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Viewing: Star Trek
Gaming: Star Wars

90's LucasArts was awesome (Rebel Assault series) and on the Nintendo 64 / Gamecube I had the Rogue Squadron series and Shadows of the Empire.

And in Skyrim I have lightsabers so the pattern still holds.

Erika_Redmark posted...

Viewing: Star Trek
Gaming: Star Wars

90's LucasArts was awesome (Rebel Assault series) and on the Nintendo 64 / Gamecube I had the Rogue Squadron series and Shadows of the Empire.

And in Skyrim I have lightsabers so the pattern still holds.

The Dark Forces / Jedi Knight series was fucking amazing.

Trek in fairness is harder to turn into a good video game. I did love Elite Force, that was a good fps in the trek universe.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Trek in fairness is harder to turn into a good video game. I did love Elite Force, that was a good fps in the trek universe.

Only if you play as federation two-shoes.

It becomes much easier if you can be, say, a Klingon. You could even get some minor side empires that mainline lore doesn't care about to be one of the things you can potentially run into. As well as some of the ST Online random stuff if it reaches that point.

Imagine: "Star Trek: Mercenary" or something like that.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Trek in fairness is harder to turn into a good video game. I did love Elite Force, that was a good fps in the trek universe.

To be fair, performance jank aside (and I played it before they did a current gen version so that may have even been fixed), Resurgence is probably as close to representing the perfect Star Trek experience as you can get in a game.

You did space battles, phaser fights, piloting shuttles, diplomatic negotiations, away missions, giving orders on the bridge, addressing moral quandaries, fixing stuff in engineering, scanning anomalies in space, tricordering some things, hypospraying other things, operating transporters, sitting around the board table to recap the story so far, pulling out those colourful little plastic chips and putting them in other slots in the name of science, and most Trek-like of all is that the story doesn't make any sense unless you remember the background information given in a subplot from a 30-year-old episode.

Pretty much the only things missing from the "play as a Federation officer" handbook is crawling around in a Jeffries Tube and using a replicator, haha.

PraetorXyn posted...

Yeah, but if Santa Claus machines are ever invented, I feel like the rich will just hoard them and use them to make themselves infinitely rich, as they wont even need consumers to buy their shit anymore. Yeah, it would basically make money worthless in the long run, but were talking about the people who lead corporations to make poor long term decisions all the time in the pursuit of short term stock bumps and shit.

The Orville went a little more into how a Star Trek type future would work (since it's heavily inspired by Star Trek). There was an episode that talked about how the Union once gave the equivalent of replicator technology to a less advanced civilization thinking it would help them, but the planet's leaders mostly used it to make weapons and ended up destroying their own planet. It was saying that advanced technology alone won't make a better society and it has to be paired with positive social development.

They also went into the notion of a society with no money and their take was that human ambition doesn't go away, people still want to be "rich", but what it means to be rich gets redefined when accumulating money is no longer a thing. It becomes more about becoming rich in reputation.

Star Wars

I like the lore better and the games are significantly better.

Bleuets posted...

I enjoy them both.

But if you had to chose.

When I was younger? Star Wars. As I got older I could appreciate Star Trek more.