Comments on: Wot I Think: Torchlight

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:53:37 +0000

This is totally getting out of hand lol

By: Pappy13

Pappy13 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:14:36 +0000

Railick said:
EU3 is a dark and sultry mistress where as Torchlight is like a younger woman good for a quick fling but ultimately not intelligent, deep, or challenging enough to keep my interest for long.

I'll take young and "perky" over dark and sultry any day of the week and twice on Sunday...if I can get it. LOL

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:04:20 +0000

EU3 is a dark and sultry mistress where as Torchlight is like a younger woman good for a quick fling but ultimately not intelligent, deep, or challenging enough to keep my interest for long.

By: Pappy13

Pappy13 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:20:27 +0000

OMG, I can't believe anyone could give up on this game after only getting one toon to the end. I have 6 now because I keep finding so much good loot, I have to start another toon to put it all on someone. I have 2 of each class now, 1 using two 1-handed weapons and 1 using a 1 handed weapon. I loved creating a battle mage and using a 2 handed staff. That combined with the shock glove skill is freaking awesome. Shock-stun 'em, then play whack a mole. I stuck a bunch of points into defense and that shield skill and I think he might be more durable than my defender.

Great game.

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:26:51 +0000

Maybe Fate had a way to jump levels without actaully cheating, it had a lot more wacky stuff in it than Torchlight does :)

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:24:38 +0000

Yup, they’ve got to be jumping to the level. Even if you could, somehow, get through a floor every second it’d still take 68 years (not including load times!) to get down to that level.

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:32 +0000

It would appear some people have reached that level, I have no idea how without cheating but someone had to find out :P

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:14:13 +0000

Let’s see, averaging a floor every half hour that means I’d run out of dungeon in… about 122, 500 years.

You know, I don’t think it’s going to come up.

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:11:51 +0000

Well if it helps there is actaully a finite ending to the infinite dungeon :P You shouldn't be able to go past floor 2,147,483,647 because of some sort of computing problem, though they may have fixed that in Torchlight. (It was a limit in Fate and its expansion)

Strange, they just released an expandalone for Fate last month ! O.o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate:_The_Traitor_Soul

I guess they're trying to compete with Torchlight :P Interesting.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:03:50 +0000

There are just too many good games out there, clearly. :)

And to be clear I’m not complaining at all. I very comfortably got my money out of Torchlight, and suspect I’ll come back to it in one form or another, I’m just genuinely curious to see if it has any immediate continued pull for me in the absence of a finite ending.

By: Railick

Railick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:57:35 +0000

You've already done better than me I havn't even beat the main dungeon yet (Or even gotten past the goblin fortress levels) Of course I owe that to you getting me addicted to freaking EUIII which I find much more addictive then Torchlight sadly :P Also I've been playing through Star Wars Jedi Academy again and that is always fun (There is nothing like running into a room full of storm troopers and killing them all with a lightsaber without getting hit once)

Or as a famous British Prime Minister said " Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:44:39 +0000

I thought the NPC explained retirement pretty clearly, but I suppose it helps that I’m familiar with the concept from other RPG’s (like Etrian Odyssey).

We’ll see where my motivations fall. I have an awful lot of other games I’d like to play, and have never been particularly prone to getting “addicted” to games, so I suspect I won’t last long delving with no clear end goal.