Torchlight Frontiers - Max Shaefer Says It's an MMO - General Video Podcast

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Torchlight Frontiers - Max Shaefer Says It's an MMO - General Video Podcast

Echtra Studios founder Max Shaefer has taken to the airwaves to talk more about the studio and Torchlight Frontiers. Most interestingly, Shaefer plainly states that Torchlight Frontiers is an MMO, though with similar ARPG gameplay that players have come to know and love throughout the first two games.

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BillMurphy

This where I say... HNNGGGG

itsover

yes !!

Mensur

Yeeahhhh- I think I Called it. The setup will
be like Arcane Legends. Which is nice! But technically it’s a massive hub with instances. So mmo-hub :P 

mandros56

This is good news! Thank you!

Sovrath

So I'm unclear, runic made torchlight but he left and is making a torchlight game? Does he have the rights?

Nasa

Sovrath said:

So I'm unclear, runic made torchlight but he left and is making a torchlight game? Does he have the rights?

I think Perfect World, the publisher have the rights.

Nasa

Made with Unreal Engine 4 as seen at 0:48 for example.

FrodoFragins

It's too bad they got sick of torchlight after TL2 - they should have started this right after that imo

Scorchien

Smart guy , but this is also what i said the day I saw Hob , announced ..Was why .. Torchlight is perfect and has the headway to land in a good spot in the market ..

Fortunatley i also believe its not to late for them to achieve this ..

Cant wait .. where can i preorder and sign up:)

Scot

All depends on what Mr Shaefer thinks an Action MMO is, but good to hear they are moving in a MMOish direction.

JeffSpicoli

Sounds fantastic really looking forward to this. Question, I know alot of you guys & girls that post on these boards work in the industry, Is working in these dev studios as relaxing as it appears in this video? Everything is dark and zen like, I picture it to smell like potporri & fresh coffee in that office.

Alvonu

Great news - Looking forward to it!

Dranmarth

So, path of exile with a torchlight skin? I'm ok with that

koldmiser

Sweeeet!

Iselin

Sounds awesome. I liked the Torchlight games a lot.

Hariken

I was hoping for something different. So it will be either like MU Legends or Path OF Exile. That kind of sucks to me.

KiwiHype

I need this in my life!

Solancer

Well I was hoping after Torchlight 2 there be a 3 and that will be the best one in the series, seem like they drop the ball and now that guy in the video seemingly don't even know what an RPG even is giving it a spin. As far as the video goes it didn't show much of anything what the game really is.

When someone only show and tell with CGI stuff then half me thinks, they got nothing to show and If they did they would have shown it NOW or never. Who knows maybe they will surprise me, but I doubt they will, one can almost even say this game is going to be a battle royale game from the looks.

Don't get me wrong I think Torchlight is a good ARPG just the char design is lacking. I can say the same about Diablo 3 it also lacking real character customization again like most RPG game at end game everyone look a like. This genera need char customization like Blade and Soul deep. The char customization itself is or if not more important than the story IMO. When will they learn to not use leveled gears, I mean no one will user the lvl 10 gears if they are lvl 30 so all that art is wasted.

Lets hope Torchlight Frontiers even resemble anything like Torchlight and not in name only.

Shaigh

Marketing say a lot of things, just don't expect everything they tell you to be true.

elveone

Sovrath said:

So I'm unclear, runic made torchlight but he left and is making a torchlight game? Does he have the rights?

Yeah, he does and it is not as simple as "he left". In early 2016 Perfect World said to Schaefer "Go and make a new studio, hire whoever you want and develop anything you want and we will cover all the expenses". So he left and founded the studio for the explicit reason of making a Torchlight MMO.

sneakerz007

The hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

FlyByKnight

I'm just ready for more Torchlight regardless, but it being an MMO could mean anything these days.

Either way:

Sovrath

elveone said:

Sovrath said:

So I'm unclear, runic made torchlight but he left and is making a torchlight game? Does he have the rights?

Yeah, he does and it is not as simple as "he left". In early 2016 Perfect World said to Schaefer "Go and make a new studio, hire whoever you want and develop anything you want and we will cover all the expenses". So he left and founded the studio for the explicit reason of making a Torchlight MMO.

But still pretty simple.

Oyjord

Does the art remind anyone else of Landmark/EverQuest Next?

FlyByKnight

Oyjord said:

Does the art remind anyone else of Landmark/EverQuest Next?

No, Everquest Next art style reminded me of Torchlight.