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Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Torchlight and Torchlight 2 are great games and even have mods available.

I hear 3 and Infinite are not, though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Been a while since I played 2.

    I recently played 1 and was surprised how well it played on the Steam Deck. Felt very native and is small enough on disk to leave it in for any dungeon slashing needs.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Being able to function on the deck does not make it a good game, just saying

    Love the down vote lol

    "Is this a good game"

    "It runs on hardware I own"

    Fyckkkk lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Torchlight is so highly spoken of... Am I the only person that thought it was pretty pedestrian?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I think a lot of it is timing, too. Remember, the first Torchlight was 2009, we're talking pre-indie craze. There's been no Super Meat Boy or Fez yet, I think. ARPGs hadn't absolutely flooded the market yet and seeing a very competent and stylized, if simplistic Diablo-like back then could generate some interest. That carried on to the 2nd, which had a lot of improvements.

    There's a bunch wrong with 3 and Infinite, but they were also competing in a saturated market and, you're right, the Torchlight "brand" didn't really have enough luster on its own to carry a series.

    EDIT: Diablo II was 2000 and Diablo III would be 2012. We were fucking starving back then.

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