Star Trek Legacy?
Nov. 29th, 2007 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alliancesjrDon't buy it. Seriously. Unless you are getting the not-PC version, but I don't have a 360 and apparently it's better on that.
I was looking forward to this game for months before it was released, since it was looking like a really awesome ship-based game with customization and voices and customization and pretty. I was looking even more forward to it after it was released, since I knew I couldn't play it (DVD-ROM only? Shit. Felix only had a CD drive and I had to upgrade that to a CD-RW myself), but I knew I was going to eventually get a computer that would allow me to play it.
Enter my still unnamed laptop (thinking Terra mostly, I'm not certain), which has a DVD-RW drive. I bought the game a few weeks ago, installed it and downloaded the patch from the website.
Didn't touch it again. Controls were crap, couldn't remap the keys, couldn't do ANYTHING. Customization? Sure, if "allowing you to pick up to four of six pre-set unchangeable ship types that set their own names and voices without you choosing" is what they meant by that. What could I do with them? Take manual control, give the captain orders, or tell the crew which system to repair first. That's about it.
Crushed dreams, anyone? It's got a twist of lemon.
I was looking forward to this game for months before it was released, since it was looking like a really awesome ship-based game with customization and voices and customization and pretty. I was looking even more forward to it after it was released, since I knew I couldn't play it (DVD-ROM only? Shit. Felix only had a CD drive and I had to upgrade that to a CD-RW myself), but I knew I was going to eventually get a computer that would allow me to play it.
Enter my still unnamed laptop (thinking Terra mostly, I'm not certain), which has a DVD-RW drive. I bought the game a few weeks ago, installed it and downloaded the patch from the website.
Didn't touch it again. Controls were crap, couldn't remap the keys, couldn't do ANYTHING. Customization? Sure, if "allowing you to pick up to four of six pre-set unchangeable ship types that set their own names and voices without you choosing" is what they meant by that. What could I do with them? Take manual control, give the captain orders, or tell the crew which system to repair first. That's about it.
Crushed dreams, anyone? It's got a twist of lemon.
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Date: 2007-11-30 05:34 am (UTC)On the other hand, if you're interested in ship-to-ship combat, try out the Master of Orion series. MUCH larger scale, and there's an empire to run, but you can design ships exactly how you want (except how they look) down to and including standard fighting orders (in the latest one). You may want to look into it.
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Date: 2007-11-30 05:34 am (UTC)