Comments on: 7 things you didn’t know about the Torchlight MMO

By: ZombiePirate

ZombiePirate — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:35:00 +0000

What Blizzard need to remember for Diablo is what they are forgetting for Starcraft and that is a LAN mode. If we get a LAN option I know that my friends and I will play it exclusively for an age. We are all super excited for it. But if we cannot LAN it, well, I get to save some money.

By: evizaer

evizaer — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:57:23 +0000

Torchlight was promising, but after I had explored the game for a few hours I realized that they made some big mistakes that prevent the game from reaching near the level of quality of Diablo II.

Loot is boring. It’s mostly linear upgrades with very little in the way of interesting effect variety.

Character advancement is boring. I don’t think I ever saw a skill in the game that really impressed me; I didn’t see anything that engendered excitement at the prospect of being able to do.

The dungeons are boring. They’re randomly generated with the same blocks used. The tilesets are nice but I was left feeling there is not enough variety. Diablo 2 had radically different environments–Torchlight has a few different tilesets but they feel more like skins than environments.

Adding more players to the equation could help to make it more tolerable, but I doubt I’ll go back and play it again just for that. Especially if they’re going to build inconveniences into the game that are handy for hanging cash shop products on.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:55:36 +0000

I found that the single player game – while well worth the money – didn’t keep my attention in the long term. But as a F2P MMO, sure, why not?

For myself that’s an easy question to answer: if the single-player game is unable to hold my attention (and Torchlight wasn’t able to keep me for more than 20 minutes, but I can’t stand Diablo-style games) then having multiple players just means I’m still in a game that isn’t holding my attention; there are just more players there. Even if I bring my own friends, I’m quickly bored and asking if the gang wants to switch to a game that’s more entertaining and fun.

Multiplayer isn’t a magical panacea to everything, at least for me.