Star Trek Elite Force 22 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Moonsoon
I know a lot of the master race is gonna dislike this but when I got my first desktop in 99 from Gateway, I actually remember browsing a few computer games in the store and the big boxes would always capture your imagination but when you got home and installed that shit it was a broken freaking mess a lot of times. A time where you would browse obscure websites trying to find patches and just a damn nightmare. So anyway I grew with Nintendo, SNES, 64, ps1 etc. and was use to the games being complete and optimization was all good for said console. The computer games just turned me off overall with the headaches that came with it but I ll always appreciate my early days on Napster and yahoo chat and remembering an email being such a mystery. Good times, I was there when Napster finally went down and moved to next best thing limewire but damn Napster was so much better. Ah the good ole days where it would take 4 hours to download one song and if the person you were uploading from shut his computer off of internet you would lose the damn song and have to find someone else to download from, yea I'm glad I got to get that perspective of the early internet. Regardless of you hearing the internet being way way back in 80s or whatever that shit was super uncommon still for your common household to have a computer even in 1999. Having that perception is pretty cool because man the internet today while convenient is so boring today. All we had back then was what people call the deep web. Which is much more dramatic hearing the -deep web- than it really was but yea the days of going to individual websites without using search engines like today.
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I know a lot of the master race is gonna dislike this but when I got my first desktop in 99 from Gateway, I actually remember browsing a few computer games in the store and the big boxes would always capture your imagination but when you got home and installed that shit it was a broken freaking mess a lot of times. A time where you would browse obscure websites trying to find patches and just a damn nightmare. So anyway I grew with Nintendo, SNES, 64, ps1 etc. and was use to the games being complete and optimization was all good for said console. The computer games just turned me off overall with the headaches that came with it but I ll always appreciate my early days on Napster and yahoo chat and remembering an email being such a mystery. Good times, I was there when Napster finally went down and moved to next best thing limewire but damn Napster was so much better. Ah the good ole days where it would take 4 hours to download one song and if the person you were uploading from shut his computer off of internet you would lose the damn song and have to find someone else to download from, yea I'm glad I got to get that perspective of the early internet. Regardless of you hearing the internet being way way back in 80s or whatever that shit was super uncommon still for your common household to have a computer even in 1999. Having that perception is pretty cool because man the internet today while convenient is so boring today. All we had back then was what people call the deep web. Which is much more dramatic hearing the -deep web- than it really was but yea the days of going to individual websites without using search engines like today.
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uroborous01
i played the heck out of this game back in the day. (and its sequel. and its addon dlc) i cant count how many times i killed the npc redshirts out of sheer frustration from them being slow and or not getting on the damn elevator. my go to weapon of choice was the hand phaser. because it had infinitely recharging ammo, and i needed my other weapons for later in the game. and i loved playing the murder spree mele as the doctor because the idea of the doctor loosing it and going postal was hillarious to me.
as for the ps2 port: i got it because my ailing computer kept crashing while playing the original. on top of that when i updated to windows 2k and got frustrated then tried windows me then got angry and went back to 2k. well. the os just would not play the game. it flatly refused so the ps2 port became my only way to play. later when the sequel came out i had xp and i loved that game it was so much better in my opinion. but was not without its bugs. the one that i still remember and tell people about to this day happened just after you come back from an away mission and one character tells another that the transport was a bit rough. yeah no kidding it was rough the character model had no lips or eyelids! it was freaky and hillarious hearing that line from that guy as he screams in eternal pain from the lack of body parts.
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i played the heck out of this game back in the day. (and its sequel. and its addon dlc) i cant count how many times i killed the npc redshirts out of sheer frustration from them being slow and or not getting on the damn elevator. my go to weapon of choice was the hand phaser. because it had infinitely recharging ammo, and i needed my other weapons for later in the game. and i loved playing the murder spree mele as the doctor because the idea of the doctor loosing it and going postal was hillarious to me.
as for the ps2 port: i got it because my ailing computer kept crashing while playing the original. on top of that when i updated to windows 2k and got frustrated then tried windows me then got angry and went back to 2k. well. the os just would not play the game. it flatly refused so the ps2 port became my only way to play. later when the sequel came out i had xp and i loved that game it was so much better in my opinion. but was not without its bugs. the one that i still remember and tell people about to this day happened just after you come back from an away mission and one character tells another that the transport was a bit rough. yeah no kidding it was rough the character model had no lips or eyelids! it was freaky and hillarious hearing that line from that guy as he screams in eternal pain from the lack of body parts.
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Burritozi11a
Your videos are so -cozy-, for lack of a better term.
Picture you're in middle school. It's Friday night, you've finished all your homework in after-school. Sadly, your mom works a late shift until 7, so your uncle Phil's here to pick you up. Phil's a pretty cool guy, most days you have dinner and stay at his house for a few hours until your parents come to pick you up. You get Taco Bell on the way home, and he always has orange creamsicles in the freezer. Phil's a bit of a tech nerd, he worked IT or something in the early 2000's so his basement's full of of old junk with an old Dell PC still running Windows 95. That's your favorite place to hang out. Rummaging through a dusty bin simply marked -CDs-, you come across a disk with -Star Trek Elite Force- scribbled on it in black marker. -What's this? - you ask. -Oh, that's a good one- replies Uncle Phil. -Wanna try it out? - he says as he wipes the CD on his shirt and pops it into the old Dell's creaking tray. You know you're in for a great time.
That's what watching one of your videos feels like.
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Your videos are so -cozy-, for lack of a better term.
Picture you're in middle school. It's Friday night, you've finished all your homework in after-school. Sadly, your mom works a late shift until 7, so your uncle Phil's here to pick you up. Phil's a pretty cool guy, most days you have dinner and stay at his house for a few hours until your parents come to pick you up. You get Taco Bell on the way home, and he always has orange creamsicles in the freezer. Phil's a bit of a tech nerd, he worked IT or something in the early 2000's so his basement's full of of old junk with an old Dell PC still running Windows 95. That's your favorite place to hang out. Rummaging through a dusty bin simply marked -CDs-, you come across a disk with -Star Trek Elite Force- scribbled on it in black marker. -What's this? - you ask. -Oh, that's a good one- replies Uncle Phil. -Wanna try it out? - he says as he wipes the CD on his shirt and pops it into the old Dell's creaking tray. You know you're in for a great time.
That's what watching one of your videos feels like.
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Jonathan
I played that demo on a Macintosh as a kid. I was so scared by the Borgs.
I played the full version later and absolutely loved it because we where never alone in the game and you could feel part of a team. It was one of the first game I completed and was quite proud. I also really enjoyed going back to the spaceship. More game should have intermissions like that to chill a bit.
I redid it and finished it again today and the game has solid quality and is very immersive. But way too easy and certainly too short.
BTW, love the 40 missions on the back when in reality it's maybe 7 missions but splitted on different maps.
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I played that demo on a Macintosh as a kid. I was so scared by the Borgs.
I played the full version later and absolutely loved it because we where never alone in the game and you could feel part of a team. It was one of the first game I completed and was quite proud. I also really enjoyed going back to the spaceship. More game should have intermissions like that to chill a bit.
I redid it and finished it again today and the game has solid quality and is very immersive. But way too easy and certainly too short.
BTW, love the 40 missions on the back when in reality it's maybe 7 missions but splitted on different maps.
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Rhettorical
Whoa, I didn't think anyone would ever talk about this game! It's one of my favorite games of all time. The Quake III days were the best and I'm a massive Trekker so it was a perfect fit. It still holds up to this day.
I talked to one of the old Ravensoft devs not long ago. Literally everyone who worked on games from this era has been scattered to the wind. It was basically exactly what happened to Flynn's company in TRON. If you've ever wondered why CoD games have been getting worse and feel nothing like the games that came before, that's why.
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Whoa, I didn't think anyone would ever talk about this game! It's one of my favorite games of all time. The Quake III days were the best and I'm a massive Trekker so it was a perfect fit. It still holds up to this day.
I talked to one of the old Ravensoft devs not long ago. Literally everyone who worked on games from this era has been scattered to the wind. It was basically exactly what happened to Flynn's company in TRON. If you've ever wondered why CoD games have been getting worse and feel nothing like the games that came before, that's why.
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seeigecannon
So my first time going to a porn site was because of this game. The original version released on CD created several URLs in the start menu. One URL was either wrong or got snatched up on expiration because it took me to a porn site.
Also, I played this game on a Gateway 2000 with a 200MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, and a 16MB GPU. Each loading zone took almost 5min to complete. That said, I was blown away by how realistic everything looked.
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So my first time going to a porn site was because of this game. The original version released on CD created several URLs in the start menu. One URL was either wrong or got snatched up on expiration because it took me to a porn site.
Also, I played this game on a Gateway 2000 with a 200MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, and a 16MB GPU. Each loading zone took almost 5min to complete. That said, I was blown away by how realistic everything looked.
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Florian
My first FPS-Game. I loved the campaign. It really felt like you were part of the TV Show, which was my first real Star Trek experience. I had watched some episodes of TOS and TNG before, but Voyager was what got me into Star Trek and I still love it to this day. I also always get a bit sad, seeing those original Boxes lined up so orderly, mine mostly got smashed and thrown away over time.
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My first FPS-Game. I loved the campaign. It really felt like you were part of the TV Show, which was my first real Star Trek experience. I had watched some episodes of TOS and TNG before, but Voyager was what got me into Star Trek and I still love it to this day. I also always get a bit sad, seeing those original Boxes lined up so orderly, mine mostly got smashed and thrown away over time.
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Ravi
What an amazing game - -! Activision and Raven did a wonderful job with this game. Interesting fact: In the original release of the game, Seven of Nine's voiceover wasn't in the game. There was a contractual sticking point that was eventually resolved and you could get her voiceover with a subsequent patch download.
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What an amazing game - -! Activision and Raven did a wonderful job with this game. Interesting fact: In the original release of the game, Seven of Nine's voiceover wasn't in the game. There was a contractual sticking point that was eventually resolved and you could get her voiceover with a subsequent patch download.
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James
A couple of others that I had were -Star Trek: Away Team- and -Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen. - Really enjoyed -Away Team- more as it played like the first two -Fallout- games which I absolutely loved. I couldn't really get into -The Fallen, - though. It just wasn't my cup of Earl Grey tea. _HOT! _ =)
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A couple of others that I had were -Star Trek: Away Team- and -Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen. - Really enjoyed -Away Team- more as it played like the first two -Fallout- games which I absolutely loved. I couldn't really get into -The Fallen, - though. It just wasn't my cup of Earl Grey tea. _HOT! _ =)
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bosborn1
This was one of my favorite games of the era. I played the crap out of it. Makes me miss the -golden age- of FPS-s. Maybe I-m just old but the games these days just seem soulless to me. This game happened near the end of my gaming period. Really one of the last things I loved. Other than Halo--the first one.
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This was one of my favorite games of the era. I played the crap out of it. Makes me miss the -golden age- of FPS-s. Maybe I-m just old but the games these days just seem soulless to me. This game happened near the end of my gaming period. Really one of the last things I loved. Other than Halo--the first one.
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