Behold Torchlight, a fresh new Action RPG franchise developed by Runic Games. Torchlight is being developed in Seattle team by a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, and Fate. Our team has spent many years honing and evolving this unique style of gameplay.
o OS: Windows 2000 or later
o Processor: x86-compatible 800MHz processor
o Memory: 512MB
o Graphics: DirectX-compatible 3D graphics with at least 64MB of addressable memory (such as an ATI Radeon 7200, NVIDIA GeForce 2, or Intel GMA 950)
o DirectX®: 9.0c
o Hard Drive: 400MB
Looks like they saw some screenshots of Diablo 3 and decided to make a cheap knock-off really fast.
Looks like they saw some screenshots of Diablo 3 and decided to make a cheap knock-off really fast.spoiler (click to show/hide)I'll still play it though.[close]
QuoteBehold Torchlight, a fresh new Action RPG franchise developed by Runic Games. Torchlight is being developed in Seattle team by a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, and Fate. Our team has spent many years honing and evolving this unique style of gameplay.
i am super-pumped for it. travis baldree and crew make great diablo-alikes, and i am sure this will be no exception. also, it runs on low profile hardware REALLY well.
Looks like Dungeon Siege engine, no?
Interview about the game.
http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1210
Shack: With Torchlight being singleplayer-only, the mod tools are obviously a pretty important part of the longevity. They look fairly robust.
Peter Hu: The mod tools are what we use to create all the assets in the game.
Shack: So it's the exact same tools you use?
Peter Hu: The exact same tools. So you can obviously create levels, create quests. There's a visual scripting system, so you can create a lot of trigger points. You can create items, or your own skills. You can adjust AIs, create monsters. If you have 3D Studio Max experience, you can add in animations. You can modify textures. Whatever you want.
Shack: How easy is it to integrate that content into the game?
Peter Hu: It's pretty easy. Some people have actually already started mod sites, where you can go and pick up mods once the game is released. But in general, all the mods will exist in a folder on your computer. You can just zip that up, send it to one of your friends, they put it in the Torchlight folder and they can run the mod.
it's going to be super koreary
Peter Hu: What we're going to be doing is... a lot of first-run companies make an MMO as their first thing, and it's really tough. It's not easy. So one of the things we were hoping to do is, after this game ships, we're going to start working on an MMO. And we're looking to target that for about two years after this game. It'll be set in the same universe, same kind of playstyle, action-RPG-MMO. But instead of mostly instance, we're doing a lot more shared, big-world MMO. A lot of cool stuff. And that'll be free-to-play, free to download, item sales-based.
No it never came out here.So, at the moment the Travis Baldree's only genre related game is FATE. Well that was a decent Diablo-clone, I guess I'll watch this one.
I just bought it, based on reading little pieces this thread. :-\
I hope it runs on my laptop, I never know how to interpret system requirements since I can never remember my graphics card, and have no clue how it stacks up to others.
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-torchlight/17-1551/
your dog can run back to town and sell your loot while you keep fighting :o
The game looks like a fancier Fate, which is awesome. I hope I can permanently transform my dog into a demon unicorn again.
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-torchlight/17-1551/
your dog can run back to town and sell your loot while you keep fighting :o
The game looks like a fancier Fate, which is awesome. I hope I can permanently transform my dog into a demon unicorn again.
Honestly it looks exactly like Fate except with an art swap out and updated graphics to a degree.
Which is fine. I was hoping for some more actual core improvements to the gameplay formula but I'm not unhappy with what it is.
Hmmmm, I like looty diablo games but the last pc one I played was Diablo1. The selling points of pets & being able to retire and pass on stuff to a new character (sounds like Disgaea) seem cool to me.
Tempted
So on a scale of 1 -10, with 10 being Titan Quest and 1 being Mass Effect, how phat is the lewt in Torchlight?
once again, WHERE IS MY VSYNC OPTION GRR DEVS
I tried to run this on my laptop (on which I finished ME and Fallout 3) but it didnt run well, even in netbook mode. I think my laptop has some problems :'(Downloading now, never played this type of game.
You never played Diablo?
:lol
You should really play Diablo 2 Rebiak.
Wait, you can equip your dog with things? Does he level up?
Games with menu's confuse me. :(
well, this game shits in uncharted 2's mouth
goty for sure, filthy console poors weep
Are spells something that gets dropped too, or do you have to learn them somehow?
Normal gaming :lol
I played the demo, and while I love the presentation it's missing that spark that Diablo and Titan Quest have. Maybe I should play on hard.
Ideally "normal" mode in games should be balanced for the average gamer, aka. me,
i play games on easy or normal because i like to finish playing games
i play games on easy or normal because i like to finish playing gamesNothing wrong with that. I generally play games on Normal also because my goal is to have fun rather than be frustrated. If you've played lots of diablo style games Torchlight is fairly easy at Normal from what I've heard. So fans of the genre I would advise to start on hard if they want a "normal" experience.
i play games on easy or normal because i like to finish playing gamesNothing wrong with that. I generally play games on Normal also because my goal is to have fun rather than be frustrated. If you've played lots of diablo style games Torchlight is fairly easy at Normal from what I've heard. So fans of the genre I would advise to start on hard if they want a "normal" experience.
How long is this game anyways?
http://www.torchlightinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270
respec mod :bow2
http://www.torchlightinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=270
respec mod :bow2
I bought the game and started a new game with a Mage character on HARD. Soooooo much better now.
2. This relates to 1; the tip says if you start seeing "glancing blow" a lot, you need to upgrade your weapon. "upgrade"? I thought the only thing you can do if your weapon is outdated is to get a new one or enchant your current one. Is there a way to upgrade your weapon? Because I'm getting that a lot on floor 5 now with my 2 handed sword I've been using since I was level 2 (level 7 now)
3. This relates to 1: I like the difficulty on hard mode ...but the first boss was CRAZY. My spells were doing JACK SHIT damage. I was doing more damage just standing in its face and smacking it with my 2 handed staff. Now like I said in 1, this seems counterproductive to being a magic shooting mage....what's up with this? Also I died :( Luckily I just restarted from the stage entrance and lost some gold.
5. Any point in transmuting? I haven't tried it yet.
6. Is HARD balanced in comparison to normal. Like since the enemies are harder do you get better loot or more gold? Because I have very little money and my equip isn't that great. My lvl.6 swordsman on normal mode is much more badass.
Respeccing is legalized cheating IMO. Diablo games do not allow it.It's being included in D3, last I heard
Respeccing is for whiners who made one build only to discover it kind of sucks and they don't want to start over the whole game from scratch.
:piss respecs :piss2
:bow being a man of your build :bow2
The music is so Diablo :)
I'm turned off by there being only the three basic tired old classes.
Is he also working on D3?
Anyone know if the game continues your progress from the demo if you buy the full game? my character is already kinda awesome and I got a badass sword already.
People in the GAF thread are saying that Brink is bugged sometimes. You can still continue on and do your quest like normal.
Only problem is that the visuals are too busy, at least in the demo part. It's kinda hard to tell what some enemies are supposed to look like and when you start swinging it's hard to tell which enemy you're aiming at.
So has anyone gotten that respec mod to work in the steam version? I'm still early enough in the game that I have no need to change my skills, but would be nice to have some respec potions for later ;)
All characters have an XP%+ skill around the middle of their tiers. The beserker has a +12% to critical damage and +1% to critical per level halfway down too.
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:lol
Respeccing is legalized cheating IMO. Diablo games do not allow it.It's being included in D3, last I heard
Respeccing is for whiners who made one build only to discover it kind of sucks and they don't want to start over the whole game from scratch.
:piss respecs :piss2
:bow being a man of your build :bow2
Alright, I just beat Ordrak. Now how do I continue? There can't possibly only be 35 floors to this game.
torchlight rocks. are there any plans for it to have a multiplayer mode?
torchlight rocks. are there any plans for it to have a multiplayer mode?
I think they eventually want to make an MMO out of it.
Is it better than Titan Quest?
That last boss was way easy on hard and the loot was mostly crap too.
That last boss was way easy on hard and the loot was mostly crap too.
It's Borderlands all over again.
That last boss was way easy on hard and the loot was mostly crap too.
It's Borderlands all over again.
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:rock
I wanna dual-wield pistols, that would be sweet.
I wanna dual-wield pistols, that would be sweet.
That's what I do. I can mix/match elemental effects, plus one saps mana and the other saps health. I am a killing machine
This is 50% off at Gamestop's direct-download thingie, but I'm guessing that you effete Steamophores are already able to brag about better discounts, no?Got it for $2.50 on Steam. :smug
how?This is 50% off at Gamestop's direct-download thingie, but I'm guessing that you effete Steamophores are already able to brag about better discounts, no?Got it for $2.50 on Steam. :smug
how?This is 50% off at Gamestop's direct-download thingie, but I'm guessing that you effete Steamophores are already able to brag about better discounts, no?Got it for $2.50 on Steam. :smug