I got through most of Act II, played with another friend for a while, and had a great time. I logged in (the beta is online mode only, so just like D3), made a character (berserker, the melee class), picked my pet (wolf), got into the game, and spent about 10 minutes running around.Īt that point I was a bit dismayed with the graphical style so logged off and went off and played Diablo III for the next three hours.

The download went while we ate dinner, and when the time finally came, I was able to sit down and launch into Torchlight II. But they sent me a key for the event, and the download was pretty painless at 750 MB… versus 7GB for Diablo III… which is a little over an hour of file transfer with my internet connection.

You know… first weekend of Diablo III and all that. While I had seen updates from Runic about the beta, I was not planning to join in on it. The latter seemed pretty attractive last week. Torchlight II, as detailed in this comparo chart, offers up online, LAN, and offline modes of play. Crazy, right?Ĭertainly there is a lot of anti-Blizzard ire in the air after the rocky launch day made error 37 the banner around which those angry about the always “connected nature” of Diablo III could rally. A beta event during the first weekend after Diablo III launched. Runic Games had a Torchlight II beta event this past weekend.