Torchlight II Announced

[Kevin]

Personally, I actually have more interest in this than Diablo III, seeing how Blizzard as of late is becoming more and more the evil empire of computer gaming. I have reservations that Runic Games won't have the network code and willpower to stop rampant cheating, though, which is nowadays ever-present in all multiplayer games.

I enjoyed Mythos some but it never quite got fleshed out enough and there was something with the graphic style that left me wanting. I enjoyed Torchlight to an extent, but lack of multi-player meant I didn't do as much with it as I might have. My single player games tend to be more along the lines of MOO 2 (or Civ, Gal Civ, etc), or some of the space combat sims (I still of FreeSpace 2 and thanks to the open source project it's prettier than ever!)

It sounds like they are taking a lot of the multiplayer code from Mythos, combining it with the graphical style of Torchlight and taking features from all the games they've worked on and hopefully getting them combined in a good way.

I too think I might be more excited about this, and for similar reasons. D3 didn't catch my interest nearly as much in the previews, the stuff that has been going on with SC2 and the marketing. I dunno. We'll see.