StingingVelvet: 4) Torchlight - Some people make an average clicky-clicky game and people act like it's the second coming of Christ. Why didn't Titan Quest get such love? I guess because it didn't run on a laptop and come out at $20. Cheap and easy don't mean good in my vocabulary.
captfitz: i really, really love you for saying this. titan quest is my favorite hack n slash of all time and i've played them all. torchlight gets stale fast
I never bothered to re-incarnate (or retire or whatever) my guy. They got the loot thing down (sorta), but they just missed out on a lot of the fun. When I got my ultimate ability (Quake or whatever) it's all I used.
In TQ my Battle Mage used all kinds of skills, constantly. The game was good and I've never seen a game come out with an expac that absolutely addressed and fixed every complaint people had with the first one!
The rubberbanding the expac introduced pissed me off, I need to check if the community has a better solution to this yet. I'll probably fire this bad boy up one more time.
Joppelarius: considering Diablo/TQ/Torchligt/Fate/Nox.... what did you guys think of Deathspank? I didn't like it but it I guess it can't be classified as overrated 'cuz there wasn't that much noise about it in the first place.
Disclaimer, I only played the Live demo, and I hadn't really heard much about it. But I found the demo deeply amusing. They had a lot of details, like zipping his fly after he teleports in the outhouse, chickens that fight back, and a lot of one liners that make snarky references in the dialog.
The combat is pretty much what I expected, it wasn't outstanding but I didn't find it tedious or anything. I think the demo gets you to level 4 or so.
Now, I can't say anything about the game's pacing or the combat at higher levels, but I always sensed the game was more about the humor than the hack 'n slash.
Purebreed: OMG... Fate... AHHHH!!! The game that blatantly came with spyware.
GameRager: Yeah, and a crappy almost non existant plot. Just boy/girl and pet go fight x/y/z and fetch me misc item crap.
Crapballs, I was hoping to pick up Fate at some point, now I know that it sucks and has spyware:(
rs2yjz: true about torchlight, great fun but far from a must experience. same way with shadow complex and braid
oblivion...never would have played it if it didnt get hype. so glad i did.
Shadow Complex couldn't even come up with an interesting demo, screw that game! I did like the visuals in Braid.