01-31-2006, 05:14 AM
DeeBye,Jan 30 2006, 08:40 PM Wrote:I don't know about it being a new type of game, but assuming the multiplayer model works out well it might well be a new type of online game.
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They've made it very clear that Hellgate will be integrated for multiplayer games (along the Guild Wars lines, I guess), and I'm sure it will be done well (unlike Dungeon Siege I, for example ;) ). Does that make Hellgate a new type of online game though? I don't think so --- even if DI wasn't the first online game, and the multiplayer parts were tacked on almost as an afterthought, it's multiplayer aspects were truly inno vative. DII added some server-side security, which had its own costs, but apart from that didn't really change things. Guild Wars simply replaced theb.net "chat-lobbies" by in-game towns. I don't think Hellgate will be much different from that, though I could be wrong.