Rogue RPGs Under a New Torchlight
Torchlight Character - Vanquisher II , originally uploaded by Raquel´ . Well, it seems we do not have long to wait before the next Diablo game : it's actually already out. It's called Torchlight, and it's developed by Runic Games, lead in part by Max and Erich Schaefer, both co-founders of Blizzard North. Looks like they couldn't wait for Diablo 3 either and decided to just give us a great Rogue-like RPG before the cobwebs and the dustbunnies invaded the part of our brains relishing click-click-click action. Perhaps a little unbalanced, and perhaps a little easy for some, Torchlight still ignites the fires of grinding within all PC RPG nerds. It's art style is endearing and soft on the eyes...a veritable World of Warcraft in Single Player format. Loot is aplenty and dungeons are filled with the nastiest, sometimes funniest, beasties this side of Tristram. PC gamers needed this. After all, Blizzard is not promising a release date on their next dungeon-romp opus,