Torchlight 3

Steampunk · 1 Mar 2020 at 21:23

Didn't see a thread about the upcoming Torchlight 3. There's a Steam page, with a 2020 release date. Given that Torchlight 1 & 2 were brilliant "loot & level" ARPGs, I'm hoping that Torchlight 3 will be even better.

Steampunk · 1 Mar 2020 at 22:24

Psymonkee said:
Only played the 1st but really enjoyed it. Except for 1 line of dialog:

'My pack is full!'

Must get and play the 2nd at some point!

The second one had a pet with it's own inventory. You could transfer stuff to the pet, and it would take it back to town to sell, and then come back a minute later. You didn't have to stop playing the current map, you just had to do without the pet for combat/bonuses for a minute.

Steampunk · 1 Mar 2020 at 22:33

chroniclard said:
Will have a look but 1 and 2 were bang average compared to other ARPG's imo.

I found them really satisfying to play. They did everything really well without being too dark and gritty. I liked that slightly cartoony quality to it. They both had that really important "fun factor" and combat was slick and smooth.

Steampunk · 1 Mar 2020 at 23:06

chroniclard said:
I liked them, as far as they went, but found them a bit limited compared to other games.

Yeah, they didn't have a massive talent tree like PoE, but to me it just meant it was easier to play because it was easier to build viable characters and get good gear even across classes. That simplicity made it fun, rather than having to scruitize builds. It's like they pared it down to the core of ARPG/classes/loot&level and just polished it up till it shined.

Steampunk · 28 Apr 2020 at 16:01

A big article at Eurogamer:

Torchlight 3 feels like it's come out of nowhere because in many ways it has. For a long time it was known as Torchlight Frontiers. It wasn't a codename but a name for something fundamentally different to the Torchlight games which had come before. It was free-to-play. But the people playing the alpha didn't like it and, truth be told, the developer didn't either, so late last year, big, bold changes were made. The studio went dark and when it reemerged in January, it announced a remarkable turnaround. No longer did the game have a free-to-play heart. It, and all its wiring, had been ripped out and replaced by a buy-once, premium design. No longer was the game fundamentally different to the Torchlights which came before it. No longer was the game Torchlight Frontiers. It was, instead, Torchlight 3.

And people loved it.

"We had no idea the name part itself meant so much to people." I'm talking to Tyler Thompson, co-founder of Echtra Games and co-lead of Torchlight 3, whose credits stretch back to being co-lead on Diablo 2 expansion Lord of Destruction, with his Torchlight 3 co-lead Max Schaefer. How things circle back around, eh!

Steampunk · 13 Jun 2020 at 22:27

There will be an offline mode, but I guess that for the beta test/early access they want everyone online for metrics and load testing.