Torchlight III

Broken unplayable sorry state, at least i have torchlight 2 -_-

Go for Torchlight II. Much better!! This one is terrible.

Limited review, I played through the campaign on 1 character. Apparently only 16% of players make it that far so make of this what you will. On the plus side, the class design is rather good. I played as the Forged, a steam powered robot with a minigun in its chest. Has a resource system where you use an attack to build heat, use an ability to convert heat to steam, use an ability to spend steam. I used my minigun to build heat, an aoe explosion to convert to steam and a sniper shot to spend steam. As you can see I primarily used the Forged's ranged tree but there was another tree that was melee focused. Each class has two trees, not necessarily ranged vs melee for example the Dusk Mage has a light vs shadow tree. There are also relics that each class can choose as a third tree that they share. I chose the Electrode for some shock/attack speed abilities but there's also a fire, blood, poison and frost relic. You gain relic energy using the class' native abilities and once you spend relic energy on relic abilities there's a sort of ultimate relic ability available. With the electrode it was a huge attack speed buff. If attached to a better game, I'd have been interested in trying the Railmaster who has a traincar of turrets follow him about and the Cursed Captain who has a cursed pirate crew at her command and lots of gunpowder abilities. These are cool, unique arpg classes that have a lot of design flourishes to them. Now the downsides. -First this has little to do with Torchlight. Yes there are a few terms namedropped for flavour but were they not used you'd have no clue this was a Torchlight game. -The story is barebones and not very well written. Story may not be a deal breaker for you, it's not like the prior Torchlights were vastly intricate yarns. The plot is either delivered through quest descriptions, audio logs or cutscenes. The latter are just dialogue over drawn panels, some of which aren't even coloured which adds a sense of either laziness or minuscule budget. The last cutscene just has the narrator describe what's happening since there's no dialogue and it'd just be a slideshow of uncoloured sketches otherwise. As for badly written one of the act finales is to stop a minion of the big bad getting their hands on a (namedrop) ember, you defeat the minion and the cutscene has another minion stroll up and take the ember anyway; apparently we either forgot to take the ember with us when we left or conveniently ignored an easily defeatable minion walk up to the macguffin crucial to their plans take it and walk off. -The sound design was rather underwhelming. I remind you that I played a minigun robot, having a local kid make a 'Kchh' gun sound would have more impact that the TL3 sound. The sniper shot was comparable to the sound you make trying to blow a hair off your tongue. The music was ok. -This only occurred once but I had one dungeon that was the same map piece repeated 4 times. It was a short dungeon so it became apparent quickly. Entry, path leading to a circle with a path leading to a circle with a path leading to a circle with a path leading to a circle with a path to the exit. For it's own section here are some of the bugs of Torchlight 3. Is it unplayable? No, however there are enough to make it unpleasant. -Loot will drop through the floor or shoot through the ceiling to unreachability. -You will need to use the Force Move command as characters will stubbornly attack the air where an enemy/destructable item was long after it dies. -The world will 'reset' constantly, there seem to be fixed open world maps with several attached dungeons that the story missions take you into. Frequently after completing the dungeon the open map will repopulate the enemy closets (most enemies are spawned from monster closets) and the map will reshroud meaning that unless you memorised it you need to re-explore the same map over again for your next objective. -There are audiologs found in the world to give some extra story. These are frequently cut off for no reason. Some of these logs are found at fixed points which can be made available again by reloading the area, some are found in chests at random that have no such easy workaround. -Frequently my discovered waypoints became unavailable to teleport to when reloading the game. -The map showing the waypoints repeatedly had an issue where the icons would flicker frenziedly, they weren't 'un-discovered' as above just the icon was unclickable. -The pet's resistances seemed to be bugged, there are pet items that grant invulnerability to the area's element yet my pet would get oneshot frequently. Maybe a bug due to said item also have +resistance to the same element (yay rng) but that's a guess. If you absolutely must play every Torchlight game, if you are tempted by the admittedly cool classes, if you can ignore irritating but not gamebreaking bugs pick it up on sale. If you're looking for a polished arpg perhaps with a good story, shop elsewhere.

Lazy and uninspired. Fun to play through mindlessly if you bough it on sale, definitely not worth the full price.

I see why the franchise died. 0 Difficulty scaling , plays like a Mobile game and the audio is terrible.

When it's on sale of 85% off or more it's an interesting little ARPG that feels like it tried to oversimplify the already streamlined Torchlight franchise into something that lacks the depths of almost any of its genre peers. Which is sad because it has some of the more novel character classes and designs you can find in any ARPG, but a troubled development has left it feeling a bit cut at the knees.

Wer Torchlight bislang geliebt hat, sollte dieses Spiel meiden. Sinnlos lange Sprayer Kämpfe, man erhält Gold, mit dem man keinen sinnvollen Inhalt kaufen kann. Es gibt sinnlos viele Forts, die nicht genutzt werden können und die Kämpfe sind monoton und langweilig. Das Balancing ist ebenfalls schrecklich, entweder man stirbt durch eine Attacke oder man kann sich ewig in den Gegner stellen ohne Schaden zu erleiden. Die Gegner wiederholen sich ständig und die Masse an Gegner ist dem Loot gegenüber Null gerechtfertigt. Je länger man spielt desto mehr hofft man, dass dieses bald ein Ende hat. Ich kann jedem den Kauf nur abraten, es ist das schlechteste Spiel, dass ich je spielen durfte und man sollte kein Geld verlangen hierfür, sondern Geld erhalten für denjenigen der es spielt. Die Enwickler haben sich keine Mühe gegeben und es wirkt so, als ob alles copy paste mäßig schnell eingefügt worden ist, um schnell Geld damit zu verdienen. Es steckt keine Liebe im Spiel und sollte dringend überarbeitet werden, da es zahlreiche Bugs gibt und das Spiel häufig abstürzt. Fazit: Nicht kaufen, ist nur enttäuschend, für mich gibt es kein Torchlight III!!!