Titan Quest Anniversary Edition

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Firsthand, I have to say I grew up reading and dreaming about myths from Ancient Greece, and searching for books containing universal legends from the whole world. Secondly, I have played some hack and slash games (or Action RPGs) including Diablo2+LoD, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, The Gothic series (1,2 and 3), played DotA (the classic one, Warcraft 3 mod) for more than 10 years. Thirdly, I have a vast and long experience as a gamer, with different genres, and have a very patient play-style, even with weaker or generic video games. The Pluses: A nice atmospheric introduction and beginning of the game, good music, interesting graphics, typical fantasy enemies (and some original ones, part of the mythical world of some 2000-2500 years ago), "cute" builds, but not revolutionary, and some appreciated classes which you can mix. The Minuses: This game was a disappointment, as the pacing is very very slow and boring, the quests forgettable, the characters annoying with very cliche voices, distracting (in a bad way) items which are very much useless, a lot of time-wasting on teleportation back to town (a system which will make anyone very angry and annoyed) and a very easy play-through, which will leave you empty and furious to have wasted energy. Final Thoughts: It is an interesting game for younger players (12-18 years of age) to discover some lore about the world, fantasy traits and origins of mythological stories, but for a experienced gamer or a veteran, not at all recommended. I gave it 2 stars with generosity. To be avoided if you want a challenge!

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Diablo II was a great game, and there were a lot of mediocre clones that attempted to capitalize on it's success. Titan Quest was, fortunately, very much the exception (albeit, a full 6 years later). While Titan Quest features decent voice-acting and good music, it shined brightest in it's visuals -- and even now, graphically, it holds up extremely well. Unfortunately, the game-play and scripting hasn't fared quite as well. Aside from watching NPCs engage in skirmishes, there's little purpose they serve other than triggering dialogue and quests. But who's here for interaction anyways? It's the character progression and battles that keep players coming back -- and while the progression is still fun, the battles don't shine quite as bright as they once did. This is largely because every attack requires a click (which may not be a big deal to some, but can be tedious to others, and even frustrating to those attempting to play on a laptop, or with a touch-pad, or touch-screen device). As a side note: There's also a glaring technical limitation to this release (which I'm not factoring into my overall score) ... ▸The in-game mouse cursor will be frozen on any HD device (including the Microsoft Surface). This is a result of having application scaling set to anything other than 100% (which is far to small on HD devices). The only work around is to either set scaling to 100%, or run Titan Quest in windowed mode (by hitting alt-enter, or un-checking full-screen in the game options). Just something to be aware of before hand.

A beautiful game. Even though I haven't played the game so much I had the urge to make a review. It is money well spent on but it saddens me that I rate it 4 stars instead of 5 that it rightfully deserves. As greek is my mother language, there wasn't any doubt in my mind that a high rated game set in Greece such as Titan Quest Anniversary Edition, would not be included in my game library. I was very disappointed when I found out that it has over 12 different languages but not greek. A marvelous game set in Ancient Greece that Greek language is non-existent.. It's like developing a game set in Japan that you do not add japanese dialogue and text. In my opinion that is the best way to immerse someone into the world the developers created. It feels more natural. More authentic. And it really bothers me not having it included in the game. There are a few games in the market that have included greek audio and/or text that probably wouldn't be much of a problem not adding them in the end since it wouldn't fit the said games. The case is different in this one. The developers have created a game set in Ancient Greece and mythology with very good English dialogues in it but for my point of view, as soon as the characters open their mouth to speak, I instantly lose my immersion. That opening scene when you were greeted with some ancient greek dialogues that an English person unintentionally butchers is beyond me. Make no mistake. It is a good thought of the developers to add over 12 different languages. It's just truly fail to understand why not Greek... It doesn't make any sense to me... I wish that Greek will be implement in the future. This game rightfully deserves it.