Best Bang For your Buck
With the two Bigs Guns almost going Head to Head, Ex Blizzard North Employees now Runic Games Game, TorchLight 2 and Blizzards Diablo 3, The question on our lips, which one is Best Bang for your Buck?
Characters and customizations
| Diablo 3 | Torchlight 2 |
| There are five classes in Diablo III; four (the wizard, witch doctor, demon hunter and monk) are brand-new, and the returning barbarian has many, many new destructive tricks for tearing through foes. Each class has a unique resource system and appropriately different playstyle – no longer do all heroes share the single resource of mana. You cannot customize how your character looks, so you have the same design for everyone |
Players will create and customize a character from one of four brand new classes. Each class can be played as either male or female, with customized cosmetic features and looks to make each individual character stand out. All new skills and loot give loads of opportunity for unique character builds. Torchlight 2 comes with 4 classes to play with Winner Neither it’s a tie Diablo 3 gives you four new classes and one old class and no character customization, Torchlight 2 gives you 4 brand new classes with character customization via cosmetics that allows for each character to have a unique look. |
Winner Torchlight 2 why? One of the worse thing about any game is when they do not add customization for there characters, the downfall is everyone looks the same.
Multi-Player/ CO-OP/LAN/PVP
| Diabo 3 | Torchlight 2 |
| PvP Arenas and Co-op & OfflineIn past Diablo games, fighting with other players acquired something of a storied history. In Diablo III, we wanted to create a more formalized play-space for heroes to test their mettle. Diablo III’s arenas are designed exclusively for PvP combat, and so they have different level layouts and rates of health spawning, along with matchmaking to ensure more evenly balanced battles. | Play co-op with your friends via LAN or over the Internet for free. No subscriptions, no item sales. Our new matchmaking service lets you find friends, start new games, and join existing games. And, as always, you can play single-player offline as well.PVP up to 8 PlayersSchaefer has said that there will most likely be an online PVP mode involved, but the dev team won’t be spending a lot of time to make sure that all of the classes are balanced between each other. They aren’t looking to make the game competitive. Instead, they want PVP to simply be a mode that you can challenge your friends to, and see who has the better character. There is high demand for PVP capabilities, and they are more than happy to meet those demands, but the game will be presented as is, and will not receive constant PVP balance patches. |
Winner Torchlight 2 why? Blizzard are famous for doing more nerfing and alterations to classes than we can shack a stick at, so we are always in need to learn our classes over and over again and read extensive guides to find what is best. “Elitism”. You also need to login into battle-net to play offline, so you always need to be connected to the internet to play. Also there is no LAN support with diablo 3 so no group get together at your home to play without an internet connection.
User Interface
| Diabo 3 | Torchlight 2 |
| Diablo III adds new control options to the classic Diablo II hotbar, including full customization of all shortcut and mouse buttons, to make using your skills during combat quicker than it’s ever been | Torchlight II boasts a new and improved user interface, designed to be easier than ever for new players to pick up and play. This intuitive interface ensures you can focus on playing the game the way you want to |
Winner neither it’s a tie both come with good user interface
Modding
| Diablo 3 | Torchlight 2 |
| There is currenty no plans from blizzard to allow players to mod their game, however the only modding that will be allowed would be user interface. | TorchED, the Torchlight II editor, will give players the ability to create their own mods, adding even more content to the world. Have your friends download the same mod and play together |
Winner Torchlight 2 why? cause you have the freedom to create anything for the game.
Longativity
| Diabo 3 | Torchlight 2 |
| Expanded DifficultyThe advanced Nightmare and Hell difficulty modes in Diablo III add new progression options to the game not found on the Normal setting – increasingly powerful and intimidating armor sets, potent unique items, high-level runes and exclusive recipes and upgrades for artisans. Monsters grow increasingly more dangerous in subsequent difficulty levels.In the brutal new Inferno mode, available only once the game’s been beaten on Hell difficulty, monsters outstrip players in level range. Inferno difficulty is an epic challenge intended for players who have reached the game’s level cap, and it offers epic rewards as well.
Achievements You’ll be able to show off your achievements with a battle standard, a banner visible to all players on Battle.net that will be a visual representation of your accomplishments in Diablo III. And you should expect even more ‘endgame’ additions to come – ones that’ll let you pursue unique goals and achieve more glory in the world of Sanctuary than ever before. |
New Game Plus,In New Game Plus, the game’s not over until you say it is. Once you’ve beaten Torchlight II‘s primary campaign, you can start again with the same character for a significantly greater challenge. You’ll keep all of the skills, gold, and gear you worked so hard for!We’re not only in the town of Torchlight anymore! Explore vast overland areas and multiple hub towns, fight through rain, snow, day and night. Our level randomization ensures new layouts, paths, loot, and monsters every time you play.
Torchlight 2 – Steam Achievements |
Winner Torchlight 2 reason random dungeons, random zones, Achievements and new games plus, there is a lot more for players to and reasons to come back.
Price
| Diablo 3 | Torchlight 2 |
| £34.99 | £14.99 |
Winner Torchlight 2 again
So based on the facts from both of the games, Torchlight 2 comes out “Best Bang for your Buck”. So what has Blizzard’s Big gun got apart from its fan base and story. Have your say on our Facebook wall.
