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2013/02/16 Lighting the Torch Forward

After finishing Dishonored, I went back to playing Torchlight II, seriously. And so far, I’m having great fun. I find that not only is the game fun but the kind of people roaming there are more fun than I remember when I played Diablo II. I mean, there are the occasional games I join and everyone immediately votes me out for some reason (Guys… If you didn’t want anyone in your game, just lock it). And I do feel that I do encounter racism (You don’t speak French/German/Russian/Armenian/Ancient Sumerian? Out with you!) or sexism (I play a female Engineer named Infinity Lorein and you can’t really tell sex from my nickname) but usually people are quite nice and understanding. For example, I like to play slowly: Clear a zone, go over the items I got, throwing away ones I don’t need, complete a quest, go to town to replace old gear with new, maybe enchant or transmute something, and then, when everyone is ready, go for another quest. That concept seemed so alien in the Diablo II servers where everyone ran forward as quickly as possible. It helps, now, that everyone gets seperate loot, but it’s more than that. We stop, we trade, we just talk about gear and builds. Sometimes I have something I can’t use so I trade it for anything cool, not only something that is as good or better. And sometimes I just give it away. And when the other responds with “Awesome! Thanks!”, I just Continue Reading →