Interesting. I had no idea this was even in development, nor was I wondering what the studio had been up to; I'd completely forgotten about it all. TL2's third act was an unfortunate letdown, but...
Interesting. I had no idea this was even in development, nor was I wondering what the studio had been up to; I'd completely forgotten about it all. TL2's third act was an unfortunate letdown, but I remember getting decent enjoyment out of it and the first game - and not only because they were among the few games I could run at the time.
I think the big appeal that TL2 had to me was that, like Path of Exile, it was "what Diablo III was meant to be". Now that Blizzard's got another game in the works, and we currently have Path of Exile and Grim Dawn to play, I feel that the devs are going to have to pull something special out of their hats.
I'm happy to see this. I enjoyed Torchlight 1 and 2, but I'd pretty much written off Frontiers given that it was going to be free-to-play (a model which I'm deeply suspicious of) and that it was...
I'm happy to see this. I enjoyed Torchlight 1 and 2, but I'd pretty much written off Frontiers given that it was going to be free-to-play (a model which I'm deeply suspicious of) and that it was locked to the Arc game platform. I'm not opposed to multiple PC gaming platforms or launchers, but Arc (of course) doesn't run on Linux, so it's a bit of a non-starter for me. Moving the game away from F2P and back onto Steam makes this something I'm much more likely to play.
I'm in the same boat, I was hyped when I heard there was a Torchlight sequel coming out, but I wrote it off when I heard it was going to be F2P. I think the studio is going to have some work to do...
I'm in the same boat, I was hyped when I heard there was a Torchlight sequel coming out, but I wrote it off when I heard it was going to be F2P.
I think the studio is going to have some work to do on the PR front now to convince people to give it a go after this change in direction.
The decision to go F2P was obviously driven by a need to make money beyond just selling a couple of hundred thousand copies.
From a longer term financial sustainability perspective, I wonder how they would go releasing DLC expansion packs for TL3. From memory TL1 and TL2 didn't have any DLC.
Like Diablo 1/2 did it where you get a good 4 or 5 acts with a bunch of gameplay for your base purchase and then sell an expansion which provides further acts and classes. (Obviously this model is open to fuckery, look at Paradox games)
Interesting. I had no idea this was even in development, nor was I wondering what the studio had been up to; I'd completely forgotten about it all. TL2's third act was an unfortunate letdown, but I remember getting decent enjoyment out of it and the first game - and not only because they were among the few games I could run at the time.
I think the big appeal that TL2 had to me was that, like Path of Exile, it was "what Diablo III was meant to be". Now that Blizzard's got another game in the works, and we currently have Path of Exile and Grim Dawn to play, I feel that the devs are going to have to pull something special out of their hats.
I'm happy to see this. I enjoyed Torchlight 1 and 2, but I'd pretty much written off Frontiers given that it was going to be free-to-play (a model which I'm deeply suspicious of) and that it was locked to the Arc game platform. I'm not opposed to multiple PC gaming platforms or launchers, but Arc (of course) doesn't run on Linux, so it's a bit of a non-starter for me. Moving the game away from F2P and back onto Steam makes this something I'm much more likely to play.
I'm in the same boat, I was hyped when I heard there was a Torchlight sequel coming out, but I wrote it off when I heard it was going to be F2P.
I think the studio is going to have some work to do on the PR front now to convince people to give it a go after this change in direction.
The decision to go F2P was obviously driven by a need to make money beyond just selling a couple of hundred thousand copies.
From a longer term financial sustainability perspective, I wonder how they would go releasing DLC expansion packs for TL3. From memory TL1 and TL2 didn't have any DLC.
Like Diablo 1/2 did it where you get a good 4 or 5 acts with a bunch of gameplay for your base purchase and then sell an expansion which provides further acts and classes. (Obviously this model is open to fuckery, look at Paradox games)
Hmm I just found out about TL3 and I'm still not very interested, I found TL1 and 2 monumentally boring and repetitive.
Yeah, this genre is repetitive by nature. It caters to a specific crowd.