Well its been almost a year since I rebuilt the site to be my personal blog and do you think I’ve posted on it once? Well nope I haven’t, but that’s about to change. DaSniper.com is now my Daily Video Gaming Blog (DVGB), which will include images, and video of me playing games, whether its a web cam recording of a console game or a Fraps recording on the PC, along with my two cents about the video game. I hope you enjoy what I have to read or utterly hate it, and make hate comments which I can enjoy reading. So without further to do with anything but gaming, my first topic is going to be Star Trek Online.

I recently played Star Trek Online Beta (the last 2 weeks of my life) and was both thoroughly enjoyed it and utterly hated it. The people at Cryptic did a fine job producing a game that both Fans of the Star Trek Series and regular gamers could enjoy. For the first time in an Massively-Multiplayer Online (MMO) game that I have played has there been both space combat and ground combat.

The space combat is pretty straight forward and intuitive. I fell into aligning my ship and firing forward and aft phasers at the same time, and one feature I love there is no Auto Fire. You cannot click one button and step away, and unlike other MMOs such as Eve Online your weapons don’t work in any direction. One must pilot their ship twisting and turning, angling their ship to front or rear depending on the scenario. This I think will remove a lot of the unskilled players getting an upper hand just by having a faster stronger ship. If you don’t know how to pilot you won’t win.

The ground combat is not something I really enjoyed. I myself think it still needs work. Right now you can pretty much run and gun. If you turn your side or your back to the enemy your pretty much done for so for me there was a lot of holding down S. In ground combat there are many different devices anything from Plasma Grenades, to Mortars, to Phasers, to melee combat which included actual melee weapons or just ramming the butt of your weapon into the enemies face which has been coined in the forums “Butt Bashing”… Either way there is still many things that I don’t understand about ground combat and its still pretty glitchy from what I played.

Though all around I really enjoyed my experience on the Beta. I have every intention to one day buy and pay the subscription cost of approximately $15 a month to play Star Trek Online.

Alright normally at this point I would give it a rating, but I have not created a rating system that fits me when I do I will go back and rate all the games I will have talked about by then.

I hope you enjoyed my first post. Not all of them will be this long, however I will try to keep as informative as possible.