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Excellent expansion pack with tons of updates

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Being a fan of Diablo II, I naturally found Titan Quest to be a great game. Along the same lines, I find this expansion pack to be an par with the LoD expansion for Diablo II. Besides the extra "Act" in the game, there are tons of subtle and not so subtle changes and updates. The developers really seemed to listen to complaints about the original and addressed problems with things like inventory space and new items to spend gold on. The new Dream mastery seems to have skills to fit a melee or ranged character (the Summon Nightmare is fantastic) . I even liked the small addition of a real-time clock that you can mouse over to in order to prevent losing track of time and staying up all hours of the night trying to get to the next save fountain. All in all, I must say that I'm very pleased with this expansion and would recommend it to any fan of the original Titan Quest. The only complaints I can think of are that the extra act could have been a bit longer and it took quite a long time to complete the installation.

Loved the original, Love the expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 38
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of Titan Quest and THQ, the company that makes it. I love the expansion, and I say that having not even played in the new location yet! They added to the game so many cool new features. This game already had huge replayability, and now it is even more so. Awesome enhancements include:

- New "Dream" specialty - it's great, I'm using it
- More inventory space...you can now collect sets of items and suit up for different battles
- You can share items between your characters - this adds HUGELY to replayability, as when adventuring as one character, you can pick up an item that your other character can use
- My character now leaves footprints in the snow. Fricking footprints.
- Drops are now way better, much easier to get the specialty items
- You can separate relics from items (it can be expensive though, as it should be)
- You now find "formulae", which is a formula to make a charm that goes in a new inventory slot. You have to find all the ingredients and then pay money to get it made.
- They added commas to your gold total, so you can read it now
- They added a pop up clock so you can see what time it is

I mention those last two enhancements because they show the company really listens and takes the time to put in the little touches. That and I've surprised myself how often I use the clock.

I realize this review sounds like I work for the company. I am just a big fan. I'm sorry to hear the other reviewer had problems with it crashing. I have played the expansion probably 7-10 hours so far, and have only frozen once...the expansion is brand new, though, I'm sure they'll iron out the kinks in an update. I have a Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs ram, and an ATI 1900XTX, and I play at 1280x1024 with everything maxed.

I hope THQ keeps making updates and new releases of this game!

Endless glitches update

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is my third update in about three weeks. I want to like this game, there aren't enough Diablo style RPGs out there but this one just doesn't make it. First off there are many, many, many bugs and glitches. Crashes to desktop out of nowhere. Slowdowns. Stutters. Freezes. Character gets stuck in walls. Remove and reload base game, lose characters, start again. repeat.

Content: Where's the dungeons? At the heart of it this is supposed to be "Dungeons and Dragons", "Sword and Sorcery" is covered but what the heck am I doing fighting crabs on a beach and frogs in a forest in Hades??? Tigermen that look like "Tony the Tiger", and endless Ratmen? What's up with these "quests" that consist of "the beastie stole my stuff and went into this cave", go into the cave, kill the patheticly easy beastie and "tadaaa, you completed the quest and got 25,000 experience points".

Too linear. Even with the expanded maps in the expansion the game still consists of straight line outdoor paths with a few really small dead end caves to break up the monotony. Follow the edge of the map from rebirth fountain to rebirth fountain, kill the small packs of repetitive critters, collect stuff, sell it in town and move on. Endless repetition of areas, tilesets, equipment and critters. If you do encounter a tough beastie, there are a couple, run away, get back to town, restock your healing potions and switch weapons.

New skillset: What does the new skillset have to do with dreams? It's a pretty routine sorcery set, some spell effects with a familiar which has a death ray............Nice graphics but nothing original.

Crafting and recipes: Why can't I pick and choose what items I want to combine into a charm? Why insist on these bizarre combinations to get "plus 4% to whatever" and it can only be used on a bow or a shield, etc. Silly, frustrating stuff.

Expanded backpacks, caravan "stash", scrolls: Thankfully they added the caravans. But they're not in every town so you need to teleport from town to town carrying junk from the vendor to the arcanist to the stash and back. To assemble a relic colect all the pieces, insert in equipment to assemble, then take it to an arcanist to remove the assembled relic, then collect the various assembled stuff and take it back to the arcanist to complete a charm.........Whoever designed this mess needs to understand that I want to spend most of my time hacking and slashing critters, not jerking around enchanting stuff. Every town should have whatever's needed in proximity to each other, merchant, arcanist, caravan, etc. The scrolls are a great addition but they take way too long to recharge.

What they did right: The skills interface remains excellent, it's clear, organized and easy to use. The graphics are gorgeous despite the glitches.

Recommendation: Wait for this expansion to hit the bargain bin, by then they'll hopefully have patches up to correct the glitches. This expansion is NOT worth the thirty bucks IMO.

Beat Titan Quest First Before Buying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, I bought the first Titan Quest when it came out. I only got to Level 9 with my character due to the time it takes to level up, the time it takes to use certain weapons based on ability and skill points, and the game does stutter at times while playing. The stuttering or delay is not bad enough where you can't play, it is just plain annoying. The only thing my machine lacked was a 3GHZ processor, but I am running the minimum system requirement at 2GHZ. I have now read where other players are having the same problem for unknown reasons. But, I buy the expansion hoping to play the new areas, I had to think again quick.

You have to play through the first Titan Quest completely. Your character has to be a level 30 or better to start in the new areas for Immortal Throne. The game actually begins at the end of the first one. Now, it does allow you to play as if you are in the original, but you cannot pick up items when they are dropped and forget going multiplayer. Your character will actually transfer to the expansion with all stats, weapons, etc. Now, I know once I can get through the original game, the expansion will be worth the buy totally. But, for now, there is not much I can do with it except work hard through the orginal first to get to the expansion.

It just floors me that THQ would do this. When playing Diablo 2, Starcraft, or the Warcraft games, the expansions always allowed you to play them whether you went through the first game or not. I just felt I was mislead with the word expansion. This game should have been a sequel to run on it's own just as the first did.

Very Buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 19
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played throug the main game a few times both single and multiplayer. The game is very fun but has quite a few bugs. The copy protection system does tend to lock up my machine quite a bit. I downloaded a hack to turn the copy protection off and I dont get near as many lockups now.

I dont believe the addon is worth $30. It has locked up a couple time totaly deleting all the items stored in my storage chest. I just had another crash and now all my quest are missing and I cant do anything. This means a new install and the loss of several hours of building my character. I wont do this I will put the game up on the shelf and look at it as a loss.

I have played quite a few games in my time and even games that had a few bugs here and ther. I have to say this is the most buggy game I have ever played. Mys system is a 3.2Gig machinf with 2gig of ram and the recomended video card. And it is still slugish and jerky.

The first bug That drives me crazy is the fact that I cant bypass the video intro and have to sit through it each time I start the program.

Pretty solid expansion

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off, I don't know how people are having so many problems running this game. I have a 1.8ghz AMD single core processor with 2000mhz FSB, with a AMD X550 video card (Pretty dated) and I have run this game both with 512mhz of ram and 1.5ghz of ram with few issues on medium settings. I'm not saying your specific set up will or won't face issues but I wouldn't be so easily swayed by people's horror stories.

This is a solid expansion though. You constantly hear this game being compared to Diablo 2 and I feel that this expansion basically added many of the things that I really missed from games like Sacred and Diablo 2. Here are my favorite additions to the game...

-Finally a button to sort your inventory.

-When you kill a boss you get a quest update like notice of the experience you receive for killing the boss.

-You can now track how much experience enemies are worth easier because you have a yellow exp. bar which is your true exp. and then you have the standard green bar that show where you were and slowly fills up the yellow bar.

-The ability to "craft" items kind of like you can with the horadric cube in Diablo 2 by using enchanters to make artifacts. Enchanters also have the added bonus of being able to strip runes and such of a weapon so you only feasibly need to hold on to 1 or 2 sets of runes you use regularly, something not even D2 had.

-Being able to undo spent stat points. I was pretty upset on my original characters when I found out I couldn't do this after going for strength and dumping points in to energy.

-Better item filtering, you now only pick up items that fall within the filter you are using and can't pick up items without holding the filter buttons ie. if I'm holding "x" to pick up only magic and better items I won't accidentally snag rusty copper daggers anymore. Awesome in multiplayer.

-It goes without saying that the Dream mastery is a pretty cool addition. I have yet to get many points in it though because it's my secondary class on my new character.

-Cross character storage is completely awesome.

-Haven't made it to Hades yet but they promise roughly 10 hours of gameplay out of the added chapter which seems fair for a single play through.

I really can't think of any strikes against the expansion that aren't already issues with the original game, I'd say it's a good buy, but don't purchase it from CAIMANOUTLET because they are absolutely horrible to do business with.

Great Expansion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It had been awhile since I'd played this game. I first played it after most of the patches were released and stopped after completing the game on normal difficulty with an Assassin class character. I purchased the expansion right when it came out and was quite impressed. I won't go through the details since other reviewers have painstakingly done so already with great accuracy. I just found the game played better and the little things like footprints and the addition with the experience bar, while not actually adding to the gameplay, just makes it that much funner. A work of passion as you might say, they want it to be (for what it is) the best at what it does. It shows in this expansion. Yes, you need to finish the original game to play the expansion. There are plenty of NEW areas to play in the original if you haven't completed those yet. I would still recommend the expansion even if you haven't completed the original game yet because it patches the original to 1.3 and gives more extensive drops from the monsters and chests. I really liked Hades and the darker feel of the game, without being overyly devilish in anyway. Just more of a creepy dungeon crawl then the original. This game is no Diablo II but is original enough in the skill system to warranty playing. I haven't played World of Warcraft but the skill system, from people I've talked to who have, is probably somewhere between D2 and WOW. It copies that game some, but then, who wouldn't? It's a defining game in the MMO genre. This is more of a single player game but I don't see how that's a bad thing. The game actually finishes without requiring 3 years of subscription to fully explore while still being long enough to give you all the gameplay you ever wanted. You can actually get to a high enough level to have a truly established character before going to the next difficulty level (epic and legendary). Epic difficulty is easier at first because of the extra experience the expansion gives you but the difficulty goes up as you play. I find that the environment really gets me into this game. In the orient, I actually feel like I'm walking through a wilderness on vacation somewhere, just need to get past a few monsters to enjoy the scenery (more then a few). Great game, buy it if you liked the original. If you've already patched the original and it didn't work, this won't either. The game does seem to be very sensitive. I had to really tweak my system to get it running well, but it was worth it. For those who don't know how, hopefully it works right the first time.

Titan Quest Immortal Throne DVD Expansion Pack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I installed the game ,had no trouble at all ,the game was fun ,but my gripe is its too short a game ,just took me few hours to play it and win.Anyway I hope the next game they make will be longer,but they do make a great game .

A bit more of everything

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The IT expansion has shown the programmers actually DID listen to the people playing the first game. More of the fun things and less of the not so fun. I don't wish to spoil any of the surprises, so I'll limit myself to saying the items found and made are a lot more interesting and while the storyline doesn't make much sense it is fun.

If you like Diablo or the Titan Quest, this game is for you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: April 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Like Diablo II and following the original Titan Quest, comes this expansion. Not only is it more content, new mastery, new monsters, new chapter, new stuffs along with it, it also give a few much needed fixes like one can not pick up stuff unless you press a certain key and better chance of set/unique/scroll drops.

Yes, some have complained of the high price on this expansion, which is only 1/3 of the original game, yet cost just as much as the original. But seeing how much work one has to put into to balance the game out by adding a new mastery, tweaking, and such, I think it is worth it. Heck, if you enjoy such games, you got to support the game developers.

You have got to get a fast machine with fast card to turn on all the high settings. I got an old Dell with dual 2.8GHz, 1.5 Gb RAM, and an ATI X1900 card. I am playing with most of the high setting on and it is simply beautiful. The details of the characters, gears, monsters, effects are stunning visually.

Lastly, new to the game are some east eggs. Few people dislike them. But I for one, like them. Reading those useless yet funny scrolls somehow give those poor monsters human characters.

Overall, I highly recommend it. But beware, it is very addicting.

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