Whats up everyone. Picked up Hellgate London this weekend and have been playing it pretty much non-stop for the last couple of days. I have to say that I like it quite a bit. It is a 3rd Person DiabloII with decent graphics so depending on your gaming background, that can either be very appealing to you, or not. For a seasoned Diablo II player like myself, it is very exciting to play another dungeon crawler similar to Diablo since there really hasnt been anything out that has been comparable.

If there is anyone else out there that is playing it, let me know your thoughts, what do you like, what you dont like, that kind of thing.

Thinking of picking this up.

I remember when i was like 10 year old or something and i was playing Diablo II i remember it was the best **** ever.

So ehm... if you love diablo 2 you will love hellgate london?

What i've heard its abit like guild wars aswell?

From my personal expierience in Beta all i can say is that the game was horrible

(note! all below are such as i expierienced the game in beta)
- No class balance
- Incredibly boring and unintresting skill trees
- Melee is sticky, you do these 'jump steps' instead of walking freely and swinging away
- Marksman/Engineer is invincible even without using any skill or stat points, all you need is your basic shoot and endless back pedaling, and as a marksman, your talents rly dont improve your dmg
- Completly Broken item comboes, such as using LaZer rifle with sniper mode (idea of sniper mode is that you crit higher, shoot at 50% rate, have longer range and deal 200% normal shots dmg, sniper mode doesnt affect lazer rifles rate of fire = lulz?), also the fact that upgrading lvl 1 items to top notch is better than higher lvl legendaries
- Dull enviroment, there is 3 themes that get repeated on and on, metro tunnel, gray after apocalypse streets and some sort of hallway.
- caster (evoker) is better tank than the actual tanking class (guardian)
- basicly the game is just spamming healing potions such as diablo 2 and original, this concept was intresting back on diablos time, but after Expierience such as WoW i dont understand why anyone would play this type of stupid grinding game where you simply cant die


Facts and good sides about this game:
- when you leave a town, the game makes you your own instance of the zone making sure you can enjoy the game without any unwished people jumping in to ruin your day
- even if you mix items of different model sets (like a lvl 1 item and lvl 20 item), they automatically color themselfs to look the same (removes typical WoW leveling gear problem of having teal pants, black gloves and red tabard with poison green boots combined with blue hat)
- all content is soloable

my opinion:

Only reason to get Hellgate would be that your a socially backwarded retard who cant get himself a guild in WoW, period.

I'd rather spend a month or two playing HG:L than go back to WoW, hands down.

How about the difficulty level?

I've started an HGL blog that I will be updating frequently. Check it out!

BTW, the difficulty levels are Normal & Nightmare. There is also a Hardcore mode where you can only die once.

HGL > WoW

90% of what you said was WRONG.

You fail, stick to playing AV all day in WoW.

Been playing as well, pretty fun. I think the thing I like the most about it is that I can log on for 30 mins and get something done and move on to work, or playing another game. So many good games coming out right now.

I have a marksman working thru nightmare, and the xp curve kind of sucks, so it's a lot of shulgoth runs =p. Hopefully they do some more tweaks soon. But overall it's a fun game that will keep me entertained for a while.