Zero Punctuation: Star Trek

[penthesilea180]

Who keeps buying these terrible tie-in games? Haven't people learned by now that they are just marketing ploys? I am baffled.

 

[thexodus]

The Rock as Wesley would be an improvment

I can't imagine the Rock doing w00tfest.

 

[thexodus]

Why are Star Trek games so... unstar trekkie?

If they made a startrek game where the point was to fly around being a nice ambassador of starfleet without having sex with green-skinned chicks, I would not play it.
Giving the subject more serious thought, how many Startrek movies don't involve someone getting shot/killed? I think it's just StarTrek IV. So is that the exception to the rule or are folks just not working hard enough to find compelling story lines that don't involve bloody mayhem? I'm not sure.

Actually, the idea of a non-fighting based game is hard to sell. Think about all the quests in Skyrim and other games where you had to do something WITHOUT killing someone. After a while I realized they were there because the the other quests that awesome fighting and killing monsters would actually become monotonous without something to break it up. This says to me that everyone pretty much expects First Person games to be about Shooting(or in the case of Skyrim-Stabbing, Slicing, Smashing or Shouting). If you really want a non-fighting game, you need to get away from FPS.

 

[thexodus]

Why are Star Trek games so... unstar trekkie?

If they made a startrek game where the point was to fly around being a nice ambassador of starfleet without having sex with green-skinned chicks, I would not play it.
Giving the subject more serious thought, how many Startrek movies don't involve someone getting shot/killed? I think it's just StarTrek IV. So is that the exception to the rule or are folks just not working hard enough to find compelling story lines that don't involve bloody mayhem? I'm not sure.

Actually, the idea of a non-fighting based game is hard to sell. Think about all the quests in Skyrim and other games where you had to do something WITHOUT killing someone. After a while I realized they were there because the the other quests that awesome fighting and killing monsters would actually become monotonous without something to break it up. This says to me that everyone pretty much expects First Person games to be about Shooting(or in the case of Skyrim-Stabbing, Slicing, Smashing or Shouting). If you really want a non-fighting game, you need to get away from FPS.

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I apologize for my rambling, not very coherent post. I can only say the caffeine was wearing thin and it was way past my bedtime.

 

[xdiesp]

The best Star Trek game ever is FTL!

 

[Belbe]

I'm genuinely surprised that the new Star Trek game is balls!
-No one ever

Yeah I'm not at all surprised by this.

HAHA, my thoughts exactly. Can't believe they wasted money making this game thinking it'd be anything but utter failure. Also there's already enough Kirk-Spock bromance in the goddamned movie, didn't need a whole game to elaborate on that part.

 

[xdiesp]

Set phasers to... torture.