Lachelle: was titan quest like diablo3 a little?
aoffenmueller: The biggest differences between Diablo 3 and Titan Quest are the areas - Diablo maps are randomly generated, Titan Quest maps are pre-rendered) and the skill systems - in D3 you can change all skills at will, in TQ all your skill choices will be fixed.
It´s a matter of taste.
I like the beautiful rendered maps in TQ much more and the skill trees and are much more interessting to me.
Actually, Titan Quest does not have pre-rendered background graphics, they're all real-time 3D polygon graphics. The camera has a fixed angle though, and the maps remain the same on each playthrough. If I remember correctly, Diablo 3 doesn't have full procedural map generation either... ? Been a while since I've played it, and I never finished it.
As for the skill system, Titan Quest allows for skill re-specs as well, but it's not as flexible as in Diablo 3.
I think the most important factor is the setting. Diablo has the dark setting based on biblical themes, while Titan Quest has a mix of different settings and themes, but is overall brighter and more colorful. I think I like the latter a little better, and if someone wants a dark and gritty Action-RPG, Grim Dawn arguably does that better and with more creativity than Diablo 3.