Comments - IcariusFallen

Whether you want compliments on the mod or not, Munder, we all appreciate the work, and we all mean what we say. Your work of art is something that revitalizes a game that, had you and others like you not stepped in, would have died many years ago. It's not Titan Quest itself that made itself great, because it really shares so much in common with diablo 2, but the one thing that made titan quest different from diablo 2, the modding community. The community that you'll forever be a part of, because of the work you've done for vanilla, and for Underlord.

And that, Munder, is my wall of text for you, broken up into replies, courtesy of the "2000 character max" reply limit.

Thank you for the work, and for one more chance to venture into the breach, my friend.

You have, for myself, and for many other players, continued to breath new life into Titan Quest, not to mention the work you've done simply to make the game more playable and remove the many bugs that were inherent in it when it shipped. Even though you say you have no passion for the mod you made near the end, I challenge that and say that you must have had some passion left, since you did not simply walk away, and did finish it. When it comes to a Mod, or making your own game servers, or anything that requires hours and hours of coding, scripting, graphics tweaking, spawning, map making, storyline writing, and polishing, and when you're typically the one doing it all yourself, though you might get exhausted during the path, and tired near the end of the process, that passion never really escapes. When all is said and done, you look back at the people who enjoy your hard work, ignore the ignorant people who complain about every little thing, and experience that profound sense of satisfaction and pride, that your hard work and your passion has brought at least some measure of enjoyment to others.

Even though it was a long, difficult path, and even though, like me, you focused on all the little details and obsessively tried to make everything perfect, it is passion that makes a mod, a game, or a server great, and even when you're tired and just want to cross the finish line, that passion may diminish, but it never disappears. Once you reach that point, the passion simply switches from creating your work of art, to sharing that work of art with whomever you can.

"Occult" mod was the first mod I ever really tried to play on it, and even in beta form, it breathed some new life into Titan Quest, even if only in me trying to make myself have 0 cool down and mad mana/regen so that I could constantly spam instant-cast lightning bolts and meteors, while maintaining survivability (Which was successful, btw. Even up to legendary Hades. Very gear dependent, however.) Sure, I tried Lilith, but when I couldn't even get the download link to work (it was down for about a week), and never even got a response to me pointing the dead link out, I decided anything that wasn't even good enough for it's creator to post an optional download link, wasn't good enough to waste my time on.

Occult Mod (Now Underlord), is something you've worked on for a long time, that I've followed silently for the vast majority of the time you've posted news on it, and only chimed in recently when I felt it was time to let you know that someone does care and that the people being pricks were not representative of the whole community. While I don't know what made you leave the community to start with, I can guess, after all, I've played Ultima Online on Player-Run RP-enforced shards for many, many years, and I know all too well how negative a community can be and how two-faced people in it can be. How administration can sometimes reward two-facedness, and punish people who are blunt and brutally honest, and whom refuse to wear a mask. The thing is, I know you've always done quality work, and while you claim you ran out of passion recently with the mod, and that you're pretty much just releasing it for the people who have been waiting, while you say that compliments aren't why you created it, I just want you to know that we do all appreciate it, and you are a vital part of the titan quest community, even if you aren't on the forums.

I'll admit Munder, I did uninstall titan quest to make room to plate torchlight (And yeah, it's like a meshed combination of diablo 2 and fate.. and it's amusing sure, but way too easy to become super powerful. It's good for a single play-through.. but I'd label it "mod quality" if anything. Not worth paying for IMHO.), but the second you have Underlord out, I'll be uninstalling it to make room for Titan Quest again. I'm bored as hell of Titan Quest, and your mod will be the very last time I'll play it. I bought Titan Quest years ago, and never really got involved in the community. When I got bored of it, I shelved it.