Diablo, Mythos Vets Announce Action-MMO 'Torchlight'

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Needs to be added to the game library

wow and I thought Diablo III was looking fruity

For those that don't want to scour the comments, here's some clarifications.

re: MMO
- the game in the screenshots isn't one. It's a single-player game to be released this year. It is an action-RPG. The MMO as referred to in the article will be released later (undisclosed as yet).

re: non-original idea
- this comes from the team that created the original Diablo, along with the team that worked on Mythos, an action-RPG-MMO. This is NOT the same team that worked on HG:L. Most importantly, the president of Runic Games is a fellow named Travis Baldree, who had a huge role developing the WildTangent game, Fate. So they're not copying D3 in the least; if anything, they're doing what they do best and building on a very similar style to their previous games, namely Fate and Mythos.

re: boooo Flagship!
- Not the same dudes. This team is talented and dedicated. I was in all phases of the CBT for Mythos and they listen to their community and they work hard to polish their games. Go RUNIC!!

Just FYI.

More information:

April 23rd, 2009

A quick welcome for all the new visitors being brought in by the press announcement and screenshots. A lot of you have questions, and although we are preparing a wiki for all Runic Games information to be compiled into, it is not quite finished and I wanted to answer a couple questions that most people are asking right now:

These details are subject to change as the games mentioned are still being developed.

When is Torchlight coming out?
The press release is a little misleading. There is actually a single player game (the game shown in the screenshots) being developed alongside the MMO. The single player game will be released this year and the MMO in coming years. They are separate games but in the same world.

How much will it cost?
We have been told that they want to sell the single player game for around 20-30 dollars (US) and mainly have it be available via online distribution. No details on the MMO have been released yet, but when the team was working on Mythos they had a free game with an online store planned for fun items that would give anyone an unfair advantage.

Who are Runic Games?
Runic Games is a team composed of the people who formerly worked on Flagship Studios’ unreleased Mythos. The team was located in Seattle while the San Francisco team worked on Hellgate: London.

If you want to know anything else, or ask questions, feel free to register on our forums and ask all you want. Several Runic Games developers have accounts (their names are in Orange) and they sometimes reply to our comments or questions. Feel free to post your own questions and comments, and welcome to the community!

Source: http://www.runicgamesfansite.com/2009/04/23/welcome-new-visitors/

Reminds me of Ghosts and Goblins... I am really liking the look of this... Looks to be fun no matter what all you Negative Nancies say!

This team has gone from failure to failure...name to name...just move on. It isn't going to happen again.

This helps no one, the art style is just not right, Mythos looked like WoW now this looks like Diablo, but cartoonier, don't do that, come up with your own shit.

g"The studio has also been bolstered by the addition of Diablo and Diablo II composer Matt Uelmen."g

That sentence right there by itself makes me interested.

Did anyone notice the similarity of the environment to the d3 gamplay trailer? Like the green floor, the bannisters, even the lighting. I'm not saying it looks bad. It is fine. But you'd think they'd pick a different environment to show off for their first screenshots especially since they know the first thing we'd be doing is comparing it to d3.

Oh boy...an Asian diablo-style MMO...think I'll pass.

Stop with the fantasy MMO's. If you want in on the market, go some other route. Seat's taken.

from the look of this, it is an inexpensive first venture to "BOOTSTRAP" their company. the guy making natural selection 2 made a cheap suduko game and actually made a bunch of money off it, and he's using that money to build natural selection 2.

so if I was these diablo vets, and I just came off a horrible failure of a company and games, I would start small too. They bit off more than they could chew last time. It is smart to start modest this time.

They can innovate and get crazy graphics and do all that great risky stuff next game.

Concept and screenshots are the spitting image of Mythos, the secondary project from Flagship. It was a fun little casual-style Diablo 2 clone that came a long, long way in the later stages of beta. Wikipedia says that HanbitSoft got the rights to Mythos in the Flagship Studios collapse. I'm curious if Runic ended up licensing the code back from them, because those screens could easily be mistaken for Mythos with a new interface.

There are quite a few posts complaining that these developers haven't done anything original in some time. Hey, George Lucas has Indiana Jones and Star Wars, and that's about it. I still like Star Wars, and I still like Indy, and Lucas is still an extremely talented man, regardless of whether you want to accuse of him of "milking" his franchises.

Diablo was/is amazing. Warcraft was fantastic. How many times do they have to make milestone games/genres before they have earned the respect of these people?

Blizzard here Blizzard there... they haven't got an original game since I don't know Lost Vikings. All their games are based on other franchises or they just bought a studio that had a game almost or already done and thrown the Blizzard logo on it.

As much as their games are fun, they are not in any way original. WarCraft is based on Warhammer classic, StarCraft on Warhammer 40k, Diablo was bought and then there's nothing major left from Blizzard.

I actually like it. I'm looking forward to this.

Can't wait to try it, don't quite get all the cynical remarks,

I've played this game before. It's called Darkstone and it was released in 1999. The game was ahead of its time...evidently 10 years to be exact.

For anyone not aware, Torchlight - the single player game they're making before the MMO - will be "extremely mod-friendly", so you can probably look forward to a fair amount of user generated content, if that's your thing.
Personally, I think this is very cool.

Ugh, why did it have to be an MMO?

............why

LOL, can't these guys come up with an original idea? Guess they're just going to keep milking the same thing over and over again.

I want to know why the fuck Uelmen isn't working on Diablo III. His work the series so far has been fucking amazing.

See, this would be cartoony graphics.

(For all the people saying diablo looks cartoonish)

Nah kidding, I understand what you mean when you say it, but diablo looks very realistic compared to this which I think is a good thing.

But I indeed find it odd how they are looking similar, Diablo 3 and this game. Maybe it's the lightning and the surroundings?

looks good. Mythos was great, if this is half as fun, it's a win

Looks even more like a cartoon than Dungeon Runners and I didn't think that was possible (and to me that is not a good thing).

looks cool, probably good for a budget title maybe?

For me its looks like a Diablo 3 cheap copycat.

Lego Diablo?

please be just like Mythos... and free to play online. I will be all over that.

Dear BlizFlagRune,

I do not want to play DiablMMO. Not if you call it Hellgate and not if you call it Torchlight. I want a nice action rpg with multiplayer options. I will not pay a monthly fee for it. As a matter of fact, I'll probably never play multiplayer at all unless somebody I know wants to run around killing monsters for a while. Now, in case I'm not being perfectly clear, one more time. Diablo good. Hellgate bad.

Whatever happened to Mythos?

Looks good, except it being published by chinese mmo company... and I don't believe in Flagship.

why do both the player characters in both screenshots look like they don't belong in the environment

It is worth mentioning that Runic Games was founded by the Flagship Studios Seattle team, which worked exclusively on Mythos (a game that never made it out of Closed Beta). This is not the team that made Hellgate London.

That magic ore description reminds me of ADAM from Bioshock. Gives them power but destroys their world

WHAT? What the hell is this shit, the "we regret ever leaving Blizzard, so let's make some shit that looks like a cheap, kiddy version of Diablo 3?"

Those two screenshots were released directly to the two Runic Games fansites that have been in existence for months now. The developers occasionally reply to questions and comments at the original sites:

http://www.runicgamesfansite.com/2009/04/22/first-screenshot-of-torchlight/

http://www.runicinsider.com/?p=21

This looks amazing and will be out before D3 i HOPE