Comments on: Not So Sacred It Won’t Have A Demo: Sacred 2

By: Julian Montebartholemieau, Esquire

Julian Montebartholemieau, Esquire — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:04:48 +0000

Nice to see Blind Guardian still suck as much as they did 20 years ago.

By: Batolemaeus

Batolemaeus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:25:16 +0000

It’s the demo, so they apparently only included the starting area of the sexy woman with wings. Which is actually pretty expansive if you explore it all.

But yeah, i wanted to go all cyborged, too.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:48:15 +0000

Right so I can only be the elf woman? is this the dev’s idea of a joke?

Whenever I change to the badass with the gun arm, ’start mission’ is non-clickable, wtf?

By: Jacques

Jacques — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:36:17 +0000

Is that actual game footage?

No.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:56:49 +0000

Is that actual game footage?

By: Rook

Rook — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:29:22 +0000

I’m not really too up on action RPGs not even having played Diablo, but I did play through Titan Quest at a LAN once, and this feels pretty much the same, but prettier. I might pass on the recommendation for our christmas LAN.

By: Batolemaeus

Batolemaeus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:27:59 +0000

Sacred had a skill named “Bee Eff Gee” for the Seraphim…guess what it did.
Yes, she summons some kind of GUN that shoots GREEN projectiles with SPLASH DAMAGE.
How friggin awesome can it get in an action rpg?

I loved Sacred, honestly. There are so many in-jokes (like the game masters of multiplayer servers hiding in secret locations in the addon, but as undeads..), blatant jokes (graves have insignias..all of them more or less comedic), gaming references and others references (like..a killer rabbid..the fleshwound-joke was in too i think), it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

What i saw in the demo of Scared 2 was the stuff i loved in Sacred 1: A huge world, interesting ways to spec your character, very interesting classes (at least from the description, although i’d love my mine laying dwarf back), and a good portion of humour.

Sacred is a game about gaming if you ask me. So many references to other games, some obvious, some hidden. Sorry diablo, but i found someone who showed me more love..

By: Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:32:08 +0000

Sacred was a pretty spiffy Diablo clone, although I found it to be a few steps ahead of Diablo in terms of pace, quest system and combat. Plus, graphics were very charming and not the grainy emo type. Plus, mounts. Plus, a dwarf with shotguns (or were those blunderbusses?).

By: Myros

Myros — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:25:44 +0000

“sings into a magical microphone that looks like a big green willy.”

Obsess about your phalic much? Of course maybe your willy actually looks like that in which case I’d recommend a good doctor/surgeon. ;p

As far as the video goes it does seem a little odd for a fantasy rpg, but not enough to put me off the game. What would put me off would be the fact that the first game was packed full of bugs on release, many of which took almost a year to fix. It was still a decent effort though and I will likely try out the new game … though after reading some user feedback first.

By: onkellou

onkellou — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:09:17 +0000

“Sacred 1 was a “fun diablo clone”, and thats important because all other diablo clones are dull. That make Sacred very special.”

I for one found Sacred pretty dull, and the S2 demo is not a patch on Titan Quest, neither technically, nor fun-wise. Rather disappointed by the demo. :-/

By: Flubb

Flubb — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:53:30 +0000

Ahhh the happy hours of playing Moria with BG in the background.

@newt:
I’m failing to see what the fuss about King’s bounty is- afaics it’s HOMM4/5 but prettier. Not that that is a bad thing, but I’m failing to see innovation anywhere (still loving it)

By: M.P.

M.P. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:06:54 +0000

Did Blind Guardian do that song for free in exchange for their unrealistically youthful and flattering CGI avatars?