Meantime, plenty of single player and LAN games were had. Internet games were finally enabled a couple days later, but in the Proved to be key, as on release day, Runic's servers melted from the onslaught Similar to the old "Open Battle.Net" games of Diablo 2, youĬan play the same character in single player, LAN, and internet games. So now at long last, Runic has released the multiplayer-enabled TorchlightĢ. My previous love for Diablo 2, this shouldn't be any sort of surprise. Other than the lack of multiplayer, I thought it was just about perfect.
I had had the good fortune of playing Torchlight, and like justĪbout everyone else, my biggest complaint was that the game had no multiplayer. Whateverįun I had with Diablo 2 was done and gone, and would stay in the past. Me, that Diablo 3 was going to be a giant let-down for me.
I even finished the demo, but by the time I did so, it was clear to Perhaps they didn't realize that I have killedĭiablo and his brothers dozens if not hundreds of times already. I didn't get very far into the demo before I got a Was able to wrangle a demo code from someone who had bought the game and wanted Game ever, it seemed like Diablo 3 wouldn't be that game. Onto my sixty dollars, which while would be a small price to pay for the best IĬouldn't even download the demo for Diablo 3 unless someone who hadĪlready bought the game gave me a code. Even after its release, the demo was only available by invite. That's fairly common, and not enough to raise suspicion alone,īut still odd that there weren't more early peeks allotted to the usual mediaĬhannels. Blizzard kept reviews at bay until after release via a However, something felt odd about Diablo 3 even before IĮver played it. At last, an updated version of the best game ever would beĪvailable. When Blizzard Entertainment announced Diablo 3, I couldn't haveīeen happier. Itĭesperately needed either some patches or a successor to bring it up to date. I even tried going back several times in the past few years,Īnd just found it too archaic to function properly on modern hardware. Note here, that Diablo 2 was only the best game ever in my opinion,Īnd eventually it aged and got to the point where it was nigh unplayable on Only cemented its position as the best game of all time, for me. When Diablo 2 came out overĪ decade ago, it was my favorite game for quite some time. What's new that the first gameĭidn't have? And, the big question, how does it stack up against Diabloģ? Click the link below to learn my impressions of the game."įirst, I have to admit some bias here. Point-and-click ARPG created by Runic Games. Torchlight 2 is the follow-up to Torchlight, the 2009
On the former last week, so I got to playing the latter over the weekend. CowboyNeal writes: "Last week was a big week for gamers, with the release of bothīorderlands 2 as well as Torchlight 2.
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