I love that its still going and telling stories, but an incredibly grindy free to play game is a tough sell for a lot of people.
I gave it my best shot, out about 6 hours in, and was left thinking … very impolite thoughts.
You go to the bridge, and get an external view of the ship as if it’s a toy? Why not be able to take a station and do navigation, weapons, science, or command cooperatively with other people? And the MMO style of on-planet combat where there’s chaos, people running through each other, and that rather than combat it’s a statistical exercise was really unsatisfying.
My wife just got me No Man’s Sky for very cheap, I hope that’s a better fit for me.
I play a lot of NMS. I don’t know if it’s going to scratch your specific itch, but it’s a lot of fun if you can get on its level.
I guess I’ll find out! I’ll probably have time for it in August, lol
YMMV, but I think it’s pretty light on grinding. I log in for maybe 10-20 minutes a day, and am able to keep up with whatever events are going on just fine. The story episodes are much longer, but you can go through those at your own pace easily enough.
As for the stuff in the article about the game being a little dated and clunky after all these years…that’s a big “yup” from me.
oh yeah? if STO is so good, does it support the Super Action Controller?
Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator for the ColecoVision stays winning
having impure thoughts about what I could accomplish in X4 with such a piece of HID engineering
I don’t like Star Trek Online because it’s all phasers and photon torpedos. I want to play a Star Trek game about exploring and debating philosophy.
“Hey Grok, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him…”
Every once in a while, I forget that this game is out there, and then I actually have it installed on my computer. Then I open it up, I give it a good play, and I remember that it’s actually a pretty good game.
I really wish the ground combat was better or entirely ignorable because its not as good as the space ship combat aspects of the game.
I jumped on the bandwagon when it first came out, found some stuff interesting, but yeah, the ground aspect didn’t work for me. Probably didn’t help that everyone was doing the same stuff, so there were lines to scan and collect and whatever. Didn’t feel like a real away mission. Might be better with age, since much fewer would be in one place.
I think for the ships I was expecting more like Starfleet Command, which was not realistic for an online version.
No thanks
