Posted on: February 3, 2019

djtwreckz

Games: 450 Reviews: 7

Throwback to Diablo

This is an excellent game to get your start if you have never played an ARPG. This is a good throwback to Diablo, minus the more gothic vibe of Diablo. While the graphics may be a bit too cartoony for some, I think the graphics are a strength and have helped this game age well visually compared to many other contemporaries in this genre. The story is very standard. Wizard seeks magical object, gets corrupted, you try to stop him. Friend gets changed into an evil monster, you kill him, and now you are on your way to loot and hack and slash heaven. Now I will say the voice acting in my opinion is very good, albeit with some hokey and standard 'RPG Trope' lines. The game sound and music is also a big plus with some great music that sounds very 'Diablo-esque'. (Considering most of this development team are from the team that brought us Diablo). The gameplay is fast paced, the enemies are plentiful and killing things is satisfying. And the loot. My God the loot. You get a lot of it. Everything in the inventory only takes up one slot, so no more inventory Tetris here. That's really my biggest complaint. You get just oodles and oodles of loot. You'll get a few levels in and your inventory will be inundated with weapons, armor, jewels, and magical items and the like. With this game it's more about which items you want to keep, not what you need to get. Again if you don't mind the ludicrous amount of loot and the somewhat cartoony graphics, this is a good ARPG with a decent enough story, satisfying gameplay great sound and music for any ARPG fan.

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Posted on: June 3, 2022

Bonesinger

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Games: 635 Reviews: 18

Surpassed by Torchlight 2

The game feels a lot like Diablo 1. There's 3 classes to choose from, 1 town and 1 dungeon you delve deeper and deeper into, all while fighting loads of enemies, grabbing items to sell and hoping one of the drops is a better item to equip. It plays fine and is a fine game, which by now should run decently on any computer. The controls are good and the powers that each class has brings enough variety to experiment with them. However, I don't see much reason to play this instead of Torchlight 2. The second game does everything better and also has multiplayer support

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Posted on: November 5, 2013

segahead

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Games: 443 Reviews: 12

Better than Diablo.

I remember playing the predecessor of this game (Fate) long ago on my first laptop computer. It was a Diablo clone but it did a lot of things I liked better than Diablo such as giving you a pack animal you could send back to town alone to automatically sell off your unwanted loot. Fate was an ugly game though. I kept thinking as I played if it just looked a little better... Well then Torchlight came along and delivered everything I felt was lacking in Fate. Mainly a great art style. If you're looking for a Diablo experience on GOG this here is the best one I think you'll find. The only thing you could really criticize is the lack of multiplayer--they added that in Torchlight 2 but for me I only play PC games alone so just having a fun single player game is all I need. I did have a bit of trouble getting this to run in widescreen on Windows 10 but the Windows troubleshooting popped up after a while and using that I finally got Torchlight to save my widescreen settings. Now I'm whacking monsters and grinding loot on Windows 10 to my heart's content.

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Posted on: February 16, 2014

papa.CoSTa

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Games: 353 Reviews: 1

Just (almost) perfect

Just buy it and you will dig into the the game from the very start. Mechanics are gerat, the game is responsive and stays rewarding. The only (small) problem - it gets somehow repetitive but tons of loot keeps it interesting.

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Posted on: December 14, 2012

DarthCruciare

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Games: 326 Reviews: 10

The Neverwinter Nights of Hack & Slash RPGs

Like Neverwinter Nights, Torchlight is a game that is greatly enhanced by modding support. There are vast range of mods available, ranging from annoyance-eliminating (all items are identified) to game-changing (a mod that adds more than a DOZEN NEW CLASSES). Lots of people have called this game a Diablo clone, and they are not wrong. But the level of randomization in this game is even greater than Diablo's. The only thing Diablo's maps randomized was the layout: you are still going to go through the cathedral, to the catacombs, the caves, then finally Hell itself. BUT, where Torchlight diverges are the scrolls that port you to random dungeons that are suited to your character level. The graphics, even by today's standards, are impressive. In fact, I was playing this game on my laptop at my college, and a passerby stopped and asked me 'Is that Diablo 3?'. He was wrong, but he was also right. When a larger game developer starts imitating a smaller game developer, you know they must be doing something right. If it weren't for the mods, this game would like get a lower score. It was a brilliant move on the developers part to allow modding, thus ensuring that people will continue to play for years to come, just like NWN. As for gameplay, I throughly enjoyed it. My favourite aspects of the game are ranged combat. It offered complex options that none of the Diablo games from 1 - 3. Dual wielding with two ranged weapons is something that is something is not often offered, even in later games like WoW. As for Diablo 3, the only character that can dual wield ranged weapons effectively is the Demon Hunter, and that is with only one class of weapon. In Torchlight, you could have a pistol in one hand, and a wand in the other. At the end of the day, if you were to ask me I prefered Torchlight or Diablo 3, I go with Torchlight, every time. No DRM, no online-only requirement, and best of all, no accounts that got locked multiple times due to 'suspicious behaviour', i.e, I didn't play the game for months because it sucks, and now I want back in, but I can't. With Torchlight 2 out on Steam, you could own 2 great games with hundreds of hours of replayable gameplay for half the cost of Diablo 3 alone. You simply can't go wrong. Blizzard, go to the corner, think about what you did, and take this game with you. With luck, Starcraft 2's expansions will treat us far better than Diablo 3 ever did.

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