Well yeah it's a Diablo clone - the devs are mostly ex-Blizzard North employees. The art style is obviously quite similar to WC3 as well. Probably the same art team.

Apparently Blizzard became suspiciously quiet the week Torchlight came out. Not to imply blizz has something to worry about - I think they just didn't want to be excluded from any BBQs.

I'll say this much though - if Diablo 3 doesn't have pets or a pet class of some sort the way Torchlight does, I am going to be severely disappointed. In Torchlight, every class gets a pet (2 choices, cat or dog), and they can wear amulets and rings, have an inventory the size of your own, and you can even teach them to cast spells via scrolls. My dog runs around biting shit and summoning skeletons. Fucking rad. And best of all - you can send your pet back to town to sell everything in his inventory and he'll come back like a minute later (alterable by talents) with the cash. No more inane trips back to town to unload all of your crap!

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Originally posted by Moongoose You get more XP if she disarms a few traps from a random encounter than from bringing down a damn high dragon, thats just not right.

This sort of shit is what bugs me about Dragon Age - the numbers are all fucked up. Itemisation scaling and equipment stats are fucking awful - it's like they didn't even think to make it sort of interesting or even. It seems to be a recurring theme amongst console ports and games they intend on milking until they're dry. Oh sorry, meant "expanding". Like, why is my starting dagger at 4.0 damage and the dagger I kill the Archdemon with 6.4? Is this my fault? WHAT DO THESE NUMBERS MEAN THEY'RE TOO DAMNED SMALL FOR ME TO CARE ABOUT THEM.

One more reason to roll a mage, I suppose. Bioware still hasn't topped Baldur's Gate 2 though.

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You better hope that Torchlight keeps you entertained for a long while now, because you know that Blizzard will have to look trough it and put in anything that D3 doesn't already contain, and since if i remmeber correctly no info about D3 said anythin about a pet which can sell your equipment they will have to work that in somehow...and knowing BLizzard just putting a damn dog into the game could take years

Agree on the numbers though, it could use ore balancing in that department, but considering that the game was already in development for almost 5 years any more tinkering with it could have just spoilt it more. But hey, as it is now at leat Leliana is useful for something, its nice to have a female rogue in a party, otherwise it would be three mages and a tank and that sounds too much like a movie title to work out.

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At least now youll have the time to practice a bit by beating D1 and D2 several times so that you can be in good form when D3 comes out...whenever that may be

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Been waiting on a solid release date so I can time those right.

Anyone know if there is a resolution patch for D1? I think it plays in like 640x480 or something ridiculous like that. I can't stand pixels that large, they could swallow me whole!

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Originally posted by Moongoose You better hope that Torchlight keeps you entertained for a long while now, because you know that Blizzard will have to look trough it and put in anything that D3 doesn't already contain, and since if i remmeber correctly no info about D3 said anythin about a pet which can sell your equipment they will have to work that in somehow...and knowing BLizzard just putting a damn dog into the game could take years

D2 did already have a merc system though, and with the redesigned inventory system (haven't really kept up to date on that) it should be easier to collect junk for reselling later. They might just tweak that system and make something similar out of it.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Been waiting on a solid release date so I can time those right. Anyone know if there is a resolution patch for D1? I think it plays in like 640x480 or something ridiculous like that. I can't stand pixels that large, they could swallow me whole!

it should run at least 800x600 which should be sufficient enough. i just re-finished playing diablo on my laptop a few months ago and it looked fine, imo.

Action RPG my ass! looks like Diablo 3

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I am completely hooked on this game now. Just perfect to tide the fan over until D3 (whenever that comes out)

its pretty neat, Diablo music and items, you can tell they had programmers that worked on Diablo. Too bad no multilayer for now

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