I've never bothered to make a post about a game when it's disappointed me before. Usually I just chalk it up as a lost roll of the dice and move on. I've never run across such a terrible sham of a supposed big title game before either though. I did play Age of Conan and Warhammer Online at/near release too, so that's saying something.
The only thing that impresses when playing Star Trek Online is the size their stones must be to call this a mmo ready to be released.
- Once you get by the first few missions it's all the same stuff repeated over and over with just the subtlest of differences.
- The story lines are comparable to the cheapest made and worst free to play Korean mmos, with missions given to you by a pop-up windows that are reminiscent of single player games from 10 or more years ago. With comparable graphic used in them to boot.
- You might as well say that there is no community for the game, since everyone is shunted off into separate instances and so you don't feel you're in an epic game world at all. more like you're playing a single player game in co-op mode. There is no "massive' in this "mo" baby.
- Space combat is done pretty well, but after doing a few of the repetitive PvE missions you feel so brain dead you just don't care how well it's done anymore. They've made a lame attempt to address that feeling with what they call a "difficulty slider" (which isn't a slider at all by the way lol)but it really doesn't help at all.
- You might as well say that there's no crafting system. What they call a crafting system isn't "crafting" at all, and everything you read about what they've planned shows they just don't even get what a crafting system is. Though anyone that played City of Heroes knew that already I guess, but you'd have thought they'd have learned by now.
- PvP is fun....for about a minute (I exaggerate. It's fun for about a day or two if you play it sparingly. If you want to know what PvP in STO is like, just remember the lame PvP zones in CoH, substitute buildings and streets with "space art", and humanoid characters with space ship characters. That's it that's all. Rinse and repeat till your completely bored with it, which doesn't take long at all.
I could go on too, but really this game isn't even worth typing more about it. I just couldn't help feeling I was doing a beta test when playing it, but the kickr was I payed for this steaming pile of unfinished sh...... stuff. That companies get away with putting out this kind of mmo and charging monthly subscription fees for it is almost criminal. I know, not really, but ... you know what I mean.
Edited, May 6th 2010 9:57am by Blakeysgv