Years before Borderlands , Destiny , or The Division , Hellgate was trying to randomize guns and put them in a first-person grid inventory.
Bloggers and video essayists frequently return to Hellgate: London because it pioneered concepts that are now industry standards: hellgate-london
Pentadact by Tom Francis (creator of Gunpoint and Heat Signature ). The Vibe: Short, punchy, and mechanics-focused. Years before Borderlands , Destiny , or The
Flagship insisted on fully randomized 3D maps. This broke their engine and caused endless glitches, but was an incredibly bold engineering gamble at the time. Flagship insisted on fully randomized 3D maps
The 2007 action-RPG is one of the most fascinating "what-ifs" in PC gaming history. Developed by Flagship Studios (a team of ex-Blizzard North creators behind Diablo II ), it attempted to merge the highly addictive loot-and-leveling loop of Diablo with a first-person/third-person shooter perspective.