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#4 in the charts for second week
wondersmith
Member UncommonPosts: 27
Here's the NPD Group's top 10 PC games list for HG:L's second week out (ending November 10):
1. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2. The Sims 2 Teen Style Stuff
3. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Collectors Edition
4. Hellgate: London
5. Gears Of War
6. Half Life 2: Episode 2 The Orange Box
7. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage
8. The Sims 2 Deluxe
9. World Of Warcraft
10. Nancy Drew: Legend Of The Crystal Skull
Not bad, considering that HG:L was beaten only by newer releases in two major franchises.
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Despite the bugs that the game suffers from, the game can be amazingly fun with online friends and guildmates. As a singleplayer game, it can get quite dull and repetetive, but then, its all about the player themselves.
I hate to sounds like a flip flopper, but I love the game and at the same type hate the bugs that still are in this game. I believe as many others the game was released early and suffers alot of its true potential. If this game was 100% bug free, we would have even see bigger number of players and subscribers.
I still have faith in the game on what it can be, but time will only tell. I did cancel my subscription for now till they fix the damn game. I got the blue screen of death 4 times last night and decided to call it quits till they fix the problem. There is nothing worse than getting into the game and then it crashing, breaking your concentration and fun factor.
I am having a good time with it. I have found myself kind of flip flopping as well but it seems that every night I play it, I do enjoy it more than before.
Since retail launch, I actually have yet to experience any major bugs. Zero crashes, no blue screens nothing like that. I am still using XP and Dx9 so maybe that has something to do with it. Actually, I did find a semi-bugged quest, but nothing game breaking or whatever.
I do think the game still needs a lot of work though. I have been playing exclusively solo and agree that the instances can get repetitive after a while. There are some though...that are just fantastic. Millennium Battle or whatever it is called is just...full of fun. More instances like that to break up the tunnel crawls would go a long way.
For me, the single thing that I enjoy the most, is that the game really is mindless fun. You can hop online and do an instance almost immediately. You dont need to worry about getting potions from players, or farming components all night. You dont have to be concerned with finding a group before you can continue with the storyline as there is one quest that is just impossible solo. You just log on, and do your thing.
You can also immediately exit from any instance at any point if something comes up and you cannot continue to play.
I am really liking what I see, but there are a handful of changes which could drastically improve the experience. Not to mention some structured PvP, this game would be very condusive to some battleground goal based type action.
there are no honest charts so i really dont understand why anyone would bother keeping track of them.
the only reason i dont play hellgate anymore is i got sick of juping up on the hood of a car, or a barrier, or the occasional rock and having my feet get rooted. asin cant move at all. the teleporter things dont spawn on you they spawn near you so you cant get to them the only option is to lose all progress and start over from the last station (which tends to suck fat sweaty ones). loved everything about the game exccept that.
charts....the word itself almost implies corruption.
/stuck is your friend
I was having all sorts of issues playing it (random crashes, blue screens, etc) until I cranked the fan on my cpu up to annoyingly loud, since then it's been pretty damned stable, even in dx10 with all the options maxed
yeah - it can get repetative and grindy, but it's still a lot of fun and I am looking forward to the pre-xmas patch
You know what? Screamers & Haters do a lot of noise.
So you could think the game is a complete fail reading these forums but the moment you visit less 'Im-the-friiggin-master-of-mmorpg' forums and the moment you see the sales charts you realize its 3 ppl shouting over 1 hundred thousand silent players.
Dont let the screams confuse you.This game is already a success.
The game is only getting better. With Patch 0.5 now released ,FSS has fixed many things that they have said they would. The game is only getting better for players to enjoy.
The chat fix was pretty big. Thats about the only thing I have noticed but then again, I have not been playing for very long and never really noted many bugs to begin with. I am still on noob normal mode, but, I am enjoying it quite a bit.
The chat fix was great, and I still enjoy this game a lot.
Haha. This is really all I can say.
Just a word of advice. Next time when you call someone hater.
Instead think
Perhaps this person is smarter than me? Perhaps he has a point ? Perhaps he wants to help me avoid a bad decision ?
Haha. This is really all I can say.
Just a word of advice. Next time when you call someone hater.
Instead think
Perhaps this person is smarter than me? Perhaps he has a point ? Perhaps he wants to help me avoid a bad decision ?
I don't think there is anyone here that says to subscribe right now. That said you bash the game quite a bit. Even though there are some problems to many the game is fun. Just don't subscribe.
BTW the game has gotten better, especially the chat feature. The window is transparent now and doesn't get in the way when communicating with NPC's.
What is unfortunate about HG:L critics (and games in general with very active dev teams) is that they will play a game early on and toss it aside, not realizing that changes are constantly being made. HG:L is already better than it was at launch. I would agree that HG:L was released too early (I blame EA more than anyone else). But the devs are listening to their customers and the problems with the game are getting fixed. It's not like SWG where the game was ruined because the devs ignored their customers. Give the game a chance to mature. It still has a lot of potential (IMO it is still fun to play now).
Quite opposite
I never criticised HGL as a game. I criticised the decision to add SUBSCRIPTION to HGL.
Two things were clear to me from gathered information
1. HGL is not worth monthly subscription - In best case it is co/op RPG and it is actually run on local server.
2. FS/EA decided to force monthly subscription -
Now , one thing we can all agree. HGL is not fun as singleplayer game.
But as multiplayer , FS/EA is practically trying to force you to subscribe.
If you find that HGL is not worth subscription (as any reasonable person would) you find that hampered online play is no fun, and singleplayer HGL is not much of a game either.
In one word
BUM-HEADSHOT by EA - Killing this potentially great game at birth
By January this game will be no where on the charts, by next spring the servers will be dead as doornails.
I feel sorry for anyone who made the mistake of buy the $150 version, they will be looking at very empty servers in the near future.
The game is just getting better. So many people liked the new fixes they did with patch 0.5. The hubs are beginning to become more croweded than before. Alot more people are using the improved chat system looking for groups for farming, hardcore and elite mode play.
The game has yet to have it's first major content update which many are looking forward to seeing. Alot of good things are happening to this game and the naysayers are really just the minority.
Still way to early to predict the demise of HGL, which I serioiusly doubt. The game will be around for quite some time and is only getting better thru its patches and upcoming content.
The game has way too much potential to flop. You either subscribe or you dont, it is as simple as that, but the game is pretty wickedly fun with a guild or your online friends that also play.
Me, I am just getting tired of my system crashing. I play Crysis, CD4 and TR. And never have problems with my system crashing due to the blue screen of death that HGL gives me. I can wait till they fix the bugs, just for now, I rather not play till something is done about it.
But all in all, it is truly a fun game when its working properly.
I don't get this.. .I have never felt "forced" to buy a subscription but still love this game. I just paid my $50 for it and have been playing it constantly since... No sub, and I still have access to Elite mode, which is just the challenge I needed (it actually makes the game HARD... I basically ran through it like a hot knife through butter as a summoner on normal mode.)
Never have I felt pressured to subscribe and the only thing you're missing out on by not subscribing (so far) is a perma-death mode of play that doesn't increase difficulty any higher than Elite Mode and really holds no interest for me. I think you're dead set on bashing this game against all logic.
Also, I have never seen this game advertised as an MMO, or heard any of the devs use that language. So, where is the evidence that they deceived anyone? I knew exactly what to expect from this game, especially since the fact that the Diablo 2 team from Blizzard made it, and that was the most highly publicized aspect of the game.