Zero Punctuation: Star Trek
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I'm honestly shocked that Yahtzee considered this game worthy of even acknowledging. It's a movie-licensed video game coming out before the movie even does. Of COURSE it's going to be complete rubbish! This has basically been recognised fact for the last 20+ years!
Arcane Azmadi said:
+1 I thought he'd do Fire Emblem: Awakening, given that it's actually a good game for the 3DS.
How dare you make assumptions about my mother's cooking, Yahtzee!
Cracked up at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Wesley Crusher! Did not see that one coming!
Cracked up at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Wesley Crusher! Did not see that one coming!
Ooo, I had that one. I ended up with a free CD of it somehow. Not quite up to MOO standards, but considering how few 4X games there actually are it really wasn't all that bad.b.w.irenicus said:
As for the topic, I would pay good money to see The Rock as Wesley Crusher.
Captcha: Describe this logo with any words. Yeah, I have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to be. Pretty sure captchas are supposed to check if I'm human, not American.
Funny you'd call this the 'new Star wars game', cause when I first heard of Star Trek, I thought "What is that? Is it like Star Wars?"
Most Star Trek games are not very good. I like Star Trek Online after all the retooling that took place, but otherwise the games just don't fit the idea. Star Trek works well in the TV/even numbered movie market.
I disliked Wesley as a teenager and now I despise him as an adult. He wasn't satisfied with ruining TNG, now he just wont go away.Ken_J said:
Have you tried playing it with the emulator called DOSBox?CyborgGinger said:
Nunna ya young epstarts remember Space Quest V: The Next Mutation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspeed_%28video_game%29] (Sierra Online), I suppose.
Good times. The best Trek games out there...until maybe FTL.
Dunno whatcher missin'
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Good times. The best Trek games out there...until maybe FTL.
Dunno whatcher missin'
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When I saw the video title, I immediately thought of the Star Trek MMO. Anyway, this seems like a pretty standard movie tie-in game.
Didn't he like it? I get the vague feeling that Yahtzee didn't like it.
Also, this is the first review I've seen of Yahtzee's where the page of comments isn't full of people decrying how they only "Watch his videos for the comedy" because he tore apart a game they loved and he clearly "isn't a reviewer, just a comedian".
Also, this is the first review I've seen of Yahtzee's where the page of comments isn't full of people decrying how they only "Watch his videos for the comedy" because he tore apart a game they loved and he clearly "isn't a reviewer, just a comedian".
That used to be the case until they worked to hard to make second one [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine:_The_Fallen] was okay.valium said:
The Starfleet Command [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starfleet_Command] series was pretty good. It was based, however on the tabletop game Star Fleet Battles the diegesis of which diverged from the Star Trek canon. Star Fleet in SFB is significantly more of a specialized military service (bearing fewer resources and responsibilities regarding scientific inquiry and exploration) than it is in Star Trek proper.
Final Unity [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_%E2%80%93_A_Final_Unity] was a decent point-and-click adventure, albeit with its rough edges. The ship was uncontrollable in the mini-game when I played it, but you can delegate around those sequences. The story actually feels like a Star Trek TNG plotline unlike other games in which the diegesis was shoehorned a bit into respective game genres.
Though it was not well liked by many, I was fond of DS9: The Fallen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine:_The_Fallen], a third-person jumper-shooter with climbing elements. This one had the first actually-useful tricorder which could detect life, structural weaknesses and clear transporter zones (at which you could get resupplied).
Then there was Star Trek Armada [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Armada] (the first one, not II) which was a halfway decent RTS. Not so, Star Trek: Away Team.
And then Star Trek: Bridge Commander [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Bridge_Commander] was pretty great, and the one time that it really felt like you were sitting in The Chair.
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I'll ignore the crack on STO, though I suppose "it got a lot better a year after release" isn't much of a defense in an objective sense.
That said I would have been far more impressed if this game was actually good. To be honest I don't think much of the Star Trek reboot as I felt the script of the first one was really pushing the limits of belief within the constraints of it's own universe. It seems like since "Nemesis" was mediocre they felt the need to pretty much toss all the continuity out the door and create an even bigger monstrosity, honeslty with the new cast and the demographic the JJ Abrams movies seem to be going for, I think "Bro Op" oddly fits with in with a game attached to that franchise.
So basically a "meh" alternative universe, spawning a terrible game... pretty much status quo.
I do think Jason Statham as Picard would be awesome in an absurd way though, the stuff of a good satire rather than an actual reboot.
That said I would have been far more impressed if this game was actually good. To be honest I don't think much of the Star Trek reboot as I felt the script of the first one was really pushing the limits of belief within the constraints of it's own universe. It seems like since "Nemesis" was mediocre they felt the need to pretty much toss all the continuity out the door and create an even bigger monstrosity, honeslty with the new cast and the demographic the JJ Abrams movies seem to be going for, I think "Bro Op" oddly fits with in with a game attached to that franchise.
So basically a "meh" alternative universe, spawning a terrible game... pretty much status quo.
I do think Jason Statham as Picard would be awesome in an absurd way though, the stuff of a good satire rather than an actual reboot.