Talk About Needing a Reboot | Report this post to moderator
By: c.p. (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:00:24 on Feb 01, 2008

This movie is the perfect opportunity for someone to treat Star Trek games seriously and do it right. Maybe these guys should bow out and let someone else have the license.

Does anyone know if J.J.'s deal includes royalties from games, action figures, memorabilia, etc? If so, that might be an extra incentive for him to have a hand in peripheral products to the movie itself. Could only help.

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• RE: Talk About Needing a Reboot | Report this post to moderator
  By: Gary77 (Odo's file, contact) @ 23:24:40 on Feb 01, 2008 | (1)

  For those who like space 4X gaming, there is a new game coming out called "Sins of a Solar Empire" which has some pretty amazing screen shots showing the potential of the game. The game itself supports significant mod input as stated by a number of the beta testers. Although not Trek themed now, there is a significant move to develop a Star Trek Mod for the game. If interested go to: http://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/ and go to the mods section and look up the post, "Star Trek is comming to Sins"....some interesting stuff there.
  
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No big loss there | Report this post to moderator
By: Cymro (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:30:38 on Feb 01, 2008

Legacy was one of the worst games I've ever played. If the sales of the game were poor (which is why I'm assuming they don't want the license), it's because it was universally panned by critics and fans for being terrible. The controls were shit, the gameplay was shit, the graphics were very shit considering the spec needed to play it, the story was shit, and I can't think of a single game element that wasn't buggy.

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Trek Games Suck anyways! | Report this post to moderator
By: ericerickson592 (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:34:41 on Jan 31, 2008

No big loss... most star trek games suck anyways. Except for a couple, klingon academy, elite force series, bridge commander, armada, and legacy. Otherwise most of the others really were not that good.

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Sex, Chocolate, and Video Games ... | Report this post to moderator
By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:23:46 on Jan 31, 2008 | (1)

Bethesda Holds Star Trek: Conquest Contest

Bethesda Softworks has issued a "Conquest Developer Challenge," inviting owners of Star Trek: Conquest to try beating the best scores racked up by members of the development team.






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Lost Trek | Report this post to moderator
By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:34:49 on Jan 31, 2008

Quote from FiringSquad:
Bethesda Softworks, the current owner of the video-PC game rights to the Star Trek franchise, will not be publishing a game based on the upcoming J.J. Abrams directed Star Trek movie


Who knows, the project could go to Ubisoft, which is developing Abrams' LOST video game (and have published Star Trek titles with Bethesda).


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  By: chronos boo (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:49:21 on Jan 31, 2008 | (1)

  Triple post. Sorry!

  
  

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  By: chronos boo (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:49:10 on Jan 31, 2008

  Conquest for PS2 was alright. Legacy was pretty but sucked ass, same goes for Encounters. Why couldn't they mix up the gameplay. Have some space combact and maybe a first person shooter, an rpg type thing going next time. They made the Oblivion series, would it not have been cool to actually roam around the Romulan empire and do cool shitt?! Would it not have been awesome to have a combact going inside a ship when being boarded like in Star Trek Voyager elite force. The gameplay was too same/same, but Conquest for the PS2 kinda changed that a bit. It was actually fun and my nephews love it. :D

  
  

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  By: chronos boo (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:47:11 on Jan 31, 2008 | (1)

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Thats a good thing | Report this post to moderator
By: Merlinus Ambrosius (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:25:06 on Jan 31, 2008

Movie tie in games almost always suck.

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By: Gprime85 (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:35:24 on Jan 31, 2008

their trek games sucked anyways. they made it sound like theyd be the saving grace for video games in the 24th century.

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SON OF A BITCH!!! | Report this post to moderator
By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:16:20 on Jan 31, 2008

SON OF A BITCH!!!!!!!

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Bummer | Report this post to moderator
By: prometheus 59650 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:03:50 on Jan 31, 2008

Now that the Trek MMORPG is all but officially dead, there's nothing.

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Insurrection Game | Report this post to moderator
By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 13:34:02 on Jan 31, 2008

I think the last Star Trek movie to have a game adaptation was Insurrection, right ? Titled Hidden Evil or something like that.



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  By: Endeavour (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:31:29 on Jan 31, 2008

  I think Hidden Evil was more like a sequel following the events of Insurrection.
  
  it was years ago that I played it, but I remember it as being a separate story.

  
  

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  By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:38:23 on Jan 31, 2008

  Yeah, Gustavo. That sounds about right. I had a trial version of that game it I found it moderately amusing.
  
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  "Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."
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  "I'm a politician, which means I am a cheat and a liar, and when I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollipops."
  -- Jeffrey Pelt, The Hunt for Red October
  
  "Liberals, Intellectuals, Peacemongers, IDIOTS!!!!"
  - General Decker, Mars Attacks
  
  "It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires, both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
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    By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 13:44:51 on Jan 31, 2008

    I kinda liked the Generations game. If I remember right, the First Contact game was cancelled. So this Insurrection game was a good and decent game or it was crap ?
    
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      By: Cymro (Odo's file, contact) @ 06:33:36 on Feb 01, 2008

      It was set after the events of Insurrection and had Romulans in it. Also, it won't run on anything above Win98. And even though it had a classic psycho OTT Star Trek game story, it was kinda boring.
      
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Thank god. | Report this post to moderator
By: TrippingOverGod (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:13:52 on Jan 31, 2008

This company may have made some improvements to the Trek gaming genre, but just like Activision before them they managed maybe one good idea and then the whole thing stalled.

Legacy was alright - with a few more months in development and a bit more effort put in with the storyline it could have been outstanding but even as it was, the bugs were massive. The PC version was almost unplayable apparently, and the 360 version had a few notable problems too. I wouldn't want the new Trek movie to have such a lackluster company running the game department.

The bizarre thing from this article is how they're trying to blame Trek for their own inability to design a good game. TBD? Yeah, by Paramount fools.

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Not surprising. | Report this post to moderator
By: critch (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:57:51 on Jan 31, 2008

I'm pretty sure they're going to see if the movie takes off or not, and if it doesn't, they're going to dump the franchise. Legacy was good but ignored, and their DS/PSP/PS2 game wasn't even blip on the radar.

Word is that the City of Heroes company picked up the MMO rights, but I'll bet they'll do the same thing, sit on it until they see a market.

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