Haha i love this.... unless you can handle it on your own you never go ahead xD
what game you playing?

It's right in the title :P Titan Quest. Fun little diablo style RPG. I have a habit of picking mage or archer type characters, fragile up close. I also play with an easily distracted and somewhat slow-paced warrior friend, so I've gotten into trouble more than once running ahead when I shouldn't be. x3

Haha sorry i really don't read titles most the time XD
titan quest sounds fun :o ima have to look it up. I play WoW myself and i happen to run ahead of the group all the time, but since i play a hunter and mage class i usually handle it on my own or i use my abilities to lose aggro on the monsters/mobs

It's basically diablo. If you like diablo, you'll like titan quest. If not, then probably not. :P

I haven't had the pleasure of playing diablo yet... watched my friend play diablo 2 for about 3 hours and it looked awesome. maybe someday ill play it though

Very loot based, point and clicky. If sorting through massive piles of junk in the hopes of finding that one particular weapon or item that will boost your stats a little bit appeals to you, then you'd like both of them x3

It's ancient, it's not pay to play. It's like Diablo, you buy the game, you can play all you want.

What they said :P One off, pay for it once and use as much as you like. I got it via Steam if you have that.

If you're really really fond of diablo style RPG games and are in the mood for one, then yeah, I suppose. It's a lot more fun with a buddy though :P

It's basically the same game, really. One of it's criticisms is that it plays almost exactly the same. But I liked diablo, so that didn't bother me at all xD

And one of the masteries can summon wolves to fight for it. So yay. 83

whups, Ru's gonna get raeped!

Oh you light armoured classes. When will you learn that brute force is invaluable when it comes to adventuring

It's just so much more fun shooting arrows or throwing lightning bolts, though x3

Well, usually rangers are a medium armour class if you want arrow shooting. I never found the fun in spell casters, though druids have their merit

I suppose, but in this particular game my archer was a bit fragile, massive damage but not so good at taking it. x3

ah *nods* well if an archer can't take a hit they don't usually last too long in a dungeon

S'all good, events weren't nearly this extreme. x3 The character I've got actually fairs quite well on it's own, but this event more or less did take place. We thought it was pretty funny, even if I eventually did fight them off just fine.

pwned

A thing I learned... if your warrior or palliden or main tank or what ever.... is running and not twoard the enemy..... FOLLOW HIM! if you can OUTRUN HIM! cause somethign REALLY bad he cant even take on is chasing him :P

Usually I just kill whatever's following them so we're both happy x3 The fragile characters tend to be able to dish out pretty massive damage, so my warrior bud usually doesn't have to run for long before I've wiped out everything he pissed off. :P

true true

HAHAHA !! this is hilarious :D I LOVE IT :D

And that's the funny thing with items. Even if you don't need them it's better to keep them for the looks than to sell them :D

I nearly always play mages in RPGs, so at low leves id really does look like that... but later it's like the mage paints the dungeon walls with blood, before the fighters even spot the danger :)

*foot steps*
Fighter: hey! what was that ?
*large explosion*
Mage: I don't know, but judging from the blood color it was an orc.
Fighter: Could you at least look first before you obliterate ?
Mage: He startled me!

I just always found tossing magic around way more fun and interesting than hitting things with a big sharp stick, so I usually end up mage as well. Fortunately my friend is quite fond of said big stick so it works out quite nicely x3

fond of his big sharp stick... hmmm... is that a metaphor ? :P

Yeah just like me... when I try warrior classes I usually do something strange, which doesn't fit the game mechanics. Like single-wield warrior with no armor... Or even fists and no armor :D Usually it's a pain to play, but somehow fun :)

Looking for a new RPG... would you recommend Titan Quest ?? :)

Hrm, depends on what you like. If you're into the hack 'n slash, loot gathering types like Diablo, you'll enjoy it. Infact it's more or less a diablo clone. What I like most about it though is it's class system- early on you get to pick a class, and then a few levels later you actually get to pick a second, and you can combine them and find interesing ways of putting classes together and making a unique, strong character. So you could have a warrior with lightning magic, or a mage with bows, whatever you want really.

However if you're not fond of diablo style games you won't like it, as it's essentially just diablo all over again x3

I do like hack 'n' slash, but I recently stopped played Dungeon Siege II, which isn't a diablo clone, but a diablo ripoff :D So I'm looking forward to something more with a story line. But thanks for the info.... maybe one day I'll try it :)

Heh, yeah, you're going to want to hold off on this one, then. There is an overarching story, but one tends to skip over all the talking and plot on the way to the next group of things to slay xD

Haha! Awesome. I think some bad, bad things are about to happen to our intrepid adventurer there. D: I've not played this Titan Quest, but I think this rule applies to RPGs, particularly co-op ones, as a whole. xD

Yeah, things are looking a big grim, but that's what respawning was invented for I guess. x3

Or Ankhs of Reincarnation, or whatever magical trinkets you may be carrying about in your pocket!

Hah, sadly in this game when you die, you pretty much just die. But there's not a huge toll for dying so that's not a biggie anyway.

yeah... I normally play as a mage on most games, just remember this: Mages are supportive and archers pick off weaklings while warriors take down the big baddies, but even those high levels cant solo without some support

I guess it depends on the game, really, In this particular one, mages and arches can actually become quite adept on their own, given the right equipment. Mostly we just thought it was funny idea :P

absolutely true, one game my mage is getting raeped (as shown in the picture above...) the next game im summoning whirlwinds of mayhem and destruction from whence no enemy can escape from!!! Um, sorry I got a lil caught up, heres a April fools day gift for an apology

XD I see this so often in WoW I tend to wait for the group to move on then attack once that lovely hunter's mark appears over the head of the boss dude. It's slow but it at least gives me a fair chance of surviving (given I've had to be a substitute tank more than once!)

Yeah, if you can't take a beating, best not to piss everyone off I think. x3

Yeah XD Let the tank take the beating but for goodness sake, support them and keep them alive! (Unless you have a bad tank and they don't aggro half as well as they should)

I know the feeling so well, squishy classes always need warrior defense, or else bad things happen to them. =P

Daaaw ^^

Titan quest rocks! :D

I remember once, I was playing TitanQuest, going through the first act on the second difficulty...

...so I was standing there at Crete, messing around with things in my inventory, and then-

OHSHIT GIANT AUTOMATON IT'S TALOS


and he stepped on me and i died c:


/nerd

Hah, yeah. That's one thing I love about my main character, pet based build. If I'm going through my invintory and something wanders too close, my three wolves/nightmare/nymph tear it to shreads almost instantly. I've more than once found myself going through items in the middle of a crowd, just because it was convenient to do it then and the pets had everything under control x3

I love titanquest! Fantastic, awesome game. love the pet classes.

Once I saw that one mastery could summon -wolves- to fight for it, I knew that had to be me. xD

I'm liking this! Also.. >tame pic< I knew you could do it!

Hey! I plays it too ^..^ you have the expansion or no? And yus, game will rape you if you're careless X3

I do indeed, it was only an extra 5 bucks if you got it along with the main game over steam, so I decided to go for it :P Fun little timesink, heh.

i still need to get it myself X3 though i have the main copy, ie storebought. is there more classes in the expansion, or just more story? Also if ya wanna play sometime lemme know

There's only one additional class, though it is a pretty cool one. There's also a bit more story, an entire extra fairly lengthy session, and some new weapons and items and stuff. It's not a ton, but it's pretty fun if you can nab it on the cheap.

I remember I bought the collection of these games from Steam...

I need to reinstall and actually play them sometime.

I love the expression. HALP!!!

Seriously... WoW lessons, first and most important.

"If yer tank (warrior/dk/paladin) isn't ready... don't pull things." Nothing worse than when some over zealous hunter pulls some extra 15 mobs and a Boss and yer expected to keep everyone's attention. Never mind the 15 you've already got.

Even more important, I think, when you're playing with only one other person and there's nobody else around to cover your ass if they get distracted. x3

Yuhp yuhp :P. If you ever get to playing WoW (was fun for a while, I stopped playing due to the utter lack of 'new game play experience/mechanics') You'll see people ABSOLUTELY lose it on people for what yer warrior friend there is doing :P "DON'T LOOT UNTIL AFTER COMBAT". Harder to do when the stuff just falls to the ground, but, still...

That's why I'm pretty sure I'd never play a game with that many people in such a serious manner. x3 This is just me and a close friend, so I'm used to his extremely slow nature, heh. We couldn't be friends if I wasn't a patient fellow. xD

I'd almost say if you ever want a third pick up I'd be more than happy to join ya. I'm really big on playing games with other people, it's one of the things that keeps me playing things like Black Ops and kept me playing WoW for like 6 years. I've got a legit copy and everything, so... Ya, if ya want a pick up -^^-.

Hrm, not sure it'd really work to add a third person the way we play, the pacing is rediculous and my friend tends not to welcome random outsiders very well xD However I am toying with the idea of seeing if I can round up a couple of random FA members who seem cool and have the game and maybe setting up a thing where we all play together for a few hours once a week or some such... just an idea as of now though. :P

I'd be down for that -^^- I haven't played it ALL the way through yet... I think my last 'bout took me somewhere near like... the 8 or 9th town you trapes through... or... I've consistantly made it just past the cyclops because I keep going back to him trying to farm some gear out of him. Anyways, aside, if ya get that going lemme know and I'll quite happily jump on for a session -^^- always down for gaming, always down for gaming with new peoples too -^^-

Hah, I've got one character who's beaten the entire game and expansion on legendary xD I've been playing way too much lately... but it's fun, so meh!

I'll think about it pretty seriously. Might be a bit of an organizational nightmare, but if I can get it together easily enough with a few people I trust won't be dicks, it could be a lot of fun to play with a decent sized group.

I won't be a dick -^^- I'm just happy to play through games with people and quite ready and willingly pass up loot and stuff just for the sake of the social aspect of games like that. But I can totally feel ya on people who make things complicated, and logistically... Probably no worse than trying to organize 40 players who know what they're doing to pull the 40 man old world WoW raids back in the day :P

Although, is the game now setup through steam servers? Like, if I plug in my store bought copy information as registration for Steam I'd be able to access the steam servers?

I'm not sure if it matters what copy of the game you have anyway, since servers are locally hosted. Though I don't know much about that stuff, so I might be completely lying to you, I suspect that as long as you've got the same version of the game you should be able to join any server made.

Right on right on, well, if you find people, totally gimme a shout -^^- I'll be happy to lend my services in w/e ways possible... *likes the whole hunter class with bows, a pet wolf and heals*

From what I've heard, there was a fan-made bug fix patch that's out on the internet. Those with the patch can play together and those without can play together, but they can't mix.

Indeed, that is true. I've got the patch installed myself. Was basically a necessity for the pet based build, since the normal game's pets are a bit screwy.

Titan quest is awesome =D

Reminds me of a song I loved hearing on a podcast I occassion... Never Split the Party.

Don't You Know? You never split the party.
Clerics in the back to keep those fighters hale and hearty.
The wizard in the middle, where he can shed some light.
And you never let that damn thief out of sight...

Distracted while others want to go on ahead...that's totally me. :|

Hilarious. :)

Damn that's funny (done that too :P)

always gotta hate when your partner is always distracted especially when you your self are fighting and they go afk to make a sandwich

Boom! Love this. You should scribble some more in action pics with fancy lighting and weapons clashing. No as in bedroom Excalibur, i mean battlefield ones =P Your skill is awesome these days, be interested to see what you'd do with an action pic =D

I played once that game, but not enough to say if I really like. but atm Im playing D2 Lod Ladder on Europe if someone is interresting to come play here with meh pm me. I also play Silkroad on a private server but quiited a little ;p Anyway Ru Ftw, drawing so good ;p

Titan quest is nice, played it lot but never found anyone to really play along with.

Fav class? Warden (Hunt-Def)

Whats yours?

My current favorite is probably my Ritualist (Nature/Dream) based on pets. Lot of fun commanding an army of wolves and other things to slaughter everything. x3

well in the hardest nevel of the game wolfs get a little weak. and its utterly useless against the telkine and speciallt agaisnt the titan XD

i remember playing summoner, nature fire i think, full of wolf, dryad and molten golen. and even with a strong heal, WACK all dead in a second. X)

i hate that titan ><

even as hunt-def you dont resist long. then again, i never made my warden to stand lot of dammage. its axed on massive percing dammage. i had a 25k legit dammage with all power active. could kill the hardest last boss within a minute... but i better not get hit o.o

so yeah, looking for people to play with? ^^

Only true on the first difficulty. They get massive health and strength boosts per difficulty, so I had very little trouble wiping out the telkine, titan or even hades in the expansion. They really rip shit up quite nicely in the later difficulties, especially when you've got lots of buffs and debuffs and pet gear to back them up :P I've done quite a few runs on legendary typhon with not too much trouble.

And I may be, I'm thinking of seeing if I can set up a little group from FA to play together, but we'll see. It's only a thought. x3

That would be pretty cool :) What's your Steam?

Well like I said, I'm not sure if I'm going to be doing it yet. If I do decide to do so I'll probably go around collecting a few folks :P

ohhh then i should have been more patient about it. i never went farther than easy because they got wiped too easely. i gave up X)

interesting~

well think about me if you form a group!

Heh, indeed. The first difficulty is a massive pain- in fact, it might be worth it to re-spec into a non pet dependant fighting type near the end so you can take out the bosses on your own. But by epic, I was quite able to take out all the bosses with just my pets and buffs/debuffs, and by legendary they could survive way more easily than I could. xD

And will do!

Which type of mage do you prefer to be? I was always partial to storm and nature.

The only real mage I have at the moment is an elementalist, storm and earth. Pretty much all my characters end up being pretty brittle though, I tend to like the light and fast types. x3

*snickers* What a great look of panic!

lol i feel sorry for your partner, but then again clothes are important :D

Squishy mages gotta know how to hide. My traditional armor is the bookshelf that I'm standing behind.

My armour is generally the giant musclebound thicko with the axe a few paces in front of me. x3

Yeah, good luck with that. I find that bookshelves are much less likely to get distracted by instant messages.
"Rocks and walls do not betray me the way that you do, Doug! If you were up there stopping those arrows with your vital organs like you're supposed to, I wouldn't need to be such a coward!"
Not that this comes up often...

Oh god, just found this, had to fave it, going to show my roommate tomorrow (with whom I've played a ton of Titan Quest).

Another good tip - if the DPS rogue comes SCREAMING down a hallway the opposite direction from which you were heading. Don't ask questions. RUN!

Bwha, indeed! Yeah, it's a really fun game. I've gone through it dozens of times with dozens of characters and I'm still not out of things to try yet. Very fun to toy with.

Just... gotta remember to stick behind the warriors if you can't tank. xD

The moment I was referring to happened on our first trip through on Epic or Legendary, in Egypt, in a giant cave where the skeletal chimera resides.

Was NOT expecting that giant beast to come stomping down the hallway after my roommate's character, :D

Luckily, I was the tank, so I managed to get its attention long enough for us to fight it.

My first builds were pet based. That guy is a total pushover with pets. xD Me and a friend actually ran dual pet builds recently for the fun of it (six wolves running around = awesome) and we downed him in about 30 seconds without even losing a wolf. Rediculous. :P