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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.

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.

Slow-Downs and Speed-Ups Destroys This Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I could not wait to get the expansion to the best game I've played in a while. When I got it, I could not believe how such a small glitch could suck all the fun out of an otherwise great game. The glitch is the frequent slow-downs and sudden speed-ups or even pauses while you are playing. I got killed a lot because the game would pause near a horde of monsters and when it un-pauses the monsters will be all over my character and he will be killed, or it would speed-up and I can't keep up with the monsters attacks. THQ advices that you should not teleport a lot in the game to avoid this problem, but why should we stop using a main feature of the game, why didn't THQ solve this problem. Furthermore, I suffer from this problem even before I teleport? And believe me it's a problem that will annoy the most loyal fans of the game.

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.

Titan Quest A must do for this summer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fun game takes awhile to get used to but excellent overall game play. Awesome new graphics and use of physics.

Great game... bad support.....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a really great game!! the gfx is a 9.5 ( a over kill compared to d2) the sound in the other hand not so great. the music only play for 2-3 mins per sections of the game the sound fx's are good at 1st but gets tired out sence the music doesnt play for very long.. the game play is just as same as d2 and the char buils are a big plus in this game compared to d2 is much better. you get to have 2 diffrent skill builds witch is better to have then d2 witch means you get 2x's more char class's. the game plays well online hardly any lag. (gamespy servers) the story line as to some ppl might not like but is good to me and could be better but doest really matter like in d2 where all you want to do is get far and get stuff done & move on to the next quest.. (if your more into story then play offline this go's for both 2d & tqit)

well there are some problems with this game that many ppl are still having with this game (even with a high end pc) the game crash's..
this game has crashed on me every time ive played for longer then 30 mins.
dont know if it a memory leak issue or a Core 2 Duo issue or "both". i have 2.5 gigs of ram so i see no reson why its a memory issue unless the memory doesnt get dumped for all the monsters and stuff youve killed 15-25 mins ago ( witch the dead bodys doesnt dissapier over time like other rpg's) i have also done some reserch on the core due/ hyper thred issue.. this game was build off the core due/ hyper thred chip engine ( intel of course) so if your pc has one of these cpu chips your good to go but if you got a pent 3 or 4 standerd you might have problems as well.

over all sides the problems & such this game is a great game if thq would only release a patch to fix the crashing issue's & memory dump leaks & so on it could of out done d2 on the community side sence there would of been more pepole playing this game if it wasnt for the game crash's

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.

EXCELLENT MYTHOLOGY & GREAT FUN - - - THE FUN CONTINUES !!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Sure TITAN QUEST was what Diablo3 would have looked like - but this cannot be a bad thing! And now we have its EXCELLENT Expansion...

Quite realistic graphics achieved even on medium range PCs (a 3year old machine with only the video card upgraded to a 7600GT and an extra 1GB RAM can run it with everything on HIGH). Keep in mind thought that the expansion is more demanding than the original TITAN QUEST. If your PC barely handled the original it will run into problems with IMMORTAL THRONE - especially in Hades where the green glares increase the requirements.
I particularly liked that you can see the exact armor and weapons on your opponents and, after you killed them, everything drops for looting.

I am a great fun of D&D RPGs. In Titan Quest there is no deep background - except lots of excellent (mostly Greek) Mythology, CORRECTLY told for once. No ...Zena defending against the invading Persians by Leonidas side, saving baby-Jesus and laying waste with Jenkins-Han's hordes, all in one wrap!

There is no "official 20-sided dice" getting thrown somewhere in the background - do you really care? Hack, slash and destroy. Loot, sell and buy. Repeat as needed.

Where it misses the 5th Star: the game seems to run into Slow/Catching-up episodes with no pattern or warning. Lowering the graphics does not seem to help. I guess there is in need of a Patch. It does not occur often though, hence not a major complaint. Also, a bit short for such a huge original game.

You will surely enjoy it! GREAT FUN!!!

THQ got it right :)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: May 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

High praise for Titans Quest: Immortal Throne!
I've played many many PC games and know what features I wish games would have. Titan's Quest: Immortal Throne got them all right :)
Yes, there are still some minor dislikes and I'll mention those at the end.

Things I like:
- You are resurrected with all your gear when you die.
- Resurrection is never very far from your corpse.
- Full on loot? Throw down a teleport.
- side by side item comparison windows at every seller
- side by side item comparison of equipped items with inventory items
- Character window includes easy to understand critical stats
- instant swapping of weapon and left/right mouse key functions
- Nice balance of graphics and game play
- Graphics aren't ground breaking but do fit the game perfectly
- Excellent voice acting
- good dialog - if you take your time and enjoy it instead of rushing through the game :P .. it's the journey not the destination :0

Multi-Player specific:
- Superb multi-player game play
- ultra easy multi-player set-up over internet or lan - THAT WORKS!
- Teleport system easily keeps party connected
- side by side item comparison in trade windows
- Works flawlessly with Team Speak (high praise for Team Speak!)
- Any of your characters can play in multi-player and single player

Things you may not like...
- too easy at normal game level and you cant change to higher levels till you beat the game. Mowing down hordes with impunity is the norm.
- limited.. theme, can get monotonous. No matter your equipment layout or powerset, the sum of the game is kill everything, gather loot, power up, repeat. But that's not to say it isn't fun to see cool new powers, weapons and armor, new monsters, new towns, scenery, etc - which they did a fabulous job of designing.

Final Thoughts:
The 1st 5 minutes of game play my impression was.. eh, not bad. Not really impressed or blown away, nothing new here that hasn't been done to death by other games. But the more I played...
The more appreciation I had for the game. Very smartly done interface, good graphics, sound, voice acting and excellent game mechanics. There are SO MANY things they got right in this game I am just amazed. 30 minutes into the game I was still nodding my head in appreciation for all the little things I'd wished for in other games.

Couple weeks later and still having fun with it in single player and multi-player.
If you're going to play Titan's Quest, spring for the expansion "Immortal Throne". It improves on a whole lot of gameplay mechanics, adds the very cool Dream Mastery, and adds a enough additional content to make it a must have.
Fun game, glad I bought it!

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.

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