this statement is completely laughable. path of exile is better than d3 in every way except the combat animations. the fact that you guys think d3 is so good explains a lot of the nonsense in this review.

For me Torchlight 2 remains the best ARPG ever. Had not the best difficulty curve but it’s probably the only game really enjoyable to play in co-op.

I was actually hoping for something to become of Sacred, which provided an interesting alternative direction way back when. It was very much based in the roots of the genre, but approached things with its own spin that made it feel vastly different to Diablo and the like. Also, it’s skills were in fact random item drops. I’m not sure that mechanic was entirely successful, in the end, but it was fresh and different and took your character in some rather interesting ways. Sacred 2 was bigger and better, and had some really quite whacky plot, but then their devs went under. A sad dead end

If there’s one thing that the ARPG genre suffers from, though, it’s over-complicating things. Grim Dawn has that constellation thing, the rune/fetish/whatever system (with about a million different things to stick on equipment), AND crafting on top of the traditional loot grind. Diablo III has gems, portals, special drops, all sorts of things. Say what you will about Torchlight’s shallow world and limited systems, it felt like a rush of pure cocaine that came and went and didn’t try to trap you in an endless cycle of playing.