Hellgate: Londom demo thread

I gave the beta a quick go last night and I nearly quit after the first 10 mins. I didn't like the poor tutorial which just told you everything at once, the initial street you start in wasn't very interesting graphically and also the perspective is weird at first.

I'm glad i kept going though I really enjoyed it after that and didn't stop playing for 6 hours till 3am this morning.

I thought the graphics were fine and look better in the flesh than they do on the screenshots.



Meet my char: Redhotchilipepper




Shame his red hair goes grey when in an instance.
 
ChrisJSY said:
Demonstration.
Want more? Buy it.
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Well DUH! i know that...

but its a little short on game play for th size of download. get to lvl 4.5 and then nothing..... cant even try upgrading or modding items in the demo. as demos go, its not good enough to make me want to go out and buy it, which, i thought, is what its meant to do...

IMO :)

ColiN
 
I must be doing something wrong, i cant get into the beta servers, ive add the game to my firewall, that didnt work, ive disabled my firewall, that didnt work, its doing my head in
 
Last Kronin said:
I must be doing something wrong, i cant get into the beta servers, ive add the game to my firewall, that didnt work, ive disabled my firewall, that didnt work, its doing my head in
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Just to check, you are ticking the box to show all servers and then selecting the 'Hellgate Beta' server from the dropdown list ? This caught me out at first.
 
Tried it with blademaster and marksman, and the marksman was infinitely easier.

Maybe I was doing something wrong with the blademaster, but the 2 bosses I encountered took several health packs to kill, with the marksman, it was just a simple case of backpedal and shoot.
 
Beta servers down again, man this game is actually pretty poor. Very dull to look at, graphics are ok it just gets boring and depressing looking at rust, dank tunnels and grey skies for hours on end with no variation. Very similar to guildwars in the sense of exploring and general linearity, you go from tube station to tube station through instances with no other players in and just a bunch of mobs. Pick up quests at the stations, get sent into surrounding instances to kill X amount of mobs, or maybe to get to the next tube station. If this is all the game has to offer I won't be buying.
 
I was bored so I downloaded it. At first I did not think the graphics were that bad and then after awhile everything starts looking the same. There is not enough in the combat to keep it interesting. I will be very surprised if this game does well.
 
Got a beta invite email and have been playing it a bit, I would say it's ok and the graphics aren't that bad if u turn everything on full. However the game itself is a bit lacking in something, and I think I'll get bored of it pretty quick..
Shame really as am in need of getting a new game to sink my teeth into.
 
saguy said:
I was bored so I downloaded it. At first I did not think the graphics were that bad and then after awhile everything starts looking the same. There is not enough in the combat to keep it interesting. I will be very surprised if this game does well.
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You only get to level 5 in the demo. Go get to level 5 in any other RPG and the game will still be pretty much the same.
 
I've only downloaded the demo, but so far I can see it having huge potential. I see it more as a multiplayer game at its heart, ala D2 and possibly WOW.

And as craig321 said, the first few levels of any RPG are gonna be slow going and similar everywhere. Wait till you level up and start finding addictive gear, and this game will be great. Plus doing instances and trading items with other players will be huge aspects of it. I agree that single player may well be boring, but aren't all games going the way of multiplayer nowadays anyway?
 
I got to the steam rooms/tunnel (iirc?) but couldn't go any further :confused:

Not 100% sure if it was the steam tunnel/room... when you enter the main portal (the one you needed 8 transistors to open) there's another portal on that map which'll take you to the place I'm on about...

Is that the end of the demo?
 
Yeah once youve done the steam tunnels thats it, but you can re-enter the game on the char to get to lvl 5, then theres nothing more to do.
 
Im playing the beta and quite enjoying it, playing as a engi, have all my little drone flying about, also had my 1st crash saying that i had ran out of memory :(
 
I have to say i'm a little surprised at all the negative comments so quickly. Now i'm not saying it will be a great game, but from the demo i think it's far to early to tell either way.

The demo only shows allows access to levels 1-5. The first few levels of any rpg game are simply run, hit something, kill something, run etc etc. Whilst at first it is boreing, looking at the different classes, skill trees, and the modification of items there does seem to be plenty of potential diversity.

The Diablo/Warcraft influeces are clear. Whilst the graphics are a little underwhelming, when warcraft was released the same could have been said about it. I feel the key to the game's success will lie in it's "end-game" which little is known about yet.

I myself will definately be getting this to give it a little run out and see what happens post levels 10/15/20....and keep fingers crossed as I think the potential is great.
 
jwhalley said:
I have to say i'm a little surprised at all the negative comments so quickly. Now i'm not saying it will be a great game, but from the demo i think it's far to early to tell either way.

The demo only shows allows access to levels 1-5. The first few levels of any rpg game are simply run, hit something, kill something, run etc etc. Whilst at first it is boreing, looking at the different classes, skill trees, and the modification of items there does seem to be plenty of potential diversity.

The Diablo/Warcraft influeces are clear. Whilst the graphics are a little underwhelming, when warcraft was released the same could have been said about it. I feel the key to the game's success will lie in it's "end-game" which little is known about yet.

I myself will definately be getting this to give it a little run out and see what happens post levels 10/15/20....and keep fingers crossed as I think the potential is great.
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Couldn't agree more. Very much looking forward to the release now.
 
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