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Big Mean Jerk posted:Does STO still require that you pay real money for every single decent ship class? Yup. Welp. Voyager still sucks balls but the Doctor is the best so I'm sticking it out for him.
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Rhyno posted:Yup. Well, you can earn the 'real money' in-game but it used to be fairly easy. The exchange rate has quadrupled lately because they're poo poo at game design. I still have a bunch left over from before, happily. And they still give away top-tier ships at summer/winter, thankfully.
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I am a bit out of date. I was thinking of giving the console version a whirl here soon. I'm on my 6th episode of Voyager and sweet baby jesus this show is just cringeworthy most of the time.
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Subyng posted:That's probably the only good design that has ever come out of STO. All the TOS ships are pretty good.    And a few golden oldies looking good:   You can get their reinterpretation of the probert ambassador too.   There's quite a few other ships that haven't been posted I like from STO, to be honest. Their design game has certainly stepped up a bit from launch.
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I picked up all seven seasons of DS9 at an estate sale for $40 yesterday. They also had all seven seasons of Voyager, not too sure about the price. Think it's worth getting, even though I consider Voyager the worst of the franchise?
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MikeJF posted:All the TOS ships are pretty good. Seriously, am I the only one who can't get over the puffy nipples? Is it just me
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Give me a Trek from another powers point of view with Starfleet as these assholes antagonizing people through being uptight dinks. Like, where's the Romulan Trek? Or even a show back in the Delta Quadrant, showing how Voyager totally hosed up their lives and the legends around them somehow. From a few pages back, but can you imagine how great that could be? Like a serious, hard hitting show set 100% in the Romulan Empire with good guys and bad guys, all Romulan? That made you CARE about their lives, families, intrigues, and politics? Plotting, murders, love. Like Man In The High Castle, where you find yourself feeling weird for like a Japanese Empire official or American Nazi guy, because there's shades of grey and everyone is humanized. That would be an amazing show. Also the Excelsior Class rules. gently caress the hatas. 
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Astroman posted:From a few pages back, but can you imagine how great that could be? Like a serious, hard hitting show set 100% in the Romulan Empire with good guys and bad guys, all Romulan? That made you CARE about their lives, families, intrigues, and politics? Plotting, murders, love. Like Man In The High Castle, where you find yourself feeling weird for like a Japanese Empire official or American Nazi guy, because there's shades of grey and everyone is humanized. That would be an amazing show. I've heard the Rihannsu novels are like that.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Woah woah woah. Run it in safe mode from the launcher.
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WickedHate posted:I've heard the Rihannsu novels are like that. They are, and the second (best) one is peak "that" AND the author can write good McCoy dialogue (almost no one can do that). Also, there's a John Byrne miniseries that got collected as a TPB about the Romulans that's a little more...TOS? Theatrical? I Claudius? something I'm not finding the words for, but it's also good.
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MikeJF posted:All the TOS ships are pretty good. All of these are loving hideous. They even make the Daedelus look homely.
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Did they make the Daedelus model out of a can of shaving cream, a tennis ball and some cigar tubes? The shape is amateurish compared to basically every other design in the history of the franchise.
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I really like the Daedelus as a pre-TOS design.
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It looks like someone promised to their child that they could help out with a design but then ran out of time to submit the actual version.
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Baka-nin posted:I had fun with the PS2 game about Sulu and the Excelsior being stuck in the Mirror universe. You got to fly around having dog fights in evil versions of TOS episodes. Yes, I had this, and had totally forgotten until just now. That was a pretty fun game. Shattered Universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVBneHQtock Takei clearly loving the chance to be Captain Sulu again. He even gets to say the opening monologue.
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WickedHate posted:Seriously, am I the only one who can't get over the puffy nipples? Is it just me
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So I know this isn't the movie thread, and I'm sure this was posted long ago, but Rihanna going full gay-club spacediva on the Star Trek: Beyond planet is like super-stimuli for me. A camp-cheese classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhIT4MpRis BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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why are the swarm ships so tiny in the rihannaverse
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Wowbagger2004 posted:why are the swarm ships so tiny in the rihannaverse Rihanna is 50 feet tall.
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On the subject of video games, was DS9: Harbinger a slow buggy piece of crap, or was it just my mid-90s computer not being able to handle it?
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Astroman posted:From a few pages back, but can you imagine how great that could be? Like a serious, hard hitting show set 100% in the Romulan Empire with good guys and bad guys, all Romulan? That made you CARE about their lives, families, intrigues, and politics? Plotting, murders, love. Like Man In The High Castle, where you find yourself feeling weird for like a Japanese Empire official or American Nazi guy, because there's shades of grey and everyone is humanized. That would be an amazing show. What if it was like the end of Unification. All these Romulans getting ready to do something really important for the Empire. Then at the end, they are found out by the other side or whatever and the BoP excort casually blows up their transport and heads home.
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The Dark One posted:Did they make the Daedelus model out of a can of shaving cream, a tennis ball and some cigar tubes? The shape is amateurish compared to basically every other design in the history of the franchise. It's also based more or less directly on a concept sketch Matt Jeffries did back in the 1960s when he was designing the Enterprise.
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Zaroff posted:On the subject of video games, was DS9: Harbinger a slow buggy piece of crap, or was it just my mid-90s computer not being able to handle it? No, it was just forged in the deepest pits of Hell.
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What's with the dumb use of Voyager long toilet-seat saucers?
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If Voyager had longer nacelles on elevated struts it wouldn't look too bad, it's the dinky Galaxy-esque nacelles that give it a bad profile. The early prototype model, while hideous and overly-busy, has a much better overall silhouette and would have been a better choice.
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FilthyImp posted:What's with the dumb use of Voyager long toilet-seat saucers? They go faster, since they're more aerodynamic.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:If Voyager had longer nacelles on elevated struts it wouldn't look too bad, it's the dinky Galaxy-esque nacelles that give it a bad profile. The early prototype model, while hideous and overly-busy, has a much better overall silhouette and would have been a better choice. This one? I loved this look! If Voyager had looked like this, I'd be very happy. 
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The_Doctor posted:This one? I loved this look! If Voyager had looked like this, I'd be very happy. 
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The_Doctor posted:This one? I loved this look! If Voyager had looked like this, I'd be very happy. Yeah, that's the one. I've never liked those nacelles or the big docking port thing on top of the engineering hull though.
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So very well-suited to archaeology missions, then. Big Mean Jerk posted:Yeah, that's the one. I've never liked those nacelles or the big docking port thing on top of the engineering hull though. Probably would have been improved by a few more passes, of course, if they'd selected that as the basis for the final design.
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Okay I played STO at launch and I have 0 memory of any of those ugly rear end ships y'all say were. Most were just redesigns of existing classes, except for the admiral level ships which got a bit goofy. But nothing as bad as those pictures I'm sure they EXIST I'm just also pretty sure they weren't launch designs. primaltrash fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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I played the beta is it was kind of fun because all the ships were somewhat normal.
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I played ST:O for a bit, decided it would take too long to rank up to the point where I can purchase a Galaxy-class ship then quit. It's a shame there was never an adventure-style TNG game that was any good. I would love to be proven wrong, I haven't delved very deeply into the subject. e: was this good? http://www.giantbomb.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-a-final-unity/3030-8028/
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Yes it was. 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites were also very good but were TOS. There were also a couple other console only games for TNG but were not traditional adventure games. Evek fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Aug 13, 2016 |
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Yeah, I played 25th Anniversary when I was a kid and enjoyed it. Anyone know a legit way to get my hands on A Final Unity?
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It's available on several abandonware sites.
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The_Doctor posted:This one? I loved this look! If Voyager had looked like this, I'd be very happy. lol at the windows with a view of nothing but the back of a nacelle I think it looks more like an overgrown shuttle, somehow.
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The USS Shoehorn
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Cojawfee posted:What if it was like the end of Unification. All these Romulans getting ready to do something really important for the Empire. Then at the end, they are found out by the other side or whatever and the BoP excort casually blows up their transport and heads home. What makes the Klingons and the Romulans cool is the contrast here, and we have not had the contrasting example on television for like fifteen years, if we date it from the end of Voyager. I also have the feeling that the Romulans would pall, badly, if they were put front and center for an extended period of time.
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The_Doctor posted:It's available on several abandonware sites. Nice, thanks.
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