Star Trek: Encounters

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2006-10-23 01:34pm

Didn't find a thread on it, so any thoughts on this game from anyone who's picked it up? (US$19.99, PS2 only, "retro-arcade" shoot-'em-up.)

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2006-10-23 02:30pm

Never mind that game - the Legacy one looks like Armada 3! Probably will be a crap game, but I'll get it because I was an Armada junkie.

Darth Tanner · Post by **Darth Tanner** » 2006-10-23 02:44pm

I didn't think legacy had any rts in it, just ship control.
Like Starfleet command 4?

I loved Armada, if they made another of them I would buy it despite its horrible flaws.

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2006-10-23 09:07pm

Encounters is pretty fun

sucks they start you ff with the shitty NX-01 and Enterprise Era.....

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-10-23 09:44pm

I've seen some video's from STL and it looks pretty impressive. Of course, we'll see how well they put it together. Check YouTube for STL videos...keep in mind that the effects are dated on all currently released videos.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-10-23 10:18pm

*watches YouTube video*

Holy crap, that looks like a fun game. Why can't we get something like that for PC?

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2006-10-24 12:15am

Actually, dunno if you noticed (by now), but Star Trek: Legacy is for both Xbox 360 and PC.

DarkSilver, I don't have a problem starting off with the NX-01, but the "40 rings in 2 minutes" course (one messup and it's practically over, especially since you can't turn in place or enter the ring at a wide enough angle) and trying to follow warp trails (very easy to lose) without a minimap... BLECH.

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2006-10-24 12:31am

Edward Yee wrote: DarkSilver, I don't have a problem starting off with the NX-01, but the "40 rings in 2 minutes" course (one messup and it's practically over, especially since you can't turn in place or enter the ring at a wide enough angle) and trying to follow warp trails (very easy to lose) without a minimap... BLECH.

Took a couple tries, but i got the rings done easily enough.

The Warp Trails thing was hard, until I figured out I just sweep my sensor cone completely around the ship continuously. Always have one warp trail lighted up at nearly all times that way.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-10-24 01:39am

Edward Yee wrote:Actually, dunno if you noticed (by now), but Star Trek: Legacy is for both Xbox 360 and PC.

Legacy looks okay. I dunno, Encounters seems like it really aims for simplicity and I think that could be kind of fun.

Edward Yee · Post by **Edward Yee** » 2006-10-24 10:12am

Took a couple tries, but i got the rings done easily enough.

The Warp Trails thing was hard, until I figured out I just sweep my sensor cone completely around the ship continuously. Always have one warp trail lighted up at nearly all times that way.

I've gotten these both.

Figured out the warp trails solution, but it can get tense when one's first 360 degree sweep without the current warp trail doesn't turn up the next one, as I think that there's only a little leeway to return to the last one in time.

Encounters though is really value-good, but as a game on its own I don't know whether you're up for "retro-arcade" without any minimap (hence no absolute position or distance indicators) and questionable ship handling (see aforementioned ring course).

However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that one can actually use the secondary "weapon" transporter to both 'attack' (steal energy or torpedoes, or capture) certain enemy ships and to heal allied ships unrealistically fast.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2006-10-24 11:13am

Uraniun235 wrote:
Edward Yee wrote:Actually, dunno if you noticed (by now), but Star Trek: Legacy is for both Xbox 360 and PC.
Legacy looks okay. I dunno, Encounters seems like it really aims for simplicity and I think that could be kind of fun.

I'm pretty sure STL is going to be simple. It's not like you have to align the dilithium intermix chamber so you can have properly tuned phasers.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-10-24 04:07pm

STL is pretty fun, I learned the controls in no time at all last time I played. Strangely, I was playing the PC version using an XBox 360 controller.

Fun game, I doubt my PC could handle it (Geforce FX 5200) and I don't hae a 360 so I sadly won't be getting it, but it looks very enjoyable. I got my butt kicked by Kahn but when I played the Borg/Romulan assault I owned, did even better than the Mad Doc representative on it, because I had the game down by then.