The Firey Gates of London!
December 12, 2007 3:36 pm RantsI’m not exactly a fan of Hellgate: London as you might know… and recently I bumped into a pretty interesting article which further solidifies that opinion. Hellgate: London was created by Flagship Studios, which mostly consists of former Blizzard employees. So what better than to compare it to another ‘recent’ role-playing game created by another upstart studio consisting of mostly former Blizzard employees? Genius isn’t it? I thought so!
And so did Deimos of ahkong.net! He’s written up a comparison between Hellgate: London and Guild Wars as it was when it was released. An extensive comparison on ten fronts ensues…. and Guild Wars comes out with a resounding 10-0 lead even without it’s many content updates, patches and expansion packs. Most remarkably: it doesn’t even come across as a resoundingly biased comparison. Then again… let’s face facts here: Hellgate London is widely known to suck, whereas Guild Wars is one of the most popular games to date. Perhaps not quite such a surprising outcome then 
Definitely worth a read - go check it out!
Update: Alright - the site seems to be accessible again, enjoy!
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December 14th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Thanks for the link love, aye.
Terribly sorry about the web site down thingie.
My previous web hosting company was experiencing another network hiccups and I can’t take it anymore, so I moved into another server.
Please flush the DNS records in order for the domain name to point to the new server.
Again, I must apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Cheers!
December 14th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Heh, good to see it back up again!
You certainly put plenty of work into that entry, so there was bound to be someone linking to it eventually