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This. Will. Be. The. Best. MMORPG. Ever.

Especially if you’re a closet or not-so-closet Trekkie.

Online game developer Cryptic Studios announced Monday it had secured the rights to produce a massively multiplayer version of “Star Trek” and intends to provide a sneak video peek at the company’s progress during a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas next month.

But there’s no need to wait even that long. Screen shots of the game already have been posted at the new “Star Trek Online” website.

The announcement resurrects hopes that a role-playing Trek truly will take shape following dashed plans by the former P2 Entertainment to make it happen earlier this year. Trek is the mother of all sci-fi franchises, with an intricate history and detail that makes it perfect for this kind of gaming.

According to Cryptic and those allowed to look over the company’s shoulder while it’s working, “Star Trek Online” will let players captain Federation or Klingon ships, recruit and customize the crews, explore planets, engage in battles and add customized content to the playing environment, among numerous other things.

Gamers will be able to climb aboard the starship Enterprise or a Bird of Prey using consoles, PCs and Macs. Details about the final release date were not publicized Monday, but the sneak peek on Aug. 10 likely will include that information. And everyone can attend: A live webcast of the event is slated for broadcast at startrekonline.com. (Game Guy urges the site administrators to stock up on servers and bandwidth now, because the audience will be huge. Huge.)

The Trek MMORPG has potential to become one of the most popular, if not the most popular, role-playing experience in cyberspace. Its roots go back four decades, to the days of Kirk and Spock and Nixon and Brezhnev, and its multi-billion dollar culture has spawned countless book series, several TV series and movies and created a cult phenomena unmatched in modern times.

Trek is so widespread, so enmeshed in our society, a well-designed and intelligent MMORPG in that vein probably would make “World of Warcraft” and those old D&D all-nighters look like dreary skirmishes. So prepare for the further online adventures of the starship Enterprise. Game Guy’s pretty sure they will rock your pre-warp-drive world.
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http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/th...-trek-online-where-no-mmorpg-has-gone-before/

Yeah, the reviewer is a bit eccentric, but who wouldn't be about a Star Trek mmorpg?

http://www.startrekonline.com
 
A franchise alone does not a great MMO make.
 
I used to roleplay on ST: Elite Force and Bridge Commander. :eek:
 
character creation should be fun

bald/not bald
kirk sideburns/spock sideburns
forehead bump designating you as an alien/no forehead bump designating you as an alien


make it so
 
Finally! I have a reason to devote my life to the internet's slum -- MMORPGs. And God. This indeed will be awesome. Fucking awesome.
 
Obviously, because only MEN love spaceships!

ON a more serious note, this should be awesome. I would so join an hl2.net ship.
 
Half-Life 2 Online?

Methinks it's already been tried :p
 
Play EvE, its full of space pew pews and it looks better/more believable.
 
Except it's also the hardest MMORPG to get into and the most boring.
Spending 2 years to get a halfway decent fighter is not my idea of fun.
 
DEATHMASTER said:
I hope its not monthly payment based.
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the only alternatives would be microtransactions, advertisements or heavily instanced like guild wars ...none of the above suits the star trek universe. I'll pay so long as it's worth playing
 
/emoticon engage

:flicks wrist and points:

I couldn't half imagine if there would be a picard special

/emoticon facepalm

picard-facepalm.jpg
 
I can't wait to encounter 3,000 different alien species that have different nose and brow ridges that distinguish them from humans.
 
I thought you were Klingon!

No, the axis of my third ridge is off by 22 microns.
 
xlucidx said:
Except it's also the hardest MMORPG to get into and the most boring.
Spending 2 years to get a halfway decent fighter is not my idea of fun.
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I want to not agree with you... but you speak the truth! :(
 
This would only be cool if you can actually be a part of a larger crew, like you could specialize in being a helmsman or a security chief or something, and work with other players onboard the same vessel.
 
You could be the guy on Deck 14 who manages the plasma conduits.

YAY!
 
Darkside55 said:
This would only be cool if you can actually be a part of a larger crew, like you could specialize in being a helmsman or a security chief or something, and work with other players onboard the same vessel.
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Isn't that how the game works?....

I think it's going Pirates Online-like where it takes multiple people to run a ship, so it's not as deep as being a security officer or a janitor, but still pretty cool
 
I get to be Spock on the hl2.net ship.

Captain, that is illogical.
 
If i were Cryptic, i would scrap this MMO and focus my resources entirely on Champions Online.
Perpetual Entertainment did the same mistake by trying to juggle two MMO's at once and look where it got them.
 
nurizeko said:
Play EvE, its full of space pew pews and it looks better/more believable.
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They did the whole on ship thing right, only problem is that you can't get OFF your ship...

Which...would be a bit nice
 
TwwIX said:
If i were Cryptic, i would scrap this MMO and focus my resources entirely on Champions Online.
Perpetual Entertainment did the same mistake by trying to juggle two MMO's at once and look where it got them.
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Hush that blasphemous mouth before I pull your tongue out and stuff it down your throat!



Yeah, definitely gonna be a klingon... Hmmm... maybe not.
 
Maybe they should scrap Champions and focus on STO.
 
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