Diablo III and Torchlight II compared via infographic

@Alex Oglitchkin Same here!

@Lucidus

Pointless online connection? You obviously never played D1 or D2 online. Access to the full client (required for offline SP) is part of what makes hacking a game ridiculously easy. You either never play online, or you love cheating if you think this move is pointless...

Mods? Great, but you take the bad with the good, which includes hacking, trainers, dupes, etc. If that's your thing, knock yourself out...

In other words:
TL2 = Cheater's Playground
D3 = Purist's Sanctuary

@Macabre 13

Yes, pointless. I did play Diablo 2. I couldn't take my single player character onto closed battle.net servers. I also could play the game single player if I didn't have an internet connection at the time. So yes, requiring an internet connection for single player is ridiculous.

@Lucidus
Agreed. One seems to be moving forward in the name of fun. The other seems to be moving forward in the name of greed.

@cforciea OK, fair enough. But it's 2011...how often are you *REALLY* somewhere with a computer capable of playing a game like D3 and NOT have an internet connection?

@TheAngryIntern A stable, accessible, unlimited internet connection you mean. You'd be surprised how often one of those is lacking for normal people.

And if want to hack my sp game, why shouldn't I be able to? Sometimes I want to try a new build without fully leveling a character and collecting all the gear. Sometimes my son wants to play, and I'd like to make it easier for him. Sometimes I want a level of nothing but succubi. It's not as simple as sp==cheater.

@cforciea

What ever gave you the idea that Diablo 3 was a single player game?

@Derekisazombie Since you know the future... what's tomorrow's lotto numbers?

@Derekisazombie Fanboi Much?

Ontopic...I would like to play both....I played....(shock and awe) Torchlight on 360 and enjoyed...very nice...had no MP :( but was still very fun and very easy to use...

@Lucidus Well I can't tell you anything for sure but I'm pretty sure in the future you guys will have absolutely no sense of humor and won't be any fun to be around. CAUSE IT WAS A DAMN JOKE!

@Derekisazombie
"I can't even believe a website would have the audacity to even create such an article."
I had the same reaction, but not for such a ridiculous reason.
These comparison articles are stupid, plain and simple.
They do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but act as the ignition for more pointless goddamn bickering between Blizz fanboys and jaded Ex Blizz Fanboys.
Here's a novel idea, how about you let the players DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES.

@Foobar1923

Mods are far from trivial. They're an admission by developers that no one can realistically make the perfect game for everyone. So they give the community the tools and the means to make the game perfect in any particular player's eyes.

Now, I understand why D3 can't realistically allow mods, but in my opinion those reasons (RMT auction house namely) are already negative, so its really just another turd in the punch bowl.

I played D and D2, and I've watched Blizzard morph WoW into the cash-grubbing monster it is now. I really just don't have faith in the company nor do I think their priorities truly lie in making an amazing game before making an amazing pile of cash (which lie hand in hand, but the later can unfortunately be had without the former) by riding their name and their franchises. I can't say the same about Runic.