Why isn't anyone talking about Torchlight?

[pilonv1]

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.

Should work on even a piece of shit PC too.

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

[Stoney Mason]

For the same reason people aren't talking about Sacred 2. It's not Diablo 3.

That being said this seems like an updated version of Fate which is always a good thing.

[Jansen]

because it's a pc game

[Great Rumbler]

Looks like they saw some screenshots of Diablo 3 and decided to make a cheap knock-off really fast.

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I'll still play it though.

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[Van Cruncheon]

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.

[Stoney Mason]

Looks like they saw some screenshots of Diablo 3 and decided to make a cheap knock-off really fast.

While there is probably some slight truth to this, they pretty much have always made Diablo knock-offs which is a bit unfair since some of these guys were involved with the original Diablo and they made Fate which this seems much more of a successor to.

[chronovore]

Looks like they saw some screenshots of Diablo 3 and decided to make a cheap knock-off really fast.

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I'll still play it though.

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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.

Perhaps more than just "saw some screenshots"... Though so far anyone who has bailed from Blizzard and attempted to recreate the magic has fallen on their face.

[pilonv1]

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.

exactly. will be good for some real lewt. theres only so many times i can play titan quest

[ManaByte]

Pre-order price on Steam is only $17.99. Get it.

[demi]

Should have been released on XBLA instead

[Van Cruncheon]

travis baldree's team at the hg:longon dev or whatever ONLY worked on mythos (which was awesome) and the network test harness, not the game code for hellgate.

[Great Rumbler]

Looks like Dungeon Siege engine, no?

OGRE engine, used in Ankh and Jack Keane.

[Stoney Mason]

Interview about the game.

http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1210

[pilonv1]

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.

Amazing. Can't be long before someone re-creates Diablo.

it's going to be super koreary

looks like it

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.
 

[Mrbob]

18 bucks is tempting, but this is hitting too close to Dragon Age for me.

[Van Cruncheon]

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.

mythos was in a giant open beta for years, and most of us here have played it.

[cool breeze]

Apparently this game is really good.  I'm having a hard choice deciding if I should buy it the same time as I get Borderlands, or if I should hold off until they put in the multiplayer mode.

[Reb]

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.

[cool breeze]

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-torchlight/17-1551/
 
your dog can run back to town and sell your loot while you keep fighting 

[Eel O'Brian]

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.

this game will run on netbooks, i think you'll be okay

[pilonv1]

http://www.warcry.com/articles/view/reviews/6696-Torchlight-Review-Reuniting-Action-RPG

[Stoney Mason]

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-torchlight/17-1551/
 
your dog can run back to town and sell your loot while you keep fighting 

This was in Fate.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The game looks like a fancier Fate, which is awesome. I hope I can permanently transform my dog into a demon unicorn again.

[Stoney Mason]

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.

[chronovore]

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-torchlight/17-1551/
 
your dog can run back to town and sell your loot while you keep fighting 

Lassie rocks.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

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.

Yeah, but at least the dungeon looks a ton more interesting this time.

[Stoney Mason]

The art style is more appealing to the hardcore portion of the audience definitely because it sort of meets expectations. Fate had a more unadorned look to it.

[Stoney Mason]

Playing it now. Enjoyable. It's exactly what I thought. Fate reskinned to look more like World of Warcraft.

The art look is fun and enjoyable and the basic gameplay is the same enjoyable formula that's always been there.

[Reb]

Downloading now, never played this type of game.

[MoxManiac]

Damn, I might have to get this. A new phat lewt game that can run on my POS PC!

[Bebpo]

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

[Stoney Mason]

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

I would recommend you buy Titan Quest (It has every feature of Torchlight and more) then which is a superior game and you can generally find for 5 to 10 dollars on sale. Not that Torchlight isn't a good game in and of itself.

[Joe Molotov]

So on a scale of 1 -10, with 10 being Titan Quest and 1 being Mass Effect, how phat is the lewt in Torchlight?

[Stoney Mason]

So on a scale of 1 -10, with 10 being Titan Quest and 1 being Mass Effect, how phat is the lewt in Torchlight?

It's probably not as deep as Titan Quest or Diablo 2 but its plenty deep enough for this sort of game from what I've seen so far.

The interesting thing I've noticed between this and Fate is that the story seems slightly more substantial than what was in that game which was pretty much nothing.

Also they seemed to have scaled the loot better. When you first started playing Fate you could very rapidly get some pretty good items that threw the scale off a bit imo. They seem to have re-worked that so that you have to earn your loot a little better in the early game from what I've seen so far and you don't start off getting crazy stuff.

[Van Cruncheon]

once again, WHERE IS MY VSYNC OPTION GRR DEVS

[Stoney Mason]

once again, WHERE IS MY VSYNC OPTION GRR DEVS

Stolen from another website.

There is a INI file at "your user\appdata\roaming\runic games\torchlight", you can enable vsync and play with other settings from here. AA can be enabled from game menu.

[Van Cruncheon]

AWESOME. you are an american hero.

[Bebpo]

Played the demo

...man, these games have come a long way since the first Diablo.  Love the presentation and feeling of impact when you sock a guy.  My only problem with the demo was that I was getting so much loot it wasn't long before my inventory and my pets were completely full >_<

[Reb]

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?

I'll try to run it on my netbook somewhere next week. I'm curious to see if it works.
It runs without problems on my laptop.

No, I never played Diablo, I don't really play PC games with a few exceptions (Red Alert, Sim City).

[Van Cruncheon]

well, this game shits in uncharted 2's mouth

goty for sure, filthy console poors weep

[pilonv1]

this game is amazingly awesome. i've got some godly double damage axe now and my dog shoots frost bolts

goty

[Reb]

Wait, you can equip your dog with things? Does he level up?
Games with menu's confuse me.

[Reb]

You should really play Diablo 2 Rebiak.

I want to play this game and understand it!

[Stoney Mason]

Wait, you can equip your dog with things? Does he level up?
Games with menu's confuse me.

The dog doesn't level. (He may scale somewhat based on your level. I'm not sure.) He can wear two rings and an amulet. He can learn two spells.

The fish mechanic is how you make him stronger for short periods of time.

[pilonv1]

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the general vendor was selling a dogfish - turn your pet permanently into a dog

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My dog has silence now, casters are fucked

[cool breeze]

Impressions sound good.  I'm downloading the demo to see how it is.

and are all the community aspects there from release? anything cool created yet?

well, this game shits in uncharted 2's mouth

goty for sure, filthy console poors weep

what about Borderlands? this or that?

[Reb]

Are spells something that gets dropped too, or do you have to learn them somehow?

[Stoney Mason]

Are spells something that gets dropped too, or do you have to learn them somehow?

They get dropped and/or you can buy them in the store.

[Reb]

Sweet, thanks.

Just figured out I won't be playing this until next Tuesday, stupid social life.

[Bebpo]

I found the demo got boring after you reached level 3 or 4 and nothing could touch you.  Walk forward, clickclickclickclickclick (can you just have the game auto-fight everything for you?  10000s clicks is :\).  Then it got fun again at the boss who could actually touch you.

Maybe I need to try at a higher difficulty level than normal.

[Van Cruncheon]

play on very hard, lazy man

[Stoney Mason]

You definitely shouldn't play on normal. I'm playing on hard which is about at the level of most of these games tend to be default.

[demi]

Normal gaming

[Himu]

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.

[Eel O'Brian]

dunno if i'd play on very hard, on the official forums people are saying it gets downright brutal later on

[Bebpo]

Normal gaming

Some people here are normally skilled gaming humans!  We can't all be 100k+ gamerscore demi!!

Ideally "normal" mode in games should be balanced for the average gamer, aka. me, so I also play every game on normal the first time.  If it's too easy or too hard and I should have chosen a different difficulty level, than that's the fault of the dev.

I mean in this case I don't play this genre and the last PC looter I played was Diablo 1 and I never even got all that far.  Normal should be for sorta-genre-newbies like me!

But yeah, I'll try it again on hard.  I like the game but I'd like to have to care about what types of enemies I'm fighting and do something different to strategize against them instead of just running up to them and clicking.

[Stoney Mason]

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.

I would argue Diablo and Titan Quest aren't great comparisons in and of themselves. This game was made in less than a year and costs 20 dollars. Those more ambitious games were always beyond the scope of Torchlight. I would agree that both Diablo 2 and Titan Quest are better games. I always expected them to be.

Ideally "normal" mode in games should be balanced for the average gamer, aka. me,

There is no "average" gamer.

[Eel O'Brian]

i play games on easy or normal because i like to finish playing games

[Great Rumbler]

i play games on easy or normal because i like to finish playing games

I play games on normal because I don't like to feel inordinate amounts of frustration when I play videogames.

[Stoney Mason]

i play games on easy or normal because i like to finish playing games

Nothing 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.