HellGate: London

i see our RSA release get keeps on pushing backwars. 30 -> 2nd and now 7th nov :/
 
Necuno said:
i see our RSA release get keeps on pushing backwars. 30 -> 2nd and now 7th nov :/
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I see in the incredible connection advert I got 2day that they have the game in stock at R350 and the witcher at R300.
 
I'm not going to make it to the 7th. Seriously. I nearly didn't make it to today. At least it's the strike in Paris fsking things up and not the strike in SA for a change. *sigh*
 
It is available locally then right? (About the download)

Where you getting it, on the SAIX or IS newsserver, local torrents or DC++?
 
Hmm. Reviews really aren't lookng all that great. Enough anyway from me to move from "Pre-Order" to "wait and see"

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/hellgatelondon

89 PC Gamer
It doesn't redefine the action RPG, but in a genre laden with derivative games, Hellgate is a refreshing concoction that's likely to have enduring appeal.
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84 Pelit (Finland)
Hellgate: London takes the elements that made the Diablo series classic, and puts them in new, invigorating setting of demonic threat, dark magic and high technology. The fresh world of Hellgate: London is its greatest asset, but sadly the game fails in capitalizing it properly, with quite shoddy plot and generic missions outside the main story. Nevertheless, Hellgate: London is a good action RPG with plenty to enjoy. How the multiplayer system works when the game hits stores will ultimately determine the staying power of the game.
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73 PC Gamer UK
Hellgate: London hooked me, and I think it'll do the same to a lot of other players. But no matter how much I adore its juicy roleplaying sub-systems, I can't get past its wobbly core game.
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60 GamePro
You might get sucked into the online world of competing slayers and level grinding for a while, but the tedium will kill you far quicker than any member of Hell's vast.
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And the User Rating is down to 7.0
 
GougedEye said:
And the User Rating is down to 7.0
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I don't like the user rating thing to be honest. I mean come on, how could it have a user rating of 6.0........ LAST WEEK!!

People were voting for it even before the game was out. That's stupid. :rolleyes:

Anyway, still gonna get it. I'm tired of finishing games two or three days after I've bought them. HL2-Ep2 was good, but come on. It took me less than seven hours to finish on normal. Then I played it again on hard and it took me less than six hours. :eek:

And now we wait a year and a half again for Ep3.

I need something that'll keep me busy. All I've got now is Tiger Woods 2008. :rolleyes:
 
Toxin said:
I don't like the user rating thing to be honest. I mean come on, how could it have a user rating of 6.0........ LAST WEEK!!

People were voting for it even before the game was out. That's stupid. :rolleyes:

Anyway, still gonna get it. I'm tired of finishing games two or three days after I've bought them. HL2-Ep2 was good, but come on. It took me less than seven hours to finish on normal. Then I played it again on hard and it took me less than six hours. :eek:

And now we wait a year and a half again for Ep3.

I need something that'll keep me busy. All I've got now is Tiger Woods 2008. :rolleyes:
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Try porn (Joking)
 
Might be interesting if you didn't have to pay $10 a month for online...
 
Toxin said:
I don't like the user rating thing to be honest. I mean come on, how could it have a user rating of 6.0........ LAST WEEK!!:
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I know where you are comming from. Lots of people will rate 10/10 for a game they like or 1/10 for a game they don't like. However, when you get lots, and lots, and lots of reviews, this evens out. I find it becomes a more reliable guide than the review sites which I am beginning to have serious issues with. Hellgate does not have nearly enough user reviews to meet this yet though. It needs thousands IMO.

As I said, I have become very dissillusioned with Game Review sites in general. The slew of games that are getting 9.5 - 10 is just crazy. Seems they are becomming more and more influenced by Hype. Halo 3 is a case in point. It's a good game. Glad I bought it. The single player is average to weak, but the multiplayer is very good. Graphics are pretty good, but not brilliant. But it's getting reviews like it's the second comming. A game that can get 10/10 should be utterly, undeniably fantastic. But this is not what is happening. And this is the result. Hellgate gets about 80% and that effectively means a bad review? What the hell, 80% should be great. But the way reviewers are handing out near perfect scores, I just don't know anymore. So when something doesn't get a perfect score, I have to wonder why.

P.S. And whats is it with shooters? Enough shooters already FFS. You only need like two or three a year, not dozens. Please god lets get some creativity back into the gaming world instead of constant retreads.
 
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GougedEye said:
I know where you are comming from. Lots of people will rate 10/10 for a game they like or 1/10 for a game they don't like. However, when you get lots, and lots, and lots of reviews, this evens out. I find it becomes a more reliable guide than the review sites which I am beginning to have serious issues with. Hellgate does not have nearly enough user reviews to meet this yet though. It needs thousands IMO.

As I said, I have become very dissillusioned with Game Review sites in general. The slew of games that are getting 9.5 - 10 is just crazy. Seems they are becomming more and more influenced by Hype. Halo 3 is a case in point. It's a good game. Glad I bought it. The single player is average to weak, but the multiplayer is very good. Graphics are pretty good, but not brilliant. But it's getting reviews like it's the second comming. A game that can get 10/10 should be utterly, undeniably fantastic. But this is not what is happening. And this is the result. Hellgate gets about 80% and that effectively means a bad review? What the hell, 80% should be great. But the way reviewers are handing out near perfect scores, I just don't know anymore. So when something doesn't get a perfect score, I have to wonder why.
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Couldn't agree more. A good example of this was Bioshock. Great game great FX but it took me nearly a month to finish. Why, because I played maybe an hour or two each time I started it up and then only once a week. It didn't grab me by the balls and scream: "FINISH ME!!!! FINISH ME NOW!!!!!"

Now HL2-Ep2 I finished in two sessions of playing. Friday and Saturday......done.

Ratings might well be over rated. If I pick up a game, play it and enjoy playing it, where's the problem? Be it BF2 or *shudders* CSS. :p :)

GougedEye said:
P.S. And whats is it with shooters? Enough shooters already FFS. You only need like two or three a year, not dozens. Please god lets get some creativity back into the gaming world instead of constant retreads.
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Yeah it has been the year of the shooters. It could well be because of Vista and DX10 that we're seeing so many of them. All the developers more than likely timed their releases this way.

But next year we'll have Assasin's Creed and the new Splinter Cell. Man oh man, I can't wait. :cool:
 
Hrrrmm... the results are coming in now and HGLs metascore is looking about 10% worse than the Witcher's... meh.
 
Razer0 said:
erm.. you dont HAVE to

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You do if you want the extra content which you should have gotten if you bought the game in the first place.:p

I really like the way Atari and CdProjekt are giving the extra content of the witcher away free for the gamers who bought their game and registered it.

Witcher pounds HellGate. HellGate will be fun no doubt but don't expect much else.
 
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I played HGL's demo into pieces...It's like playing diablo for the first time. Bloody amazing and I'll keep hearing about noobs still playing it 5 years in the future :) The full game will be like the demo x 100 since it'll have many more monsters, full crafting capabilities, levels, a story line, all the characters... I can't see how it could possibly suck:)
 
Damn, I just got over my DiabloII addiction... there goes my social life again.. :)
 
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