Game News Bill Roper fesses up about Hellgate: London

[Solaris]

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.

 

[Nightjed]

(though toee is a great game, the bugs just relly fucked it up)

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

 

[Xi]

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

 

[RK47]

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.

 

[Andhaira]

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

 

[Nightjed]

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