It seems completely average gameplay-wise, but it's serviceable enough, and there's enough interesting things going on with its unique theming that it kept me playing all the way through the base game. This is the type of game you play after a long day of work when you don't have the energy to play something more intense, and indeed that's basically how (and why) I kept playing - because it was a nice and simple game I could play late at night when I didn't feel like stressing myself out with the survival-horror tension of Resident Evil 7, or piecing together the story of SOMA, or the intense action of Serious Sam, or the mental aerobics of managing my party in Wizardry 8. For the most part Titan Quest is a relaxing activity where you can shut your brain off and just play a game without burning yourself out. My criticisms may seem to outnumber and outweigh my praises, but none of the game's issues ever really bothered me, except for maybe that obnoxious difficulty spike near the end when I was ready to be done with the game.
So the difficulty balancing hits extreme ends of the spectrum, starting out way too easy and suddenly becoming obnoxiously hard, while never hitting a desirable sweet spot in the middle. And then, for whatever reason, the difficulty suddenly spiked so high in the middle of the third act that the boring tedium of lazily killing everything in sight turned into boring tedium kiting circles around enemies popping potions and waiting for the cooldown on my summons to recharge because they (and I) were getting destroyed in seconds. Once I did all that, I became practically invincible, easily killing everything before it could so much as dent my or my summons' health while I sat on literally hundreds of healing potions. I made it all the way to the third town, for instance, without investing a single skill point, improving any of my attributes, or even picking a class. I really didn't have to pay attention to what I was doing because the game is so easy for so much of the main campaign that you can breeze through everything with minimal effort.
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