Star Trek - Space: The Final Frontier

Speaking of death, let’s talk about Prince of Sisko.

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Remember this one? No? Good for you. It’s a weird little Trek platformer.

All Star Trek console games are terrible. This one came out during that period when Sisko shaved his head and got promoted. The game sets itself right after the pilot, so, story-wise, basically nothing happens. You run around disarming bombs and escaping acid floods — both of which are impossible unless you use save states or passwords.

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There’s one halfway interesting bit. You go back to Wolf 359 via time travel. The Borg adapt to your phaser fire, making you "recalibrate" at stations spaced just far enough apart to break your spirit. You can't bullshit your way through; you have to plan.

The music’s trash. The graphics exist. And that’s about it. It does absolutely nothing good for the DS9 name.
 
Captain Syrup said:
Speaking of death, let’s talk about Prince of Sisko.

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Remember this one? No? Good for you. It’s a weird little Trek platformer.

All Star Trek console games are terrible. This one came out during that period when Sisko shaved his head and got promoted. The game sets itself right after the pilot, so, story-wise, basically nothing happens. You run around disarming bombs and escaping acid floods — both of which are impossible unless you use save states or passwords.

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There’s one halfway interesting bit. You go back to Wolf 359 via time travel. The Borg adapt to your phaser fire, making you "recalibrate" at stations spaced just far enough apart to break your spirit. You can't bullshit your way through; you have to plan.

The music’s trash. The graphics exist. And that’s about it. It does absolutely nothing good for the DS9 name.
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I tried to play that before in an emulator. I couldn't figure out what the fuck to do.
 
Captain Syrup said:
Speaking of death, let’s talk about Prince of Sisko.

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Remember this one? No? Good for you. It’s a weird little Trek platformer.

All Star Trek console games are terrible. This one came out during that period when Sisko shaved his head and got promoted. The game sets itself right after the pilot, so, story-wise, basically nothing happens. You run around disarming bombs and escaping acid floods — both of which are impossible unless you use save states or passwords.

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There’s one halfway interesting bit. You go back to Wolf 359 via time travel. The Borg adapt to your phaser fire, making you "recalibrate" at stations spaced just far enough apart to break your spirit. You can't bullshit your way through; you have to plan.

The music’s trash. The graphics exist. And that’s about it. It does absolutely nothing good for the DS9 name.
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Did you ever play Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen?
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I like to imagine that after the series Quark became a conservative pundit broadcasting from the bar, complaining about his IDIOT brother sorta like that Obeme sibling
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>be me
>have R&R and decide to use it
>Earth is a sector away, not enough time to head there even at warp 9
>closest place to Calder II worth a damn is Starbase 39
>it's better than nothing
>hang out in Starbase 39 lounge
>a few different screens up to watch different feeds
>Mad Latinum with Quark is on
>get some replicated slop and decide to watch it
>have a little latinum stash of my own in case I need it out in the sticks
>Quark is wearing the loudest suit I've ever seen in my fucking life
>literally doing the show live from his bar on Deep Space 9
>hear people screaming "DABOOOOO!" in the background
>Quark is using a cheap auto-tracking drone that follows him around while he serves drinks, occasionally bumps into a customer
>"My brother, the Nagus, says impact investing is where the smart money's at. Well, some of you might quote the 33rd Rule of Acquisition, but you'd be wrong. Remember the 285th Rule of Acquisition: no good deed goes unpunished."
>I mean, he's not wrong
>"If you ask me - what am I saying? Of course you're asking me. I'm putting my latinum into something tangible: the new market for kanar in the Klingon Empire."
>turns out the Klingons got a taste for kanar after sampling pilfered goods
>"Have you ever seen a Klingon drink?"
>yes I have
>Quark turns camera to Klingons drinking in his bar
>has to fight it because he doesn't know how to turn off the auto-tracking
>the Klingons are all shitfaced, several kanar bottles lying around
>"Always remember the 57th Rule of Acquisition, my friends: good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them."
>decide to invest some of my latinum into new kanar development projects in Cardassia
>a few weeks later, find out my investments were really just shares offered by shell corporations bidding for kanar commodity interests
>shell corpos "lose" the bid, take the latinum and run
>2LT Love Slave mocks me
>"Staff Sergeant, you forgot the 59th Rule of Acquisition: free advice is seldom cheap."
that Ferengi toad is lucky he's on the other side of the Federation
 
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Captain Syrup said:
Speaking of death, let’s talk about Prince of Sisko.

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Remember this one? No? Good for you. It’s a weird little Trek platformer.

All Star Trek console games are terrible. This one came out during that period when Sisko shaved his head and got promoted. The game sets itself right after the pilot, so, story-wise, basically nothing happens. You run around disarming bombs and escaping acid floods — both of which are impossible unless you use save states or passwords.

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There’s one halfway interesting bit. You go back to Wolf 359 via time travel. The Borg adapt to your phaser fire, making you "recalibrate" at stations spaced just far enough apart to break your spirit. You can't bullshit your way through; you have to plan.

The music’s trash. The graphics exist. And that’s about it. It does absolutely nothing good for the DS9 name.
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I remember that shitshow of a game. I had the misfortune of renting it back in the day. The only game that managed to annoy me more than this one was marios time machine. Though that tng SNES game is a close second. I never came close to finding all those fucking bombs and I still maintain that the only good ds9 game was ds9 the fallen on PC and even that was hard as fuck. It was interesting how they tied it into the millennium series of novels though with the pagh wraith cult, grigari and the red orbs

That said, they fucked the dog on that starship creator game. That could have been a really good game if they actually did something with it and expanded it into an actual game. Birth of the federation as well, they should have taken it in a more space empires 4 direction and made it more of a 4x. Don't even get me started on that stellaris style one that came out awhile back. I foolishly bought it at release and it is utter shit, not to mention deliberately lacking as the obvious intent behind it was to do what stellaris does and release content packs with species and such, which isn't going to happen cause it flopped badly
 
WonderWino said:
I remember that shitshow of a game. I had the misfortune of renting it back in the day. The only game that managed to annoy me more than this one was marios time machine. Though that tng SNES game is a close second. I never came close to finding all those fucking bombs and I still maintain that the only good ds9 game was ds9 the fallen on PC and even that was hard as fuck. It was interesting how they tied it into the millennium series of novels though with the pagh wraith cult, grigari and the red orbs

That said, they fucked the dog on that starship creator game. That could have been a really good game if they actually did something with it and expanded it into an actual game. Birth of the federation as well, they should have taken it in a more space empires 4 direction and made it more of a 4x. Don't even get me started on that stellaris style one that came out awhile back. I foolishly bought it at release and it is utter shit, not to mention deliberately lacking as the obvious intent behind it was to do what stellaris does and release content packs with species and such, which isn't going to happen cause it flopped badly
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It's kinda shocking how many garbage Star Trek games there are out there especially when considering the hit-to-miss ratio. The adventure games by Interplay were really good if a little opaque (as whas the style at the time), and I enjoyed Voyager Elite Force 2. Supposedly Honor Guard is good as well but I remember PC Gamer savaging it when it came out.
 
Brain Problems said:
It's kinda shocking how many garbage Star Trek games there are out there especially when considering the hit-to-miss ratio. The adventure games by Interplay were really good if a little opaque (as whas the style at the time), and I enjoyed Voyager Elite Force 2. Supposedly Honor Guard is good as well but I remember PC Gamer savaging it when it came out.
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Star Trek Online was good.
 
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
Star Trek Online was good.
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Key word: was.

It was even still good after the F2P switch for a decent while. But, nutrek and the carelessness of their in game economy ruined it for me. Last time I tried playing, I did like the Jem Hadar and Cardassian ships they added. I'd just end up abandoning the story episodes (terrible VAs and unskippable cutscenes fill me with blinding rage) and hit the random TFOs or dick around the dyson sphere battlezones grinding dilithium.

I stopped when they raped the exchange rate and economy, deliberately. No sense hitting the dilithium exchange, anymore, kids. Spend real money, instead! Remember when the best Cstore ships were 1-2k, not 20-30k? Yeah. 1k amounts to $10. Fuck all that. Was nice while it lasted, but the way they price the C-Store shit would make a Ferengi fuckin blush.

Paid subs used to get a stipend for the Cstore, but I don't know how that shit works now. Its been a while, and I refuse to pay again, simply on principle.

If someone is willing to pay 30-50 dollars for one internet spaceship, I question their judgment.
 
BIG BILL HELL'S said:
[EVE ONLINE INTENSIFIES]
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Fuck EVE and the PLEX it rode in on. I played that wayyyyy back in the day (Goonswarn and B.O.B. days, excitement, adventure, and really wild things) Another great game turned into a shadow (parody?) of its former self by F2P. I loved my corp, though. Small, independant corp mining nullsec to build our shit and make dosh, dualboxing a hauler and and an battlecruiser to run guard while the orcas chewed up the rocks. Talkin mad shit and having fun.

Still has the best space game music, though. The EVE music mod is an essential for RimWorld. The FTL music mod, too.

Hey Jita! Anyone who sends me 100k ISK, I'll send you 10 million! Trust me, bro!
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
Star Trek Online was good.
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I had a lot of fun when this came out, I got the collector’s edition that came with a little combadge pin and a Connie refit skin and I’d pin the badge to my bathrobe and sit playing the game for a while every morning. Had a lot of fun just designing my crew’s uniforms. Unfortunately as soon as I got my Galaxy class I took it out to DS9 for a flyby, ran around the promenade, and immediately lost all interest as that’s all I wanted to do from the beginning.

I tried coming back a few years after it went f2p but like with every mmo that switches to a f2p model they had a dozen different currencies for buying everything and it was way too much to figure out.
 
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