Long story short, TitanQuest has far more potential than Diablo2 since Blizzard is obsessed with squezzing their cash cow WoW and the original designers long gone.
Diablo2 SinglePlayer is playable & usually done on "/players8" so there is no "too slow leveling" or "too hard to find items", unless your idea of finding items is bnet trading. If anything it can be easier to find items since you have the option of keeping the same map for MF runs. And unless you suck at playing Diablo2 you don't need ridiculously overpowered grey bland-looking runewords. I personally would rather find or hunt in vain for a Zod then trade in BNet with all the dupes, cheats and such that occurs. Finally, the best multiplayer experience is a LAN where you don't miss a single reaction or statement of another player.
Also judging TitanQuest:Normal-Epic is like only judging Diablo2:Normal-Nightmare. The real challenge and fun in Diablo2 is in Hell for the most part. Sadly, too many game companies make these "too easy" difficulty levels that you're forced to go through first. I haven't tried TitanQuest in Legendary, nevertheless, Diablo2:LoD does appear to have more to offer still. But as mentioned earlier Diablo2 won't get any better. TitanQuest also has an editor so if the TitanQuest community is as creative and dedicated as the NeverWinterNights community then there could be plenty of quality new worlds to play.  |