There are plans for bolder Star Trek video games

2 months ago by billmason to c/startrek

“We wanted to do something that's more interesting and engaging and will get people's attention.”

Also on the games front with all the recent news dropping like Shadow Frontier and Outposts Unknown, a short but interesting interview with the person in charge of Paramount's Games Group.

ooterness 14 points 2 months ago

What sick person gets the license to make a Star Trek game, and decides survival horror is the best genre fit? Have they seen a single episode?

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hopesdead 17 points 2 months ago

See “The Deadly Years”, “Obsession”, “Genesis”, “Empok Nor”, and “Impluse” among examples.

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ooterness 4 points 2 months ago

Horror episodes do exist, but they're rare, and not generally representative of the series as a whole.

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ValueSubtracted 6 points 2 months ago

"Star Trek isn't this, except when it is" is a pretty shaky foundation for an argument, though.

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LedgeDrop 11 points 2 months ago

Something like No Man's Sky would really be a better genre to fit into Star Trek's "seek out new life and new civilizations" mantra.

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cuchi 11 points 2 months ago

Also see "Identity Crisis", "Aquiel" and every Borg episode which is horror.

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MurrayL 6 points 2 months ago

I’d argue it’s no better a fit than, say, FPS, but people loved Elite Force.

I’m happy they’re experimenting with different genres to focus on different aspects of Trek.

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grue 2 points 2 months ago path: 0 24146413 24147356, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
Kirk 2 points 2 months ago

why do gamers™ always assume everything is created for them

let people enjoy things

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ValueSubtracted 10 points 2 months ago

It seems like they don't mean "bolder" so much as "more mainstream".

I'm not necessarily opposed to that, but I also like the oddball, niche games of the last few years (short-lived as they've been).

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directive0 7 points 2 months ago

Action Star Trek games are fun, let's be honest. Most of us enjoyed Elite Force and that certainly had some scifi horror elements, maybe without going too hard. I hope this game is good and wish them well.

But personally I keep telling myself the perfect Star Trek game is an away mission based walking/tricorder simulator with LA Noire style interactions with characters and Myst-ish styled puzzles. Maybe something closer to the new Indiana Jones game but in spaaaace.

I keep waiting to see that game. I have no idea if it would work though. I thought Resurgence came close, but it definitely wasn't perfect.

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karashta 4 points 2 months ago

This could be an interesting game, but why make this at all?

Star Trek was meant to be the shining ideal vision of the future. Please stop making it "gritty".

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Kirk 4 points 2 months ago

why make this at all?

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Klear 4 points 2 months ago

Team Beef just started working on a VR conversion for Star Trek: Elite Force. That's all I care about.

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nullspace 3 points 2 months ago

FTL is the best Star Trek game.

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