Posted on: December 16, 2015

BionicBull

Games: 488 Reviews: 36

Fun Addictive Action Game

I received Torchlight free about two years ago, but never got around to play it. I was mainly a console gamer and was kind of turned off by using the mouse and keyboard, so I left it alone and hadn't come back to it until recently. Now that I have played it all the way through I can say it was one of the best action-RPGs I have ever played. It really is an arcade-action game with RPG elements, so people who have complained about the lack of RPG elements like Diablo have misunderstood it. This is really a hack and slash action game and it does it well. I think the action and the weapon collecting and upgrading is the main part of the game. Those are the two elements that made me come back for more and more. There are so many different weapons it is so exciting to see what you will find next. Then it is so satisfying to get that lucky find of a weapon and apply it in battle and turn the monsters into minced meat. The skills and magic are good, but not great compared to other games, but it does a satisfactory job. The XP system is easy and the weapon upgrading echoes Final Fantasy 7's materia system in some ways. The weakest part of the game are the side quests. You don't really need to do any thinking. Basically you talk to an NPC and they say something like "When you come across and find XX or kill XX, come back and see me". The items you need to find and return is just lying around somewhere in the dungeon and the monster you need to kill is just hanging around. It would have been better to have created some kind of puzzle or make you work for the side quest. The items you receive for accomplishing the side quest are useful at first, but after the game progresses more deeply the items are not impressive. People who are looking for a fun hack and slash game with RPG elements, weapon finding and upgrading will enjoy it. But, people who are looking for a more complex RPG with a complex XP system, a lot of NPC interactiveness and strong story may be a bit disappointed.

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Posted on: September 19, 2016

mintee

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Games: 802 Reviews: 122

Addictive, and fun time waster

I got this game on sale and didn't think much of it at first, then I lost weeks playing it. It's a great game, so easy to pop in and out of. I often load it to burn some time in between chores or playing other more 'serious' games. Choose between 3 unchangeable avatars already loaded with their base class :mage, warrior, ranger. Each class has 3 combat trees, customize each character the way you want. Want a mage/warrior? go for it. Want a ranger/rogue? just do eet. Want to specialize and go pure mage? fine and dandy. And that in a nutshell is the game's draw. Trying out different classes and builds, seeing the different effects of spells and upgrades, hoping for high value loot drops that can give you the best gear or trash. You have 1 chest you can share among your char's. Its just so pleasant to load a game, buff your gear up, try out spells etc. There is limited crafting via deconstruction of items/gems to gain gems/items. You can gamble and buff gear with chances for devastating failures going up each attempt as well as cost. The first time I had a leet weapon completely stripped of its buffs I died. good times The cons of the game are based in its pros, the ease of playing. Its a pretty stripped down combat rpg game so the shallowness becomes apparent pretty early on. Even if randomly generated the dungeons repeat pretty frequently. The crafting is pretty limited, the vendor gear is also randomly generated each time you port so there is no way to save up for that awesome gear, its gone the next time you enter a dungeon. There are gear sets that combine to give effects, but I have only been able to equip 2 pcs of one set in all my playing, despite grinding ports to reset the vendor. You cant change key bindings which can be awkward, namely having to use shift to hold your char still while range shooting. Thats a long reach to hit #6-0 spells. Fun to play, dont expect indepth story, crafting or dungeons.

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Posted on: December 27, 2018

keviny01

Games: 395 Reviews: 23

Diablo-esque action RPG

Torchlight is a dungeon-crawling action RPG from 2009 that offers over 30 levels of dungeons for about 30 hours of fairly straightforward hack-and-slash, hoard-and-sell, and leveling-up gameplay. In this genre, you start fighting within minutes of starting a new game. No need to spend half hour just to choose your character's class, attributes, race, etc., like in a traditional RPG. But such simplicity often leads to repetitive and grindy gameplay. If you play in short bursts, you will find it exciting. But by the 10-20 hours, you will feel the monotony. This is the nature of the genre, which also includes the Diablo games, Fate, Grim Dawn, and others. All the typical genre elements are here: you combat hordes of monsters, fight through dungeons after dungeons, some with secret areas; you attack via melee, range, magic, and elemental attacks; you find tons of loot, but most are useless to you except for selling; you use gems to enhance your weapons and armor; you learn magic; you have a pet that fights alongside you; you cannot freely save your game, but your progress is auto-saved; there is also a waypoint system that enables quick travel. Torchlight has a few things different from others in the genre. Your pet can run off and sell your useless loot for you, saving you time going back to town to sell it. Monsters do not respawn, as they usually do in other action RPGs. There also isn't much of a storyline compared to other action RPGs. You basically just hunt for the arch-villain, with the narrative little more than some mumbo jumbo about how evil the villain is. Torchlight's graphics are also on the cartoonish side, stressing light-heartedness. The version sold here should include a level editor for the game. If it is not included, you can download it for free from the website of the developer, Runic Games. A sequel called Torchlight 2 came out in 2012; it has less cartoonish graphics, but more of the same gameplay.

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Posted on: July 14, 2012

Radmannsdorf

Verified owner

Games: 399 Reviews: 2

Great single-player fun!

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!

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Posted on: July 29, 2012

spiritos

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Games: 265 Reviews: 1

time disappeared...got to get sleep

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.

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