Torchlight (The mmo version)

[Dtrain]

Now there is a column with faces on top, and the face is sporting what looks like a moneyshot of snow.

Also, the map looks a little like the elder scrolls map.

[Count Nerfedalot]

Well, the URL indicates August 4 2010, so I'm guessing something will happen then.

[Simond]

Dog. Dog with head split in half.

[Yegolev]

Cancerous tazmanian devil.

Or world map.  50-50, I'd say.

[schild]

I don't know what's going on, I'm just going through threads clicking stuff since I haven't been around much.

It's an entrance to a dungeon.

[Jamiko]

I'm guessing it will say something underneath Torchlight, like Online or such.

[Musashi]

Oh.  There's way more of it now.  Yea looks like something's either coming out, or going into that dungeon.  There's little legs there.

[Jamiko]

Torchlight II.

[Nija]

Cool, co-op LAN play.

[Count Nerfedalot]

Cool, co-op LAN play.

excellent! 

[Typhon]

I'm happy for those wanting LAN play.

That said, it means nothing to me - my siblings and friends are scattered throughout the world.  Give me hosted gameplay (frequently called "MMO"), or at least online gameplay that is as simple as hosted gameplay, or we won't be playing.

[Malakili]

I'm happy for those wanting LAN play.

That said, it means nothing to me - my siblings and friends are scattered throughout the world.  Give me hosted gameplay (frequently called "MMO"), or at least online gameplay that is as simple as hosted gameplay, or we won't be playing.

Torchlight 2 will have internet play.   But I'm just going to redirect everyone down to the Torchlight 2 thread in gaming to talk about that game and try to keep the MMO discussion separate just for the sake of clarity, since Having 3 games with effectively the same name right now is confusing enough as it is.

[Ratama]

Sorry, week or two late, but in the interest of justice/information:

Torchlight is isometric, right? (High overhead viewpoint, instead of from character's POV). 

Why do developers still make these?

Isometric =/= top down veiwpoint; Torchlight is actually a true 3D game that just has a fixed camera with a top-down view.

Anyway, in Runic's case, time and money; they originally planned on TL being played First Person/over the shoulder, but found it was a lot easier to make their terrain/architecture look up to snuff from just one fixed angle.

Check out http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11615; it actually looks pretty good as a FPS.

Coming into a thread horribly uniformed...

You know what he meant. And Runic didn't make TL top-down by choice, so they apparently don't prefer it, either.

Expect the MMO to be 3D, with traditional MMO camera options.

[Malakili]

Expect the MMO to be 3D, with traditional MMO camera options.

Do you actually have any evidence of this?  I ask because Mythos was isometric, and it seems way more likely that they are going with something similar to that.

[Ratama]

Just stated dev preference; I think their explanation of why TL didn't ship as a FPRPG is still on their forums somewhere.

[Paelos]

If it's that varied of a style, I still wonder why they would bother. I don't consider the world of Torchlight to be a universe you could expand upon into a 3d first person RPG experience. It's a place you go to hack the shit out of things.

[Mrbloodworth]

Most the art won't translate well in a 3ed person view. See Alien swam cam mod.

[Azazel]

I'm happy for those wanting LAN play.

That said, it means nothing to me - my siblings and friends are scattered throughout the world.  Give me hosted gameplay (frequently called "MMO"), or at least online gameplay that is as simple as hosted gameplay, or we won't be playing.

That was the Titan Quest thing. You could do LAN or host a game via the Interwebs. Worked well, even internationally.

[Sophismata]

Even if it's LAN only, you can still play over the net thanks to VPN's.