So....Blogging...+Torchlight 2

So...blogging. What is blogging? It differs from person to person, but I am probably going to use this for writing stuff about gaming. Ya know, video gaming. 360, PS3, Wii, PC. So, the first game blog is probably going to be about a game that I recently picked up.

TORCHLIGHT 2

Wow. This game is absolutely amazing. This ARPG by Runic Games is amazing, just amazing. Whether you are spraying down enemies with dual pistols or cleaving enemies to death with a giant sword, you feel like an absolute badass, But, I digress. You start off by making a character. You have 4 classes to choose from. Each class has 3 skill trees, which in turn is like a sub-class. They are all fairly different, especially with the engineer. Now each class has access to every weapon, which mean you can be a tank with a shotgun or a mage with a giant flaming sword, however skills are usually based on the weapons you use and its usually a good idea to stick with the weapons you have. The combat is absolutely amazing. Every weapons feels overpowered and you have the great ability to make mobs explode. Like literally explode into gibs, fire, and money. The gameplay is smooth and quite perfected. Now the skill tree is a bit old, but it does give that nostalgia feeling, from the old days of Diablo 2. The graphics aren't as powerful as some "ahem" other Diablo 2-like games. But it makes up with it for its art style. Its all cartoony and fun. Another negative part is that the story is just "meh" at best. 

Lets go past the story look at the gameplay. As stated above, its incredibly polished and perfected. You feel like a badass, and you get a freaking pet. The pet can vary from anything from a wolf to a ferret. I think right now you have 10 pets to choose from, but its great. The pet has its own inventory and you can use it to go back to town to pick up supplies and sell unwanted gear. Did I mention you both have a massive inventory, so you can loot as much as you want. 

Oh yeah, there's multiplayer. 6-player co-op multiplayer. Many other people complained that the first game was lonely, well Runic Games listened and brought 6 players to one sitting. Loot isn't shared, btw, so that mean each individual get their own loot bag and stuff. Its pretty good stuff, taking away one of the few things that start arguments in a co-op game. From what I've played so far, its amazing. I have a good 10 hrs already done into this game and I am still playing it. 

There's also mod support. :) and New Game Plus

Expect this game to have a pretty long life-time. It's a must have at 20 dollars.

9.5/10 from Yutao

(No this isn't going to be a review blog, its just going to be a gaming blog, this just puts my feeling down into numbers, and I like numbers, Torchlight 2 gives you a ton of numbers in the statistics part, btw, just for all you number crunchers)

Pros-Gameplay, Art-style, Giant cleaving swords

Cons-"Meh" story

GLHF
-Yutao