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Originally Posted by Destrox
The demo sucks for the most part, its that simple. Nothing at all like the beta client is, its just something they put out and probably forced to by EA. (They are the devil you know.)
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That makes me feel better. If the actual game is better than the demo then there's some hope. But man this is a bad bad bad bad bad demo.
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Originally Posted by Destrox
It is simply a fun and exciting game. If you enjoy level grinding, skill sets, item grinding, item trading.
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I enjoy level grinding, skill sets, item grinding, and item trading, but this game sucked. I hope it's the demo but even with all of that it was still really bad simply because the controls, level design, and graphics suck.
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Originally Posted by Destrox
As for the in-game ads, they are as harmless as it gets. They are more eyecandy and aesthetics than anything. I personally would rather them get some money out of it, thus increasing the chances of higher quality. The FSS team has allready stated on the forums (beta) that they get very little money for the ads. Definitly not enough to make a difference. There is a very large debate on the forums about this whole thing, I personally have no problem with it as long as its non-intrusive. And they are that for certain.
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I agree with you. In-game ads are WAAAAAAAY overreacted upon in the online gaming community. I remember when BF2142 came out and people boycotted it because it had ads and "spyware." The ads made the game more realistic and were actually entertaining (seeing Tom's Hardware plastered on the wall in a doomsday environment with scratches and burn marks all over the ad was actually cool). The spyware wasn't spyware, it simply took your IP and determined which county you were from so the ads in the game were in the correct language (I played BF2142 for months before I saw a single ad, and then when I saw one it was actually entertaining like I said above). The ads in Hellgate do not take away from the game at all.
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Originally Posted by Destrox
And Lasereth, I hope you dont take this wrong, but the overall vibe I get off your post is that graphics > gameplay. Seeing as how many times you went back to that.
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Did you miss the part where I said the character animations suck, the level design is horrible, the controls are clunky, the menus are dated and grungy, and jumping switches camera views so the game stutters randomly? The graphics do indeed suck, but so do WoWs, they made up for it with a great artistic feel to the game. Hellgate has no "feel" to it besides a demo made by a group of college students in their spare time between classes. It's one thing to have bad graphics, it's another to have bad graphics and nothing to make up for it. Again you said the demo sucks so maybe the real game is better. So far this game is embarassing though. I keep comparing it to WoW because it controls similarly, it's an RPG, you do quests identical to WoW, you make a character and level up with skill points and buy and sell armor and gain levels, etc. I don't really need to keep going. The game IS like WoW in many aspects so it deserves a direct comparison. WoW's graphics sucked when it came out in 2004, and Hellgate has worse graphics than WoW. Why? WoW came out in 2004 and Hellgate has worse controls. Why? WoW came out in 2004 and the menus, interface, jumping, strafing, and character animations are all years ahead of Hellgate. Why?
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Originally Posted by Destrox
I dont really know what graphical issues you're having that makes it run like ass. Works great on my old shit box Amd Barton, and works flawlessly on my E6600.
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It stays at 60 FPS on my PC during most of it but it drops down to like 20-30 FPS on many occasions (even indoors). Oblivion and Bioshock run better on my PC than this game (they don't slow down like that, ever) and those two games have insanely good graphics.