Max Schaefer, CEO of Echtra Amateur and developer of Torchlight amateur and added Activity RPGs, talked to Bold Rant about the abutting of his studio, Torchlight 3, and more. Torchlight 3 is POE orbs the long-anticipated aftereffect of Torchlight 2, an ARPG admired by many. 

As such, it had the onus of architecture on that legacy. Torchlight 3 is additionally its own bold with a adapted aggregate eyes for it, authoritative this appellation angle out from the antecedent two.

Torchlight 3 mixes boldness with acceptable actualization of the saga, but it is additionally seeing for the aboriginal time in the history of the alternation the accession of a fifth chic alleged the Cursed Captain. Account has been edited for accuracy and brevity.

Schaefer additionally aggregate with Bold Rant his thoughts on the administration Diablo amateur are headed arise with both Diablo 2: Resurrected and Diablo 4, and how he feels both cornball and aflame to comedy a remastered adaptation of the bold he formed on. 

Q: Did the antecedent entries in the Torchlight alternation admission Torchlight 3? If so, how?

A: Of course! Aback we are mostly a adapted aggregation than the one that created the aboriginal Torchlight games, we feel an immense affiliated of albatross to the franchise. Aback those are both admired games, we admission an according albatross to the admirers of those games. At the aloft time, we admission our own articulation and new ideas, as POE goods able-bodied as evolving developer/publisher needs, so we pushed the envelope in a few agency with some of the new features.