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Torchlight II releases on consoles Tuesday, hyped?
- Thread starter M. Wallace
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Yes, but I can't right now. Way too many other games coming out. Why is everything releasing in September? Why
even at $30 with local coop i think a lot of people would bite. the titan quest remake and viktor vran were 30 and 40 and most complaints werent Bout the price, but due to them being bad ports. there is a market for couch coop arpgs particularly on switch, and people would easily pay a bit more for it.
I know, bummed.
Yeah, it's a port, but that's a huge red flag to people and unfortunate that I've only seen this disseminated on forums...
I know I am! Just launched Remnant and now Torchlight II! It's been a busy but awesome time over at Perfect World.
Couldn't resist picking it up for Switch. Panic Button does awesome work and $20 is a great price for a fun modern ARPG. I appreciate that it's just 1.6 GB as well.
Please tell me there's cross-save support between Xbox and Switch???
Yup. I really enjoyed it on PC. Was fun as hell.
Yup. I really enjoyed it on PC. Was fun as hell.
Yeah i have same problem i have downloaded the theme and the pet but no game and when i go onto the store page i get kicked back to the dashboard
Not at all. I played this game like 5-6 years ago on Steam. I will have to pass on this one.
It is a good game though. I enjoyed it alot more than I did Diablo 3. So for those new to this. Definitely consider getting it.
It is a good game though. I enjoyed it alot more than I did Diablo 3. So for those new to this. Definitely consider getting it.
Oh it's Panic Button? Looking forward to seeing how they pulled this one off. Torchlight games use strictly one core on PC and thus are very much CPU bottlenecked. The first game's framerate sank to single digits on x360. Locked 30 on Switch would be very surprising without a major engine overhaul.
Huh, I swear I saw this already on Switch when I was grabbing Astral Chain. Maybe that was the original instead? I never actually finished the sequel, always loved the first as it gave a really good take on the dungeon crawler genre but the sequel felt a bit full for the sake of being full.
The framerate on Switch is actually quite solid from a few gameplay videos I've seen. Looks like 30 at the very least:
Never played it? As someone who played D2 for like 2k hours and D3 for 500, TL2 is a really, really good game imo. Not sure how controls on consoles will be though.
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Years ago I would have been interested, but Diablo is all I need if I want to scratch that game-style itch. Especially local co-op.
This game gets a console port seven (!) years later for whatever reason but does not bother to include local co-op. Amazing. No buy.
What kind of build you want to play? The Engineer and Berserker are close range melee classes. Berserker deals specifically with life draining abilities and a Rage mechanic which is sorta like Barbarian Shouts in which he sacrifices defense for more atk power but his constantly leeching life to compensate to keep his health up. Berserker uses dual handed claw weapons and is the closest parallel to is a hybrid of D2's Assassin, Druid, and Barbarian classes. Three skill trees are Berserker which is basically leeching and heavy melee attacks, Tundra which is Ice attacks and long range crowd control skills, and Shadow which has Shadow Wolf summons and increase the duration you stay in Rage mode.
Engineer uses two hand swords or hammers, but also act as a sword and board type. He uses technology for mainly firebomb and lightning grenade attacks, Also has a Robot companion that can send out heal auras. The Engineer has three skill trees: Blitz (melee attacks and two-handed weapons), Construction (summoned bots and grenade/cannon skills), and Aegis (shield-based and defensive skills).
The Embermage is the pure caster class doing Fire, Lightning, and Ice spells, and the Outlander is a Rogue / Assassin Hybrid class which it has strong bow skills which can ricochet off walls, Poison bomb / Poison Cloud attacks, throwing daggers, also some plant-like skills like brambles and vines that can hold the enemy in place.
i never beat it, but im pretty sure it doesnt. Though diablo 3s infinite replayability just ended up being a non stop grind for me.
Actually it does. The Mapworks at the end of the game are endless randomly generated maps with different modifiers, which not unlike the Rift Dungeons. Then there is NG+ all the way up to NG+++++ which each + adding higher and higher difficulty beyond in the Elite difficulty setting.
I'm not surprised it took them this long; I'm kind of surprised we're getting it on consoles. Weren't the devs basically refusing to ever add controller support to the game at some point? I'm glad they finally caved, as I like the game play style of games like this, but only when using a controller. I could never really get into the genre on PC, but Record of Lodoss War on Dreamcast really grabbed me. Having directly control over your character's movement really does a lot for the experience.
There were different randomly generated maps you could play at endgame. Similar to diablos rifts.
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It's not the matter of the devs caving to add controller support or not. They closed their doors back in 2017, so chances are the original staff have no involvement in the port.
This is why I find all of the commentary about "them waiting so long to port it now" and what not strange. Runic is not around anymore and remaining staff split up to several other studios. The closest thing we have to Runic Games as of this moment is Echtra Games and they are currently working developing Torchlight Frontiers with backing from Perfect World. Considering how small Runic was with 30 or so person studio, I doubt even Echtra Games has enough extra hands to divert resources to go back to do work on Torchlight II.
At best this is Perfect World simply giving whatever assets and source code that were comprised of Torchlight II's PC release and Panic Button doing whatever they can to port it to console. Runic Games pretty much have nothing to do with this port.
Got a $20 eShop card as a gift yesterday, so preloaded it.
Switch version apparently has local wireless, so is an option for those with a friend getting the game to play locally.
Switch version apparently has local wireless, so is an option for those with a friend getting the game to play locally.
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My exact sentiment.
I'll wait for a hefty discount, too much to SP content to play atm
Ah, thanks for clarifying. It's nice to see that we're getting a version of Torchlight II with controller support, in either case. I always felt that the devs limited the success of the original release by limiting it to PC and being so against controller support. I'm glad it's able to be on more platforms now.
I honestly think the game is too B tier to be saved by a console port. It doesn't help that at the time they used LAN and official mod suport as marketing points since people were disappointed at D3 not having either, and both are moot for consoles.
It would need quite the revamp to grab attention, and I not sure they had the resources to even do the necessary performance + UX tweaks consoles would require at the time.
Played the hell out of it when it first released on PC, and Runic making TL2 their second ARPG with zero post-launch content support made me swear off ever buying their games again.
For me, it says September 2nd at 9 p.m. Not sure about other regions and time zones, but that means it should be available in six hours for me.
It is 8am of the 3rd here. I tried it at midnight and had the store crash whenever I looked at the game. The web store says it's in queue to download but it never downloads.
A few people on other boards are saying the same thing so I guess somethings up
