It’s virtually a working joke that each few years THQ Nordic will discover a technique to re-release Titan Quest on cellular. Properly, prepare for what’s technically the fifth iteration of this title through the years when Titan Quest: Final Version arrives on November twenty eighth. However what’s Titan Quest: Final Version? How is it completely different than Titan Quest: Legendary Version or Titan Quest HD? I’m going to try to reply that and extra, however first a fast historical past lesson. Again in 2016 DotEmu launched a rattling spectacular cellular port of Titan Quest, a Diablo-like that was first launched on PC again in 2006 and had garnered fairly a devoted following. This was by far the closest cellular gamers had gotten to having Diablo on their telephones, and that first cellular port was actually spectacular, as we famous in our overview from that point, regardless of being a really vanilla model of the sport that didn’t embody any of the expansions.
Quick ahead a few years and the IP proprietor THQ Nordic decides to self publish Titan Quest on cellular, or maybe their cope with DotEmu had run its course, or regardless of the case could have been. The end result was that the Titan Quest posted below DotEmu’s account on the App Retailer was eliminated, and changed by a brand new app posted below THQ Nordic’s App Retailer account. Because it was a brand new app, earlier homeowners would wish to repurchase it lest they be caught with the now deprecated DotEmu model. That sucks, however that type of factor occurs on the earth of digital content material, so it was a considerably simpler tablet to swallow. I assume. However then about 6 months later that THQ Nordic model was additionally pulled, after which the sport was once more republished below the Useful Video games App Retailer account, a subsidiary studio of THQ Nordic. So in the event you purchased the DotEmu model, then you definitely purchased the THQ Nordic model, now you have been needing to purchase the very same sport a 3rd time in the event you didn’t wish to get caught with one which was now not being actively maintained.
I wrote about how irritating that state of affairs was again in 2018, however then a number of years later I virtually blew my high when one more model of Titan Quest was launched within the App Retailer, Titan Quest: Legendary Version. What the heck!? Properly, because it turned out, issues weren’t fairly as complicated as they first appeared. Legendary Version was only a model that got here filled with the three growth packs that folks had been hoping for ever for the reason that unique 2016 DotEmu launch: Immortal Throne, Ragnarok, and Atlantis. What’s extra is that the beforehand launched Titan Quest HD was additionally up to date to permit the acquisition of those growth packs as separate IAPs, and each video games have been up to date with all the identical type of technical fixes and enhancements. Mainly they have been similar besides one got here with a better value and DLC included, and the opposite was a cheaper price and allowed you to buy the DLC a la carte. Not a foul factor actually, if not a little bit complicated. I even gave it the Recreation of the Week!
Properly, now that you’re geared up with all of this pointless data of Titan Quest’s historical past on cellular, you’ll be able to in all probability guess what Titan Quest: Final Version is all about. We discovered again in August that the fourth main growth, Everlasting Embers, which launched on PC again in 2021, could be coming to the cellular model of Titan Quest quickly, and that it could be an IAP for each Titan Quest HD and Titan Quest: Legendary Version. Properly, Titan Quest: Final Version merely bundles that new growth, in addition to the earlier expansions, into one single package deal that you simply pay for upfront. So in the event you haven’t purchased any type of Titan Quest on cellular earlier than, and you’ll need all of the content material that’s accessible for it, you’ll be able to plunk down $25 for Final Version. In case you already personal one of many earlier model of Titan Quest, you should buy the Everlasting Embers growth by itself for $4.99.
Any mixture of the bottom sport + expansions will add as much as $25, and all three video games ought to characteristic the very same content material and options, so it doesn’t actually matter which path you select and Titan Quest: Final Version is solely one other path you’ll be able to take. Did we’d like this? Most likely not! Is it considerably complicated? Certain! Is it actually that large of a deal when Titan Quest continues to be one in all if not THE greatest ARPGs you’ll be able to play on cellular? Actually not an enormous deal to me! So decide your poison when Titan Quest: Final Version, which you’ll be able to pre-order proper now, hits the App Retailer in a few weeks on November twenty eighth, and greater than probably the opposite Titan Quests ought to be seeing the Everlasting Embers DLC arrive round that point too.