10-06-2012, 08:00 AM
(10-03-2012, 05:28 PM)MonTy Wrote: I enjoyed about 75% of the game. Started on elite difficulty but had to tone it down to veteran near the end as I just wanted to finish it. My Two-handed Engineer with decent gear was getting beat up quite a bit- think I chugged nearly two thousand potions. Enemies tracked your character a bit too much, they would wait until I stood still to cast their spells/attacks. Since I wielded a slow attacking two-hander, this meant if I attacked right away that I would get hit back, so on elite difficulty the game became about waiting for them to attack, and then slam down with my two-hander.
All in all I did enjoy TL2 and certainly got my money's worth. The game was a massive loot pinata, I enjoyed the steady stream of unique and set items.
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I sprung for this game and after increasing frustration I've actually come down with buyers remorse.
It became apparent rather quickly that I would not spend anywhere near as much time as I have with any of the Diablo games or even Torchlight 1 on this sequel. That's ok though, Diablo 3 is serving as my brainless slaughter-fest at the moment, I don't need another game to fill that slot. Frankly I'm not even able to find enough enjoyment in this to finish the story however.
The frustrations I found in the demo pretty much carry throughout the game (at least up until act III where I've put the game down). You are constantly put in challenge arenas which consist of a small area with a sea of respawning minions and one boss that needs to be killed to pass it. Running around in circles for 30 minutes hoping against hope that some minor damage is passing on to the boss is not my idea of fun.
As an aside (and not to get too hyperbolic); I've also, after playing this far, come down with a visceral hatred for Max Schaefer. It takes some serious balls to talk shit about another development team for the new stuff they tried (some good, some bad) when your new game is literally nothing more than a cut and paste of the things you did before. I know apologists will cry out "Torchlight II is an homage to Diablo II!!!". No, it's not. An homage is the minor throw-outs they have sprinkled throughout the game ala Chester Copperpot and One-Eyed Willy. Torchlight II is nothing more than a copy of D2 with a Torchlight skin.
I never thought I would say this but I fear Runic may be my new Bethesda. A game company that hasn't come up with a new interesting idea in 15 years and yet somehow everyone still sucks them off while in, what I can only assume is a nostalgia induced haze.