Star Trek Online: Wot I think
Ah, STO. We’ve been here before, haven’t we? But you were called Star Wars Galaxies back then. A sci-fi franchise ripe for an MMO setting. Countless stories from both on and off screen adventures over decades to draw upon. A built in fanbase. Space shooty bits, ground shooty bits. And so, so close to being great.
It goes without saying if you know me, I love Star Trek. I’ve played almost all related games. They’ve mostly been a mixed bag, but there are very good ones out there. Bridge Commander nailed space combat. Naval in style, it was all about manoeuvring your ship to face their weakest shields with your strongest weapons. Then there was Elite Force, where firing a phaser never felt so good (even if there were some silly weapons in there that weren’t very Trek-like!). If they were to fuse these two games together for STO they’d have had gold-dust. So what went wrong?
Well, before I go into the lengthy list of what they got wrong, I’ll talk about what they got right.
