Gameplay: Runic Games Torchlight 2

well, TL1 certainly had issues, such as the skill system did not encourage you to upgrade your skills with anything other than minor percentage increases, and of course lack of multiplayer. both of these things, among others, have been addressed by the devs. The game is much more like the spiritual successor to Diablo II now, and it is made by ex blizzard north employees, much of the original developers of Diablo II and LOD, of course it is going to be compared to Diablo, to NOT compare it would absurd. Also, I don’t follow your logic that (especially not having played the game) the game is somehow not an improvement over TL1 because it is a Diablo-like game. 

Your logic :  ”I got bored of my $20 singleplayer ARPG before i finished it” -> ” the sequel must be overhyped because D3 was bad” 

…wut?

Also, people did not praise TL1 because of D3 hate, they praised it on it’s own merits. TL1 came out in October of ’09, well before anyone knew D3 would suck, so the fact that you didn’t like it is irrelevant, a shitload of other people loved it.

 I’ll tell you what TotalBiscuit said in a mailbox question about this (paraphrasing) “it would be like, John Carmack leaving Id, taking most of the dev team with him and then making a new studio which then goes on to release the spiritual successor to Doom 3, and then Id’s new team of people comes out with their own Doom 4 which receives HUGE flak from the community about poor design decisions. You would EXPECT people to compare them,”  (this is obviously ignoring the fact that Doom 4 is already in development by Id for some time for the sake of argument )”