So, there you go: Cryptic is doing the Star Trek Online MMO.
Not a lot info yet and the site appears to currently be hammered by people, but one of MMO-dom's worst kept rumours has been comfirmed. Interestingly enough, it is planned for both PC and console. The features list is:
"Adventure in the Final Frontier: Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations in an expanding vast universe. Make contact with alien races, discover resources and uncover mysteries that will change the future of the Star Trek universe.
You Are the Captain: Command your own starship as a Federation Captain or a Klingon Warrior. Outfit it with the systems that you need to make your mark in the galaxy. Customize your ship as you see fit. Recruit, train and mold your crew into an elite force for exploration and combat.
Surface, Shipboard and Deep Space Adventures: Command your vessel in thrilling space battles, or beam down to planets with your away team for face-to-face confrontations. Missions will take you and your friends into space, planetside and even inside starships! "
The release platforms will be both PC and console (but no one type of console?). Gameplay footage will be up in two weeks. Let's see what this looks like in action.
Let's just hope the Cryptic Engine is capable of more than that awful cell-shaded stuff they are doing on Champions Online.
Mon Jul 28 2008 3:25AMThe screenshots look good... but I'm not sure if they are true screenshots or concept art.
Mon Jul 28 2008 3:27AMIf they do the atmosphere right then the graphic does not need to be state of the art. So I think the cryptic engine will work :)
Mon Jul 28 2008 3:36AMIf you look at the screen shots carefully you can see it is actually cell shaded :/
Mon Jul 28 2008 4:52AMjust hope it doesent have the same type of controls as eve or i wont buy this game
Mon Jul 28 2008 5:02AMCrap.. Console. Damn
Mon Jul 28 2008 5:10AMactually its not cell shaded at all...you can tell just by looking at the textures. I can easily tell the difference
Mon Jul 28 2008 6:57AMLooks decent-ish. I expect the planets available for beam down will be limited. You'll find a 'mission' on a planet versus beaming down on every one in a given system to go look for materials.
I wonder if it will allow Federation captains to go rogue and toss the Prime Directive aside....
Mon Jul 28 2008 6:57AMwhats the problem with pc and console mmos? doesent effect either user whatsoever t ypical noobs
Mon Jul 28 2008 7:00AMwho cares about console. as long as they release the pc version first
Mon Jul 28 2008 9:59AMeve challanger perhaps?
Mon Jul 28 2008 11:13AMon second thought this information boiling in brain right now is giving me a gut instinct that it most definetly shall bomb simply because it sounds like a studio of ST goons spicing up the story and some bits of real time action, but then missing all the features that absolutely need to be incorporated into an 'MMORPG' not an MMO, or it bombs bigger than that crap you took after eating that left-over fondue!
Mon Jul 28 2008 3:27PMInteresting. I really hope they can translate Star Trek into an MMO game in some reasonable fashion. I'm guessing the "discover resources" bit will fill in for a (player-driven?) economy, considering that replicators abound. I'm also guessing that the "command your own starship" part will prevent the strange, pre-industrial feeling I got from SWG at release.
I'm cynical about the ability to translate a non-game IP into an MMO, because you wind up with the clashing expectations of people drawn to the game because "it's Star Trek" and the other people drawn because "it's an MMO." Often the various fiddly bits of the MMO 'genre' -- crafting, loot, etc. -- don't mesh well with the IP.
In other words, if every ship has a Creature Wrangler on board who's got a pet Mugato and we're off to collect 20 Gorn crystals, I'm gone.
Mon Jul 28 2008 4:55PM@Curate: c'mon, you'll love unlocking the Tribble non-combat pet while crafting anti-matter containers in order to level up your Engineering skill so that your ship can reach warp factor 5 :-)
Tue Jul 29 2008 3:34AM... I... want a tribble now.
One that'll flip out whenever I'm near a Klingon.
Fine, I'll play.
Tue Jul 29 2008 12:09PMMMORPG.com writes:
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