I bought Torchlight a while back because I was in a Diablo 2 kick but couldn’t find my cds. So when it was really cheap on Steam I bought this wonderful little game that was created by several people who worked on Diablo together at Blizzard. There’s a good many things they do right, and a few things they do wrong. But what I really want to focus on is the flexibility in the game.
And this is just the first wave...
I’ve always had a love for magic users who can summon things in games. Not sure why but I always played as the Necromancer in Diablo 2 and a Death Knight in WOW. There’s something satisfying I guess, being able to rip souls from the netherworld in service to you.
Now what makes Torchlight does is like WOW, they give you several trees from which to build your character. Now instead of confining a player to building on useless talents they don’t want, in order to get a talent they do–instead the talents unlock at a certain level and you are able to add to them. Even better…you get a skill point halfway to your next level, and then at the end.
There’s something very rewarding about creating a character in a game and fine tuning them till they fit the hero you wish they could be. Torchlight gave me this power by catering to exactly what I wanted. I love to summon things. So I have some summoning skills: Imps, Golemn…plus I can buy spells which let me summon zombies, skeleton archers.
Well it’s come to the point where I’ve fine tuned my character so much, I barely have to do any work. I rush in with my Fear and Spider Web spell, and let my minions do the rest. Lazy? Hardly, I merely sitting back and enjoying the show; watching the fruits of my labor.
While the game is based a lot on the principles set by Diablo, I feel the game does a better job at letting you fine tune your character to exactly how you want them.
What’s your build?
