This game is boring after playing Grim Dawn.

[NightGlider]

I played Grim Dawn first and finished on all 3 difficulty levels. It was fun. I thought this game: Titan Quest would be just as fun but I am really finding that this game is really boring compared to Grim Dawn.

There are lot of pathing problems as well and the graphics are also really outdated (which is understandable since this is an older game).

I don't think I will continue after finishing this game on Normal. I find myself only being able to play it for a little while before I start falling asleep, literally.

Maybe I would have enjoyed this game more if I had played this game BEFORE Grim Dawn, but right now, this game just feels like a really bad, substandard version of Grim Dawn.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Some people find it that way, others can enjoy TQ even though they played GD first. Still more, like me, never left TQ and enjoy both game equally.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Have fun playing GD then, it's an older game and will be outdated in some aspects that other RPGs will be better in (since they are newer).

If you are not used to the game and already enjoy it, it can be a bit harder to play alone. If you had some friends you might enjoy it a bit more.

[Matthew]

With TQ you learn quickly to run past a lot of stuff. It is boring because there are large swaths of land with weak creatures that aren't worth your time. I, too, struggled to stay awake to get through Greece, but then I just realized you don't actually need to fight everything.

The game has its own charm and I find it enjoyable to play through, so long as you just run past the boring stuff.

[redgreen999]

I am the other way. I can't get into Grim Dawn. Played about 6 hours. Am level 15 Shaman two handed sword with a pet. I have had game about 2 years. Play a couple hours every 6 months. To me its all zombies. No variety in mobs. Zombies may have fire/ lightning/poison, but they are all the same zombies with a few overgrown porcupines.

Maybe there is more variety later on. But it literally is all hack and slash. I can play auto pilot and its like equip I need auto drops and mobs auto level and I auto level. Then I just turn it off. Too dark also which adds to everything looks the same, dark and drab. I dont' get what people see in that game. I try every now and then and I am an equip junkie, but there doesn't seem to be a need to really have everything.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Originally posted by redgreen999:

I am the other way. I can't get into Grim Dawn. Played about 6 hours. Am level 15 Shaman two handed sword with a pet. I have had game about 2 years. Play a couple hours every 6 months. To me its all zombies. No variety in mobs. Zombies may have fire/ lightning/poison, but they are all the same zombies with a few overgrown porcupines.

Maybe there is more variety later on. But it literally is all hack and slash. I can play auto pilot and its like equip I need auto drops and mobs auto level and I auto level. Then I just turn it off. Too dark also which adds to everything looks the same, dark and drab. I dont' get what people see in that game. I try every now and then and I am an equip junkie, but there doesn't seem to be a need to really have everything.

Well, that's part of your problem; you're not playing long enough to get into other areas. Could say the same thing about TQ and not getting out of Greece; you'd say the same thing because you didn't play long enough to get into the other parts of the game.

And yes, Grim Dawn is - grim. It doesn't have TQ's brightness. And both games are hack and slash; that's the nature of ARPG's in general.

[ninakoru]

Originally posted by NightGlider:

Maybe I would have enjoyed this game more if I had played this game BEFORE Grim Dawn, but right now, this game just feels like a really bad, substandard version of Grim Dawn.

Yeah, but comparing both games by the same standards is a bit unfair. This game, even after all the enhancements it went with Anniversary, is still at its core a very old game.

You are essentially comparing a 2005 game with a 2016 game. This game is slower (specially at the beginning), clunkier, but also offers a unique setting.

Not to say Grim Dawn is the spiritual successor to TQ, has the same base graphics engine (but tweaked and enhanced).

[Xenkaroshi]

I played well over 200h of Grim Dawn then went back to my +350h on TQ with +50h additionally this week. I can safely say that TQ objectively is the worse of them. I really prefer how GD handeled inventory and components better for one, I hate the artifact system in TQ so much: Since way before I even got into GD.

I can complain about other various aspects but the point being: TQ is showing age, naturally so. Don't get me wrong: it was THE A-RPG for many years, but GD is def its successor. Doesn't stop me from gifting the game to new friends and play through it together for the lulz once more: But I would personally prefer GD 6/7 days of the week most weeks.

[Gorilianul]

Titan Quest was the first game to have the possibily to mix two different masteries into one class. Grim Dawn took this from Titan Quest. Yeah, the game is a bit more dry, more cynical in some aspects, doesn't have any digital candy that makes 15 year olds fall it, definitely not for kids.

[JCH]

Originally posted by NightGlider:

I played Grim Dawn first and finished on all 3 difficulty levels. It was fun. I thought this game: Titan Quest would be just as fun but I am really finding that this game is really boring compared to Grim Dawn.

There are lot of pathing problems as well and the graphics are also really outdated (which is understandable since this is an older game).

I don't think I will continue after finishing this game on Normal. I find myself only being able to play it for a little while before I start falling asleep, literally.

Maybe I would have enjoyed this game more if I had played this game BEFORE Grim Dawn, but right now, this game just feels like a really bad, substandard version of Grim Dawn.

Lmao.

I've played TQ back in 2007, with almost every builds.

And then I switched to Grim Dawn. Play the hell out of it too.

Now Im coming back to TQ. For me each has it own goods, but I prefer TQ more because:

- Grim Dawn is mostly grim. I couldn't feel it as lively as TQ.
- Grim Dawn is easy. Besides superbosses, others main game bosses are nowhere near TQ bosses.
- Items. In GD MIs are everywhere, also legendaries, components and relic. Farming in TQ is not like that. Tooks hours with Xmod to find a decent MI for late game build. A lot more satisfying.

[Roshambo]

Yeah but it was a lot less work to remake TQ than it would have been to make anything else.

[DanAction]

GD has better gameplay for the most part - it's only natural as it was built on the bones of TQ. However, TQ has a much better story and setting than GD, and is worth a playthrough on this alone, especially if you enjoy mythology and history. GD is pretty generic in terms of story, but the gameplay and build possibilities are just better in nearly every way.

[Drinkcup]

I didn't like GD the skill trees seemed meh and the theme isn't nearly as appealing as tq's lush sunny vistas. But I wish the best mods were updated.

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by NightGlider:

Maybe I would have enjoyed this game more if I had played this game BEFORE Grim Dawn, but right now, this game just feels like a really bad, substandard version of Grim Dawn.

Y'know... that was kinda my thought on it.
I mean Titan Quest isn't a bad game. It is good. It is enjoyable. But I felt spoilt by Grim Dawn since it is more developed, the landscapes are smarter, everything looks better, the music is (mostly) better, combat is smoother, etc... enough so that TQ:AE just feels like several steps backwards and that it would have been more appreciated in the reverse order.

Originally posted by redgreen999:

I am the other way. I can't get into Grim Dawn. Played about 6 hours. Am level 15 Shaman two handed sword with a pet. I have had game about 2 years. Play a couple hours every 6 months. To me its all zombies. No variety in mobs. Zombies may have fire/ lightning/poison, but they are all the same zombies with a few overgrown porcupines.

Hmmm.... Grim Dawn does have a lot of zombie type enemies... but then they don't play the same way. It has a huge variety of such things. Heck, there are even 3 different separate factions that are all technically undead in different forms. The first section of the game are all corpses taken over by that weird green aether. The second section of the game, after the bandits, has the only genuine section of classic undead which are the ghosts of the deceased and whatnot... AND THEN much later you get corpses animated by angry gods.
But honestly it doesn't matter if there are loads of zombies because they all play out differently... and if you haven't got far enough in the game yet to see that then you probably need to play further.

Originally posted by redgreen999:

Too dark also which adds to everything looks the same, dark and drab. I dont' get what people see in that game.

I definitely can't relate to that mentality. I love that about it. All of Grim Dawn's environments look vibrant and varied, while Titan Quest's washed out landscapes all look the same after a while. Obviously I prefer the darker places in the former, but even when Grim Dawn goes desert (2nd expansion) it does it better than Titan Quest does.

Originally posted by JCH:

- Grim Dawn is mostly grim. I couldn't feel it as lively as TQ.

More of this? Well, I guess it might be personal preference, but I'd take Grim Dawn's dark but vibrant landscapes over Titan Quest's vast swathes of featureless brown, brownish yellow and brownish green...
... Well okay, some parts of Act V and Atlantis look alright, I guess.

- Items. In GD MIs are everywhere, also legendaries, components and relic. Farming in TQ is not like that. Tooks hours with Xmod to find a decent MI for late game build. A lot more satisfying.

... That didn't go the way I thought it would. You work your way through explaining something Grim Dawn does well, then what sounded like a complaint about TQ being stingy with items..... then call it satisfying?
Ah well, to each their own. I mostly use set items in TQ because most of the MIs are butt-ugly, but ended up going the other way and using a lot of MIs in GD because some of them were so damned cool. I mean the sets in GD are pretty cool too, but you can mix and match MIs in that game and have them come out looking decent.... while in TQ if you put together parts based on functionality alone, they come out looking like arse.

[NavFamG]

Well the fact that GD came after TQ and was made by the some of the same people you'd expect GD to be more advanced.

But big deal, I like the atmosphere of TQ; myth's and all and don't care a bit for any post-apocalyptic settings so I'll stick with TQ.

[venom48]

I have played Grim Dawn and done all content. Now I decided to buy Titan Quest and wasn't expecting that I will love this game more then GD. There are things that I wish to see in TQ like more tool-tip-stats (that was perfectly done in GD or devotion system) but what I have to say about TQ - it has perfect feeling of fighting system. Grim Dawn has more spells, more AoE effects and maybe easier clear speed so after many hours of gameplay it is more boring for me. GD is really nice game but Titan Quest has the perfect way of battle and there is no an ARP game where I've enjoyed so much basic details like - the more power your skill has, the more forced and pushed-back enemies are. In my opinion Titan Quest with some QoL changes like in GD (more stash tabs, materials can be crafted into legendary items...some devotion points) would be the best ARP game ever.