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Game News Bill Roper fesses up about Hellgate: London

Discussion in 'RPG Codex News & Content Comments' started by Saint_Proverbius, Feb 25, 2008.

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  1. Solaris Scholar

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    #26
    Another example of deluded developers using hype as their avenue to success and failing dismally. Hg:L had potential (don't they all?) but greed got the better of it. Ironically, if they had just fixed it up and released a few months later, not gone crazy with the hype, ditched the subscription model then I reckon their bank balance would be a whole lot better than it is right now. It wouldn't have been a spectacular game, but maybe a solid D2 style clone.

    As I said ages ago, I'm convinced Bill Roper is Peter Molyneux's long lost brother...so much hype, and so little substance. Not that I hate the guy (I don't know him personally) but he seems totally brainwashed in his own delusions when it comes to HG:L.
     
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  2. Nightjed Liturgist

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    nooooo, toee had a great engine and by far the best dnd implementation to date (man i cant play nwn2 without dreaming about those awesome toee battles), but as a game (story, characters, locations) it blows as hard as hellgate, the bugs were only a part of what was wrong with it
     
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  3. Xi Arcane

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    I have a buddy who thoroughly enjoys this game. He's also into Fallout and seems to replay it at least once a year, so it's not like his taste is that bad. /shrug

    When he tried to convince me to play it with him I just laughed. Maybe I'm being too Codexian though? I mean, what if it's a moderately good Action title with some decent RPG elements? It might be worth a try in that case. Too bad the developer is practically eating his own words here. If anything the game has good production quality. lol
     
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  4. RK47 collides like two planets pulled by gravity Patron

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    Toee fucked itself the moment it chose the dullest module.

    Yes it's awesome tactical dungeon crawler, but I literally forced my self to explore the first town before falling asleep.
     
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  5. Andhaira Arcane

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    TOEE should have chosen the sunless citadel as its module, or even better, expedition to castle ravenloft.
     
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  6. Nightjed Liturgist

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    no, they should have made a classic "epic" baldur's gate style OC and then release premium modules/small xps like "toee" nwn style.

    but i guess with Atari as a publisher it had no chance from the start
     
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