12/16/2023 0 Comments Grim dawn map changesAnd I’ve named Hades my personal Game of the Year in two different years. The only game I can think of that did better by this model is Hades. It hit full release in early 2016 and has been live-supported since then by what should be industry best-practices. ![]() It is one of the great successes of Early Access it came out so long ago that I don’t remember what I paid for it when it was originally put on offer, but I bought its two expansions the day they came out for $30 apiece. If you’re wondering if “Boots of Unseeing Swiftness” are a “Boots of Blinding Speed” reference, I have either good or bad news. Grim Dawn, on the other hand, has been plugging along for some seven years now, from the Early Access date - but some ten years from when Crate Entertainment managed to license the Titan Quest engine from whatever was left of Iron Lore. That lineage is respectable, but more importantly, it is respected - the other great single-player PC Diablo -like, Torchlight, dropped its second installment to slight indifference and its third installment to near-disaster. Titan Quest actually got a new expansion recently (you go to Atlantis and kill everything there the ARPG genre does not particularly lend itself to nuanced storytelling), but Grim Dawn is an evolution of all of the principles of Titan Quest, in ways that almost a decade later read as quite a bit more provocative than they did back when Titan Quest was kind of a Diablo clone with only public domain IP to anchor it. Grim Dawn comes from a lineage - Crate Entertainment, the developer, is composed of most of the people who used to be Iron Lore Entertainment, the team that made Titan Quest and its many expansions. Mainly it was time to change that because I tried to get into another ARPG which will remain unnamed until I review it, it fixes itself, or it dies I think it’s better to let that product get to it and talk about something I really love, which I’ve put some 620 hours of time into: Grim Dawn. ![]() We’ve reviewed ARPGs before in this space - please look here, then here, then very sternly here for previous escapades - but we’ve never actually liked one without reservation before now.
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