Booting up Titan Quest for a couple of days has been such a pleasure. I love the lot, I've played them all for vast amounts of my time. I'm also not entirely sure Diablo, Grim Dawn, Torchlight, and all the rest of them are actually that great. You know what, I'm not entirely sure it's a great game. (That is, if you're able to leave the opening scene.) Then you're bashing mobs, lugging loot like a loot mule, and endlessly charging through its ever-growing maps. You pick a character, and very splendidly nothing else about them beyond their sex, the rest decided by the choices you make as you level your way up. If you've never played it, Titan Quest is a Diablo-style game, initially set in ancient Greece before mythological creatures went extinct. Most especially, call your GP, and if they don't help, call another GP. If you're struggling, there are amazing people out there to help. I share these things because I know from experience that each time I do, someone else is helped. And it turns out it's just what I needed. Because it felt like it was going to be a familiar, simple place. And that's why I returned to Titan Quest. I feel like I'm a really weakly version of Spider-Man in that moment where he's trying to hold a collapsing building with webs in all directions, as gravity tries to tear it down around me. This situation, this lockdown, it's triggering my mental health issues in so many directions, and I'm really having trouble holding it together. But while I'll get to that, I need to begin with the real introduction: One about how odd it is that Titan Quest should be a game I so frequently return to given its being the antithesis of much of why I play games. I wrote a different introduction to this one.

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