(04-18-2013, 01:58 AM)Ursus Wrote: Star Trek is awful, over-reliance on magic to solve everything--oh no the hero is about to get shot by the villain! whoosh! beamed out just in time! saved by magic again! It's comic book stuff.
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So I guess you play Star Trek Online for the gameplay, then?
I play it because I like space sims, and I enjoy noodling about multiplayer gaming theory, so a multiplayer space sim is interesting to me even if the fiction it uses is utter crap. Coincidentally this is also a good explanation for why I play Freelancer.