Torchlight 2: The Missed Opportunity?

[Clankenbeard]

You're saying there isn't any overlap of fans of TL and GW2/Borderlands?

Whether they are the same genre or not, one person can only play one game at a time.

So I am limited to play only one game and when I'm done with it I can even think of getting another one? Good to know. Have to stop switching between Pokemon Conquest, Driver San Francisco, TF2, Day Z and Orcs must Die 2 (all games I've played during the last two days).

Okay, but technically--TECHNICALLY--you are only technically actually playing one game at one time. Technically. That is to say that you have one system in front of you and you are mentally engaged in only one piece of software at any given instant. You may play several different games during the course of a given time span, but you can technically only concentrate on the one. Technically. "Switching between them" in your comment indicates an instantaneous usage of one. Technically. (Did I say "technically" enough?)

Well, I guess you could be one of those people who has purposefully had their corpus callousum (the connecting neural bridge between brain hemispheres) severed to reduce the severity of any epileptic seizures. This results in an actual mental splitting of cognition, creating two independent brains and personas in the same body. Now, if this is you, I retract my first paragraph. You can play more than one game at a time. I also want to know if you have to stick to artsy games on your right brain/left-hand gaming system and spatial/analytical games on your left brain/right-hand gaming system.


Runic has my money already for Torchlight2. I paid them double twice so that I can rumble agin' the beasties with my offspring. Me and the kids, mindlessly dungeon delving. I had hoped for some summer fun with this title, but I honestly don't think they are losing out on anything, Torchlight2 is still going to be a casual game in my opinion. Get in, squash some baddies for 30 minutes, get fed up that you can't carry more crap, get out. Repeat tomorrow.

 

[bchampnd]

I think the real missed opportunity was not releasing this a few months before Diablo 3. It would have cleaned up on the people itching for some Diablo who just couldn't wait. On top of that, Torchlight 2 is aggressively priced at $20 so it would have moved a ton of copies (I guess digital downloads don't really "weigh" anything so a ton isn't a proper measuring unit but that's besides the point). It still will, but maybe not quite as many. Now it has to contend with Diablo.

I think it's to the game's benefit to wait a bit before releasing. Releasing 1-2 months after Diablo would do the game no favors as people into this type of game would still be busy with Diablo or would be burnt out on this type of game. By waiting a few months, it gives people time to let people finish up with Diablo 3 and to recover from fatigue from that style of gameplay. The gap also gives the developer time to see what people are whining about in Diablo 3 so they can avoid those things in Torchlight 2.