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Soul Sojourner:
--- Quote ---The lack of level design and the sameness of the creature encounters are teh two things that bug me the most about HGL. However I knew this would always be the case since the beta as the story is so localized. I do find that the randomess of the appearance of hellrifts and passages refreshing. The demons need to hire a new architect though because every damn rift features a big staircase overlooking a gazeebo! What HGL really lacks are freeroaming areas, where you can just go out and brave the streets to make your own way to other stations or safehouses even. HGL scores over GW one in better use of its 3D areas. You can jump up on top of objects, climb up scaffold etc. Though i wish there was a lot more of this. HGL has tactical movement. GW never had that becuse simply put there was no way to miss a target unless you were cursed or your target was buffed to dodge. Therefore a tactical re-deployment, or shitting yourself and running like a cowardly monkey, was pretty much a futile action in GW. Lastly i don't like the GW skill system of aqcuiring skills as a quest reward, and especially the elite skills that you can only acquire by finding and killing Boss X, out on the plains of Houston We Have A Negative On That Orbit Trajectory. I really appreciate teh HGL and Diablo systems because I can see what will be available and can plan out a build rather than the trial and error, configure and re-configure style of GW.
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Are you saying "teh" just to be annoying? :mellow:
Mo:
--- Quote ---Oh and for those of you who give GW glowing reviews for it's relativley bug free release, don't forget that it went through over 6 months of open betas and featured the chat command "/bug." I'll wager a donut that you will not see that kind of preperation for a game ever again.
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Hey man. That's the way it should be. NCsoft is a great publisher unlike EA or Atari. They probably don't want consumers being beta testers like they are for HGL and NWN2. Anet gets my props for best initial release in recent memory.
cuchulann:
--- Quote ---Are you saying "teh" just to be annoying? :mellow:
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Yes I am.
Soul Sojourner:
--- Quote ---Yes I am.
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Sweet.
420:
--- Quote ---And let me know what you think of the "ending" heheh...I'm pretty sure you'll hate it.
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I really enjoyed the ending actually and the final level too. Unfortunately I had to go through it twice because my guardian dropped dead right before the end boss so I didn't get credit (though I did get all the drops). But it was much faster the second time through since Throbble and I knew what to expect.
Oh and the first time we saw the Hellgate we both had the "OH SHIT!" reaction, so that was pretty cool too.
The ending itself wasn't a surprise to me or Throbble because we basically guessed what was going to happen. I don't want to post any spoilers but I thought the ending movies were really cool.
-420
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