Hellgate: London at 1up

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Hellgate: London at 1up

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<strong>[ Game -> Preview ]</strong> - More info on <a href="http://wikipocalypse.duckandcover.cx/in ... e=Hellgate: London">Game: Hellgate: London</a>

<p><a href="http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3141562" target="_self">1Up has previewed Hellgate: London</a>, and have some reservations:</p>
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<p><em><span class="bodytext">OK, so we're a little fixated on the
near-total lack of a third-person
view (it does switch up during melee combat), but it implies a somewhat
deficient generosity of spirit. Gamers enjoy seeing their developing
characters kick ass--or at least they like the choice of whether they
get to see that--and if success in the game is going to boil down to
dice rolling instead of twitch skills, why not let gamers see something
more than their guns' brilliantly colored light beams smack a demon
down during that dice roll? Vampire: The Masquerade&mdash;Bloodlines made it
work (more or less), and that game did depend on twitch skills for
success.</span></em> </p>
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<p>They have a point, I think, but as I've said before, collecting
uberloot in a singleplayer game kind of seems a bit stale after playing
a MMORPG. </p><p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.bluesnews.com">Blues News</a></p>
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Post by S4ur0n27 »

Once again I ask : Then should there be no uberloot unique items in single player games? Let's not base our PR on them, but let's not bitch about it either.
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Post by Mr. Teatime »

I guess. I was taking a cue from them saying you wanted to see your character... implying, you wanted to see all your rare equipment you were wearing.
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Post by Sol Invictus »

The game has a Battle.net component. Hence uberloot.
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Sol Invictus wrote:
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Witty.
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Indeed.
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ZERO INTEREST IN THIS GAME. Gameplay looks boring. PUH.
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Killzig wrote:ZERO INTEREST IN THIS GAME. Gameplay looks boring. PUH.
Me too! That is why I don't comment in threads regarding it.... ... Oops!
There are no 'knowns'. There are thing we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.
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meh... 3rd person views ruin it for me.
I like to be "in the action"...

So I'd go paint-balling instead =D

Seriously though, more gameplay pls !!..
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Post by VasikkA »

Zombies, demons... what next, Hell Knights?

I get the impression it's just another doomish FPS disguised as an RPG. Character development and gun improvements doesn't make it an RPG. Also, a apocalyptic London doesn't look like an interesting setting judging from the screenshots/video. Dark and gloomy underground tunnels? We've seen those before. I hope they'd focus more on a captivating story with devilish plot twists and puzzles instead of mowing down hundreds of hellspawn. That tends to get boring after a couple of hours.
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Rendering detroyed, apocalyptic and burning cities is probably much much harder than dark tunnels.
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Seriously why do you guys even cover this game? Nobody here (besides me) is even interested in the game, so like AA, really, what's the freaking point? Just because NMA covers it doesn't mean you have to follow in their footsteps.

As to the idiot who says London doesn't have any tunnels... Image

I don't know why everyone here bitches about a game they don't even care about.
I hope they'd focus more on a captivating story with devilish plot twists and puzzles instead of mowing down hundreds of hellspawn. That tends to get boring after a couple of hours.
Go buy a console. Who gives a rats ass about plot twists and retarded puzzles. Obviously this game isn't for you.
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To annoy you personally, obviously.
How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

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No, that's not it. DAC just covers it because NMA does it. I can't wait for NMA to start covering that new Quake game. The Strogg invasion is somewhat post-apoc, after all.
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Post by Mr. Teatime »

Actually, it's because it really pisses you off. I'll make sure we cover it lots more because now I know it makes you angry.
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Go right ahead. You're just wasting your own time.
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Yeah he should play GW instead D;
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There's like 2 games that dac or nma can cover. God forbid if they both do.
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Well, there's Auto Assault, then Stalker, then Auto Assault....
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