Hellgate: London

Dukester

I don't pay real close attention to everything that's in the pipe, so this might be old news.

It still looks pretty interesting to me though

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/hellgate-london/613487p1.html

moose

agreed, im really looking forward to this as well.

KDR_11k

It sounds interesting. Unfortunately that whole "exclusive" stuff suggests Gamespy isn't being very unbiased here.

TomDunne

I'm actually a bit disappointed. Not that I think the game would be bad or anything, but I guess I'm getting worn out of FPS games that have me shooting demons with sci-fi styled weaponry. I look at these screenies and don't see much beyond Doom3 and Painkiller. I feel the same sort of 'blah' about the Gears of War stuff that's been displayed lately: it looks great, but space grunts and/or aliens trying to kill each other just isn't holding my attention anymore either. Those two oft-repeated themes along with "realism" shooters and WWII games have pretty much sapped my enthusiasm for the FPS genre as a whole. That sucks, because they're my favorite kinds of games to play, but I juat can't talk myself into being excited about blasting through yet another horde of demonic enemies.

I just realized it's been almost five years since the last Diablo game. I understand Roper and that team wanting to leave Blizzard, but I wish we'd gotten one fully 3D installment in the Diablo series before they left.

KDR_11k

If that RPG stuff really changes gameplay that much I don't think I'm going to mind that I'm blasting demons.

Daz

It does look cool. I like the idea of a hellgate in my home town. But Im with Verm. It's hard to get excited about in a sea of similarly themed FPS's. I just realized I turned a job down from these guys about 6 months ago to work on this. Although not for any reason other than logistical ( visa crap ).
Verm: you do know you're gonna get one right?

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Blizzard is currently working on Diablo 3? I had no idea, certainly hadn't read anything about it. Wow, very cool!

poopinmymouth

I've worked on this game. Very small asset mind you, but I'm sure as hell adding it to my resume. Not sure if I'm doing more, but what I did so far was cool. Too bad it's not in any of the screenshots 8-(

rawkstar

GIMME!!! I want this now. hopefully it'll be cool, if they make it even half as good as Diablo2 was I'll be getting it.

Dukester

I like the talk of the random maps.
The whole thing just interests me because its
not the same old fps formula.

Daz

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Blizzard is currently working on Diablo 3? I had no idea, certainly hadn't read anything about it. Wow, very cool!

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Well, I dunno that for sure of course. Just taking a wild stab in the dark.

ScoobyDoofus

Yeah, sorry this game looks bunk. Its been said, but it looks like a worse Painkiller.

I'm with Verm...wtf is up with the FPS genre?

Steve

I don't know if it's linked from that article but the intro cinematics are rather cool I thought, well worth a looky.

-Steve

http://www.hellgatelondon.com/downloads.html

Vark

I played a build at E3 for a bit and talked to one of the developers. What they've shown so far is really really early and it seems like they're still feeling out a lot of the direction. I was impressed with the amount of weapon customizations and the fact that certain creatures could only be killed by certain weapons, so there's a good bit of strat involved.

I think if they can tweak the multiplayer to have a useful class system (for instance, maybe one of you is really good for dispatching zombies while another is better at taking out flying demons) and somehow use that for a more teamworked aspect, (balanced against single player concerns of course) they could end up with something really cool.

From my talk with the guy (I think his name was Jason) it sounded like the Tech was nearing completion and they were just ramping up on content and a more final design.

As it is it seems like Gauntlet or Diablo in that its just a fun way to kill some time. Which really is fine by me.

hawken

yeah I miss co op mode from quake 2.

that cinematic was amazing! can we expect this in realtime on the PS3??!

rawkstar

yeah I played the build they had at e3, it was early but it looked neat and sounded like they were moving away from a straight up shooter and more into a 3rd person action game, which makes sense since you can use melee and ranged weapons at the same time... dual weilding crazy pistols and swords.. hehe looked cool, looking forward to it

Marine

i hope you can play in 3rd person, first person melee always feels wrong, you're just stood there whacking away, 3rd person opens it up to adding style to your character

AstroZombie

you can

Marine

that's me sold then