Hellgate: London

**Monk** · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:05 am Post subject: Hellgate: London

i played diablo for almost 5 years and I have to say this is diablo meets Halo/JK from what I have seen... you can play it 3rd and first person and third person if you are wielding swords n such it acts on the mechanics as you were playing the jedi knight series... Im really excited about this game because everyone on the flagship studios crew were the ones that invented diablo starcraft and warcraft... they left blizzard when they knew it was about to derail to the bullshit.

if you havent seen it google the unoffical site it tells what is up with it plus has some vids and screens... i think you can watch the pre e3 trailer searching youtube... this one is the sell!

PS... the attributes actually work on the targeting of your mouse.,.... ie... if you are in HS range if you dont have the dex to head shot you miss. so it has a well balance to the FPS genre IMO.

**dudafros** · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 277 Location: Oregon

4 words:

I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT.

Or maybe I can. I just won't enjoy it

**bleemus** · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

**Jaidane** · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 75

I played the beta last week.

Buggy. Piece. Of shit.

I mean, it was really fun when it was actually working... but that wasn't often. Maybe it works fine in XP, but it's nigh unplayable with Vista. Which is a serious fuckup, since it even has a DirectX 10 mode. Plus, an update it made me install fucked up all my other games, too, causing me to uninstall Hellgate and the update if I wanted to play anything.

I'll wait for them to figure out how to code games again, thanks.

**Ensiferous3** · Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629

Anyone have the game on XP that can confirm anything? I don't want to buy before its fairly stable, but I'm so pumped to try it.
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**bleemus** · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject:

**Jaidane** · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 75

So, I borrowed my dad's retail copy and installed it to see if it did any better. It still wanted me to download the update that broke everything, so I tried running it under compatibility mode for XP... tada! Worked like a charm. Until about ten minutes in all the textures broke. Then about five minutes later right after I had finished the second dungeon it said Fatal Error: Out of Memory and crashed.

So, I guess that update did something after all. But being able to play Hellgate at the price of crippling my computer isn't worth it in my opinion, so I shall continue to wait.

But it's fun and looks great, so, as long as you don't have Vista, you should buy this game if you like hack'n'slashes/shoot'n'blasts.

**Ensiferous3** · Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629

Cool so its not (on XP) buggy? Sounds awesome, I'm gonna pick it up soon then.
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**Woffls** · Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 378

Got the demo, have yet to play it. I'm hoping it runs pretty well, i've got a 512mb 7900GTX, so it had better :P
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**bleemus** · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

FYI, I have a Guardian named Bleemus if you want to group. I'm in act 3, around level 20.

Send me a whisper sometime.
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**Jaidane** · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 75

So, ah, it was an nVidia-Vista error. But for some reason having Hellgate installed caused it. However, nVidia released new drivers on tuesday and it's fixed now.

Resource management in DX10 is shit so I have to play in DX9, but this game is good and you should get it.

**Ensiferous3** · Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1629

The game's ok. I'm only a level 5 (haven't played much, Halo 3 occupies most of my time) Marksman but so far I'm having a decent time. Kind of fun, kind of dull. Hope it gets better though.
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**matthewfahrbach** · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 146

from what I've seen it's kinda weak...
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**DaMan1468** · Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 210 Location: Brampton, Ontario

im holding out until d3 :p. Diablo 2 owned my life for a good 4 years, i dont wanna try this too much. I don't like RPG's with guns, just weird.
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