Bankrotas

@StarvingGamer: Difficulty is countered by farming, farming is bullcrap of an solution if you do not want to buy from Auction house. But difficulty aside, as and ARPG yes, D1 is miles ahead of D3. As pure Action game D3 has upper side, but since it has balls to call itself a rpg, I evaluate it as one. And there is no character progression in D3. It's just my opinion, and I partly enjoyed feel of D3, but never enough to feel like buying that game. However, this is not topic about D3, so apologize for sidetracking.

This game is bet in LAN, not on ladder, while getting wasted with friends. If you have no friends... s2bu

I beat it once in vanilla 1.07 with lvl 70 barbarian, was a masochist gaming. Then mostly beat it with mods Ancestral Recall and Median XL. I suggest looking these 2 up. First one is a bit more monsterish and bit more rewarding for what you kill, the latter one revamps whole inventory, skills, items, runewords, adds bunchlode of different bonus quests and dungeons and is miles harder than vanila or Ancestral Recall.

@StarvingGamer said:

Because Torchlight felt like an intermediary step between Diablo 1 and 2, I was instantly bored.

I'm assuming that Torchlight 2 will feel like an intermediary step between Diablo 2 and 3 so, no, I am the exact opposite of pumped.

Except D3 looks like miles away from quality that even D1 had to bring to the table. Especially after reading people's reaction to inferno difficulty.

@DJJoeJoe said:

@Bankrotas said:

Did it sound crazy when D3 fanbois were "pumped"?

Iunno, I guess? I don't frequently refresh the internet for what people are talking about these days, I just pop into some random giantbomb forums once a week or a few weeks when I'm bored.

Well to me, D3 seemed 10 time more hyped game.

I just wanted to comment on how crazy it sounds to me to be 'pumped' for a video game. Mostly cause I can't imagine any sort of experience that would justify being 'pumped', I feel like all you're doing it setting yourself up to become 'un-pumped' pretty quickly, especially since Torchlight 2 is very much what you think it will be (click on monster until they die, random loot, neat pet mechanics).

I'd rather actually have Fallout 2 like gameplay with Silent Storm turn based style engine and skill progression system.  

Emm, set up is not like Stalkers afaik. It's alternative reality, where Soviet union and USA went all out during Caribbean crisis. 
 
Too lazy to repair google translate's nonsense, so here's bit of what I found on games main page: 
Confronting the Soviet Union and the United States, known as the Caribbean crisis was resolved in 1962 by force - it was the finale of a nuclear war, which resulted in most of the population perished, and nearly all the territory of the planet has become uninhabitable due to radioactive contamination.  However, the Soviet Union was ready for such a development.  For some time before the global crash of military mobilization machine ran at full power: it was carried out mass evacuation of citizens, the most important companies and organizations in a pre-built network is equipped with bunkers.

It took 50 years.  Came in 2012 ... For decades hastily sheltered underground fragments socialist nation now turned into the state with its capital, Pobedograd bride.  The main purpose of the New Union has been and remains a population survival and recovery technology base in the external hostile environment.

The mighty Soviet state survived even at the end of the world.  Survived - and has continued to evolve in a completely new, hostile and strange, though still recognizable world.  Here, in an underground Pobedograde, begins an extraordinary story of extraordinary people.  Hero RPG «The new Soyuz" - a Soviet pilot, an officer who took part in the atomic bombing of the United States.  But all of his past - only a little compared with what he had only to go through a dangerous, new world, born in the merciless rays of radiation.

In the face of danger man ever yearns to feel the severity of arms in their hands.  And in the "New Union" necessarily means there will be its struggle with the enemy, that is certain to delight connoisseurs.  In the arsenal of the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse and the destruction of the military industry will best examples of experimental firearms USSR, for example trehstvolny machine "device 3B", AO-46 (nicknamed the "Soviet ultrasound") under 5,45 mm machine TKB-022PM.

Now you have a lot of questions, comrade.  But all the time.  Remember the main thing: Pobedograd will stand no matter what.  Will stand by you. 
   
Here's screenshot page.
http://novysoyuz.ru/scr   
  
Here's artwork page: 
http://novysoyuz.ru/art

As far as I can tell from trailer. Russia has reformed Soviet Union. 
To people, who don't understand russian: radio is only telling time on different timezones in Soviet union.

I don't feel like I am member of their targeted audience any more. Other than that, even though games they create are really polished, but I do not believe they deserve praise they get.