Hellgate London

[Banshee16]

For those playing the game...

Reviews say it's fun, but that the atmosphere isn't good and the graphics are very repetitive.

How are your experiences here?
Does it make a big difference to you?

Bye
Thanee

Ask me in another 10 levels, when I get my glowing armour

I find it very atmospheric. Some of the demons are pretty creepy. You'll be running down this dark, infested subway tunnel, and in the shadows ahead, all you see is a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness, then they start running toward you, but you don't know what it is, until you can make out the silhouette.....and then it comes into view, and you're engaged in combat with it. I really like some of those effects.

I honestly am not far enough into the game to know how repetitive it is though. I've only made it as far as the equivalent of beating "The Butcher" in the original Diablo. Getting ready for a raid on the British Museum. I think I'm lvl 8 at the moment.

It might be repetitive after a while. I'm not sure. One thing to keep in mind with the reviewers is that they review so many, they're probably burned out on games like this. If you don't play many action RPGs, then it's probably pretty fun.

The only thing I find is that, similar to most other multiplayer games on PC that I've found, everyone's so intent on levelling themselves up, that it's hard to find a party. I've only managed to team up once so far. But that's really not so different from my experiences with World of Warcraft and Guild Wars, and, heck, Neverwinter Nights. You don't *need* a party...but it is nice to play with others.

Banshee

 

[masshysteria]

For those playing the game...
Reviews say it's fun, but that the atmosphere isn't good and the graphics are very repetitive.
How are your experiences here?
Does it make a big difference to you?

Hellgate: London isn't going to go down as "one of the greats" like Diablo II did. However, the game is just fun. When you compare it to some of the more recent releases we've seen - like Bioshock - it doesn't have the same immersive atmosphere, but you also have to look at what the game does.

Like Diablo the "dungeons" have some random creation aspect to them, so there are repeated parts. You also have to remember you are fighting in demon infested London. Therefore you can't expect a variety of different environments like in a fantasy game. So far, there are the subway tunnels, maintenance tunnels, city streets, wide open river beds, and an alien-like environments. I haven't finished the game, but as you progress you see more.

The game also scales the bad guys based on party size/level. So you can play solo as well as with others. My play is pretty much split between solo and with one other friend. I don't play online to meet new people, but to play with existing friends.

In the end, the game is a great for putting you mind on hold, killing a bunch of monsters, going up levels, and getting loot; everything you want from an action-rpg. However, I can't help but wonder if the game will have legs or if I'll set it aside when Mass Effect comes out and never pick it back up again.

Some other info:

There are three classes with two sub-classes.
* Templars - Melee fighters
** Guardians - Sword and shield fighters, can tank pretty much everything.
** Blademasters - Dual-wield swords, damage dealers, descent tank.
* Hunters - Ranged attacks
** Marksmen - Gun nuts, throw grenades.
** Engineers - Make bots that float around you shooting things/buffing you/debuffing bad guys
* Cabalists - Magic wielders
** Evokers - Lots of direct damage, a bunch of different spell options.
** Summoners - Summon demons to go around killing monsters for you, some buffs and direct damage.

 

[FunkBGR]

It's basically Diablo, but for nowadays, with 3D Graphics and all that jazz.

By the by, look for Serran on Shulgoth. I'm also sometimes playing as Triklops as of late.

 

[Banshee16]

It's basically Diablo, but for nowadays, with 3D Graphics and all that jazz.

By the by, look for Serran on Shulgoth. I'm also sometimes playing as Triklops as of late.

I'm playing Cyndall, on Shulgoth.

Banshee

 

[Thanee]

Thanks! Sounds like it might be worth checking out at least.

I'll probably get me some new games soon, most likely Crysis (though I'm certainly not a shooter player, but this sounds like it is really good) and probably World in Conflict and Hellgate: London.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Banshee16]

Thanks! Sounds like it might be worth checking out at least.

I'll probably get me some new games soon, most likely Crysis (though I'm certainly not a shooter player, but this sounds like it is really good) and probably World in Conflict and Hellgate: London.

Bye
Thanee

I get a bit of a kick out of it, because although the floorplans aren't always accurate, the actual textures etc. aren't bad....I was in London last month, and spent a lot of time riding the Tubes to get around, so it's kind of fun to be playing a game where I'm in the Tubes, and things actually look kind of similar. I haven't made it to some of the other districts of the game, like the Tower of London, or Temple Church, so I don't know how those compare with what they looked like when I visited them a few weeks ago. I can tell that they partly got Temple Church wrong....at least from the movie scene at the start of the game. All the pews are facing forward, towards the altar, in the opening movie, but in reality, at least last month, the pews are perpendicular to the altar, and all point towards the middle of the church, from what I remember. I'll have to go back to my photos to see.

Reached lvl 9 last night. In all honesty, I haven't found the boss battles too difficult, but I am disappointed in the storytelling. You get a fair amount, enough to tell what's going on, from some of the missions. But I just completed Act I, and the movie scene was really hard to understand. The script for the narrator just isn't written very clearly, so at the end, I was like "ok, what just happened?". Maybe this is intentional, but it didn't feel very helpful for progressing the story.

Of course, I also gained two Legendary swords, so...

Banshee

 

[Banshee16]

Thanks! Sounds like it might be worth checking out at least.

I'll probably get me some new games soon, most likely Crysis (though I'm certainly not a shooter player, but this sounds like it is really good) and probably World in Conflict and Hellgate: London.

Bye
Thanee

Another one to check out, if you have a PS3 or 360, is Assassin's Creed. It's not an RPG, but looks *really* good. You're a member of the order of hashashin in the Holy Land during the Crusades. It's pretty much a sandbox game. They went so far as having the town of Jerusalem completely mapped out using authentic medieval-era maps.

http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/4D2C55EC-834E-467D-A88A-6D79E78B595A.htm

Banshee

 

[Thanee]

Yep, heard about that... guess it will come out on PC as well.

Bye
Thanee

 

[masshysteria]

Well, I thought I may as well follow up my positive comments with this:

I'm shelfing Hellgate until they can get the stability issues figured out. I've been stuck on a quest because of frequent crashes. The quest has you travel through three zones and I can't do it as the game crashes every time I've tried to make it through the zones. I've tried well over a dozen time now and in the process leveling 3 times from level 19-22.

But, as I can't advance anywhere the fun was quickly sapped out of the game. I'm tired of replaying the same thing over and over while updating drivers and trying to track down solutions on forums.

 

[andargor]

I honestly am not far enough into the game to know how repetitive it is though. I've only made it as far as the equivalent of beating "The Butcher" in the original Diablo. Getting ready for a raid on the British Museum. I think I'm lvl 8 at the moment.

Look for the quote by Tennyson. I visited the British Museum this summer, and the rendering in game blew me away. Of course, it's not to scale, but the textures and atmosphere was very reminiscent.

Other than that, there is some repetition in the "blocks" used for random generation of areas. I'm level 26 now, and I am starting to get weary of the sameness. Still having mindless fun though.