Info about Titan Quest: Ragnarök: Official game description: Just Updated ============ The official soundtrack with 67 atmospheric tracks is included as well. About the Game ============== At long last, Titan Quest continues its epic journey through the world of antiquity. A mysterious threat calls the heroes of Hades to the uncharted lands of northern Europe, where new enemies await and new powers and treasures are waiting to be found! This new expansion to the acclaimed Anniversary Edition of Titan Quest adds a fifth act of unprecedented scope, along with many new and requested features including new weapon types and a 10th Mastery for your characters to learn. ** KEY FEATURES ------------ ** New story act with dozens of new quests --------------------------------------- * Brave the realms of the Celts, the Northmen and the Asgardian gods in the largest act to date * Revisit the other acts to find new items and secrets New 10th Mastery ---------------- * Become a Runemaster, a magical warrior fighting with both, spells and weapons * Combine newly learned with existing masteries for a total of 45 combinations New experience curve -------------------- * Reach level 85 and maximize your character’s potential New weapons and gear -------------------- * Find new and powerful gear, from colorful Celtic shields to famous weapons of Germanic legend. * New relics and charms for crafting, and a new option to improve even legendary items. * New thrown weapons strike the balance between range and speed! New Enemies and bosses ---------------------- * From the denizens of Germany’s dark forests to the forces of Asgard itself. Improved character customization -------------------------------- * A wider variety of regional styles and color dyes * Finally: wear pants! Technical and QOL improvements ------------------------------ * New shaders and graphical effects * Improved ragdoll physics * Improved UI and combat feedback for total information * Improved control customization * Improved modding tools The official soundtrack with 67 atmospheric tracks is included as well. Release date: Nov 17, 2017 Categories: Action RPG, Character Progression, Looter, Mythology and Lore, Open-World Exploration, Cooperative Multiplayer, Mod Support Feature scans: - MTX: score 20; verdict: Mixed Perception on Value; summary: The user feedback on the Titan Quest DLC indicates a mix of perceptions regarding its value and pricing. While some users feel the DLC is a cash grab and overpriced, others believe it offers enough content to justify the cost. There are also concerns about the quality and polish of the DLC, which may impact the overall user experience. Despite these issues, many users still find the DLC enjoyable and worth the investment. - Hardware Profile: No data Feature extractions: - Community Price: - Community fair range: $10.00 - $20.00 - Reasoning: The evidence suggests that the community generally finds the base game price to be reasonable when discounted. Many users mention waiting for sales or discounts to purchase the game, indicating that the full price may be considered high. The frequent mention of purchasing the game at around $10 or with a 50% discount suggests that the community considers a fair price range to be significantly lower than the full price. - Playtime Metrics: - Game completion: 20.0h - Story completion: 10.0h - Session length: 2.0h - Endgame: N/A - Reasoning: The evidence provides several direct and indirect references to playtime. The first quote mentions a single session of nearly 9 hours, which is a strong indicator of session length. The second quote mentions 11.5 hours of playtime, which can be interpreted as the time to complete the DLC, including side quests. The third quote suggests that the DLC can provide around 10 hours of gameplay, which aligns with the story completion time. The fourth quote implies extensive playtime through multiple difficulties and upgrading loot, suggesting a longer overall game completion time. - Time-to-fun: - Summary: The game starts off slow and boring, with fun hindered by poor design and technical issues, particularly in multiplayer. - Stance: Never clicks - Anchor: N/A - Time to anchor: 0h 0m - Friction: Poor level and quest design; Dull pacing; Technical issues in multiplayer; Uninspired and boring early chapters - Unlock drivers: N/A - Conditions: Better level and quest design; Improved pacing; Fixed technical issues; More engaging early content - Player Archetypes: - Supportive Fan (sale) - Motivation: Supporting the game and its developers - Playstyle: Enjoys new content and features, willing to overlook flaws - Experience: veteran - Purchase stance: sale - Labels: veteran player; fan - Reference games: Titan Quest; Immortal Throne - Cautious Critic (deep sale) - Motivation: Seeking a polished and functional gaming experience - Playstyle: Prefers stable and bug-free gameplay - Experience: familiar - Purchase stance: deep sale - Labels: experienced player; critic - Reference games: Diablo 3; Grim Dawn - Newcomer Advisor (sale) - Motivation: Finding enjoyable and engaging games in the ARPG genre - Playstyle: Compares games and seeks recommendations - Experience: newcomer - Purchase stance: sale - Labels: new player; advisor - Reference games: Diablo 3; Grim Dawn; Titan Quest Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category. Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews. What players like: - Abundant new content (weight 0.44): The game adds a significant amount of new content, including extra hours of gameplay, new items, enemies, and loot. This expansion provides plenty of new experiences. - Diverse and beautiful locations (weight 0.33): The game features extensive and varied locations that are visually appealing and detailed. Players appreciate the beauty and diversity of the new cities and areas. - Versatile new mastery and skills (weight 0.33): The new mastery system offers versatile skills that players find enjoyable and well-integrated with existing masteries. The addition of new branching skills adds variety. - New class and specializations (weight 0.21): The addition of a new class and specializations, such as the Rune Master, provides players with more options and enhances gameplay. - Fantastic and well-selected soundtrack (weight 0.19): The game's soundtrack is frequently praised for being cool, fantastic, and well-selected. It enhances the overall gaming experience. - Worthy addition to base game (weight 0.14): The expansion is considered a worthy addition to the base game, offering good value for the price and enhancing the overall experience. - Largest and impressive new act (weight 0.14): The game features the largest act so far, which is impressive and offers extensive new content with a Norse mythology theme. - Atmospheric and immersive (weight 0.13): The game features an atmospheric addition with beautiful world design and various landscapes, immersing players in the game world. - Engaging storyline with surprises (weight 0.11): The game features a good storyline with unexpected twists and humor, offering pleasant surprises to players. - Quality-of-life improvements (weight 0.08): The game includes quality-of-life features and improvements that enhance the overall gaming experience. - Rewarding gear designs (weight 0.08): The gear in the game is more rewarding and features some great designs, providing players with exciting new items. - Interesting boss fights (weight 0.08): The game features a number of interesting boss fights that challenge players and add excitement to the gameplay. - New setting and mythology (weight 0.08): The game introduces a new setting and mythology, providing players with fresh and exciting environments to explore. Common complaints: - Poor level and quest design (weight 0.53): The game suffers from confusing and poorly designed levels, with large and complex layouts that often include obstructive elements. Quest design is also flawed, with many quests being buggy, tedious, or not triggering properly. - Frequent bugs and crashes (weight 0.53): Players experience numerous bugs, glitches, and crashes. These issues range from minor bugs to game-breaking problems, including frequent crashes that result in lost progress. - Bland and uninteresting gameplay (weight 0.46): The gameplay is described as bland and boring, with a lackluster and unclear plot. The setting is unoriginal, and the overall experience lacks polish and is extremely buggy. - Character and animation issues (weight 0.29): Characters in the game are buggy and poorly animated. There are issues with character models and animations, including problems with weapon and armor models. - Recycled and uninspired content (weight 0.28): The game features many recycled and re-textured assets, including enemies and monsters. The content is described as uninspired and boring, lacking originality. - Poor visuals and locations (weight 0.24): The visuals in the game are criticized as being bad, with worse visuals in new locations. The locations are described as bland, boring, and unmemorable. - Performance and optimization issues (weight 0.22): The game has significant performance issues, including frame drops, audio problems, and synchronization issues. Optimization is poor, leading to frequent FPS drops. - Large and confusing maps (weight 0.21): Maps in the game are unnecessarily large, confusing, and difficult to navigate. They often feel empty and senseless, with long, winding paths leading nowhere. - Lack of new mechanics and synergy (weight 0.18): The game fails to introduce significant new mechanics or class synergy. The new content does not make a substantial difference, and the new class is described as weak and unbalanced. - Poor sound design and voice acting (weight 0.16): The sound design is poor, with various sound bugs and issues. Voice acting is criticized as being horrendous, detracting from the overall experience. - High price and poor value (weight 0.1): The game is considered overpriced, offering poor value for money. The DLC is also criticized for being overpriced and poorly made. Gameplay feedback: - Enhanced quest design (weight 0.25): The game features improved quests and storylines, including main and side quests, providing a richer narrative experience. - Rune Mastery introduced (weight 0.2): A new Rune Mastery system has been added, offering players new mechanics and abilities to explore within this mastery. - Expanded game world (weight 0.18): New locations, areas, and towns have been added, enhancing the game's environment and offering more exploration opportunities. - New throwing weapons added (weight 0.17): The game has introduced new throwing weapons and mechanics, providing players with additional equipment options and gameplay variety. - Level 40 character creation (weight 0.14): Players now have the option to create characters starting at level 40, complete with bags and a money reserve, facilitating a quicker start to advanced gameplay. - Crafting and upgrade systems (weight 0.11): The game now includes enhanced crafting and item upgrade systems, allowing for more customization and progression. - New creatures and bosses (weight 0.08): New creatures and bosses have been introduced, providing fresh challenges and encounters for players. - New cosmetics and items (weight 0.08): A variety of new cosmetics, items, and sets have been introduced, providing more customization and collection options for players. - Buggy characters and quests (weight 0.08): Some players have reported issues with buggy characters and quests, which can affect the overall gameplay experience. - New enemy designs (weight 0.08): New enemies have been added, though some designs have been questioned by players. Performance notes: - Performance and FPS issues (weight 0.5): Players report frequent FPS drops and performance issues, particularly in specific areas and during certain effects, indicating poor optimization. - Sound problems (weight 0.22): There are various sound issues, including bugs, mixing problems, and incorrect playback, which detract from the overall gaming experience. - Frequent game crashes (weight 0.2): The game often crashes and freezes, significantly impacting the player experience and causing frustration. - Character and terrain bugs (weight 0.11): Characters often get stuck on terrain and in various locations, causing inconvenience and disrupting gameplay. - Quest and progression bugs (weight 0.11): Numerous bugs related to quests, including improper triggering and various other issues, hinder game progression. - Multiplayer performance issues (weight 0.08): Multiplayer mode suffers from extreme lag and frequent crashes, making it difficult to enjoy the game with others. - Checkpoint and enemy issues (weight 0.08): Some areas lack checkpoints, and there are issues with late-game enemies taking no damage, affecting gameplay balance. - Map and texture issues (weight 0.08): There are problems with map rendering and texture quality, affecting the visual experience of the game. - HUD and UI scaling (weight 0.05): There are issues with scaling the HUD and UI, which can affect the user interface experience. - Physics and ragdoll issues (weight 0.04): Corpses do not ragdoll correctly, which can break immersion and affect gameplay realism. Recommendations: - Not recommended due to flaws (weight 0.3): Many players do not recommend the game due to various issues such as large empty maps, lack of meaningful content, performance issues, and poor design choices. - Wait for a sale (weight 0.27): Players suggest waiting for a sale or discount before purchasing the game, especially if hesitant about its current state. - Recommended for story and content (weight 0.14): The game is recommended for those who enjoy the story and battling Norse gods, as well as for players looking for more content and higher difficulty challenges. - Worth it if liked base game (weight 0.11): The game is recommended for players who enjoyed the base game and are looking for more content. - Recommended for ARPG fans (weight 0.11): The game is recommended for fans of the ARPG genre, offering engaging content and helpful items. - Recommended with reservations (weight 0.1): The game is recommended for its rich content and improvements, but players should be prepared for some frustration. - Price and quality issues (weight 0.1): The game is not recommended at full price due to quality issues, but some players recommend paying full price for the content. - Mixed feelings on expansion (weight 0.1): Players have mixed feelings about the expansion, with some suggesting to pick it up on sale for mods, while others recommend playing the base game without the expansion for the best experience. - Wait for patches (weight 0.1): Players recommend waiting for patches and adjustments before considering the purchase of the game. - Hopes for future improvements (weight 0.09): Players hope that issues will be resolved for future iterations of the game, such as Titan Quest 2. - Recommended for old school fans (weight 0.08): The game is recommended for old school fans who appreciate the effort put into it. - Recommended for everyone (weight 0.08): The game is recommended for everyone, offering a good excuse for launching the game. - Mixed purchase recommendations (weight 0.07): Players are divided on whether to recommend the game for purchase, with some suggesting it despite flaws and others not recommending it at all. - Not recommended for achievements (weight 0.07): The game is not recommended unless players are aiming to get all achievements, as the DLC offers poor value. - Worthwhile expansion (weight 0.05): The expansion is considered worthwhile and fits nicely after the main game. - Recommended for experienced players (weight 0.04): The game is recommended only for experienced players during a major sale. - Recommended for extra content (weight 0.04): The game is recommended for those looking to add extra content to the base game. - Unreserved recommendation (weight 0.04): Some players offer an unreserved recommendation for the game. - Recommended for main game (weight 0.04): The game is recommended for the main game experience. - Better pricing in third-party stores (weight 0.04): Players suggest looking for the DLC in third-party stores due to better pricing. - Worth the money (weight 0.04): Some players find the game definitely worth the money. - Stick to the main game (weight 0.04): Some players recommend sticking to the main game instead of getting the DLC. - Worth for periodic players (weight 0.04): The game is worth buying for those who periodically play Titan Quest. - Support ARPG developers (weight 0.04): Players recommend showing support to developers in the ARPG genre. - Try base game first (weight 0.04): New players are recommended to try the base game first before considering the DLC. - Recommended for nostalgic players (weight 0.04): The game is recommended for nostalgic players who enjoy revisiting the series. - Reinstall due to other games (weight 0.04): Playing other games like Diablo 4 made some players reinstall Titan Quest and get its expansions. - Not recommended for co-op (weight 0.04): The game is not recommended if players are looking to play in co-op mode. - Feels like a free mod (weight 0.04): Some players feel that the game should have been a free mod at best. - Likes the new DLC (weight 0.04): Some players express liking the new DLC content. - Hopes for more content (weight 0.04): Players hope for more content similar to the Atlantis DLC in the future. - Worth checking out specializations (weight 0.04): Players find it worth checking out specific specializations like the Runemaster. Other player notes: No miscpoints Emotions: - Frustration (weight 0.33): Players are frustrated primarily due to frequent game crashes and bugs, which lead to progress loss and disrupted gameplay. Additionally, poorly designed maps, repetitive content, and performance issues such as FPS drops and stutters contribute significantly to this frustration. - Disappointment (weight 0.3): Disappointment stems from the lack of significant improvements and the perceived low effort in the DLC. Players find the new content uninspiring, with poorly designed quests, recycled enemies, and lackluster voice acting. The expansion feels rushed and unpolished, failing to meet expectations set by the original game. - Excitement (weight 0.14): Players are excited about the new content introduced, such as the new class, increased level cap, and large new areas to explore. The addition of new gameplay mechanics, items, and the Norse mythology theme also contribute to this excitement. - Appreciation (weight 0.06): Appreciation is expressed for the continued support and updates to the game after many years. Players value the beautiful world design, new locations, and the effort put into improving the game. - Joy (weight 0.03): Joy comes from the enjoyment of new content, including new locations, weapons, and the soundtrack. Players are happy to see the game improved and expanded with new features. - Boredom (weight 0.03): Boredom is caused by the uninspired and repetitive nature of the game's environments, plot, and enemies. Players find the beginning chapters slow and the overall experience dull. - Surprise (weight 0.03): Surprise is due to the unexpected release of new content and improvements for an old game, which players did not anticipate. - Happiness (weight 0.03): Happiness arises from the enjoyable experience and the pleasure of engaging with the new content added to the game. - Satisfaction (weight 0.03): Satisfaction comes from the value for money, new masteries, gear, and the overall improvement in game mechanics and storyline. - Nostalgia (weight 0.01): Nostalgia is evoked by the memories of the original game, its setting, music, and the nostalgic value it holds for players. - Irritation (weight 0.01): Irritation is caused by voiceovers that do not seem appropriate for the game's setting, detracting from the overall experience. - Enjoyment (weight 0.01): Enjoyment is derived from the new content and additions to the game, which enhance the overall gaming experience. - Confusion (weight 0.01): Confusion arises from the introduction of new enemies that are perceived as weirdly designed, making it difficult for players to understand or adapt to them. - Annoyance (weight 0.01): Annoyance is caused by the imbalance in difficulty, where normal enemies are harder to defeat than bosses, leading to a frustrating gameplay experience. - Stress (weight 0.01): Stress is induced by quests that require frequent reporting back and the presence of stressful enemies, adding unnecessary tension to the gameplay. - Hope (weight 0.01): Hope is inspired by the potential for future expansions, which players anticipate will bring more improvements and content to the game. - Impressed (weight 0.01): Players are impressed by the new act and the graphical effects introduced, which enhance the visual experience of the game. - Gratitude (weight 0.01): Gratitude is felt towards THQ Nordic for their efforts in preserving and resurrecting the game, ensuring its continued enjoyment by players.}