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Why are there no threads that cover titan quest? Is it really that bad? I started playing it and so far everything is a step up from Diablo 2.
I played Hellgate London for a short period and was quite dissapointed. So why is the Hellgate London thread so popular for a game that could have been Diablo 3 but fell short... very very short.
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Because Titan Quest is pretty short and most people play a illegally downloaded version (the developer went bankrupt, or so I heard) and don't come online.
So yeah, it's mostly a small single player game from a while ago.
Because, honestly, TitanQuest wasn't as good as everyone said it was. It's not nearly as good/addictive as Diablo 2. Nothing about it (except the graphics) is a step up from Diablo 2.
It's a good hack and slash, and ALWAYS gets recommended when someone's looking for one... But there's never enough meat to warrant an entire thread about it.
I bought it on the recommendation of people in this forum. I like the game play and graphics but the story and world are kind of disappointing me. If you ever want to play, I legally own it on Steam and my SID is Regicide
if the gameplay / graphics are good then i would expect modders to take care of the rest. Especially in this case where the developer is out of commission.
I'm just starting it up 2-player LAN and it is absolutely awsome. I have heard complaints if repetativeness but I really can't see how that differs fro Diablo's repetativeness
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Is this your first time playing it? It starts out great, but once you beat the game... There's really nothing left. It seems that after you kill a boss, you can't go back and kill him again for major phat loot. He drops some loot, but it's generally worthless.
Is this your first time playing it? It starts out great, but once you beat the game... There's really nothing left. It seems that after you kill a boss, you can't go back and kill him again for major phat loot. He drops some loot, but it's generally worthless.
yah, it's my first time playing it
I thought you were supposed to play the next difficulty after completing it. So far the game is pretty easy but I hear the the 3rd difficulty is when things get really tough.
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Is this your first time playing it? It starts out great, but once you beat the game... There's really nothing left. It seems that after you kill a boss, you can't go back and kill him again for major phat loot. He drops some loot, but it's generally worthless.
I thought you were supposed to play the next difficulty after completing it. So far the game is pretty easy but I hear the the 3rd difficulty is when things get really tough.
Oh you can, but I was wearing items that were 10-20 levels below me, so I decided to try and get some good ones.
Maybe it's been patched, but the entire loot system is what drove me away from the game. I found a sword I used for an entire two acts of whichever. The random loot that gets dropped is just.. odd and not right. It just didn't fill me with the desire to collect more of it.
Is this your first time playing it? It starts out great, but once you beat the game... There's really nothing left. It seems that after you kill a boss, you can't go back and kill him again for major phat loot. He drops some loot, but it's generally worthless.
That was a conscious decision by the developers. They thought grinding a boss for loot was a boring way to play a game so they lowered the quality of loot dropped by bosses and increased the quality of loot dropped by regular enemies.
If you really want to get a lot of good stuff, there's a mod that multiplies the number of enemies by 3.
In any case we already have had like 2-3 threads on TQ. General concensus is that it was a pretty decent Diablo clone. Never played it myself, I've been hoping for a decent Sci-fi take on the genre ever since "Restricted Area" came out and didn't come with proper online support.
Is this your first time playing it? It starts out great, but once you beat the game... There's really nothing left. It seems that after you kill a boss, you can't go back and kill him again for major phat loot. He drops some loot, but it's generally worthless.
That was a conscious decision by the developers. They thought grinding a boss for loot was a boring way to play a game so they lowered the quality of loot dropped by bosses and increased the quality of loot dropped by regular enemies.
If you really want to get a lot of good stuff, there's a mod that multiplies the number of enemies by 3.
and this is what should make this game great. a MOD for people who want more loot. A MOD for people that want the game to be more difficult (lets you start nightmare difficulty at level 2). The possibilities are endless and you don't have to settle for Diablo2 graphics. My friend and I actually started a Diablo2 game before this (he had never played it) and he couldn't get over the outdated graphics.
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Bah mods. I don't think the developers should be leaving stuff like that up to the mod scene. Fix your own game first before assuming that the mod scene will take care of it (STALKER, I'm looking at you... You son of a bitch!)
In any case we already have had like 2-3 threads on TQ. General concensus is that it was a pretty decent Diablo clone. Never played it myself, I've been hoping for a decent Sci-fi take on the genre ever since "Restricted Area" came out and didn't come with proper online support.
all I found for TQ threads was one about Iron Lore's demise and one about a MOD that changed all the class masteries
Bah mods. I don't think the developers should be leaving stuff like that up to the mod scene. Fix your own game first before assuming that the mod scene will take care of it (STALKER, I'm looking at you... You son of a bitch!)
a lot of great games are great because of mods... look at Team Fortress
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In any case we already have had like 2-3 threads on TQ. General concensus is that it was a pretty decent Diablo clone. Never played it myself, I've been hoping for a decent Sci-fi take on the genre ever since "Restricted Area" came out and didn't come with proper online support.
all I found for TQ threads was one about Iron Lore's demise and one about a MOD that changed all the class masteries
Bah mods. I don't think the developers should be leaving stuff like that up to the mod scene. Fix your own game first before assuming that the mod scene will take care of it (STALKER, I'm looking at you... You son of a bitch!)
a lot of great games are great because of mods... look at Team Fortress
Different situation. That is a mod of a game that was actually a fleshed out game.
Most of the things you guys are talking about are just simply adding one or two things to the game that should have made the final release, but didn't.
Actually, at least one of the bosses could be farmed quite easily, albeit rather cheaply. In Egypt, touch the rebirth shrine at the Fayum Oasis, then go up to the northeast and kill the scorpion king guy. Loot all the chests behind him (including at least two Majestic Chests), but *don't* touch the quest item on the altar. Then quit out to the menu, and reload. You still have all of the items you looted, because the game auto-saves, but all of the enemies have respawned, including the scorpion boss, and all of the chests have been re-filled.
There are only a dozen or so enemies between your respawn point and the boss, so it takes maybe 5 or 10 minutes to blitz through the run, including the time it takes to quit out and reload. There's even a merchant right in the Oasis for you to sell your junk to.
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edited May 2008
Titan Quest lacked the amazing art direction Blizzard has.
I picked this game and its expansion up a couple months back, to possibly satisfy my diablo2 urges.
I'm about to install for the first time, and am overwhelmed by the number of class combinations/masteries.
Can you vets of the game recommend me some paths to go down?
A bit about my preferred playstyle:
-I liked the skelly-mancer and tesladin from D2, becase they were solid performers through all levels of difficulty with MINOR hotbutton swapping.
-I like a relaxed style of play, with very few hotbutton swaps for skills - simplicity reigns supreme.
-I hate ammo. HATE carrying ammo.
-I don't mind guzzling hp/mana pots in the early game, if the payoffs for the class really shine in late-game.
-I love vampiric attacks and/or self-regen over time items/spells.
-I love pets/summons, but are not required
I tried finishing this twice and both times I burned out somewhere around the hanging gardens. Second time was hilarious though, went with a pet build and pretty much just spent all the time picking up loot while my wolves and lich went nuts on everything. The trick was to summon extra beyond the normal limit with one of the powerups.
Good news; I don't think anything in TQ requires ammo; bows are D1 style.
I haven't played enough to give you a perfect recomendation, but I'm going with Warfare+Dream. Dream gives you regeneration+health leech+thorns+a summon, and warfare turns you into a hard hitter.
I picked this game and its expansion up a couple months back, to possibly satisfy my diablo2 urges.
I'm about to install for the first time, and am overwhelmed by the number of class combinations/masteries.
Can you vets of the game recommend me some paths to go down?
A bit about my preferred playstyle:
-I liked the skelly-mancer and tesladin from D2, becase they were solid performers through all levels of difficulty with MINOR hotbutton swapping.
-I like a relaxed style of play, with very few hotbutton swaps for skills - simplicity reigns supreme.
-I hate ammo. HATE carrying ammo.
-I don't mind guzzling hp/mana pots in the early game, if the payoffs for the class really shine in late-game.
-I love vampiric attacks and/or self-regen over time items/spells.
Suggestions?
I am starting this game too for the first time and my interests are very similar to yours.
I have chosen to make a Spellbreaker (sp?). This is warrior/spirit masteries and should allow for plenty of vampirism
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Bought it, liked it. Never played through more than half of act 1.
Same here.
I just can't play this type of game solo. I thought I could because I love the setting of this one so much but it just wasn't to be. I'd be all for a Game On.
People say it is short, anyone know how short? It would be kind of cool to get a full group of us to play together for once or twice a week at a predetermined time for, I don't know, two hours until we beat it.
It is actually the only game I own on Steam because it came with the expansion pack for $10 cheaper than anywhere else.
Good news; I don't think anything in TQ requires ammo; bows are D1 style.
I haven't played enough to give you a perfect recomendation, but I'm going with Warfare+Dream. Dream gives you regeneration+health leech+thorns+a summon, and warfare turns you into a hard hitter.
The summon is a cool bonus - I forgot to mention I love pets/summons.
Good news; I don't think anything in TQ requires ammo; bows are D1 style.
I haven't played enough to give you a perfect recomendation, but I'm going with Warfare+Dream. Dream gives you regeneration+health leech+thorns+a summon, and warfare turns you into a hard hitter.
The summon is a cool bonus - I forgot to mention I love pets/summons.
i've heard that you are also able to customize to a great degree with itemization. Due to this I would just fing a combonation that fits your style and outfit yourself with items that can cover the rest.
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The problem is that something with the itemisation doesn't give that same sense of "Must gather more stuff! More and better stuff!" that D2 gives. Somehow D2 had a perfect sweet spot of progression, comprehension and complexity. Getting a +40 strength sword or something made you go "SWEET", even if it wasn't for your class.
So make me smart here about playing this game in order.
Installing the expansion updates my original install to v1.3 I believe.
So to play this game in order, from start to finish, getting all the storyline - can I do this completely from within the Expansion environment?
Or, do I play the original, and then play the expansion?
I have two installs is whay I ask, original TQ and TQIT.
Not sure which .exe to start with!
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edited May 2008
Been playing this game with my bro as of late due to the hack and slash response people gave me when i said I craved D2ness. We're finding it highly enjoyable. I'm playing the standard meatshield that destroys pretty much everything, and am finding it hilariously fun as i demolish whole tribes of satyrs. lots of people fucking goats in ancient greece, ne?
Why are there no threads that cover titan quest? Is it really that bad? I started playing it and so far everything is a step up from Diablo 2.
I played Hellgate London for a short period and was quite dissapointed. So why is the Hellgate London thread so popular for a game that could have been Diablo 3 but fell short... very very short.
Bought it, liked it. Never played through more than half of act 1.
Same here.
I just can't play this type of game solo. I thought I could because I love the setting of this one so much but it just wasn't to be. I'd be all for a Game On.
People say it is short, anyone know how short? It would be kind of cool to get a full group of us to play together for once or twice a week at a predetermined time for, I don't know, two hours until we beat it.
It is actually the only game I own on Steam because it came with the expansion pack for $10 cheaper than anywhere else.
I don't know why people say it's short. It's, like, at least 20 hours with the expansion, assuming you clear out everything.
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Titan Quest lacked the amazing art direction Blizzard has.
Titan Quest has great art direction, and amazing graphics. And I hope you meant the great art direction Diablo has, not Blizzard in general. Otherwise, I might have to start posting Burning Crusade screenshots.
Its not nearly as good as D2 as a game, though. It suffers from making you want to play Diablo 2 instead.
So make me smart here about playing this game in order.
Installing the expansion updates my original install to v1.3 I believe.
So to play this game in order, from start to finish, getting all the storyline - can I do this completely from within the Expansion environment?
Or, do I play the original, and then play the expansion?
I have two installs is whay I ask, original TQ and TQIT.
Not sure which .exe to start with!
1) Install and update TQ
2) Install and update TQIT
3) Run TQIT. You don't need to run the original at any time.
(In Vista, I needed to set it to run as administrator)
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Titan Quest lacked the amazing art direction Blizzard has.
Titan Quest has great art direction, and amazing graphics. And I hope you meant the great art direction Diablo has, not Blizzard in general. Otherwise, I might have to start posting Burning Crusade screenshots.
Its not nearly as good as D2 as a game, though. It suffers from making you want to play Diablo 2 instead.
Ahaha yes. I meant Diablo.
Starcraft's art direction is pretty good too.
Warcraft just seems like Warhammer without the means of dismemberment.
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So yeah, it's mostly a small single player game from a while ago.
It's a good hack and slash, and ALWAYS gets recommended when someone's looking for one... But there's never enough meat to warrant an entire thread about it.
I'm just starting it up 2-player LAN and it is absolutely awsome. I have heard complaints if repetativeness but I really can't see how that differs fro Diablo's repetativeness
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yah, it's my first time playing it
I thought you were supposed to play the next difficulty after completing it. So far the game is pretty easy but I hear the the 3rd difficulty is when things get really tough.
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Oh you can, but I was wearing items that were 10-20 levels below me, so I decided to try and get some good ones.
Apparently I was wrong.
Shame.
That was a conscious decision by the developers. They thought grinding a boss for loot was a boring way to play a game so they lowered the quality of loot dropped by bosses and increased the quality of loot dropped by regular enemies.
If you really want to get a lot of good stuff, there's a mod that multiplies the number of enemies by 3.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
and this is what should make this game great. a MOD for people who want more loot. A MOD for people that want the game to be more difficult (lets you start nightmare difficulty at level 2). The possibilities are endless and you don't have to settle for Diablo2 graphics. My friend and I actually started a Diablo2 game before this (he had never played it) and he couldn't get over the outdated graphics.
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all I found for TQ threads was one about Iron Lore's demise and one about a MOD that changed all the class masteries
a lot of great games are great because of mods... look at Team Fortress
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Different situation. That is a mod of a game that was actually a fleshed out game.
Most of the things you guys are talking about are just simply adding one or two things to the game that should have made the final release, but didn't.
There are only a dozen or so enemies between your respawn point and the boss, so it takes maybe 5 or 10 minutes to blitz through the run, including the time it takes to quit out and reload. There's even a merchant right in the Oasis for you to sell your junk to.
Personally, I tried it when it first came out, and didn't like it.
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EDIT: I still play it though. I like the Masteries mod: http://masteries.titanquestvault.ign.com/download.html
Dream Mastery is funny though. Sending enemies flying Obelix-style never gets old.
I'm about to install for the first time, and am overwhelmed by the number of class combinations/masteries.
Can you vets of the game recommend me some paths to go down?
A bit about my preferred playstyle:
-I liked the skelly-mancer and tesladin from D2, becase they were solid performers through all levels of difficulty with MINOR hotbutton swapping.
-I like a relaxed style of play, with very few hotbutton swaps for skills - simplicity reigns supreme.
-I hate ammo. HATE carrying ammo.
-I don't mind guzzling hp/mana pots in the early game, if the payoffs for the class really shine in late-game.
-I love vampiric attacks and/or self-regen over time items/spells.
-I love pets/summons, but are not required
Suggestions?
Good news; I don't think anything in TQ requires ammo; bows are D1 style.
I haven't played enough to give you a perfect recomendation, but I'm going with Warfare+Dream. Dream gives you regeneration+health leech+thorns+a summon, and warfare turns you into a hard hitter.
I am starting this game too for the first time and my interests are very similar to yours.
I have chosen to make a Spellbreaker (sp?). This is warrior/spirit masteries and should allow for plenty of vampirism
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Same here.
I just can't play this type of game solo. I thought I could because I love the setting of this one so much but it just wasn't to be. I'd be all for a Game On.
People say it is short, anyone know how short? It would be kind of cool to get a full group of us to play together for once or twice a week at a predetermined time for, I don't know, two hours until we beat it.
It is actually the only game I own on Steam because it came with the expansion pack for $10 cheaper than anywhere else.
The summon is a cool bonus - I forgot to mention I love pets/summons.
i've heard that you are also able to customize to a great degree with itemization. Due to this I would just fing a combonation that fits your style and outfit yourself with items that can cover the rest.
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Installing the expansion updates my original install to v1.3 I believe.
So to play this game in order, from start to finish, getting all the storyline - can I do this completely from within the Expansion environment?
Or, do I play the original, and then play the expansion?
I have two installs is whay I ask, original TQ and TQIT.
Not sure which .exe to start with!
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I have the game. level 27 hunter/defender. still playing through
I don't know why people say it's short. It's, like, at least 20 hours with the expansion, assuming you clear out everything.
Titan Quest has great art direction, and amazing graphics. And I hope you meant the great art direction Diablo has, not Blizzard in general. Otherwise, I might have to start posting Burning Crusade screenshots.
Its not nearly as good as D2 as a game, though. It suffers from making you want to play Diablo 2 instead.
1) Install and update TQ
2) Install and update TQIT
3) Run TQIT. You don't need to run the original at any time.
(In Vista, I needed to set it to run as administrator)
Ahaha yes. I meant Diablo.
Starcraft's art direction is pretty good too.
Warcraft just seems like Warhammer without the means of dismemberment.
PSN ID : Xander51 Steam ID : Xander51
Plenty of fun to be had, in my opinion.
I prefer being in the nice bright outdoors with all the cool weather effects.
although there is little that can compare to the awsomeness in diablo when I first encountered the butcher yelling "fresh meat!!"
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