A couple weeks ago I got a demo on steam which I downloaded for no real reason other than the intriguingly nondescript name. Torchlight: what could it mean? It then sat there for the aforementioned couple weeks until I was bored with Left 4 Dead 2 one night. I started 'er up, all the time wondering what kind of game it even was. Shooter? RPG? Strategy? First Person? Third?
Second? That game would be hard, you'd have to maneuver your character while seeing only through the view points of other characters or enemies. Someone with a lot of money to lose should make that. Anyway, back to torchlight. The game started up...oooh, I got to choose my class, an RPG then. I picked the Vanquisher because she had a gun in the picture for the loading screen. I wanted to have a gun. I picked which pet to have, a dog or a cat, cat naturally. I named it kittenkazoo after myself and jumped into the game. Apparently all was not well in the city of Torchlight and I needed to go into the caves and mines underneath to solve the troubles. I walked around a bit and talked to some people and skipped all of the tutorials because I realized the game was just Diablo with cartoony graphics. I wandered around more and realized with horror that the interface was laid out like World Of Warcraft. After some wanderings and battles I noticed the music even sounded like Tristram, what a load. Being a longtime devotee of the Diablo series I rankled at the blatant plagiarism of this little game. I was not pleased with it and it never did anything to change my mind. I didn't even finish the demo all the way, not because it was too bad but because it was too boring. It was just like playing another game I had invested hundreds upon hundreds of hours in but without the nostalgia or perfection of game play and atmosphere. I quit, deciding I had better games to play and don't intend to go back. In the end it's a guileless Diablo knockoff that resembles the freakish lovechild of Diablo and WoW. If you like those two father games enough you'll probably love Torchlight, but if you happen to loathe the latter then I would pass it up. It seemed like it was well made but not compelling or intriguing in any way. However, don't let my judgments on this somewhat lack luster RPG dissuade you from checking it out. Here's some media for those interested. Cheers.
Here's the original trailer.And here are some screen shots.
A guy fighting a troll on what appears to be the bridge of Khazad-dûm.A Vanquisher being all archer-y.And a guy just apparently fucking up some ghosts or something.-dudekazoo
