Why You Should Play Titan Quest | 16 Years Later Retrospective 

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Even though Grim Dawn improved the gameplay, added a lot of interesting systems and made exploration way more interesting, Titan Quest's setting, visual style and thematic legendary items are still my favorite. Love the game and still playing it, thanks for making a video on it!

My husband bought me Titan Quest for Christmas 2022 after Googling “games like Diablo on Switch” as he knows how much I love Diablo. I was blown away. Such a fun great with brilliant mechanics and I was shocked to find out how old it is! They ported it really well and I thought it was made for console for how well it was done. And the mythology got me hooked too as I really love ancient lore and especially Egypt and Greece. I also love the seemless transition between maps so no lagging or loading times when entering or exiting different areas. I’m really happy with this “ Diablo clone” and it’s superior in a lot of ways in my opinion

"We're probably never going to see a sequel..." Thankfully that aged poorly!

I still play Titan Quest with DLC. I love this game because of a lot of skills tree, class combination, and mythology background.

Visuals are still top notch in my perspective. I totally appreciate the atmosphere this game gives over many other Action RPGs

I absolutely love TQ. Played all of the recently released expansions and had a blast with pretty much all of them. And honestly, I am craving for more! The changelogs that this game gets to this very day are massive. Takes like half an hour to read everything.

This game is really a far too often overlooked gem. Some people might see it as just a diablo 2 "clone", but I always liked it more than the game it supposedly is a clone of. The atmosphere is really great. I also like that it is one of the few games that uses "Medusa" as the name for the individual being rather than the entire species if you want to call it that. Something interesting about the music is that apparently with a few exception like menu and bossfight music, the game doesn't seem to have classical soundtrack... tracks. I liked the music so much I tried extracting it from the game files to put on my mp3 player and there are a lot of files that have a single instrument or sound, which then presumably are combined to form various songs in a more dynamic way somehow. I have no idea how the game does this, I only saw the sound files and drew my conclusions from there.

I played this game in 2006 and I remember how blown away I was. The Immortal Throne, the first old DLC that came one year later added more complexity and fun to the whole game, there was so much missing before in the original, like mini-bosses and artefacts. 8 years later the game got finally a remake and playable multiplayer. And it -is- quite fun, combining your powers with others that is. I must admit that the first expansion Ragnarok was very much worth it, adding even more weapons choices. The Nordic setting somehow fit with all the others and I would suggest you play that. However the later two expansions feel very lackluster to me. Over the years I had fun experimenting with it's systems and I can reccomend it to pretty much aynone. And don't forget about higher difficulty secret bosses and Immortal Throne secret passage, it rocks =")

Titan Quest 2 is coming😎

Recently dropped D4 and got back into this and Grim Dawn. They just do it right, like Diablo use to. The build customization is just *chef’s kiss*

Titan Quest is a great game, but I would only recommend it if you like the Ancient Greece/Egypt setting. Otherwise I think that Grim Dawn is just a level-up in every way.

The graphics, the music, the gameplay, the story, everything is on the spot. I just love this game and I think is the best rpg game ever

It's no mystery why this game, along with Grim Dawn, is still extremely loved and played to this day by a lot of people. One just simply needs to look at the people who made it.

Great stuff, this is the kind of content we love to see!

rly complete video bro i thank you for the presentation i dont need to look away after this one

This game was my Diablo 1 & 2! never played those games and this one was my first of this genre. It's been a while since I played this game, but I think the game also had a map editor too.

I love Titan Quest, always waited for a second title, instant bought all dlcs and was stunned as they arrived out of nowhere. I love to see that this video is only 5 days old and people are active on this game. I would recommend it to everyone that enjoyed D2, Sacred and all the other diablo-like games. It's a lot of fun. As you said there are so many high quality aspects for that time of the games release and status of the company. THQNordic really show some love for the series. Kinda have to disagree on the dlc part. Dlc's imo shouldn't be for new players to start with. Hate to see that you get 70 characters thrown at you as it should be a time investment to get that far. Dlc's should aim at end game content / advance the current game imo.

This game has consistently remained fun to play for me for almost 2 decades in a way none of the Diablo games have, and especially with it becoming increasingly obvious how greedy Blizzard is it's really refreshing how TQ has zero microtransactions. The only additional cost to the player is buying expansions. I literally don't give a shit about Diablo 4.

Long retrospective on a game I've never played? Yes please.

And then a sequel got announced!! 🎉

I experience those frame drops as well, not just when entering caves but sometimes just when walking around. FPS drops to 1 for a second and then catches up, which sometimes means you suddenly find yourself in heavy melee combat with a ranged character because the game continued moving your character. My specs are pretty much the same as yours, a 2060 6 GB and 16 GB RAM but with a Ryzen 7 3700X

Enjoying this game so much so thankful for your channel id be lost without you. Graphics reminds me of age of mythology

does the switch version have any dlc added? or you have to buy all of them

About input lag when using ranged weapons and abilities, check whether or not your game is running in key down or key up mode for abilities, whether the ability is triggered when the key is pressed or when you let go of the key after having pressed it,

This is why I love your channel! Thank you for all of your vids. I've been an RPG lover my whole gaming life and it seems like a lot of RPGs are so souless nowadays. I will definitely try this and maybe even Grim Dawn.

10:32 just alone for this small, but amazing detail I think this game is awesome. One of the reasons I love From Software games - you see an enemy with a scary weapon and you say to yourself "Oh if I farm this enemy I can get this weapon"

Great video! Amazing job!

I got out of ARPGs for a while, been thinking about diving back in. I think you've convinced me to pick this up!

Very good review! Exactly what i was looking for!

Amazing game, playing DLCs for the first time with a friend, and it's a ton of fun. Besides some technical issues. Grim Dawn is still my favorite ARPG tho. Also, recommend Reign of Terror mod for Grim Dawn. It's basically Diablo 1&2 in GD engine with a dual class system and it's wonderful and free.

Thanks for this video!

As or the graphics: If you're really fussed by it, there a somewhat high res texture and post-processor reshade mod for it.

Two things - The default fast speed may be unintended. :D - The reason your damage suffered specifically against the Lamia in Hades may have been that they have a decent chance to dodge projectiles.

Great video. It's such a coincidence that I've recently downloaded this again. It sucks that the DLCs are kind of expensive.

I recently finished this game, but started to play it over again...just by traveling through Greece, Egypt, China I feel as if I'm in the Bronze Age of Greece and Troy, truly amazing, definitely worth playing on the p.c. and the Nintendo Switch😉

REALLY GREAT GAME (one of a kind) a lot of skills tree and class combination, with great game mechanics that make it "unique"

Question. Do you know if the physical copy is the Anniversary edition of the game that's compatible with Ragnarok and Atlantis? I plan on buying the physical copy and the DLCs through the Xbox store. TIA.

Titan Quest was, and still is, one of the most underrated games. Among others such as Rise and Fall, NoX, Ceaser. I remember playing TQ when I was younger and it is still one of my favorites games of all time. I have both TQ and TQ:IT in Steam but unfortunately they had problems running on Windows 11.

great video!

I managed to gab it for free during..some Steam thing, I can't remember. Not yet tried it out because I'm a ranged character player and from what I've seen there don't seem to be a lot of cc/escape/trap options. What's your opinion on the ranged combat?

Great video, thank you 👍 just started playing

Thanks - this video just convinced me to buy Titan Quest Anniversary Edition + DLC. I was looking for an atmospheric action RPG, with good music and options, and everything you said was enough to make me buy it. I love mythology so this sounds like a perfect game for me, even though I barely play(ed) isometric style games. That is not a turn off at all, so perhaps this will be the game that will make me truly get into this style! All in all, great video-review, congrats and more success to you!

Greetings. This game is almost as old as me, literally. I first played TQ when I was 3 years old, sitting on my older brother’s lap. I’ve since played this game consistently for about 14 years of my life, having taken a hiatus at about 8 between moving houses and losing access to the old computer and getting my own one. This game is a masterpiece. That is all that needs to be said. It has incredibly varied and replayable gameplay loop, very appealing and atmospheric visuals, great soundtrack and tremendous amount of build variety, as much for its era as right now. The most recent dlcs, are great, they add to the gane world, bringing new ideas and cool mechanics. The most recent addition of debuff shrines with the eternal embers dlc feels like a breath of fresh air, bringing a new level of difficulty to the game which made me relearn how to play the game in more ways that I can describe, from how I prioritize skills when building a character, to what gear modifiers I choose to how I clear the map. It is incredibly fun. It is so fun that I, a zoomer with next to 0 attention span have not gotten bored of this game in 14 years of playing it. You should try this game.

Hey can you help me? I want to know if I have to buy the DLCs of the game on steam to play with the controller or if I just buy the anniversary edition alone, I can play the game completely with the controller on PC. Because in the description of Titan Quest: Eternal Embers DLC Written: Technical improvements Improved rendering and performance Improved region loading near dungeons (Gamepad support)

Never seen your channel before, but as someone who has played TQ since it was on dice, I agree with this video. Playing tonight with the wife and re-living some choice childhood moments.

Is there an ultimate version for Xbox one? I heard this game had a lot of bugs..is this true?

Played grim dawn for almost 1000 hours and I did pick this game up when the anniversary version went on sale but I have yet to play it. Thanks to this video I think i know what I'll be doing next weekend 😁

You can see mobs actually use unique items. I think it's very very cool.

wait ... you spoke about this game's controls on PC & Console & N_Switch is this sponsored ? or is there an easy method to import savefile across the different systems ?

Now the big question is will TQ2 look and play like the previous entries or will it be comparable to current games visually and play?

I always wait for a new vid from you to pop on 😀 Also still playing Oblivion. That game really aged well. Never played titan fall. Might give it a try !

Game speed - use cheat engine and have this feature everywhere. One of the selling points for me is physics, when you blast a lot of enemies with strong attack and send them flying all over.

Please tell me which system this will not crash on. PS4, switch, mobile-crashed on all of them. Really want to play it but got burned so many times.

i am in babylonia now. working on the next chapter. this is such an awesome game.

Great video, I just have a small addition: the game speed can be changed on the mobile port. On which you can also get Immortal Throne, Ragnarök and Atlantis for 5€ each. (or equivalent amount in other currencies)

Need more videos like this. Thx

I´ll always play this game, it´s fun, you have so much possibilities in making your character. My Templar can stand next to Hades without attacking him and still beating him with Dmg reflect and Hp regen of over 3k/s. My Old Brigand could take out any enemy with one attack, if the attack/skill misses, damn hoping i don´t get one shot. Even Thor Shotgunner is fun and strong. Damn need to start doing some builds again. Also if you runnig the game on Fst or very fast it can happen thta some items won´t stay still after they are droped and can´t be picked up, if it´s a quest items it´s best to put the game on Normal speed if something like the item won´t appear. I also had made an instat lvl7 mod and instant lvl 85 mod as for veterans not to have ta farm that long and to test out builds much faster, but then EE came out and it gave us a lvl70 Legendery char and it is awesome, so i took down those 2 mods. TQ will be one of those games that i always be playing.

game is amazing. I've been so obbsesed with this game that I decided to play game till I get 0 deaths run. So each time I die, I would just start to game with another class, and use the gear i stashed and try again. And finally the class I ended game with 0 deaths (Including expansion) is Templar. Maybe i come back to play new expansions since most of past games nowdays are just meeehhh

Great video. Great analysis.

Grim Dawn is incredible and I can’t wait to play/try out Titan quest

It's been on my list to play forever. I might start it next :)

They literally just announced the second one not that long ago crazy. Hope you’re hyped for it

I tried to get into Titan Quest a few times, but actually what I really miss somehow is something shallow as graphical violence. With those top-down hack and slay games it seems I need at least a bit of bloody hit-confirmation and some blood flowing when thrashing away. Combat just feels like hitting things with wooden sticks for me. Oo I tried to play a few times because it's supposed to be so great, but I couldn't get past this one simple thing. :D

A friend recently introduced me to the game, I’m in love already and looking for a new play-through already

One of my favourite games of all time. I keep playing it today

I love titan quest, my fav game. But I want it on xbox, everytime I look at reviews they say the expansions dont work? As in they are unfinished or dont work properly on xbox despite working on pc. Anyone have any input?

Been playing on PS5 I got those low drop op af blue thrown weapons at like level 5 and been having a blast playing this game.

My favorite pc game by far, the game of my childhood, still love playing it after all these years !

Oohh I remember playing this! If your character was too powerful compared to the enemies, A hit would send them flying across the screen 😂

I just replayed it recently. Indeed I like the bright theme very much. These days everything has to be grim dark and sad, probably because of dark souls, it's good to go back to pure heroics (and actually seeing something lol).

Sing, O Muse, my favourite game ever.

Of all the ports of this game. The mobile port has the game speed option. And it runs extremely well. This is hands down my favorite arpg!

Entering and leaving caves has something with ambient occlusion or something like that was the name.

So I was wondering if I was to choose between Grim Dawn or Titan quest (each one with all DLC'S) which one would you go for?

The theme/world/visuals are why I keep playing TQ over grim dawn or PoE. It's just such an easy game to really put yourself into.

Can someone tell me what the differences between Titan quest and the Titan quest legendary one?

I played this for the first time in 2022 and damn this game is amazing , I wish I played it when it came out , I need to go back and finish it

Great video! Titan Quest is my favorite ARPG with Grim dawn right below it, so its always good to see a classic like this get some love. I agree with most of what you said however what makes you think a Titan Quest 2 is not a possibility? With a game that came out in 2007 (14 YEARS AGO!) it still has a pretty active player base on Steam (average of 1k-1.4k players daily which is pretty decent for a single player 14 year old ARPG). The Devs (Which has swapped a few times i believe) have been putting out quality content, bug fixes, QoL features, Full expansions (I agree Atlantis being the weakest and Rag being my favorite), and to me this indicates that the IP is profitable enough to still pump out content for the fans of the game, so why wouldn't a sequel be a possibility in the future?. They even recently added an new endgame farming method in the past 1-2 weeks that allows the you to place debuffs on yourself to gain currency, you can then spend that currency to open loot orbs and they added new endgame dungeons that can only be entered by collecting certain keys that drop throughout the campaign. For fan service they even made the new area, where you add debuffs to your character (its at the very beginning of the game right outside the first town teleport), that new area is modeled afterthe opening cg cut-scene, where the medusa is killed and the soldiers are turned to stone. Now if these updates were just "cash grabs", as others seem to think, why would they put this much detail into these small updates and add these cool little fan service type updates? With the care and attention they have been putting in this game lately I find it hard to believe that it will end with just this game. I mean this game has gotten some huge bug fixes as well that imo had no right to be fixed due to the age of the game and game engine it was built on. One of those bugs (which I have been wanting for YEARS) was the ragdoll physics (for enemies and gear) being tied to gamespeed and most importantly the FPS, so if I wanted to play at anything higher then 60 every physics based item would drop like a bag of bricks and the classic feel of smacking a mob across the screen was gone. This was actually fixed along with the Eternal Embers update so I can now play at a smooth 144fps (144hz) with the classic TQ ragdoll physics and the text no longer looks blurry. I don't believe a Dev team thats looking for a easy money would waste time fixing an issue like this, there are AAA companies that don't even fix huge bugs in their games lol. I'm not saying that TQ2 is 100% coming obviously but imo all of this attention toward this 14 year old ARPG has to lead to something and I find it hard to believe they will just stop with the TQ IP after this game. I don't even need a TQ2 because I can play TQ forever but I would love to see a sequel or even another spiritual successor (similar to GD). I have faith in the Devs/publisher because they have shown they do love this game especially from the recent updates/improvements.

Seeing my (real) name come up on your metacritic B roll. Made my day

Pilgrim is one of the most OP combinations by the way ^^ You just made a pretty bad buildpath there. Invest in the main bow attack and the passive buffs of Neidan (the one that gives attackspeed when not under potion effect is really powerful! Later on you invest in the Neidan defense buffs and look for items with manaregeneration to fully be able to max them as they provide a huge damage reduction. afterwards you can invest in the active skills in Hunter mastery that give you a buff or the enemy a debuff.

This game has a 32 bit game engine. Lots of frame rates drops or other issues can be blamed on that old engine. And all the stuff put into the game means that the devs used up all the memory they could get hold on. The latest DLC even changed the very first act - mostly by adding some higher level enemies (sample: monstrous boar before Delphi with a level of 10). The 11 masteries allow to create about 60+ class combinations (usually dual classes, but you can run with a single mastery as well - some are good, some are bad, some are fun - but the gear you find can make any combination a success). My reason for the durability: we all know the story behind the gameplay. We learned part of it in school. We read it in books. Thus the story and the locations = we know them / more or less. If you check other famous games like Diablo or Baldur's Gate, you need to learn the lore while playing. Titan Quest ticks on your knowledge from our school times. Nothing is really new. Of course it is not exactly like in the old sagas, but it is close enough. The lot of masteries makes a lot of replayability. Other games have somewhere between 3 to 10 different classes (that is base classes). If you look into Path of Exile you have a lot of variety for moving from the base classes. Titan Quest has fixed ways within the classes and thus the variety is not that great. On the other hand it gives really a great amount of variety anyway. It is and will stay my most loved ARPG - especially because I can play it offline. Even if you buy it now on GOG or Steam you will get all of it way below 100 bucks. (watch out for bargains. It is offered quite often.)

This is also one of the very few games that got ported to mobile really, really well. The interface is near perfect, there's a few quality of life mechanics added like auto-potion, and it runs well on any reasonably modern phone from S10 era onwards. It's also fairly cheap, including all the expansions. Highly recommended if you're looking for endless fun on Android or iOS.

Super review. Very good job sir!

need to play this game again, i loved it!

This game always have a place in my heart.

I got TQ anniversary edition 2 weeks ago. Never played a similar genre. And already sunk 80 hours on it. One of the best buys i ever made.

Listening to this in the background while doing chores in lost ark felt weird

Which of the following ARPGs would you recommend me the most to play: Titan Quest, Sacred 2, Sacred 1, Grim Dawn, Diablo II, or Divine Divinity?

I bought this game when it first came out and I really enjoyed it. I still have my original copy and just installed it, cd key and all LOL. I haven't played it in years, should be fun.

Great review i'm thinking about it

i prefer the 3 tiered difficulty system. when i hit that 2nd difficulty, my character is really put to the test, 3rd difficulty punishes inattentive players and prepares for end game farming. not having any of these, well we just go from point a to b basically and don't learn anything. the length is the whole point

and build tracks from there and leave the rest for a later session. I did both but did the first way initially and it took a day to get through

My childhood game, I used to play this nonstop during middle school

Does owning it for every platform it’s available on constitute it’s legendary status?

is 20$ for Atlantis expansion worth the price? ive been thinking about jumping back in lately (haven't played Ragnarok either)

I purchased this games when it first came out and loved it. When I saw it came out on console I rushed out to get it. However, I would get like 35-45 min into game play and it would cause my Xbox One to crash ( I was playing the game via disc ). Do you know if this game is still causing issues on console.??? I would love to play this game again but afraid of what might happen.

Titan Quest and Sacred ..two arpg's i play every year. thanks for the little nostalgia trip

Titan Quest was and still is fantastic. A lot of fun

I am glad I watched this video, because I really like this game, but I was dying so much. I think it's because of the game speed you were talking about. I didn't know what it was and never changed it to a slower speed. Hopefully this will help me. :)