Recently been looking at this game and it makes me genuinely sad to understand that this may be the last time I'll be looking at Total Biscuit's content to influence a decision to buy something. His taste was always similar to mine and he always went in-depth with what I felt was pretty important. He never knew me but I'll probably remember his voice forever. Much love to anyone feeling something similar.
Was just debating to buy the game, saw he had a positive review over it on his old Steam Curator. I felt a sad sense of nostalgia... and also subsequently bought it.
i have a character which is engineer. this is what follows me: my pet (obviously) health bot gun bot sledge bot sceletal swordsman (summoned by the pet) devil imp (summoned by the pet) 4 (immobile) sceletal archers (summoned by the pet) i have a whole army of pet/minions following me at all the times. it is pretty hillarious. plus i have the blitz tech tree so i am jumbing around and hitting the ground like a maniac. fun times XD
I highly recommend the Synergies mod. Description: “SynergiesMOD is a complete conversion for Torchlight 2. Adding 108 Elite monsters, 6 Rare dragons, 28 Raid dungeons, 11 unique World Bosses, 4 Sets of Legendary Armor, 16 new Tier-1 Legendary Weapons, brand new Quest lines, a new World hub for ACT5, and a whole new class: The Necromancer. Future plans include 24 planned Classes, 3 more Raid Dungeon chains, 2 Quest hubs, 2 more ACTS of overworld play, and much more.
+Cro68 Pets will in fact outscale your character if the RNG gods haven't been that favorable to you, this becomes slightly apparent at level 30 and becomes extremely obvious at level 55+. It's quite embarrassing and puts you down at first, but once you start grabbing better gear you will become much stronger than your pet, that is, assuming most of your gear doesn't give you % pet damage, which you can if you had a summoning build, letting your skeletal minions/pet do all the tanking and spanking for you
Hellgate was actually shaping up to be good before Flagship got stabbed in the back by their investors. I thinks it's big problem was publishers and investors forced a release way before it was ready.
Downloaded torchlight 1 a long time ago, beat it and enjoyed it. Rediscovered it a while ago, beat it and enjoyed it. Started to play it again more recently, about to beat it and still enjoying it. Got it in my head to see if a new one would ever show up to top it, and here i am.... enjoying this video.
God I miss TB, it’s largely thanks to him that I swore off buying games from so called triple A developers and instead prefer to patronize small/mid sized and indie devs. I’ve not only have been very happy with that decision, but I’ve ended up with far more titles, most of which I’ve put far more hours into than I would have AAA games, while spending a fraction of what the AAA games cost.
I played a little with my brother but other than that I've been soloing...I never D2 much. My first dungeon game I played for hours was Darkstone for playstation I love it of course this is a big step up. I usually play as a warrior/engineer even outside of video-games but when my friends and I had our own magical world in our back yard challenging trees with sticks we found. I just enjoy hacking away at things. Torchlight works great on my mediocre computer and looks great too.
I played diablo 3 on my bros computer for a few hours and just by watching footage of this, this looks so much more appealing because the movement ALONE looks so much more smooth and fluid and not so clunky. Great vid TB keep up all the awesome work you do.
I really feel like the skill system either emphasizes having passives and having a diverse number of actives. Certain passives can do a great a deal and usually one rank in an active works pretty well because of the fact that most things scale along with player level and player damage along with rank. Having a lot of actives really makes for compelling combat and the passives can greatly increase dps or add a lot of fun side effects to your attacks.
4 classes - Berserker (DPS warrior), Embermage (squishy mage), Outlander (rogue), and Engineer (tank, shades of support) The descriptions are just rough approximations to give an idea of what they do.
You can always put a class-restricted game into your shared stash and use it as soon as you want to play as this appropriate class. And they are pretty rare.
It will not have separated saves for online. Read the TL2 FAQ on Runic's site: "There are no official closed servers with server-side character saves, as Runic does not have the resources to run that kind of system under this price" You'll be able to play with your offline chars in peer-to-peer matchmaking.
I skimmed through the video and noticed you had glaive throw equiped twice. Not sure if you know this but right next to your mana the main skill (right click) can be switched to a second skill with the tab button. Typically I set one high damage one and one evasive one and then the rest to the 3-9 hotkeys
Did anybody else notice that "Blair's Journal" at the end was a big reference to Carpenter's version of "The Thing"? The writing was a transcript of MacReady's audio tape. Man that's cool.
I don't know if someone pointed this out but, anyway... last part of the video (second dungeon, where he finds the "cthulhu" thing"), that actually is a "The Thing" easter egg... the ice coffin, the kennels with the bad (infected in the movie) dog... aaaand, MacReady's shotgun. Mac-effin-Ready's shotgun hahaha, that was a great detail there! I wonder if there are other easter eggs like this or if they are "randomly" generated. (obvously we're talking about John Carpenter's version)
Don't know if you were responded to or not but you can go back through the game again in a new game+ style but it actually has a few new quests and things.
Gotta love the fact that they put in a reference to the movie "The Thing", considering the "Thing" inside the (Norsk Leiern) dungeon at the end of the video ^^
I've been debating whether i should roll with this path of exile or diablo 3. I've played this and Diablo and i think i'm going with torchlight when the game comes out.
they already reworked the skill system in TL2, it now has tiers that on top of passive upgrades give bonus effects to your skills and changes them visably, if you want all the info go to the torchlight2 site.
I remember when i was about 5, my cousin, siblings (all about 1-3 years older than ) fought over a computer playing Diablo 2 which belonged to my uncle. We will always gather around and watch everyone scour the first act or two, we sucked so we never made it that far. But as we grew up we grew in skill too and within a couple of years we figured out how to actually build classes and such and by the time we were all teens we have become regulars doing hardcore runs on each of our own comps.
The reason there are skills that buff for like 4 seconds is due to the fact that they'd be completely OP if it weren't so... If Stone Pact gave you a 20 second heal and all you had to do was step in the aura of it for a second, that'd make you nearly unkillable. As it stands, monsters can rush you out of the Aura, and you can lose the effectiveness of it, or wait to recast it. It's something you plan around and play through, and makes the gameplay incredibly fast-paced.
This video is awesome, I like it a lot. I'd ask you to make more about Torchlight 2, pity that there is no beta out at the moment. And the release date of the game is far from today, I fear!
question: I got this game yesterday and i burned through it and now i'm at act III. I'm only a measly lv 35 outlander and i heard the game ends in act IV. After the story ends, is there anything left to do in the game? like more dungeons? or is that it?
They weren't laid off, around 30 employees quit blizzard north to form their own. Including the executives, eventually they formed Runic Entertainment to create the torchlight series. When they were still working for Blizzard they had an idea of what D3 would look like but Blizzard shot it down so they left to pursue their own ideas of what rpg games are like.
Idk on the statement that the skill trees are behind the curve. Sure its a bit older of a system, but it lets you make ANY play style you want. In torchlight 1 i was a melee mage, it worked amazingly.
i just got this is there anyway to make the control to move easy becuase im used to using the arrow keys or better yet th aswd keys. if there is please telll me.
indeed, I hope this game brings me what I want in one of my fav genres. i've been convinced to preorder it from all the positive feedback of many vids. Also considering you get the first game free upon preordering
yeah..me have no regret too, but I personally think D3 would be more fun if the runewords are added some in the game, so the players not only can hunt for the items or crafting in level 60 but can also hunt runes and socketed items..runewords is the part that make D2 a great game ..dont u agree? or will T2 added runewords too?
i cannot wait for this , I paid for this back in may and i found out that i couldnt play it cause it wasnt out so ive waited untill now to play, AND ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT OMG JIZZFACE THUMBS THIS UP IF YOUR GONNA PLAY IT WHEN ITS OUT
I wouldn't say torchlight two is more for kiddish people. I would say it's for people that are looking for a vibrant game with variety, one with a sense of exploration. It's one of the things I loved about the beta for this. There were a lot of things to explore and find. Every new game brought a new map for more adventure because even the same environments manage to feel different. Simply amazing.
I know this might seem like a dumb question but will you be able to get a physical copy of Torchlight 2 at a gaming store like Diablo 3 and not download it through Steam?
@TotalHalibut Mate, no way this is faster than D3. This looks interesting, but saying it is faster is just plain false. That goes for back in the beta when this was made as well. Nice video, I'll be checking out more of the game thanks to this.
Just watched the MJG Spring footage, and the offer still stands. I will buy the beer in North Dakota, if he comes for (random, I admit) an interview. I'll beg.
Is there a big map for this game? i've been playing it for like 10 mins and the small top-right map shows me almost nothing,like im walking on blind. please help,ty
I really enjoyed D3 at first, but by the second week, somethings about it really started to annoy and frustrate me. So I went to the battle.net forums to see if anyone else was having the kinds of issues with the games design that I was having. There are a bunch. My main problem with it is that its supposed to be a loot game, but you only get shitty loot. If you play melee as I did, it really starts to get auction house dependent by hell difficulty. I want to gear up by playing not shopping.
But hopefully this time around 'Very Hard' actually means it. The original's exp scaling was broken and you could get 5-10 levels over mobs just by doing sidequests; one-hitting everything got old fast. You had to either install band-aid mods to fix the level system or abandon the main quest and play bonus portal dungeons to actually get a challenge.
Well yes even blizzard admitted that some aspects of the game needed work.. I think the same could be said for diablo 2 when it came out , so such things dont' worry me much. They will continue to fix things as was done with D2.I don't recall, but did diablo 2 have end game content at release sufficient to keep people playing ?
MATT UELMEN MUSIC RETURNS!! I cannot get over how glorious it sounds and completely enriches the atmosphere. I fucking LOVE OLD BLIZZARD. Thumbs up if the music consumed you...
Miss you TB.
Sad
Did he die?
@@ionflux955 yes on the 24th of May 2018
I miss him too man
I still have my notifications turned on for this channel.
Recently been looking at this game and it makes me genuinely sad to understand that this may be the last time I'll be looking at Total Biscuit's content to influence a decision to buy something. His taste was always similar to mine and he always went in-depth with what I felt was pretty important. He never knew me but I'll probably remember his voice forever. Much love to anyone feeling something similar.
Well said
I know and I miss him too!
Was just debating to buy the game, saw he had a positive review over it on his old Steam Curator. I felt a sad sense of nostalgia... and also subsequently bought it.
coming back to watch this video after The TL3 announcement has a Bittersweet feeling to it, We miss you TB
Especially since Torchlight 3 sucks balls.
i have a character which is engineer. this is what follows me:
my pet (obviously)
health bot
gun bot
sledge bot
sceletal swordsman (summoned by the pet)
devil imp (summoned by the pet)
4 (immobile) sceletal archers (summoned by the pet)
i have a whole army of pet/minions following me at all the times. it is pretty hillarious. plus i have the blitz tech tree so i am jumbing around and hitting the ground like a maniac. fun times XD
Ace Ventura of Torchlight II.... I like you already..
Diablo 3 is about as grimdark and mature as Scooby Doo.
Damn son.
Was this in my recommended list.
May he be adjusting FOV sliders in heaven now
You are a Brit like me, it's not Zee it's Zed you plank.
I've recently put close to 70 hours into T2, and I didn't know you could give your pets spells! Thanks TB!!!
Nice!
I highly recommend the Synergies mod.
Description:
“SynergiesMOD is a complete conversion for Torchlight 2. Adding 108 Elite monsters, 6 Rare dragons, 28 Raid dungeons, 11 unique World Bosses, 4 Sets of Legendary Armor, 16 new Tier-1 Legendary Weapons, brand new Quest lines, a new World hub for ACT5, and a whole new class: The Necromancer. Future plans include 24 planned Classes, 3 more Raid Dungeon chains, 2 Quest hubs, 2 more ACTS of overworld play, and much more.
RIP TB you were amazing at what you do. and I always enjoyed your videos press f to pay respects.
+Cro68 Pets will in fact outscale your character if the RNG gods haven't been that favorable to you, this becomes slightly apparent at level 30 and becomes extremely obvious at level 55+. It's quite embarrassing and puts you down at first, but once you start grabbing better gear you will become much stronger than your pet, that is, assuming most of your gear doesn't give you % pet damage, which you can if you had a summoning build, letting your skeletal minions/pet do all the tanking and spanking for you
Hellgate was actually shaping up to be good before Flagship got stabbed in the back by their investors. I thinks it's big problem was publishers and investors forced a release way before it was ready.
I finally got bored of this game! After 103 hours of gameplay..
Downloaded torchlight 1 a long time ago, beat it and enjoyed it. Rediscovered it a while ago, beat it and enjoyed it. Started to play it again more recently, about to beat it and still enjoying it. Got it in my head to see if a new one would ever show up to top it, and here i am.... enjoying this video.
Pre Ordered for PS4. Drops Tuesday. Hope it's good
God I miss TB, it’s largely thanks to him that I swore off buying games from so called triple A developers and instead prefer to patronize small/mid sized and indie devs. I’ve not only have been very happy with that decision, but I’ve ended up with far more titles, most of which I’ve put far more hours into than I would have AAA games, while spending a fraction of what the AAA games cost.
My pet is a badger named honey :3
I like this game better then Diablo III because I don't like Diablo's leveling system.
I played a little with my brother but other than that I've been soloing...I never D2 much. My first dungeon game I played for hours was Darkstone for playstation I love it of course this is a big step up. I usually play as a warrior/engineer even outside of video-games but when my friends and I had our own magical world in our back yard challenging trees with sticks we found. I just enjoy hacking away at things.
Torchlight works great on my mediocre computer and looks great too.
We miss you! Ya bloody legend ✌
miss hearing your voice dude.
we lost a real one.
I played diablo 3 on my bros computer for a few hours and just by watching footage of this, this looks so much more appealing because the movement ALONE looks so much more smooth and fluid and not so clunky. Great vid TB keep up all the awesome work you do.
I really feel like the skill system either emphasizes having passives and having a diverse number of actives. Certain passives can do a great a deal and usually one rank in an active works pretty well because of the fact that most things scale along with player level and player damage along with rank. Having a lot of actives really makes for compelling combat and the passives can greatly increase dps or add a lot of fun side effects to your attacks.
"I've Fought Goblins, I've Fought Zombies, And now I'm fighting King Pogg and i don't know WHAT the hell that thing is" that is the best line...ever
4 classes - Berserker (DPS warrior), Embermage (squishy mage), Outlander (rogue), and Engineer (tank, shades of support)
The descriptions are just rough approximations to give an idea of what they do.
You can always put a class-restricted game into your shared stash and use it as soon as you want to play as this appropriate class. And they are pretty rare.
It will not have separated saves for online.
Read the TL2 FAQ on Runic's site:
"There are no official closed servers with server-side character saves, as Runic does not have the resources to run that kind of system under this price"
You'll be able to play with your offline chars in peer-to-peer matchmaking.
I skimmed through the video and noticed you had glaive throw equiped twice. Not sure if you know this but right next to your mana the main skill (right click) can be switched to a second skill with the tab button. Typically I set one high damage one and one evasive one and then the rest to the 3-9 hotkeys
My favorite game of this genre.
Buying this tonight hopefully, I'm a bit late of course, but im mainly buying it to play with a few friends. Is the co-op good?
Did anybody else notice that "Blair's Journal" at the end was a big reference to Carpenter's version of "The Thing"? The writing was a transcript of MacReady's audio tape.
Man that's cool.
i noticed how when a bunch of items drop the text stacks on top rather than overlaying like in TC1. So nice!
I don't know if someone pointed this out but, anyway... last part of the video (second dungeon, where he finds the "cthulhu" thing"), that actually is a "The Thing" easter egg... the ice coffin, the kennels with the bad (infected in the movie) dog... aaaand, MacReady's shotgun. Mac-effin-Ready's shotgun hahaha, that was a great detail there! I wonder if there are other easter eggs like this or if they are "randomly" generated. (obvously we're talking about John Carpenter's version)
this game is so thought out and worked through. some games feel like work, this game sends shivers down my spine of excitement. good review
I believe they're referring, albeit vaguely, to the sticky targeting in Torchlight.
That dungeon at the end, the Norse Leiren, wasn't in my world at all. Apparently the random generation includes changing which dungeons you get.
Did the map not randomly generate in the beta? This dungeon and the overworld are exactly like mine were in the beta.
Don't know if you were responded to or not but you can go back through the game again in a new game+ style but it actually has a few new quests and things.
September? Did they say they were going to release it in September? I thought they said they were aiming for a late July/ early August release date.
Goodnight, sweet prince.
Gotta love the fact that they put in a reference to the movie "The Thing", considering the "Thing" inside the (Norsk Leiern) dungeon at the end of the video ^^
I've been debating whether i should roll with this path of exile or diablo 3. I've played this and Diablo and i think i'm going with torchlight when the game comes out.
they already reworked the skill system in TL2, it now has tiers that on top of passive upgrades give bonus effects to your skills and changes them visably, if you want all the info go to the torchlight2 site.
Can't you still shift+click for your pet to pick up stuff? I used that a lot in Torchlight for the white drops.
is the mp maps the same as single player ones or different ? and is there plans for expansion pack in the near future ?
I remember when i was about 5, my cousin, siblings (all about 1-3 years older than ) fought over a computer playing Diablo 2 which belonged to my uncle. We will always gather around and watch everyone scour the first act or two, we sucked so we never made it that far. But as we grew up we grew in skill too and within a couple of years we figured out how to actually build classes and such and by the time we were all teens we have become regulars doing hardcore runs on each of our own comps.
you get both, i preordered during the steam sale
Guild Wars 2, Torchlight 2 and Battlefield 3 - Armored kill coming out soon, can this year get any better?
Amazing Game and i Love it,thanks TB a truly Legend
i hope torchlight 2 will still support the modding community, the mods for the first game are amazing. love the classes and player created lvls.
There is an item threshold in the options menu.
The reason there are skills that buff for like 4 seconds is due to the fact that they'd be completely OP if it weren't so...
If Stone Pact gave you a 20 second heal and all you had to do was step in the aura of it for a second, that'd make you nearly unkillable. As it stands, monsters can rush you out of the Aura, and you can lose the effectiveness of it, or wait to recast it. It's something you plan around and play through, and makes the gameplay incredibly fast-paced.
This video is awesome, I like it a lot. I'd ask you to make more about Torchlight 2, pity that there is no beta out at the moment. And the release date of the game is far from today, I fear!
can't wait for this second Torchlight! :)) but why do all classes run so fast in every video!? :S
Torchlight 2 and Marvel Heroes are both create by some of the core developers from the old Blizzard North who worked on Diablo 2.
I got this game on steam a few days ago, and im completely in love with it!
agree, also i'm a bit confuse why some people say D3 sucks, but they still playing it.
lol are you talking about the main quest?...(the skyrim length thingy)
question: I got this game yesterday and i burned through it and now i'm at act III. I'm only a measly lv 35 outlander and i heard the game ends in act IV. After the story ends, is there anything left to do in the game? like more dungeons? or is that it?
TB! Do you know there is a setting to turn off white items from showing up! In the options!
When you check out from steam, it says September. Check wikipedia also.
They weren't laid off, around 30 employees quit blizzard north to form their own. Including the executives, eventually they formed Runic Entertainment to create the torchlight series. When they were still working for Blizzard they had an idea of what D3 would look like but Blizzard shot it down so they left to pursue their own ideas of what rpg games are like.
I think it depends on where u live, I wish I can get a box copy too..and maybe the price may differ from the digital one
is the requires class engineer locked to that second requirement, or once you hit 23 you can wear it regardless of class?
Idk on the statement that the skill trees are behind the curve. Sure its a bit older of a system, but it lets you make ANY play style you want. In torchlight 1 i was a melee mage, it worked amazingly.
i just got this is there anyway to make the control to move easy becuase im used to using the arrow keys or better yet th aswd keys. if there is please telll me.
indeed, I hope this game brings me what I want in one of my fav genres. i've been convinced to preorder it from all the positive feedback of many vids. Also considering you get the first game free upon preordering
After finishing you can redo the game but all the quest are now up to your le vel.
yeah..me have no regret too, but I personally think D3 would be more fun if the runewords are added some in the game, so the players not only can hunt for the items or crafting in level 60 but can also hunt runes and socketed items..runewords is the part that make D2 a great game ..dont u agree? or will T2 added runewords too?
i cannot wait for this , I paid for this back in may and i found out that i couldnt play it cause it wasnt out so ive waited untill now to play, AND ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT OMG JIZZFACE
THUMBS THIS UP IF YOUR GONNA PLAY IT WHEN ITS OUT
I wouldn't say torchlight two is more for kiddish people. I would say it's for people that are looking for a vibrant game with variety, one with a sense of exploration. It's one of the things I loved about the beta for this. There were a lot of things to explore and find. Every new game brought a new map for more adventure because even the same environments manage to feel different. Simply amazing.
I know this might seem like a dumb question but will you be able to get a physical copy of Torchlight 2 at a gaming store like Diablo 3 and not download it through Steam?
Yes, there is are two. Personal and shared (for all your characters).
Also moddability gives Torchlight 2 near endless replayability, assuming the game can be fully modded and have modded content added in.
@TotalHalibut Mate, no way this is faster than D3. This looks interesting, but saying it is faster is just plain false. That goes for back in the beta when this was made as well.
Nice video, I'll be checking out more of the game thanks to this.
Just watched the MJG Spring footage, and the offer still stands. I will buy the beer in North Dakota, if he comes for (random, I admit) an interview. I'll beg.
I heard it is multiplayer? So do u ALWAYS play online with 4 randoms, or is it hard 2 find?
wow FATE was a great game. this really reminds me of that
That's a matter of opinion. I've played both and I like this better especially if the question is which arpg do I like better
Anyone here after Torchlight 2 was free on the epic store? WE MISS YOU TB
The same team made Torchlight and Diablo.
Is there a big map for this game? i've been playing it for like 10 mins and the small top-right map shows me almost nothing,like im walking on blind.
please help,ty
TB, could you please do revisiting Torchlight 2 part 2 and maybe show some multiplayer.
I really enjoyed D3 at first, but by the second week, somethings about it really started to annoy and frustrate me. So I went to the battle.net forums to see if anyone else was having the kinds of issues with the games design that I was having. There are a bunch. My main problem with it is that its supposed to be a loot game, but you only get shitty loot. If you play melee as I did, it really starts to get auction house dependent by hell difficulty. I want to gear up by playing not shopping.
are there the storage chests like the first?
if u use a mod from the steam workshop and get rid of it will it mess up ur characters playthrough or something
But hopefully this time around 'Very Hard' actually means it. The original's exp scaling was broken and you could get 5-10 levels over mobs just by doing sidequests; one-hitting everything got old fast. You had to either install band-aid mods to fix the level system or abandon the main quest and play bonus portal dungeons to actually get a challenge.
I gotta say, this game is a lot better then I expected, I pre-purchase it on Steam and got Torchlight one, which I'm enjoying quite a lot :D.
Is there a set release date for this yet?
That's because not everyone has an account or even uses it. It's not about offending others, it's about having a discussion with no sides taken.
Well yes even blizzard admitted that some aspects of the game needed work.. I think the same could be said for diablo 2 when it came out , so such things dont' worry me much. They will continue to fix things as was done with D2.I don't recall, but did diablo 2 have end game content at release sufficient to keep people playing ?
MATT UELMEN MUSIC RETURNS!!
I cannot get over how glorious it sounds and completely enriches the atmosphere. I fucking LOVE OLD BLIZZARD. Thumbs up if the music consumed you...
Depends on the person. You may have a easy time when someone else has a tough time.
I kinda dislike the limitation of respec. But unfortunately, it can be done by reading the whole skill and save the point for future uses.
yes youll receive it even if you only see torchlight 2 in the basket. I preordered it aswell and received the first. Totally worth it.
So how exactly does the online multiplayer option work in this game?
just curious
what will you say about diablo now?
Just got Torchlight 1 on steam for $4 and its actually really good. Can't wait for this one!
they said that they might make an arena. At the very least they'll put a duel system in even that would be enough to set up tournaments on forums :D
Wow, this game's looking even better than I thought and I was already anticipating it before.
*drool*