Torchlight Ups the Ante

[Seth]

Has the recent product of ex- Blizzard North and Flagship Studios employees led to a period of constructive silence for the Diablo III team? Torchlight, in many respects a child of the Diablo series as any official game, has been garnering the fanhood of many of our own members, perhaps due to its vast similarities in style, gameplay, and mechanics to older Diablo games and even Diablo III, itself. A recent article at MMO News asks all this and more.

For a good number of weeks now the DiabloFans staff has been struggling to find solid, unique, and valuable news. It's proved a distinctly challenging task, however, as very little has been released, as opposed to the massive flood of information we have been getting for months. Could this be the Diablo team treading lightly, so as to avoid announcing anything fragile? MMO News says that because of this observation, common among all Diablo news sites, that "Blizzard has made up its mind to reform the game system thoroughly".

Or could this simply be the usual calm before the storm? A similar slow came after StarCraft II's unveiling at the World Wide Invitational, which was followed by a good amount of updates straight from Blizzard and then reached a veritable freeze. Is it too soon to make the call?

[Psyxix]

Sooner or later there is bound to be some information released from blizzard either officially or from a probable leak. We can't even get information on patch 1.13 and that's not supposed to be a secret! Therefore, I won't except anything from them this month.

[Pryda]

We can hope its the calm before a storm but who knows. I doubt Blizzard is reforming the game much because of TL, because, lets be honest, TL hasn't introduced anything mindblowingly innovative or industry changing.

[dunhac82]

It would be great if that were the case...I mean honestly we have had just about nil since Blizzcon. Maybe they are holding back so they can just blow the socks off of TL fans (which in my opinion is just a blatant cartoony rip-off of D3...I still might check it out though). Either way, we are in a dire need of some friggin news here..hell even nothing on patch 1.13 for almost a month now.

[XXLaw]

Been playing this for a while now, I have to say - You can just feel that the people behind Diablo have worked at this. ^^
Great game, recommend to all Diablo fans.

[necronergal]

One thing I would like to see is some videos of the Barbarian and the Witch doctor. Like how we saw videos about the Wizard and Monk.

Even a little bit helps a ton.

[luc1027]

mmm It's seem to be ... boring. As Pryda said they not introduced something new. It's like a copie and paste from a game like that, with 3d engine and many beautiful color that invade the screen. And 3d engine don't look pretty fine... And I don't know what kind of world it is but I have some difficulty to immerse into the world with a gun in a medieval game... I really dislike that... Anyway I don't see the function of skill so I can't say it's a poor designed game. If it's some skills vomited on the table, not polished and not balanced, the game doesn't have any interest to play it.

[SFJake]

Originally Posted by XXLaw

Been playing this for a while now, I have to say - You can just feel that the people behind Diablo have worked at this. ^^
Great game, recommend to all Diablo fans.

To me, Torchlight is the perfect example of how certain things must change. It takes more than D2 than what we expect from D3.

I wish TL did hold me for a bit, but really, 2 days and thats it, I will probably not play this game again except for mods.

I don't it as unusual that they don't release informations on D3.. why would they? Just wait...

[Legilimens]

I played the demo for Torchlight and from what I played it seemed like a mini-Diablo 3 or a Diablo clone (diablo walks the earth! ahhhh). I don't think Blizzard is nervous or hesitant because of Torchlight...It is plausable that they are changing some things around and that's why they haven't released content, or it might just be that they are saving stuff since there's a long way to go before D3's release. Anyway you look at it is just speculation. All we can do is wait.

[luc1027]

I happy TL release before d3... Blizzard always copie, check, spy, analysis others game like what they work on. They always bring more and made better than others. They use errors of others on his advantage. It's like that you be able to do a good game.