Titan Quest Anniversary Edition

One of the best hack and slash games ever made. You visit ancient civilizations, like ancient Greece or Egypt, and you hunt tones of monsters, find tones of weapons, create tones of character builds. Doesnt have so much content as Diablo 3 (random adventures and all) but its gameplay the scenery and the graphics is definitely as good, if not, even better and, whats best about it, it is sunny.

I like the mythological setting and the game is fun, but I absolutely don't appreciate being strong-armed into buying DLCs. It took me a while to realise it, but if you're playing the vanilla version, a significant portion of the loot generated is apparently for Ragnarok. You cannot use, pick (or even see) these items, so in effect you get significantly less good loot compred to someone who does own Ragnarok. Not cool, devs! This shady choice is indefensible and it would be elementary to fix. If you think that Ragnarok is so essential to the game, bundle it all together and sell it for a single price. If you're going to sell the two separately, then vanilla players must be able to enjoy the game without being harassed and penalised. It's not ok to sell people a supposedly standalone game, only to have them find out that it's actually been sabotaged and they need to pay extra to enjoy it as it was intended.

I remember my older computer couldn't even run the demo, because of some graphics thing and being really disappointed because it looked like so much fun. I bought it recently on Steam and have something like 6-8 Characters, and no I haven't finished the game. I just love trying a new character, trying one of the skill trees and being a new type. Titan Quest is gorgeous to look at, it plays smooth (with the occasional little lag for some odd reason), the animations are so well done as well. What is fun about this game is often times if you see an enemy with a weapon and kill it, it will drop that weapon and let you loot it. Immortal Throne added those formulas and scrolls mainly as a kind of money sink because from what I remember, people were ending up with millions of gold at the end of the game with nothing much to spend it all, so now you have something fun to spend on. My only recommendation is get the game now and enjoy this game that has stood up very very well and just have fun.

The game itself is fine, worth 5 stars, so then why this 1 star review? Well, don't you just love it when they retroactively put advertisement and links to online shops into your old games? How about adding new items into the game's shops that you can't buy or use because you don't own the new DLC? I'm disgusted by this, fuck this behavior, it completely ruins the experience. It's bad enough that we have to suffer this bullshit in brand new games, but now they are putting it into old games as well.