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Perhaps you’re like me, and you’ve grown increasingly frustrated at the long production cycle of whatever the new Torchlight game is. Or, you’ve turned your back on Blizzard after their recent controversies and you don’t want to play Diablo III. Maybe you’re tired of Path of Exile, you’re too impatient to wait for Grim Dawn’s indefinitely delayed console release, and you have long since given up on the many unfulfilled promises that fixes are on the way for Titan Quest’s absurdly broken console versions.
If you’re that specific person, and you somehow never played 2012’s Torchlight II, then your ship has finally come in. Although the original Torchlight got an excellent console port to the Xbox 360 years ago, Torchlight II was left to sit on a shelf. Now, thanks to the developers at Panic Button, the sequel is finally available on the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch for 20 bucks.
It launched late last year…and although it wasn’t as much of an initial mess as Titan Quest, it still had a number of issues. Interface elements weren’t working. Multiplayer was randomly broken. Items could disappear. And the classic “stuck in the geometry” bug that was also prominent in the original was still present. Some of these issues are fixed up now, but this is still not quite a…
