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In News You Didn't Expect Today - Hellgate: London Is Returning to Steam - MMORPG.com News

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited October 2018 in News & Features Discussion

imageIn News You Didn't Expect Today - Hellgate: London Is Returning to Steam - MMORPG.com News

If you woke up today thinking that it's "just another Wednesday", have we got news for you! It appears that Hellgate: London, originally developed at Bill Roper's Flagship Studios, is coming back to Steam. After Hanbitsoft bought the rights to Hellgate: London in 2010, it went largely silent after it failed as a F2P title (2011) before turning up again in 2014, this time on Steam Greenlight. Perhaps the 2018 version will prove that the third time is the charm?

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  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    Stuff like this reminds me from time to time that I actually -can- be surprised. :D I loved the game back in the day and was sorry to see it go. It'll remain to be seen how well this latest iteration fares.
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  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    Surprised? more a case of knock me over with a feather 'shocked' would be closer  :o
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,063
    Needs to be killed with fire, perhaps it will stop coming back.
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  • berlightberlight Member UncommonPosts: 345
    edited October 2018
    I must be one of the rare people that actually enjoyed this x) It was fun clearing dungeons with friends in one of the firsts fps dungeon crawlers
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  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    edited October 2018
    Yea i greenlighted this a long time ago , the campaign for its return has had a decent following ..

      Its also noteworthy , that this version of Hellgate is Single player only

                Lets hope this time its gets its feet firmly down ..

    Fun game

      Now all they need to do is bring back Mythos which was a really fun arpg from Flagship, that came out just after HL..Hanbitsoft still hold its rights i believe , as a sidenote  the Devs that made Mythos moved on to form Runic and make Torchlight ...

      Mythos was the better game imo

        

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  • berlightberlight Member UncommonPosts: 345
    Bring back tabula rasa :'(
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  • berlightberlight Member UncommonPosts: 345

    Scorchien said:

    Yea i greenlighted this a long time ago , the campaign for its return has had a decent following ..

                Lets hope this time its gets its feet firmly down ..

    Fun game

      Now all they need to do is bring back Mythos which was a really fun arpg from Flagship, that came out just after HL..Hanbitsoft still hold its rights i believe , as a sidenote  the Devs that made Mythos moved on to form Runic and make Torchlight ...

      Mythos was the better game imo

        




    Wasn't mythos a browser game? :o

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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,405
    I bought this game when it launched and I also went back to it playing the mods from Hellgate Revival. I would buy and play it again.
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  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    berlight said:

    Scorchien said:

    Yea i greenlighted this a long time ago , the campaign for its return has had a decent following ..

                Lets hope this time its gets its feet firmly down ..

    Fun game

      Now all they need to do is bring back Mythos which was a really fun arpg from Flagship, that came out just after HL..Hanbitsoft still hold its rights i believe , as a sidenote  the Devs that made Mythos moved on to form Runic and make Torchlight ...

      Mythos was the better game imo

        




    Wasn't mythos a browser game? :o
       No
  • ThaneThane Member EpicPosts: 3,534
    not sure why they made it single player tho

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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,054
    W
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    Now I'm all giddy, awesome news.

    /Cheers,
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  • Slapshot1188Slapshot1188 Member LegendaryPosts: 17,654
    edited October 2018
    The Michael Myers of mmos games
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  • MadFrenchieMadFrenchie Member LegendaryPosts: 8,505

    berlight said:

    I must be one of the rare people that actually enjoyed this x) It was fun clearing dungeons with friends in one of the firsts fps dungeon crawlers



    Considering the popularity of games like Destiny today, hellgate seemed way ahead of its time. It was a cool idea.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,445
    Was the 70 on Metacritic really that far off? Will keep an eye on this one though.
  • OzmodanOzmodan Member EpicPosts: 9,726
    The prime enjoyment I had from this game was multiplayer.  Single player does not interest me very much.
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  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    Ozmodan said:
    The prime enjoyment I had from this game was multiplayer.  Single player does not interest me very much.
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  • ConstantineMerusConstantineMerus Member EpicPosts: 3,338
    Scot said:
    Was the 70 on Metacritic really that far off? Will keep an eye on this one though.
    The game wasn't well received by the critics upon launch but that didn't stop me to enjoy the hell of it. 
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    "No one on the development team could get the server code running, so we just disabled the multiplayer button ."
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  • Panther2103Panther2103 Member EpicPosts: 5,779
    This news is rather shocking. I thought this game was completely dead. 

    I really enjoyed the game back in the day. I don't know how fun it would be as a single player game, but I'm hoping if it generates enough players, they might enable the multiplayer again? Who knows. Either way I'll probably try it again if it re releases. 
  • KajidourdenKajidourden Member EpicPosts: 3,030
    I want to say my PC was a potato when this came out and I couldn't get it to run well is why I stopped trying. If it's sub $20 I might try it out.
  • KatagiriKatagiri Member UncommonPosts: 89
    Stop games necromancy!
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  • BloodaxesBloodaxes Member EpicPosts: 4,662
    If you like diablo like games, you should enjoy this one too.
    Scorchien

  • Agent_JosephAgent_Joseph Member UncommonPosts: 1,361
    awesome , love that game
  • alkarionlogalkarionlog Member EpicPosts: 3,584
    I wonder its will be story wise like the first one, or it will be like during the f2p time?
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