Comments on: Hellgate: London MMORPG?

By: Bildo

Bildo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:20:57 +0000

In my book, it’s an MMO, but it’s not an MMORPG.

MMO in the fact that you play online on a server with thousands of others at the same time. But it’s certainly not your average diku MMORPG.

Great game though. Total riot.

By: Geoff Gibson

Geoff Gibson — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:01:42 +0000

MMORPG isn’t even really an acronym anymore though. . . its a word.

It used to stand for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, however now as a word it just means any rpg game that is online.

A sticky-wicket. . .

By: Yorigasi

Yorigasi — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:49:29 +0000

I agree with Keystone. Is “missing” the MASSIVE portion, so NO it is not a mmorpg. Maybe they should come up with a new acronym for the non-mmorpg, like morpg? lol

By: Keystone

Keystone — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:28:26 +0000

I’m more with the purist, and I hate to call Hellgate: London an MMORPG; however, I think if we broke the acronym down we would find it’s only missing the “Massive” portion.

M – Massive ( )
M – Multiplayer (x)
O – Online (x)
R – Role (x)
P – Playing (x)
G – Game (x)