Hellgate: London Comments by Robert Purchese
Live from the depths of hell: Bill Roper speaks.
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Seriously underwhelmed, here. I'd actually be a lot more interested if it was either a straight-up, standalone PRG shooter or a straight-up MMO. This " a little bit of both" is off-putting. I seriously think the Guild Wars model whould have worked much better for them.
What happens if I cancel my sub ater a week, getting the lates stuff downloaded, then play for "free" for a few months, renew to get the next update, cancel again, et cetera? This sounds messy and inconvenient. Plus, I am not sold on the gameplay: to date, there has not been a decent MMORPG shooter (including PlanetSide), so I have doubts about this one too when I hear it has a "MMO element". Bah humbug. |
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as long as i can play though the story with my friends online for 'free' i'm happy. And using the 'free' online mode to see what the experience is like before paying any subs sounds fair to me.
I think that if they are allowing people to do that they are confident that people will see something good enough to want to pay extra for. |
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(it's an action RPG, not a shooter):
What is the difference between an action RPG with guns and an RPG shooter? Futuristic Pay-to-play Diablo sounds accruate, btw. Only I guess it's not, becaus I don't really have to pay if I absolutely don't want to, so... I'm a confused. An established payment method, like regular expansions - even monthly expansions, where I choose which ones to pay for, would be less confusing. To me at least. I'm just saying. |
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Laserbream
11/05/07 @ 09:18
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You forgot to ask how or if premium content will feed back into the offline game. I'm not saying offline players have a god-given right to whatever online players receive, I'm just curious about how the whole subscription thing will impact on offline gamers. Will offliners receive bug fixes only? Or bug fixes, new loot but no new enemies or areas? Etc etc...
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(it's an action RPG, not a shooter):
What is the difference between an action RPG with guns and an RPG shooter? Well, I'd say Deus Ex is an RPG shooter. HG:L is a stat-based action-RPG with auto-aiming and an optional first-person perspective, so I think the term shooter is maybe a bit misleading (as many people seem to think it's a first-person shooter). Unless you'd also say Diablo is an RPG sword-fighting game. :) |
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Still buying it probably (Diablo I and II had "it") but the Elite-stuff just seems out-of-place.
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Laserbream
11/05/07 @ 13:00
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I love the t-shirt with "Armor" printed on it :)
Seriously, I don't envy Roper. As others have pointed out, his superiors are likely pushing the game in the MMO direction because they want a piece of the subscriptions pie. |
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