Added by Brad on July 28, 2008
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LFG Kahn run
If you've been following the
drama and
rumor-mongering around
Star Trek Online the last few months, you aren't the least bit surprised that
City of Heroes house
Cryptic Studios confirmed today it's picking up the project's reins. My first question is whether Cryptic is using any of the art assets and design work already completed by Perpetual, or starting over from scratch. (Not surprisingly, they don't address this in the sparse announcement.) The latter option is probably the better option, though that won't please anybody who wanted to play the game this decade.
The
screenshots they released don't really scream "Star Trek" at me. A nice Bird of Prey or Ensign Redshirt in there would've tickled the old nostalgia a little bit better than that one lonely starbase does. The rest of it looks kinda generic sci-fi. I'm ready to believe Cryptic can do a good job with this, though; they definitely proved their MMO chops with City of Heroes, and I think all four of us were pretty impressed with the E3 showing of
Champions Online, their other MMO.
I'm curious to see how they design an MMO around a heavily regimented military organization like Starfleet. Does everyone start out as an ensign? Do you have to sit at ops for a few hours to level up? Maybe a starship will function like a guild, with the ship's captain acting as guild leader. Will you be able to play as a Klingon or Romulan? Will Kronos and Romulus be those races' starting zones? Can you go all privateer and get your own ship so you can tool around the galaxy at your leisure? Most importantly, Kahn will be like the final raid boss, right?
Somewhere in my recent past there's an 18-month-long, World of Warcraft-shaped hole where my life was supposed to go, so I'm wary of ever touching an
MMO again. But Star Trek, the license, is too close to my heart; I can't resist giving this one a try. Cryptic is saying they'll be showing video and talking more about the game at a big Star Trek convention in a couple weeks, so you intrepid wiki editors can poise yourself to cram all that new info into the Star Trek Online page when the time comes.
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The site says you play as either Federation or Klingon, which already sounds a bit disappointing since those two super-powers are diplomatically buddy-buddy with each other.
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Just like Star Wars Galaxies!
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But Star Trek is much more than that. I think Cryptic learned a lot from their tenure on City of Heroes & Villains and it shows if you look at the development of Champions Online. I think that the entire process behind designing a Star Trek MMO should be entirely different than designing a superhero one. While I've enjoyed Cryptic's work, I'm not sure that familiar with a formula that can accentuate such a different style.
Perhaps I'm not giving them their due credit, but I can't really get too excited about the thought of a Star Trek MMO from the guys that have only superhero-themed games under their MMO-laden utility belts.
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if they don't they going to have allot of angry Star Trek fans out there.
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the people who love it really love it
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