Hellgate: London Demo
Well, I've just finished playing the Hellgate: London demo, and I'm way too much dissapointed with it :(
Coming from the makers of Diablo and Diablo II I was expecting something as addictive as those games, but with state-of-the-art graphics and lots of new things to do. Instead, what you get is a post-apocalyptic futuristic 3D diablo 2 clone :/
The graphics aren't bad, but not too great, and animations don't feel natural as in other games (both for enemies and sword fighters, I haven't tried marksman class).
Sound is normal to bad (nothing special and really poor voice acting).
Gameplay is a pure hack'n slash, not similar but almost exactly the same as Diablo, but in 3D. You even have the equivalent of the horadric cube to mix items...
Overall, I was expecting a ton more. If this were a one-pay game would be ok (and I maybe would even buy it), but having a subscription fee is just a waste of money.
Jade Empire Walkthrough
I've added a Jade Empire Walkthrough from GameBanshee to the "Other CRPGs" link menu.
Exult - Playing Ultima VII on modern PCs
Windows Vista has some problems running current games, so imagine "how well" it can run old MS-DOS titles (tip: forget about it ;)
The other day, remembering old games I didn't finished and I sould have, I remembered that I've played Ultima VIII far more than Ultima VII (yeah, I'm ashamed), so I searched for a solution to install it on my laptop (which runs Windows Vista now).
After some work, I found Exult, a marvelous open-source engine that runs both Ultima VII: The Black Gate and it's expansion Ultima VII: Part Two - Serpent Isle.
Apart from some tweaks, cheat modes/debug modes, new options and a few bug fixes, the most important feature is that it allows to run the game windowed and in almost every resolution.
So, if you wanna save Britannia as the Avatar in one of the best RPGs out there, give this a try ;)
The History of CRPGs
Gamasutra has finished posting the 3-part special of the History of Computer Role-Playing Games.
It is an amazing work and anyone who likes rpgs should read it (beware, more than 100 pages printed ;)
Click on the images to read each part:
World of Darkness MMORPG confirmed
A MMORPG about World of Darkness, the vampires and werewolves world from White Wolf, is on the way. Let's see how it ends, it's a good franchise.
Source: QJ.net
UPDATE: Years later, small bits of info. The most interesting ones, that you can stay human, thee will be humanity points (and can both lose and win them) and (where the interesting point comes) there will be permadeath of your characters.If your vampire dies, it stays dead. How will permadeath work in a MMORPG? We'll see... someday!
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