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Torchlight is an action role-playing hack and slash dungeon crawler video game developed by Runic Games and published by Perfect World, released for. Torchlight II takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets - and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands.
Torchlight II is the follow-up to the original Torchlight, a Diablo-esque RPG released on PC and XBLA. The sequel provides all the same fun with added feature of co-op multiplayer.The official release date is September 20th, 2012.Torchlight II was first announced in August of 2010 and was made available for pre-order through steam and Perfect World Entertainment's website in May of 2012. The closed beta began at the start of may 2012 as well and ended on June 1st so the team could more efficiently address player criticism.Torchlight II includes a single player mode which requires no internet connection as well as LAN and online multiplayer.
Contents.Gameplay Torchlight III is an where the player controls a character in a world. From an isometric, top-down view, the player controls their character to move about the game's world, using with a variety of weapons, magic spells, and skills to fight monsters, collect new items and treasure, and sell and buy items in a centralized town to improve their character's abilities.Initially, Torchlight III, as Torchlight Frontiers, had been a game, introducing large surface levels that allow players to join together to fight monsters that respawn over time, and travel between the game's primary dungeons, many of which are procedurally generated. Players would have been able to party together to explore these dungeons.
To balance players' overall abilities, the game would have used item-based experience levels rather than player-based levels. Players with high-level items entering a dungeon with lower-level players would have their items temporarily weakened to the lower levels while in the dungeon.
With the change to Torchlight III, the game is expected to be more of a linear approach as from the first two Torchlight games, but will still support both offline and online play. Development Series background The Torchlight series was originally developed by; the first game, was a single-player only game released in 2009, and its sequel, released in 2012, added in cooperative play between (up to) six players. Runic was founded by several video game industry veterans with experience from (ARPGs) like, and, many of whom had been at at the time of its closure in 2008.
Flagship had been developing, another action RPG but with significant (MMO) components. With Runic, the company wanted to 'finish what they started' with Mythos, but to redevelop all portions of the game, lore, and art for this title. With only fourteen employees to start, Runic decided to stay closer to their roots and develop a single-player game without an online component so as to get a product out faster and then build upon that in the future; this ultimately became Torchlight. On release of Torchlight, Runic's Max Schaefer asserted that it was a first step toward a planned Torchlight MMO. Torchlight II represented a partial step toward the MMO, giving them the opportunity to expand and test multiplayer elements.During Torchlight II 's development, invested US$8.4 million into Runic Games, gaining a majority control of the studio.
This investment was targeted toward the development of the Torchlight MMO that the studio has previously presented.In 2014, studio co-founders Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer left Runic Games, ultimately forming and releasing. While Runic had grown under Perfect World's investment, Baldree and Schaefer wanted to get back to smaller scale development, the reason for their amicable departure. Co-founder Max Schaefer (Erich's brother) recognized that both developers were part of the critical team behind Runic's development, and with their departure, they had to rethink their plans for the Torchlight MMO. This required them to shift away from the action RPG genre into a new type of game, ultimately released as, a puzzle-driven.Schaefer was still keen on the Torchlight MMO, but with the direction the studio had taken with Hob, he decided to leave Runic games along with additional programmers to try to fulfill this vision.
He founded Echtra Games, a developer under Perfect World, in 2016, hired a number of developers with background in the action RPG area, and was able to get the rights for Torchlight through Perfect World. Ultimately, Perfect World closed Runic Games in November 2017, although they did state that news about Torchlight would be made in the future.Torchlight Frontiers was first announced on August 9, 2018, and early versions of the game were available to play at the 2018 trade show and later that month. The game is anticipated to launch on first, with releases on and to follow.In January 2020, Echtra and Perfect World announced that Torchlight Frontiers had been rebranded to Torchlight III, and had dropped several of the planned MMO-like aspects in favor of a more linear progression in the game. Schaefer said 'During development, you often discover what type of product a game was meant to be and we found Torchlight Frontiers was meant to be a true successor to Torchlight I and II. Based on this and extensive feedback from our Alpha testers, we decided it was time to take the game back to its roots and model it after the classic Torchlight games that action RPG fans have come to love.'
The companies affirmed the game would no longer be free-to-play but instead will be a premium title, with plans for a Microsoft Windows release in mid-2020. A closed alpha period will launch in January 2020. References. ^ Petty, Jared (August 20, 2018).
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