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Words Of Wisdom on 25 December 2009
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shio said:
Torchlight is so damn good. Everything in it reminds me of Diablo, and the best part is that it even has some better gameplay mecanics than Diablo 2!!

It has a lot of rough spots though.

Missing items from D2:

  • Synergies
  • Skill totals higher than 10

Annoyances:

  • Half the pet transformations (spider, gel, etc) seem worthless.
  • Spells don't go above 11 so really high offensive/defensive/charm masteries seem pointless.
  • Many active abilities (Vanquisher) aren't worth using.
  • Levels/floors are too long.  You can only watch the fish jump out of the sunken ships so many times before it gets bland.
  • Waypoints are too infrequent.  In Diablo 2, they're maybe 5-10 minutes apart.  In Torchlight, they're 30+ minutes apart.
  • Pet travel times to town are stupid (I have -160% travel time so it's instant for me but... meh).
  • Set items can have any color silhouette including blue and green which means you can't just sell off all the green stuff without reading it.
  • Certain set items like Gorgon Boots have totally random properties.
  • Life total is comparatively small to the rest of the screen so it's easy to rack up damage without noticing.
  • No auto-cast option (it'd be nice to have it auto-cast Haste on me every time it wore off)
  • No item auto-pickup option (something to autopick up set/unique/consumable items only would be great)
  • Really bad hover-text stacking when holding alt (hard to find the item I want when they're all stacked)
  • I still haven't figured out what fame does beyond giving me a new little title every 15 minutes
  • When the pet gets stuck, it takes too long for it to teleport to you.
  • Pet arbitrarily picks things up.  If it only picked up crap that I could send it to town to sell then that would be swell but it just random picks up anything regardless of value.
  • Game spontaneously closes after changing settings but doesn't restart

 

If anyone has any mods compatible with the latest version of the game that fix some of these issues then feel free to post them.