May 25 2008
Titan Quest Looks A Lot Like Diablo
I installed Titan Quest on Thursday, and I’m glad that I installed the expansion pack along with it. It’s like Diablo 2, except with Romans. From the looks of it, all of the features that make it better than Diablo 2 (from a user interface perspective, since I can’t speak to the story yet) come from the expansion pack, “Immortal Throne“. Stuff like the caravan driver would have been a huge thing in online Diablo. The caravan driver holds items for you so that you don’t have to keep it in your own inventory. And finally, unlimited arrows!
Unlike Diablo, there are eight different character classes to choose from. I decided to start with “Warfare” as a skill domain, but you can only choose two skill domains. You get one to start with, and one more once you hit level 8. There’s just too many to choose from, and I had a hard time deciding. So I stuck with “fighter” for the timebeing. I might enhance it with “Earth” (fire magic) or “Nature” (druid magic) later. There’s definitely some replay value here, at least, which is better than the first person shooters that I’ve been playing lately.
The inventory screen is a step up from Diablo as well. When you move your mouse over an item, the stats for the item are displayed in a box along with the stats of the item that you currently have equipped, so that you can compare the two side-by-side. When trading with a blacksmith, you have the option to “untrade” before you complete your transaction. I’d really like to be able to carry more, since I love to cart loot back to the villages for cash, and I’ve read that you increase your inventory size periodically in the game.
So far, I’ve gotten to the Spartan camp, cleared out the undead camp just before that, and carried all the loot back to Helos (before I found that there was a blacksmith in the Spartan camp). There’s no caravan driver there though, so I’ve had to teleport back to Helos to drop off the powerful stuff that I can’t use yet. Currently, I’m using a spear and a bunch of magic armor. Not a bad setup for a level 5 guy. I running around the fields now, trying to find that Centaur boss. We’ll see if this one is as awesome as Diablo 2 was.
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Diablo 2, expansion pack, Immortal Throne, Titan Quest, Video Games
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