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For those who played the awesome game Hellgate London and miss it since the plug was pulled on online play. There have been servers up in Korea and Japan for a few months, but it was just recently announced that they will be putting up North American servers. The open beta starts June 30th.
For those unfamiliar, Hellgate: London was produced by a bunch of Blizzard developers that had worked on the Diablo series, and was widely known as Diablo 2.5. The parent company, Flagship Studios, unfortunately went bankrupt and closed the HG:L servers in February 2009.
The game itself has been revamped and updated with lots of cool new features/balance/content. The closed beta will be available early June, and I believe theres still a number of beta keys available(for first phase). So far from they have announced, it seems the first two acts will be F2P and a small fee to unlock the rest of the game. Pretty much like a demo trial before you have to pay.
Website:
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Hellgate Tokyo info :
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Good Hellgate forum:
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New Updates:
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Players:
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I like how under game info is just steps to login. Would really enjoy videos of what has been done/revamped.
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On May 24 2011 13:48 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
I like how under game info is just steps to login. Would really enjoy videos of what has been done/revamped.
Edit: Added to OP
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Really looking forward to this. :D But I don't know how to get a beta key. Kinda wierd.
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Hmm, signed up but debating actually playing. HG:L was kinda bad, it had great aspirations but was rushed out unpolished. Many of these F2P websites with micro transaction based models create terrible games. I can only imagine the destruction korean MMO influence could have on HG:L.
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Apparently the closed beta started yesterday, but it's not really closed because anyone can get in. But damn, 6 gig download.
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Can anyone in the new "beta" confirm that the game has actually been altered/fixed/updated?
I bought HG:L way back when it was released and it was very disappointing and rushed. If the game has actually been improved, I might want to try it again. It certainly had potential, but EA just rushed it out the door so fast that there were still textures missing at release.
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On June 04 2011 11:12 Haemonculus wrote:
Can anyone in the new "beta" confirm that the game has actually been altered/fixed/updated?
I bought HG:L way back when it was released and it was very disappointing and rushed. If the game has actually been improved, I might want to try it again. It certainly had potential, but EA just rushed it out the door so fast that there were still textures missing at release.
Yeah, I felt like the game had tons of potential, and I really wanted to like it, but it just ended up being the biggest waste of $60 ever. The graphics/art were awesome, the story was at the very least engaging, and the gameplay mechanics with the FPS/melee/caster dynamic were interesting, but the execution was just so abysmal that I had to stop long before I actually finished the game.
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On June 04 2011 11:18 corpuscle wrote:Show nested quote +On June 04 2011 11:12 Haemonculus wrote:
Can anyone in the new "beta" confirm that the game has actually been altered/fixed/updated?
I bought HG:L way back when it was released and it was very disappointing and rushed. If the game has actually been improved, I might want to try it again. It certainly had potential, but EA just rushed it out the door so fast that there were still textures missing at release. Yeah, I felt like the game had tons of potential, and I really wanted to like it, but it just ended up being the biggest waste of $60 ever. The graphics/art were awesome, the story was at the very least engaging, and the gameplay mechanics with the FPS/melee/caster dynamic were interesting, but the execution was just so abysmal that I had to stop long before I actually finished the game.
Good thing that I read and watched reviews before buying it when it first came out. I was hyped for the game because of the CGI trailer and knowing that some of the Diablo creators made the game.
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On June 04 2011 11:38 zoLo wrote:Show nested quote +On June 04 2011 11:18 corpuscle wrote:On June 04 2011 11:12 Haemonculus wrote:
Can anyone in the new "beta" confirm that the game has actually been altered/fixed/updated?
I bought HG:L way back when it was released and it was very disappointing and rushed. If the game has actually been improved, I might want to try it again. It certainly had potential, but EA just rushed it out the door so fast that there were still textures missing at release. Yeah, I felt like the game had tons of potential, and I really wanted to like it, but it just ended up being the biggest waste of $60 ever. The graphics/art were awesome, the story was at the very least engaging, and the gameplay mechanics with the FPS/melee/caster dynamic were interesting, but the execution was just so abysmal that I had to stop long before I actually finished the game. Good thing that I read and watched reviews before buying it when it first came out. I was hyped for the game because of the CGI trailer and knowing that some of the Diablo creators made the game.
The only thing that kept me playing the original was playing with mates on their servers. When that went bust I stopped playing. Playing it single player was excruciating monotonous.
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Good thing that I read and watched reviews before buying it when it first came out. I was hyped for the game because of the CGI trailer and knowing that some of the Diablo creators made the game.
Yeah, I hadn't read any reviews or anything, I just went to the store the day of release and bought the CE because I thought it was the spiritual successor to Diablo... I learned my lesson, though.
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I was incredibly let down by Hellgate, I was really expecting much more then i got 
I hope this is a success, because the original concept was great.
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You just DL the client? DLing right now. Thought I had to sign up for a key or something. Willing to give it another shot since it's "free" right now.
Ehhh, I was DLing then I saw the YT videos and it really looks dated... I cancelled...
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On June 04 2011 12:07 PassiveAce wrote:I was incredibly let down by Hellgate, I was really expecting much more then i got I hope this is a success, because the original concept was great.
Me too. I was so hyped back then when i first hearing about HG since the developing team came from D2 team.
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Those gameplay videos don't look much different to the original. HGL needs more than a few new features to be even close to a good game.
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Hardcore on Elite difficulty is the only way to play.
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Btw, if you're actually interested, the server seems to be overloaded right now. I can't even start the game client.
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On June 04 2011 17:20 Nazza wrote:
Btw, if you're actually interested, the server seems to be overloaded right now. I can't even start the game client.
They're doing server maintenance.
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Initial thoughts:
From what I can tell so far, gameplay seems to suffer from lag problems (but I live in Australia. Everything lags over here), which really breaks the immersion. I'm not sure what the animations look like when there is no lag, but I don't really see any attack animation (maybe because the monsters die before they actually attack me). I never played the original Hellgate, but monsters don't really come and attack you like they do in Diablo/Torchlight. Gameplay seems easy in the first few levels, you just shoot the monsters, no real need to use skills. In every zone, if you kill enough mobs (let's say, 20 or so), a boss mob will spawn, which basically is just a mob with extra health. Kiting and shooting will let you take it down pretty easily, and you get some good equips (although I can't really tell, stuff dies to fast to make any difference at low levels)
The interface is intuitive though. I prefer to have health/mana as red/blue circles in the corners rather than a bar at the top right, and using the mouse buttons to attack/use skills. There's some modding/upgrading you can do to your equips, along with the marketplace which you can use to sell stuff to other players. The text font for chat and mob HP/enemy range could use some work though. Is it just me, or do they use the same ugly font as all other asian MMOs (It's basically the "Courier New" font)? Dunno, it could just be the localised version looking for a specific font and not finding it and using courier new instead.
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I've been playing Closed Beta, and being someone who played a lot during FSS HG, I like this new release just as much. The beginning is a little different, but overall... the game feels and looks like HellGate. They changed the hair cuts to look more asian, but I don't really care. It's fun to play, and I can't really get enough of it! haha.
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There's an option to start playing zones in "Normal" or "Nightmare". I think for most gamers, Normal would be a bit too easy. You do get alot of loot though. You're in no shortage of green/blue items because you kill alot of boss mobs anyways. Kindof makes getting that item not so special.
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is there a blademaster guide out there? havent played in a long while.
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Holy shit. Thank you so much for this. I remember reading something about a revival of this many months ago and I feared it was dead. I highly recommend this to any fan of Diablo, Fallout 3, or a group of friends looking for a game to play together. :D
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I'm donwloading this game now, is it singleplayer/multiplayer or just one?
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The original hellgate london was pretty awful. My little group of people were quickly though nightmare but the only way we could do any damage was to set stuff on fire and run around like retards. Not the best game design. I hope they have revamped it quite a bit.
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How does one get a key? Do I just sign up and they send me one or something?
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On June 06 2011 05:52 Souma wrote:
How does one get a key? Do I just sign up and they send me one or something?
This closed beta was just a quick one to check for any major bugs. The next beta will start within a few days, and they will be releasing a bunch more keys. Just keep checking the website. Ill also try to update the OP as quickly as I can
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you don't even need a key, just click on the place where you would enter the key and then click apply and it'll let you in w/o needing a key.
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On June 06 2011 05:52 starcraft911 wrote:
The original hellgate london was pretty awful. My little group of people were quickly though nightmare but the only way we could do any damage was to set stuff on fire and run around like retards. Not the best game design. I hope they have revamped it quite a bit.
Well Diablo 2 on Hell difficulty on some levels was not much different then this and you do not see many people claiming it was bad design
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On June 06 2011 06:40 -Archangel- wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2011 05:52 starcraft911 wrote:
The original hellgate london was pretty awful. My little group of people were quickly though nightmare but the only way we could do any damage was to set stuff on fire and run around like retards. Not the best game design. I hope they have revamped it quite a bit. Well Diablo 2 on Hell difficulty on some levels was not much different then this and you do not see many people claiming it was bad design
Diablo 2 hell difficulty was nuts, yup. Getting one-shotted by gloams from 2 screens away was simply an occupational hazard.
But it feels different in HGL. I know what the other guy is referring to. "Ignited" is a debuff which deals 5% max hp damage per second. Nothing modifies that damage to my knowledge. I experienced it back in the old hellgate days with my engineer. After a certain point, my regular attacks and my drone/minion attacks wouldn't do a damned thing to most monsters. But by "suiciding" my drone into the enemy, it would be ignited, and take 5% damage per second.
The end result? I killed Morgath or whatever that epic dragon's name was in the same time I would kill zombies.
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Err, I just signed up, only to find out that the CBT ends in half an hour, and it only started two days ago? I couldn't find any information on when the next phase of testing begins, any idea on that?
Edit: Nevermind, missed the post. I guess the next wave will start in a few days.
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It does not change the fact that diablo 2 had opponents that were immune to any damage but one kind and killing them became really difficult as you needed to to attain that exact element.
At least in HGL they made it so ignited was the common solution to these problems.
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On June 06 2011 06:00 daytrippers wrote:Show nested quote +On June 06 2011 05:52 Souma wrote:
How does one get a key? Do I just sign up and they send me one or something? This closed beta was just a quick one to check for any major bugs. The next beta will start within a few days, and they will be releasing a bunch more keys. Just keep checking the website. Ill also try to update the OP as quickly as I can
I just logged in and hit some banner to get a "key" (There was some place to input a code, but I just hit the button, and it let me in). I don't recall getting an actual code.
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I downloaded the game but beta seems over I cant connect
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I'll give it a try. I liked the demo back when there was one on fileshack. login name is blip, and id is GigaFlop.
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I remember having a Marksman in the game before they nerfed the ricochets+rapid fire build. It was hilarious. I ran my guildies through normal in like 1h total!
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I thought Hellgate was awesome back when I played, so sad it went dead, but now happy it's back! Been following this game since the rights got picked up, glad it actually made it to NA.
I'll definitely be playing, most likely under the name Battleaxe, so feel free to hit me up!
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Open beta is starting tomorrow, 6/30. No exact time specified, but last events have been ~6-8pm eastern.
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Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
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On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
what is the max level in open beta?
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On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
Yeah just read that, pretty lame.
+ Show Spoiler +The T3fun Team would like to reveal that Hellgate Global will be embracing the "Ticket System".
The Ticket system is one of the newest and promising additions to the game and there are two types of System that will be available:
1. Premium Item Sale (Cash Shop)
Cash shops are shops that let you access a wide variety of premium items that may boost your character's performance or enhance the quality of service you can get (buffs, modified exps, etc - depending on which premium service you did apply). Mostly the items in the cash shop
are not dropped by monsters nor sold at NPC Shops.
2. Ticket Subscription
One ticket subscription allows a player to enter a specific area and dungeon after Hellgate's Act 2 (Starting at Waterloo Bridge). It gives players the access to continue quests and experience a whole new game play. The Ticket subscription is your gateway to hell's eternity. The ticket is eternal and everlasting.
Areas that will be unlocked after ticket1 usage:
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Act 5
- 2nd Attack
- Abyss
- Stonehenge
*One ticket subscription allows for all characters from one account to enter one expansion.
Also if you live these countries you can't play through Hellgate Global:
+ Show Spoiler +Also, please be informed that due to an existing partnership between Hanbitsoft and local publishers, the IPs of the following countries will be blocked from accessing Hellgate Global:
Korea, Japan, China, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.
So if I read it right, you have to pay AND there are premium paid items?
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Mhh, I'll still give it a try. Maybe the game is really good and well worth the 20$? Never played it before but it was originally developed by diablo developers or so I hear.
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On the youtube films, Its look so ugly and the gameplay looks so crapy. but I never played it. But i give it a try!
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On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many
Not sure where you got the $20 number from, but the ticket to access all current content is going to be $4 only. Not sure how much future content will cost, however, if a game only costs $4-12 per year, I don't think you can complain too much about it.
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+ Show Spoiler +On June 30 2011 19:52 Cel.erity wrote:Show nested quote +On June 30 2011 11:34 Battleaxe wrote:
Just fyi for anyone thinking about playing this again, the game is now semi-free to play. You get to play up to the end of act 2 for free (roughly level 20), and then you need to purchase a "ticket" which enables the rest of the acts and the extra content for around $20.
Originally the game was supposed to be completely f2p, but t3/hanbitsoft has since changed their minds. A lot of people on the forums are pissed off about this, especially considering there's very little communication between devs/mods and the community. I for one will not be playing this anymore due to this reason alone. I own the game, I could easily install it and play the single player for free..seems to be the consensus of many Not sure where you got the $20 number from, but the ticket to access all current content is going to be $4 only. Not sure how much future content will cost, however, if a game only costs $4-12 per year, I don't think you can complain too much about it.
Just to update some people: The $20 was what everyone was originally saying on the forums before they released the price. Not sure where this came from but everyone was seemingly agreeing on this number, must have just been a mob mentality. I can confirm the ticket is only $4 and covers acts 2-5, plus stonehenge and abyss. Presumably when they release Tokyo in the US there will be another ticket, who knows what that will cost.
I've been playing since I heard the ticket was only $4, and as it turns out, you can buy the ticket and other premium items on the AH using in-game currency. Got my ticket this way, so I've essentially bypassed any concerns I've had about paying to play. And yeah it will cover all of your characters. First couple days the ticket was around 250-300k palladium (game currency), and is now up to 400-500k. Most people were just playing multiple chars to the end of act 2, saving all their money and combining it to purchase the ticket since it covers the entire account.
In regards to the other premium items, most of them are convenience items, though they do have an exp boost item, however you get a exp bonus similar to WoW's rested I think, it does seem to fade after a certain point though. The one thing to be aware of is there is no respec in the game unless you buy a premium item which allows you to do so, and this costs roughly $10, most of the people I've seen on the forums are laughing over this, but I'm sure a few will purchase it. There have been rumors of a possible rare item drop that will allow to do the same thing (this was in the original I believe), but since only a few people are nearing the areas this would drop it hasn't been confirmed.
If anyone is playing I've got a few chars going at various levels: Edgaar, Tahkira, Tahkblock, feel free to add me and shoot me a whisper if you need anything
Edit: As far as max level in open beta, I was able to reach level 18 before getting to the end of act 2, and while doing some farming got a little ways through 18, so it doesn't seem like you're exp capped, although I'm not sure. If there was an exp cap, I'd say it probably occurs around level 20, but you could reach the end of act 2 well before then. Plus, your exp gain would be extremely slow after this point anyway (even in Nightmare).
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hm i might download it... while it was kind of glitchy and buggy at times it still was fun when i got it on release
how hard is it to get ~500k palladium for that ticket thingy?
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Well if you level a main to the end of act 2, you could probably mass about 200k or so fairly easily, after that you create alts and play for maybe 30-60 min and about 50k each time, so if you rinse repeat it doesn't take that long.
You can have a max of 6 characters, I personally was able to get the money and bought my ticket for 420k with 3 different characters, but I got an extra 40k via a bug in the mailing system when I tried to send myself money. Farming money is slightly more irritating then most games, so the main way money seems to accumulate is through questing.
Many of the players seem to have played the original, or claim they have, so the player base is actually pretty knowledgeable and helpful to players getting reacquainted to the game or starting a new journey.
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Are there some decent forums with guides on builds and stats and stuff like that?
The official ones don't seem to be that helpful when it comes to that :/
Also 2hand swords?! were there in the original game? can't remember
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Getting palladium to ghetto buy the ticket is easy sauce, you should very easily have at minimum 200k by level 20 (I had near to 350k cause I'm a completionist) so just do that twice and you're golden.
I had well over 1 million by the time I finished the main questline at level 27.
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Well I had around 200k at lvl 15 already and I didn't even sell anything but scrapped it to accumulate nanos and spare parts for high levels. But I like to explore whole maps and clear out all extra levels and destroy every box :D
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Is this game worth it? Has some pretty crappy reviews on Gamefaqs, but on GameRankings, it's not too bad at around a 70%. Of course, I'm assuming most people in this topic are fans of the game but I trust people to give me their honest evaluations of the game 
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+1 to the above - Also does this game have GameGuard or any shady antihacking program?
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The game is worse then 70%. The games ratings at launch were absolutely inflated by people buying into the hype of flagship studios and bill roper.
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On August 10 2011 14:00 Bosu wrote:
The game is worse then 70%. The games ratings at launch were absolutely inflated by people buying into the hype of flagship studios and bill roper.
But what are your specific thoughts on it? Is it enjoyable at all? Were there patches that fixed some of the issues?
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I think currently it still has fps drop issues and lag issues, but once those are fixed this is a unique game on the market so for people that want to play a diablo like First Person RPG I recommend it.
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I remember getting super excited for HG: London. I bought it the first day and everything, and I even bought a couple of the fan fiction novels.
To say I was underwhelmed is an overstatement. The entire game felt "clunky," making it near impossible to enjoy doing anything in it. Not to mention, it was EXTREMELY bland and dull. Every station had the same texture, and in general the art was just dreary in a bad way. General gameplay was also more boring than Diablo 2 hack n-slash.
They would have had to do a MAJOR re-work of this game to get me to consider even coming back. Like, they would have had to redo the fundamentals of everything so that it actually felt like a new game. Did they do this at all? Or does it still feel "clunky"?
And that whole "subscription" stuff was sickening. The game was so empty compared to what was promised and yet they expected people to pay 15$ a month. Feel bad for the suckers that bought the collectors edition for 150-200$ and then the game shut down.
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