Hellgate London Alpha

[Amaron]

Don't know if this should go in PC games or in here but Hellgate "Friends and Family Alpha" has started.  It appears that people who were in the Mythos beta got invites or at least some of them did.

[schild]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Me want.

Amaron, that means you got one, you dirty little bastard.

[Amaron]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Me want.

Amaron, that means you got one, you dirty little bastard.

I'm pretty sure it's because of the Mythos beta you might want to signup for it if you haven't yet.

http://www.mythos.com/join_kingdom.jsp

People already in Mythos should prolly check email too.

[schild]

Check the PC Gaming Forum.

Bunch of us are playing Mythos.

[sam, an eggplant]

I'm in the Mythos beta, and didn't get one. Just checked my email.

I did get 5 Mythos beta invites, though. The first 5 people to post something funny and profane to this thread get em. Oh and PM your email address also please.

[Amaron]

Check the PC Gaming Forum.

Bunch of us are playing Mythos.

Hmm that's odd then.  I don't even think I signed up to Hellgates forums.  I got into Mythos via a friend invite really early on and he also got into the Alpha so I just assumed that was it.  I can't think of any other reason.

[Nerf]

Check the PC Gaming Forum.

Bunch of us are playing Mythos.

Hmm that's odd then.  I don't even think I signed up to Hellgates forums.  I got into Mythos via a friend invite really early on and he also got into the Alpha so I just assumed that was it.  I can't think of any other reason.

Have you mouthified any strange wangs lately?  That'll usually get ya an alpha invite.

[Amaron]

Have you mouthified any strange wangs lately?  That'll usually get ya an alpha invite.

Well there was that wife of some guy who worked at Bliz but I'm almost certain he worked at central and not north. 

[Slayerik]

I'm in the Mythos beta, and didn't get one. Just checked my email.

I did get 5 Mythos beta invites, though. The first 5 people to post something funny and profane to this thread get em. Oh and PM your email address also please.

[sam, an eggplant]

Down to 4.

[Hoax]

"We may be Americans but we're not stupid," Alexi Lalas says wryly as, in his role as the president of LA Galaxy, he leans back in his boardroom and strokes the smooth and gleaming jaw-line which used to be covered by the most famous ginger beard in world football. "We know when we're being patronised and I get so irritated when I hear the experts in England talk about David Beckham as if he's going into semi-retirement by leaving Real Madrid for Los Angeles.

"That's ignorance of the first degree because almost every one of those critics has not even seen a single MLS [Major League Soccer] game. It's insulting to us and to our sport to say Beckham is on his way to Hollywood when he's coming to play in one of the most competitive leagues in the world. There are a lot of stars in European football who would struggle over here. But Beckham has done his homework on this league, and his team-mates, and he recognises the merit of American soccer."

Source  =  http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2105972,00.html

[schild]

what

[Signe]

what

Shh.  David Beckham is posing. 

[schild]

I'm so confused.

[Tale]

Ali-G Interviews the Beckhams

[Furiously]

Ali-G Interviews the Beckhams

OK - that was awesome. They were incredible sports.

[Azazel]

I'm pretty sure it's because of the Mythos beta you might want to signup for it if you haven't yet.

http://www.mythos.com/join_kingdom.jsp

People already in Mythos should prolly check email too.

feh. I tried to sign up for Mythos beta awhile back, but it said they weren't taking apps at the time...


Not all that profane, but it's got some sexy action...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPSmDLfX_Q

[Morfiend]

Ali-G Interviews the Beckhams

OK - that was awesome. They were incredible sports.

She really isnt half bad when she actually talks and smiles.

[Ironwood]

what

Shh.  David Beckham is posing. 

Is it my laptop or does Tinkerbell need her ass wiped ?

Further, the Beckham thing is totally fucking bizarre.  You'll be listening to the news, hearing about Man U and Ipswich County and they'll be talking cricket and Darts and Bowls and all of a sudden its "And LA Galaxy had a cracking result in their latest game".  You don't get commentary or who they're playing next or whatnot.  Simply a 'nod' to the washed up Beckham.

It's really strange.

[Trippy]

Is it my laptop or does Tinkerbell need her ass wiped ?

Not your laptop.

[Ironwood]

On Topic, is the Alpha NDA'd or anything like that ?

I'm seriously interested in HEARING about this game, even if so far I'm not entirely sure I wanna play it...

[Amaron]

On Topic, is the Alpha NDA'd or anything like that ?

Yea it has the typical NDA for an alpha.  I don't think I'd be breaking it to say though that I was wrong in giving the impression that it had just started.  It's been going on for a bit at least before I got in apparently.

[Tale]

Ali-G Interviews the Beckhams

OK - that was awesome. They were incredible sports.

She really isnt half bad when she actually talks and smiles.

The Ali G interview is from about seven or eight years ago, around the time the Spice Girls and Beckham peaked in their UK popularity.

One of the things about the Spice Girls was that they had a certain level of input into their brand. They weren't just packaged pop, they had enough brains and guts between them to push people's buttons and work the media, with "girl power" (a kind of commercialised feminism) as part of their image. There was also a nationalistic pride about how they were seen in England.

Posh and Becks were not just a celebrity couple, they were England's Best Footballer and the Most Glamorous Spice Girl together - the dream celebrity couple, bigger than royalty.

So put that time, their image and her Spice confidence together, and that's her in the interview. Add three kids, seven years of celebrity life, incredible wealth and whatever goes with it, and that's her today.

P.S. As punishment I'm now going off to learn what Hellgate London is.

[Morfiend]

P.S. As punishment I'm now going off to learn what Hellgate London is.

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You have 1000+ posts here and you dont know what Hellgate London is?

[Ironwood]

I've been following whatever I can and I STILL don't know what Hellgate London is.

Some bastardised Diablo FPS, as far as I can see.

[Tale]

You have 1000+ posts here and you dont know what Hellgate London is?

Most games are disappointing, so I rarely absorb info about an upcoming game until people who have actually played it start saying good things. That's probably why I'm hanging out on f13.net instead of mmorpg.com.

[Trippy]

If this really is the alpha and not the start of the closed beta this game isn't going to be ready by October 31, 2007.

[Ragnoros]

If this really is the alpha and not the start of the closed beta this game isn't going to be ready by October 31, 2007.

Maybe. But why say you game will be done in two months if it likely will not?
Yeah games get delayed all the time but normally thats when said date was several months out and just their best guess.
Anyway guess your right though, they had better have things nailed down by this point to make Oct 31st.

[schild]

It's alpha in terms of public testing. The game had already been pushed back a good deal from internal discussion of release dates. I'm not particularly worried.

[Amaron]

That's probably why I'm hanging out on f13.net instead of mmorpg.com.

QFFT I've a friend who reads that site and he drives me insane nattering about 100 different games every week where 99 of them are obviously going to be vapor/suckware.

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

The worst possible thing that could happen to MMO's would be if every new title was awesome.

[Der Helm]

The worst possible thing that could happen to MMO's would be if every new title was awesome.

Spoken like a true SWG subscriber.

 

[Amaron]

The worst possible thing that could happen to MMO's would be if every new title was awesome.

I'm not sure I want to ask but I'm clearly a masochist so I will.  Please bring on the pain and also allow me to subscribe to your news letter.

[Ironwood]

The worst possible thing that could happen to MMO's would be if every new title was awesome.

Don't be so stupid.

[Tarami]

I've had a mild interest in Hellgate, but neither do I know what it's actually about. Failed PR, perhaps. Most people I've heard talk about it have mentioned bits of fact like "the guys who made Diablo" and so on. Oh, I have picked up that Roper & the guys went bitter from missing out on the moneyhats Blizzard are sporting, thus decided to charge people rent for their god damn servers. And that the pre-rendered movie was cool and that the game doesn't seem one iota as cool as the movie. Which, I guess, pretty much goes for Diablo aswell.