Aren’t Games Supposed to Be Fun?
My first experience with Hellgate: London was an error dialog.
“Could not find language.dat”
A quick visit over to the Flagship Studios’ forums (HGL developers) only to find that it’s my vault.
The relevant section:
“…is the result of you people installing through [the wrong file]…you must run the setup.exe on the DVD”
setup.exe? Can you find it? Quick! You hurriedly unpack your shiny new game and click on the first thing you see that looks reasonable.
The “HGL_x86 Windows Installer Package” looks good to me - I have Hellgate, I’m running on an x86 CPU and I want to install it. The tooltip confirms my line of thinking. The install proceeds without warning, only the game won’t start. D’oh!
There is a simple solution here - place the installer packages in a subdirectory. If the contents of the DVD looked like this:
What do you think the chances were of me making this mistake? With only one real choice, little to none :)