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  1. Battlegrinder

    Whatever happened to Star Trek licensed games?

    If that's the goal, STO is doing a very bad job of it. Endgame ships are $30 each, regardless of which ship, they don't even crank up the cost of a famous hero ship from the show compared to a second line or otherwise uncommon ship. And you only need one ship with a halfway sane build (my...
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    Whatever happened to Star Trek licensed games?

    I suspect this some kind of dumb brand management thing where it has to interact with the main cast in order to remind everyone it's star trek. Same reason every single ST book series I own that isn't about one of the ships from the show starts off with a ship from the show interacting with the...
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    Whatever happened to Star Trek licensed games?

    You forget Empire at War. ST would actually work really well as an adventure game. But like, the CSI mystery solving adventure game type, not the "rub every object you have on every other object you have to solve absurdly contrived problem" style game. The problem is that sort of game is...
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    Whatever happened to Star Trek licensed games?

    I think the big issue ST had is a lot of their games just...weren't that good. I still play games from that era, or even earlier, because they're really, really good (or my nostalgia googles are really, really thick. Not sure which). ST games tended to be...fine, mostly. Which is ok if the goal...
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