Grim Dawn- On Titan Quest Engine

[TheWanderer]

Ironlore, the guys behind Titan Quest went out of business soon after the IT expansion. (due to some piracy and related problems:angry2.
Some of the guys from IL have banded together to form Crate Entertainment, which is now currently producing a ARPG called Grim Dawn on the TQ engine.:clap:

Titan Quest was a great game, and could have been so much better with a few more expansions/balances in skills etc.


Here's their official website: Grim Dawn - Crate Entertainment

 

[thorn]

I would think the fact they released a pretty buggy game didn't help sales as well.

However this game looks interesting, kind of like a torchlight with multiplayer. Hopefully it will carry the same price tag. Though I do wonder how well it will do with Diablo 3 on the horizon. From my quick skimming of the site it looks like it is still in early dev.

Here's hoping it doesn't suffer the same buggy launch TQ did.

 

[Zero82z]

Ironlore, the guys behind Titan Quest went out of business soon after the IT expansion. (due to some piracy and related problems:angry2.

Actually, they went out of business following the poorly-received Soulstorm expansion for the original Dawn Of War game. That was some time after Immortal Throne was released.

 

[muse108dc]

to be honest I bought Titan Quest and did not like it, really buggy and gameplay was lacking for me. So I wouldnt be so quick to blame pirates, thats what the industry does when they think they make the next best thing to gods right thumb but in reality its a pile of smelly feces

 

[sswilson]

Missed the release of this in Feb.

News - Crate Entertainment

Probably give it a shot since DIII has finally lost it's shine for me.

 

[Vittra]

I played it a few times during beta up to the level caps and found it to be fantastic. Will be playing the full game in due time.

 

[sswilson]

I played it a few times during beta up to the level caps and found it to be fantastic. Will be playing the full game in due time.

Good to hear. I went ahead and ordered it (along with the DLC) and am currently installing. When the main complaints about a game are that it doesn't have a good multiplayer component and that it doesn't work well with a controller.... sounds like my kind of thing since my reviews of games I don't like include such things as bad single player component, and console games ported to PC with obvious bias towards using a controller vice KB/Mouse.

 

[Sagath]

I, too, have given up on D3. Let me know how this goes Steve.

 

[sswilson]

Initial feel is a hell of a lot more like DII than DIII ever was. Skill trees and what I suspect will be real synergies between player leveling choices. edit: That won't be nerfed to the ground when players find and implement them.

Character interface feels a bit clunky but that's probably just me being used to how well the DIII interface works (that's a function of DIII's non-complex player choices as well).

I've already bought it, but I suspect it's going to be enough of a keeper that I might even buy a copy to send out to my young lad who keeps pining for a DII release with better graphics.

 

[Vittra]

The dual class/synergy system is built and improved from their previous game - Titan Quest.

Grim Dawn was planned from the start to be similarly paced and as gritty as Diablo 2. It is definitely a single player first game - Multiplayer is really the domain of Path of Exile (slow paced but plenty of ladders and gameplay variations) and Torchlight (Fast paced).