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Your favorite Diablo clones
- Thread starter out_of_touch
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Awesome game and I bought it specifically to quench some diablo clone thirst, but I don't think it counts. It is isometric Hack'n'Slash but with more puzzle solving and party members and way fewer (no) loot.
Champions of Norrath, Gauntlet: DL, Baldur's Gate: DA, Grim Dawn, Van Helsing, Forced, Dungeon Siege III, Sacred, Torchlight, Victor Vran, I don't think I can actually name a favorite. Reading this thread makes me realize just how much I love this genre (I've played about 95% of the games mentioned here). Hopefully if we get a Diablo 4 that'll inspire even more Diablo likes.
Grim Dawn is my top pick and the next best thing to Diablo. I'd give Torchlight 2 a nod as well as a fantastic AARPG.
Back in the day I loved Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance. I wish it had a PC port because I'd be all over it.
Most everything else is simply too slow or just plain dull. That includes the much vaunted Path of Exile.
Oh, and Diablo is still the king of the genre. It nails everything perfectly.
Back in the day I loved Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance. I wish it had a PC port because I'd be all over it.
Most everything else is simply too slow or just plain dull. That includes the much vaunted Path of Exile.
Oh, and Diablo is still the king of the genre. It nails everything perfectly.
Another vote for Titan Quest and Grim Dawn. The class / skill system is so much better than in any Diablo.
Right? The pool is small. It's worth trying nearly all of these since they're all unique and good in their own right.
Enjoyed playing the Xmen Legends/Marvel Alliance games in the PS2/PS3 days. Dungeon Siege trilogy. Dabbled a little in Torchlight 2. Other than Diablo, Baldur's Gate is the best and most fun I've had with the isometric action RPG genre.
Looking forward to trying out Divinity and Grim Dawn someday. Keeping my eye out on news for Lost Ark. Hopefully it gets a North American release.
Looking forward to trying out Divinity and Grim Dawn someday. Keeping my eye out on news for Lost Ark. Hopefully it gets a North American release.
Torchlight 2.
I installed it last night, for some reason. It feels and sounds so much like I would expect from a Diablo game. Diablo 3 isn't a bad game by any means, but you can tell that it was made by a different team.
I hope that Runic is absorbed back into Blizzard and becomes Blizzard North again. I would patiently wait for them to make a proper Diablo 4.
I installed it last night, for some reason. It feels and sounds so much like I would expect from a Diablo game. Diablo 3 isn't a bad game by any means, but you can tell that it was made by a different team.
I hope that Runic is absorbed back into Blizzard and becomes Blizzard North again. I would patiently wait for them to make a proper Diablo 4.
I wanted this game since it was announced. I hope EU release very soon.
It really isn't.
Torchlight is pretty good, the champion/baldurs ps2 games are as well. Nothing has quite scratched that D2 itch yet. I still play it from time to time, and a remaster would take many hours away from me.
Poe is good. The thing is it's several years old, and a gaas. They've had to layer a lot of complexity to keep people playing, and it's not really to the games benefit. So much of what you do is just endless tedium, it's hard for me to really recommend anyone starting it up now.
I didn't had any difficulty with the Final Cut version. Been using an ice/thunder mage and it was going swimmingly (except for the goddamn crashes which are pretty rampant).
The dungeon scale and cinematic style of Lost Ark looks very unique. For me it was the skill tree vids that popped up on the net when it was announced that baited my interest.
How does Sacred 1 compare to 2?
Also, Devilian was incredible while it was around. Short lived due to other crap, but one of the more unique formula twists in quite some time - TERA + Diablo.
Most of the big ones have been mentioned. I think currently Grim Dawn is great especially with the expansion. I am not a fan of PoE, it just didn't click with me due to combat system, loot system, presentation, etc.
Titan Quest, Sacred 1-2, Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Torchlight 1&2 and Victor Vran are all with a playthrough as well.
Titan Quest, Sacred 1-2, Divine Divinity, Beyond Divinity, Torchlight 1&2 and Victor Vran are all with a playthrough as well.
Path of Exile, Torchlight, Titan Quest, Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance , Grim Dawn , Sacred, can all be clones from Diablo, i just never felt one of them have surpass the serie. You need ro play them expecting something different, not something better. Im dying to find a Diablo game and say, oh shit, its better than D3, D2. Grim Dawn was the one that capture my attention, but after three hours, i left it there, never played it again, and unsuccesful getting a refound from steam, cause i did regret having purchase it.
You get an entire game for free. You only pay for Cosmetics (mostly unique spell effects) and Stash Tabs
IMO, Titan Quest and Grim dawn are the best from just the gameplay side of things as they nail the combat as well if not better than Diablo (which most clones don't get right). I'd also put Dungeon Siege 2 up there as well.
Balder's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 and Champions of Norath are awesome games (BG: DA1 is good but 2 is better in every way). I also really dig Marvel Heroes and while it's been taking a bad turn I still enjoy leveling characters in it. Good podcast game.
Ultimate Alliance has not aged well to me, sadly. I was a bit disappointed when I got the re-release.
Ultimate Alliance has not aged well to me, sadly. I was a bit disappointed when I got the re-release.
This is where I would have normally come busting through the doors talking about Marvel Heroes, but that game is a shambling corpse of what it used to be.
I really wish there was a way to play Darkspore
It's really amazing how they fucked that game up, fixed it to make it amazing, and then fucked it all up again
I haven't played it in a while, what did they do with it?
I just remembered another solid Diablo style game in portable: The EA Lord of the Rings games for the GBA.
They only made two games for the second and third movies (but I think they added FOTR content into the Two Towers one), but they offered a ton of different playable characters with different play styles, but they were a lot of fun.
They only made two games for the second and third movies (but I think they added FOTR content into the Two Towers one), but they offered a ton of different playable characters with different play styles, but they were a lot of fun.
The short version is that they more or less put PC development on hold for 2-3 years to make the console game, which came out with performance issues and odd gameplay decisions.
Then when the new players didn't arrive they doubled down on whales with much more aggressive loot boxes and an incredibly grindy prestige system.
I think the PC version is still missing the big update they promised years ago, and as far as I know they missed their big Thor tie-in plans.
I prefer it to 2. I like the aesthetics of the pre-rendered characters of 1 along with the gore and death animations. 1 with the underworld expansion is the better game for me.
Also as others have said, the Baldur gate dark alliance games are top tier. I wish there was more of them.
Once you put points into them, no.
However, you can download third party programs like GDStash or GDDefiler to completely reset your character's classes.
Oh man ...... I have just been putting points into 2 classes ... I am level 13
Unfortunately, I was not able to get into Torchlight. It lacked the lore of Diablo that gave me reason to keep going.
I need a REASON to kill hordes of enemies. I need long histories of the clan from which my character came, and so on.
I've heard good things about Path of Exile, but Diablo and its clones are massive time sinks that I have not been able to invest in yet.
I need a REASON to kill hordes of enemies. I need long histories of the clan from which my character came, and so on.
I've heard good things about Path of Exile, but Diablo and its clones are massive time sinks that I have not been able to invest in yet.
It isn't a huge issue if you end up disliking those classes down the road. The official Grim Dawn forums have numerous threads for programs that people use to reset characters.
So it seems my saved games are not on my machine? So I guess they are in the cloud? I have never saved the game. How do I fix that so I can try to change my class? I am a Shaman/Demolishist
The game saves automatically, and quite regularly. I've never lost progress in the very few occasions that my game crashed.
But, if your saved files are not in the following folder - which is the default location (\documents\My Games\Grim Dawn) and in the cloud, check out this thread from the Grim Dawn forums. This will overwrite data in the default location.
The only one I cared for was Grim Dawn, it actually felt like Diablo 1/2 and was a better game than Diablo 3.
Awesome, thanks! I was able to drop one of my masteries. Would it work to turn on cloud saving again and only do locally if I want to fix something?
Should I buy the exp pack now or wait?
Yeah it is the few and niche in between. I like Torchlight 1 and 2 since it filled the void before Diablo 3 was launched. I do like Grim Dawn, made by former guys who made Titan Quest.
I've never messed with cloud saving in this game due to complaints I've seen, it might be user error in most cases, but I stay in the "better safe than sorry" boat so I can't really say. If I ever feel to need to back saves up, I just copy them to a USB.
The expansion is fun, if anything just for the new masteries and constellations. I've only gone through it once on Veteran though, so I have not really dived into it that deeply yet.
