Not excited about these because I (still) have a boxed copy of the Judgement Rites CE, although I think I sold/lost/ate the VHS copy of "The City on the Edge of Forever" that came with it. The talky versions of these two games are terrific, much less irritating than TNG: A Final Unity.
I barely remember playing Starfleet Academy (had a big box for that one too), but I remember it being ludicrously difficult.
I have an untouched copy of Starfleet Command 2: Orion Pirates at home and a manual and CD-ROM of Armada 1 that I ebayed several years ago. I liked the premise behind Armada, but the pathfinding in that game is horrendous. I think the first campaign mission basically requires you to click your ship over every square pixel of the map before you can finish it. I haven't reinstalled and played it in a very long time. Armada 2 is only available through arr-mateys and ebay sellers asking at least $60 for just the discs, so I'd be pretty happy if GOG acquired the rights to some of the more obscure ST titles like that, Borg, Klingon Academy, New Worlds, and Starfleet Command III.
In SFA were you shooting the starbase during the instant action? My bros and I would do that for s***s and giggles to see how long we'd last in an Oberth class ship.
I was very very blessed to find ST: Armada 2 at a Half Price Books a few years back CiB...it's better than 1 and with some mods the graphics are still fabulous.
Borg is a decent 45 minute episode as long as you put up with the terrible controls. I think you can run this in DOSBOX...
New Worlds was the only Star Trek game I played for two hours and never touched again; I never really got the hang of it.
SFCIII is basically 2 with some facelifts and somewhat streamlined interfaces - nothing wrong with that. One day I'll go back and pick up where I left off in the Romulan campaign.
And Klingon Academy - Soooooooooooooooooo much better than SFA. It was Interplay's last hurrah before the contract was up. David Warner and Christopher Plummer are in top form with the movies being in much better quality. My younger bro pulled it out of mothballs a month ago and the AI is absolutely visceral even on easy. Better know your Klingon mentalities if you want to survive even the first campaign mission.
And be sure to warp to Earth in instant action mode where you can fight a UFO from "It Came from Outer Space."
Forgot to mention: KA has a Windows 7 patch. It works 90% of the time without a hitch and the graphics all fixed up. The 10% - it crashes.
Elite Force 1 and 2 are great games. The first one had a great story. The second one not so much though. I'd love a mod that takes the first campaign and put it into EF2.
Bridge Commander gives probably the definitive "experience" of sitting in the Captain's Chair. Mods make the game a lot more complex and the graphics engine has been pushed beyond its boundaries to where I wonder if even a PS4/Xbone could handle the modded game (hint: probably not).
Star Trek games I'm waiting for:
- Star Trek: Online to get its s*** together after the botched Delta Rising release
- Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury - the REAL REASON you all must buy the games on GOG.com
- JR/25th games to get remasters
- Star Trek: Tales of the Federation - Bandai Namco's Tales Team joins up with CBS to make a good Star Trek RPG (will NEVER happen)
- A game with the reboot crew that JJ Abrams won't be butthurt about.
ing kidding me.
