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>>15633207

Pirated it once upon a time, it was pretty boring. The setting is kind of cool, but the story is too barebones and the combat too floaty to be worth the time.

3/10

It was shit.

>Hellgate: London provides infinite repeat playability by creating randomly generated dungeons, items and quests

fuck that

Single player games never die.

I played it for maybe ten hours. I had high resistance to tedium at the time, liked the setting and the techno-mage classes. Some of the writing amused me, but it may be cringier than I remember. I ended up dropping it when the combat just became unfun.

But in the world of terrible hack-and-slashes, it definitely has some arguments. It's boring, but not offensively bad.

Its a singleplayer prequel that was shown behind close doors at sony called Hellgate VR. Some footage leaked last year

I pirated it just to try it, and boy was it shit. This game doesn't have a single redeemable aspect, nothing is good about it. It has that early-mid 2000's feel to it, but that's it. If you want to try it for yourself go ahead, but do not waste your money on it.

>>15633207

I remember that the scenarios was pretty much the same on the entire game, repetitive as fuck

>>15633207

So are they changing anything or just making you buy it again to multiplay on their servers?

>>15633207

I disliked the bugs and what they did to LAN players

I also dislike the combat for melee, especially when enemies went melee honestly it feels a bit rushed

For some reason their attacks would ignore height, so you could literally be hit from great distances when going next to windows or using the stairs

apart from that its a bit boring most of the time.

Honestly i felt like they shot themselves in the foot with what they did to LAN, although it was nowhere near as bad as what they did to starcraft 2

>>15633605

OH

FUCK

>>15633605

>Hellgay london

Why is this only the first time I've heard this?

>>15633207

Shit game that was a pseudo-MMO from ex-blizzard/blizzard north people who bribed reviewers by stroking their ego while offering a fucking clunky game with combat that didn't work very well in third person or first person, it's like the pre-alpha version for Fallout 3 or Borderlands, it didn't fucking work very well and they went insane with the various stats and their numbers, and they were still stuck with the early-2000s PC mentality, this game didn't need fucking LAN and subscription bullshit, it needed more fucking polish.

>>15633207

I bought this when it came out, it wasn't optimized that well and was pretty buggy from what I remember. The environment was pretty cool but I'm a sucker for post-apoc type stuff. At the time it was unique because Borderlands wasn't out and Destiny was still only rumored to be a thing, but the combat just felt stale and enemies repeated a lot. There were some fun guns to use but I honestly can't remember any of them since it's been over a decade since I last played the game. It was moderately fun to play multiplayer but if this version is going to be single only, I wouldn't waste your time with it

>>15633347

Going from the broken english on the store page, it seems like they took the korean p2w version (which if I remember correctly, in that version you had to pay $10 to get an item just so you can access the rest of the game) of the game and modified it for single player use but still keeping the cash shop (ie. the "premium support items") to get some extra shekels.

>>15633207

Hasn't this game been re-released multiple times already? I think I played either the first or second re-release. The F2P one.

I remember seeing a promo screenshot jacking off over the "TOTALLY REALISTIC DOWNTOWN LONDON GRAPHICS" and the guy was standing next to a NPC who's name floated above him in the same exact low res Arial font that you'd see in the first Everquest. It was pretty funny.

>>15633207

I liked the trailer and the playboy covers but those are the only things I enjoyed.

>>15633726

Blizzards trailers and cinematics back then were great

When did they all go to shit? WOW

>>15633207

I enjoyed it at release. Don't remember why I stopped playing though.

>>15633207

why are these zombies so white if this is london

Judging from anon's reactions, I'm guessing this is coming back as a korean skinnerbox? I remember reading about it's release in a pc gaming publication when i was younger touting it was a blockbuster masterpiece. Funny, I also remember that same publication featuring an article discussing the game service shutting down some years later.

>>15633865

>mask on

Oh my.

>>15633935

>>15633927

Google Hellgate London playboy. I can only find one spread of her they used to have another involving her backside. Looks like that ones lost to time.

>>15633988

>didn't spoiler

fug

>>15633988

>the tears that will come from the bloated misshappen sexless and sex-denying abominations seeing this image

My body is ready and so are your dubs.

All I remember was an awesome trailer that got me hyped and then hearing nothing about it afterward, also this >>15633988

Literally the only two things I remember of Hellgate London.

>>15633207

I played it back in the day. It was trash.

>>15633865

That video game me my armour with high heels and skin tight fetish. Its a shame the actual game looked and played so bad.

Fun story, David Brevik (main creator) have no idea how game is back on steam.

I agree with some people on this thread, the setting and character visuals are pretty good but the enviroments are all the same, little enemy variety and terrible combat, the classes all have terrible skills too, from what i remember the hunter class skills where mostly different types of grenades for example.

If they were to fix the combat and skills the game would be a solid 6/10.

>>15642906

I thought he was still in jail?

>>15633222

Basically this.

>>15642814

>>15633988

>>15633865

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>>15633207

Functional enough and did "RPG-FPS" before Borderlands and Fallout 3, but many small issues, too numerous to fully remember, built up to turn the final product into a hot mess.

>>15633207

It never truly died actually. It limped along in NTR Korea for years on end apparently.

>>15643288

Looking at these pictures reminds me of a time when gaming was a fun hobby for men, instead of the cesspit of leftism cunts and their cuckboys have turned it into today.

>>15643288

I wonder if there's a compilation of all the vidya pictures from playboy somewhere.

>>15633207

>Hellgate: London presents a near future that the devils and minions were brought to [London] before the whole world falls into fears.

That's just modern London today though.

>rogue-like

>procedurally generated dungeons

>Developed by ex-Blizzard emplyees who worked on Diablo

wew

>>15633207

I have a disc somewhere, it was never that good.

>>15643288

Actually where can I look up all the issues starting 2004? Maybe I can work on that if I can find an archive of all the issues.

>>15633865

Does the helmet stay on? I won't do it if the helmet isn't on.

>>15633207

>Hellgate: London provides a single play environment with the latest version (Version 2.0) of the Hellgate: Tokyo service.

>The game provides single play optimized scenario contents and premium support items.

So it's not coming back at all because it's a singleplayer-only release of the Korean MMO re-release.

I actually liked the original Hellgate: London. I'd have liked it more if it took itself seriously.

>>15633971

>>15633958

I really dont think there was pic like that

>>15643678

Interesting site. Trying to use jdownloader as suggested by their site to download multiple archives from them but that wget shit doesn't appear to work as is.

Pirated and played it. It's pretty shit. Plays like D2 but worse in every way, environments are repetative and look like shit, guns feel worthless and melee lacks any impact. Story is non-existant, enemies have little variety, the levels have no reason to explore books and crannies besides acquiring more useless ammo. Classes are imbalanced as all fuck.

Dont waste your time on it like I did.

>>15643749

wget works just fine, ive mirrored like half the site at this point

>>15643678

>look through the issue

>the image you posted is cut into 8 parts, all jumbled up

the fuck

>>15644595

You say that but someone made those pictures.

>>15644595

I would make someone wear it and then fuck them.

I followed the development obsessively as a kid, the devs definitely cared about it a lot. Its a shame what happened to them financially or it could have been expanded into a really great game.

>>15633222

This. Plus if you play certain classes you get an FPS view while other classes get third person. I wish you were able to change the camera view, but you couldn't if I remember correctly.

I thought the combat was boring too.

>>15644595

Well, it covers the upper torso quite well, shoulders and the entire arm too. With the helmet, you're pretty much set in upper defense.

Legs seem to be fully armored as well, so that's another avenue that you're safe.

There's really only the groin and the abdoment left unprotected, which does seem like a terrible idea considering how horrible your death would be with a cut there, but you can look at it this way:

They have an obvious target that makes their oponents predictable since they'll go for that.

There's no vital organs in that area and on top of that, it's an easily defendable area as well.

When you think about it, the chaffing from the belts is probably the biggest issue with that armor.

>>15645294

>I wish you were able to change the camera view, but you couldn't if I remember correctly.

You remenber wrong since it was as easy as using the mouse wheel to make the camera closer or further away.

It's still a bit pointless since you'd want first person for guns and third person for melee, so it changes nothing.

sage for triple posting

>>15645294

The thing about Hellgate was that it had a lot of QoL compared to other Diablo clones.

There's items to remove status effects and improve your resistance to their specific element like you have in similar games, but one cool thing they did was have Ctrl be a contextual Hotkey. Are you burning and you have an item that cures burning? Or simply taking fire damage and have that item? Press Control and you'll use it automatically.

Are you just moving forward and nobody is around but you have adrenaline pills with you? Press Ctrl and you'll go fast.

Same thing for skills that could be used with Shift instead, the most notorious example being the Sprint skill.

The game could end up being a bit repetitive since you weren't supposed to have too many skills but rather to rotate different weapon types instead.

However most weapons were pretty cool gimmicks and the classes themselves too. It makes a nice first impression but I suppose it bores you eventually since I never managed to finish it.

>>15645310

You make some good points anon. But what if the armour turns its user into a girl? Would you wear it then? Is that a benefit or a flaw?

>>15633207

I played it waaaaay back whenever the fuck it was out, around the time the last update that never released was being hyped up. I thought it was pretty fun, but I was also young so who knows if it holds up.

>>15644595

I don't give a raging flaming damn if it doesn't make sense, I just want to appreciate a good female body.