I'm getting pretty excited for Star Trek: Infinite so I basically just teleported some enthusiasm and anticipation over to that one lol.
Star Trek: Infinite mashes Stellaris and Star Trek together into something more delicious than anything you can get out of a replicator.
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I mean when your target audience is squarely in the 29.99 quadrant, leaves a little more room to get stoked.
If I exclude Star Wars games, and Mass Effect, then my favorite sorts of 'Space' games are really more in the 4x genre than CRPG.
Master of Orion and the sequel MOO2 were top favs, as two very well knocked off Star Trek type games, which I enjoyed more than the actual Star Trek games and there have been many of those. MOO CTS and Stellaris pretty much same deal.
Stellaris I think was more compelling as a game, and certainly had more staying power, but I still found that last MOO title pretty fun too despite its many shortcomings. (I dont speak of MOO3 as that game dissappointed me greatly.) But anyway, now the peeps that brought us those, are using the Stellaris framework to do this. Go figure!
This I think could work though, I mean they already had Worf as the narrator for MOO:CTS and Stellaris is Stellaris, so that gives them some street cred with me. Like at least they probably got a few people on comms who know who to call, ya know hehe.
I like Berkey illustrations and the whole vibe like the Expanse that I think people wanted from Starfield, but it's just hard to do a setup for that without going all Aliens all over the place and having that be the central thing that drives it. I think it's more fun to roleplay an entire spacefaring civilization rather than a spacefaring individual, or crew of individuals on a ship, but that's probably for a whole host of reasons specific to my own gaming background.
My Trek era is definitely DS9. I could try to claim TNG but that was like only in syndication. DS9 hooked in just at the right age. Obviously Picard season 3 was great, an unabashed success, and I'm all for Legacy, but some of the newer stuff I can do without. Show me a clip with DS9 and promises of multigenerational conflicts vs Cardassia and I'm on board. I know what to look out for, and exactly what I want from that. It doesn't need to blow my mind with the graphics hehe. Black construction paper will do, if they can nail the rest! Right? Like of course depending entirely on whether you thought Stellaris was cool I guess. But I did, so gives me that gamma ray of hope for a Halloween still lost in space.
For me, when imagining hopeful humanistic futures, if we don't get the Federation out the deal, then somebody fucked up big time. I still wish they'd get the ball rolling sooner. I want Starfleet, not Space Force or SpaceX. Anything less is bound to be disapointing! hehe
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