Currently running through Titan Quest for the first time. About 18 hours in and almost done with the first act on Normal with the Anniversary Edition. My initial thoughts:
This is pretty damn fun. I seriously wish I had gotten into Diablo and Diablo-likes way earlier. This is my first proper ARPG of this nature. I've played games with Diablo like elements in them like Borderlands, but I've barely played any ARPGs. I had played about an hour of Diablo II before this. How many times will I say Diablo in this status update on this Diablo-clone?
Jokes aside, this is a really fun game, even in 2018, for my very first ARPG. So far the 18 hours has flown by. I'm really looking forward to this 60 hour week to be over with so I can put some serious time into this game.
Things I like so far:
The Setting: Ancient Greece is always a plus. The world is honestly quite beautiful at times, even though the graphics are obviously last decade. The NPCs usually have fairly interesting things to say, particularly the story tellers located in most major towns. Minor complaint is that sometimes the pronunciation is a bit wack. Example being Minotaur being pronounced Minn-O-Tor as opposed to Mine-O-Tar. This might just be a Tomato-Tomato situation, but I always thought it was correctly pronounced Mine-O-Tar because of King Minos (My-nos). Maybe I'm just being pedantic here. At the very least there aren't 15 different pronunciations of the same word, sometimes from the same character, like in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
The Gameplay: I'm killing and looting through mythological Greece. How dope is that? Pretty dope. I'm mainly focusing on getting passive healing items and so far have had massive success. Side quests are expertly paced. I've never had to backtrack or go out of my way to complete a side quest and no area has lasted for too long. I will say that all the caves and ancient tombs feel the same though.
Things I'm neutral on
The Story: The story isn't particularly deep or engrossing so far. It's there, but it mainly serves as a reason to go kill monsters. It's serviceable, and appears to be picking up somewhat now that I've rescued Whats-His-Face of the Order of Prometheus and am about to go fight the Telkine. It's a video game story. I will say that being in Greece instead of some generic fantasy world does make the story more interesting.
The Sounds: It doesn't really seem like there's too many interesting tracks that really pop and if there are then they get played approximately once before being retired. The sound effects aren't too stellar either, but are certainly serviceable.
Things I dislike:
So far nothing major, sometimes I feel like I died a bogus death, but that's usually my own fault because I overestimated how well my healing items worked. As I mentioned before, most caves and ancient tombs feel very samey, but how different can you make a cave? The overworld is more than excellent enough that it makes up for samey caves.
Looking forward to the rest of this game.
