Torchlight 2 – acum cu multiplayer

Runic Games lucrează la o continuare pentru action/RPG-ul suprinzător de amuzant lansat la începutul acestui an. Deja au apărut şi primele arwork-uri, iar PC Gamer are un interviu foarte detaliat cu Max Schaefer şi Travis Baldree, cei doi care de fapt compun întreg studioul producător.
Torchlight a surprins nu prin acţiunea inspirată din Diablo, ci prin elemente subtile, care adăugau un strat nou hack”n”slash-ului clasic; personal, am apreciat enorm ideea pet-ului nu doar ca ajutor în luptă, ci şi drept cărăuş şi vânzător de obiecte inutile, ceea ce scutea eroul să se tot întoarcă în oraş.
Torchilight 2 va adăuga multiplayer cooperativ, mai multe clase, personalizare mai puternică, moduri diverse.

PC Gamer: Do you have new pets? Maybe the undead bears could be pets?
Travis Baldree: The plan is that we’re doing some new pets, though we haven’t finalised what those will be at this point. There will certainly be a dog and a cat, because everybody likes dogs and cats, and we’re aiming to add some new pets as well. We’d also like to further the role of the pet and provide it with some more distinct abilities from creature to creature so that there’s an interesting choice to be made in what you select.
Max Schaefer: We’re not going to just separate the dog and the cat people! (laughs).
PC Gamer: Are they differentiated in any way other than appearance?
Travis Baldree: In the original game, the first two pets were more or less identical, it was purely a cosmetic change. The real differences came when you changed your pet into something else. But we’ve talked a lot, though there’s no final decisions yet, about giving those pets some sort of distinct, innate abilities that make one more interesting than the other for one reason or another.

Întreaga discuţie, aici.