STAR TREK ONLINE

I mean you get an open galaxy to explore with your ship and you can explore it with all of your friends. STO FTW!

If by "Open Galaxy" you mean a series of tiny instanced rooms and by "Explore" you mean partake in generic MMORPG quests than yes; this might be an accurate description of the actual game.

It's a Cryptic game, so expect it to hit the bargain bin in two weeks after the standard crop of MMORPG rubes discover that the game is no deeper than a half empty kiddie pool.

This happens with most every MMORPG to come out. A game get released; a ton of fanfare while a vocal minority states what should be obvious (Design flaws, bugs). They are then shouted down by the same fans who will - in two weeks time - be the most vocal critics of the game.

If this was 10 years ago I'd be all over this. Unfortunately I don't play games.

Actually, I'd probably play KOTOR...or maybe...man, I'm torn over this AND I don't expect to be playing either of them!

I'm a loving star trek fan, but I just can't say the star trek universe is more fun sounding than the star wars universe.

EDIT: however, if every mission you went on turned out to be some pretty cool stuff, like: sneak into lab, steal co-ordinates, have ship blast co-ordinates from space... or... basically, the kinds of missions you might expect in a good single player game. something that draws you into the universe and care about it.

I wonder... Will there actually be people playing this game speaking nothing but Klingon?

I suppose that will be a good tactic to employ in PvP. Offput your opponent by jabbering on in Klingon to your allies while they remain unaware of what you are saying.

/ignore Dark Gaia

Now I don't have to listen to Klingon and can just focus on killing!

Every MMO is terrible. Figure it out, people.

I've played that. It is pretty decent. I don't really get into MMOs though.

Yeah exactly. I like flight sims as well, so that's also probably why I liked it, as opposed to the endless questing to get ArmorX to trade to FriendY to get ItemZ you do in most MMOs.