Interview Hellgate is teh roel-playing

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: Flagship Studios; Hellgate: London

<a href=http://www.gamecloud.com>Game Cloud</a> - how do they come up with these names? - has scored a <a href=http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=22>short interview</a> with Flagship's <b>Dave Brevik</b> about Hellgate, the rogue-like supreme.
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<blockquote>Why was the decision made to make the game have a first person viewpoint, especially since its pretty much a straight RPG in terms of game design?
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There were several reasons behind this decision. First, the team wanted a new challenge and first person was something that almost all of us had not done before. We saw it as a great design, art, and programming challenge and so it interested us from the start. Second, we feel that the perspective is much more immersive. You get more of a sense of role-playing. You are the person in the world instead of you are commanding an avatar in the world. We wanted to remove that disconnect so the quests and the experience felt more personal.</blockquote>
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Sounds like another brave attempt to push the genre forward
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[Volourn]

FIRST PERSON IS NOT FUCKING MORE IMMERSIVE! WHOEVER SPREAD THAT FUCKING RUMOUR SHOULD BE MAULED! FUCKING BULLSHIT FUCKERS! FUCK FUCK FUCK!

 

[Stark]

Sounds like another brave attempt to push the genre forward

gotta pity the crpg genre as a whole. poor dude got pushed and revolutionized everytime there is an online interview.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

the crpg genre is a burn victim and no one can dsecide on how they should graft his face.

 

[bryce777]

Even when every time you get hit you wobble around???

How about if they had force feedback in your joystick every time your sword gets parried?

 

[Pegultagol]

i guess if first person perspective is to be immersive, it should include putting your own face into the game as well, like sports games. after all, it is 'you' who are supposed to be there as the character. then you are not roleplaying an interesting character anymore, though that may or may not depend on how you view yourself.

 

[space captain]

i like how autoaiming is immersive

 

[LlamaGod]

first person is less immersive.

It's more restricting and harder to get an idea of the area without walking up to everything. Also, you cant go into as much detail with an overall view and with text.

but its omg immersive because you can look at a lake in front of you and it's like YOU'RE LOOKING AT A LAKE IN REAL LIFE.