Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer 272
Two days ago, an AP interview with Cryptic Studios' Jack Emmert provided new details about Star Trek: Online, which was lost in developmental limbo for quite some time. Today, Cryptic released a game-play trailer and a forty-minute webcast discussing the game.
Marketing Pitch (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, you, too can be the Anonymous Redshirt, for only $14.99 a month!
Will this become.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:For the lazy.. (Score:5, Funny)
Details from TFA:
How many red shirts do you get per ship?
The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:5, Funny)
This isn't going to go well ... (Score:5, Funny)
NPC: Bring me 17 Tribble Scrotums.
Player: Ok, here you go.
NPC: Kill the renegade Klingon warlord.
Player: Done.
NPC: Invade the Borg ship and destroy it's power source.
Player: Mission accomplished!
NPC: uhh
Player: but didn't I already
NPC: SILENCE! Invade the Borg ship and
Re:Marketing Pitch (Score:4, Funny)
No, you start as a Captain.
Does it really count if you're the red-shirted captain for the redshirt vessel?
Delivering a valuable cargo of freshly laundered red shirts?
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... Star Trek takes place in a future where mankind has embraced socialism and lives in a utopia....
Being contacted by smug socialists shaming you because you're not one? Yes, that's certainly new, certainly unheard of.
Re:For the lazy.. (Score:4, Funny)
The quote at the bottom of Slashdot's page right now is especially appropriate:
You will be dead within a year.
Re:For the lazy.. (Score:5, Funny)
Instead of the standard HP or hit points, health will be gauged by RS, red shirts.
Platforms (Score:3, Funny)
Emmert said "Star Trek Online" would definitely be available for Windows PC and perhaps Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
Translation: your choice of Microsoft, Microsoft or rootkit-installing Sony.
I'll pass on all 3 options, thanks.
Re:Marketing Pitch (Score:4, Funny)
Kirk: I'll need 4 people on the away team. Me, Spock, Bones and Ensign Ricky.
Redshirt in the corner: Oh crap!
Re:This isn't going to go well ... (Score:5, Funny)
PC: 50 man borg cube raid fleet starting, need 37 more!
Fleet commander: %$#@!! Who aggroed the drone nest!?! That's Negative 50 BKP!!!
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:4, Funny)
Most of whom, exactly?
Re:This isn't going to go well ... (Score:3, Funny)
Worse than that, the biggest problem is that all the green alien chicks are gonna be played by dudes.
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:5, Funny)
If you think about it, it shouldn't be surprising that the people who prefer Kirk see themselves as the center of the universe.
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:5, Funny)
A) Beat up the antagonist
B) Have sex with the antagonist
or C) Do both A and B
It really went downhill after the original!
Re:Space combat + fps + rpg... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This isn't going to go well ... (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, I want to play this game and I'm really female in real life (down, boys!), but just for you, I'm not gonna play an Orion, if it turns out to be possible. :p
Re:This isn't going to go well ... (Score:4, Funny)
Planet Killer train to zone!
Re:For the lazy.. (Score:4, Funny)
You have docked with Starbase 23. Would you like to resupply? YES
Starbase 23 has the following supplies:
Please indicate the items and quantity needed...
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For the lazy.. (Score:2, Funny)
How many red shirts do you get per ship?
More importantly, are there any cute borg girls that want to look at the captain's log?
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Marketing Pitch (Score:3, Funny)
I totally agree, though... I've even gotten into discussions with people who insisted that everyone on board Federation ships were officers, which to anyone who has ever served in the military knows is absurd... Who would do all the day to day maintenance? Not to mention how dangerously foolish it is to trust an officer with anything truly important.
I wanna be Scotty (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Marketing Pitch (Score:1, Funny)
The hundred years war? He's older than he looks then.
Re:Promotion rate would be really low (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, but it's only a TV show. :)
He's a witch. Burn the witch!
Re:The only problem in Star Trek games (Score:3, Funny)
A computer to do your math for you is yet another half.
I see this starting out like all MMORPGs (Score:4, Funny)
You start the game with default clothing, basic black slacks and a red shirt. Then you spend half the game trying to earn a different color shirt. Just like all the others, except more desperately.