Has anyone else bought Titan Quest?

[Kevin]

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I guess I'll stuff this game into my 'maybe' pile.

You summed up my thoughts pretty well. I'm going to ramble about a few points some more though.

Combat is more fun than in D2 so far. I've toyed with a couple of things you can do in the demo and being able to net a mob then being able to destroy it at range is something you just couldn't get out of D2. There were some imporvements there.

The Tetris inventory and very limited inventory annoyed me though. Not really know how valuable gold would be (would it be pointless to try and horde gold or do you want every piece you can get to buy stuff) I went the route of pick everything up and sell it. This had me spending something like 30-40% of my "play" time is either picking stuff up, re-arranging my inventory, or as part of the trip to and from town to sell to the vendor. Sure back and forth from town is a little easier than Diablo since the town portal doesn't make you track a reagent (scroll) but eh. Worries about no outside of inv storage cropped up as soon as I started to see the relics and totems. Oh good I have 1/3 of 3 different relic sets so I'm gonna lose 9 slots to these things or feel I'm really sub-optimizing. Hmmm.

While the mechanics of making the character and building it up seem to be an improvement on D2 I'm left a little empty at just the two models to choose from.

And as mentioned it's all so forgettable. I had some excitement at the Greek setting, the ability to help tie into some of the stories of that mythos. So far I've heard some doofus talk about Hekulese (Hercules) but I never got put into one of those adventures or stories.

But the game play seems to have to much time that isn't play anymore. I've got WoW to take up all my game play time that has me not playing. While I saw the potential for a lot of fun while out there slaughtering even the combat was too easy. The mini bosses didn't even have a remote chance of hurting me, I never got below 75% health anywhere in the demo, the was no Blood Raven or LEB rare that provide a real challenge or had me really wanting to be able to use some of that mobility I had with nets and stuff. If they took 4+ hits I'd just shoot em a few times swap to the spear and shield and smack em the rest of the way down. So I started to have the fear that challenge would come in the form of frustration. 30 minutes of yeah whatever followed by a one shot. The whole genre suffers for this.

The other combat issue was you couldn't quite get the camera range right and that the not all directions of travel are created equal for being able to spot the mobs. At least in D2 you wouldn't get aggro by something that was behind your little health bars and you couldn't see it because it's feet were the only thing visible and they are the same color as the cave floor. The visible area just felt a little too small. And yeah D1 and D2 suffered from this at times but not like this one did.

So yeah it looks like it could have some fun in it. Heck even Sacred had some very fun set-ups but I can't see me getting it until it's $10 or less.