Torchlight

I found the game repetitive (by ARPG standards) and annoying. -The maps are repetitive. There are several themes like mines, jungle and ruins, caves, etc. But there is not much difference between maps of the same theme. To the point whole maps are repeated. -Unfair difficulty. Some common enemies oneshot the character. The dark zealots being the most annoying with their high damage range attacks. When common enemies are more powerfull and dangerous than boss enemies, then it means that the game is not been properly designed and balanced. -When playing with a range type of character (archer or wizard), the HUD hides enemies when they are in that side of the screen. Making it difficult to deal with them when they see your character but you can´t see them. -The pet is useless. And this is a nonsense if we take into account that the pet is one of the things that make this game a bit different. The pet will die all the time. Doesn´t matter if you spend skillpoints in pet strenghening abilities. The pet will keep dying all the time. This is a wasted opportunity. -Secondary missions are extremely lame. To me, this game doesn´t have anything that makes it worth playing. The story is nearly nonexistent and I found the skills uninteresting or useless. I felt it was a waste of money and time. I like ARPGs. I replay them several times. But I will never come back to this game again.

If you don't like MMORPG and online games, but rather like to play single-player type games (these are more and more rare these days), than this game is for you. A masterpiece of the hack'n slash genre, similar to Diablo 1/2. GOG, thanks for the updated version, now the mods are working!

Ok, being a fan of NetHack (yes, really old school) and Diablo, which is a no brainer fun ARPG, I thought I would just spend a couple of minutes today trying out Torchlight (of course the choice was to buy it from GoG and being a huge fan for almost 4 I would definately buy more and more games from GoG) anyway, back to the story: 4...Hours...Later... Amazing, foolish fun...lootfest at it's best, seriously...bring the second torchlight to GoG and I will buy it too!!! the hell with diablo 3, this one is actually fun.

I never was a fan of Diablo (I played D2 for only 3 hours) and the genre as such, but I was curious, I heared a few people talk about the game, so when it was on sale I bought it ... and I don't regret it. I will never reach level 100, hunt for armor over and over, but I really enjoy picking up my hammer and my shovel from time to time and go down to the caverns.

This is probably one of the more enjoyable dungeon crawlers that I have played over the years. The sound and graphics are good enough and there is a really nice amount of character customization. The only things I can say bad about this game is that there isn't enough of a difference between all of the different classes in the game and there is no co-op. Some would argue that it gets repetitive, but that comes with the genre and is to be expected.