September 07, 2004

Star Trek MMPG Our secret geeky dreams have, at long last, been answered.

Also this.

posted by Skrik 20 years ago
  • Massively Multiplayer Pwning Game?
  • My secret geeky dreams will only have been answered when Princess Leia shows up on my doorstep in the metal bikini from Jedi.
  • Princess Leia was my first step toward manhood. *sighs, remembers adolescence well, considers playing Huey Lewis & The News records*
  • All those who were puberting when ep.3 was released are henceforth to be classified as 'old'. You may pick up your regulation plaid pants and suspenders at the nearest home for the elderly.
  • Err, make that ep.4, I guess.
  • Um, since we've already established this is a geeky thread, someone should point out that we will see the plaid pants-horror that is Episode 3 next May. Jedi was 'episode 6.' And hey, where's the geeky indignation about a Star Trek theme being inundated by Star Wars comments? Don't make me start going Phillip Glass over all y'all!
  • Lemme tell you something, you young whippersnapper, I had to walk - WALK - to the theatre to see Leia in that bikini, uphill in the snow! and honestly she was getting a little long in the tooth by that time - but we liked it! Kids these days, got no 'spect for their eldersgrumblegrumblegrumble... *hikes plaid pants up to nipples, drives away at 25 in a 40*
  • I have been Netflixing all of TNG in the past several months. It is a phenomenal series; although lots of it is complete crap (worst are the paper-thin allegories that pop up a couple times a season), there are some truly brilliant episodes. That said, I won't be playing this. The only thing scarier than a bunch of fantasy-Everquest dorks is a bunch of sci-fi Star Trek dorks.
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  • So... dorks... uh... scare you? In that case, make sure you never ever ever click on this link. (NSFW)
  • Ok, scary admission: I am (or at least I was) a huge treckie. I would just love to play a Star Trek game. When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and serve on the Enterprise. I also thought the idea of a possible Matrix multiplayer computer game was waycool. Not that I ever have time to play computer games nowadays.... sigh.
  • The advantage a Trek MMOG has over, say, Star Wars Galaxies is that the Star Wars universe centers around heroes in a Campbellian Monomyth style adventure, so everyone who plays them is going to want to be The Hero. Failing that, they want to be a Jedi, because level for level, a jedi will kick anyone else's ass handily. In Trek, there is a greater decentralization of roles. With the military style of the show, not necessarily everyone is going to want to be the captain. People will want to be security, engineers, doctors, pilots, etc, and there is plenty of precedence for any of them saving the day at any given point. Mind you, I'd never go on an away mission before joining the Bridge Crew if I could help it, especially if I'm in security.
  • I just want to point out that I was out saving the galaxyplaying Netrek when your grandfather was still in diapers. Good times.
  • Fuyugare, I am, and forever will be, your friend.
  • People will want to be security, engineers, doctors, pilots, etc I want to be Mot the barber.