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Discovery plotline - too much rehash of the same
jsdc002
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I have played through pretty much the entire game. I started in 2015 or so and took a long break from March 2017-Oct 2018. The game has been around since 2010. What I noticed was that the Plausibility of Reason which includes a prison break is way too much like the episode Facility 4028 - another jail break with malfunctioning automated systems.
Repel boarders scenarios - also done to death. The Gamma Quadrant storyline had a lot of promise which I felt was not done to death.
Another issue with the Discovery gameplay is that there are fewer respawn points. I "died" and pretty much had to walk through the entire map. This is pretty annoying because just like hiking in real life, I hate to walk through the same hill again in the same day.
Does anyone else feel the same?
Repel boarders scenarios - also done to death. The Gamma Quadrant storyline had a lot of promise which I felt was not done to death.
Another issue with the Discovery gameplay is that there are fewer respawn points. I "died" and pretty much had to walk through the entire map. This is pretty annoying because just like hiking in real life, I hate to walk through the same hill again in the same day.
Does anyone else feel the same?
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Also I think 2047 was deliberately sabotaged via Klingon virus on top of Klingons rescuing their own. 4028 was collateral damage from a Jem'Hadar attack while the player is actually releasing the Founder.
I do not.
In my opinion, the Gamma Arc and the Discovery Arc are both stellar. The stories are interesting, the missions are fun, and the voice acting and visuals are top notch.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I like the disco related missions but I really wouldn't call the arc stellar. The episodes are good, very good for the most part but the narrative (if there is one) is a jumbled mess.
Supposedly J'Ula jumped into the 25th century. Well good to know because all we've been doing is fighting her in the past or in "simulations" or whatever with zero actual story progression. Captain Killy was here because..... they had Mary Wiseman available? Having Lorca & Landry in STO is great (Lorca was the best part of DSC season 1) but they don't really serve a point. I get it, it's for fanservice but once again it just dilutes the barely existing narrative even further.
Honestly I'm really looking forward to the point when the DSC craze is over.
For all our other characters we're reenacting events from the war. But our Discovery characters LIVED it. The Mirror Discovery missions are in the 25th Century though and have given us an antagonist that may very well be better than Mirror Leeta. Hell... we don't know if Captain Tilly will team up with Admiral Leeta or we end up with a 3 way firefight between Tilly, Leeta, and us.
There's actually a purpose to all the discovery missions that we've had so far.
the double mission featuring Lorca, Landry and mirror Lorca was there to establish some backstory for Landry and how she got to be so cold, while also showing the difference in Lorca between two episodes (though anyone whom didn't watch Discovery wouldn't understand the shift in his behavior).
Secrets was all about telling a prequel story about the U.S.S. Glenn, while setting the stage for J'Ula to devise a weapon to use in Downfall, which we know brings her to 2409/2410.
Mirror of Discovery's two episodes are to introduce Mirror Tilly as a boss for a future storyline.
Also, I hate to burst your bubble, but Discovery likely won't be over anytime soon. It sounds like we've only just started. Most of what we'll see will be in 2410 instead of the past.
My character Tsin'xing
Yes and no. The thing is they aren't released in chronological order so the way we play them is a mess. As for the way they will be later on, the jury is still out.
As for respawn points (yes, I occasionally die): it's a mixed bag. Some have very close by respawn points, others will make you cover the whole map again.
And the "Get the founder out" jail mission doesn't have a playable space part IIRC. You arrive (fly ship until interact) before the jail part, and only get a cutscene afterwards.
My character Tsin'xing
Latest mission is basically Coliseum 2: Electric Boogaloo. From the fetch parts, fighting some big monster, to babysitting someone who yammers a lot, to camping in a cave with at least 1 person that you want to stab or pepper with ranged weapons fire repeatedly.
That mission did not remind me of Coliseum in any way.
Me neither but he has a point, both missions feature a cave...
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Oh, I played through Coliseum again the other day. You may be pleased to know they re-recorded all of Slamek's VA. He no longer spends the entire trip whining; now he actually tries to sound ingratiating, like he wants to worm his way into your confidence. (I swear, if I heard him say he was "tired of this life" one more time, I was going to going to help him out with that little problem myself!)
I have to hand it to Cryptic, Ripsote was actually pretty good, and the concept behind it is far better than the drivel CBS came up with for the Klingon War.