Torchlight - PC [2009]

just finished playing this. took me 13.5 hours to beat it. for those who like arpg's like diablo, sacred & titan quest this game is for you!

Trailer

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there are 3 classes to choose from:

The Destroyer

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The Alchemist

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The Vanquisher

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i took the destroyer route. it was a GREAT game. there's 35 dungeon levels and once you beat the main story to these 35 levels you can keep going for another 100 floors.

my stats:

Xavier: Dual Wield Destroyer

character lvl 43
fame lvl 27
hp: 3100
mana: 230
strength: 149 (1079-2157)
dex: 4 (0-0)
magic: 5 (445-890)
def: 140 (552-1104)

resist:

poison: 293
lightning: 152
fire: 281
ice: 288


spec:

berserker:

slash attack: 1/10
dual wielding: 10/10
adventurer: 10/10
critical strikes: 8/10

titan:

titan stomp: 10/10
martial weapons expertise: 10/10

spectra:

armor expertise: 10/10
pet mastery: 10/10


character spells:

identify item
retribution iv
elemental overload vi
heal all vi

pet:

Scratch: dps cat
hp: 3385
mana: 235
melee dmg: 823-1645
elemental dmg: 0-0
ranged dmg: 0-0
armor mitigation: 478-956

pet spells:

frost vi
dervish v

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Originally Posted by mr. nails

just finished playing this. took me 13.5 hours to beat it. for those who like arpg's like diablo, sacred & titan quest this game is for you!

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this game actually has a distant connection to diablo.

ex-blizzard employee bill roper (worked on diablo, warcraft, starcraft, etc) founded flagship studios, which managed to produce two games before the company collapsed: hellgate london and mythos. mythos was basically an online diablo imitation that was intended to test the networking code of hellgate london. mythos was going to be offered as a free game, no strings attached apparently. then hellgate london launched and... it turned out that flagship had NO MONEY RESERVED for the purpose of keeping the online-focused rpg afloat in case it wasn't an immediate hit. it was not a hit. a huge commercial failure in fact. so hellgate was only online for about 6 months before flagship shut the servers down, fired all of its employees, and went out of business. probably much to the chagrin of the 4 or 5 suckers who paid 150 u.s. dollars for the hellgate london lifetime subscription. mythos only ever got as far as the early stages of a public beta test.

a korean game studio bought mythos and is currently redesigning it for an asian audience. hellgate london is currently owned by a bank (they accepted ownership of hellgate as collateral for a loan to flagship)... the game is still playable offline, but its online mode no longer works and there is no support for it in the way of patches or expansions.

meanwhile, the newly unemployed mythos development team decided that they had actually enjoyed working together and wanted to continue, and torchlight is the result of that.

Great game, supervised there's not more love for it out there.

it looks be good