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"When we were coming up with the concept for the game, the merging of Half Life 2 and Diablo 2 was common shorthand."
- Bill Roper, Flagship Studios

The visionary designers behind the Diablo series are at it again!

History lesson from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_Studios:
"Flagship Studios was formed to a large extent because of the frustration among Blizzard employees from the communication problems between Blizzard Entertainment and their parent company Vivendi Universal."

Taken from pc.ign.com:
"Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and action of first-person titles, while offering infinite playability with randomly created levels, items and events. The player creates a heroic character, completes quests and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero."

Great FAQ and information about the game:
http://www.hellgateguru.com/unofficialfaq.php - FAQ
http://www.hellgateguru.com/ - Great Resource

Incredible insight into the making of the game (Developer Diaries):
http://pc.ign.com/articles/610/610199p1.html - May 4, 2005 on Randomization
http://pc.ign.com/articles/624/624502p1.html - June 10, 2005 on Templar Class
http://pc.ign.com/articles/635/635827p1.html - July, 22, 2005 on Animation
http://pc.ign.com/articles/654/654720p1.html - September 29, 2005 on Programming
http://pc.ign.com/articles/680/680548p1.html - January 10, 2006 on Sound

Gameplay Movies:

http://www.ingame.de/filebase/index...id=555&fid=2891
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/hell...ndon/media.html

Oh, and by the way all ranged weapons have infinite ammo, online play will be mostly Co-Op, they are designing an online interface like battle.net, and online play will be FREE!

I know this game may be a loooong way off, but I am going to be there at launch and I was so excited about this game I wanted to put all the information I know of out there for everyone to see.

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I spent a lot of time on this thread and you jerks need to post in it.

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Wow, this looks cool. Can't wait. The anticipation is killing me.

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Sorry, it just sounded like Neverwinter Nights with a new graphics engine to me.

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Uhm... sounds great... can't wait..

Woo hoo... :: insert random fanboism noises ::

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quote:

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Originally posted by Kagato
Sorry, it just sounded like Neverwinter Nights with a new graphics engine to me.

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Originally posted by Reflex
I have no idea how you could say that.

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"infinite playability with randomly created levels, items and events." ... yeah, me neither, dunno what I was thinking

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Originally posted by Kagato
"infinite playability with randomly created levels, items and events." ... yeah, me neither, dunno what I was thinking

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What? NeverWinterNights didn't have anything randomly created... have you actually played the game? I was a module developer for about a year and a half for it, and nothing whatsoever is "random"


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Hmmm, looks pretty darn interesting. We'll have to keep an eye on this one, though it looks like we'll be waiting another year.

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I tend to have a different thought process on things, must have been all those paint chips I ate as a child . I've always seen NWN as "random" to the degree that most of the servers I ever played on were each a little bit different. Now I realize that a GM crafted environment is not quite the same as a game that generates things every time it's run, a'la Diablo, but still lends itself to the same "infinite playability".

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Hmm, sorry for ripping into you about it.

I have been really grumpy lately and I don't know why...

Maybe I'm pregnant?

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Must be your time of the month

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Hm......

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Hotness.

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