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To be honest, while most of the game wasn't that great, you own player character looked amazing in any armor (on high details that is, dunno about your settings FireMaster). I mainly kept playing to see how awesome I'd look in better armor.
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 02:44 Post subject: |
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I played it on dx9 highest settings , since I was ( and still ) using xp
I was playing the markman used guns so armors didn't differ much and he rather looked stupid with that helmet on
characters design is atleast 5 years old
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 07:53 Post subject: |
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The game had a good base I think. But it was the onlinepart that killed it. Most of the developers comes from Blizzard North so we know they have skills. But they was lacking one thing..and that was Blizzards battlenet platform. If Diablo 2 didn't have that solid platform for online gaming that game wouldn't had succeded either.
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 13:51 Post subject: |
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Nah, the game wasn't anywhere near the quality of Diablo 1 or 2, period.
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 18:19 Post subject: |
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| Raap wrote: | | Nah, the game wasn't anywhere near the quality of Diablo 1 or 2, period. |
Although I wouldnt compare the game to D1 and D2, I will say that it had lots of potential, but they promised too much and honestly couldnt keep up with their promises. |
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 18:53 Post subject: |
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It's not good single-player and it's not good multi-player ...
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 20:04 Post subject: |
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| Raap wrote: | | Nah, the game wasn't anywhere near the quality of Diablo 1 or 2, period. |
You're right in that. D1 & 2 was and is still way better. But Hellgate had some good things to it. While I do not think it would succede in the way D1 & 2 did, I think with a good online platform like Battlenet it would not be in the state it is today.
I just made the comparision because I do not think D2 would have been as popular if it had a faulty online platform.
Of course Blizzard are great to give support to their games too, which Flagship has not really proven to be.
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 20:20 Post subject: |
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HGL had it coming long way, even from early betas, most people didn't like it. Toss in poor support, lack of additional content, boring long term gameplay and overall dim appeal, no wonder it sunk in the end.
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| Posted: Sun, 13th Jul 2008 20:22 Post subject: |
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dunno, HG did what i wanted it to do: play like Diablo 2 in 3D.
who needs Battlenet? that imo had nothing to do with its woes. heck a year prior to release i was playing Diablo 2 and people in forums were saying they would pay $10 if Diablo 2 support would add content or to take care of the rampant cheating on Battlenet.
HG just sucked as a MM game, the PvP was mearly duels and had none of the thrills of a real PvP game like EVE Online. there was not enough content... in 9 months of release alls we got was Stonehenge, and it appears Abyss may not even be released.
none of this explains how Flagship tanked... they are saying now 1 million subscribers over 3 regions (US, EU, and Asia).
hopefully someone steps in and takes over at any rate, i think FSS made a great game, now let someone step in and make it a good MM games to go against Diablo 3. i know, fat chance, but HG has an edge in content if it can be utilized in time before D3 hits the shelves.
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 01:48 Post subject: |
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If they had 1 million subscribers, or even 1 million sales then they wouldn't be shutting down.
Maybe they have had 1 million people play with most of those coming in cafes in Korea where very little income is generated, but they certainly did not sell 1 million copies at $50 bucks a pop + a monthly fee.
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 04:30 Post subject: |
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We all saw this coming. Everything looked the same and along with the monthly fee killed it. But I really don't think we have seen the last of Hellgate London. To bad, it really could have been something special. I still remember the first pics and I was like this is going to be great. The actual game fell flat compared to the early pics.
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 09:28 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 09:34 Post subject: |
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it was a HUGE disappointment for us all , from the trailers and videos it was highly anticipated but to release such a piece of crap...
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 16:17 Post subject: |
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I heard EA hooked in with thier publisher and essentially took a huge chunk of thier potenial revenue before anything had happened and forced 'em to launch earlier and now Flagship studios & ping0 are in a bunch of financial trouble, with mythos now owned by some other people (still worked on by flagship) and EA and the original publisher refusing to bail them out.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/07/13/0122213.shtml
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 17:55 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 18:20 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 14th Jul 2008 18:42 Post subject: |
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| MannyK wrote: | | Is this game any good? |
Is the game that drove a company out of business good?
Trick question?
No. The answer is no. The game is horrible. It's like the worst parts of the games it wants to emulate rolled into one with complete disregard for what made said games so great.
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| Posted: Tue, 15th Jul 2008 15:22 Post subject: |
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its like they did anything they said they wouldn't, and nothing of the things they said they would do ...
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Jul 2008 04:18 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Flagship Studios today denied recent stories that is has closed, saying that it is still in business - though it did have to lay off most of its employees.
In a statement, CEO Bill Roper had this to say, "It is with deep regret that I must announce that Flagship Studios has laid off most employees. However, the core management and founding team members are still at Flagship. The past five years have been an incredible experience for us, but unfortunately, we couldn't sustain the size of the company any longer."
The company also notes that it still owns the rights to Hellgate: London and Mythos, something that is being disputed by Korean partner and investor HanbitSoft.
Because of its current situation, Flagship will no longer bill Hellgate: London players, nor will it take on any new subscribers for the game. No update was offered on the status of Mythos. |
Source: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53693
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Jul 2008 06:29 Post subject: |
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I think what they really mean to say is that they are under new management.
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Sin317
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Jul 2008 16:11 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Because of its current situation, Flagship will no longer bill Hellgate: London players, nor will it take on any new subscribers for the game. No update was offered on the status of Mythos. |
lol , that doesnt look good for hellgate ...
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| Posted: Wed, 16th Jul 2008 20:01 Post subject: |
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What REALLY sucks is that Mythos was looking like a fine game. i thought it was really fun.
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| Posted: Thu, 17th Jul 2008 20:27 Post subject: |
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Sad really, the game tried to be everything...ended up succeded with nothing...
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Big_Gun
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i waited so much for it- and then there was the demo.. and i was shocked by the lack of voice, the strange npc 'sounds', mediocre graphic.. then the full version was much worse, i still played it, i still have it installed but... 
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