Seti42

I'm giving it a 7 for now. Everything is there for a great ARPG. What I don't like is the level scaling. I want to be able to grind to feel OP for the next dungeon or boss, or blindly rush ahead for a challenge. Level scaling ruins the progression and the power fantasy of this style of **** down ARPGs, AKA "Diablo-likes." I hope it'll work out like D2 and D3. Both became much better games with the expansion. I think the 4.9 (at the time of typing this) user score is too low. There are legit grievances, but the game is still being balanced, FFS. We're all beta **** people like myself who were dumb enough to drop $70 (or more) this early. To be clear, I don't regret buying it, and I do enjoy it. I'm just going to have to either not play for a few months, or deal with these growing pains.

If you like the genre (top-down ARPGs/Diablo-likes) This is a great pick up. Especially if on sale. I got it for 90% off and that's the best $5 I've ever spent on a game. It borrows a lot from Torchlight, Diablo (obviously), and Titan Quest, but does it really well. The banter between Van Helsing and Catrina (your 'hireling') is actually not terrible and there's a ton of cool easter **** games, books, and movies/tv shows in the same genre. You can grind as little or as much as you want, as every spawn/drop/area scales to your current level. The skill trees are at a nice midpoint between shallow and deep, ie: not Diablo 3 but also not Path of Exile. There are even two exploitable areas when you can farm for Legendary drops. :) if that's your thing... I'd say it's best to get the Final Cut as it includes all 3 games, all the DLC, QoL improvements, and integrates this all into a seamless whole. There's a lot you cannot do if you buy the games individually, as first released. eg: you didn't choose a character class in the first game/first chapter, but with FInal Cut you can pick from one of 6 right from the beginning. It took me about 45 hours to play through, doing almost everything aside from some endgame stuff.

Atlantis isn't necessary like the first expansion/Anniversary Edition. It's also not as interesting as Ragnarok, which adds the Rune Mastery, thrown weapons (I love thrown weapons! They're like having an automatic pistol + a shield.), and a HUGE new act. The extra Mastery levels are nice, as I usually have both at 32 by the time I've killed Hades. There are a lot of new items too (check out the online TQ Database). I'd say buy it if you love Titan Quest, are a completionist, and it's on sale for 50% off or more. ETA: As far as when to play through Atlantis, I'd say do it during and after Act 4, but before Ragnarok if you can. The item and monster levels are a bit lower than Ragnarok. If you do Ragnarok first, Atlantis won't help you level up/gear up much, IMO. As far as glitch complaints go, I find that both Atlantis and Ragnarok suffer from frame rate drops and minor bugs much more than the Anniversary Edition. It's still totally playable, though. Note: I also play on the "fast" setting and have a character with heavily boosted movement and attack speed, so that might be causing some of it for me.