We really need a new Trek FPS game.

Discussion in 'Trek Gaming' started by The Rock, Mar 16, 2021.

  1. The Rock

    The Rock Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    Imagine a game as great as Elite Force 1 and 2, Deep Space Nine The Fallen, or Klingon Honor Guard but with today's graphics!

    I dream of fighting Borg drones with state of the art graphics!
     
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    I talked to a guy from Activision once who also loved the EF games, and he said it's too bad they lost the license (or whatever happened), cause EF3 with today's engines would be amazing.
     
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  3. Timby

    Timby o yea just like that Administrator

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    Activision exercised its option to exit their contract and then sued Paramount, claiming that Paramount had essentially wrecked Activision's ability to sell Star Trek games by producing and releasing so little material (and what material was being produced, such as Enterprise, sucked shit). Thus began the great wasteland of horrors that has been the Trek video game license for nearly two decades.
     
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    Sure, but that guy really regretted all that
     
  5. Haggis and tatties

    Haggis and tatties Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Amazing that Activision got away with this when you think of the utter mess that they released ST New worlds and STC III in, with STNW actually not being playable as it had no save features and would crash out completly to desktop making any progress in the game impossible, and STCIII also being a mess with random crashing and broken online features that were never addressed. lol
     
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  6. 137th Gebirg

    137th Gebirg Admiral Premium Member

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    There was once a vaporware RTS product called Borg Assimilator, where you play the Borg, assimilating worlds and building resources to grow and spread as the Borg are often wont to do. I guess someone at Activision felt it wasn't very Star Trek-y and they scuttled it before its 2001 release. A shame, as it looked like a really interesting departure from the usual formula.
     
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  7. Oddish

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    Elite Force was amazing, especially the weapon variety. I want to know why the personal photon torpedo launcher isn't a thing...
     
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  8. The Rock

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    I think I read somewhere that they cancelled it because it was terrible. Don't quote me on that though, lol.
     
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    FC should've been released! The ads made me want it so much, and then it was abandoned... :(
     
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  10. The Rock

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    I REMEMBER THAT! OMG I was so sad when they cancelled it. We would've gotten to explore the Enterprise E and fight the Borg. I remember reading the plot synopsis for that game saying that it would've taken place after the events of the movie, and the Borg start to re-assimilate the Enterprise E again after the Borg queen uploaded a virus into the E's computer as a backup plan in the event of her death. It sounded really cool.
     
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    There was an ad for it in the Generations box ;)
     
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    Speaking of cancelled Trek games, I'm also sad that they cancelled the TOS game "Secret of Vulcan Fury". The trailer for it looked so good.
     
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    And that one was pretty far, I think they had all or most of the voice recordings done, and the CGI characters also looked pretty finished. FC used the first Unreal engine, IIRC, and I remember reading that they had trouble with it.
     
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  14. The Rock

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    Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and Ubisoft (I think they own the Star Trek video game rights right now since they made Bridge Crew) will finish it. It's unlikely, but stranger things have happened. Like, when the Super NES Classic Edition came out a couple of years ago, it had Star Fox 2 on it (which was a game that was cancelled right before it was supposed to come out in the 90s).

    At the very least, they should turn it into a CGI movie or something, lol.
     
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  15. Oddish

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    Elite Force III would be cool. Set it on Discovery, or one of the other new Trek shows. Weapons could include:
    Mek'leth
    TR-116
    Rail gun
    Compression Rifle
    Klingon Disruptor
    Plasma Welder
    Multi-shot Weapon (like the one seen in "Latent Image")
    Grenade Launcher
    Gatling Phaser
    Photon Burst
     
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  16. UssGlenn

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    I've heard both that all the recordings were lost, and also that barely any were actually recorded in the first place, which matches up with other reports that the script was never actually finished. So I don't think the data needed to make a complete story was ever created in the first place.
     
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    I still make maps for Elite Force, happy times!!!
     
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    I got so many maps and mods from effiles.com or whatever it was called XD
     
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    Years ago one of the devs from the game had a web site and on it they explained that not even 10% of the game was completed because of what he described as a revolving door in managmnet which impacted on the games developmant and brought it to a almost stop, plus not all the voice work was done, Kelly never did any, but the icing on the cake was when interplay went belly up, they only found out when they went to work one morning to find all the doors were locked, and the liquidators quickley came in and took everything, including all the computers that had all their unfinished games on, wiped them, and sold them on to pay off debts, so anything that was done with the game was gone because no one had any time to back anything up, all we ever got was 2 game expo demos and some scenes in the end.
     
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  20. jackoverfull

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    Well, like many ideas of those games it was really over the top…and the borg were really nerfed down to be beatable. But still, those games were REAL FUN, I played both of them many times!
     
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