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Titan Quest is a [[Diablo]] clone for Windows set in the ancient Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and China and loosely based on Greek mythology. It is notable for its pseudo-historical setting, and generally is fairly faithful to the eras it attempts to portray, though there are some anomalies.
Mysterious monsters known as "Telkines" have appeared along with hordes of monsters, undead and demons. Playing as a young traveler you have to choose your path and stop the Telkine's plans of destruction and death.
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=== [[Titan Quest]] provides examples of the following tropes: ===
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* [[An Adventurer Is You]]
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Justified. Most enemies are dumb and susceptible to arrow volleys while a summoned scarecrow distracts them, but some intelligent species exist (mostly humanoids) that will actually kite you, flee when attacked or summon distractions.
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The necromancer-like Theurgist can kill monsters by sucking their souls, summon a [[Our Liches Are Different|Lich King]] to aid him and even control the minds of weaker enemies, all while protecting himself with blood pacts and other abilities with frightening names. However, he's identical to any other hero story-wise. The Rogue class, dealing with poison and sneaky attacks, also applies.
* [[Dem Bones]]: The game loves this trope. Hordes of skeletons of all colors lurk in the shadows (sometimes sunlight), including the normal looking ones in Greece, the black ones in Egypt and the Golden ones in China - all with prefixes that explain their coloration.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Either twice or five times per difficulty. Depends on whether Telkines would count.
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Certain low-level skills can become this if you decides to spend a lot of points in them.
* [[Door to Before]]: Or at least to areas which the player could have reached easily, like the Hathor Basin.
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* [[Escort Mission]]: Two of them in the expansion.
* [[Everybody Hates Hades]]: Guess who's the [[Bigger Bad]] in the Expansion?
* [[Everything Is Better With Spinning]]: The Warfare mastery has no less than two skills with this effect.
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]: Done with the various magical staves, which can be fire-enchanted, frost-enchanted or thunder-enchanted. Fire, ice and lightning are also present as elements along with other lesser ones like poison and vitality.
* [[Full Boar Action]]: Feral boars are among the early enemies. Later you can see the Dusk Boars, some of which are the size of a bull. There are also some powerful boar men in Greece.
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* [[Heroic Fantasy]]
* {{spoiler|[[Hijacked by Jesus]]: At first, it seems like a Greek cosmology variation. While there are items referencing the Babylonian and Chinese pantheons as well, most of the important sages are revealed to be Order of Prometheus members, even the Yellow Emperor himself is only concerned with the welfare of the Olympian gods and the world-threatening antagonist is a Titan. However, an Egyptian NPC mentions that their god Set is called Typhon by the Greek, meaning the different pantheons refer to the same deities with different names. This, in turn, makes it a version of [[All Myths Are True]].}}
* [[Humans Are Special]]: Naturally only a human can save the day. However, following gameplay conventions the other humans you meet are almost as helpless as the gods are implied to be. ''One'' human is special.
* [[Hybrid Monster]]: Hooo boy, where should we start? Plenty of them, including: [[Fauns and Satyrs|satyrs]],[[Our Centaurs Are Different|centaurs]], [[Giant Spider|spider-men]], [[Fish People|fishfolk]], [[A Load of Bull|minotaurs]], rat-men, [[Pig Man|boar-men]], [[Gorgeous Gorgon|gorgons]], jackal-men, [[Never Smile At a Crocodile|crocodile-men]], [[Scary Scorpions|scorpion-men]], [[Panthera Awesome|tiger-men]] and even [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon-men]]. The Hunter class has a bonus against this kind of monsters, which are fittingly labelled "Beastmen".
* [[Impossible Item Drop]]: Averted: every piece of equipment dropped by monsters is something that the monster was using, sometimes including unique and powerful weapons and armor. Gold, quest items and healing items are the few exceptions.
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* [[The Time of Myths]]
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Look at your hero at the beginning of act I, then look again at him at the end of said act. The same goes with certain types of mooks. For examples you first meet ratmen as a race of pathetically weak scumbags in Greece, but later you'll fight with their stronger coursings in Babylon.
* [[The Unchosen One]]: 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 be amazingly skilled in combat and capable of casting powerful magic.
* [[Underground Monkey]]: Happens with certain types of mooks. You start with Satyrs, the Dark Satyrs, then Mountain Satyrs. And so on.
* [[Unnecessarily Large Interior]]: Justified by the setting.
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