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might be a good game if it would install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was looking for something new to play and after reading some early reviews on Titan Quest, I headed off my local store to buy a copy. It turns out I should have done some more research before I payed out 50 bucks. Simply put, even though my computer more than meets the minimum systems requirements and I have all the latest sound and video drivers, it won't install. The cd-rom version comes on 5 disks and every time I have tried to install it, it comes up with errors on disk 2 on the file creatures.arc. The manual says that the game was largely tested using nVidia GeForce series 6 and 7 graphics cards as well as the creative soundblaster x-fi series sound card, so if you have this hardware on your system, then you might experience fewer problems. From what I have read on the online support forums about this game, the dvd-rom version seems to be less buggy. That's the good news. The bad news is that even if you manage to get it to work, I understand there are a number of in-game bugs including frequent crashes, character deletion and graphics errors. In conclusion, if you buy this game you might have a great gaming experience. Some people have. You might also wind up spending 40 or 50 dollars for a game you can't play. Buyer beware on this one.

Do Not Waste Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We play alot of World of Warcraft, but thought this game looked like fun. We have two new computers that we bought with all the upgrades for gaming. That said - we couldn't even get this game to start on either computer - even after downloading every patch, a new directx file, and even writing a little code recommended by the IronLore designers on message boards. We kept getting a fatal error everytime we tried to get the game started on both computers. Take a look at the message boards for this game and pass on buying it. Even if you can get it started there are SERIOUS bugs and issues with it.

Try getting support from IronLore (the developers)? The online support page doesn't even recognize this game. The phone support number never lets you get to a live person and says there are technical difficulties so you need to call back (not surprised after seeing the masses of people having trouble with this game on the message boards and likely calling for help, they probably just turned the phones off).

We're filing with the Better Business Bureau on this company since they have no business releasing a $50 game that is so messed up noone can play it. This game is a SERIOUS ripoff!!

wont even install on three different computers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased tis game without doing my homework first. this is the last time i trust this comany. i wanted to like this game as i played diablo, diablo2 and sacred and loved them. so as soon as this game came out i purchased it without researching issues on the internet. i could have saved myself 50 dollars had i have done that. the games comes on 5 cds and there seems to be a manufacturing defect on disk 2 that prevents the install process from completing. thus i cannot even install it. i tried on all three of my home computers with the exact same result. i then searched the web and found the issue i described. i attemted to contact thq 2 times now but have gotten teh standard reply about it being a driver / hardware / windows issue. if you look into the system event log, it even states a bad sector was encountered on the cd. i have searched all the websites associated with thq and ironlore, the developer, and cannot locate a phone number. this also should have been a dead giveaway that the company is not interested in your feedback or concerns onyl the money from the initial purchase.

AGAIN, I CANNOT STATE ENOUGHT TO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME FOR FEAR OF GETTING THE MANUFACTURING DEFECT THAT PREVENTS THE GAME INSTALL AT ALL.

Could be great but it is not

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I absolutley adore the Diablo series. When I found out this game was going to be a contender to knock Diablo I & II out of the top of their repsective fields, I immediatley went out and bought it.

The graphics look amazing. But they have some serious issues & bugs in this game.

After I started having problems, I went to the Tech Support forum and learned that this game should have never been released to the market.

Even if by some MIRACLE you get this game installed & begin play be forwarned that over 88% of the people are exp. total charhcter loss after levels 30 and up.

Their tech team is either non existant or inept.

Save your money. At this point even after the release of their patch (which failed to solve 99% of the reported problems) I dont think the problems will be fixable through patches.

Its a shame.

Most bugs and crashes in a game I have ever experienced

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well talk about rushed out the door. Today I have finally had it with what could have been a pretty good game. Every time I play I crash to the desktop or my comp restarts at least once every hour or two. This was a minor annoyance since the game "happens" to save my items I have collected, although my map progress is erased. It seems the developers used this as a quick fix to the repeated crashes. This was bearable since the game was pretty well paced and felt slightly better than diablo 2 in terms of reward to work ratio. But today my character's quest log was erased and now my time I have spent to get to the end of the egypt senario was flushed down the toilet (which is what I will do with the DVD after my request for help to Ironlore is ignored). How bad can programming get? This bad! This game has the worst programming. First..(actually second you already heard the first and worst) is the graphics programming. Sure they look pretty and the rag doll physics are nice to look at, but WTF my comp is sweet with a Geforce 7800 and the fps are a joke at times at 1280x1024. I have never seen such low quality (relatively speaking) graphics at such a low frame rate with such choppiness. Second is the insanely imbalanced classes. Play melee and get pwned. Play a magic class (nuker) and pwn. Why such a bias? My warfare char was underpowered in damage and the armor seemed not to do anything. My earth char was doing sick damage and still taking hits like the warfare with cloth armor??? Someone needs a shot of D&D's Ac system. Third is... well the experience. I hate when you can feel a sweet game but you just can't grasp it. Kind of like hanging from a cliff and your friend is reaching out to you. This game needed about 2-3 months more to be "tested"....but wait, that would leech funds from profit and the suits would not like that.........

Fun game, unplayable by most

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Fun game, very close to diablo 1 style and not a bad storyline. however all the bugs make this game all but unplayable. For the OFFICIAL list of everything that can and will happen check out the official tech support list at http://vnboards.ign.com/titan_quest_tech_support/b23097/97565666/p1/?8
If you manage to get this installed and working, enjoy your 1-2 hours of play before a crash. Also, be sure to constantly back up your save files as any crash will potentially corrupt your saves. I've already returned my copy to the store, hopefully companies wont keep trying to sell products that dont work.

Not worth fifty dollars

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Here is what I know about this game:

1. Has very steep hardware requirements.

2. Good idea to patch the game, they are up to patch version 1.15 now.

3. You can not rotate the screen to obtain a different line of sight. You are stuck with the 2D isometric view. Yet monsters can see you even if they are off the screen, I consider this cheating.

4. Some of the terrain does not become transparent when you are on the other side of it, this prevents you from seeing it, many times you are then attacked by monsters, I consider this cheating.

5. The villians are uninteresting and one dimensional, they do not even talk.

6. Graphics are nice but they what else would you expect with these hardware requirements.

7. Quest lack imagination, basically go fetch or else its the apocalyse.

8. The story was unimaginative, see Jade Empire for a game with imagination.

9. The sound was okay but it was just there for mood not used for anything else.

10. You can not save the game where you want, only at designated points can you save, this is one of my pet peeves.

11. Game respawns the same monsters you just killed when you save, now you have to fight them all over again.

Go to gamefaq.com and read some of the review over there. If you want to buy this game make sure you have a cutting edge computer and the game is in the bargain bin.

Unfinished product.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Be advised, this game is extremely crash prone and suffers from some extremely frustrating bugs - like character loss! The company admits to issues, and claims to be trying to fix them, but thus far they've done nothing.

To top it off, there are big balance issues later in the game that clearly show the game was not fully play tested. Once again the developer claims to be working to address these issues - yet we see no patches to address them.

The final nail in the coffin for this game is that it is short, expect only 3 hours to finish the main quest on normal, then you have to repeat the SAME GAME 2 more times to unlock all difficulty levels.

What a stinker of a game.

Unfinished and buggy.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 31
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Be advised, this game is extremely crash prone and suffers from some extremely frustrating bugs - like character loss! The company admits to issues, and claims to be trying to fix them, but thus far they've done nothing.

To top it off, there are big balance issues later in the game that clearly show the game was not fully play tested. Once again the developer claims to be working to address these issues - yet we see no patches to address them.

The final nail in the coffin for this game is that it is short, expect only 3 hours to finish the main quest on normal, then you have to repeat the SAME GAME 2 more times to unlock all difficulty levels.

What a stinker of a game.

Diablo III it's not

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love playing "Diablo" and "Diablo II" but I want some new content and new maps which led me to buy "Titan Quest".

Titan Quest is being promoted as "Diablo III" and it does share some features with Diablo but it doesn't have the same feel to it. It feels more like "Sacred" with 3D graphics. On the plus side it's VERY easy to play, if you like "Diablo", "Darkstone", and "Sacred" you'll enjoy it, most functions work with a click of the mouse and you can jump in and start playing right away, with no learning curve. It's a simple minded hack and slash romp, enter an area, kill anything that moves, pick up stuff, re-equip your character, sell junk in town, get your completed quest bonus, level up and proceed to the next area. The graphics are gorgeous, it's a very pretty game. The skill system is excellent, you get to choose two "uber" skill trees to develop and you can then pick and choose branches to follow. I particularly like the critters you can summon. The Core Dweller is like a cross between The Incredible Hulk and The Human Torch, awesome.

There are a bunch of negatives though. BIG negative is the extreme system requirements, you can't play this game on a 128mb PCI video card, and you probably won't be able to run it on an integrated video chip either. I had to upgrade to a 256mb FX6200 PCI card in order to play it on low settings.
My system ran "Oblivion" and "Half Life" without a problem but this game is glitchie, freezes and stutters a lot even with the patch installed.

The game is very linear, you need to explore the entire map and go into every nook and cranny if you want to complete all of the minor quests.

Replay value is zero, on starting a new charcter I got exactly the same item drops and exactly the same maps as on the first run through.

You can't go very far off the path and whichever path you follow ALWAYS leads you to the next town in line. The voice acting is awful, annoying and repetitive, rather than feeling like I'm in Greece or Egypt it sounds like I'm in a deli on the lower east side of NYC. For the Orient area it sounds like they got the waiter at the local Chinese restaurant to do the voices in pidgin english.

The critters group in clusters around bone piles and chests, the loot comes shooting out at you. You can't go wrong if you follow one edge of the map around and attack the largest cluster of critters in sight. The backpack is too small but you get some small extra sacks eventually which increase carrying capacity a little. No stash. Interesting upgrade stuff but very awkward to use, and annoying. Usually by the time you accumulate all three or five pieces of the upgrade relic you've found a better item to use that's not upgradeable so you've ended up carrying around a bunch of useless junk.........The caves and temples are mostly small rooms and mazes. The quest system is annoying, there's no sense of doing something for a reason, you click on an NPC with a yellow exclamation point over his head, he rambles on endlessly,to the point that you tune him out, you'll need to click on your quest tab for a summary of what he wants you to do, most quests seem to involve an item the NPC lost while he was running away from the beasties but "you look like a hardy fellow" who can recover it for him...........then walk up the path, find the cave or temple, kill a bunch of critters, pick up the quest item and return it to the NPC for the quest bonus, then he'll ramble on some more and give you another task...........repeat again.

Another negative is the opening video, there's no way to turn it off, you have to watch the whole thing every time you start the game..........

All in all it's a mixed bag but if you want a game that plays like Diablo but doesn't look like Diablo there aren't a lot of choices available.

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