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11/10/09
Fuck that shit. #startrekonline
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I'm confused by this - you seem to be saying two contradictory things here. "Snappy movement" and "huge starship" don't mix.
One of the big reasons almost no Star Trek game has ever been successful in the slightest is that ship-to-ship combat is always terribly unrealistic, and therefore unsatisfying. Not that the shows or movies were always very realistic either, but at least most of them understood the idea of mass.
These are large capital ships that do take time to move around. Combat is less about maneuvering and speed and more about strategy and bringing firepower to bear - more like the way battles were fought between capital ships on the high seas in the 1700's and 1800's. Game developers never treat Star Trek starships that way, thinking it's no fun to fight with capital ships.
Well, all you've gotta do is watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to see that that's not true - the whole movie was just a long, drawn-out battle between capital ships (that for once, was actually fought in real 3D). But it's the best Star Trek movie there is. (Yes, I've seen the latest one.)
Just once, I would like to see ship to ship combat handled *at least* as realistically in a video game as it was in the various series' and movies. No Trek game that I've played has done it, and it doesn't sound like this one will either.
And before you say "it just wouldn't sell" - none of the other Trek games have sold very well either. So I'm not sure that argument's very relevant. Why not *try* to actually please the many millions of Trek fans, rather than attempting to make a game for some non-existent mass audience? #startrekonline
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Wrath of Khan definitely gets my vote for best Star Trek movie because of how it treats space combat. Huge capital ships shouldn't zip around like fighters like they do in every other Star Trek film. #startrekonline
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You should be hanged for mixing this in with a trek post. #startrekonline
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Can't I be a big fan of both without other geeks manning the flame cannon? #startrekonline
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@Avinash_Tyagi: #startrekonline
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Which isn't to say I didn't enjoy them in parts. #startrekonline
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Other than that, I enjoyed 'em. Nowhere near as much as the OT, but I can say that about a lot of movies. #startrekonline
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Seriously, though, spot-on - terrible acting, terrible story construction, terrible dialogue. Blech. It's good kids' stuff, that's all #startrekonline
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Where TPM suffered, as many others pointed out, is that it had an over-abundance in CGI and just didn't look like any of films before it (too much Hollywood treatment). Midichlorians ruined the magic of the force. Jar-Jar was way overdone on the cheap "humor" and would have been much better had he been a serious character with a couple laughs here and there. The pod race was way too fucking long and boring IMO; like watching a repeat of a NASCAR race knowing who the winner will be. Also some bad acting didn't help either.
Attack of the Clones I thought was so bad I only ever watched it once in the theater and I've never seen that piece of shit again. It was like a movie that focused on everything wrong with TPM, except Jar-Jar.
Revenge of the Sith, while much better than AotC, was still another CGI fest with bad acting and a less than stellar plot.
It was once said, "A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing." I find it ironic that this is a George Lucas quote.
I miss the old Lucas of THX1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars (OT), and Indiana Jones... of which he had to go and fuck up too with his bad ideas in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. :( #startrekonline
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Nothing in the prequels added anything to the story worth noting, Anakin's "fall" to the dark side was uninspiring (from whiny emo jedi to Vader? puh-leeze...), and it seemed to be Lucas ejaculating CGI all over everything because he forgot that CHARACTERS MATTER more than SPFX :P #startrekonline
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