{"id":109,"date":"2007-11-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2007-11-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T15:00:00","slug":"four-hours-in-hellgate-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Four hours in Hellgate London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finding myself itching to play a little bit of Hellgate each night I was in the beta, I decided to got ahead and pick up the retail version. Here are some thoughts after about four hours of play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><b style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">My nit-picks<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Animations      still not great, but things do seem a much smoother than before.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Needed      to patch vista before I could even play on that machine. Ouch.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">A      couple of out of memory crashes in XP, and a buddy I played with apparently crashed a few      times<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Terrible      chat interface; actually a whole lot of the UI could use some polishing.      It is just not user friendly. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Example: open your chat window then open any other UI       window and byebye chat<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Voice      chat via X-fire?? Huh? <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Why would a game that has a warning in the manual       about running background apps require me to RUN a background app. Is       built in peer to peer voice chat that hard?<span style=\"\">  <\/span>(it may be)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Apparently      NO skill respecs:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">In this day of game design, not allowing your customer       to fix a perceived mistake they might have made but instead ask them to reroll       a new character is just un-fun.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Then to charge for extra        character slots makes you come off as greedy.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Subscription<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I am willing to pay for a subscription if you give me       something for my money every month; content, server support, etc. and       right now I do not see a value in a hellgate subscription,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">actually do not believe any        game studio can produce enough content every month to make a        subscription worth it. They want to call this an MMO, but I do not see        where they need my money to operate each month.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">There are really no massive         mixed player areas it feels like guild wars<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I think they should ditch the        subscription fee and switch to micro\/macro payment system.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Buy the content they release         that you want. Want more character slot, ok ~$1 each, bigger vault $5.         New raid zone and character class, $20.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">What I like:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Simple      additive game play<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Game      overall looks pretty.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Fighting      lots of Mobs, could use more but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still early in the game.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Heck at one point Marcin and I were      fighting two named mobs and several minions it was crazy.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Lots      of loot and <span style=\"\"> <\/span>you only see your loot,      no ninja looting \ud83d\ude42<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Classes      seem to play different enough that I needed to spend a little bit of time      trying to learn how to be effective with a new class. I like this.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Seems      completely soloable, but grouping of course added to the game play (as      most games do)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I rolled up an Evoker, since I wanted to play a class I had not tried in beta, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting class. <span style=\"\"> <\/span>I am still learning how to be the most effective since it plays a lot different from the marksman and guardian. <span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"\"> <\/span>I was actually feeling a bit under powered.<br \/><o:p> <\/o:p><br \/>Then this morning I found an interesting combination of weapons, a laser pistol and focus item, which have a great synergy.<span style=\"\">  <\/span><span style=\"\"> <\/span>That along with more, effectively using the evoker weapon sets and now I feel much stronger.<span style=\"\">  <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><o:p><\/o:p>Overall I am looking forward to playing and grouping again. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finding myself itching to play a little bit of Hellgate each night I was in the beta, I decided to got ahead and pick up the retail version. Here are some thoughts after about four hours of play. My nit-picks: Animations still not great, but things do seem a much smoother than before. Needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}