All Posts by Brenelael

Originally posted by hebeventijd

well nobody likes my idea...

So it'll be back on track to an unpolished broken MMORPG with 40 K users and badly written code.

Pity.

:))

I think the 150k-200k people that play the Game of the Year Award winning City of Heroes may disagree with you on that one Bunkie. Look I play WoW and think it's a good game for what it is but it has 0% originality in it. It's just a highly polished rehash of all that came before it. Star Trek Online has to be something different to be successful and Blizzard just isn't up to that task, period. They are very combat centric in all of the games they have made up to this point and STO would just be more of that if they got their hands on it. A Blizzard made STO would be doomed to failure right from the get go.

Bren

Originally posted by xRand0mx

This game has a chance of being great, while also having a chance of being complete garbage. What I've heard so far makes me very interested, but I still doubt how well they can pull it off. If it is a more casual Eve (emphasis on exploration and diplomacy) than I think I might give it a shot. But if it's just another WoW clone, then I'm going to completely ignore it.

Well I think that judging by Cryptic's other games the chances of this being a WoW clone is almost nil. I love what I've seen so far but my only concern is how much depth the game will have. CoH/CoV were great games and were fun to play but they had the depth of your average puddle. Star Trek is a very deep IP lore wise so I just hope that they do it justice. From what I've seen they are on the right track but only time will tell.

Bren

Originally posted by Tyres100

Originally posted by Brenelael

Why the hell was this moved to the STO section when it's an obvious attempt at trolling and is full of inacuracies? This should have been locked or deleted where it was and not moved to a place where it will definately start a flame war. Good work Mods.

 

Bren

I don't see why it should. The OP is talking about STO and the post is well within his right to voice his opinion. Hes not really trolling and there was no false information provided.

Just the fact that this was first posted in the WAR section and not here shows all to well what the OPs intentions are. This is an obvious trolling attempt and he was hoping that all of his WAR buddies would jump on the bandwagon. Good to see that at least one of them over there wasn't buying it though.

Bren

Why the hell was this moved to the STO section when it's an obvious attempt at trolling and is full of inacuracies? This should have been locked or deleted where it was and not moved to a place where it will definately start a flame war. Good work Mods.

Bren

You just be the best damn Spoke you can be (Whatever the hell a 'Spoke' is)

Bren

You can watch the whole thing here. Just make sure you scroll down the page as it is under the new trailer on the video page.

Bren

Originally posted by admriker4

Especially with kids with no MMO experience.

Then you want to stay as far away as possible from Star Trek Online. This game is going to attract more MMO novices than anything since WoW maybe. There are tons of Star Trek fans that don't even know MMOs exist that will be playing this game. If you're worried that another player's lack of MMO experience is going to ruin your immersion then you definitely don't want to play this game, period.

Bren

Originally posted by Kalles

what kind of shity topic is this... Thats to early to predict... Not everyone who post on forum will buy the game... Im 23 years old, and i dont mind the fact kids want to play, I prefer to play with mature players... But why should i be so short minded - every one can play any game...

Thats my opinion...

And a very good opinion it is indeed! Initial forum communities are usually not a good indication of what an in-game community will be like in a game that is quite possible years from release. Also Star Trek is for all ages. Even my 11 year old boy watches Star Trek in it's various forms and loves it. Just because you don't see a lot of Star Trek kids at conventions doesn't mean they don't exist. I know I live with one of them.

Bren

Originally posted by HelloKirby

Woot for not being level based!

I'll second that and also add that having player ship interiors that are customizable is a big plus for this version as well.

Bren

Originally posted by Dracus

And all of these features are to be made available in about one year's time?

Something is going to have to give; either the time or some of the features.  Though there are those features listed as "after launch," I believe more would need to be slotted over as well.

Well it's the community that has come up with this one year release date nonsense. Officially the only thing we've heard from Cryptic is less than 3 years which sounds a little more reasonable considering that they already have a working engine.

Bren

If you saw the whole Webcast you would know that he talked a lot about non-combat experiences in STO. He mainly talked about exploration which is cool because that is what Star Trek is all about. I think you'll find that the trailer is all combat because seeing some guy mapping a star system while interesting to some would have made it a pretty boring 2 minutes.

Bren

Originally posted by pineapples

I think it's a little funny.

Back in the days of the PE version, there was a great deal of debate going on. Everyone felt it was reasonable to demand, demand, demand. Even if the production team hinted at anything, the forum trolls were all over it with guns blazing.

And now? What?

Read the game description folks. This game is basically the same thing that PE was making, except it's everything you all argued against. In this game, your entire crew is NPC-based. There's no "player crews", and even if there's interiors, it's going to be lots of fun walking around your ship alone.

So then what else? Coming from a company which has made nothing but the opposite of "sandbox" games, which is what everyone is demanding. Oh, and using the "Cryptic Engine" which will no doubt have that comic-book, cartoony edge that I know makes me giddy and excited .

Face it, folks. You harassed PE to the point of collapse and now Cryptic is giving you the game you pretty much didn't want. Hilarious!

 

Wow, you're good. You surmised all of this from one very vague overview of the game? You must have psychic powers or something or work for Cryptic as they have given zero details about the game yet to the general public. I was very down on PE's version of this game and I can tell right away from just the overview that this game is going to be very different. I am still skeptical like I am about all new MMOs so I will wait for more info before I make any psychophantic rants like yours. Why don't you just chill a little and see what this new version is all about before you condemn it.

Bren

Originally posted by Graff

Pot, Kettle, Black much guys?

Actually I would say that this place is the polar oppisite of what STO.net was. Most here like to tear games apart no matter how good they may be whereas STO.net did nothing but praise the utter pile of crap that was PE's vision of STO. Hopefully Cryptic was paying attention to what other sites includiing this one had to say about the matter and not what they were going on about over at STO.net. As for STO.net making a comeback I personally think it will but it will be nowhere as popular as it was in it's day now that Cryptic has their own game forums up for STO. Say what you will about their forum it was still a very good informational site.

Bren

Zoned and heavily instanced? I wish you would give up your information source because you seem to have info that no one else has. The rest of us have only seen a very vague overview of the game that gives absolutely no details about such things. Do you work for Cryptic or something Teala? You'd almost have to to have that much info already. Give it a break already.....the game was just announced and we know very little about it thus far. Give them a chance to actually show us what they have before you start shooting it down with what amounts to talking out of your ass.

Edit: Oh I almost forgot. On topic......No, no mirror universe please. I wouldn't mind it as being part of the game but the whole game? I think not.

Bren

Originally posted by mike470

Originally posted by tvalentine

everyone has seen somebody say "im glad all the little kiddies are asleep, now we can have some decent convo's now" or something similar to that. Or maybe one that involves a statement about 12 year olds. Yeah well, the AOC community is a great example of      age =/= maturity   I have never seen so many hardcore trolls and foaming at the mouth pissed of customers before, and these are all peopel who played and tried the game, people who were supposed to be mature and above the age of 18. I quit using stereotypes 2 years ago, its really pointless imo, why look at the persons age behind the character when you should be looking at how the person reacts to specific events.

 

I agree.

This is why I don't 100% understand age limits in guilds.  I've seen kids act more mature than adults in many situations, people should not be judged differently because of their age.  I've made friends, old and young, and have never thought of a player more/less mature because of their age.

This is too true mike. One of the most mature well spoken people I have ever met online was only 14 years old. Then again I've met plenty of 20-30 year olds that act worse than any kid. I've used this stereotype myself at times but when I use it I usually am referring to maturity level and not the persons age directly. I usually accuse people of acting like kids and not that they are kids themselves.

Bren

Originally posted by Rommie10-284

The information Cryptic has on their site seems to be a post-Voyager setting, so I picked that one.

Really, for development it has to be post-Enterprise or post-Voyager, or they'd be handcuffed to the existing stories. 

"Immerse yourself in the future of the Trek universe as it moves into the 25th century: a time of shifting alliances and new discoveries." - Game Features.

Since TNG, Voyager, DS9 and Nemesis take place in the mid to late 24th century I would have to say that from this line they are making the game in the same time frame that PE was planning. This would indicate 20-25 years post Nemesis.

Edit: This is really for the best especially if they allow the players to shape the game world in some way. This allows them a lot of slack so they can be creative without breaking existing lore.

Bren

I'm hoping for a Sandbox/Skill based game but I'm not getting my hopes up for it. Theme Park class based quest grinders seem to be what sells right now so we may be in for another but who knows.......maybe Cryptic can break out of that mold and make it work.

Bren

I would be happy with just 2, Alpha and Beta. This is where the majority of Star Trek took place anyways. Delta is just too far away to make it practical and Gamma is only accessable through the Bajor wormhole. I would however like to see at least a portion of Gamma open in maybe an expansion sometime in the future after release.

Bren

Originally posted by DragonShark

Originally posted by Tonev

LOL, dude you stole my title.

I admit, I am skeptical about the game now as we maybe getting special powers running from Earth to Vulcan caves killing the same mobs over and over again within the star Trek univers.

Hopefully there was a transition of the code from PE that they can get a idea of what direction to go now. I think it will work if they listen to people following the game early and not wanting to make a Star WOW online game.

 

Oh yeah, here we go again

 

If they got the code from PE and decided to go with it, I can't see how they can possibly NOT make a Star WOW game, since that's exactly what that code was designed to create.

They didn't get the code just the artwork that PE had but Cryptic has already stated that they are designing the game from the ground up using their own engine. PE's version of STO is truly dead, buried and gone so no worries there.

Bren

Originally posted by bleyzwun

Originally posted by Caldicot

It seems like the real question here is:  Why are westerners so prejudging towards Asians?

 

I'm asian and I hate to grind.  I know a bunch of other asians who also hate to grind.  In fact leveling up in WoW was way too much of a grind for them... LEVELING UP IN WOW WAS TOO MUCH OF A GRIND FOR ASIANS!? NO WAY!

 

Edit:  btw we are all Chinese, too.  Can you believe we don't farm for gold then sell it!?  We're such an anomaly that someone should do a documentary on us!

Are you an Asian living in Asian society or living in Western society? I only ask to find out where your experience is and not to put you down or anything so please don't take offense.

Bren