Hellgate: London

http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/1669/Hellgate_London.html

Put quite simply, Hellgate: London is a buggy mess. And that goes double for the multiplayer action. Crazy slowdown during battle; graphic issues where various on-screen elements completely disappear; and bugs that crash players right to the desktop are all issues in the retail version of this potentially awesome game. Patches will almost assuredly fix these problems eventually, but it’s still pretty disheartening to rip open that cellophane for the first time and realized you’ve basically paid full price for an unfinished, unpolished product.

Seems fair to me. I doubt many people are going to argue that the game was released early. However HGL is much better than at launch already. Like being able to use the Horodric Cube.  ;)

Originally posted by Alekhin

Seems fair to me. I doubt many people are going to argue that the game was released early. However HGL is much better than at launch already. Like being able to use the Horodric Cube.  ;)

Is it in singleplayer and mulitplayer?

I haven't seen in the singleplayer( Though i have no idea if I have all the latest patches...)

Well, to begin that review is a bit old.  I saw it quite a while ago when it aired, and even then the info they spoke of was out dated, and much of it had already been fixed.  I will admit, in fact gladly concede that HGL was a buggy mess at launch and should have been held back some.  That said, I put VERY little into what Xplay has to say about any game.  That show, and in fact that network are turning into a bunch of tools who have "fanboi" tendencies to specific companies.  Whether that is because those company's are paying them for it (See recent firing of a not to be mentioned individual who lost his job over giving an honest "Negative" review to someone on the "Good" list)  A perfect example is their inherent love for anything Xbox, and auto-hate mode for most things PS3, regardless of the true quality of the game.

Originally posted by PrinnyCaptai

 

Originally posted by Alekhin

Seems fair to me. I doubt many people are going to argue that the game was released early. However HGL is much better than at launch already. Like being able to use the Horodric Cube.  ;)

Is it in singleplayer and mulitplayer?

I haven't seen in the singleplayer( Though i have no idea if I have all the latest patches...)

 

The horodric cube has another name and it arrived for subscribers only in the 0.7 patch.

Originally posted by Sunder

Well, to begin that review is a bit old.  I saw it quite a while ago when it aired, and even then the info they spoke of was out dated, and much of it had already been fixed.  I will admit, in fact gladly concede that HGL was a buggy mess at launch and should have been held back some.  That said, I put VERY little into what Xplay has to say about any game.  That show, and in fact that network are turning into a bunch of tools who have "fanboi" tendencies to specific companies.  Whether that is because those company's are paying them for it (See recent firing of a not to be mentioned individual who lost his job over giving an honest "Negative" review to someone on the "Good" list)  A perfect example is their inherent love for anything Xbox, and auto-hate mode for most things PS3, regardless of the true quality of the game.

I'm not sure if the patches are absolutely required to play HGL in single player, and if they aren't there are probably some people who don't download the patches.

Originally posted by VirgoThree

 

Originally posted by Sunder

Well, to begin that review is a bit old.  I saw it quite a while ago when it aired, and even then the info they spoke of was out dated, and much of it had already been fixed.  I will admit, in fact gladly concede that HGL was a buggy mess at launch and should have been held back some.  That said, I put VERY little into what Xplay has to say about any game.  That show, and in fact that network are turning into a bunch of tools who have "fanboi" tendencies to specific companies.  Whether that is because those company's are paying them for it (See recent firing of a not to be mentioned individual who lost his job over giving an honest "Negative" review to someone on the "Good" list)  A perfect example is their inherent love for anything Xbox, and auto-hate mode for most things PS3, regardless of the true quality of the game.

Well regardless if it is out of date or not. X-play try to do most of their reviews straight out of the box with zero patches. I believe the reasoning of this is because a lot of gamers don't go out and download the patch, so what you get out of the box is the first impression.

 

I'm not sure if the patches are absolutely required to play HGL in single player, and if they aren't there are probably some people who don't download the patches.

So they cater to the stupid masses?   God bless America.

Ummmm these are the guys  that gave Tabula Rasa a four out of five...yeah that rating wasn't bought and paid for.

I gave up on poor little G4TV after only a few months of programming. Yep, just after a few month's time G4 did what MTV could had only dreamed of: They morphed themselves into utter content worthlessness and off-topic drivel shows that spew of reality shows. Honestly, I suspect there will be a G5, G6, G7, etc channel sometime soon, to make up for the fact that the channel doesn't actually cater to its original audience (just like MTV had to do, in order to actually play...music videos!).

G4 has turned into a totally bought and paid for walking and talking advertisement, when it actually has game content being shown and discussed. Their reviews are lop-sided and they tend to focus on the absolutely worthless aspects of a game.

With all of this being said, however, I would agree that HG:L is NOT worth investing into. Repeating tilesets are the bane of this title (how many times can you play through some newly named place with the same graphics before it becomes dull and absolutely boring), along with repetitive gameplay, an over-abundance of uninteresting skills, extremely poor launch and billing system, dumb monster AI, very limited item graphics, and a host of other annoyances.

Unfortunately for me, I pre-ordered the game and picked up the founders offer before most of these things came to my realization - Believe me, if I could take it back I would. I will say this: I formated my drive about 3 weeks ago and I have not bothered to reinstall the game. WoW has replay value. LORTO has replay value. Hell, Battlefield 2142 has replay value. HG:L has zero replay value.