17th March 2010, 7:20 PM
Darunia Wrote:You can list off the occasional occurences of mild Star Trek violence to your heart's delight. My analogy rings true. And you know it.
You wouldn't say that if you'd seen the last season of DS9, that's for sure. You want real, serious war in Star Trek, it had it.
There's also First Contact, the new Star Trek movie (that really is more Star Wars than Star Trek, to my annoyance -- sure I like Star Wars more, but they should be different!)... yes of course Star Trek is mostly idealistic, but sometimes people break from Roddenberry's general vision. The newest movie did a lot of that, which is a big part of why I didn't like it nearly as much as some (it's by far the most successful Star Trek movie ever).
As for Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force, the plot is essentially a convenient excuse for you to fight virtually every kind of potentially villainous race in Star Trek. Voyager gets pulled into this alternate mini-dimension trap thing, which is a sort of graveyard of starships from multiple times and realities, and because there's only so much there the survivors are all evil pirate types trying to destroy you. You fight Klingons, Borg (with the convenient gun that always changes frequencies...), those Terran Empire evil universe people from an alternate reality, etc. Then you find a way out.
EdenMaster Wrote:How have you not finished Portal? It's like three hours long and has some of the best and funniest writing this side of Monkey Island. As for never playing TF2, that's your loss. There's no better multiplayer experience on the PC.
Easy enough. Played Portal for a few hours or something after getting it sometime last fall or so, then stopped and never picked it up again. It was good, sure, and portals are cool, but not 'game of the year' or anything. I'm not sure how far I am. I meant to go back and finish it, but just haven't gotten around to it yet... I don't launch Steam very often because I don't like the interface, other things about it, etc., so I don't play those games all that often, despite now having more of them particularly due to the sales a few months ago...
As for PC multiplayer, nah, FPS multiplayer bores me quickly. RTSes are the best kind of PC multiplayer. Online RPGs would probably follow that, I guess, or Guild Wars at least in specific.