I’m not much of an online game player, but I may have to rethink that stance:
Mwuhahahaha. That looks like fun! Now I just have to slow the Earth’s rotation to give me more time per day to play. Where’s Q when you need him?
Tip o’ the targ to SciFiWire.
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December 5th, 2009 at 11:41 am
This might be of help Phil http://xkcd.com/162/
December 5th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Aach…. I just kicked my WoW habit and now this? I need a clone….
December 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Seeing the Atari logo makes me want to hook up my 2600 and get to asteroid smashin’.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
There is an open beta in (I think) early to mid January, so you could always give it a try for free.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Warbird?!? Warbirds are Romulan ships. Klingons have Battlecruisers. God, I hate it when people get Romulans and Klingons mixed up.
I guess this is like when they got mixed up and started giving Klingons “birds of prey,” which was also originally a Romulan ship.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
There’s a logo I’ve not seen in a while… I thought they were
defeated in battleout of business?December 5th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
“Now I just have to slow the Earth’s rotation…”
Oh Phil Phil Phil.
Your saying that made me giggle almost hysterically, because one of the “TV Weather People” here said almost te same thing years ago about the Leonid meteors.
She said (on the air) “the peak is supposed to be over Europe and Africa, but we can speed up the Earth’s rotation so we can see the peak here.”
Seriously. She said in on air. So you wanting to slow down the rotation made me laugh (plus I read an old XKCD about it last night).
December 5th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Beam more Tribbles over. That’ll stop ‘em!
December 5th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I am so looking forward to STO. You should check on the website and read the “Path to…” section which covers the gap between Star Trek Nemesis and the game. The game takes place in the “Prime” Star Trek Continuity (i.e. the one unaltered by the latest movie).
Don’t know how much of a geek you REALLY are Phil, but you could give Lord of the Rings Online a try, I’m very much enjoying it.
December 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Atari is still around?
December 5th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I have high hopes for this game. Hopefully it delivers.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Now I just have to slow the Earth’s rotation to give me more time per day to play.
But wouldn’t that cause all sorts of global disasters in the process?
December 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Mother of Pearl!!!!
December 5th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
*Bites tounge hard on saying anything harsh about Cryptic Studios*
…um…you guys might want to wait a bit and see when the game is released before jumping into it.
December 5th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
That’s some truly excremental voice acting. I thought it was a fanfic at first.
(Graphics are good though, apart from the usual trouble with human figures that move like lizards.)
December 5th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Best be checking the credits for traces of the crew responsible for ravaging City of Heroes.
Meanwhile, I’ll be playing Eve Online!
December 5th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Atari as most people know it went out of business long ago. The current company named “Atari” is actually Infogrames, shovelware developers extraordinare, who bought out the rights to the Atari name and logo long ago. (They don’t even own any Atari game IP – that’s all owned by Hasbro.)
December 5th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
#9 “The game takes place in the “Prime” Star Trek Continuity (i.e. the one unaltered by the latest movie).”
That explains the DS9/Voyager-style uniforms — but doesn’t explain the movie-style Constitution-class starship.
December 5th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Watching these kinds of Trek things like this always reminds me of Picard’s line from (I think it was) Insurrection.
“Does anyone remember when we were explorers?”
December 5th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Looks like eve…
December 5th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
No Cardassians or Ferengi? I might be tempted not to play. If I can’t play either one of them, I have a hard time being very interested.
December 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Always be wary of a game trailer that focuses more on pre-rendered cinematics than showing actual gameplay. There’s very little gameplay in that trailer, and what there is is made up of extraordinarily short shots (not even displaying the interface).
Be wary I say! WARY! Usually means they’re not confident enough to show actual gameplay.
December 5th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
According to the official web site, it’s a PC game only. No Mac version. I guess Blizzard will continue to get my money.
December 5th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I just hope they took a good hard look at SWG’s mutation into failure.
Speaking of games: I was playing Borderlands yesterday (which is full of references) and I was surprised to see “Turtles all the way down” written on the side of a shack.
December 5th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I’m still with DAo, even after all these years. My one and only MMO at this point.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Jean-Denis: Wait… they make games for an operating system that has less than 5% of the market? Since when?
December 6th, 2009 at 12:18 am
@ 17, fluffy…
Thanks for bringing to light the current nature of Atari – that is, that they are not the same game console devloper that some grew up to know and love. It may also explain why *Cryptic’s current released MMO, Champions Online was pushed out stumbling with very little polish, because Atari may just wanted a fast return. This concerns me greatly about the quality and integrity of STO. So don’t expect any of the magic Blizz puts out when that game goes live.
*Note: Cryptic Studio is STO’s current developers; Atari is Cryptic’s backers…I hope that makes sense.
December 6th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Be sure to tell us what server you are using.
December 6th, 2009 at 1:49 am
If you want to play a really good scifi game that pretty much own all other scifi then buy Mass Effect to Xbox360 or PC (its a “classic” game so its quite cheap). The game is created by the RPG-gods BioWare (Baldurs Gate, KOTOR etc) so the game has a very very good story, excellent voice acting (no dialogues to read) and awesome action ( = with Gear of War etc, some problems with poor fram rate tough). The best thing is that Mass Effect has alot of SCIENCE in the science-fiction compare to Star Trek etc which has alot of fiction but not so much science.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_effect
The sequel Mass Effect 2 will be released 2001-01-28 so hurry up!
December 6th, 2009 at 1:59 am
@ Geri: Maybe the Klingons thought those ships would fit them better. Would Klingons respect Romulan copyrights? ;P
@ Erwin: There will be Cardassians.
December 6th, 2009 at 8:02 am
So, are we going to be seeing the IKS Bah’Da Strono’Mah?
December 6th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Man, I feel like a troglodyte for still enjoying Starfleet Battles with miniatures…
December 6th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Phil, you also might like Infinity: The Quest for Earth (www.infinity-universe.com), an independent game still very much under construction, which will take place in a procedurally generated galaxy with realistic scales! I can’t wait to see if and when it’ll be released…
December 7th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Ummmmm… meh. I can’t generate much interest in this game. To quote another blog I read, the purpose of STO seems to be “To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, and kill them.”
The RPG aspect of it (according to the rather poorly designed official site) seems a tad over complicated to me. And the MMO aspect isn’t going to do what I wanted it to do: I wanted to be a part of the crew of a starship. A crew of other people. Maybe get to command from time to time. No such luck here.
I am trying to wean myself off of World of Warcrack. But I don’t think this is gonna do it. Maybe The Old Republic will.
December 7th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Oh, pff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDVEHE10nHc&hd=1
Come to EVE Online, Phil!
December 8th, 2009 at 2:09 am
EVE Online: MS Excel that makes my graphics card hot.
December 8th, 2009 at 6:49 am
@#24
Everytime I turn on Steam all I see are ads for Borderlands. It’s been getting annoying, but your post is the best ad I’ve seen so far!
December 8th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Sure, it sounds fun now, Phil. But just wait until you’ve gotten your 10,000th “Collect/Kill X of X, and return to me for a quest reward!”
MMO’s should be studied by psychologists for their astonishing ability to get people to do exactly the same things over and over again just by varying the graphics slightly.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Hmmm, turning over the JREF chair followed a few posts later with this…
Coincedence? Nevah!
I’m trying to get my wife to play so she’ll let me stop playing EQ2.
December 8th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Geri wrote:
“Warbird?!? Warbirds are Romulan ships. Klingons have Battlecruisers. God, I hate it when people get Romulans and Klingons mixed up.”
Oh, come now, Geri — has it really been so long that you’ve forgotten the Klingon Bird of Prey from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock?
(Admittedly, this was originally intended to be a ROMULAN Bird of Prey — a late script change substituted the Klingons for the Romulans, and they were stuck with the Bird-of-Prey spacecraft model and a plot that called for a cloaking device.)
January 14th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Too bad it looks nothing like that and that whole scene is rendered….
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
This is a very awesome MMO! I play it like all the time and never get bored of it! I actually think it is impossible to be bored. This game is the best.