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Torchlight III Getting Closer to a Launch Date
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Torchlight III Getting Closer to a Launch Date
In a recent State of the Game update on Steam, the Torchlight III team has teased how the game is drawing closer to a launch date.
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I find this games development to be a fascinating failure of epic proportions. They prioritized all of the wrong things and the design philosophy from the beginning was clearly to make something unique and different. this extended to not carrying over any loved classes and making a fighting trash can, a bipolar mage and Thomas the tank engine. (Yes they eventually added a familiar ranged class)
Just look at how almost every official stream has their (very nice) CM playing in a fort. That damn fort was the core of their original MTX plan. Imagine how many hours have been wasted on that fluff instead of making a worthy sequel to TL2.
mmorpg junkie since 1999
isnt that exactly what Final fantasy Online did ? they made a crappy game , then went back and Redid the Entire thing in a few years and Now its awsome , So it can be done
What they were making as an MMO was horrible. Been testing since the beginning. An arpg doesn't need to be an MMO, just need to have multiplayer available for when people want to play with friends.
The best moved they made was dumping the MMO parts and trying to start over. They reworked the entire game two times now. That is why they are not going to do it again.
Going to the Early Access was the worst mistake they ever made. It allowed in people that didn't actually want to test a game, they wanted the finished product right then an there.
Don't get me wrong the game has a lot of issues, but to be honest the original and the second one were both just on par when they released, they were not great either. The thing that made those games great was the modding communities. If they want this game to have any chance of success they will have to release the code and allow modding.
It was actually relatively decent in it's initial iteration...they are asinine these developers, and some of them worked on D2!?
Unconceivable!
Everything PWE touches goes to crap! All they care about is the Cash shop in their games.
That is the only way this company can make money with their games. Scamming people.
So when the launch will be an obvious failure, it won't be long until they change it to F2P and patch a Cash Shop into the game, to squeeze out every last penny they can.
It's obvious like night and day this game belongs on Mobile, along with the rest of F2P trash games that reside there.
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Incompetence and lack of vision among other things.
Torchlight 2 didn't click for me? No matter these types of games aren't usually my thing anyway.
I could not have been more interested in Torchlight Frontiers, that would have brought us straight back to what made the OG such a fantastic hit.
Just so not excited for another reskin riding the coattails of the overwhelming success of og.
It is good but it is also in active development and a lot of unstable things get pushed into the early access live version. As for why it is good - there are quite a lot of builds you can make but not all of them are immediately obvious because of the weird separation of the skills.
There are 4 classes with 14 active skills per class with 14 passive skills attached to them as a milestone(you get to level 6 in the active skill and you get the passive skill), there are additionally 5 "relics" that serve as an additional skill tree with 5 active and 5 passive skills that can be used by any class. The class and relic skills are learned using skill points that are gained on level-up and the class-relic combination is a kind of dual-class mechanic. This far things are pretty standard for an aRPG.
Where things get a bit unconventional are the additional passive skills, mechanics and functional modifiers for active skills that are attached to the "legendary" rarity items in the game. Basically every single item slot you have is also kind of a passive skill slot. There are about a 100 of those per character class, the exact number varies as some of those item-skills are class-specific. Once you find an item with a particular skill you can also equip that skill in the "legendarium" to keep the skill even if you want to discard the item. You can equip up to 3 skills in that manner. The whole system is kind of like the legendary powers and Kanau Cube from Diablo 3 but the powers in Torchlight 3 are a bit more impactful and can be combined with the rest of the skills to create a wide variety of builds.
Other than the skill system the game is basically a pretty standard aRPG. In comparison to the previous torchlight games - there isn't any stat distribution, no ring and amulet slots and the enchanting and socket system from the previous games is kind of rolled up into one single entity. The time-to-kill is a bit higher than most other games in the genre. The visual variety is kind of on-par with Torchlight 2 so there aren't really a lot of different zones and enemies but the things that are there are pretty good looking. The end-game consists of replaying old map tiles with different enemy combinations and challenge modifiers attached to them so it is nothing really groundbreaking but it can get quite challenging when you progress through it and get quite a few modifiers stacked against you.
There's a heavy emphasis on housing with the fort system and on collecting things - you collect items to put in your fort, you collect pet skins, pet skills and legendary item skills. Items collected can be used on every character once you find them. In the forts there are also several buildings that provide you with some account-wide bonuses for your characters.
The game is not the best aRPG out there by a long shot but it can be really fun. The early access has a lot of problems though - the balance is in constant flux and there are a lot of bugs. They were also experimenting quite a lot with some of the systems which resulted in less-than-stellar experience. And there will be another full progression wipe at launch so that's a reason not to play right now as well. There's also the issue of the price being higher than the previous games which pisses some people off and afaik the price might get even higher at launch but I hope they change their minds of that.
This is just as unsubstantiated as the rest of your posts. I get that you don't like the game but the time you invest into disliking it is not healthy. I, on the other hand, do like the game and I try to provide accurate information about what is in it and what is not to people who seek that information. I am glad that when provided with the facts people still prefer them to biased baseless bulshit which is what you peddle in.
I wrote it as you marked lol on every post here you disagreed with. And you are literally the only person I've seen that thought the game was better before the switch and also thinks the game is really good. You've been a white knight since I first started using their forum.