Poor intro? A lot of nerve? Who cares... It is TL2 and I am just buying. No need for cinematic intro's. Love to support games where the dev's are actually present.

As I said earlier, if you think it should be on par with a Guild Wars 2 or Skrim cinematic then you expect too much. Runic is a low budget company at the moment and they do with what they can afford to handle. It could use some color but overall not bad.

I liked it, they went for something different rather than the expensive over the top cgi trailers. 

Looks too much like a bad saturday morning cartoon.

But oh well, it's still a far cry from saying the game will suck. Can't wait to see this game in action.

Originally posted by daemon

is this serious? oh dear..

 

I never played the first game ... have just been reading some general hype for the second game.  This had a negative effect on my interest level.  Very questionable.

Should've just written of the costs to produce this trailer and trashed it ...

Oh wow...people having their second thoughts about purchasing Torchlight 2 just because of the opening cinematic.

Come on people get real here. The game itself is only $20 and is far greater in scope than the original game. How does an opening cinematic represent an overal quality of the gameplay itself?

From what I have seen from the gameplay vids, Torchlight 2 looks great. I am certaintly going to get it just because of its price and to support the devs.

Originally posted by golembane

It wasn't *horrible*, but I had a feeling someone was trying to channel Samurai Jack and missed the mark in terms of animation. Just throws you into the middle of everything without very good explanation of it all. Action is great, but there tends to need some foundation.

 

I got a Samurai Jack feeling as well.

Originally posted by FrodoFragins

Originally posted by ShakyMo
Well done runic for concentrating your efforts on the actual game.

They generally hire out for cinematics, you just need one person from Runic to story board it first.

Yeah and a butt-load of money that could be better spent on development of the actual game. CGI cinematics don't come cheap.

Bren

I fell asleep

I really hope the game was not delayed just for that, I also hope the game will be better than that, ...I'm putting on my Dale face!

...For frag's sake just release it already will 'ya, what are'ya waiting for?

Epic Fail!!!

I really hope much more effort went into the game than this trailer. This thing is horrible. Aren't trailers supposed to get you all excited about a game? This trailer fails miserably and it has the opposite effect.

Originally posted by fivoroth

I really hope much more effort went into the game than this trailer. This thing is horrible. Aren't trailers supposed to get you all excited about a game? This trailer fails miserably and it has the opposite effect.

Its not a trailer, its the opening cinematic to the game.

well, kudos to the flash animator. impressive work for one guy.

i don't see what's so bad about it.

given the majority of games lately have been trying to channel that awesome gw2 vid from a while back (i'm looking at you, blizzard with your blatant rip-off d3 video), i think it's refreshing not to see the word "painterly" and instead be thinking "cartoon network."

so many graphics fanbois here. :/

This looks awesome and atmospheric. Whats more, different.

I would rather have this art style for cinematic than pesky high-heeled demon-huntress running against things that look like they crawled out of world of warcraft.

This on other hand looks different. Has identity. has a soul. Unlike Blizz's newest diablocraft .

Originally posted by Yuui

so many graphics fanbois here. :/

 

This looks awesome and atmospheric. Whats more, different.

I would rather have this art style for cinematic than pesky high-heeled demon-huntress running against things that look like they crawled out of world of warcraft.

 

This on other hand looks different. Has identity. has a soul. Unlike Blizz's newest diablocraft .

You know what's funny? When Blizzard goes for more cartoony/artistic graphics, everybody cries that this game is 4 KIDZZ!! like there's no tomorrow. But when anyone else does it it's fine.

I didn't care for the cinematic.  BUT....I loved the first game and I'm pretty sure I'll love this one too.  I'm certainly NOT going to judge the game by a cinematic.  I mean if you judged games by cinematics.....SWTOR would have been the greatest game of all time.  Obviously we can't ACCURATELY judge a game by its cinematic trailers.

Originally posted by just1opinion

 

I didn't care for the cinematic.  BUT....I loved the first game and I'm pretty sure I'll love this one too.  I'm certainly NOT going to judge the game by a cinematic.  I mean if you judged games by cinematics.....SWTOR would have been the greatest game of all time.  Obviously we can't ACCURATELY judge a game by its cinematic trailers.

:)

Torchlight 1 was a fun game, but this vid is just super lame.