Wow it really is $5 US today. Steam really outdoes itself. I'm not a big fan of online content delivery in principle (don't have physical ownership of the product, DRM, you can't resell. It's almost as if you don't own the game. You are just paying a "license" to play it.) but I have to admit that Valve really goes out of their way to improve consumer perception of online content delivery with all these sales and deals. Valve's business model is working very well for them. Online content delivery can really suck (see Xbox 360 Games on Demand. Yeah right I'm gonna pay same price or higher than what it's selling for in the store or on ebay) but Valve is making it work.

Don't remind me on the price, I got it a couple days ago when it went back down to 10 bucks.  That five dollars could have been spent on a 12 pack of PBR, sigh.  Anywho, I'm gonna give it another go tonight.

I got Torchlight (in addition to Braid, great game) as a gift from this sale and I find it incredible (many similarities to Diablo which is really nice). I like the graphics/art style of it a lot also. Just wish it had multiplayer.

5 bucks today..i couldn't resist....

god i love steam....

499 US dollars....
499 US dollars...

Oh wait, $4.99 US dollars.
SOLD!

I got it, but I don't have too high expectations from it. I'll report when I get some time with it.

A PC fan that has low expectations for the best PC game of the last 5 years? You are a walking contradiction sir. No matter, enjoy it it is the best PC game I have played in ages despite all the decent console ports. So few games are targeted at PC these days, and those that are tend to be cheap and shitty. Torchlight rocks.

Edit: I forgot we live in Soviet Russia and can't call somebody a fanboy even in a nice way.

It's a Diablo Clone. Anyone knows that clones are weaker than originals. I caan't respect a clone as much as an original game. Also Portal and World of Goo are the best games in the last 5 years, Torchlight is just a Diablo clone, and a simple one at that. Now that I have played it a bunch.

Also I'm not so much a fanboy as I am realistic about games.

Portal is great agreed though not my taste. But World of Goo is better on Wii if you ask me. Still I suppose it counts since it started on PC.

You use Diable clone like it a bad word. Its just a made up term to describe any action RPG after Diablo. Thats like calling any FPS a Wolfenstein clone. Its just pointless. Yes it is like Diablo in many ways, but that is a genre. Perhaps you are just not much of a A-RPG fan which is fine.

See the differencec is that there is VERY little added to the Diablo 2 formula. They added a pet, and that's about it when it comes to significant changes. At least I'm hoping Blizzard themselves innovates upon D2 with Diablo 3. I really liked the boss that tore the barbarian in two pieces in the trailer they played, also the heavily destructive evironments would be amazing if used correctly. Also clones are never good because they are just clones, they can never be as good as an original game.