Torchlight

if only they had been allowed to finish Diablo 3 it wouldn't be the abysmal failure that it is. Torchlight is a breath of fresh air and is fun, everything an ARPG should be... you can get uber powerful, great loot, much fun and the game is completely accessible. No DRM to interfere with your enjoyment; moddable, playable online or over a LAN or just by yourself. CANNOT WAIT for TL2 which will be out later this year.

Unlike Torchlight 2 this isn't neccesarily a roguelike. The mines are basically the same each time you play. YOu'll have to use the Torchlight editor to fix that. The other dungeons are really just random premade and chossen at random depending on your level and situation I would still buy it though. But the sequel is far superior

I took my dual-wielding vanquisher throughout the game with the same build without any issues. Then I hit the final boss. For starters, my PC at the time couldn't handle the sheer amount of enemies on screen — up until that point I'd had absolutely no framerate problems whatsoever. And what little damage I dealt got completely healed every time the boss cannibalized its minions, meaning I had no chance of winning the battle. In other words, the build that had been working from the first room until the penultimate one was basically useless against the final boss. I tried to fix it using some spare points I still had, but to no avail. Overall, it was a fun playthrough, except for that frustrating showdown. And, of course, I never got to finish the game…

The gameplay is pretty much Diablo 1 with 3d graphics, gameplay that is less challenging and overall dumber, despite putting in some innovations that only showed up in Diablo 2, and and none of the atmosphere of the original. Admittedly, it's been a very long time since I played Diablo, so maybe I'm looking at it through nostalgia-tinted glasses and it would bore me as much as this game if I tried replaying it now. Anyway, not very good, won't finish, uninstalling after a few hours.

never played torchlight but i can now see why this is the new looter dungeon diving rpg that makes me side eye blizzard even more.