Why was there never a stargate video game?
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There was, they all failed.
There was a cool one on sega genesis.
Although, it was based on the movie, not the tv show.
Imagine an open world exploration adventure game in the Stargate universe.
Every planet is just woodlands?
Because it was a shit TV show.
Yes. Every world is a clearing.
It does have its moments but at least a lot of the first two seasons is pure fricking suffering.
They STILL don't have any full-body suits (the EOD kind, they kinda sorta got something resembling HAZMAT suits) even after the giant bugs episode.
They STILL don't have reinforced concrete barricades in the actual stargate room so the soldiers that get stationed there sometimes when something is expected won't just be fricking standing in the open anymore.
They STILL never, ever research anything they somehow get their hands on, against all contrived odds.
And don't fricking get me started on the odds.
Oh, you have a sarcophagus right in your base? A goa'uld will "accidentally" blow it up.
You got another one chilling on some developing feudal planet whose population isn't actually outright hostile? Turns out it's fundamentally evil and turns you baaad after repeated uses, so your linguist/archaeologist and a woman he's been sleeping with make a decision to blow it up without asking anyone else.
You finally meet a highly advanced alien civilization? They're c**ts. You meet another? They're even bigger c**ts. They all hate you, but killing you is beneath them. Well, they might even try when you upset their plans but then they change their mind.
You chance upon a priceless font of knowledge, an ancient meeting place of at least 4 highly advanced civilizations, without anyone or anything (viruses, nanobots, flora and fauna etc.) being in the way? There's like a storm and like the castle is like very old and like the control thingy like falls through the floor (and only that, because frick you) and like stuff happens.
I guess that explains why they don't make R&D bases on safe uninhabited planets, don't create even much weaker and severely flawed derivatives of every bit of alien tech that somehow doesn't spitefully blows up in their face due to writer's fiat (because, remember, frick you), they just sit squarely on their butts with thumbs firmly planted inside.
The show would have heavily benefitted from being planned out more and further. Farscape knew how to do it.
Either way all this shit you describe REALLY makes me want a dwarf fort style game where I can simulate all this and try my hand at a hundred different strategies for fighting the gouald and the ori. Imagine the shenanigans.
Nah, it would've heavily benefitted from not trying to pretend it's not an ancient mythology show like Hercules or Xena. I get the idea, they wanted to be distinct hence "it's Odysseus but in spaaace!" But it's still moronic.
>Either way all this shit you describe REALLY makes me want a dwarf fort style game where I can simulate all this and try my hand at a hundred different strategies for fighting the gouald and the ori. Imagine the shenanigans.
My blood has been practically boiling at the realisation that ABSOLUTELY FRICKING NOTHING has been made in the meantime to even start approaching this. There are no half-decent roguelikes even. Let alone strategy/tactics hybrids.
There is this, the artstyle is kind of shitty but maybe the gameplay will be good (looks more like Evil genius than xcom but idk)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1681060/Exogate_Initiative
And there's this official game, which looks like it's pure xcom tactics without the strategy layer:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1523650/Stargate_Timekeepers/
That episode where they find and rescue Ernest still pisses me off. homie spend like 40 years inside that castle ruin or whatever without any issues, but, by pure coincidence, some funny winds start happening JUST when SG-1 arrives and destroy everything.
As I've mentioned in a reply to another anon, imagine all that - all of those utterly moronic things - happening except now it's legendary heroes and there's Hera hanging somewhere up above and fricking with them because one of them was rude to her or something.
The castle had been already on the brink of falling apart for decades anon. Besides, it was a 90's sf show that needed new drama every episode, at least they built a continuity as they went and referenced past events and technology (they were still referencing the blackhole thing even in Atlantis).
>The castle had been already on the brink of falling apart for decades
And IT JUST HAPPENS that the storm occurs on the same fricking day as they arrive. And IT JUST HAPPENS that the only section of the castle that a) doesn't have anything below it and b) falls through the floor as if neatly cut out, is the gate control device. And IT JUST HAPPENS that only that particular storm was the breaking point for that neatly circular part of the floor, not any in the hundred or thousand storms before or after.
For me it was Chipetto or whatever old daniel's name was from the episode Holiday. Just give him a fricking robot body from Comtraya guy come on.
>open world
>stargate
nah dude I don't want to explore 100x different canadian forests
There was an MMO that got far enough into development to have a gameplay trailer and stuff but it was canceled.
it used cryengine, so there is no way it would have worked.
A squad shooter in the style of Conflict: Desert Storm would be cool
Because the show was made interesting by the characters, complex situations, and even its politics. Every location was either the Canadian wilderness, some generic industrial area, or cheap, plastic-looking spaceships. And the antagonists were laughably weak (which is why they got rekt by the hundreds). You can't make a generic shooter out of it, you can't make a puzzle game out of it that stays faithful to the complexity of the show, you can't really make an RPG out of it, since the show was about soldiers, who at the end of the day, still had to follow orders. Stargate simply doesn't have a singly main theme around which an interesting game could be built, and the limitations of the show would come out a hundredfold in a game.
An UFO Defence-like game could work pretty well. But only if you ditch all the moronic shit like "gib more technology from ruins and uncooperative ayys!" when they routinely ignore jaffa energy weapons, as well as jaffa personal armour that was shown to shrug off at least some bullets in the movie and the first few episodes. Surely those could have been studied and provided revolutionary gains for humans.
And absolutely no "dude, his immune system will just fix artificial aging, bro!" I'm in the middle of rewatching it and I remembered it to be way better overall.
half-life 1 had a pretty cool stargate mod
An XCOM-style Stargate game would be kinda based.
It's already based around small squads in combat with aliens, so you could have that same thing where all your dudes have stats and equipment and die permanently when they get killed on a mission.
Maybe with secondary base management and diplomacy mechanics as well.
It always felt like such an easy fit for a Stargate SG-1 themed game it makes me a little sad no one ever made one.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1523650/Stargate_Timekeepers/
Sounds similar and I'll give it a try when it comes out, but also sounds kinda lame with the fixed characters/squad. Seems more like a tactical rpg than what I'm talking about.
There will be.
>Starfield mods
>add stargates between the planets
>add aliens that are 99% humans 1% humans with facepaint
>add Stargate weapons which are better than the default
Atlantis was better. Much better.
If you know enough about Stargate to know that Atlantis was shit, you should know that this won't work as bait.
since as a series stargate recognizes multple dimensions, is there a possible stargate timeline where john crichton ends up on some backwater planet were he finds a stargate that can lead him directly to earth?
I don't think the Stargate is capable of accessing better shows.
But what if we reversed the polarity of the plasma coils?
You son of a b***h, let's try it. Dial it up! *whoosh* Okay, send in the probe. ...Hello? Is anyone there?
>Hello. This is President Sheridan of the Inter-
CLOSE THE WORMHOLE! NOW!
>it's too late and two senile but incredibly technologically advanced ancient races pour through, ceaselessly asking
>who are you?
>what do you want?
>where are we?
>what year is this?
>where are our diapers?
Reminds me of In the Pirkinning.
Is it as good as Spaceballs?
It's not even as good as Thumb Wars
>Spaceballs
Always hated that israeli trash
to be so utterly hoodwinked by nazi losers that you hate mel brooks? honestly tragic. i pray for your soul.
I watched it when I was a kid and hated it then too. If I hated all israeli trash then I wouldn't love Naked Gun.
Have you tried a tachyon beam off the main deflector?
>A serpent guard, a horus Guard and a setesh guard meet on a neutral planet
>it is a tense moment
>the serpent guard's eyes glow
>the horus guard's beak glistens
>the setesh guard's nose drips
WACKO
God it's a shame irl Teal'c turned into a huge idpol homosexual.
They had an MMO in the works but idk what happened to it
there was that mod for EaW i thought was pretty good
Imagine a Stargate Immersive sim like deus ex. Sometimes you have to board and destroy a pyramid ship. Other times you have to do stealth and make contact with local allies and then take out the enemy leadership, so they can start an uprising. Then you are in a toxic jungle where you have to extract a certain plant and the danger is the environment. Then there is that obligatory mission, where your safe area got taken over by a mind-controlling force and you have to use non-lethal methods to take down your brainwashed friends or you get a game over screen after the mission, where you are dismissed.
Then a senator tries to take down the stargate program and you have to do a stealh op mission to investigate him.
It’s perfect.
>Then a senator tries to take down the stargate program
I really didn't need more fuel for hatred towards politicians in my life. Would've been fun if they forcibly sent him to Chulak for a few weeks.
>Chulak
Worst fricking episodes and most boring conclusion to the replicators
A 4-player Co-Op game would probably work, given they're all the rage now.
>Four different classes: Leader, Scientist, Consultant and Muscle
>Customization out the wazoo, from appearance to weapon loadouts
>Each class has a tool that provides synergy with the team, i.e. DRG and their class niches
>Varying game-modes, from retrieval to point defense to assault
Could be fun.
They were going to make a Stargate MMORPG, but the plug was pulled on the project.
Whether it was because the game was BAD or because it sounded too anti-casual to succeed in the WoW era, I dunno. Their vision was enforcing the team comp SG-1 had where you were going to NEED a commander, a scientist, an archeologist and...uhh, a black guy.
>archeologists aren't scientists
>Beefy McLargehuge with insane healing capabilities, lots of knowledge on the primary enemy, who is also a soldier, is just uhh a black guy
SOUL
>OpenXcom exists
>perfect franchise for a mod
>no mods
Frick fans.
Air Force was tired of giving RDA money
>you're a husband of a future mother now, Daniel!
Why did they release it right after Teal'c having family drama of his own? To just get it out of the system completely and proceed to something good?
Current Ganker would ape out over forced diversity with Teal'c being black and the goa'uld Black folk engineering the Egyptian mythology (prime WE WUZ shitposting material)
Goa'ulds have messed with every epoch of humanity, even before Ancient Egypt. This is explicitly shown in the fricking movie.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1681060/Exogate_Initiative/
>the artstyle
>the writing
Do you see what the Monkey Paw has done?
I did not care for Evil Genius but I would totally play a Cheyenne Mountain simulator.
Now that's just a badly disguised goatse.
The MMO had potential. There was some shitty third person shooter.
Also some sick custom maps featuring gates for various games.
only the stargate movie was ok
You know what? Let me fix Heliopolis after thinking about how it would've been done better (before I was too mad for anything constructive) for about 5 minutes.
They discover Ernest in a desolate outpost by some probably extinct civilization on an otherwise uninhabited world, but there are mentions of Heliopolis and some corrupted directions (not straight up coordinates) which he's been trying to decipher because there was nothing else to do. They rescue him, there is zero risk of upsetting the delicate balance of chewing the cud for 10 fricking seasons due to humans gaining access to very advanced tech. Ernest continues helping the project after returning to Earth.
Where's the drama, you say? Just throw any amount of usual moronation like viruses or bacteria or whatever the frick else which they allegedly send remotes to test for beforehand only to predictably fail quite reliably.
Give the show one thing, it does reliably showcase the failings of military intelligence.
I guess. But everyone fails in the most asinine ways, all the time. R&D, MDs (took them what, half of season 1 to establish basic medical PE upon return and that STILL fricking failed disastrously how many times?), highest gubmint officials except the President, alphabet gays who'd realistically would've had black sites doing all kinds of scary but potentially useful shit on every unclaimed safe enough world. Literally everyone. It's kind of depressing. As in loops from depressing to funny back to depressing again.
I wish the show was less afraid of 'bad endings' where SG-1 fricks up and acknowledges they made mistakes.
GOOLD?
Cursed franchise. IP owned by cheap morons.