I know Voyager never quite had the ratings of TNG or the critical acclaim of DS9, and with good reason; the show could be pretty bad sometimes, even though I still enjoy watching it on occasion. But seeing as the ship and several cast members have made regular appearances in game already I can't imagine that Cryptic would just let something like that slip by unremarked somehow, even if it was just an event TFO and not a new story chapter or new ships (what ships could they add that they haven't already taken from Voyager's TV run anyway, right?).
Addendum + a shameless plug: Just for funsies, I figured I'd share a trilogy of videos I made well over a year ago (back before DIS season 1 had dropped) about my personal favorite Voyager episodes, as well as my... complicated relationship with the show.
BTW, my channel isn't monetized so don't anybody accuse me of trying to make money off this post. Besides, embeds don't count towards my views anyway.
I know Voyager never quite had the ratings of TNG or the critical acclaim of DS9, and with good reason; the show could be pretty bad sometimes, even though I still enjoy watching it on occasion. But seeing as the ship and several cast members have made regular appearances in game already I can't imagine that Cryptic would just let something like that slip by unremarked somehow, even if it was just an event TFO and not a new story chapter or new ships (what ships could they add that they haven't already taken from Voyager's TV run anyway, right?).
Addendum + a shameless plug: Just for funsies, I figured I'd share a trilogy of videos I made well over a year ago (back before DIS season 1 had dropped) about my personal favorite Voyager episodes, as well as my... complicated relationship with the show.
BTW, my channel isn't monetized so don't anybody accuse me of trying to make money off this post. Besides, embeds don't count towards my views anyway.
Major anniversaries seem to always get a nod, so don't worry about it. Delta Rising was a huge nod to Voyager, but don't expect anything on that scale.
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Would be nice, wouldn't mind seeing more Delta Quadrant missions and perhaps a expansion of the space!
The main issue with Delta is that it basically just follows the path Voyager took. Which for all intents and purposes was a straight line back towards Alpha.
If they did, we wouldn't find out until a week before.
Or we would get some cryptic gibberish a year in advance that says absolutely nothing.
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Would be nice, wouldn't mind seeing more Delta Quadrant missions and perhaps a expansion of the space!
The main issue with Delta is that it basically just follows the path Voyager took. Which for all intents and purposes was a straight line back towards Alpha.
Well sooner or later they are going to need to make new content, new villains and such. Only two real options....unexplored space or new space, A.K.A. a new galaxy. We know the Iconians were in the Andromeda galaxy so that's a possible area to explore some day.
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I kinda hope for Andromeda, as it would tie into what the Iconians were doing there, as well as an episode of TOS involving the Kelvans. Not only that, it opens up quite a few possibilities in terms of technology as well. Most Milky Way tech falls under what we've seen in the past. Who says Andromeda tech follows the same rules? We could end up facing a space faring species that makes heavy use of kinetic weapons and have no shields but have ridiculus armor. We could face an enemy that has a radiation based weapon unlike anything Starfleet has seen. Their FTL might not even be warp drive, which makes it harder to anticipate where they'd strike!
If memory serves and I may be wrong but it’s either the original series the motion picture wrath of khan some of those had 20-25 year anniversary is a came up and nothing was done for them to my knowledge
I kinda hope for Andromeda, as it would tie into what the Iconians were doing there, as well as an episode of TOS involving the Kelvans. Not only that, it opens up quite a few possibilities in terms of technology as well. Most Milky Way tech falls under what we've seen in the past. Who says Andromeda tech follows the same rules? We could end up facing a space faring species that makes heavy use of kinetic weapons and have no shields but have ridiculus armor. We could face an enemy that has a radiation based weapon unlike anything Starfleet has seen. Their FTL might not even be warp drive, which makes it harder to anticipate where they'd strike!
I doubt they'd risk it. They'd be accused of ripping off Mass Effect Andromeda. Which I actually thought was fine and that the backlash to it was overblown relative to what flaws it actually did have (that easily could've been appeared over with decent DLC and a good sequel, but alas) but I digress.
Would be nice, wouldn't mind seeing more Delta Quadrant missions and perhaps a expansion of the space!
The main issue with Delta is that it basically just follows the path Voyager took. Which for all intents and purposes was a straight line back towards Alpha.
It's only a large chunk of it though, they could add other chunks.
hmmm... well i don't know its a long ways away but they did do things for TNG and DS9 right? So they will "probably" have something for VOY as well. If they don't do it sooner maybe the T6 Nova, the refit Alternate Harry Kim captained. Not sure what they could give away like they did the skants(or was that just an STO anniversary deal) I'm not sure if the 2390+ uniforms worn in the alternate future are already in game or not, so maybe that.
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I doubt they'd risk it. They'd be accused of ripping off Mass Effect Andromeda. Which I actually thought was fine and that the backlash to it was overblown relative to what flaws it actually did have (that easily could've been appeared over with decent DLC and a good sequel, but alas) but I digress.
Differing technology developing between galaxies isn't that farfetched. We just haven't had much intergalactic sci-fi to really get that. 99% of all sci-fi takes place in only one galaxy, and thus generally that tech follows similar lines. Hell... the primary intergalactic I can think of, Stargate Atlantis, still had some shared tech (Hyperdrives). But I mostly attribute that to the Ancients. Stargate Universe, on the other hand, actually did show different technology bases for a couple of the aliens they encountered.
Any venture into Andromeda would probably be more like the Atlantis Expedition in SGA than the evac to a new home in ME:A. An Exploratory mission rather than a desperate attempt to colonize.
I doubt they'd risk it. They'd be accused of ripping off Mass Effect Andromeda. Which I actually thought was fine and that the backlash to it was overblown relative to what flaws it actually did have (that easily could've been appeared over with decent DLC and a good sequel, but alas) but I digress.
Differing technology developing between galaxies isn't that farfetched. We just haven't had much intergalactic sci-fi to really get that. 99% of all sci-fi takes place in only one galaxy, and thus generally that tech follows similar lines. Hell... the primary intergalactic I can think of, Stargate Atlantis, still had some shared tech (Hyperdrives). But I mostly attribute that to the Ancients. Stargate Universe, on the other hand, actually did show different technology bases for a couple of the aliens they encountered.
Any venture into Andromeda would probably be more like the Atlantis Expedition in SGA than the evac to a new home in ME:A. An Exploratory mission rather than a desperate attempt to colonize.
Well, most of it is more similar than the difference between Fed and Tholian tech though. The alliance of the Ancients, Asgard, Nox and Furling inspired the tech bases of several other powers seen in Stargate.
I doubt they'd risk it. They'd be accused of ripping off Mass Effect Andromeda. Which I actually thought was fine and that the backlash to it was overblown relative to what flaws it actually did have (that easily could've been appeared over with decent DLC and a good sequel, but alas) but I digress.
But I'll digress with you since I am happy somebody else thought the same. Was ME:A as good as the first trilogy? Arguably not, though they only had a first part to set the story (but ME1 did a better part in that). Were there bugs? Yes, but not that major. Gameplay elements that really shouldn't have been there? Yes, but you could ignore them. In the end, it was still a good game to me and enjoyable, but these days every criticism, positive as negative, tends to get blown out of proportion. Both ME:A and Fallout 4 deserved some flak for what they did but were still playable and enjoyable games, other examples galore.
What wasn't overblown however, more like underblown, is the outrage over the systematic mistreatment of employees called "Bioware Magic". I'd rather wait 6 months more and have a completed game by employees still sane.
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I doubt they'd risk it. They'd be accused of ripping off Mass Effect Andromeda. Which I actually thought was fine and that the backlash to it was overblown relative to what flaws it actually did have (that easily could've been appeared over with decent DLC and a good sequel, but alas) but I digress.
But I'll digress with you since I am happy somebody else thought the same. Was ME:A as good as the first trilogy? Arguably not, though they only had a first part to set the story (but ME1 did a better part in that). Were there bugs? Yes, but not that major. Gameplay elements that really shouldn't have been there? Yes, but you could ignore them. In the end, it was still a good game to me and enjoyable, but these days every criticism, positive as negative, tends to get blown out of proportion. Both ME:A and Fallout 4 deserved some flak for what they did but were still playable and enjoyable games, other examples galore.
What wasn't overblown however, more like underblown, is the outrage over the systematic mistreatment of employees called "Bioware Magic". I'd rather wait 6 months more and have a completed game by employees still sane.
Too bad there have been multiple forum changes and wipes since then. Would be fun to dig up some old doomsday posts.
By those posts, we'd commemorate the 8th year of its death next year...
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Too bad there have been multiple forum changes and wipes since then. Would be fun to dig up some old doomsday posts.
By those posts, we'd commemorate the 8th year of its death next year...
Yea... every time some doomsday thread comes up because of some major change to the game... I wish I could find a bigger version of this stamp on DeviantArt.
Just to rub it in when their prophecized end of the game never comes to pass.
Too bad there have been multiple forum changes and wipes since then. Would be fun to dig up some old doomsday posts.
By those posts, we'd commemorate the 8th year of its death next year...
Back in the day when people claimed that Star Citizen will come out any day now and destroy STO? Haven't read that one in a while ...
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Back in the day when people claimed that Star Citizen will come out any day now and destroy STO? Haven't read that one in a while ...
Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous...
Pretty sure there was one for No Man's Sky as well.
Just about every new sci-fi game was apparently a threat to STO, even if it wasn't even close to being one or even the same genre. It was always "Hey look! Proper Exploration! EVERYONE ON THE HYPE TRAIN! STO IS GONNA DIE BECAUSE OF THIS GAME!"
Cryptic seems pretty good at stuff like this. I always enjoyed Voyager myself & I felt thier good quality was pretty consistent. At the least I could see Cryptic offering a Voyager bundle, if there is one, & maybe more probable 1 of the Voyager type ships. A Warship Voyager class would be so cool.
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It would be great if they could get a bunch of the actors to do a short arc like they did with Gamma.
That would be fun. They could also release a destroyer version of the Intrepid Class ship next to the existing Science version.
Major anniversaries seem to always get a nod, so don't worry about it. Delta Rising was a huge nod to Voyager, but don't expect anything on that scale.
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The main issue with Delta is that it basically just follows the path Voyager took. Which for all intents and purposes was a straight line back towards Alpha.
Or we would get some cryptic gibberish a year in advance that says absolutely nothing.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Well sooner or later they are going to need to make new content, new villains and such. Only two real options....unexplored space or new space, A.K.A. a new galaxy. We know the Iconians were in the Andromeda galaxy so that's a possible area to explore some day.
I doubt they'd risk it. They'd be accused of ripping off Mass Effect Andromeda. Which I actually thought was fine and that the backlash to it was overblown relative to what flaws it actually did have (that easily could've been appeared over with decent DLC and a good sequel, but alas) but I digress.
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Differing technology developing between galaxies isn't that farfetched. We just haven't had much intergalactic sci-fi to really get that. 99% of all sci-fi takes place in only one galaxy, and thus generally that tech follows similar lines. Hell... the primary intergalactic I can think of, Stargate Atlantis, still had some shared tech (Hyperdrives). But I mostly attribute that to the Ancients. Stargate Universe, on the other hand, actually did show different technology bases for a couple of the aliens they encountered.
Any venture into Andromeda would probably be more like the Atlantis Expedition in SGA than the evac to a new home in ME:A. An Exploratory mission rather than a desperate attempt to colonize.
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But I'll digress with you since I am happy somebody else thought the same. Was ME:A as good as the first trilogy? Arguably not, though they only had a first part to set the story (but ME1 did a better part in that). Were there bugs? Yes, but not that major. Gameplay elements that really shouldn't have been there? Yes, but you could ignore them. In the end, it was still a good game to me and enjoyable, but these days every criticism, positive as negative, tends to get blown out of proportion. Both ME:A and Fallout 4 deserved some flak for what they did but were still playable and enjoyable games, other examples galore.
What wasn't overblown however, more like underblown, is the outrage over the systematic mistreatment of employees called "Bioware Magic". I'd rather wait 6 months more and have a completed game by employees still sane.
Well put.
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Maybe they'll finally release the T6 Nova for @reyan01... Or just Warship Voyager to spite him.
Too bad there have been multiple forum changes and wipes since then. Would be fun to dig up some old doomsday posts.
By those posts, we'd commemorate the 8th year of its death next year...
Yea... every time some doomsday thread comes up because of some major change to the game... I wish I could find a bigger version of this stamp on DeviantArt.
Just to rub it in when their prophecized end of the game never comes to pass.
I've been around that long.
Back in the day when people claimed that Star Citizen will come out any day now and destroy STO? Haven't read that one in a while ...
Star Citizen, Elite Dangerous...
Pretty sure there was one for No Man's Sky as well.
Just about every new sci-fi game was apparently a threat to STO, even if it wasn't even close to being one or even the same genre. It was always "Hey look! Proper Exploration! EVERYONE ON THE HYPE TRAIN! STO IS GONNA DIE BECAUSE OF THIS GAME!"
We're still here.