Even the level design that was said to be random isnвЂ™t so random. This gets old and repetitive extremely fast. Your pet has an inventory in which you can junk up and tell it to head to town to sell your junk. Torchlight exemplifies this by allowing you the option to never even have to return to town. The game is so mindless that I couldnвЂ™t bring myself to play any longer. Rounding level thirty, I found myself nodding off. This, by the way, is the only way to experience Torchlight as multiplayer was excluded entirely. Technically you could say that the game consists of three quests- the main storyline quest, the monster hunting quest, and the item hunting quests- which pretty much sums up the single player experience. Then you have the over-done item hunting quest where you go to this place, collect this item and return. You have your basic assassination quest that wants you to go to this place, kill this mob, and return. There are only two other quests that you can take on, and they ultimately end up repeating over and over. Torchlight Content - Or Lack ThereofвЂ¦ (1 out of 5) While this action RPG doesnвЂ™t lack in action, it lacks in every other aspect. A higher level character is better off hunting items to allow for вЂtwinkingвЂ™ rather than retiring it. There is more benefit from avoiding the retirement system all together.

The benefits of retiring will only net your next character an extra level of fame and you start with an extra skill point. You are better off simply throwing all your gear in a shared chest before you retire. The item level requirements stay the same, however, which means your character wonвЂ™t even be able to wield it until they beat the game themselves. ItвЂ™s supposed to improve the items stats and be useful in some way to the next character you create. You do, however, get to pass on one of your characterвЂ™s items as a heirloom. Retiring a character will render it completely unplayable and is irreversible. They give you the option to retire your character after you have killed the final boss. Runic Games' logic behind character progression feels to be a bit backwards in Torchlight. And after the first ten dungeons, youвЂ™ve seen what the entire game is all about. Had it not been for this, I would have undoubtedly taken my character into a harder difficulty. There is no point to continue the same character after you defeat the final boss. YouвЂ™re stuck in the setting you choose with nothing to do but the endless, randomly generated dungeons. After you complete the game, your character does not even have the option to continue on in a harder difficulty setting. Honestly though, I couldnвЂ™t tell you how much harder the game is on the harder difficulty levels. The mobs offer no real challenge and the entire game lacks in difficulty even with the added difficulty levels. YouвЂ™re going to be spending a lot of your time mindlessly clicking any random skill, hammering on random mobs, and browsing through which loot you want to wear. If youвЂ™re looking for more options, IвЂ™m sorry, youвЂ™re out of luck. You walk around, you kill stuff, you collect loot, you level up, you spend stat points and skill points to make your character stronger, and you do one epic storyline quest to complete the game. What do you get when you combine the level design techniques of Diablo, the loot system from Diablo 2, the monsters and creatures from World of Warcraft, the music from Diablo, and a few borrowed ideas from Diablo 3? TorchlightвЂ¦itвЂ™s like the best of all the above but not nearly as fun or exciting. Maybe this wonвЂ™t affect sales so bad for Torchlight? Torchlight Gameplay - Torchlight In A Nutshell (2 out of 5) Those who purchased the $100 lifetime subscriptions were left with a sore feeling for the company. Runic Games used the same sales phrase in hopes of selling more copies of their previous title, вЂњ Hellgate: London.вЂќ For whatever reason, the Hellgate: London MMO tanked and the servers are offline.

We know what a good game should be no matter who makes it. While that may have been true back when Diablo was first released, gamers have gotten smarter and know better than to take someoneвЂ™s word for it. Runic Games seems to think that using the phrase вЂњby the creators of DiabloвЂќ will move copies and motivate you to buy whatever they throw at you. Diablo was a fantastic game for its time, but it simply doesnвЂ™t hold a candle to todayвЂ™s selection.

If the game sucks, nobody is going to play it. Runic Games, formerly known as Flagship studios and also formerly known as вЂњthe creators of Diablo,вЂќ doesnвЂ™t quite seem to get the big picture.

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