And lest people think I went in with a negative attitude, I TOOK A WEEK OFF WORK FOR THAT! I played Diablo 2 instead.

I never got the whole ''Vanilla is da shizzle''-movement. It was tedious, longwinded and bland. Having to run all over the world for a quest to get a +Spi shield is not ''true gameplay'', it's a chore. Yelling ''LFG'' in Ironforge for half an hour, then travelling to Stratholme and finally have the tank being called to diner is frustrating, not fun...

Even the best games of this nature turn me back to Diablo 2, and if a Ladder reset is imminent, that's that.

That and only BGS legitimate reason imo was porting Skyrim to current gen consoles as it was something attainable and a learning experience with a game they were very familiar with. I'm sure it didn't hurt that Skyrim is so well known and conts. to sell like it was a vaccine for the black plague :-)Yeah it's certainly Zenimax making a lot of these decisions, they are the ones with the money funding all of these projects, answerable to any investors. This is my main concern with Fallout 76, TESO is one thing, it's an MMO but going in the direction BGS is heading with FO 76 imho is a slippery slope.Whether you agree, like or hate it, the gaming industry is heavily focused on 'games as a service' with a ton of casual gamers that just want to shoot n blow shit up with no care for lore, story etc. and the hardcore gamers who love all things MP & Co-op, so my thinking is if Fallout 76 sells anywhere near Skyrim or FO4's numbers i.e. 20+ mil copies, BGS games as we know them could be in jeopardy.Even if only on a smaller scale, Zenimax could push micro-transactions. idk about you or anyone else but I can guess a lot of loyal TES /FO fans are not very happy about having what have been traditional SP RPGs with shoehorned MP components added "just cause....money".It's going to take time to find out whether those who are worried were justified or not, since right now it's all PR speak "next game is strictly single-player" ::Fingers crossed::

Torchlight 2 is all right. I haven't completed the entire game yet but I like the fact that you could play offline unlike Diablo 3. Although I didn't really care for the artstyle at least it was similar to Torchlight 1, unlike D3. I found it in some ways better than Diablo imho.

At launch the game was...how do I put this...shit. There was nothing to do, maybe they added more quests and stuff before the first expansion, but man, I got to 23 or something, there was nothing to do, so I was grinding mobs in the mountains, which reminded me of Dark Age of Camelot which I had just left, but worse, because in DAOC you might grind mobs to level, but only because in the right places that was even faster than questing, but you didn't have to grind mobs, you could quest instead.In WoW, at least at launch, I had to grind mobs to progress, I f'ing hate that so much.

I assume Zenimax is the reason Skyrim is getting release 7 times.

I played the first one for a while, during a slump in my Diablo 2 addiction, but Torchlight 2, I never made it past the character creation screen, ughh, character design did not suit me at all. I will check out some youtube vids before I buy another one.

In the adventure game genre, any good site lists the perspective of the game, first, third, over shoulder, top down, etc...Why? Because many adventure gamers do not play one perspective or the other. I think the last first person game I played, or rather finished, was Might and Magic 2. I didn't even finish the Eye of the Beholder games. Well, actually, probably the Mech Warrior games, and of course X3, but there you are driving a vehicle, that's fine, but walking around in first person doesn't help me to escape reality the way I am hoping for in video games. It's the only perspective that doesn't do anything for me. I can do over the shoulder, top down, isometric, but my favourite is third person. Having said that, isometric has dominated my time by far (Diablo 2).The long and short of it is that I don't buy or play first person games anymore, I've wasted far too much money over the years. It's not too early to make that decision with regards to this game, the it's not dark enough people should go eat a popsicle though.

Keep it coming. Another VTM:BL playthrough!