Comments on: Hellgate? Screwed. Tabula Rasa? Okay. Apparently.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:19:09 +0000

seems to me that the simple explanation is that they screwed themselves with the subscription model. It is essentially seen as a spiritual successor to Diablo 2, which was from the sound of it a better game, and required no subsciption. So people ask, why should i have to subscribe for this? It was just greedy of them, and blew up in their faces.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:36:16 +0000

most normal humans play an out-of-control Red Queen Sexual Selection situation Indeed. When I first read "gibberish generator" I thought fondly of the one I wrote for DragonRealms shadowlings, that someone else adapted to a curse. Deeleemeeloolaloomaleelookee beeeee!

By: ohnoabear

ohnoabear — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:55:21 +0000

So that's where Ivan Sulic went. He was one of my favorite PC games journalists back in the day. His Deus Ex: Invisible War review in particular was brilliant. Of course, his sense of humor was much more in tune with myself as a teenager than any adult's writing should be, but it worked for his audience. I heard he'd gone to work PR somewhere in the industry, but never knew for whom. Weird how something like that happens. I guess I'm part of Flagship's problems, since I thought Hellgate seemed vaguely interesting but never bothered to pick it up. There was always another game to play that seemed to be better-received, and if I ever needed to liven up my interactions with anonymous pricks on the internet, there's always TF2.

By: mathew

mathew — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:40:20 +0000

I nearly picked up Hellgate for $10 last week, but I didn’t. I actually regret it now, as I would like to give it a shot (for a piddling amount of money).

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:32:53 +0000

@Kieron Gibberish

Wow, it’s just like reading the dialog from Pathologic!

By: Yargh

Yargh — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:32:50 +0000

wow, I very nearly couldn’t tell the difference with a real KG post there. All it needs is the coloured background.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:23:17 +0000

I wish I could believe NCSoft, as I really would like to play a well populated Tabula Rasa. I only didn’t buy it at launch because I only realised it had been released when I saw it in a store, and I’d been following it fairly closely. I figured if I didn’t know it was out, nobody else would either and nobody would be playing. Seems I was right.

By: jamscones

jamscones — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:20:10 +0000

Jaques: “Jamuel, they can’t just drop the sub stuff because of the whole founders account thing when they launched.”

I’m perfectly aware of the situation, but it’s really not a question of “can’t”, more a question of “won’t” My point was that they need to bite the bullet and make a substantial change.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:51:05 +0000

That Kieron Gibberish is very good – you have to be concentrating to work out that it’s gibberish and not your mind melting slowly (or I do, anyway).

By: sbs

sbs — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:01:15 +0000

Kieron Gillen says:

So they did! I should read Kotaku some more.

No. No you shouldn’t.

By: Soldats

Soldats — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:20:57 +0000

Kieron: Thanks for that heads-up! Just finished Rose & Camellia 2; it’s just as good as the first. Quite amusing to read your PC’s interactions with her family, and the maid’s twin daughters are great.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:24:52 +0000

On a more positive note with Hellgate, the initial build of the 2.0 patch hit the Test Server yesterday and is bringing about a monster set of changes in addition to the new content. Still exploring it, and quite a few of the numbers still need to be tweaked, but overally it is looking to be a very good set of changes once it finishes baking on the Test Center.