Torchlight XBLA Pushes Torchlight II To July

The guys that made Torchlight made the classic Diablo and Diablo 2. It sort of dampens my optimism for the quality of Diablo 3, now since it's made by a different team.

My roommate and I were totally psyched for Torchlight 2.  But it only just now dawned on us that it won't be on XBLA until, well, ... probably a good long while after it's PC/Mac release.

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" That's a shame. Because Diablo III will crush it. "

Not too bummed since I am just now going through Torchlight on Steam.

So'k Magicka run through's until then i guess, damn that game is two whole bags of awesome. Still does anyone know if Diablo 2 works on windows 7? I do miss looting. 

This seems neat, i really need to go back and play some more torchlight, never finished it, but i am really curious to see how this plays on a console.

" That's a shame. Because Diablo III will crush it. "

That's a shame. Because Diablo III will crush it.

@BounceDK said:

" Expecting another dumbed down game then. "

When a game involves nothing more than clicking the mouse button and mashing keys to use potions, how exactly do you "dumb it down"?

" Console gamers ruining everything! and so on and so forth.  "

There are few things more delicious than the tears of whiny PC-only gamers. If I have to wait a little longer for Torchlight 2, that's alright.

Delay box indeed.

Man I love it when shit like this happens, the PC crowd goes bananas.

Where's my Torchlight MMO?   

" Expecting another dumbed down game then. "

Maybe change the news title to "PC Elitists get another stick to put up their collective rectums"

I'm one of these PC players that puts the PC on a pedastal, mostly due to the fact that it is, you know, better. 
 
Seeing people complain here is just moronic. As a PC gamer I hate having certain franchises "dumbed down" to be multi-platform. eg Battlefield.
 
This game was already built for the PC and is now being ported for consoles?! What the hells wrong with that? More people get to play a great game. Plus their a small studio that had a hit, they deserve to get paid.

" Inb4 "console babies ruining the master race" "

Expecting another dumbed down game then.

Oh man, and I was kinda psyched for getting to play it quite soonish, I loved the first one.

Sad to see it delayed, but The Witcher 2 comes out in May so I wouldn't have played it until at the earliest July anyway.

" This is unfortunate, but you know, it'll probably make the game better in the long run anyways. 
 
@Jinto said:

" Fucking A man, fucking A. Damn 12 year old console kids. "

Effing 12 year-old complaining PC Kidz. Ugh. "

FIAL!

" Fucking A man, fucking A. Damn 12 year old console kids. "

My computer blows so I never care to play games on it verses my 360. So I'm looking forward to the xbla release so I can finally give Torchlight a go.

As much as I want this it isn't really high on my list of games to get. Will probably get it during a Steam sale ('11 holiday, $10?).

" This is fucking horseshit. You should have played the game on PC when it came out. It runs on any pc. It has a fucking netbook mode. I'm primarily a console gamer and I can see the bullshit that this is. "

did runic ever say if they will include the console controls in torchlight II, or change the way the game will be controlled because of the port?

" This is fucking horseshit. You should have played the game on PC when it came out. It runs on any pc. It has a fucking netbook mode. I'm primarily a console gamer and I can see the bullshit that this is. "

This is fucking horseshit. You should have played the game on PC when it came out. It runs on any pc. It has a fucking netbook mode. I'm primarily a console gamer and I can see the bullshit that this is.

Huh.  Well, good on them for having put in the time to try selling Torchlight and Diablo genre in general, to the console masses. 

" @sixpin: For real. The more platforms they can port to, the more people can enjoy their games, the more money that can go into their coffers to make MORE games.  "

As long as it comes out before D3, it will get plenty of sales I think.  Waiting too long will just doom it.

Sign me up for those who are ok with the delay. I like to imagine that the extra time will go into even more polish. Loved the first, can't wait for the next.

Its not like the entire month of May-July there is only Torchlight 2 to play. Geez.

AHHHH!!!! I knew this would fucking happen. Godammit, why bother releasing Torchlight on consoles anyway? 90% of the market for that type of game is on the PC anyway, so the argument" the console version will really help fund Torchlight 2" is mostly invalid. And also, whenever a company says something like "Ya the console version really gives us alot of insight and ideas about what we can do to help better the PC version," it usually means that they take the dumbed down aspects of the inferior console ports and put in on PC.

Comments like this are why people think PC gamers are scumbags.

" Console gamers ruining everything! and so on and so forth.  "

" Don't know if it is because of Torchlight's PC roots, but both articles on here have been full of whining and asinine conspiracy theories. "

if they can make more money out of the game, all power to them ... and, lets be honest, there is not much to "dumb down" in a game like torchlight.

Fucking A man, fucking A. Damn 12 year old console kids.

" @mazik765 said:

" @OmegaPirate said:

" Inb4 "console babies ruining the master race"

Oh no! You jinxed it! There's no stopping those tools now, they'll be here any minute T_T "

720p is for bitches.  "

Curse you, XBLA, curse you!!! ^^

I don't like it but at the same time, I've got such a backlog it will be sometime before I get around to it anyway.  On the other hand, if Blizzard announces the release window for Diablo III before I get Torchlight II, I fairly certain I won't ever pick it up.  

The real question is if Torchlight III will hit before Diablo III. Signs point to yes.

" " Delay or not, we're willing to bet Torchlight II will still debut before Diablo III does. "  What makes you think a thing like that? ;) "