Quote Originally Posted by meatspin View Post
If everyone knew that the real developers of the original franchise and the first half of the development cycle of Diablo 3 were developing Torchlight 2 after quitting "Blizzard North", I doubt it would even have half as many sales as it has today.
Not sure if you got all your information right. The head guys over at Blizzard North left years ago and went to Flagship Studios which created a terrible game called Hellgate:London (diablo-esque 3PS/FPS). Most people haven't even heard of that garbage ass game. lol I think someone picked up the license and is making it F2P idk.

Anyways... once Flaship pooped out, they started Runic which made Torchlight, which was an awesome single-player action-rpg. Basically a rip-off of D2 with a different story, and there was only one town. They stole their entire soundtrack from D2 though, which brought a bit of nostalgia, and now whenever I hear the music in D3, I think back to Torchlight... Lol

That being said, both Torchlight and Torchlight 2 are worth the buy. Torchlight 2 is only $20 c'moooon you can't beat that for the same experience from D2, but with a different story and WoW-ish artstyle.