Help me decide whether to buy OR Torchlight - Page 2

bluestarultor · 01-14-2010, 11:16 PM

I guess if it's really that easy and monotonous, I'll pass. I was looking for something shining and amazing. Honestly, I have Diablo and Diablo II, and Diablo II held my attention for a hell of a lot longer than its predecessor. Which is to say I actually saved my game intentionally, rather than playing each class only to find myself bored to tears with each in about five seconds.

If I want something montonous and easy, I'll just play Perfect World, which actually has an art style that I can get behind (not much on WoW's, myself).

Jagos · 01-15-2010, 12:47 AM

The Diablo series is still the better one. Torchlight is more Diablo-Lite. I'm not being mean about the game, but as soon as I finish it, I probably won't play it again.

Niveras · 01-15-2010, 11:49 PM

Agreed. Torchlight has no depth, which is really saying something given Diablo wasn't exactly a JRPG itself.

It felt too much like it they're expecting the players to add meat to the game. Too few level "chunks" (the bits that go together procedurally to create seemingly non-reptitive levels), too little story, too few skills, too little gain in power from upgrading equipment. Some of that may be by design, given they intend to flesh out the engine into an MMO, but I'm not sure how that's going to work from what I've seen of Torchlight so far.

It might work out to be more like Ragnarok Online, in that people will pick it up and mod it for private servers. That's pure speculation on my part, though.

MasterOfMagic · 01-16-2010, 12:43 AM

Neh, Ragnarok at least started out being pretty interesting on its own. Maybe the mod community will bloom anyway though, who knows.

01-15-2010, 12:47 AM	#12
Jagos FRONT KICK OF DOOM! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Howdy pardner... Posts: 6,399	The Diablo series is still the better one. Torchlight is more Diablo-Lite. I'm not being mean about the game, but as soon as I finish it, I probably won't play it again. __________________ Copyright musings World ramblings Scifi stories

01-15-2010, 11:49 PM	#13
Niveras Shyguy Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 214	Agreed. Torchlight has no depth, which is really saying something given Diablo wasn't exactly a JRPG itself. It felt too much like it they're expecting the players to add meat to the game. Too few level "chunks" (the bits that go together procedurally to create seemingly non-reptitive levels), too little story, too few skills, too little gain in power from upgrading equipment. Some of that may be by design, given they intend to flesh out the engine into an MMO, but I'm not sure how that's going to work from what I've seen of Torchlight so far. It might work out to be more like Ragnarok Online, in that people will pick it up and mod it for private servers. That's pure speculation on my part, though. __________________ God has no heart, has no mind, has no body, has no soul, and no resemblance of you.

01-16-2010, 12:43 AM	#14
MasterOfMagic ahahah Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,456	Neh, Ragnarok at least started out being pretty interesting on its own. Maybe the mod community will bloom anyway though, who knows.