Thank you everyone for stopping by! This is one of my earlier videos, and I haven't really covered any ARPG's lately, but if you'd like to see more content like this, let me know. Season 4 of Diablo IV is coming soon and I was thinking of seeing if it's improved since season 1, let me know down below!
This was my favorite RPG for a while. Played it with my wife. She got more addicted to it that I did. She used an Embermage focused on prismatic bolt and fire pillar. I was the engineer with the forcefield and heal bot. Ahh the good old days. My new favorite game is Grim Dawn. Still hold up to this day. If you haven't tried it, I recommend that game.
grim dawn is far, far better than TL2. i was playing TL2 last night and it's sooooo slow and the skills are soooo limited and the gear is soooo boring@@JarboeGaming
Extrachunky and Endless mod kills Grim Dawn very easy.Dungeons and Maps are bigger and very very well randomly generated.TL2 with mods is Harder than,d1,d2,d3,D4,grimm Dawn, Poe. etc.
Agree for sure. Art styles done this way can be more beautiful, in my opion, them something with ultra realistic graphics. Just look at Sea of Thieves, LOZ: Wind Waker, etc.
Travis Baldree was the the designer of Torchlight 2, the producer for the first Torchlight and its spiritual predecessor, a game called Fate. Travis still does a lot of indie game stuff, but lately has become a fantastic audiobook narrator, and was spectacular in narrating the Cradle series by Will Wight.
I'm 127hrs deep in Torchlight II. Just picked it up on my Switch as well. I played this through with ab old friend with an Embermage who is a new game ++ character. Loved this game so much
I got the game for free years ago, both in Steam and Epic. Tried it back in the day and got bored, don't know why. Recently I decided to play the first one, and after beating it in two days I inmediately installed the second one and boy am I ejnyoing it. About to finish my first NG+ alerady. Everything you say in the video is exactly what makes me love this game, even tho I was never big on Diablo and the likes. I will try modding it soon, since there are a lot of great changes and additions in the steam workshop, with mod support and a mod manager built into the launcher! Truly a gem of a game.
Just found out about this game tonight and found it on Steam for under 4 bucks. I wasn't sure about it, but I'll definitely pick it up now. Thanks for the review!
Excellent review! One additional thing that's great about Torchlight 2; the mods. There is a large library on the Steam Workshop adding a lot of changes and new content to the game (including complete respec potions, I believe). There are a few overhauls and collections which combine a bunch of mods, which is handy because you can only have a maximum of ten active at any one time. I believe there is also a way to create custom merged mod files without needing a lot of modding skills. I see you are interested in playing Grim Dawn. You HAVE to try it if you like ARPGs; it's better than this game or Diablo 3 (the only Diablo I've played). There is an expansion coming out soon; get on their mailing list or whatever and play it when that comes out. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
I love how the game was like "you know how every RPG likes item farming, yeah lets take rid of it and just make them play the game instead of spamming one boss" that's the most refreshing thing I've seen over the years. It is not ideal, since you can't quite force a build you wanna try, but that's what makes torchlight a casual brain off kind of arpg.
Torchlight 1 and 2 were my personal favorites when I was a kid. I play berserker and outlander. Sad to see what happened to the recent Torchlight games.
Yeah Infinite was an instant turn off for me, if the UI was reworked on PC it would be more bearable, but it's just to much like a mobile game on desktop.
1. The art style It was very smart move by the developers - cartoonish graphics don't age like "realistic" ones. The game looks just as good as it did when it was released. Plus animation - probably the best in all ARPGS to this day. The way the characters move feels like they have a mass, they don't look like plastic toys like in most ARPGS. 2. Combat Even basic attacks feel satisfying, there is always something somewhere blowing up, your character isn't always swinging it's weapon the same way. There could be a little bit more monsters on the maps, but that's nit-picking 3. Skills Well balanced in comparison to other ARPGS. Not too simple and not overcomplex, a sweet spot for casual gamers. About the respecing (is that a word?) You can respec your last 3 skill points, which means you can try a skill and if you don't like it, remove it for a little small gold price. I think it's brilliant. 4. Attributes I can still remember playing Diablo 1 for the first time when I was like 17 then Diablo 2 and my frist MMO MuOnline in all of those games I could spend attribute points as I wanted and it was awesome. I can remember even better my huge disappointment when I level up for the first time in WoW and I couldn't spend attribute points myself. 5. Summary Torchlight 2 is one of the best ARPGS ever (do not confuse it with the most popular) and for the price it is sold nowadays on Steam or GOG it has the best fun:price ratio of all ARPGS. Period. And don't tell me PoE has better ratio because it's F2P. It's called F2P but the reality is it's only F2G (G stands for Grind) and when you count all the microtransactions you made while playing PoE then you will realize that my statement is true.
Someone may of said it, you may already know but there is an official mod from Runic that adds a respec potion. Unfortunately it only respecs skill points, not attributes. The best thing about Torchlight 2 for me is the pet system. It's a constant companion, can be built how you like via spells and gear (limited, yes but still an option). It even does your shopping! The only downside is that bosses like in most ARPG's auto focus on you, so they become an unreliable tank so I ether build them as support or damage.
I have been playing a ton of it lately. With mods, I have 44 toons! I really enjoy it. The more I play it, the more subtle things I enjoy as I learn small nuances to the game. I am a huge fan.
I was a long-time member of the Runic Games forum and involved in the friends & family alpha & beta testing for this game. I've been friends with Max, Erich, Travis, and a bunch of the devs since 2010 and I can tell you from personal experience that Runic put their hearts and a ton of effort into this game. They always did their best to listen to player feedback, and I don't think I've ever seen a community so involved in crafting what remains my all-time favorite arpg. It's a shame what happened to Runic and the IP. Max & Echtra tried their best with Torchlight 3 but sometimes no matter how hard you try things just don't work out. I haven't played the latest iteration of the franchise but i don't really need to as this game still rocks. There's a ton of great mods for it out there, too. I'm biased, though-I have a bunch of items named after me in the game (Zidders Flitters, Zidders Boots of the Roo, and the Zidder crown, along with the Coif and Gloves of the Ember Adventurers which were named after my forum guild, The Ember Adventurers Club). :)
Love your video man I Just downloaded torchlight 2 last night because of your video love it Edit- i wish and pray that you reach 100k by the end of this year ❤
I was a long time fan and player of Diablo until the 4th installment. While I liked the darker tone and feel of the environment, I was overwhelmed by the difficulty scaling from 3 to 4. I simply got to frustrated and quit. Recently I went in search of a new dungeon crawler and was pleasantly sprinted to find so many top 10 and top 25 lists on you tube; however many lists had many of the same games and most of them did not specify for witch platforms. After digging for a few hours through tones of review videos my list grew smaller and smaller till I was down to only a few games. Most of the games I was very interested in playing were not on console or only on X BOX. The choice was almost made for me Torchlight II. It’s kind of funny my search began with the internet to find a Diablo-like game. I had no idea Torchlight was made by a co-creator of Diablo. This game is everything a casual dungeon crawler player wants and needs out of a game of its kind. Everything said here in this video is well said and realized in playing Torchlight II. This game is A MUST PLAY for anyone who likes playing single player like Boulders Gate, or online like Diablo. There is a physical copy of the game for Switch and PS4, but I am finding it difficult to find.
I bought this back on January 21, 2013. I just recently re-installed it to go another round at it with some mods that I newly installed. I loved this game back then and I still love it today. Torchlight 1 and 2 were pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I couldn't really get into Torchlight 3. Maybe I'll give it more of a chance in the future. But, 2 is definitely my current favorite of the Torchlight Trilogy.
I love torchlight 2, I have it on switch and it's awesome. The guns feel awesome. So good that I ended up mostly using them more than anything else. (I mostly use the berserker with a pistol and melee weapon in loadout 1, and a shotgun in loadout 2)
I finished Torchlight 1 and it was pretty fun. I bought Torchlight 2 and played for about an hour, but didn't give it a playthrough. I think I'll give it another shot.
with mods this game is honestly amazing even now. i honestly think the limit of only being able to install 10 mods at a time held back this game so much. The most popular 2 mods (essentials and synergies) can take up to five frigging slots if you wanna install addons and the compatibility patch. if you want more you will have to merge them yourself, which most players wont have the time to. One other thing it lacks is the ability to dual class like in grim dawn. cuz no matter which modded class you use the number of abilities available throughout a run is still limited.
Such a great game. I had a blast playing it the first time, and each time after thanks to the awesome mods available. I enjoyed the whole series. Hope they make another one. Thanks for a solid review.
On the mods front, there are some that make the game much more fun than it already is. For example, Nosfs's respec potion, moregoldlessjunk, one that increases shared stash and stash size, and one that adds more dungeons to the map.
dont forget pets can learn some spells, but they can just activate it when in combat or when enough mana. so i let my pet learn some support skills or summoning skills
the end game on this is insane. the set builds with unique items wherever you could fit made some godly auto proc chaos. I went up 4 or 5 difficulties, kind of like into nightmare 3 but not sure how high this game went... might have to give it another run, annoying there is no respec on PC though
First PC game I played after World of Warcraft. Still holds up excellent. Booting it up is like sending myself back to the 10th grade, like a warm welcome home to better times. Will have to pickup on Switch at some point.
Salvage my laptop from collage time, my late mother told me to sell that piece of junk . but its a memory to be hold . once i restore its original function , found out my old games . including warcraft and starcraft . along with those oldies counterstrike and GTA collection . damn i played it now more than ever
Its called an animated art style, and animated games age much better than realistic games, realistic games remain stuck in their generation while animated games are timeless, yea realistic games are great now and they often require high end hardware to play but as soon as a new generation of games comes those same realistic games start to age much faster than animated games, which is why ive always been a performance over quality gamer, its much more important for me that a game runs well, the graphic fidelity is far less important, and usually only casuals who only play AAA games care about graphic fidelity, a lot of modern gamers confuse graphics with art style, graphics have more to do with fidelity and textures, while the art style is how the game actually looks, i feel like monster hunter rise will age much better than world because of its more animated art style, and because i dont put too much stock into graphic fidelity, the graphics of world dont really do much for me, im more more interested in how smooth the game is to play and how fluid it feels, its very important for me that games dont feel clunky or slow, ive always preferred fast paced games over realistic games, imo realism has no place in video games, we play games to escape reality, i want to be able to do things i cant do irl so games like elden ring and monster hunter world just end up feeling clunky and slow, it makes me feel tired and bored, i definitely prefer games like monster hunter rise and rise of the ronin
Will I have a hard time playing this if I never played this type of game before? I'm into fps mostly but this has great reviews and looks fun so I picked it up for cheap
the art style is timeless. when you make a game that has a specific art style its going for then it becomes timeless as it wont age, which the same cant be said for call of duty and any other realistic game cause those age as graphics get better.
Its definitely better than D4 in terms of Leveling Experience and itemization. + Customization still awesome albeit not that "deep" + Combat and movement feels great + Story line & Telling pretty good (sunday cartoon way) - some skills feels dated - no modern feature (respec or season). It does have mods. Easy recommend for ARPG (diablo clone) lovers
If torchlight 3 would of just modernized TL2 it wouldnt of failed miserably. I recently bought it for $8cad and can say it was a waste of $8.... it plays like a mobile game. TL2 was so freaking good.
This game is just like fate, even the announcer dude has the same voice, and all the game mechanics are the same but just improved upon 💀💀 the pet system for instance is straight from Fate
A lot of the game mechanics that you thought were new and novel are originally from the FATE (2005) games (4) Fishing, pet that you can send to town, Fame system , the way that spells work and even some sound effects, there was one guy that went from the fate team to torchlight 1 and 2. the Torchlight games 1&2, are the new FATE games we never got not a sequel to Diablo 2. if you play FATE you will get what i mean.
You can only say Diablo Clone about this game if you play it without mods. But once the right mod list is loaded it easily surpasses Poe, Grim Dawn and whatever they are called and in Synergy the endgame dungeon of Hellgate London comes into its own. For me personally it will always be the best Arpg, thank you again!
I did a modded run of Torchlight 2 when Diablo 4 released, and my game crashed so bad during end game that not even the unmodded launcher will load anymore - full reinstall to fix. My college friend group put some major hours in here. I prefer it wholesale to Diablo 3
honestly the game doesn't run that well on modern hardware though. it was designed for single core processors. in really big fights i dip to like 45 fps sometimes
OBVS this game is awesome this and grim dawn! are top maybe there others to.... titan quest is cool to because of the setting but i prefer the others! torchlight 1 WAS good to! xD but not so replayable
please help = does my forcefield bubble count as a shield that would at physical damage to my strength level from the skill sword and board … pleaze help meh…
It's made by an experienced team, most of them worked on Diablo 1 and 2, but left Blizzard because they didn't like the direction of the company. Diablo III was made by many new hires, so this game is technically the true spiritual successor even if it's not quite as dark as D2.
How do people enjoy this? The only ARPG I could get into is Path of Exile. I've tried Grim Dawn, and Torchlight 1 and they all feel so slow and sluggish, while the enemies outscale you so badly by the end to the point where I'm left chugging potions and running out of money to buy more
@@markusk3015 To be fair Torchlight 1 was done in only 9 months and was meant to get the bad taste of Flagship's collapse out of the devs mouths. They never imagined it would take off like it did which is why they did their best to make Torchlight 2 so much better.
Thank you everyone for stopping by!
This is one of my earlier videos, and I haven't really covered any ARPG's lately, but if you'd like to see more content like this, let me know.
Season 4 of Diablo IV is coming soon and I was thinking of seeing if it's improved since season 1, let me know down below!
Whats insane is that ive tried all the popular ARPGs, but no one feels as fun to play as torchlight 2
Me too, i tried grim dawn , titan quest they all started to feel boring after sometime , the atmosphere, music fits perfectly
have you tried diablo 4?
This was my favorite RPG for a while. Played it with my wife. She got more addicted to it that I did. She used an Embermage focused on prismatic bolt and fire pillar. I was the engineer with the forcefield and heal bot. Ahh the good old days. My new favorite game is Grim Dawn. Still hold up to this day. If you haven't tried it, I recommend that game.
I still need to try it, have heard only good things!
grim dawn is far, far better than TL2. i was playing TL2 last night and it's sooooo slow and the skills are soooo limited and the gear is soooo boring@@JarboeGaming
@@coachalexmiller I'll try and review it eventually!
@@JarboeGaming i look forward to the review
Extrachunky and Endless mod kills Grim Dawn very easy.Dungeons and Maps are bigger and very very well randomly generated.TL2 with mods is Harder than,d1,d2,d3,D4,grimm Dawn, Poe. etc.
The cool thing is that it IS gory af and it goes so nice with the colorful artstyle. One of a kind with kingdoms of amalur.
In my opinion T2 graphic not cartoonist but more colorful fantasy something that I miss now days coz how realistic everything.
Agree for sure. Art styles done this way can be more beautiful, in my opion, them something with ultra realistic graphics. Just look at Sea of Thieves, LOZ: Wind Waker, etc.
People were lambasting D3 for this kind of graphics back in the day.
You can't win, when you do cartoony style people compare your game to Fortnite.
@@NeroVingian40 D2 fanbase...veterens..what thetheme of D1 & D2? And Torchlight not literally from Blizzard.
Around 700 hours, revisiting to try for some more achievements and different builds. Love it!
Travis Baldree was the the designer of Torchlight 2, the producer for the first Torchlight and its spiritual predecessor, a game called Fate. Travis still does a lot of indie game stuff, but lately has become a fantastic audiobook narrator, and was spectacular in narrating the Cradle series by Will Wight.
He also wrote the wonderful 'Legends & Latte's'!
I'm 127hrs deep in Torchlight II. Just picked it up on my Switch as well. I played this through with ab old friend with an Embermage who is a new game ++ character. Loved this game so much
I got the game for free years ago, both in Steam and Epic. Tried it back in the day and got bored, don't know why. Recently I decided to play the first one, and after beating it in two days I inmediately installed the second one and boy am I ejnyoing it. About to finish my first NG+ alerady. Everything you say in the video is exactly what makes me love this game, even tho I was never big on Diablo and the likes. I will try modding it soon, since there are a lot of great changes and additions in the steam workshop, with mod support and a mod manager built into the launcher! Truly a gem of a game.
I made mods/modpacks for t2 too, they are pretty weird to do but doable.
Just found out about this game tonight and found it on Steam for under 4 bucks. I wasn't sure about it, but I'll definitely pick it up now. Thanks for the review!
Excellent review! One additional thing that's great about Torchlight 2; the mods. There is a large library on the Steam Workshop adding a lot of changes and new content to the game (including complete respec potions, I believe). There are a few overhauls and collections which combine a bunch of mods, which is handy because you can only have a maximum of ten active at any one time. I believe there is also a way to create custom merged mod files without needing a lot of modding skills.
I see you are interested in playing Grim Dawn. You HAVE to try it if you like ARPGs; it's better than this game or Diablo 3 (the only Diablo I've played). There is an expansion coming out soon; get on their mailing list or whatever and play it when that comes out. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
Love the game, i always had low end laptops so i wasnt able to play the big games, but torchlight was there for me!
I love how the game was like "you know how every RPG likes item farming, yeah lets take rid of it and just make them play the game instead of spamming one boss" that's the most refreshing thing I've seen over the years. It is not ideal, since you can't quite force a build you wanna try, but that's what makes torchlight a casual brain off kind of arpg.
Torchlight 1 and 2 were my personal favorites when I was a kid. I play berserker and outlander. Sad to see what happened to the recent Torchlight games.
Yeah Infinite was an instant turn off for me, if the UI was reworked on PC it would be more bearable, but it's just to much like a mobile game on desktop.
1. The art style
It was very smart move by the developers - cartoonish graphics don't age like "realistic" ones. The game looks just as good as it did when it was released. Plus animation - probably the best in all ARPGS to this day. The way the characters move feels like they have a mass, they don't look like plastic toys like in most ARPGS.
2. Combat
Even basic attacks feel satisfying, there is always something somewhere blowing up, your character isn't always swinging it's weapon the same way. There could be a little bit more monsters on the maps, but that's nit-picking
3. Skills
Well balanced in comparison to other ARPGS. Not too simple and not overcomplex, a sweet spot for casual gamers. About the respecing (is that a word?) You can respec your last 3 skill points, which means you can try a skill and if you don't like it, remove it for a little small gold price. I think it's brilliant.
4. Attributes
I can still remember playing Diablo 1 for the first time when I was like 17 then Diablo 2 and my frist MMO MuOnline in all of those games I could spend attribute points as I wanted and it was awesome. I can remember even better my huge disappointment when I level up for the first time in WoW and I couldn't spend attribute points myself.
5. Summary
Torchlight 2 is one of the best ARPGS ever (do not confuse it with the most popular) and for the price it is sold nowadays on Steam or GOG it has the best fun:price ratio of all ARPGS. Period. And don't tell me PoE has better ratio because it's F2P. It's called F2P but the reality is it's only F2G (G stands for Grind) and when you count all the microtransactions you made while playing PoE then you will realize that my statement is true.
thanks for reminding how good this game was I played it almost 11 years ago
Someone may of said it, you may already know but there is an official mod from Runic that adds a respec potion. Unfortunately it only respecs skill points, not attributes.
The best thing about Torchlight 2 for me is the pet system. It's a constant companion, can be built how you like via spells and gear (limited, yes but still an option). It even does your shopping! The only downside is that bosses like in most ARPG's auto focus on you, so they become an unreliable tank so I ether build them as support or damage.
I have been playing a ton of it lately. With mods, I have 44 toons! I really enjoy it. The more I play it, the more subtle things I enjoy as I learn small nuances to the game. I am a huge fan.
Remember getting TL2 when it first released, still my favorite ARPG.
I have 823h in this game on Steam + a lot of hours before I got it on Steam. Man I LOVE IT!! Simple but endlesly fun!
CHARGE BAR EFFECT
2:53 Ember Mage 3:08 Engineer 3:30 Outlander 3:50 Berzerker
I was a long-time member of the Runic Games forum and involved in the friends & family alpha & beta testing for this game. I've been friends with Max, Erich, Travis, and a bunch of the devs since 2010 and I can tell you from personal experience that Runic put their hearts and a ton of effort into this game. They always did their best to listen to player feedback, and I don't think I've ever seen a community so involved in crafting what remains my all-time favorite arpg. It's a shame what happened to Runic and the IP. Max & Echtra tried their best with Torchlight 3 but sometimes no matter how hard you try things just don't work out. I haven't played the latest iteration of the franchise but i don't really need to as this game still rocks. There's a ton of great mods for it out there, too. I'm biased, though-I have a bunch of items named after me in the game (Zidders Flitters, Zidders Boots of the Roo, and the Zidder crown, along with the Coif and Gloves of the Ember Adventurers which were named after my forum guild, The Ember Adventurers Club). :)
Love your video man I
Just downloaded torchlight 2 last night because of your video love it
Edit- i wish and pray that you reach 100k by the end of this year ❤
Thanks for the kind words! Let's hit 10k first then go from there ❤️
I was a long time fan and player of Diablo until the 4th installment. While I liked the darker tone and feel of the environment, I was overwhelmed by the difficulty scaling from 3 to 4. I simply got to frustrated and quit. Recently I went in search of a new dungeon crawler and was pleasantly sprinted to find so many top 10 and top 25 lists on you tube; however many lists had many of the same games and most of them did not specify for witch platforms.
After digging for a few hours through tones of review videos my list grew smaller and smaller till I was down to only a few games. Most of the games I was very interested in playing were not on console or only on X BOX. The choice was almost made for me Torchlight II. It’s kind of funny my search began with the internet to find a Diablo-like game. I had no idea Torchlight was made by a co-creator of Diablo.
This game is everything a casual dungeon crawler player wants and needs out of a game of its kind. Everything said here in this video is well said and realized in playing Torchlight II.
This game is A MUST PLAY for anyone who likes playing single player like Boulders Gate, or online like Diablo.
There is a physical copy of the game for Switch and PS4, but I am finding it difficult to find.
thank you for this! :)
I bought this back on January 21, 2013. I just recently re-installed it to go another round at it with some mods that I newly installed. I loved this game back then and I still love it today. Torchlight 1 and 2 were pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I couldn't really get into Torchlight 3. Maybe I'll give it more of a chance in the future. But, 2 is definitely my current favorite of the Torchlight Trilogy.
I love torchlight 2, I have it on switch and it's awesome. The guns feel awesome. So good that I ended up mostly using them more than anything else. (I mostly use the berserker with a pistol and melee weapon in loadout 1, and a shotgun in loadout 2)
I finished Torchlight 1 and it was pretty fun. I bought Torchlight 2 and played for about an hour, but didn't give it a playthrough. I think I'll give it another shot.
do it!!!
As someone with a potato, this is fukin smooth
It's a great game with some fantastic mods available. I happen to enjoy the cartoony graphic style, and the combat is INSANE, even on Casual.
with mods this game is honestly amazing even now. i honestly think the limit of only being able to install 10 mods at a time held back this game so much. The most popular 2 mods (essentials and synergies) can take up to five frigging slots if you wanna install addons and the compatibility patch. if you want more you will have to merge them yourself, which most players wont have the time to.
One other thing it lacks is the ability to dual class like in grim dawn. cuz no matter which modded class you use the number of abilities available throughout a run is still limited.
Played it a lot back then, awesome game. I made a pure summon engineer, was slow but it worked and had a lot of fun with it.
Such a great game. I had a blast playing it the first time, and each time after thanks to the awesome mods available. I enjoyed the whole series. Hope they make another one. Thanks for a solid review.
Love that this scratches my nostalgia itch for Fate
Yesss lol 100% this
I just bought T2 an T3 for around $15 on Ps5 I’m looking forward to finishing them both!
I played the Berserker as and INT build with frost i enjoyed it so much lol
On the mods front, there are some that make the game much more fun than it already is. For example, Nosfs's respec potion, moregoldlessjunk, one that increases shared stash and stash size, and one that adds more dungeons to the map.
does anybody still play this game? I never tried multiplayer session in this T_T. I miss this game, play w me?
dont forget pets can learn some spells, but they can just activate it when in combat or when enough mana. so i let my pet learn some support skills or summoning skills
the end game on this is insane. the set builds with unique items wherever you could fit made some godly auto proc chaos. I went up 4 or 5 difficulties, kind of like into nightmare 3 but not sure how high this game went... might have to give it another run, annoying there is no respec on PC though
I played this Torchlight 2 using Intel G41 express chipset at 1080p at elite mode and I enjoyed playing because only two to four weapons àre good.
First PC game I played after World of Warcraft. Still holds up excellent. Booting it up is like sending myself back to the 10th grade, like a warm welcome home to better times. Will have to pickup on Switch at some point.
It's 3.99 on PSN right now!
I just started playing this today with a mate, and we had fun taking it slow.
Salvage my laptop from collage time, my late mother told me to sell that piece of junk . but its a memory to be hold . once i restore its original function , found out my old games . including warcraft and starcraft . along with those oldies counterstrike and GTA collection . damn i played it now more than ever
Im doing a playthrough right now. It is a great game! I am playing on Veteren level and the boss fights are pretty hard😀
I think I will play this with my kids! I think they will enjoy this!
Great video,man.Only one question.Has the game support for xbox controller on pc?
No sadly 😭😭
Steamdeck Support this Feature.
With Xinput it works fine.
love this game, 100% worth playing and reccommended to everyone
1,300 hours and counting ❤❤❤
Hi ✌️
Hello, friend
this unlocked an old memory. I've got hundreds of hours in this. I may start a new character again.
I grew up on torchlight 1 & 2, but man, coming off of modern games I really miss wasd controls when replaying it.
Its called an animated art style, and animated games age much better than realistic games, realistic games remain stuck in their generation while animated games are timeless, yea realistic games are great now and they often require high end hardware to play but as soon as a new generation of games comes those same realistic games start to age much faster than animated games, which is why ive always been a performance over quality gamer, its much more important for me that a game runs well, the graphic fidelity is far less important, and usually only casuals who only play AAA games care about graphic fidelity, a lot of modern gamers confuse graphics with art style, graphics have more to do with fidelity and textures, while the art style is how the game actually looks, i feel like monster hunter rise will age much better than world because of its more animated art style, and because i dont put too much stock into graphic fidelity, the graphics of world dont really do much for me, im more more interested in how smooth the game is to play and how fluid it feels, its very important for me that games dont feel clunky or slow, ive always preferred fast paced games over realistic games, imo realism has no place in video games, we play games to escape reality, i want to be able to do things i cant do irl so games like elden ring and monster hunter world just end up feeling clunky and slow, it makes me feel tired and bored, i definitely prefer games like monster hunter rise and rise of the ronin
I wish they'd bring over the controller support from console to TL1 and TL2.
With Steamdeck have U all Controller option.👍
Will I have a hard time playing this if I never played this type of game before? I'm into fps mostly but this has great reviews and looks fun so I picked it up for cheap
@@diggadirt393 No it's easy to pickup and play
the art style is timeless. when you make a game that has a specific art style its going for then it becomes timeless as it wont age, which the same cant be said for call of duty and any other realistic game cause those age as graphics get better.
Except unlike diablo 2, torchlight 2 actually has a decent inventory system that doesnt limit you to 5 pieces of loot
Hi!! Im new in the game, is a option to shoot enemies without using the Mouse? Ty
Unfortunately no, and the PC version doesn't have controller support :(
@@JarboeGaming It's easy enough with xinput.
@@ZiddersRooFurry I'll have to look into this!
Endless hours with the right mods are the game's greatest strength.
Runic actually released a mod to respec for pc. Every arpg should allow respecing.
Thanks for the input, I will for sure check this out!
@@JarboeGaming no problem. Love your channel. Keep on going and you'll be big.
Its definitely better than D4 in terms of Leveling Experience and itemization.
+ Customization still awesome albeit not that "deep"
+ Combat and movement feels great
+ Story line & Telling pretty good (sunday cartoon way)
- some skills feels dated
- no modern feature (respec or season). It does have mods.
Easy recommend for ARPG (diablo clone) lovers
This one of the free games I got from Epic that I want to play on my potato laptop. The requirements are simply shocking, love good optimized games !
can you please make a guide on how to setup a controller on pc please
I'm not aware of a way to unfortunately, I wish there was
@@JarboeGaming damn thanks anyways I hate they didn’t implement it seeing as it’s on most platforms with controls
Can I play this completely offline?
Yes you can!
@@JarboeGaming sweet! As a traveler, i don't always have wifi to start up games. So this works.
If torchlight 3 would of just modernized TL2 it wouldnt of failed miserably. I recently bought it for $8cad and can say it was a waste of $8.... it plays like a mobile game. TL2 was so freaking good.
Yeah I tried Infinite shortly after making this video..it was even worse IMO, 100% felt like a mobile game port.
With Mods one of the best.
Torchlight 2 is amazing i still play to this day, i recommend Grim Dawn too, play both all the time, amazing games
Can you check "the Incredible adventure of Van Helsing"?
If you play Arpg's and never played Torchlight (2) you missed a gem and need to play this once sometime to be whole with the universe.
The first torchlight is still a solid game
This game is just like fate, even the announcer dude has the same voice, and all the game mechanics are the same but just improved upon 💀💀 the pet system for instance is straight from Fate
Travis Baldree created Fate! :D
I've put over 1000+ hours into this game. Great mods too
A lot of the game mechanics that you thought were new and novel are originally from the FATE (2005) games (4) Fishing, pet that you can send to town, Fame system , the way that spells work and even some sound effects, there was one guy that went from the fate team to torchlight 1 and 2. the Torchlight games 1&2, are the new FATE games we never got not a sequel to Diablo 2. if you play FATE you will get what i mean.
Yep-Travis Baldree designed Fate and Torchlight 1 & 2.
Great review, thank you very much. Unfortunately, I'll not be buying it as it's not my cup of tea, but it looks great for when it's up your alley.
Is there any online match-making left or
is that dead?
It looks like it might be fun solo these kinds of games just scream “co-op!”
You can only say Diablo Clone about this game if you play it without mods. But once the right mod list is loaded it easily surpasses Poe, Grim Dawn and whatever they are called and in Synergy the endgame dungeon of Hellgate London comes into its own. For me personally it will always be the best Arpg, thank you again!
It's a game I don't here talked about enough, I think the series peaked with 2 for sure, I tried infinite and just couldn't get into it.
I played this and ... Runic gave me a tunic.
I'm sold on the pet!
Don't forget the addons, there are some great ones.
where i can download for free on my laptop?
It's currently 80% off on gog, currently 3.79 euros, and it frequently goes on sale.
freakin fungal firez ultraviolet flamez instant kill to any level and NG++… how doez thiz game produce that color i have never seen that before …
I did a modded run of Torchlight 2 when Diablo 4 released, and my game crashed so bad during end game that not even the unmodded launcher will load anymore - full reinstall to fix.
My college friend group put some major hours in here. I prefer it wholesale to Diablo 3
It holds up so well, it's a great game!
honestly the game doesn't run that well on modern hardware though. it was designed for single core processors. in really big fights i dip to like 45 fps sometimes
With AMD CPU and GPU have U very nice FPS.😂
did you try to run this game with dxvk? it runs much better with it and is more stable works also on other games like borderlands 2.
@@baumapfel4463 oh yeah how would i go about that?
did you use dxvk? if yes did it help you?
@@baumapfel4463 i dont really understand how to did you follow a guide?
"What are your thoughts on TL2 ?" * looks at 223 hours play time on steam * ....... "i guess its good to pass time "
Just wish the cartoony graphics were updated with a mod. :/ I'd like something a bit more gritty
1:33 lmao spot on
try out The Slormancer ;)
it doesnt even begin to compare to Grim Dawn, which still gets updates and is soon getting a new expansion
Play with extrachunky and you have everday a update without runic Games.Extrachunky Kills all Arpg very easy.😊
Grim Dawn is fucking boring!
How many hours in GD?🤗
OBVS this game is awesome this and grim dawn! are top maybe there others to.... titan quest is cool to because of the setting but i prefer the others! torchlight 1 WAS good to! xD but not so replayable
please help = does my forcefield bubble count as a shield that would at physical damage to my strength level from the skill sword and board …
pleaze help meh…
It was ahead of it's time, even now.
It's made by an experienced team, most of them worked on Diablo 1 and 2, but left Blizzard because they didn't like the direction of the company. Diablo III was made by many new hires, so this game is technically the true spiritual successor even if it's not quite as dark as D2.
Pure true👌game still good and Synergies mod are amazing.Not like that TL3/Infinite piece of shit😂😂😂
I hate how I can't tell what is going on in a fight in Diablo 4.
Does loot better than Last Epoch.
With Mods yes😊
For me the most annoying thing in T2 is the range at which the monsters are rendered
I bought it today for 3,99 🤩
A steal!
@@JarboeGaming that are 20 hours for each Cent. I think its worth 🤣
How do people enjoy this? The only ARPG I could get into is Path of Exile. I've tried Grim Dawn, and Torchlight 1 and they all feel so slow and sluggish, while the enemies outscale you so badly by the end to the point where I'm left chugging potions and running out of money to buy more
Very Bad build in TL1😁
@@markusk3015 To be fair Torchlight 1 was done in only 9 months and was meant to get the bad taste of Flagship's collapse out of the devs mouths. They never imagined it would take off like it did which is why they did their best to make Torchlight 2 so much better.
Oh, it is about the old Torchlight. Damn why are the sequels just so bad nowdays that ppl rather still play the 10+ year old prequels instead.
My new mage does almost 40,000,000 damage and will probably go a little higher.
respec is a potion you farm
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This Game have the best nightmaps compared to poe,diablo, Grimdawn❤