At $20 it is cheap, but I doubt the replayability. There are so few ways to build each character and so few characters, you'd have to REALLY love inventing silly macrogames to keep interest going for more than a week.

I'll wait and see what the modding community can do with it, so far I've seen a nude skin for the girl character...and umm...thats it.

A good looking, solid game that's way too easy and way to easy to become bored of.

6/10

I think it's a good $20 game. Fun to play and runs super smooth (even on my wife's netbook lol). For mod's you can go here - quite a few already...I have not tried any myself.

Is the game fun ?  Can you play for a little while and log out not requiring excessive time to do anything ?  Just curious, I'm thinking of downloading it.

Given the genral positive outlook perhaps other game companies will follow suit and stop this 50-60 dollar cost on a game.  Why would I pay for something that lasts 2-3 days at the most. 

I've been playing torchlight the last few days.  If any of my friends want to try it give me a PM :-)

The map maker is pretty awesome.  Has anyone seen the youtube videos showing how to make custom maps?  It is really easy to do.

Originally posted by skarwolf

Is the game fun ?  Can you play for a little while and log out not requiring excessive time to do anything ?  Just curious, I'm thinking of downloading it.

Given the genral positive outlook perhaps other game companies will follow suit and stop this 50-60 dollar cost on a game.  Why would I pay for something that lasts 2-3 days at the most. 

Welcome to single-player games (in MMORPG.com forums), where the pause and save features exist and allow you to stop at anytime.

It's also pretty refreshing because they don't need to think and design around all the issues that a MMO has that reduces potential fun and casual play.

Ill have to go check this game out!

(AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH waiting for new game Rabbids go home)

Originally posted by EricDanie

It's also pretty refreshing because they don't need to think and design around all the issues that a MMO has that reduces potential fun and casual play.

Those 'issues' typically being 'other people', these days.  The problem with mose MMOs these days, is the second 'M'.

I will give you my honest opinion about this game. When I played it a couple of days ago, I didn't know that it was the guys who made Diablo who made it, I knew nothing about this game other than it was 20$ and it was a supposedly Diablo style game. 

I have around 5 hours of gameplay and I uninstalled the game for the following reasons...

1) It feels like more a free browser game than an actual full game. It is far too simple and nothing special to have paid 20$ for it.

2) It is an almost exact copy of Fate with some tiny differences, like you get 3 classes instead of having one guy that you can spec in different ways, different dungeons, and an attempt at a storyline.

3) Combat is weird, sometimes you have so many mobs on the screen, and you have your summons, and your cat or dog, and NPCs, and the mouse pointer is big, and everything is cartoonish and big that you just don't know where you're aiming, so you just click in the middle of the fray and kill everything.

4) The game is too easy, I chose the alchimist, and I was killing everything in one hit, from beginning to when I stopped, except for bosses, which took 5 hits.

5) There are side quests you can get from a guy in town where he opens a portal to another place for a 1-2 floor quests, but the portal he opens which is supposed to take you to new places actually takes you to copies of floors you already did with the "main" dungeon.

6) A ton of items and money is easy to make that when you get a cool item you're not excited, because in 2 minutes you will get a cooler item. I had "unique" items drop like crazy, sometimes it's nice to be able to find something you won't replace for a while and you're proud of having that item.

7) Even if they attempt to create an interesting storyline, there is nothing interesting about it. It's just the same old boring quests you get in Fate.

These are the reasons I did not like this game, but it does not mean other people won't like it. I am just telling you what kind of game it is. If you like simple games, which you don't even need to look at the screen to play, you can actually watch a movie while playing this and randomly click on the screen, then you will like this game, it is mindless and non challenging. Worth playing a couple of hours if it was free or maybe 5$, but not 20$....

Peace

tried the demo of this. Seemed like an offline version of WoW..

Originally posted by Jetrpg

I found Torchlight quite fun.

Drawbacks

No multiplay. WTF

Quests are odd.

Need more infor on spells and abilities.

 

Pros

Fast paced

fun

tons o loot

abilities are quite different as well as auto attacks from oen weapon tot he next can greatly differ.

 

Oh and d3 = fail boat. Still most people don't choose good game they choose popular games, go fig.

I have been enjoying Dragon Age but there are times I definitely want a break from the Dark atmosphere. Torchlight is a very good light fun game. I wished the game had more recognition from the public.

This is a fun game, a great casual hack n slash like Diablo was. Nothing too serious but always satisfying to load up for a session. I beat the main story and got to lvl 42 legit, before I mucked around with the in-game console for fun (aka cheating).

And just off-topic - lol @ the Blizzard hate, it always amazes me how so many people are (for some reason??) so butthurt at this game company.

Originally posted by spades07

tried the demo of this. Seemed like an offline version of WoW..

 What drugs are you on? Can I have some too?

I like how when they talk about past games, they fail to mention Hellgate London....

might be a fun little game for a bit, but no real interest for me.

oh and isn't this supposed to be basically Mythos?  It didn't have the diablo sort of I wanna play this all the time feel.

I got Torchlight a few days ago, and I'm enjoying it so far.  Simple and direct.  I'd recommend it to anyone who played and liked Diablo.  The only gripe I have so far is the feeling of wasting points by boosting spells that I'm going to stop using as I level up.  I hate that.

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Originally posted by just2duh

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Originally posted by spades07

tried the demo of this. Seemed like an offline version of WoW..

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 What drugs are you on? Can I have some too?

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ya because there's no simularities right.. Look again..

I've been playing Torchlight a while. It's not bad for what it is, but I think for the average MMORPG reader it'll be far too simplistic. As has been said, it is the same as Fate in case you ever played that game. It's a very casual hack-and-slash RPG (despite the hardcore checkbox). No doubt Diablo 3 will be a MUCH deeper game, so I'm still looking forward to D3 for a more significant hack/slash experience.

I'm gonna hold out for D3. Torchlight would have been great with a bit of multiplayer.

The EXACT same console looking game as Diablo,and they actually can complie a reason to play it?The same guys who worked on Diablo ,so how much creativity do you expect from anyone out of Blizzard?Blizzard has created a development studio designed around copying not creating,so guess what...you are going to get a 90% copy of Diablo a game designed for the console and looks it.

I figured being from Blizzard they know to use cheap game engines to up their profit margin,and yes after doing the homework a freeware engine lol.You what you put into the game,you put little into it,you get little out.

downloading the demo now and  btw diablo 3 aint out till 2011 =] i aint guna buy diablo 3 cause blizzard made it =]

Oh yeah and for the people who compare every game under the sun and say need for speed shift is a wow clone you can rot in hell for the simple wow copied every mmo before it and combined the ideas get over yourself wow was not the first thing to do anything except make an unplayable game on launch 8)