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Best Star Trek game ever?

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ManaByte

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Easy.

The 25th Anniversary/Judgement Rights games Interplay did:
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Honorable mentions...

Klingon Academy (with General Chang!)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Final Unity:
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Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen:
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Game that should've been awesome, but ended up sucking because the publisher rushed the developer...

Star Trek: Bridge Commander:
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Bridge Commander was Larry Holland's (X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, XvT) Star Trek game that could've been to Trek games what TIE Fighter was to Star Wars games, but it shipped so buggy it was unplayable because the publisher absolutely had to have it out on a certain date.
 
Never got to play The Fallen. Is it worth tracking down?

I absolutely love Judgement Rites and A Final Unity though.
 
Oh, yeah... I remember when (fan-made) Star Trek games actually constituted their own subgenre of shareware. There was some fun stuff in there; I fondly remember EGA Trek... though I was, like, 9 then.

I haven't played any of these, but Bridge Commander (despite Mana's comments), Voyager: Elite Force, and Star Trek: Invasion (for PSX) all got very good reviews.
 
25th Anniversary would be much better if it weren't for two things that bugged the piss out of me:

1) You always needed the manual, or you'd never get from mission to mission.
2) The second to last mission (I think) had you land on a planet and a door in the beginning was locked, and remained so until you answered some questions. I had to call the hotline to get the answers when I was a kid, because I couldn't figure out how the hell you were supposed to know them on your own.
 
Bridge Commander worked just fine on my computer and it rocked. Other notable games that any ST fan should get IMO are the ARMADA series and the STAR FLEET COMMAND series.
 
Ecrofirt said:
25th Anniversary would be much better if it weren't for two things that bugged the piss out of me:

1) You always needed the manual, or you'd never get from mission to mission.
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Manual-based copy protection was very common.
 
ManaByte said:
Bridge Commander was Larry Holland's (X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, XvT) Star Trek game that could've been to Trek games what TIE Fighter was to Star Wars games, but it shipped so buggy it was unplayable because the publisher absolutely had to have it out on a certain date.
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I have never had a single bug in Bridge Commander(neither in 1.0 nor in 1.1). It's a GREAT game, especially the multiplayer with the great ships from fansites.
 
ManaByte said:
Manual-based copy protection was very common.
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It wasn't copy protection. Every time you had to go to the next level, you'd be told which planet you'd have to go to. To get there, you'd have to open the star map, and click on the correct star.

For reference, here's the map, but with labels on the stars. In the game, you just saw the stars:
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If you went to the wrong area, you'd face Romulans, Klingons, and some other race that I can't remember. Sometimes you'd get lucky and it would be one ship. Sometimes it would be 2 or 3. In that case, you were fucked.
 
Ecrofirt said:
It wasn't copy protection. Every time you had to go to the next level, you'd be told which planet you'd have to go to. To get there, you'd have to open the star map, and click on the correct star.

For reference, here's the map, but with labels on the stars. In the game, you just saw the stars:
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:lol

That was a method of copy protection. Lots of games did things like that.
 
ManaByte said:
:lol

That was a method of copy protection. Lots of games did things like that.
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Ah, well the only manual-based copy protection I've ever dealt with was something where it would ask you to turn to a page and type something before you could play.
 
Klingon Academy by far is the best Trek game. Bridge Commander worked just fine for me as well. No one mentioned Star Trek: Domenion wars. That game, were it not being screwed would be up there with Klingon Academy as one of the best Trek games. I was freaking floored during the beginning of the "Take back DS9" mission. Never before was I so psyched while playing a game. The StarFleet Academy series was also great.
 
The 25th Anniversary/Judgement Rights games Interplay did
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OMG - does that bring memories! I bought that game in early 1993 along with a brand new 486DX machine - all while visiting Singapore. Videogame prices were suspiciously low, and I ended up buying tons of 'em. :lol


I really sucked at playing this game, though. It took me ages to figure the controls and some of the riddles gave me a headache. Still, a good choice, and quite possibly the best Star Trek game ever.
 
Bridge Commander was by far my favourite trek game, they totally nailed the combat, really felt like you were piloting a huge spaceship and made it fun to do as well.


Im still annoyed that it never got a sequel (direct or in another franchise).
 
ManaByte said:
Easy.


Klingon Academy (with General Chang!)
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WTF? where is his eye patch? Is that actually Christopher Plummer reprising the role? When did he do this? How were the production values on the live action stuff. This is need to know!
 
"A Final Unity" gets my vote. I'm sure if I were to play it now, it wouldn't have much of an effect, but when I was a kid, that game was the bee's knees to a TNG-obsesssed 7 year old.

I specifically remember being blown away by the production design, and getting the shit scared out of me during the final area. Can't really recall what it involved, something about the Choda or Chodac or whatever dudes putting Picard and a bunch of Klingon/Romulan captains through a bunch of tests...
 
Sapienshomo said:
WTF? where is his eye patch? Is that actually Christopher Plummer reprising the role? When did he do this? How were the production values on the live action stuff. This is need to know!
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That's from the opening movie of Klingon academy and shows how he got his patch.


Basically the Klingons are having another Civil War, Kang disables the other leaders ship and beams over too the ship alone. He challenges the leader to an ancient Klingon hand to hand death duel. The other guy accepts but pulls a knife and slashes Kang’s eye. They fight and Kang turns the knife on the other guy killing him then quoting Shakespeare.

Yes Plummerd reprised his role. The cut scenes rank up there with the best live action cut scenes of any game made. There is also a cool scene were Kang is talking about how humans were like Klingons but they had lost there way, and then explains why Captain Kirk is such a great warrior. I know it's not canon but I thought it was cool as fuck and keeping with the Klingon point of view, even though it was whacked out.
 
Haha, because of this thread I just went downstairs and pulled my old 25th Anniversary floppies out of a box.

I've installed the game, and suprisingly it runs on my XP machine. Is there any way to get sound to work, though? I'm on an Audigy 2 sound card.
 
This thread started me looking for some cheap Star Trek gaming options, and uh...is there a reason Star Trek Armada 2 is $100 on Amazon?
 
I didn't look too closely, but no mentions of Starfleet Command? That series rocks ass, well the first 2 anyways.
 
Ecrofirt said:
Haha, because of this thread I just went downstairs and pulled my old 25th Anniversary floppies out of a box.

I've installed the game, and suprisingly it runs on my XP machine. Is there any way to get sound to work, though? I'm on an Audigy 2 sound card.
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Hmm, should work with VDMSound(you should find enough results @google ^^).
 
Really loved Final Unity, Judgement Rites, Bridge Commander and The Fallen. Armada wasn't bad either, and EGA Trek was great.
 
I clicked on this thread happy to see 25th and Judgement Rites represented immediately.

Elite Force 1/2 weren't too shabby either IMO. Elite Force 2 had some campy and zany secrets to uncover, particularly the crate monster.

I REALLY dug Trek Raider...aka DS9: the Fallen. A bit rushed, but given pity points coming from Simon & Schuster freaking Interactive, and for giving the finger to the Quake 3 engine and going with Unreal baby! It had plenty of moments of greatness, including cutting up dudes with Worf on the hull of a crashed Federation ship; back then the scope of that level was frighteningly cool.
 
ManaByte said:
Easy.

The 25th Anniversary/Judgement Rights games Interplay did:
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Thread over.

Hmm, I have DS9: The Fallen sitting on my desk in a jewel case. I should probalby give it a shot.
 
ManaByte said:
Easy.

The 25th Anniversary/Judgement Rights games Interplay did:
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Judgment *RITES*.

I loved those games. The scripts were miles ahead of the actual shows :lol

I really hated the puzzle that required you to research the mathematical development of the inhabitants of the planet before beaming down. It took me forever to figure out. EDIT: I see I'm not alone! I had to get onto a friend's Prodigy(!) account and use their codes board to find what I was doing wrong. Good times, heh.

The Quetzecoatl episode of Judgment Rites was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. The Trelane episode(s?) were great, too. Best use of schnapps in a video game to date!
 
Elite Force is class (I got it a few months back). I somehow turned the sound down for voices before I started the game and played for ages without voice acting. Im at the borg level now, gotta get round to finishing it sometime.
 
Bridge Commander was fun. I want a sequel for sure.

Elite Force I is probably the best. Though it was a little short.

I played Klingon Academy. I thought it wasn't that bad. :/

Also, I played Starfleet Command I and III. The third is real good, but it had some lame stuff. Like, conquer the galaxy but if you beamed your men on a planet and finished the mission, the planet would still be uninhabited. How the fuck do I conquer the galaxy if I can't even conquer fucking planets you fucking dumbass Interplay.
 
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Star Trek TNG "Echoes from the past" has always been my favorite trek game since the first time I played it. It was sort of an RPG in a way. You could take down landing parties down to the surface of planets for the missions and needed teamwork to solve the problems. Also had some tough puzzles in it if I recall.
 
The only Star Trek game i've ever played was the sit down arcade unit from years ago. It must have been about 20 years ago, actually.

Here is a pic (and no, the pasty dude isn't me)

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I didn't recall it being a Sega game. Sweet.
 
The cool thing about Starfleet Command is that it took an unlicensed pen&paper game and turned it into an officially licensed computer game (and did a good job translating the rules over).

The series was based on the Starfleet Battles game.
 
Yeah I know, II was sorta meh, but the first one was awesome. Klingon Academy was a lot of fun and a great game, but the development team got a big ol shaft right after release.
 
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