Hardcore Gamer: Given the current available technology, and wealth of quality material to cite when conceptualizing such a project, there is no reason the majority of adaptations shouldn’t be able to provide a playable experience that at the very least can entertain its fans for a weekend, and doesn’t tarnish, or even damage, the source material that the higher ups writing the checks are usually more concerned with.
A new Star Trek PC and console game with a story-driven focus is in development at Jumpgate subsidiary gameXcite.
Oh, f$%&! They better not mess this up. Trek is miles better than any other Sci-fi franchise.
I agree, at the same time no one can seem to make a decent StarTrek game.
I'm with you ... they better not fk this up
Keep up the good work!
They listened and made a physical version of Star Trek Resurgence, which I've pre-ordered, and I hope they make this new game both offline friendly and physical as well!
Immediate reaction - excited for new story driven Star Trek game.
Then I go and check GameXcite's website and see that the only thing they have released are a few Asterix games.
Set expectation to low
An old text-only strategy game remade with the graphics of the point-and-click adventure. The new version is now fully playable with a mouse only (also touch screen on Android tablets), but also with a keyboard only. You can also play with a controller by mapping cursor keys and Enter on the correct key.
This is very cool. I played many versions of Super Star Trek, some text based and some with rudimentary graphics. Back in the day, you’d get games like this off a floppy disk from a friend. I also played the 25th Anniversary Star Trek game. Cool to see a melding of the two.
Super Star Trek 25th is a remake / conversion of the strategy game Super Star Trek, written by Bob Leedom and David Ahl and published in the book BASIC Computer Games in 1978, mixed with the graphics of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and the voices from ST The Original Series
AMEN! SHAMBALASHALACHANGA!
It's sad that this cash-in mentality is still around, but I don't expect it to go away any time soon, since it is a form of merchandising (which is usually on the clock, especially for tie-ins). On the other hand, I do expect it to become more noticeable, what with the internet and all. These kind of games are much harder to miss nowadays.
Fortunately, even during the darkest of marketing days, we get something creative, but also respectable to the source material, like Batman: Arkham Asylum. It wasn't just a fine representation of the Batman universe, but it was a fun game to actually play.
hey, cinema, a hundred year old medium, can still produce bloody awful adaptations.
an older medium allows for greater quality, it doesn't guarantee it.
there will always be the quick tie in adaptations, even with the best technology, people who don't care will produce low quality content.
but those who give their title the care and attention it deserves, they can produce amazing things with modern gaming techniques and technology.
so bad adaptations will not be a thing of the past.
so long as money is still a thing, there will always be the quick tie in made only to empty the pockets of fans of a franchise.
but the really good adaptations, they will be so much better.
those that have care, time, passion and talent lavished on them.