TorchLight - Yay or Nay?

daggity · 2 years

Yay!

jonk777 · 2 years

Try the demo before you buy it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/41510/

deftoners · 2 years

Totally worth it. But I feel a little guilty. With Dragon Age, Borderlands and now MW2. I rarely ever had time to jump into Torchlight. But theres a lot of re playability with it seeing how you can unlock a never ending dungeon and retire your characters giving stuff to your others.

moush · 2 years

It gets boring really fast. There is not a lot of variety in your skills and most of the gameplay consists of either kiting enemies around or chugging health pots while right clicking furiously.

That said, probably worth $20 because it's fun to play in short bursts and they've released a pretty incredible editor, so in a few months there will probably be mods to greatly improve on it.

SolInvictus · 2 years

Yes. Many times yes!

orznge · 2 years

THE YAY IS LEAVING SAN FIERRO

Locke005 · 2 years

Yeah it is really good. Might I suggest you buy it directly from the developers rather than STEAM? More money into the hands of those who worked hard on the game.

kennego · 2 years

If you loved Diablo, it's a no-brainer. The screenshots you're seeing are probably zoomed in compared to your view in-game... you won't really notice them (or won't care once you start playing). Get it and become addicted... for $20 you can't go wrong.

johnnystorm · 2 years

I you like Diablo you will almost certainly like Torchlight.

I didn't like Diablo, I tried the demo and decided not to buy. $20 seems like the right price either way!

plinky4 · 2 years

The enchanting system broke whatever will I had to play the game after killing the last boss once. Knowing that every single drop you ever get is going to get mulched and fed to your frankenstein level 3 weapon is pretty lame.

Enchanting sounds like a great idea, but it cripples the game.

bingcognito · 2 years

It's definitely worth the $20 investment. And they just released the development tools for it, so you can look forward to tons of great mods on the horizon.

Comedian70 · 2 years

Yay! For 20 bucks, it'll cover your Diablo addiction. It is repetitive and it REALLY is just a 3D Diablo clone. But for the purpose intended: to give you a few hours fun, it's well worth the money.

SyKoHPaTh · 2 years

If you feel like reading a "long" review, I posted one here.

tl;dr version: it's worth it for the $20 - the amount of fun more than makes up for no multiplayer.

Mikhail664 · 2 years

Definite Yay, honestly its the best point and click RPG since Diablo II.

fattyl · 2 years

It's definitely worth the 20$, fun game, at least 10-15 hours of pure mindless diablo-esque fun.

SoujiroSeta · 2 years

I've been waiting a long time for such a good game! You should definetely buy it!

(i cant wait for the f2p torchlight mmo!) :)

GrammarJerk · 2 years

Yea*

[deleted] · 2 years

I got bored quickly - might be something for you, but it's kinda like Diablo II singleplayer, which I have never been a fan of.

sbrown123 · 2 years

It is worth the $20. I became bored of it though. The voice acting is horrid and the quests are rather lame. If it had networking, a few more world types, and a few more creatures it would be better. But that is asking a lot for just $20.

chrisjc · 2 years

You'll love it, man. If you have a weekend to waste, this will be PERFECT.

And I know that feeling :D - there's nothing better than pizza and an engrossing game on a weekend.

godzawor · 2 years

I diggin' it. Plays pretty well under Crossover Games 8.

Kingleary · 2 years

Hell yay.

FrankVice · 2 years

It's a lot of fun :D

howNowBrownSow · 2 years

Definite yay. Streamlined and addictive dungeon-crawling. I would have played it more, but then I got Borderlands, and then Dragon Age.

pyccak · 2 years

Yay. Very fun. For what it presents itself as - very yay.

demonsquiggle · 2 years

yay verily yay merrily just plain yay

collinsc · 2 years

Think D2 with most of the irritating things fixed, but obviously without some of that famous blizzard polish.

FlySwat · 2 years

I bought it last night. It is awesome.

sliceofbread · 2 years

Yay, but they need to simplify the graphics a bit - I can't even see what is going on while I am smashing skulls, I just have to watch my health and assume I'm near or far from monsters. Example

bulldozer86 · 2 years

SO YAY!

pointblank00 · 2 years

It's a great game but I'm having a lot of problems running it properly. Crashes on me every 30 min or so and seems like other people are having similar problems. Hopefully it all gets sorted out soon but for 20$ can't really go wrong

geej · 2 years

Definite yea. Its definitely on par with Diablo 2 (sans Battle.net of course).

On a side note, if you're trying to kick an addictive gaming habit, this game is very manageable in terms of playtime and you can quit wherever you like.

turklish · 2 years

Its quite good. If you liked Diablo its well worth the $20.

painordelight · 2 years

Cons: Skill trees are not entirely unique per class, there's no in-game interface for mapping your own hotkeys (though it can still be done, instructions available on the official forum). The spell and attack animations are quite pretty but also hide from you what you're trying to kill -- many times I mistakenly assume i've cleared a room but there's still a few goblins biting me. Some abilities have woefully nondescript tooltips, any without an option to respec you'll find yourself wasting points in skills that you hate. The difficulty settings are out of whack, if you've played diablo before I'd recommend starting on hard or very hard.

Pros: I liked it enough to go back and try the other two classes with a full play-though of each. The price is right at $20.

MyNameIsDan_ · 2 years

TORCHLIGHT GET. No seriously, it's worth it. well it was more fun before they changed how enchanting works now... I just got 3 nice weapons of mine disenchanted and now I'm pissed >:(.

But I still play it.

ryanj629 · 2 years

Yay! I tried the demo on steam before I bought the game. Its pretty good... I hope it can hold me over until Diablo 3 comes out.

rx8geek · 2 years

I got it lastnight when I heard there was a netbook mode!

While I'm not sure how it runs on most normal netbooks, I have a Samsung N510 which has an Nvidia Ion chipset. Plays at native res 1366x768 smooth as silk, although you need to drop the detail down to low when the action increases to keep it going nice! It doesnt even need to be on netbook graphics mode.

Havent played it much yet, but I think it'll keep me entertained when I'm out and about with my netbook

Ksilebo · 2 years

Try the demo first on steam.

rmeddy · 2 years

Yay but I'm waiting for the multiplayer.

vengeance64 · 2 years

Which one means yes?

jrb · 2 years

Yay - a decision made oh so easy by the fact as a UK citizen it's very hard to find content i can purchase in native US prices. Win win! Awesome game, awesome price! :)

sylv3r · 2 years

It's totally worth your 20 bucks. It's no Dragon Age but it'll certainly pass your time.

shadowfall · 2 years

I'd vote Yea. Absolutely fun time waster.

TheVirtuousJ · 2 years

I played it for a few days. All it did was get me excited for Diablo 3.

timotheo · 2 years

I had been playing it until Dragon Age came out, and I dropped it immediately and will probably not go back. I solve 90% of the games I buy, and Torchlight is in that last 10%. It really needs multiplayer to make it interesting enough for me to play.

divv · 2 years

It's identical to their last game...FATE

Viva_Zapata · 2 years

Yay squared. Bought it on a whim and I love it. But, you should probably try out the demo, as was already suggested. It's a lot of fun for a small price and doesn't need much requirement-wise.

Eli_Kasimir · 2 years

It strikes me as extremely well-made, and the artwork is beautiful... But for some reason it just can't hold my attention. I thoroughly enjoyed Diablo I and II, and did not find them repetitive or boring at all, yet Torchlight is just boring to me. I can't really explain why.

pants_optional · 2 years

boring after a few hours

Wagnerius · 2 years

( it can be boring because the enchantment system and the different tuning options are not very well explained. )

bear-o-dactyl · 2 years

Good time sink. Somewhat addicting. I can't play it for more than two hours without getting bored, but I still come back to it. Brings back good memories of Diablo, but makes me sad that there is no multi-player. The randomized dungeons seemed to work so well for mp games in Diablo.

Definite buy if you're looking for a fun, cheap game.

nofaithinhumanity · 2 years

Torchlight was a great big YAY for me

And just so you know developers, I pirated the game first, loved it, and then bought it on Steam afterward. I would not have bought the game on Steam without pirating it first. The demo gives you a ridiculously small time limit of like 2 minutes of play, which isn't enough time to really get a feel for the game, as a lot of the "wow" factor is from the later levels, especially the dwarf fortress level.

psilokan · 2 years

Try asking yourself a simple question: How many hours did you play singleplayer in d2?

If your answer is <60, go buy Dragon Age instead.

ninjameese · 2 years

<3 YAY!!!

I am having a blast with it so far.

So you have a reference on random YAY-ness: I also liked D2 and WoW and the first lord of the rings was fun, did not like Dungeons and Dragons online.

wurzle · 2 years

$20 for a high quality game put out by an honest PC developer who isn't shitting on their market. Its worth it even if you don't play it for that long.

Juan_Solo · 2 years

Torchlight doesn't even pretend it's not a clone of D2. It's just shameless.

EvilTelephone · 2 years

As someone who prefers playing these types of RPGs multiplayer, I'm putting in a "nay". Check out the demo, though, to form your own opinion.

It is cartoony, but the style works for this game. It wasn't a turn-off for me. Plus, if you have a halfway decent computer, it runs at like a billion frames per second.

Psyanide · 2 years

I loved the original Diablo, attempted to get into Diablo II many, many times before giving up on it.

This game turned me into an ARPG lover.

Buy it.

DiskoVilante · 2 years

It's YEA or Nay actually. Not "yay".

rowens72 · 2 years

i said i wouldn't by a game with a metascore lower than 85 but....I so loved the Diablo series i decide to break my own rule :/

jdlyga · 2 years

If you've played Diablo 2, don't buy torchlight. Instead, reinstall Diablo 2 and play it again instead.

bntly · 2 years

Take Diablo II

Remove the fun

Combine it with World of Warcraft

Remove the fun.

you have.. TORCHLIGHT!

iambear · 2 years

This is exactly the same as Diablo 2, except with no multiplayer and graphical improvements. And guns.

iambear · 2 years

I will say, though, this game is pretty fun. =]

p3ngwin · 2 years

yay up to about level 30 on the demo, then the pattern of growth stops and you're into repetition territory.

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