Zero Punctuation: Star Trek

[jluzar20]

I had no idea they released a Star Trek game...

 

[ViewFinder]

Well this shouldn't be a surprise as the pc version was reported to be inherently broken.

 

[gphjr14]

I think what you should've done for 8 hours is play (and likely enjoy) Far cry Blood Dragon would've been cheaper and likely a better investment of your time. Since I thought we established last gen that these movie tie in games are just money grabs and usually suck.

 

[Catfood220]

Thanks Yahtzee, that was the funniest thing I've watched all week. Its always good when you get something to really tear apart, its much better than when you think something is meh or Godforbid, good.

 

[Cube1701]

Star Trek Online is actually a good game. It was bare bones at the start, but it's evolved and not gone down the "WoW clone" route most MMOs do now.

As for Star Trek: The Game. I got it at launch and...I actually had a ton of fun with it. I've played through it twice so far and the mechanics are actually decent - a bit wonky in areas (and the space level is terrible), but far from bad. The dialogue between Kirk and Spock is also great.

After some of the reviews, I was quite surprised as to how decent it is. Not great in any way, but decent. I actually had more fun than Gears of War 3 (although it is in no way in the same league as GoW3 in terms of quality).

 

[synobal]

I don't think anyone ever looks at a movie tie in game and says "boy this will be good" no we go in expecting it to be bad, and if it is not a steaming pile of crap then we declare it a huge success and throw parties.

 

[Britishfan]

So I was feeling curiously optimistic about this game, in a "tie-in game that might not suck and might actually be vaguely interesting" kind of way, but I having now seen what Angry Joe and Yahtzee have to say about it, I'm going to give it a miss.
Thank you games journalists/reviewers/whatever you want to call yourselves. You have taken a hit by playing this shitty game, and now I don't have to.

 

[b.w.irenicus]

Anyone remembers Birth of the Federation? That game was awesome (yeahactually it wasn't THAT great, but shut up ^^). You could chose to be Federation, Klingon, Romulans or Cadassians and build your space empire like in Civilisation. I was a huge sucker for Star Strek and especially DS9 at the time so I absolutly loved it.

Captchs: run amok -> No, I won't

 

[CutThroatConcierge]

This game is just like Aliens: Colonial Marines which is a shit game for twats with the name of beloved franchise slapped on the front of the box like a name tag that's been pinned to a dog turd.

 

[Jhooud]

I'm just happy I managed to get my old copy of Starfleet Command running again (albeit not perfectly, but well enough to play). Now that was a Star Trek game done right.

 

[DolorousEdd]

Gosh, I'm everytime surprised by how a largely very intelligent guy like Yatzeeh can be so stupid and serious about something like the naming of Star Wars. So what, it's not about the stars themselves, but only set in the stars or between "star systems", which the same as "countries" or "continents" doesn't have to mean the actual geographical entities themselves as opposed their political and social manifestations...

 

[Mahoshonen]

I miss Star Trek 25th Anniversary. Why can't we have games like that anymore?

Sadly, a huge mass media franchise like Star Trek must have a AAA tie-in, and point-and-click adventure games are a niche thing now.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand time;

The best Star Trek game ever made was Mass Effect...

The first one, maybe, although it's lacking space combat. The sequels aren't even a decent Space: Above and Beyond game.

ME2&3's ground combat and crewmen drama married to Star Trek: Online's space combat would be the definitive Star Trek Game

 

[Muspelheim]

I'll have you know, my mum cooks very well, Yatzhee. You've had your last moussaka in this household, mister!

 

[Darth_Payn]

Very funny video, Yahtzee. I haven't played any STAR TREK games, but this newest one doesn't sound like it sticks to whatever worked in the older games, or what the older series were about. Good gravy, they couldn't even be arsed to add some color to the box cover!

I don't think anyone ever looks at a movie tie in game and says "boy this will be good" no we go in expecting it to be bad, and if it is not a steaming pile of crap then we declare it a huge success and throw parties.

I know what you mean, but you can't always expect it to totally suck. I heard bad things about the first Iron Man movie tie-in game, so I didn't play it, but one of my friends enjoyed it. I also heard mediocre things about Captain America: Super Soldier, I played it and liked it. It's just a matter of taste and tolerance for what annoys you.

 

[shieldheart204]

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand time;

The best Star Trek game ever made was Mass Effect...

I suggest FTL as a more adequet example. Although Mass Effect is awesome it lacks the diplomacy or the space combat.

 

[Parakeettheprawn]

Well this shouldn't be a surprise as the pc version was reported to be inherently broken.

The co-op was, not everything. But yes, many issues and bugs. Still, performs better than XCOM:EU does post-launch on the PC, so that says something.

I'm rather disappointed (although glad now that I didn't buy it), as I was hoping Digital Extremes would offer another "neat but inherently flawed" game like darkSector. Instead, it seems we have another A:CM situation where they were so focused on another project (Warframe in this case) that they must have neglected this one. A real pity.

 

[Cube1701]

Instead, it seems we have another A:CM situation where they were so focused on another project (Warframe in this case) that they must have neglected this one. A real pity.

At least they showed us the real, rough-looking, game in all the trailers.

 

[empirialtank]

i can't escape the feeling that Yahtzee has bee actively looking for games to hate. And that it's all Bioshock Infinite's fault. Since then he's reviewed a Wii U game, a 3ds port of an underwhelming Gamecube game (which surprisingly turned out to be all right, but it still gave him a chance to ***** about Mario), a fighting game and now a movie tie in game.

It's like all the hatred that he had to suppress to say he liked Bioshock, and to a lesser extent Luigi's Mansion, and has been welling up inside him desperately seeking some kind of release. If someone doesn't re-release Sim City on the Wii U or its rough equivalent then we might be facing a Yahtzee melt down pretty soon.

 

[Kargathia]

I think what you should've done for 8 hours is play (and likely enjoy) Far cry Blood Dragon would've been cheaper and likely a better investment of your time. Since I thought we established last gen that these movie tie in games are just money grabs and usually suck.

Fair and balanced reviews of good games are the next aisle anyway, this here is a fast-talking Australian inventively shit-talking any and all flaws he can find within a given game.

I always enjoy the weeks where he's got his hands on an obviously obnoxious game - you just know it's going to sizzle.

 

[mjc0961]

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand time;

The best Star Trek game ever made was Mass Effect...

If you've been wrong once, you've been wrong a thousand times, because Mass Effect and Star Trek have pretty much nothing in common beyond the very basic premise of space and lots of alien races. But that alone does not make them the same.