Torchlight 2 | Console Edition (PS4/XB1/NSW) - September 3, 2019

[Insanecyclone]

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http://www.torchlight2game.com/

Torchlight II ignites the franchise created and developed by Runic Games in this exciting sequel to the award-winning Action RPG Torchlight. Runic Games, located in Seattle, is a veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, Fate, and Torchlight, which won the Game Developer’s Choice Award for Best Debut of 2009.

Torchlight II is richly textured with our unique art style, drawing from traditional animation influences and expanding on the whimsical and quirky world captured in the original Torchlight. We aim for that broad appeal that’s appropriate for older kids, but is really intended for the kid in every adult.

CO-OP ACTION

The most exciting new feature of Torchlight II is the multiplayer element. Play with your friends, and use the free peer-to-peer matchmaking service to meet new players of a similar level and interest. Together players will discover expansive randomized outdoor areas and deep ominous caverns; random instanced and persistent dungeons, a huge variety of all new monsters and villains, endless variations of loot to find, and quests to complete. Players journey through the perilous Overworld, enjoying all new weather features, time of day events, and a rich and cunning story to drive gameplay.

BACKSTORY

Beyond the town of Torchlight lies a world shrouded in adventure and mystery. Guardian-warrior Syl appears in a prophetic dream, summoning the player to the Estherian Steppes. There, you meet with the Destroyer and soon venture across the continent of Vilderan, an exotic frontier besieged by forces of evil. A discovery unfolds, that the Alchemist, following his conquest of dark ember, disappeared on his quest to defeat the unknown corrupted force responsible for destroying the mystical race of Estherians. Aided by Syl, the remaining Estherian Guardians, and clues left behind by the missing Alchemist, you will find yourself battling a powerful enemy that threatens to unravel the elements of the entire world.

Runic Games will release Torchlight II initially as a digital download in Spring of 2011.

KEY FEATURES

* Multi-player – Play with your friends over a local area network, or over the Internet. A free matchmaking peer-to-peer service lets you make new friends for exciting co-op play.
* Customizable Characters – Players create and customize a character from one of four classes available and choose an animal companion. Through cosmetic, class, and gender choices, skill path decisions, and the treasures they acquire, each character can be custom-tailored to each player’s needs.
* Moddability – Torchlight II will release with an updated version of TorchEd, the Torchlight editor. Players have the option to create their own mods, adding even more content to the world. You and your friends can download the same mod and play together!
* New User Interface – Torchlight II boasts an entirely new, improved user interface, designed to be easier than ever for new players to pick up and play. Thanks to this intuitive interface, players have immediate access to a rich and varied world, with little experience necessary.
* Overworld Areas – Torchlight II has large randomized overworld areas to explore with weather, time of day cycles, and random events that provide players with even more content to experience.
* Random Dungeons – Delve into randomly generated dungeons within the game at any time for extra experience and rare loot. Dungeons in Torchlight II have even more branching paths to explore with friends filled with random events, rewards and dangers.
* Retirement System – Once characters are sufficiently leveled up, they can “retire” and bestow specific benefits and perks onto new characters.
* Pets – Players choose a pet to accompany them. Pets level up along with the player, and help in battle, learn spells, carry items, and perform a variety of support services.
* Fishing – Fishing returns in the sequel! Players can take a break from the high-energy pace of adventuring to relax by one of the many fishing holes and see what they can catch. Fish have unique benefits for the player and pet, while a number of other rewards can also be discovered.

Yes!

[Kyo]

Very good news.

[Charismatic]

Add a second control scheme that works kinda like the psx version of Diablo and I'll be all over this.
I'm going to get it regardless, that's for sure... but sometimes I just want to sit back and play!

[bori]

Excellent! Torchlight was an amazing game.

[Warudo Ecksu]

Fucking finally. Can't wait for this. Wish it were coming out sooner

[SilverBreeze]

Will definitely be picking this up. The ONLY complaint I had with the original Torchlight was "Man, I wish I could play Multiplayer with my friends". (That and the fact I bought it for 15 bucks and it went on sale the next week for 7, frick!)

[Warudo Ecksu]

I'd probably be playing torchlight right now if it'd had multiplayer.

[Kaisha]

Reading the news, this is all that came to mind.

Torchlight = Diablo
Torchlight II = Diablo II.
(granted D1 did have multiplayer, but it wasn't nearly as fun thanks to no sprinting, took forever to get around the fucking village)

I'll just wait and see how the game turns out. I own Torchlight, but I got bored of it pretty fast, even on the hardest difficulty, but I think part of that was due to me choosing Alchemist, which I wasn't aware of at the time that it was a fucking cheap class thanks to a couple of his abilities that I made use of.

Given' #2 will have co-op (possibly PvP?) I'm assuming they'll try to balance things a bit more to ensure it doesn't turn into a raid of same-class everywhere.

[OzzofAsura]

Awesome! Beat the first one... I actually beat it without dying but then entered the catacombs after you complete the story and got rocked.

[Insanecyclone]

New trailer showing off multiplayer

http://kotaku.com/5615698/torchlight...t-has-returned

[GRT]

this is well and good, but where did the diablo 3 thread go? lawlz

[Maaglin]

This should be well out before D3, which it has to be anyway if it wants any chance of getting players.

D3 thread should be coming up though, blizzard just released a bunch of new info about crafting and artisians.

[Senji]

we had a D3 thread..but I couldn't find it with search either

[Qalbert]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showt...ghlight=diablo

[Senji]

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showt...ghlight=diablo

...I thought we had a fancier one all done up with a banner and shit, and newer than 08.

[Qalbert]

oh idk, that is at least a diablo 3 thread

[Qalbert]

only other one I saw was about it being released christms eve of 09 lol

[Charismatic]

I can't wait for Torchlight 2 man, seriously... the BIGGEST issue I had like most people was the lack of multiplayer.

There's a few things they need to tighten up but lack of multiplayer was the big thing. If they'd have released the exact same game with multiplayer I'd still be playing it.

[Insanecyclone]

This is interesting

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/21/to...days-has-sold/

Runic Games had dreams of putting Torchlight on Xbox Live Arcade, then it put "serious effort" into a console version and now the studio is hoping to have the game out by this holiday for PSN and XBLA. Runic CEO Max Schaefer told Joystiq at Gamescom today, "We're trying, we're talking [to Sony and Microsoft] and we hope to get that done quickly." Although there's no release window, he told us it'll "hopefully" be available "by the holidays."

Schaefer also told us the game has now sold over 750,000 units and is en route to a million. The RPG reached the half-million milestone back in May after launching in October, following a tiny development time of 10 months. If the sales figure seems a bit low, the executive mentioned that piracy has been an issue, but they have no servers to track how many illegal copies have been made.

As for Torchlight 2 on consoles, Schaefer told us Runic will "try" to get the multiplayer sequel to consoles sometime after the PC and Mac release.

[Insanecyclone]

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/24/to...-hypothesizes/

Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer respectfully believes that a third Torchlight game could be out before Blizzard's Diablo 3 -- a joke we'd made when the second Torchlight was recently announced. The executive tells us that the efficient size of the Runic team, which has a corporate goal to never grow above 40, would have the ability to get out another significantly upgraded sequel before Blizzard's behemoth arrived. Torchlight and its sequel have both had brisk development cycles lasting less than a year.

Schaefer told us, "[Blizzard has] an impossible task. Blizzard can not get away with doing a Torchlight 1. If they put out a single player game, an RPG that's kinda stripped down for $20, people would say, 'What the hell happened to Blizzard?' They don't have that luxury. Everything has to be super epic. More epic than anything that's come before, more epic than World of Warcraft. They have to do that. It puts them in a really tough spot, I don't envy them. It has to be perfect."

Given his deadpan delivery on the subject, we wanted to make sure he was serious about Torchlight's third installment beating the Blizzard behemoth to market, "I really think we will, I'm not joking about it. I'll be the first to buy Diablo 3, I'm a huge fan. I just know what it's like over there."

Wouldn't surprise me if this did happen. D3 looks like wow now so...I'll stick to my grimdark games.