Poll: Could BioWare make a good Star Trek RPG?

[Zipa]

In before all the bioware hate hipsters - wait nvm

Considering the quality of pretty much every star trek game in recent history has been nothin short of utter shit I'd say it's a safe bet that bioware can do a much better job of it. Especially in light of the disaster that is STO

 

[AwesomeNinjaPowers]

A very tentative maybe. Not because I don't think Bioware could do it more that I'm not sure they could do it with Star Trek. Now I am a Star Trek fan but I am fully aware of just how awkward a franchise it is (I'm looking at you Enterprise ¬_¬) and trying to please everybody with it would be like trying to bail out a sinking boat with a tea strainer, also when do they set it, in the Original series? Next Gen? Voyager? DS9? cause lets face it Star Trek has pretty much mined all the cool stuff (Borg) and all that's left is to create something that the fans will hate because it's not true canon, also I think there is some sort of universal law that says no Star Trek game can be good.

 

[Blunderboy]

You know that might be right up their ally.

Really ? I don't remember Star Trek being about all these bullshit romances.

That's like saying CoD is only about the minimap, or that Red Dead Redemption is only about poker.

 

[itsmeyouidiot]

Mass Effect has always felt sort of like a very well-written Star Trek game to me, so this would probably work.

 

[The Last Nomad]

Yeah they probably could, but hopefully they won't. It would probably be too similar to Mass Effect (And probably not as good) to be worth them making.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Yes they could. But I don't want them to. I want them to make a Farscape RPG that will serve as 5th season of Farscape because I will never get over the fact that it was canceled. And please don't mention that abomination of a movie.

 

[RagTagBand]

You know that might be right up their ally.

Really ? I don't remember Star Trek being about all these bullshit romances.

So what you're saying is, is that you've never watched more than a few Star trek episodes in your entire life?

The original series had sex throughout (mostly going in Kirks direction)

TNG had Riker and Troi as quite an expansive romantic subplot (after Insurrection and implied throughout). Speaking of Insurrection, Piccard had a romantic interest in that film.

Voyager had Torres and Paris, Neelix and Kes, Harry Kim and *every woman*.

DS9 had...I don't actually know, DS9 was awful and i've committed none of it to memory.

Enterprise had...uhh...Blatant sexualisation of the giant boobed Vulcan T'pol is all I remember, but again enterprise was rubbish so I didn't really pay any attention.

But this is all off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more romances that i'm overlooking. Star Trek is very much a Human Drama and Romances have been there throughout.


OT : Yes I believe they could and I actually wish they (or someone of equivalent talent) would. The last really good Star Trek game, IMO, was Elite Force and I'd really like to see someone make a good, modern, star trek game. ("Star Trek : Borg" was best though, they literally don't make games like that anymore)

Action RPG would be best, FPS preferred.

 

[Kahunaburger]

I dunno. The question could be rephrased as: can Bioware write thought experiments that don't hinge on the oh-so-interesting choice between LG and CE? That said, I'd imagine an RPG without limited combat elements and a Picard/Kirk variation of the Paragon/Renegade meter could theoretically be good.

 

[Kahunaburger]

The original series had sex throughout (mostly going in Kirks direction)

I think that if anything that makes the case for CDPR doing a Star Trek game.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Next Generation Era: No way in hell.

Why not TNG? Could you expand on that opinion?

Compare Bioware's closest example of a Star Trek game, Mass Effect. Shepard's actions are far more in line with Kirk than they are with Picard. Picard is a far more subtle character, while Kirk is a larger than life action hero who frequently breaks the prime directive to fight aliens and bang green women.

Bioware doesn't exactly do subtle well, and TNG is more methodical and slow paced than what could be done with a new Star Trek game.

 

[Tayh]

I don't know.
But I do have a counter question: Why WOULD they? They've already got Mass Effect and Star Wars.

 

[michael87cn]

Mass Effect was inspired by Babylon 5, which was inspired by Star Trek, so... ya.

Babylon 5 for those who don't know, is about a space station that all manner of alien species come to for diplomatic relations. . . . sound familiar?

here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5

 

[Autumnflame]

If it was an off shoot universe. and not a direct continuity of TOS or TNG ds9, ect ect.

it would work.

as with kotor being set in a different time frame from the other star wars movies

 

[Seventh Actuality]

No, because didn't you hear THEY BETRAYED USSS WAAAAAAAAAA :'( :'( :'(

 

[ZeroMachine]

GUYS, Anthraxus ALWAYS trolls Bioware threads. Just ignore him.

Anyways, I feel like they could potentially do it justice, but... I don't know. If they make it too much like old Star Trek, I feel like it would flop. That stuff has a good audience, but not nearly big enough to warrant a full length Bioware game with a huge-ass budget (I don't think).

Make it more like modern day Star Trek, and it'll probably just come off as KoTOR without lightsabers/the force or Mass Effect without Biotics/Reapers.

 

[Sexy Devil]

They'd probably be able to do a damn good game, but RPG? Not so much. I mean let's be honest, aside from Dragon Age: Origins, Bioware games of this console generation have been much more like action games with RPG elements rather than true RPGs. That's not to say their games are bad, because they're great, but they're only really RPGs in the most bare bones sense of the term.

 

[Harper0341]

You do know that Star Trek online is F2P now right? Give it a try, you might like it.