Blizzard's Diablo III will certainly steal the PC spotlight for action-RPG gamers, but Torchlight's Max Schaefer of Runic Games thinks it great.
He only sees it "as a good thing" for the genre, and therefore Torchlight 2. It'll "delay whatever we're working on", he jokes. The MMO is still planned.
Who says a dud game can't have a video game comeback?
Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky have to be up there. We're lucky and cursed, equally, to have games that can be updated now. For folks old enough to remember the Sega/SNES into PS1 and even 2 eras, if a game came out that was half baked (*cough*Angel of Darkness*cough*) that was it, no redemption. At the same time, having the option for updates shouldn't be an excuse for half assing games.
I remember when the Nintendo Seal of Approval meant something.
All those games had to release without bugs.
Following the official release of the RTX Remix runtime, modders have renewed their efforts to remaster classic PC games like Torchlight.
Diablo III still works on modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and remains hugely playable a decade after initial release.
Considering that these were the original developers and "fathers" of Diablo, it kinda makes sense, though I can't really think they can "compete" with Diablo 3. Still, Torchlight was pretty great and I bet the sequel will be even better, considering we still have years of time to beat before Diablo 3 gets released...
X crossing my fingers for a 2011 release.