Game News Keeping the Action in Action-RPG : Torchlight Reviewed

[Zeus]

Yeah, Torchlight doesn't work for neither crowd: not for LARPers/storyfags but it doesn't work for Mondblutian combat crowd either.

I played the demo and can't see myself ever playing the full game.

There is, of course, a third crowd: the crowd who actually likes Diablo clones. The crowd that keeps the Diablo Battlechest stocked in Walmart to this day (something you can't say for most other 2000-era RPGs). The crowd that actually enjoyed Fate and Titan Quest, rather than trashed them for not being Fallout or Wizardry 8.

I'm pretty sure they're the ones who were meant enjoy Torchlight.

 

[Metro]

For what it is. FOR WHAT IT IS. Big surprise there. Ok now, Torchlight developers have had three games to 'wet your palate', three more or less exactly alike games. Let's take a look at another extremely small developer, Introversion. Cheap games. Good games. Original games. Not the same fucking game with a new title every year. Shit is shit sir, don't dodge the issue.

The Civilization series is basically the same title repeated again and again with a few new tweaks and game play enhancements... and yet... people still consider them good. If you don't like utilitarian ARPGs then no one is going to convince you otherwise.

Deathspank will probably be the exact same game play with a Ron Gilbert storyline strapped to it; however, it will cost $50 instead of $20 and for that reason I won't be buying it until it's reduced.

[Insert hur dur I only torrent stuff jokes here.]

 

[Emotional Vampire]

The Civilization series is basically the same title repeated again and again with a few new tweaks and game play enhancements... and yet... people still consider them good.

Only the stupid ones.