You’re going to be clicking on things, and exploring semi-random dungeons while grabbing every single thing that isn’t tied down, and destroying the rest in righteous anger at inanimate objects, but beyond that things start to get really deviant. Having spent a dozen hours with each, with Torchlight 2 in beta and Diablo 3 having been released, the similarities between the two aren’t as common as you might think.

But then Torchlight had to come along and be really bloody good, and now we’ve got Torchlight 2 coming hot on the heels of Diablo 3. Because it’s /just so compelling/ to click on the tiny men until they’re dead. But we always knew that Diablo was going to return, and we always knew it was going to be something big, and grandiose, and it was going to eat far too many hours of our time. There was a lull, for a time, where the gulf of the ARPG was filled with your Titan Quests, your Dungeon Sieges and your Path of Exiles.