History VideoGame / TitanQuest

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* TheUnchosenOne: The player character is a random fellow (not even a Helot as he shows up in Helos apparently looking for something that is never mentioned again) who just happens to become amazingly skilled in combat and capable of casting powerful magic during his journeys. You start the game clad in a tunic and with StarterEquipment of just a knife.

* ColorCodedCastes: The easiest way to set apart the Tigermen is with their fur color:
** Orange: Prowlers. They use melee or range attack and do physical or piercing damage.
** White: Sorcerers. Cast lightning and ice spells.
** Black: Pack Leaders. They do melee damage, have an aura and a team buff.

* DualWielding: Warrior classes can do this with [[HeroesPreferSwords swords]], [[CarryABigStick maces]] and axes. The Warfare mastery has a skill tree that boosts your offensive power when dual-wielding. The newly introduced throwing weapons can be dual-wielded as well, though not all the techniques are available. The Runemaster class added in ''Ragnarök'' also unlocks the ability to do this, although much further up the skill tree than the Warrior and without as many supporting skills.

** It's possible for enemies to spawn close to a Rebirth Fountain and kill the player character over and over. This can be exploited to farm for experience, given that experience reclaimed from a gravestone is affected by experience multipliers.

* NotTheIntendedUse: There is equipment in the game that gives +% to experience. The expected use of these items is to level up faster from combat. However, these items also increase the experience claimed from finishing quests and a player's gravestone. Cue people stacking +% experience items and intentionally dying and reclaiming their gravestone over and over again to quickly level up.

In 2023, THQ Nordic announced a sequel, ''VideoGame/TitanQuestII'' is in development by Grimlore Games, developers of ''VideoGame/SpellForceIII.''

* WaterSourceTampering: Similar to ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', you receive a sidequest where you must clear a lair of monsters that have tainted the town's water supply.

** Your pets aren't the brighest of the bunch. When set their behaviour to aggresive, they'll seek out the nearest monsters, [[FailedASpotCheck but will ignore any monsters they didn't saw along the way]].

* BladeOnAStick: Spears, the favourite weapon for the Hunter Class. Despite being slow they're quite powerful and can pierce armor.

** The way the maps are set up allows for plenty of CameraScrew, with walls and overhangs acting as {{Obstructive Foreground}}s.

* GenderNeutralWriting: [=NPCs=] always refer to you as "Hero", "Titan Slayer", or otherwise a title that doesn't acknowledge whether you're playing as a male or female character.

In 2017, Creator/THQNordic (the current owner of the intellectual property) made an UpdatedRerelease called ''Titan Quest Anniversary Edition'', for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch. It integrates 10 years' worth of technical updates, bug fixes, and some of the best community changes like increased speed, newly balanced skills and gameplay elements, new monster heroes, and more. Later that same year, to everyone's continued surprise, THQ Nordic released an entirely new expansion pack named ''Ragnarök'' which takes the player on a new journey through Celtic and Nordic Europe. It, too, features a variety of graphical improvements, new areas and weapons, and an all new 10th mastery. In 2019, a third expansion pack came out called ''Atlantis''. In 2021, a fourth expansion called ''Eternal Embers'' was released along with 4 new Acts, a new mastery named Neidan and gamepad support.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The "Raptors" you meet in Asia looks pretty much like dinosaurs. Since you also meet neanderthals and sabertooth lions, this is not excessively surprising.

* DualWielding: Warrior classes can do this with [[HeroesPreferSwords swords]], [[CarryABigStick maces]] and [[AnAxeToGrind axes]]. The Warfare mastery has a skill tree that boosts your offensive power when dual-wielding. The newly introduced throwing weapons can be dual-wielded as well, though not all the techniques are available. The Runemaster class added in ''Ragnarök'' also unlocks the ability to do this, although much further up the skill tree than the Warrior and without as many supporting skills.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Of various degrees, including corpse eaters, life suckers, sand beings and elemental creatures. Certain weapons (and some of the Seer's skills) deal more damage to demons. The Expansion added whole races of demons, including the witch-like Cheraes, the [[HornyDevils Empusae]], the deadly Machae and others.

* WingedHumanoid: Several monsters, like Harpies, Desert Hags, Pengs,[[HornyDevils Empusae]] and Valkyries.

** Chimera (3 heads: a lion, a goat and a snake). Boss at the end of Suspended Gardens. [[RuleOfThree Breathe fire]] and has a [[ShockAndAwe thunderclap attack]].

* DualWielding: Warrior classes can do this with [[HeroesPreferSwords swords]], [[CarryABigStick maces]] and [[AnAxeToGrind axes]]. The Warfare mastery has a skill tree that boosts your offensive power when dual-wielding. The newly introduced throwing weapons can be dual-wielded as well, though not all the techniques are available.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: No matter what, [[spoiler: you can't stop Megalesios from destroying the scrying pool connecting the mortal and divine realms]].

* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: You get a sidequest to rescue a phoenix that has gone missing. She is held captive by a bunch of demons. However, rather than be grateful, the phoenix chew you out because she was just enjoying some time off and because of you, she has to back to work.