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I have both Dungeon Siege 2 and Titan Quest, and I've put far more hours into TQ. Graphics/textures are cleaner and sharper, combat is more satifying, and it's fun to experiment with the various class combinations. On the higher difficulties, you start to get some really slick looking item drops. Normal difficulty is not terribly exciting, so I would speedrun through to unlock Epic and Legendary.
With the exception of online FPSs, TQ and Morrowind are probably the two games I've put the most hours into overall, but I don't think Morrowind would really be considered modern anymore.
I also have Sacred 1, but I'm having a hard time getting into it. The combat feels pretty sterile compared to TQ, where you could knock enemies up into the air and send them flying if you hit them hard enough.
With the exception of online FPSs, TQ and Morrowind are probably the two games I've put the most hours into overall, but I don't think Morrowind would really be considered modern anymore.
I also have Sacred 1, but I'm having a hard time getting into it. The combat feels pretty sterile compared to TQ, where you could knock enemies up into the air and send them flying if you hit them hard enough.
this. GW is no more an MMO than Never Winter Nights. It just doesn't rely on Gamespy and dedicated servers.
GW is not a bad game but it just isn't comparable to WoW, EQ2, EVE or City of Heroes. It is what it is and that is not a bad thing. It fits a large demographic of gamers. Having given 2 copies away, that I got for free... I can say that the game just doesn't have a lot going for it the way I play.
I would rather play Lord of the Rings Online.
SlowSpyder
Lifer
I've played quite a few RPG's over the last few years (it's my favorite genre). Here are a few games that stick out as 'good' off the top of my head.
Titan Quest - It's more of an action/RPG/hack n' slash than a pure RPG, but it has a decent story line and you'll care about leveling up your charactor just as much as any traditional RPG. I've had many hours of fun playing that game.
Gothic 3 - It was probably the most buggy game I've played, but as the patches came out things started to get better little by little. It has a nice large open world to explore. My only real gripe about this game is that it felt like occasionaly there was some main quest work to do, but it was more a collection of side quests.
Never Winter Nights 2 - Another game that was pretty buggy for me (I bought it when it came out). It was buggy enough that I stopped playing due to all kinds of problems I had. I haven't played it since, but I got about 30 hours into it and really did enjoy it when it worked. I want to play it again, but have since lost my disc somewhere. 🙁
These are a bit older and 2D, but I also liked Divine Divinity and played a lot (but never finished) of Beyond Divinity. Sometimes they lean more towards hack n' slash, at times more towards more traditional RPG. But, I really like to fire them up and play them from time to time.
Those are the ones I can think of right now. I've played plenty of mediocre games also (Two Worlds and Oblivion were very 'meh' but I had high expectations for... oh well).
Titan Quest - It's more of an action/RPG/hack n' slash than a pure RPG, but it has a decent story line and you'll care about leveling up your charactor just as much as any traditional RPG. I've had many hours of fun playing that game.
Gothic 3 - It was probably the most buggy game I've played, but as the patches came out things started to get better little by little. It has a nice large open world to explore. My only real gripe about this game is that it felt like occasionaly there was some main quest work to do, but it was more a collection of side quests.
Never Winter Nights 2 - Another game that was pretty buggy for me (I bought it when it came out). It was buggy enough that I stopped playing due to all kinds of problems I had. I haven't played it since, but I got about 30 hours into it and really did enjoy it when it worked. I want to play it again, but have since lost my disc somewhere. 🙁
These are a bit older and 2D, but I also liked Divine Divinity and played a lot (but never finished) of Beyond Divinity. Sometimes they lean more towards hack n' slash, at times more towards more traditional RPG. But, I really like to fire them up and play them from time to time.
Those are the ones I can think of right now. I've played plenty of mediocre games also (Two Worlds and Oblivion were very 'meh' but I had high expectations for... oh well).
You played all of them up to 70? I've gotten level 80 in a day, in hardcore mode. You've scratched the surface at best. I got bored with TQ after 1 play through in the normal difficulty, and bored of sacred 2 after getting to level 60 (45 hours gameplay). Diablo 2 has been fun from 1-99, to hardcore dueling, to torch running, trading items online, powerleveling for fgs, ironmans, magic finding, etc etc. Thousands of hours of fun and a game that 10 years later is still being updated with new content. The fact you can come here, argue that Diablo 2 is not only on the same level as TQ or Sacred 2, but actually WORSE, and call that an "intelligent argument".... Is just face palm material frankly.
Zenoth goes with the obvious route, not arguing that one game is better but saying its a matter of opinion and you can't say your opinion is right and others are wrong (I think red is better than blue, therefore red is better than blue and you are wrong if you think otherwise). He's got a good point, but I'd take it a step further and say no, I think you are wrong, because one game is much better than the other. Of course your the only one intelligent enough to know otherwise. Your probably just wasting your intellect on all of us nostalgic dark age Neanderthals. The fact that many more players are playing Diablo 2 online right now, 10 years since 1999, than are playing TQ, is clearly some sort of conspiracy, or perhaps they are all just much less intellingent than you. With less taste for games, obviously.
Rumor has it that the 1.13 patch will be out, along with a ladder reset, by the end of April. I know what game I'll be playing.
zerocool84
Lifer
I need to start playing it again. I got side tracked with other games and life interventions and only finished like half of EOTN.
Same here, although I was never enamored with Warcraft 2 either. (Warcraft 3 was alright. Come to think of it, Diablo 1 and Starcraft were the only Blizzard games that I really enjoyed.)
Diablo 2 just felt like Diablo 1 with some minor additions. It wasn't even as much of an upgrade as Doom 2 was over Doom, or at least it didn't feel like it, and Doom 2 was barely any different than Doom 1. Titan Quest (with the expansion) is pretty much the game I thought Diablo 2 was going to be. It fixes all of the major issues I had with Diablo 1, and adds some extra features that are really useful that I wouldn't have thought about. The biggest difference is that it doesn't generate random maps/dungeons like Diablo does. That doesn't make it worse, but it does affect its replay value.
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