My experience with 'Titan Quest'

[Barghest]

Click, click, clickety, click. Boring. Uninstalled.

The worse diablo rip-off since Dungeon Siege. I can barely rate this higher then the original DS.

 

[LlamaGod]

I have a feeling this one of those cheap imitation Diablo clones that feel like some $10 Valu-Soft 'clone' games you see littered around the Wal-Marts.

Only difference is the developer/publisher were a step above Valu-Soft and they got to slap pretty graphics on it.

 

[kingcomrade]

they got to slap pretty graphics on it.

Did they? I must've missed that when I was playing the demo.

 

[HanoverF]

Didn't you see the tall grass flow when you walked through it, well at least until it started stuttering like a BassOMatic trying to chew up a Marlin

 

[kingcomrade]

No, I had to turn down the graphics to keep it from stuttering like such and such.

 

[CrusaderTemplar]

Yeah, This game sucks. too much clicking. And the story, like Wtf. Bland.

 

[Twinfalls]

This is the game whose head-honcho was the man behind Lazarus, right?

Cos that seems to tell us something about how stark the divide is between making games for love/for money....

 

[bozia2012]

C'mon WTF?? Story? This game IS a mindless clickfest because it's TEH main purpose. I played the demo and it was nice... Just launch some nice tech metal and play the game... It's a good change after finishing Hammer&Sickle and the likes... Graphics and havok physics are a good addition...


PS Hi everybody!

 

[Rivo]

C'mon WTF?? Story? This game IS a mindless clickfest because it's TEH main purpose. I played the demo and it was nice... Just launch some nice tech metal and play the game... It's a good change after finishing Hammer&Sickle and the likes... Graphics and havok physics are a good addition...


PS Hi everybody!

Tech metal? Sounds like music where the average slipknot teen would crave their cream on. The only real fucking metal that uses 'tech' is Ayreon.

 

[LlamaGod]

If you're gonna do something, you might as well do it right.

If you wanna hack and slash and hoard loot, don't fuck around with cheap ass cash-in imitators, just play fucking Diablo 2 or Sacred.

Just because it's suppost to be a simple kill'em game doesnt mean that that is a free ticket to be a piece of crap.

 

[bozia2012]

@Rivo: it's too bad that you know only one band. Bad for you.

@Llamagod: Diablo 1&2? how many times do i have to finish those games to make you happy? (I hope about 10 times each is enough for you?)
Sacred is shit Character animations are awful (all characters look like they have spears stuck up their asses). And the skill system is real bad: you play a vampire who has to change into a vampire? for a limited time?
I'm not saying Titan is TEH BESTAST but it's another step in hack'n'slashfest games... It's got better graphics, better dress-up (more possibilities in the demo than in the whole O.), better everything (it's like another edition of Fifa Soccer, Madden Football, Trophy Bass, you-name-it-i-don't-play-sport-games). And skill system looks intresting, you can imbue your weapon etc. What more to want from a 1-hour-a-day-before-sleep-game?

Shit, I de-lurked to write about this crap :/

 

[Shagnak]

I think the disappointment is that they have managed to take an awesome source of adventure and lore and produce something that is pretty fucking mundane. It's a wasted opportunity. An opportunity that wouldn't have been too hard to take advantage of.

But whatever. Welcome to the Codex.

Edit:

Re: your Sacred comparison.
Sacred has more of everything. I think that is one of its only advantages over "action-rpg-that-we-have-seen-before-number-X".

More more more.

If you're going to be as bland as fuck you might as well have MORE and LOTS to keep our ADHD-afflicted nerd-brains entertained. If you do not have that, and you have not taken advantage of some well-designed char system, or some wonderfully imagined background, you have nothing.

Oh, you might have some uber gfx instead. If that is what gives you a woody I would suggest that you spend your time perusing a different website.

This one might suffice.

 

[bozia2012]

Yeah and satyrs don't look like satyrs but goatmen from D1... I didn't expect nothing from this game, but more & better of the same twitchy diablo-style combat... The ancient Greece, Egypt thing is just like new skin or somethin'. Nothing too deep. Now I understand why you can bash games like O. or NWN 'cause they aspired to be something more... and they failed... Oh how I miss the shitstorm over Obli... oops almost said that.

EDIT: @Shagnak you hurt me badly... I thought Sacred was made to Uberize Diablo and the likes... kill it with graphics, more Shiny Objects (tm) etc.. now TQ is made to be better than Sacred and IMHO it succeeds (still I played only the demo) because I love havok and dress-up... TQ is like Minesweeper, Solitaire or Madness Interactive...

But when you look for good story, background, char system, interaction and TEH CNOSEQUECNES I would recommend you playing maybe Torment, maybe Fallout, maybe Bloodlines, maybe Hammer & Sickle, maybe Arcanum (yes I'm BlackIsle/Troika/Obsidian fanboy) even take a leap back in time and play Darksun, Wizardry, Ultima, Realms of Arkania

 

[LlamaGod]

Sacred has a much deeper and more complex skill system with alot of character builds to play, it's not my fault you only spent 5 minutes playing.

Also: One of those builds is a perma-vamp vampiress.

It also has a much cooler and free-to-explore world with alot of cool quests to do.

And who gives a shit about fucking animations besides Bethesda.

 

[Shagnak]

Now I understand why you can bash games like O. or NWN 'cause they aspired to be something more... and they failed... Oh how I miss the shitstorm over Obli... oops almost said that.

Careful what you say there pardner!
I think the popular opinion here is tthat Oblivious and NWN aspired to be less :wink:
(well, the latter in its SP campaign, and the former in comparison to its predecessors in all the RP aspects that matter to any self-respecting Codex-Cult member).

Sacred aspired to have more. It does. Oodles.

Some of that "more" is a little rough around the edges, but by Cthulhu's holy underpants, there is so much there (items, char builds, stuff) that any self-respecting munchkin has gotta have fun of some sort.

It rocks multi-player, by the way.

 

[Shagnak]

I love havok and dress-up...

Me too baby.
Doctors and Nurses is my favourite.
I get my wife's nipples hard with my stethoscope and then...

But when you look for good story, background, char system, interaction and TEH CNOSEQUECNES I would recommend you playing maybe Torment, maybe Fallout, maybe Bloodlines, maybe Hammer & Sickle, maybe Arcanum (yes I'm BlackIsle/Troika/Obsidian fanboy) even take a leap back in time and play Darksun, Wizardry, Ultima, Realms of Arkania

Don't teach me to suck eggs boy!!!!

I'm not saying that I wanted a full fledged RPG from the designers.
It is still possible to create a decent Action-RPG that takes advantage of the background and the already existing very fleshed-out stories.

This game (disclaimer: I'm only going by the demo) does not appear to.
It would have been better if it was a generic Orcs n Elves slash-fest - then I would be less disappointed.

 

[bozia2012]

Sacred: I've spent like few weeks playing this crap (at start it didn't seem to be crap). Played as a Vampiress, Seraph, Gladiator, Darf Elf... Yeah you can go "everywhere" but quests were so well-made that I didn't even bother to read the text just followed the markers. I mean why read when I don't have any choice of outcome? Redding is not teh hard but in games like Sacred is pointless... When I was playing Dungeon Siege 2 I was wondering why did they place "monsteropedia" and all this crappy quest-text? If IQ40 ADHD kids don't read this then who does it? Llamagod did you get a woody reading about Ancarianfolk troubles?? When I wan't to read I take a book, when I want to spend some time not thinkig about anything I just launch Titan. It's all about eye-candy, clickfest gameplay and collecting phat lewt... Destoy the mouse and forget...

EDIT: Shagnak, you admit that you're just dissapointed? You see I rarely read PR hype shit, just because i want to see the final product and then decide if it is good.... Let's assume a company is making a game... They say it would be the best combat flight simulator in the world... now they end making the best potato farmin game in the whole galaxy... You would say: "Meh! what a fuckin waste of good game, flying potatoes with 4x23mm guns was what i was waiting for!!!".... now there's where I come in 'coz it's a damn fine coincidence that i like potato farmin games... from time to time of course.

EDIT2: Shagnak I'm not teachin' you how to suck balls (I assume you can suck even more than that)... I think you just forgot where the real games are, eh?

 

[Naked_Lunch]

This is the game whose head-honcho was the man behind Lazarus, right?

What? THe game was headed by Brian Whatshisname, the former Age of Empires honcho. Of course, I haven't been following the game closely so I could be wrong but that seems kinda wacky to me.

 

[Walkin' Dude]

I played the Titan Quest demo for about an hour or so. It bored the fuck out of me, I unstalled it and never looked back.

Sacred was a fun Diablo clone. It held my interest for a few weeks. I would have played more, but I got my hands on GalCiv2, Space Rangers 2, and quite a few other games that were more interesting. I still think it was a fun game, I just don't have the time to get back into it.

If the only game on my hard drive was Titan Quest, I would probably go out and get a life or something.

 

[EEVIAC]

I think the disappointment is that they have managed to take an awesome source of adventure and lore and produce something that is pretty fucking mundane.

You have to admit that this was a remarkable achievement by Iron Lore. I got to play a little of God Of War a few weeks before I got TQ and the gore and the boobs were dazzling to the point where you forget that you're playing a pretty standard button masher. TQ is Disney's Hercules is comparison and about as entertaining.

 

[Twinfalls]

This is the game whose head-honcho was the man behind Lazarus, right?

What? THe game was headed by Brian Whatshisname, the former Age of Empires honcho. Of course, I haven't been following the game closely so I could be wrong but that seems kinda wacky to me.

I was kinda mistaken. Ian Frazier aka "Tiberius" who was the chief d00der of Lazarus, worked on Titan Quest - here's an interview with him which isn't much more than the standard PR type stuff - he's a 'gameplay designer' working on boss-monsters, and the graphics are cool, is the upshot.

So he's the Boss-man of Lazarus and boss-monster-man of TQ it seems.

 

[Barghest]

This is how I rate the Diablo clones I've played. Superior through to shite.

Divine Divinity - Sacred - Beyond Divinity - Dungeon Siege 2 - Titan Quest - Windows Screensaver - Dungeon Siege

Is it blasphemous not to like Diablo 1 & 2?

 

[YourConscience]

Hey Barghest,

You are wrong about the cool game "windows screensaver". And you know why? Because contrary to all the other games you named there, this is the one I've never actually uninstalled. In fact, I see it several times each day on my monitor! It must be way better!

 

[bryce777]

I agree with that list totally, but I put stabbing myself in the crotch with a toothpick higher on the list.

 

[Shagnak]

Shagnak, you admit that you're just dissapointed? You see I rarely read PR hype shit, just because i want to see the final product and then decide if it is good

Yes, dissapointed - what a wasted opportunity. But this is independent of PR hype. Even ignoring the wasted background it is an incredibly ordinary game.
Maybe multi-player improves it??

.... Let's assume a company is making a game... They say it would be the best combat flight simulator in the world... now they end making the best potato farmin game in the whole galaxy... You would say: "Meh! what a fuckin waste of good game, flying potatoes with 4x23mm guns was what i was waiting for!!!"

No, that's an incredibly bad analogy.

A better one would be that I was looking forward to a game that took advantage of the interesting background provided by Potato Farming (sheesh), and what I got was a game that actually was dressed up to look like Potato Farming - but it might as well have been something less interesting, like...(searches brain for something more mundane)...as there was no Potato Farming-ness about the game at all.

In other words, they didn't create the "best potato farmin game in the whole galaxy" after all.

Your analogy would be closer to me complaining about TQ when it really did take advantage of its background, and desiring that it had rocket launchers or something.

See? Bad analogy.