Signa
December 22nd, 2008, 03:47 AM
(I made this post on another forum, and I wanted to share with you guys too)
I just started playing Sacred 2 today and DAMN! It's like playing an Elderscrolls game with the interface of Diablo. There are a lot of features in it to that I think that even D3 is going to fail on. I have a friend that went to Blizzcon and even he finds that D3 is going to be great, but Sacred does a lot of things better.
One thing I love is that there is an auto-pickup button. all items in a large radius get grabbed instantly.
Also, there is no mana. The game relies on cooldown rates to keep you from spamming your spells instead of just a recharging mana pool. I find it very unique and awesome.
Skills are customizable. You can choose to make your skill behave in new ways by forgoing other options. Like one druid entangle spell can be altered to add thorn damage to the enchantment, or make it just entangle longer for you to shoot them to death.
Lastly, your HP regenerates quite quickly, so you aren't spamming potions between battles.
I also love the humor in the game. It breaks standard medieval fantasy by throwing in laser guns and robots. They aren't a huge theme to piss off the purists, but they are there, and its cool. I've also heard NPCs say some really funny things, as if they know they are in a game. "I guess I was just an extra" says the bandit as he falls from your sword attacks. Also, the robot PC character says things after battle like "Enemy targets dispatched, XP gained"
The problem is that I don't think many people bought this game, and I know the reviewers ripped it apart because they were expecting Diablo 3, and not an Elderscrolls/Diablo mashup. The game world is MASSIVE, so like Elderscrolls, you are more likely to get bored of the game from getting tired of exploring then actually running out of things to do. I played for about 5 hours today, and I only explored 3 small islands. On those small islands though, I completed something like 15 side quests. My friend has been much further in the game, and he spent 30 hours on the game doing side quests before starting the main campaign. Morrowind is my favorite game ever, and that was my experience with it as well; getting lost in the vast amount of side quests.
I just started playing Sacred 2 today and DAMN! It's like playing an Elderscrolls game with the interface of Diablo. There are a lot of features in it to that I think that even D3 is going to fail on. I have a friend that went to Blizzcon and even he finds that D3 is going to be great, but Sacred does a lot of things better.
One thing I love is that there is an auto-pickup button. all items in a large radius get grabbed instantly.
Also, there is no mana. The game relies on cooldown rates to keep you from spamming your spells instead of just a recharging mana pool. I find it very unique and awesome.
Skills are customizable. You can choose to make your skill behave in new ways by forgoing other options. Like one druid entangle spell can be altered to add thorn damage to the enchantment, or make it just entangle longer for you to shoot them to death.
Lastly, your HP regenerates quite quickly, so you aren't spamming potions between battles.
I also love the humor in the game. It breaks standard medieval fantasy by throwing in laser guns and robots. They aren't a huge theme to piss off the purists, but they are there, and its cool. I've also heard NPCs say some really funny things, as if they know they are in a game. "I guess I was just an extra" says the bandit as he falls from your sword attacks. Also, the robot PC character says things after battle like "Enemy targets dispatched, XP gained"
The problem is that I don't think many people bought this game, and I know the reviewers ripped it apart because they were expecting Diablo 3, and not an Elderscrolls/Diablo mashup. The game world is MASSIVE, so like Elderscrolls, you are more likely to get bored of the game from getting tired of exploring then actually running out of things to do. I played for about 5 hours today, and I only explored 3 small islands. On those small islands though, I completed something like 15 side quests. My friend has been much further in the game, and he spent 30 hours on the game doing side quests before starting the main campaign. Morrowind is my favorite game ever, and that was my experience with it as well; getting lost in the vast amount of side quests.