Hellgate London - Worth The Spare Change?

I am aware of the history of this title (bit of a flop, servers closed early this year), however given it can be picked up for $15 (AUD) and has 64 bit support, is it worth picking up for the single player alone? Are there private servers out there and if so, are fees required to play online?

Thanks in advance.

While I personally enjoyed HG:L there will be a lot of people that will come in here and say otherwise. I enjoy gear drops like Diablo and killing the same boss over and over again to see what I can get.

There is no private server capability that I know of. A google search might come up with a mod or something but I doubt it.

If 2 hours are worth the money for you, then yes. After those 2 hours it's not exaggerated to say you've already seen everything and will probably put it away in a shelf and never play it again.

While I personally enjoyed HG:L there will be a lot of people that will come in here and say otherwise. I enjoy gear drops like Diablo and killing the same boss over and over again to see what I can get.

There is no private server capability that I know of. A google search might come up with a mod or something but I doubt it.

weirjf

Go buy something valuable instead...like an ice cream cone...8)

Check out my review I just posted of HG:L...

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/hellgatelondon/player_review.html?id=674354&tag=player-reviews;continue

I'd say look for better games for that price. It was a bit fun for the money, but it could've been a lot better.

Im a huge Diablo fan yet I never liked Hellgate London.

This game still exists? I thought it was scraped ages ago?

They closed down servers, so you'd be playing offline. It's very unpolished and they never patched it up, stick with diablo 2 imo.

The game is incredibly polished - I bought it for $10, and having heard only bad things about it, was absolutely staggered by the production values. The engine, patched to 1.2, is very well optimized, and I would say to any person who thinks of himself as being a gamer: absolutely buy this program.

Hellgate is still worth it for 10-15 bucks but multi was the best part. Or might just hold on for Borderlands its the same type of game and looks really good.

The game is incredibly polished - I bought it for $10, and having heard only bad things about it, was absolutely staggered by the production values. The engine, patched to 1.2, is very well optimized, and I would say to any person who thinks of himself as being a gamer: absolutely buy this program.

Charles_Dickens

The game is incredibly polished - I bought it for $10, and having heard only bad things about it, was absolutely staggered by the production values. The engine, patched to 1.2, is very well optimized, and I would say to any person who thinks of himself as being a gamer: absolutely buy this program.

Charles_Dickens

Polished? There were so many bugs you shouldn't have been surprised if something like the walls turning pink or water turning to zombie corpses happened...

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The game is incredibly polished - I bought it for $10, and having heard only bad things about it, was absolutely staggered by the production values. The engine, patched to 1.2, is very well optimized, and I would say to any person who thinks of himself as being a gamer: absolutely buy this program.

Mograine

Polished? There were so many bugs you shouldn't have been surprised if something like the walls turning pink or water turning to zombie corpses happened...

I'm not sure about patches, it's been a long while since I touched it, but I remember pretty clearly the message "End of Chapter 5" at the end of chapter 4, placeholder/missing textures everywhere (a book with the form of an obelisk and an invisible rifle, lol), the whole "Hell" part designed like WoW's Desolace: plain, grey, flat and half of the walls with no collision...

Also, from the looks of their servers' status I think it's safe to say they didn't fix enough :P

It was never as bad as you describe (was in beta, and even then wasn't that bad). The biggest issue with the game was a nasty memory leak that plagued the game in beta and for the first month or so. After a few patches the game was ok as far as bugs go...and by 1.2 it was relatively solid. Anyways, there's no sense talking about how buggy the game was then, as the patches exist now and anybody who buys it now can just install the patches.

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[QUOTE="Charles_Dickens"]

The game is incredibly polished - I bought it for $10, and having heard only bad things about it, was absolutely staggered by the production values. The engine, patched to 1.2, is very well optimized, and I would say to any person who thinks of himself as being a gamer: absolutely buy this program.

Charles_Dickens

Polished? There were so many bugs you shouldn't have been surprised if something like the walls turning pink or water turning to zombie corpses happened...

Did the game fail because they tried to charge monthly fees for a non-MMORPG, or because it was a garbage game to begin with? I never got it because of a combination of these two.F1_2004

Did the game fail because they tried to charge monthly fees for a non-MMORPG, or because it was a garbage game to begin with? I never got it because of a combination of these two.F1_2004

Ahhh...I can still hear the founders (people who paid $150 upfront for a "lifetime" subscription) cries to this daydnuggs40

Yeah, in the online/MMO market, paying for a lifetime sub is not a wise thing to do. Of course, if I had that option with WoW, I'd have saved a lot of money lol. But the MMO market is too unpredictable to justify that cost upfront on launch of a new game. Too many have been canceled.

I realize Hellgate wasn't an MMO, but the principle is the same.

[quote="dnuggs40"]Ahhh...I can still hear the founders (people who paid $150 upfront for a "lifetime" subscription) cries to this dayzomglolcats

Yeah, in the online/MMO market, paying for a lifetime sub is not a wise thing to do. Of course, if I had that option with WoW, I'd have saved a lot of money lol. But the MMO market is too unpredictable to justify that cost upfront on launch of a new game. Too many have been canceled.

I realize Hellgate wasn't an MMO, but the principle is the same.

I think LOTRO has a lifetime membership and that's the only time I've seen it work fairly well.

Did the game fail because they tried to charge monthly fees for a non-MMORPG, or because it was a garbage game to begin with? I never got it because of a combination of these two.F1_2004

I have this thing where during Halloween I celebrate by getting the moodiest/scariest game I can find and play all geek-horrored out .. it's all in jest and play and I usually get a good bit of amusement out of it.

I bought Dead Space this way and it became my game of the year for 2008.

I also bought Hellgate: London this way .. I was all geek into the dark exploration of London and all the weirdies you get to kill and loot from .. I never took it seriously as an online game .. though it has great potential for group play (preferably with known friends).

My two cents would be to pick it up, see if you like the fiction, and maybe explore some of the books for a more rounded view of the lore.