Jumpgate Evolution Comments by Jim Rossignol

It's not hardcore enough for me. I'm livin' hardstyle now.

Hmmm, sounds better than Darkfall

Mildly interested.

Big chance I will be playing Champions for the rest of the year though. Or maybe Darkfall! ;)

Can I play without a neckbeard?

I'm collecting hair shavings from the hairdressers to creat faux neckbeard voltron in anticipation for this.



Any idea on cost? If its £nottooexpensive per month, might be considerable for my first ever mmo. I like the going off and questing simplicity, not got the time or energy for the 'its a career' sounding Eve.

Hmm. I'm intrigued.

Currently an EVE man but not above subbing to two MMOs. Depending on how this turns out it might be a good alternative for when my brain needs a rest or taking a break to learn a big skill. If I get rich enough for two subs that is.

Officially on my radar.

This does look good, but I'm still holding on for Star Trek Online. This certainly looks special though.

It sounds pretty much like the casual counterpoiint to eves hardcore, which is a little disappointing to me personally. Somewhere in the middle with fast paced action requring dexterity and skill mixed with an evolving player-ran world and a degree of complexity is what I was hoping for.

A Freespace-type MMO? Yes, please.

Sounds like a deviation from the original Jumpgate game, though.
And it seems similar to Vendetta Online.

Sounds pretty decent to me, I think Eve seems a bit too indepth for the kind of time I can offer it, but i really do crave a good space MMO.

interested and will give the free trial a go once they've ironed out the first few weeks worth of bugs.

I really hope this gonna be a good game. I've tryed EVE twice with free time trial but i got bored and do not have enough time to the slow pace it has. So all in all i'd give it a try, maybe it's gonna be a fun X3like mmorpg :)

I hope I get into the beta, my joystick could do with a good waggling. It has been quite a while since I whipped it out.

I'm pretty sure I'll be saying goodbye to my WoW addiction and getting a completely new one when this is released.

But is it HARDCORE?

I loved eve online I played it for almost 3 years, for 5-6 hours a day , i was not working at the time (training for my sport) so i had plenty of it. but this looks like something i can try as i now have less time.

Sounds like Freelancer. Only not quite as good. Why did Digital Anvil have to die?! Why?!*

*The answer is, of course, Brute Force

will this get a three hour review, or will EG go all out and go for a marathon four hour review?

maybe they'll stick to funny wii reviews as well

and no, i've never played Darkfall, it looks shite. But if my job was to actually review games, i'd actually play them.

I can smell the sweet sweet aura of Wingcommander and, dear god, how I loved those games...

FreeSpace i liked alot but Freelancer was somewhat pedestrian. Sounds intersting enough but a big, big problem with these MMOs that tack-on pvp as 'something else' you can do is that the pvp element becomes dire.

I guess everyone wants to know tho... is this HARDSTYLE? /etc

Alright, the Darkfall thing is boring now.

But then again so is the 'better than Halo' thing and I guess that's still going strong. God help us all.

The Darkfall thing will be printed on T-shirts next, Azazel ;)

As for this, im looking forward to it. But I wish i could have an actual character to create and walk about with inbetween space faring.

This sounds like my perfect casual PvE MMO, almost as though they made this for me!

I'm uninterested in PvP, don't have enough time or brainpower left after work for Eve, bored of fantasy settings and have a massive hole left by Elite, Wing Commander, Freelancer, Privateer 2, Darkstar one, Feespace et al. The X games were good, but the last two iterations (3 and Terran conflict) just couldnt hold my interest. For lack of a better word...perfect.

I just hope the accessibility doesn't mean I spend half the game frustrated by ex-wow players with a mental age of 4 and no common courtesy stealing kills, nodes and filling up chat with useless bollocks - actually where I say "ex-WoW" read any recent MMO, WoW just seems to be the MMO I played with most of them in it, although it looks like another is championing for that crown from a rather immature/rabid/unstable/not had their daily breastmilk type fanbase. I swear most of these MMOs would be a better experience as a single player game or co-op...like I give a damn what colour sword you have, which rank you achieved or which internet catchphrase you can spam 11 times in succession. Ya rly.

Oops turned into a mini rant there....umm...yay Jumpgate! ;)

I'll wait for Black Prophecy

Just give it 10/10 now or this elite hardcore gamer will wardec Eurogamer magazines, baby.

I like the look of this. Signed up for the beta but heard nothing since.
I've been tinkering with eve online, mainly mining as the shooting stuff aspect is rather baffling, hopefully this will be more accessible.

It seems that EG has spent more time reading and copy-pasting information about Jumpgate to their website than they spent reviewing Darkfall. Well done.

"It seems that EG has spent more time reading and copy-pasting information about Jumpgate to their website than they spent reviewing Darkfall. Well done."

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But didn't you know? In order to be HARDSTYLE you need to press Ctrl+C!

"The Darkfall thing will be printed on T-shirts next"

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Ok, let's start a collection for a print run!

Personally looking forward to this game,

what gets me is people mention its not hardcore enough? what hardcore mmo's are there?

do not say wow.

Jim was very much into EVE, so the preview is a little coloured by that. However I think I am little turned off this game reading that, I enjoy pvp and if it's just tacked on then that would suck.

On the other hand would be interested to see how large scale the pve and pvp combat gets. I like the thought of having a big space fleet battle, but having it twitch rather than Eve's slowness.

For me, Black Prophecy shows much more promise, and depending on exposure and design decisions yet to be confirmed, should trump Jumpgate quite easily.

But I wish i could have an actual character to create and walk about with inbetween space faring

If you cant dock somewhere and hang out with other peoples customised characters its going to fail.