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Quick Look: Torchlight

Brad and Ryan hack their way through this dungeon crawler by the guys who did Diablo.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Oct. 26 2009

Cast: Ryan, Brad

Posted by: Drew

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Torchlight

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EL DIABLO!!!

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dude!!!

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AFRIKA!!??
Looks intersting

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that dragon age commercial is gonna get real old, real fast.

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@borgmaster said:
" that dragon age commercial is gonna get real old, real fast. "
I would appreciate some variety...
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@bluemantra: the thing is, I wouldn't mind if the editing was just less awkward. or if it was a better commercial in general.
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This looks dope.

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hello

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Meh, it looks pretty sweet if I'm gonna be honest
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Fuck yeah!

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Hmm I'm kinda excited by this, but do we really need another??

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Already have Titan Quest to tide me over until Diablo 3 comes out, I think I'll pass. 

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@borgmaster said:
" that dragon age commercial is gonna get real old, real fast. "
I like it more then the Halo 3: ODST one.
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I wonder how many hours of gameplay there is because I don't wanna buy it if it's not going to keep my occupied long. Anyone know?

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@JustTheDoctor: there's just something off with the editing is all, but that's gonna make it progressively harder to watch.
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Hooray for Quickly Looking at vidja games.

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If this game had multiplayer, I'd go preorder it.

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think I'll wait for Diablo.  I miss playing Diablo 2.  Loved just being a Necromancer and summoning a ton of skeletons even tho they were weak as crap.  But having an army of skeletons falling you looked kewl.\
 
if I recall correctly, you don't have to keep clicking or holding down your mouse button.  I thought all you had to do was click once on an enemy and your guy keeping hitting them.  Maybe I'm wrong...

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Brad If you see this, how long have you been playing. If I am going to spend money on this I would like to know If it is in descend length 
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Ryan's bloodlust during Brad's quick looks is hilarious. 

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I cant wait for this to unlock on Steam tomorrow.

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@handlas:
They actually buffed it in some of the later patches. Skellymancers are even viable in Hell mode, pretty damn awesome to see an army of undead ravage through Hell.
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 I assume the shared stash didn't work because he choose hardcore, which is like Diablo II's hardcore prevented trading between hardcore characters and non-hardcore.
 
Looks like a fun game.  Multiplayer would have made it worth a bit more, but for $20 it may prove to be a great distraction to fill the void between other game releases.

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Hmm. OK, looks like I could get in to. I'll give it a shot tomorrow!  

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So many great ideas going on in this game... I only wish it had multiplayer on release, as opposed to (possibly) years after.

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I am playing Diablo 2 right now on my netbook and undoubtedly most of the appeal of the game comes from its sheer atmosphere. The art and the music work together to give an almost eerie yet cozy feeling when exploring the dungeons. I don't see that in this game. I don't play WoW so I'm not really conditioned to that cartoony art style either. 
 
Oh snap. I just caught the part where the dog ran back to sell stuff. Man.. that's so awesome.

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They totally ripped off WoW, Of the bear?

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Bought this already on Steam... just waiting for it to be unlocked.  Very excited.  Also, constant clicking is a hard habit to break it would seem.  Click and hold is the way to go though.

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These are the mythos guys? I loved that when it existed.

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You should know Brad, that fame makes a man take things over. It also makes him loose and hard to swallow. Heh heh heh.
 
But anyway, looks like Diablo with a different skin or so. Okay, I guess.

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This looks almost exactly like Fate. Which is good because Fate was pretty badass, and this looks like it's expanded on it nicely.

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Shared stash doesn't work between normal and hardcore options...  I believe you can share between difficulty levels as long as they are the same non-hardcore/hardcore selection...

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You cant see your stash i think because your alchemist is on hardcore level and your other character is not?

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The game is roughly 7-10 hours. 
 
The big thing that will be wicked about this game. They're releasing mod tools next week :) 
Expect amazing stuff!!
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oooh, may have to pick this up.

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That really looks good,  I'll be looking forward to that tomorrow.

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@Toxic said:
" Brad If you see this, how long have you been playing. If I am going to spend money on this I would like to know If it is in descend length  "
He said he's 3 hours in and was on level 10 of the dungeon. According to the Runic Games Wiki, the dungeon has a total of about 40 floors, so it's definitely not a very long game if you just wanna beat the main quest; however, you do unlock an endless dungeon after beating it, and you'll probably wanna come back to it to play as the other classes.
 
I already pre-purchased it on Steam since I really like the graphical style, and that's really all I care about in these type of games since they usually don't bring a whole lot of innovation to the table. Torchlight is basically a clone of Fate but with prettier graphics.
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This is cheap, both in design and concept. 
Knowing a Diablo III is on the horizon so they can make a happy buck out of it's popularity? 
Does anyone concur with this or should i quit my inane clamoring?
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This reminds me of an old Wild Tangent game called FATE. It was similar to Diablo, but you basically went into one dungeon and just went deeper and deeper as you picked up quests from the 1 town that you could return to.
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@GunnBjorn: These were the guys working on Mythos before that was shut down. The idea for that came with testing netcode (or something like that) for Hellgate and the test thing they made was fun so they decided to make that into it's own thing. The stuff with Hellgate happened and the teams were destroyed or moved around. The Mythos team was acquired and here we are today.
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I'm really looking forward to this game!

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@GunnBjorn said:
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This is cheap, both in design and concept. Knowing a Diablo III is on the horizon so they can make a happy buck out of it's popularity? Does anyone concur with this or should i quit my inane clamoring? "
on the horizon? i didn't know atleast a solid year away was 'on the horizon'
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Add it to the list of games Brad dies in during QLs

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@GunnBjorn said:
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This is cheap, both in design and concept. Knowing a Diablo III is on the horizon so they can make a happy buck out of it's popularity? Does anyone concur with this or should i quit my inane clamoring? "
Inane clamoring for sure... Seeing as a bunch of guys who made diablo 1 and 2 are at runic... as well as the guy who made fate (considered by many to be the best diablo clone)  I would expect it to be a lot like diablo.  If it ain't broke don't fix it.
 
Diablo III wont be here till 2011
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Fish are fished out of fishing holes.  Look in the town to the SouthEast.
 
The shared stash didnt' work because of the hardcore option, you can only share items between characters if they are the same mode, ie: hardcore or not hardcore.
 
If you would have created a non hardcore character it would of worked.

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@JustTheDoctor said:
" @borgmaster said:
" that dragon age commercial is gonna get real old, real fast. "
I like it more then the Halo 3: ODST one. "

OMG yeah, let the novelty of a new soon-will be-boring advert at least run it`s course before you say that! Since they really do have to advertise, I wish they could mix a few different game adverts in there. I want GB to succeed, and variety is key. I got to truly hate ODST towards the end, and as a game, rebelled against even finishing it.  My problem, but...
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@handlas said:
" think I'll wait for Diablo.  I miss playing Diablo 2.  Loved just being a Necromancer and summoning a ton of skeletons even tho they were weak as crap.  But having an army of skeletons falling you looked kewl.\  if I recall correctly, you don't have to keep clicking or holding down your mouse button.  I thought all you had to do was click once on an enemy and your guy keeping hitting them.  Maybe I'm wrong... "
Nah. In Diablo 2 there is no auto-attack or whatever. Not that I recall. There was only the hold down technique. The auto-attack must have happened later after D2 came out.
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About the shared chest.
 
You cant share stuff via softcore and hardcore.

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I love the new skin for FATE.

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Not even a little bit of co-op? :( Damn, it looks pretty cool.