Torchlight 2 in 2023 is... AMAZING
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2023
- Looking for something new to try in 2023? Maybe looking for a new ARPG to scratch that hack n' slash, loot-filled itch that you were hoping Diablo 4 would satisfy?
You should check out Torchlight 2.
That's right. This 11 year old game still holds up to this day, and it may be better than you think. - เกม
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.
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
@@ketocoachalex 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.
yeah, I remember playing this legend game on my super low end pc and was amazed how they managed to put so much into such a great game. I really commend the developers for this masterpiece
It's seriously impressive, it aged so well!
Whats insane is that ive tried all the popular ARPGs, but no one feels as fun to play as torchlight 2
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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 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.
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 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.
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 ❤️
It's 3.99 on PSN right now!
As someone with a potato, this is fukin smooth
I just started playing this today with a mate, and we had fun taking it slow.
Love that this scratches my nostalgia itch for Fate
Yesss lol 100% this
I played the Berserker as and INT build with frost i enjoyed it so much lol
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.
Remember getting TL2 when it first released, still my favorite ARPG.
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.
I just bought T2 an T3 for around $15 on Ps5 I’m looking forward to finishing them both!
Im doing a playthrough right now. It is a great game! I am playing on Veteren level and the boss fights are pretty hard😀
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
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.
1,300 hours and counting ❤❤❤
Hi ✌️
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
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.
Psion ist my favourite class in Synergy ❤(Ice,Electro build)
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.
I grew up on torchlight 1 & 2, but man, coming off of modern games I really miss wasd controls when replaying it.
Great video,man.Only one question.Has the game support for xbox controller on pc?
No sadly 😭😭
Steamdeck Support this Feature.
I wish they'd bring over the controller support from console to TL1 and TL2.
With Steamdeck have U all Controller option.👍
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 :(
love this game, 100% worth playing and reccommended to everyone
I play it regularly since its launch!
I'm sold on the pet!
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've put over 1000+ hours into this game. Great mods too
Can you check "the Incredible adventure of Van Helsing"?
1:33 lmao spot on
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.
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 it.
does anybody still play this game? I never tried multiplayer session in this T_T. I miss this game, play w me?
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
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!
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.
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 …
Does loot better than Last Epoch.
With Mods yes😊
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
Pure true👌game still good and Synergies mod are amazing.Not like that TL3/Infinite piece of shit😂😂😂
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?🤗
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…
I bought it today for 3,99 🤩
A steal!
@@JarboeGaming that are 20 hours for each Cent. I think its worth 🤣
You forgot to mention new game plus... and now my panda is sad...
I'm sorry friend, I didn't really discuss end game stuff, was more focused on describing what stood out to me after giving it a try recently. The panda is an awesome pet companion though, so he shouldn't be sad!
respec is a potion you farm
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
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.
My new mage does almost 40,000,000 damage and will probably go a little higher.
For me the most annoying thing in T2 is the range at which the monsters are rendered
Is it beginner freindly for someone who hasnt played an rpg ?
Yes I'd say so!
@@JarboeGaming good to know thanks very interested in this genre wanna play titanquest eventually and diablo
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.
3k hours of Play with Mods™
This Game have the best nightmaps compared to poe,diablo, Grimdawn❤
It so silly that they have a respec potion for console and not pc. Maybe they thought since there is mods for it that they don't need to but if that is so that's a lil lazy in my opinion cuz you shouldn't rely on modders to fix yur problems.
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.
T2 was underrated
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?
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😁
Best game with mods and kill easy all arpg on Steam 😂
How to download for free?
On Steam?
gemz do stack whatz wrong with u … somebody tell thiz man howww gemz stack plz…
the performance is trash for modern pc in this game. the only way to play this game with stable fps is with dxvk.
Or Steamdeck]
Played 9 hours - Level 21 - Outlander - Bored to Death
Story had no cinematics, no motion graphics, just a textbox.
Very little RPG. Only in town halls & after killing boss. Plus very few town characters on the map.
No travelers, farmers, pilgrims, no dying stranger to heal. Just enemies & can't talk to them either.
Map shows you where side missions are, instead of leading you by cluse & chats (no RPG)
Even with all that, I could still enjoy the game,
but the #1 reason I quit, the combat is boring.
You level up and basically tank while attacking.
Occasional dodge & potion.
No enemy character based significant pattern to notice & anticipate, nor vulnerability to cause & exploit.
No swinging from the ceiling with a grappling hook.
No net & spear
No Acid against mechanicals
No Fire against Ice
No Poison against Biologicals
All those weapons exist,
but you get them randomly.
No way of telling what you'll need in an area.
Not enough storage to horde the best ones
& still be able to pick up enemy loot.
The game is played 2 buttons 96% of the time.
Left click, right lick.
Plus keyboard 1 to 9, very rarely
and w to switch to secondary weapons pairing.
I want much, much more out of combat.
Shadow of Colossus x Street Fighter x Hitman x Thief
Strategy, Logic, Peekaboo, RopeyDope, Clinch & Uppercut on the Break.
Combat made the whole game boring.
wtfffffuxxx u respec with a potion … the modz do that fer u in the steam pc verzion…
And theres this people who insist grimdawn is a Sucessor of D2, hell no Torchlight 2 is..
GD is a boring lame garbage of wasting time👎
BORING
Thank you for informing me that you a boring.
@@VelcroSnake93 nobody cares about this garbage game
Noob😂
@@markusk3015 nobody cares about your dead game
@@Shukulo noobs😁
It's a great game and looks great. The art style makes dating it pretty much impossible, it's only the low-poly models that tells you it's an older title. Stylization almost always holds up better than "photo realism".
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…