Star Trek Online -- effectively canceled, with LOL screenshots

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videogames101

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
it looks bad compared to say EVE.

http://www.eve-online.com/scre...sp?col=05122007&n=8#sh

Maybe but a lot of players found Eve boring,what do you want pretty graphics or gameplay?..Personally its nice to have both but I'll take gameplay as my choice between the two(graphics) anytime.

not only is EVE boring as hell, but its just a glorified database program.

there's also no way those are actual ingame screenshots of EVE. I've played it and its nowhere near that.

I've played, it's looks BETTER then that for me, my guess is you didn't install the trinity graphics package, it's another few gigbaytes but thats what'll get you to that point.'

EVE is great!
 

james1701

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This is sad news, especially with the way Bethesda handled Legacy. I have not played a good ST game that I have enjoyed, since Starfleet Acadamy. Klingon Acadamy was ok, but I never got into like like SFA.
 

BladeVenom

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Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
I STO ground combat looks like total ass. The ship shot is "ok" but it looks like a cartoon, which is not what Trek is meant to be.

I guess you never saw the Star Trek cartoons?
 

manimal

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Ya sadly the trek universe has not had a decent game since StarfleetCommand 3. Mind you that activision slop was so badly coded and optimised that it barely ran. Orions Pirates was decent as well.
 

TheVrolok

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I'm a huge trechie, but I've actually never played a ST game. I'd like to see this come out.
 

I4AT

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
it looks bad compared to say EVE.

http://www.eve-online.com/scre...sp?col=05122007&n=8#sh

Maybe but a lot of players found Eve boring,what do you want pretty graphics or gameplay?..Personally its nice to have both but I'll take gameplay as my choice between the two(graphics) anytime.

not only is EVE boring as hell, but its just a glorified database program.

there's also no way those are actual ingame screenshots of EVE. I've played it and its nowhere near that.

All MMO's are glorified database programs.
 

Canai

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: dighn
Doesn't look that bad? :confused:
though I do think the Star Trek universe isn't a great for a MMORPG. It's a bit too uniform and Utopian for such a game.

looks good to me. is op a Crysis fanboy or something?

Hey, I'm a Crysis fanboy, and I think the graphics in this look decent.

Quit hatin on the Crybois :(
 

StormRider

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Those graphics look pretty good to me!

If there was a ST MMORPG, I hope there would be holodecks in there. Then I would have my character use the Holodeck to have virtual sex with 7 of 9, T'Pol and Wesley Crusher's girlfriend (played by Ashley Judd). My character would practically live in the holodeck and not go out into the real Star Trek world.
 

Canai

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Originally posted by: StormRider
Those graphics look pretty good to me!

If there was a ST MMORPG, I hope there would be holodecks in there. Then I would have my character use the Holodeck to have virtual sex with 7 of 9, T'Pol and Wesley Crusher's girlfriend (played by Ashley Judd). My character would practically live in the holodeck and not go out into the real Star Trek world.

Which is probably why it got canceled :laugh:
 

Throckmorton

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I didn't understand how the game was supposed to work. It would be like making a military MMO. In an MMO you serve yourself, not Starfleet or whatever. Yet in this game you buy your own ship etc.
 

pontifex

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Originally posted by: I4AT
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
it looks bad compared to say EVE.

http://www.eve-online.com/scre...sp?col=05122007&n=8#sh

Maybe but a lot of players found Eve boring,what do you want pretty graphics or gameplay?..Personally its nice to have both but I'll take gameplay as my choice between the two(graphics) anytime.

not only is EVE boring as hell, but its just a glorified database program.

there's also no way those are actual ingame screenshots of EVE. I've played it and its nowhere near that.

All MMO's are glorified database programs.

yeah but EVE is the epitome of it. But at least you can have fun in other games.
 

novasatori

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eve's graphics look good, but are hardly advanced or spectacular

more like really creative use of shaders and mapping to make something very simple look awesome.

STO does look interesting though, you can tell its early development based on the land shot, but even then, it doesn't really look that bad.
 

dighn

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Originally posted by: pontifex
yeah but EVE is the epitome of it. But at least you can have fun in other games.

you can have fun in EVE; you just gotta load up solitaire ;)
 

Zenoth

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Petroglyph should take their Alamo engine and make a Star Trek: Empire at War, I know I would buy it in an instant.
 

Maximilian

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I think trek fans must have beaten up the OP at some point :p It dosent look all that bad, looks like starfleet command III but a tad better.
 

randay

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: I4AT
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
it looks bad compared to say EVE.

http://www.eve-online.com/scre...sp?col=05122007&n=8#sh

Maybe but a lot of players found Eve boring,what do you want pretty graphics or gameplay?..Personally its nice to have both but I'll take gameplay as my choice between the two(graphics) anytime.

not only is EVE boring as hell, but its just a glorified database program.

there's also no way those are actual ingame screenshots of EVE. I've played it and its nowhere near that.

All MMO's are glorified database programs.

yeah but EVE is the epitome of it. But at least you can have fun in other games.

eve recently got a game engine update, so it looks a lot better then it did before. as for it being fun.... Ive played it for 4 years now. it has its ups and downs, if you can even get passed the learning curve in the beginning.