Star wars if done correctly. But alas they have a bunch of monkeys from Cryptic on it. This game should be at the same hype level or eevn more than star wars and should be getting multi millions dollar budget that Star wars is getting, but Cryptic have deemed this game to be 2nd rate to CO, and CO is total FAIL. All I see of this game is what could have been and what should be, and all I kepe thinking is Crytpic are making it as a Fail game from the start.
Not at ALL impressed by that footage. The ships look cool, the combat looked cool, the locales looked cool.... but Star Trek is NOT mainly about combat, and that's ALL this footage showed. Where's the exploration? Where's the diplomacy? It looked like there was no interaction at all between the characters other than them fighting each other.
I'll hold my final judgements of course for when more info is available, but so far... it looks like Cryptic don't know Star Trek to me.
makes it look alot better than some of the screenshots I've seen and some large battles in there too*may be the reason why no ship interiors)
and agree with the above comment should have much higher hype lvl than swtor and co
can't wait to try it for myself, fingers crossed cryptic aren't going to deliver another 'version of' for 8yr olds
consideringthe game isnt even at the "invite only" beta stage you might want to give it soem slack. This is a frigging Alpha!
Agreed. Where is "to seek out new life and civilizations.." Where is scientific detective-work analysis and engineering etc?
The space animation does need a lot of tweaking. The ships lacked fluid movement specially when turning/changing course.
The worst bit I see is that person-to-person combat... whats that about? Shooting phasers at 5 feet? And nothing is happening?!!! (*grumble*.. they reskinned the standard CoH/V combat - *hit* *hit* *heal* *hit* *hit* *heal* *hit* *hit*.... bah!) Come on people! Put some thought into it! It's not as if Cryptic is a newbie MMO developer - evolve from past experiences.
In my opinion, non-locked, real reflexes, dodge-the-incoming-fire, take cover, and roll over while shooting from the hip style combat would have been a better choice. (Something like Planetside or DDO where we can actually avoid everything if we play smart.)
Of course thats what they showed at the show. Combat and action is what sells games. They have already started numerous times that exploration will be a huge part of the game, but i dont think a video showing a ship mapping an unknown sector of space would make a very large impact visually. No would a bunch of dialog screens with NPCs. They are going to show off things that catch peoples attention.
meh, it looks like a pwn or be pwned kinda game. Combat is cool, but just like you said, where is the exploration, where is the diplomacy? ST is lots of dialog, I saw none of that in this video.
This game has WRONG written all over it.
They're making a Star Trek for non-Star Trek fans.
This is not Star Trek.
Horribly, laughably, wrong.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
The whole concept is wrong.
ST is about team work from talented specialists. It's not the 'Captain Kirk Adventure Show' with faceless sidekicks.
Abomination.
"We figured that anybody that had seen the movies or the shows really fantasized and dreamed of being the commander of a starship" - WRONG.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
I guess nobody bothers to read up on anything before they comment. This is not the Star Trek Universe you have seen in the movies and TV series', it's a time of war. The Khitomer Accords are no longer in affect, Romulus has been destroyed and there is virtually no Romulan leadership. The Kilingons have take over parts of the former Romulan Space and are at war with the Federation.
There will be exploration however, on the Federation side anyway, as the Federation has retasked many of the ships that were being used for defense during the war with Cardassia back to Scientific and Exploration missions. It isn't open PvP, it's primarily PvE with PvP zones in the outer reaches of the Alpha and Beta quadrants.
As other have said, they're still in Alpha... lets see where this goes.
Then it isn't Star Trek. It's a space battle with Trek skins on the ships.
It's Star Fleet Battles - the MMO.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
Looks mostly "meh", but we'll see where it goes I suppose.
Stay away from MMOs with big name titles is my advice, from my experiences their destined to turn out bad.
LOTRO is a perfect example. Turbine tried but failed horribly at it for alot of fans. And before the LOTRO fans bash me...its an average MMO at best, lets be honest. If it wasn't Middle Earth, half of you would have canceled your accouts 3months in...LOL
I'll personally stear clear of TOR and Star Trek. I'm a fan of both but I won't go near MMOs with big titles anymore. I perfer a MMO created from scratch, not a world based on books or movies that have already been written. Star Wars? Star Trek? I'll go throw the dvd on the big screen if I want a fix.
Anyways, just my 2cents...stay away from em and you won't be setting yourself up for dissapointment. :-)
"I play Tera for the gameplay"
SW:TOR is not going to be an MMO, and ST Online is not going to be Trek. Both horrible concepts.
I honestly don't think Trek can work as an MMO. ST is about a small team of skilled professionals working together to solve problems. Only way ST could be simulated is if players were bound together as a crew, with red shirt replacements for offline players.
Famous IPs are just bait to lure in saps to play a creatively-stunted time-waster.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
Of course thats what they showed at the show. Combat and action is what sells games. They have already started numerous times that exploration will be a huge part of the game, but i dont think a video showing a ship mapping an unknown sector of space would make a very large impact visually. No would a bunch of dialog screens with NPCs. They are going to show off things that catch peoples attention.
Don't get me wrong, I understand why they showed what they did, and I believe you're right. Carnage sells. No doubt about it. But the problem is, carnage doesn't sell to the average Star Trek fan. They can go about building a buzz amongst non-fans all they want, but if that's not what they're gonna deliver in the long term, those non-fans are gonna walk after the first month. And in the MMO biz, that's a recipe for a quick death.
The flip side is, if that footage is indicative of the real game, the true fans are gonna walk, because that's simply not ST.
Lesson here, especially with big IPs, is 'know your audience' and deliver what that audience knows (and they clearly know more about ST than Cryptic).
It looks good, but that doesn't mean anything. The clip is a advert, it's all spin basically. You just can't know or judge really at this point. I'll wait and see. Definitely hopeful, but there are endless examples of MMO's that everyone was so hopeful about that just didn't turn out (if they were released at all!). I definitely hope that the space battles are not "simple" shoot-um-ups, I want there to be some strategy. It shouldn't be quick button-mashing arcade-style.
"Meh" about sums it up.
Really, nothing stands out as a "Wow" factor.
Gfx look like any current gen game I can play. Replace a phaser for rifle, pistol, etc because the ST I remember had a one hit and you were down factor. Here it's just Pew, pew, pew.
To make a real ST game, you would have had to have ship interiors and maybe a kin or guild as a "ship's crew." Otherwise, it's just another game with the ST IP attached.
Too bad to. Could have been cool.
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I liked what i saw. I am officially pumped up for this game now. Added bonus i paid a lifetime subscription to Champions Online so i get to be in this games beta testing.
I am a huge Star Trek Fan and I like the fact they are doing a MMO. It looks like it will be an interesting game to play.
Cant wait !
Don’t tell me what I want to play in a StarTrek game. Stating everyone wants to be a Caption isn’t the best way to sell the game. When the game was first announced and they talked about roles I wanted to be Tactical Officer or Engineer. I can already play a lot of good StarTrek games as caption right now with no monthly fee.
You are exactly the sucker,,, I mean player that Cryptic is looking for.
Sooner or Later
Sorry to bring the 'disgruntled SWG vet' argument over this way, but this is exactly what went wrong with SWG. They told us players we didn't want to be Uncle Owen the moisture farmer, and that we all wanted to be Luke and Han etc...
Of all the lessons to learn in as an MMO developer, you'd think they'd have at least learned from the SWG NGE.
Now, I'm a fan of ST as well, and I can tell you right now, that I'd rather be Spock than Kirk, or better yet, a nameless Ambassador or starship engineer or communications officer.
Designing a game where everyone plays the main hero that saves the galaxy is simply just a cop out, and frankly, I think most ST fans will smell the BS before paying.
Wow, so much hate and bile over a 5 minute highlights clip.
And how, precisely, was Cryptic supposed to showcase footage of...exploring? Dialog? All the associated stuff that happens in between battles on ST? Call me crazy, but showing footage of some badly-animated alpha-production-level character walking around scanning junk with a tricorder isn't exactly what most people would call "exciting".
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