Anyone else playing Torchlight 2?

[pinballjim]

I coughed up the twenty bucks, I've found this game to be quite a bit of fun.

I'm not entirely sure how the online works, but I do have an account registered.  Anyone else playing it?

[RayB]

I have it but only have about 10 hours put into it.
As far as I can tell, single player and online are identical, except that online has.... other live people! ;-)

I quite like it. It's like a beat-em up with RPG elements.

[pinballjim]

Well, my handle is Lawdy and I'm currently hosting a game with no other participants.  :-P

[Ond]

You were a bit underwhelmed with Torchlight, is this an improvement Jim?

[pinballjim]

It's twenty freaking dollars and I'm enjoying the mindless entertainment.  I had some video card drama but have got it running fairly smoothly on my integrated Nvidia 6150LE chipset with the 258 drivers (that keep it MAME compatible).

I played the first one on Xbox 360 and I'm willing to blame the interface for a lot of the frustrations.

Finally got an online game going and after hollering at the speaker phone for 20 minutes I was instructed that I needed to buy a headset.  I'm kind of proud/embarrassed at how out of date on online games I am.   

[pinballjim]

This game torched my motherboard.

 

Guess that's the rub when you NEVER play games on your home computer.  Civilization 3 nuked the last motherboard.

[spoot]

I've been playing it quite a bit.  Cleared it in normal way too fast and now running some other classes in Elite mode which is quite a bit better for challenge.  You can use your same char(s) offline/online which is nice.

Engineer + Cannon = Dead critters   

[pinballjim]

Okay, up and running again with my new laptop.  Think I'm about level 10 at the moment but you level up pretty steadily on this game.

 

[kahlid74]

It's basically your standard Diablo 2 Clone done right.  The game is a great ARPG albeit the story is a bit lacking.  The story does however improve on the original.  Torchlight was a good game too but if you played it on console I could definitely see it getting frustrating.

Online play is the same as Diablo was.  Log into their systems, find a game, join the fray.  The creator of the game is the master where the quests are.  So if you're a higher level than your friend, had the lower level friend create the game and then you join so you can work on their quests.

[pinballjim]

Yeah, I jumped into some game last night where they were about level 25.  So now I've got an inventory stuffed with items I can't equip but at least I was leveling up quickly when I wasn't busy running away.

 

[paigeoliver]

Are the load times any better than the original Torchlight?

[pinballjim]

I haven't noticed any significant load times but I'm no longer playing the game on a potato.

[paigeoliver]

Torchlight 1 has significant load times just like source engine games do however they might not be noticeable to some people. I just wish more games would be written to take more advantage of system with lots of ram. I have enough ram (and video ram) for the stinking game to just keep the town in memory and not take 1-2 minutes to load the darn thing every time I go there.

Of course Valve stuff is even worse. Half Life 2 is like 10 years old yet the levels load no faster for me today on a quad core system with modern hard drives than they did when it was brand new on my 1999 era system.