Hellgate:London

[Lissa]

Yeah, I'm lurking over on the official boards and reading something about a global feed reduction which sounds great, but my gaming PC has no internet connection and apparently there's no way to patch other than the game's front end so I'm stuck with the release version. :angry:

And while the game definitely has issues, I haven't run into any game-breaking bugs yet. There've been a couple weird and annoying ones, but playing SP I can copy and backup my character files regularly. The game itself is fun and I've been hankering for mindless Diablo-style hack-n-slash for awhile anyway (in fact I was looking for a Titan Quest Gold box when I spotted Hellgate).

I just wish you could swing a sword while moving. The melee combat feels so stiff. <_<

There's a very big game break bug that has been fixed in MP, but is still in SP. If you crash, recall without a return portal, or take the exit from Exodus, you're screwed. There is no way to get back in there and you character is stuck until they fix this in a patch (which they've done from MP, but not SP). You're only choice if you hit this bug is to either delete the character, go back to an earlier incarnation of the character if you've been saving the files as you go, or wait for the patch that fixes this (and considering they're seemingly only fixing MP issues in patches and only occasionally throwing a bone to SP, this is alienating a number of people). From everything I've read, FSS is their own worst enemy with the way they're treating costumers, outright trying to hide deficiancies brought up in constructive manners on the main forums, and only fixing one side of the game while leaving the other to linger (MP vs. SP fixes).