Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: pinballjim on October 06, 2012, 03:58:33 pm
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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?
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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.
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Well, my handle is Lawdy and I'm currently hosting a game with no other participants. :-P
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You were a bit underwhelmed with Torchlight, is this an improvement Jim?
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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 I'm kind of proud/embarrassed at how out of date on online games I am. :P
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This game torched my motherboard.
:lol
Guess that's the rub when you NEVER play games on your home computer. Civilization 3 nuked the last motherboard.
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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 :lol
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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.
:cheers:
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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.
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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.
:lol
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Are the load times any better than the original Torchlight?
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I haven't noticed any significant load times but I'm no longer playing the game on a potato.
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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.