Rogue RPGs Under a New Torchlight
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, and the last time a Diablo-Clone popped up was in 2006, where Iron Lore Entertainment's Titan Quest surprised quite a few. Speaking of which, the people behind the now defunct developer are back with a new company, Crate Entertainment, and a new game : Grim Dawn.
I will perhaps be speaking more about the latter game in the next post.
Until then, buy Torchlight on Steam (Save the plastic trees!!!) and kill yourself some demonspawn.
Click-Click-Click
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, and the last time a Diablo-Clone popped up was in 2006, where Iron Lore Entertainment's Titan Quest surprised quite a few. Speaking of which, the people behind the now defunct developer are back with a new company, Crate Entertainment, and a new game : Grim Dawn.
I will perhaps be speaking more about the latter game in the next post.
Until then, buy Torchlight on Steam (Save the plastic trees!!!) and kill yourself some demonspawn.
Click-Click-Click
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