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I’m surprised at how hard seeing Max again hit me. I don’t have much interest in playing a new LiS game, but I still got unreasonably emotional dredging up memories of the first game.

Remember that other sequel with puppets?

puppets sounds cool actually

I played it a couple of years ago, before a lot of the patches, and still thought it was one of the better games I have never finished.

chakotay 💀

god I wish I liked actually playing Elite Dangerous, because shit like this is so cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-OTVKg2xI0

Young gamers don’t know the pain of a BSOD and the interminable wait getting back into game on an IDE hard drive. Even a CTD was a nightmare.

This is restricted to a small part of modern gaming, though. In indie games-

Yeah, no, maybe the fact that you had to immediately jump to indie games should have been a hint that it’s not a small part.

The level of quality and number of bugs depends a lot on the era you’re talking about, as well as the platform. As a PC gamer from the 90s, much of my technical literacy came about from trying to coax games to work. My experience with console gaming was usually much more hassle free, though I have far less experience with it and don’t have a modern point of comparison (last console I even used, not even owned, was the PS3).

My real point of “it was better in the old days”, is the industry learning to exploit addiction. It’s everywhere, and it’s not just gambling. The longer you play the more likely you are to pay so even without loot boxes and the like, games are taking as much out of casino playbooks as possible. It’s fucking revolting and should be criminal.

As someone who has had problems with addiction of various kinds in the past, it’s so blatant to me. I can feel it playing into my vulnerabilities and it makes my blood boil. I avoid most gaming these days because I know if I let it become a habit, the next time life knocks me down I’ll fall victim to this.

Going to second a viewing guide. There’s like a thousand hours of Star Trek now, I don’t blame anyone for not sitting through it all. Here is another I’ve used before https://old.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/wiki/algernonguide_tng

nah

I love the website layout so much lmao

It’s neat but chronological seems like a psychotic way for someone new to Star Trek to get into it lol

ENT then STD, yikes.

Weird how the times have changed with VOY. It was never hated, but I never saw love for it until long after new-Trek. The argument used to be whether VOY or ENT was the worst lol

Yeah that’s how I remember it, but it seems popular opinion is the temporal cold war stuff was good now?

SNW is worth trying. It’s got a couple of really solid episodes and a few of the characters are great, I’m a particular fan of Mbenga. It still hasn’t grown the beard in my opinion, but it’s much better than PIC or STD and seems like it could grow one.

The best of new-Trek is actually Star Trek: Resurgence though. It’s a Telltale style game set in the TNG era and gets it. The first act is spot on quality Trek, and the rest is still decent multi-episode finale stuff.

He’s watched at least 50 hours of new-Trek, I think that’s far more than what’s reasonable to judge it. Chill out.

ENT & VOY above TNG & DS9 would have been a wild top three before 2009. Weird hit of nostalgia thinking about how much of an argument that would have stirred lol

By far the worst season of Trek ever created.

I really need to rewatch Enterprise at some point. I keep seeing people say the later stuff is good, but my recollection is it was annoying time travel stuff and actually worse than the earlier seasons. It’s making me doubt myself, especially given how long ago it was.

You’re kind of right. Discovery S1 was trying to be a dark, prestige drama. It felt a lot more like BSG than Trek. I haven’t watched it since it premiered but I don’t remember hating it, though I didn’t love it either.

They fired their show runner pretty early, so there is another tone shift from S2 onward. The tone becomes a lot more like the new-Trek movies, and later much more like Strange New Worlds. Take a look at screenshots from Season 4 compared to Season 1 to see just how much it shifted stylistically.

The real issue isn’t aesthetic or tonal, it’s that the writing is excruciating.