What the f*** is going?

[AmAtic]

I played Torchlight I and II, but maybe its been too long ago, beacuse I just started playing this and I am so lost right now. Who are all these characters that are introduced in the start? where did that villian come from? why is that dwarf king helping him?
Is this supposed to be sequal to the other games?

[Zouls]

Its just its own game with a similar artstyle to the old torchlight games, in the same vein that torchlight 1 and 2 had nothing to do with eachother.

[AmAtic]

I see. Well it just feels like I am watching a movie triology, but I am starting with the last movie without having watched the previous movies first.
Maybe they should work with setting up the story and characters and story a bit better. but I guess that does not matter that much maybe.

[kukuhimanpr]

think of this as spiritual sequel to previous trio of torchlight games. like this one is set in an alternate universe hundreds of years after t3.
torchlight games' lore were often ignored by its players anyway. its the gameplay they only cared.
and actually, i like how they treat the remastered lore more seriously in this game by including some codex feature that compiles various lore in the game world. the characters' personalities and interactions are also more engaging in general.

[Zouls]

Originally posted by AmAtic:

I see. Well it just feels like I am watching a movie triology, but I am starting with the last movie without having watched the previous movies first.
Maybe they should work with setting up the story and characters and story a bit better. but I guess that does not matter that much maybe.

meh im not even following the story and the main gist im getting is that each area has their own small villain plots which you can follow or not, like the church guy trying to ascend to godhood through horrid mutation experimentation.

[DeGreZet]

Originally posted by AmAtic:

I played Torchlight I and II, but maybe its been too long ago, beacuse I just started playing this and I am so lost right now. Who are all these characters that are introduced in the start? where did that villian come from? why is that dwarf king helping him?
Is this supposed to be sequal to the other games?

it's spin-off

[Xaelon]

None of the original developers were involved with making this game. Which is why it seems nothing like the two original games.

Runic made some terrible business decisions and lost the IP to a Chinese company years ago.