It's definitely a lot simpler than Titan Quest. The "talent" trees in TQ were kind of strange and cluttered. In Torchlight though its a lot cleaner like WoW. The main thing I like about the talent trees though is that in each tree you don't have to have a certain number of points in that tree to unlock the more advanced skills, its just level based. So you can check out all 3 of the class's best abilities without much trouble.
 
If you don't care about online, and liked Diablo 2, then this game is pretty fun.

The reason I like this game over TQ myself is the 1 main hub, and then dungeons below.  If you played diablo 1 think of the way that games levels are.  Every 5 levels you go down you get a waypoint to the next area.  I'm in level 31 I think, and it seems I only have about half the waypoints.  The environments are also really cool, and there's some pretty insane boss fights.  The game in general seems a little more out of control and chaotic than TQ imo.  So if you're not turned off by a ton of shit going on at once then I'd highly suggest it.  If you don't feel comfortable dropping the 20 bucks right away steam has a demo version you can play.  Not sure how long of a demo it is, but it convinced one of my friends to pick it up. 

Matt Uelmen (of Diablo fame) composed the music. 
No matter what class you are, you get a pet which is really useful. It can sell items for you while you're in dungeons, cast spells (my dog can cast fireball and heal) hold items for you, equip items, shapeshift depending on what you feed it... 
It's not totally breakable with a doubleclick button like TQ. 
None of the classes are useless, whereas in TQ classes are all over the place in terms of balance. 
It's $20 and the people that make it listen to their customers!

I'm not concerned with the price so much as I'm concerned about the time spent playing it. I don't want to spend a dozen hours playing it if it doesn't offer an experience significantly different or better than TQ, which I've already played. 

No, I will not convince you to buy Torchlight.

If you need convincing you don't need to play them game.

why don't u go download the demo from Steam? its pretty long and gives u exactly 100% feeling of the game. For me I loved Diablo so I love this game right now,

Convince me to convince you.

There is a demo, give it a try and see for yourself.

" I'm not concerned with the price so much as I'm concerned about the time spent playing it. I don't want to spend a dozen hours playing it if it doesn't offer an experience significantly different or better than TQ, which I've already played.  "

Like everyone else said, try the demo but I thoroughly enjoyed the demo and will be picking it up soon. 

I can't, because it has no multiplayer.

" There is a demo, give it a try and see for yourself. "

" I can't, because it has no multiplayer. "

" There is a demo, give it a try and see for yourself. "

" @Br3adfan said:

" There is a demo, give it a try and see for yourself. "

url for the demo: 
 
http://www.fileshack.com/browse.x/5377      It's a great game!  I'll post a review next week about it. "

" @End_Boss said:

" I can't, because it has no multiplayer. "

You, sir, have missed out on a lot of great games.  A lot. "

How can I convince you to delete this thread?  o.O

" @End_Boss said:

" I can't, because it has no multiplayer. "

You, sir, have missed out on a lot of great games.  A lot. "