First, there are more than just 6 buttons to push. There are a few other ways in which TL2 whups D3's ass. Did I mention how important an offline single player option is? (Note - the cooperative mode works just fine, if you were worried.) To me, playing in the same room as your buds, chaps and friends wherever you may be or whatever you might call them, is the best part of the whole experience. Apparently companies believe no one wants to have LAN parties, probably because cooperative play over the interwebz is so prominent. (Note: Diablo III will be coming out soon on console and the console will have an offline mode but nothing appears to be changing whn it comes to PC). If you can't log in for some reason or have bad connectivity, you're out of luck with D3 and similar games. You have fewer opportunities to just go buy a game and play it. LAN?! What blasphemy is this? There is an industry trend that is taking games away from offline mode. Unlike D3, in which you had be logged in all the time, there is an off-line option for TL2, including LAN capability. Since TL2 could not be as graphics intense as D3 (smaler development team, lower budget), Runic Games had to focus on gameplay to make up for the lack. The soundtrack and sound effects fit the style of game very well and the reality features (time of day cycles, weather effects and stuff like that) are nicely done. Despite the hype and all the work that went into it, Diablo III was badly lacking.Įverything missing from Diablo III can be found in Torchlight II - a game built by a team of just 14 Devs (Developers). Overall Diablo III failed to capture players' interest as efficiently as the previous Diablo titles. It's a pretty game and it sounds cool, but the gameplay is dull and repetitive and you have to be logged in to play. I played maybe 30-40 hours of Diablo III and enjoyed it for maybe the first 4-5 hours. Basically it's a Diablo clone - or so I thought. Torchlight II is a 3rd person button-smashing-kill-everything grindfest game of the "action RPG" (Role Playing Game) genre. Turns out this thing kick's Diablo III's ass. I'm glad it did, because to be honest I think I badly underestimated the game when it first came out. Friday was the one year anniversary of the release of Torchlight II, which I picked up recently as a part of a Humble Bundle weekly sale.
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