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Title: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 29, 2009, 12:08:56 pm
Hi everyone, tired of waiting for Diablo 3? Then you should really consider trying a game called Torchlight released yesterday.

It has all the great great features and gameplay from Diablo 2 and new handy stuff and awesome graphics! The current cost is 20$, I've played it for about 5 hours this morning and I must say from the first impression it is pretty awesome :D.

If you are fans of diablo games you should look up some screenies or game vids on youtube and perhaps even try this one because D3 could take another year to come out!

That's all I have. www.torchlightgame.com

edit: k couldnt wait so I took a couple of screens myself. Btw you have only 3 chars to pick: Warrior, Archer and Alchemyst types. You get a pet which is handy cos you can send your frikkin pet sell the crap to town while you keep on plowing through skulls.

here are some screenies from 2nd checkpoint area, looks like a jungle and all but it's 10 floors underground aparently. The storyline takes you from this little mining town to its mine and you chase this mad guy deep bellow and try to stop whatever shit he's got going on.  :P

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee220/iedookie/T1.jpg)

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee220/iedookie/T2.jpg)

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee220/iedookie/T3.jpg)

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee220/iedookie/T4.jpg)

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee220/iedookie/T5.jpg)
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Karga on October 29, 2009, 01:06:15 pm
20 $ for a fake/copycat game is way too much !

:]  but thanks for the advice
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Inphy on October 29, 2009, 01:11:08 pm
it's downloadble :p
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Karga on October 29, 2009, 01:14:28 pm
sssshhhh ! i am on it  ::)
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 29, 2009, 03:14:15 pm
wierd, there's same traps as in diablo except that you cannot prevent getting it exploded in your face and then a voice says : You have triggered a trap, well thx alot for telling me I didnt see!

also you try to open a nice shiny chest and poof it comes alive and tries to eat you, damn trasure chests!
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Inphy on October 29, 2009, 03:49:34 pm
Just played this for a few hours. Pretty fucking awesome I can say. It's like diablo 2, but a bit better.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Douchebag on October 29, 2009, 04:39:12 pm
20 $ for a fake/copycat game is way too much !

:]  but thanks for the advice

It's made by the same people that did Diablo 1/2
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: delling on October 29, 2009, 04:49:37 pm
Ah, the guys that left for... er... what was it... Flagship? Or I forget now...
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Daekesh on October 29, 2009, 05:17:06 pm
I tried to find a torrent a week ago... I failed.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 29, 2009, 05:45:25 pm
dunno about torrents, it's free to download and all, just that after you install it you get asked for activation code, they said there'd be a demo version soon and a retail DvD in stores in January.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: kawe on October 29, 2009, 07:18:01 pm
20 $ for a fake/copycat game is way too much !

:]  but thanks for the advice

You pay monthly for a copycat game called wow though!
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Inphy on October 29, 2009, 10:04:44 pm
I use newsgroups to find this, installed and no activation or anything. Shouldn't be hard to find.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 29, 2009, 10:08:42 pm
tbh dont give a damn about copycating, blizzard kept us waiting for too long and this is pretty awesome and fresh wind to Diablo-like RPG genre, + there's a map editor and the creators expect to rain down the mods any time soon :D, im on 24th level after 12 hours of game. Just when it starts getting boring you get some funny scripted thing to cheer you up or a complete scenery change :)

anyway on lvl 30 with the warrior after an intense day of killing, got this shockwave stuff that just stomps everything to the ground, it's getting too easy, I should have started on very hard diff instead of normal :/, I'll probably try out the ranged/caster classes tomorow, but I'll be damned if anything could ever come close to the melee classes in RPG games  :D

so far so good, hopefully the last boss won't be a pussy like every other finals I've met so far.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Fuzion on October 30, 2009, 12:19:36 am
Ah, the guys that left for... er... what was it... Flagship? Or I forget now...

Yeah Flagship.

And the guy leading it was Bill something.. I read alot of interviews about Bill when WoW was still being developed. He is the mind behind the Warcraft and Diablo franchise, explains the similiarities between the games.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Karga on October 30, 2009, 12:24:36 am
20 $ for a fake/copycat game is way too much !

:]  but thanks for the advice

You pay monthly for a copycat game called wow though!

yeah i know about my sin ! God won't forgive me for that!
Neither i will....
WoW is the most expensive game ever. Because the money -and time- we spend for the same game for over 4 years.

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By the way, the game "Torchlight" has a cool interface and concept.
So don't take it to serious if i name it copycat.
Everything in life learns by copying somebody/something else.
And if they are capable of doing it well, and creative enough to put a bit more to improve it !
it may be named success !
At least this one seems to be good on that !



Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 30, 2009, 01:46:13 am
yeah last boss is a complete wuss, but he had 4598876 milion HP, so it took me like 40mins to fucking cleave him down :/ laaaame, looks like the game continues though, some new location opened after the last main story guy died.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Inphy on October 30, 2009, 02:20:47 am
Wait? It has a storyline? I thought I just had to hack and slash through mobs :o
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Karga on October 30, 2009, 03:44:10 am
so it took me like 40mins to fucking cleave him down :/

Seems like u need better Gear !
Link Achievement & Epic Please !
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 30, 2009, 07:55:31 am
Yeah this mad guy is going deep into the mountain to revive and free some old freak monster, a crystal elemental version of Diablo tbh, he does fires, summons and frost ground dmg.

Bad part about quest givers is that all of them give chains so if you forget/dont do one of their quests you won't most likely go behind and do it, so I ended up with the main storyline quest at the end instead of 6-7 quest givers that give quests for each level of the dungeon :/

The boss looked pretty impressive at first but then I found out it comes down to clicking my zerg button and drinking a pot once a minute for like half an hour, no tactic just pure button mash :( I had a sort of a prot warrior so yeah, not brilliant on dmg.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Douchebag on October 30, 2009, 11:16:38 am
Played it last night till 4 in the morning.

It's really really good.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Kilizion on October 30, 2009, 03:13:36 pm
Does it have multiplayer?
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Inphy on October 30, 2009, 05:25:26 pm
Oefs, just played it at hard. It's quite hard! Like it should be.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 30, 2009, 05:42:08 pm
Does it have multiplayer?

nope it doesn't which is the only default I have come across so far.

but they will hopefully think about patching one in after all the suggestions they get on their forums, 50% ppl are saying they would buy the game if it had a MP.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Karga on October 30, 2009, 07:02:37 pm
* Customable Characters
* Multiplayer

is what they need if they want to sell it.

And something unique if they want to keep people's attention on them for several months. Some kind of funny addition. At the moment it's just same like
Diablo2. Just with shorter Questlines, less Gore, less characters, n0n-cinematics...

So really, after playing it for 4 hours yesterday. it does not deserve the 20 bucks !

Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on October 31, 2009, 12:09:15 am
demoversion's on steam if anyone cares.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Kilizion on October 31, 2009, 04:07:12 am
Will play this and post some feedback! Do want multiplayer patch, I hope they release it, even if it's client side and only co-op! :)
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Goza on November 02, 2009, 01:09:47 pm
Yeah Flagship.

And the guy leading it was Bill something.. I read alot of interviews about Bill when WoW was still being developed. He is the mind behind the Warcraft and Diablo franchise, explains the similiarities between the games.

Bill Roper doesn't have anything to do with Torchlight/Runic Games. Instead they seem to be the Flagship guys without Roper, as everything that Roper touches since leaving Blizzard turns to shit (Hellgate:London, Champions Online).
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Mouseh on November 06, 2009, 12:01:32 pm
This game is same like that old diablo clone called 'Fate', too much generic dungeon crawler without any story. It was interesting for half hour.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Dookie on November 06, 2009, 03:50:57 pm
dunno mate, sounds like a perfect Diablo description, 5-6 quests, 4 cinematics, that's all your story.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Daekesh on November 06, 2009, 03:57:49 pm
It does get very repetitive, though.  The story isn't exactly very gripping, either.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Kilizion on November 06, 2009, 04:58:48 pm
After playing this, It's not bad! Would like to see a better story and some more 'stuff' and a multiplayer, hopefully they'll make it awesome!
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Daekesh on November 07, 2009, 02:32:34 am
I bought it on steam.  Well worth £15.
Title: Re: Diablo III, or is it?
Post by: Shannaro on November 19, 2009, 11:34:41 am
I downloaded it last night, played 4hours :D i am lvl 12! :D